Tweet“Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted” – Hassan i Sabbah, through the pen of William S. Burroughs. To begin, a story: Two 20-somethings walked up to the customer service desk at work a few days ago. They were both dressed all in black, the guy in what I’d call ‘casual gothic’, black jeans and a [...]
¶
Posted 23 January 2010
† DA
§
‡
°
TweetIt was an ordinary Saturday morning for 10 yr. old Tony Cordova- a day full of endless potential, matched only by the exuberance and impatience of the young boy waiting for it to begin. Dad was still sleeping in the motel bedroom so Tony tried to be as quiet as possible while he got himself some Captain Crunch [...]
Tweet“I love Christmas.” “I thought you were an atheist.” “I am. I still love Christmas.”
TweetI’ve set out to do something special. Something memorable. Something timeless. I’ve set out to write a piece of classic literature. Someday to be published as a Penguin Classic, or better yet, a distinguished addition to the Modern Library. I suspect (but have no proof) that this is the difference between myself (up until now) [...]
TweetI didn’t listen to all that much new music this year — maybe about half of my music purchases were backfill for my collection, rounding out artists who I had most of their work, but not all. That said, there were a couple of albums that stood out for me this year. Most can be [...]
Tweet“This is the comic I’ve wanted to write all my life–a comic about everything: action, philosophy, paranoia, sex, magic, biography, travel, drugs, religion, UFOs… you can make your own list. And when it reaches its conclusion, somewhere down the line, I promise to reveal who runs the world, why our lives are the way they [...]
So you’re a secretary, huh? Answer my phone. Then we’ll see just how good you are.
¶
Posted 28 November 2009
† CW
§
‡
°
Tagged: arts
TweetOne of the tragedies of our time is that we’ve caught up to our future. Star Trek, in the mid-60s, posited that there would be something called the “Eugenics Wars” in the late 1990s. Gene Roddenberry didn’t worry about making up this rather silly (in hindsight) bit of canon arcana, because, after all, 1999 was [...]