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Maht , over at The Moon Topples , has announced the second installment of his Short Fiction Contest . The first one was, I believe, a big su...

... if you haven't already... As usual, actual date of release is irrelevant... Nick Cave: Abattoir Blues This album is a couple of year...

Some photos I took on my morning walk yesterday, loosely connected, I guess, under the heading of "buildings". As you might imagin...

Yes, folks, rock music does indeed live in the form of Burning Brides . I only recently found out about this group, but they've already ...

A very funny commercial (thanks, Chez ) featuring the iconic, legendary, and inimitable Mr. T! Stamp out football sissies, NOW!!

I had haemorrhoids for five years and nothing gave me relief. But six months ago, I started drinking half a glass of my urine every morning...

People everywhere are aware that Japan is home to some of the greatest monsters the world has ever seen. Godzilla, Mothra, Gidorah, Gamera,...

For many later sophists nomos [law;custom] appeared not simply as a constraint on human nature, but as a tyrant over it, which ran contrar...

A few of the pics I took today... There's nothing really technically or aesthetically striking about this picture of my daughter on the ...

After a three-month hiatus, we return with a new installment of Great Drum Fills . There's not much to be said about Led Zeppelin that...

Here it is, the classic, "uncut" version of the cult masterpiece Bambi Meets Godzilla . The sheer joy to be... enjoyed during this...

Today on the way home from work I decided to stop at a convenience store for a cold drink. As I was standing outside drinking my beverage I ...

Beer is the basis of modern static civilization . [...] before beer was discovered, people used to wander around and follow goats from place...

A character in a lost play by Euripides ( Aeolus , Fragment 19) asks an interesting question: τί δ' αἰσχρὸν ἤν μὴ χρωμενοῖς δοκῇ; (Is an...

From the Idiots, Liars, and Assholes Department: All the school shootings that have ended abruptly in the last 10 years were stopped because...

As a part of my ongoing struggle with the evil of tobacco, I usually wake up at around six every morning, have a coffee, and go for a 30-min...

If you're as into music as I am, you'll recognize the title of this post. "Right Place, Wrong Time" is a truly classic thr...

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. --Kurt Vonnegut 'Nuff said... [Thanks Dan...

Godzilla takes some time off from his onerous duties as King of the Monsters to have a little fun. Featuring a scene of the famous, gravity-...

We have an interesting fragment this week from the Pre-Socratic Anonymous Iamblichi (Diels and Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker , 8...