Reader Submission After All This Time

Good news, everyone!  I've finally remembered that this blog has an email address, after nearly a year of not checking!  I'm terrible at this!

Anyway, this is a submission from Oliver, from a year ago, I'm really sorry.

This comes from a book entitled Makeup for Fun.

Half the title is accurate.

"Nightmares for Fun" or "Makeup for Future Therapist Bills" would also have worked.

And if you readers would like to submit any lions, on the off chance that I'll post them in a year, the address is badlions.submissions@gmail.com.

Are You Sure?

The British Museum is generally a reputable source of information.

And so their label is the only reason why I believe that this statue is of a "lion."

(I would have also accepted "weasel-dog" as a correct answer).

One more angle:

Dead Things are Great: More Taxidermy

In some not even remotely surprising news, it turns out the taxidermy posts on this site are by far the most popular.  Good for you guys!  You're giant creeps, just like me!

So, to celebrate: more badly-stuffed dead animals.

This is some wrong head, wrong body brontosaurus shit, isn't it?

Oh, look! He's a creep too!

My thoughts exactly, man

I genuinely don't know whether this is the best or worst thing ever.  On the one hand, it's shiny and it's half a stuffed lion. Yay! But on the other hand, I bet it "represents" something to the artist. Boo! Way to ruin a good thing.

Breaking News: The Internet is Weird

So, I promised you'd be seeing more of Durer, and here it is.

This is not a very good lion:

But was it bad enough for THE INTERNET?


Oh no:

Oh, dear sweet Internet, never change.

Maybe One of You Can Explain This to Me

Most of the time, I feel like I have an idea of what went wrong in the bad lions I post.  In the ones created before the 20th century, the answer is obvious: they'd never seen a lion.

But in this case?

I have absolutely no idea how this happened.

Thanks for the submission, Will!

Over More Than Thirty Years, You'd Think He'd Improve

Albrecht Durer has popped up on this site already, and I’ll warn you now that he’s going to show up again. Because this guy practically made a career of bad lions.

 How do I know that? Because I just went through 844 images of his work.

And here’s what I’ve learned:

 Things Albrecht Durer can’t draw:

 1.  Lions
 2.  Horses
 3.  Women’s buttocks (the guy had some exceptionally strange ideas about female anatomy. I guess he
      didn't get out much).

 Things Albrecht Durer could draw:

 1.  Birds
 2.  Rabbits
 3.  Rhinoceroses (?!)

 And, finally, things Albrecht Durer could draw, but shouldn’t:

 1. Nude self portraits.

  Seriously.

 Anyway, here’s a lion:

Albrecht Durer, Penitent Jerome, 1494
I mean, I GUESS.

Shapes Found in Nature

Ah, the Great Rectangular Lion of the savannas.

A noble, if unwieldy, breed.