Promoted from a sidebar link, this wonderful essay on the King Curdler, HP “Saucy” Lovecraft. “He was also frightened of invertebrates, marine life in general, temperatures below freezing, fat people, people of other races, race-mixing, slums, percussion instruments, caves, cellars, old age, great expanses of time, monumental architecture, non-Euclidean geometry, deserts, oceans, rats, dogs, the
Who the frick decides what the page is for the keywords you type in to Google? Death pointing to the death clock is fine (mine’s Wednesday, July 30, 2053 BTW), but I tried “God” and got … The Interview with God, a slideshow of beautiful landscapes (by which we mean untouched by the hand of
As the government gets more authoritarian, which it will barring some fundamental shift in the aggression of the self-satisfied individuals constituting the other major protective institutions, it’s likely that the data on your computer that today is just your de-facto-legal crap will rapidly become handy evidence for prosecution for the crimes of theft, sedition and
Screw the Tony Blair story, P11 of the Metro is about the world’s tallest non-giant man Bao Xishun (who hence has the world’s longest arms) being used by doctors in China to remove pieces of plastic from dolphin’s bellies by shoving his arm down their throat. That’s a really crap story, more a gawping-freak show
I love the little Jawas. All I want to do is run up to them and hug them and babble in that special birdsong language and hug them some more and maybe even trade them some wind-extracted lumps of raw material for out-of-date, obsolete astromech droids. Then I remember there’s no such as Jawas and
They’re just words… David Griliopoulos: verboten anna: helloDavid: guess what?Gril: what?AHHHHHHDavid: the internet’s workingGril: it’s working?POR… I mean, work!Sigh.That’s great.I found out today that (depressing fact removed to protect the innocent and the filthily guilty, cotton-wool fans!). But not me. It’s laughably stereotypical.I seem to be living a shitty office-based drama.http://www.alessonislearned.com/index.php?comic=11David: i bought a chess
My name only anagrams to one thing: DIURNAL OLIGOPOLIES. I wish it were more significant.
If you buy a PS3 over a Wii, you’re a Republican. That’s all I have to say on this issue.
Venice Biennale: the Austrian Pavilion At the Venice Biennale, the exhibit on cities displayed a model of half-buried aircraft carrier, apparently after a collage of Hollein’s called Aircraft Carrier City, which evoked for me the cover art from Iain Banks’ Use of Weapons. In a typical fantastical stroke, pointing to his real position as a
Papercuts of Peter CallesenFrom Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society.A man who makes beautiful papercuts (and not those schoolyard ones, Log, naughty boy, no!) so that they leave a shadow and form that cohere beautifully. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, in that the complexity it must involve would strain any mentality so. Worth