Gristle Soup

Germs are Good for You.
Postcards from Mars
First demonstration of quantum computing phenomena.
Space Shuttle for sale...
New Animal/Plant Hybrid discovered.
The stray dogs of Moscow.
Universal Animal Language?
Israel develops Nazi sonic-weapon.
Pictures of Optimism: Psychedelic Transhumans.

“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend…”
-Aldous Huxley

"...With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day."

-MLK

Codex Alimentarius

meat that eats, eats meat

parasites, endless hunger

If it grows, it grows out of something that died.
Everything feeds on blood, in one way or another . Even potatoes.
Tongue eating parasite.
Burger King in Japan sells seven patty whopper.
Babies: not a want, a biological imperative; legally.
Dirty Words
Hunger compulsion
Things could be so much easier...
We could just ignore everything that didn't fit...

To emphasize, you are not special.

Chinese Space Veggies
The History of General Tso's Chicken
Burgers get stage makeup for commercials.

Circus performer hypnotizes himself.
Attempt at minimal banking reform results in raised fees.
Yoga franchise actually a Cult.
Rahm Emanuel to leave position.
Sex-Bots

Samuel Langhorne Clemens: Misanthrope

"I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning--knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair."
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 2 April 1899

"Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag."
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 1899

"Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?"
- "The Czar's Soliloquy"

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity; He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly--a lark which must have cost him a regret or two when He came to think it over & observe effects.
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 25 January 1900

"As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it--it is like hitting a child."
- Autobiographical dictation, 25 June 1906

There isn't any way to libel the human race.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned...of the dangerously insane and such as are not.
- Mark Twain's Notebooks, 1893-1903

"We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot--& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence."
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 2 April 1899

"The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomenon of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
- T.H. Huxley


"Science fiction writers who claim to be writing the future are more apt to be hamstrung by their timidity than by the pace of events. An old saw in science fiction is that a sci-fi writer can take the automobile and the movie theater and predict the drive-in. But the drive-in is dead, and the echoes of its social consequences are fading to negligibility; on the other hand, the fact that the automobile was responsible for the first form of widely carried photo ID and is thus the progenitor of the entire surveillance state went unremarked-upon by “predictive” sci-fi. Some of my favorite contemporary speculative fiction is instead nakedly allegorical in its approach to the future—or the past, as the case may be.
- Cory Doctorow, Radical Presentism



“Even as he dances to the tune of the elite managers of human behavior, the modern man scoffs with a great derision at the idea of the existence and operation of a technology of mass mind control emanating from media and government. Modern man is much too smart to believe anything as superstitious as that!
Modern man is the ideal hypnotic subject: puffed up on the idea that he is the crown of creation, he vehemently denies the power of the hypnotist’s control over him as his head bobs up and down on a string.”
- Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare



"...To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski



"Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind."
- Bobby Fischer


...CHESS BOXING...

We live in The Future. We outpace even our most wild expectations of possibility as fast as the critics can start to tell us why it will never happen, couldn't be possible... On the other hand, even the darkest, cruelest cynical ravings eventually sound like the fairy stories of doe-eyed milk-drinking hippies in hindsight.
It has always been way better, more interesting and horrific than we dare think it might be.

Abandoned Biosphere
Sixth Sense Technology, wireless "touch screen" reader-projector devices, allow for a new and greatly enhanced form of reality augmentation.
More Robots with organic rat brains....and then the next obvious step.
Rumors of the Apple Tablet.
iPhone Drone
Cellphone radiation enhances cognition? Is that a side effect of the tumor clusters? Or a foreshadowing of our adaptability and intricate relationship with our technologies?
The holographic theory of the brain.
16 year mission taking pictures of the night sky
Brain Weight and Body Size; as computers, in evolution.




H+

New Comic Day:
good stuff out now.
go see your local inked paper pusher...

more than reputable dealers:

-Bridge City-
-Floating World-

...MadVillain COMIC...

CHEW



Criminal: The Sinners

SUPERGOD



Red Meat!


Dinosaur Comics


This Modern World

Last Tiger in China is eaten.
Tuna goes for $176K at first fish auction of the year.
Butchers work is too loud...
Machine to turn thoughts into speech.
Building the Singularity, one brain-machine interface at a time...
Oregon professors planning to build giant robotic space cockroach warriors
What happened to the smarter strain of human?
Drunk School Bus Driver
It's always the End of Days.
"This world may have had an attraction to me at one time," Solomon said. "But now it's definitely lost its appeal."

I knew that a pop-whore existed out there with the name Lady Gaga, but never any more than that. Now I have a painted little face for that name and it fills me with, well, horror...
This is award winning "music"? As juvenile Art or fashion masturbation, maybe, but people take this seriously as something other than that? What, then, is this godawful trash? Eh? What's that? Just entertainment? oh, okay then...only gullible morons believe this stuff?...what's gone?

"I Want your horror, I want your design..."
And the children sing and dance, and enjoy it "cause it's gotta good beat."

"That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. Meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return."
-HPL

Heroin! Here to Stay! The only thriving part of the Global Economy (except Prisons, of course)!
O Sweet Stimulus! Buy it Cheap! Give it Away!
If it was Stock it would be as solid as gold brick, hell, better if you're calculating street price and put in a good bank.

Back in the Infostream, the ol newsfeed addiction fed proper.
After a Holiday sabbatical spent with the Family in more rural locales, my resistances are down. The gibbering faces that mime out the ticker and twitter are jarring at first, and most all the actual factual events writers are taking breaks of their own, storing up their juices for the push through into deep winter, and the political dealings that come with the new congressional and economic season.
But we must have information.
The caroling is done, the sales are over. As soon as the hangovers are completely faded in the new years light we'll get down to the rapidly increasing effort of keeping business as usual.
Taking a week off from News for feasting and merriment may be refreshing, but blinders don't slow the traffic down any. To much of the world, it is still 1431.
Too soon to start making the books, but the first few hours indicate the sleaze of the third millenniums first decade be only a hint of the excitement to come.


World's tallest building opens tomorrow in Dubai.
The deeper they dig, the uglier it gets: Childrens school lunches composed of spent hen nuggets and rotten, ammonia treated head-meat.
Professional gluttony as pornography.
In an effort of extreme scientific denial, the English disprove the G-Spot.
Christmas is not about spending. Which is why you don't need the money, but God does.
Lots of dead civilians, but politik dictates there be no one responsible.
Two more ships added to Somalian pirate fleet.
As much as TSA hates doing its job, it really hates an amateur pointing it out for them.

Its makes sense, what with Humor being a form blasphemy in Islam, but an axe-wielding Assassin was sent after a cartoonist and his five year old granddaughter. Act surprised if your fancy your self culturally sensitive.

Chinese Banks = Chinese Government. Chinese Banks investing in American Business = Chinese Government owns American Business. Wholesale. Cheap. Goin-outta-bidness. Simply and beautifully, we're all now "too big to fail." It's just who gets the lions share of the future.

Everybody needs hog jowl and black eyed peas...

Long, long delays traveling to Portland. Flights changed without notice, rescheduled to leave from places I never was, going to places I never desired to arrive. I had no business in Minneapolis, and definitely not on New Years Day. But the airline had determined, by casting bones from a dead baggage handler on the tarmac and reading the entrails of ritually slain pigon, reading there the mysteries beyond the rest of us, that this was the order of things, and also that I should discover this as I went along. At one point, two security checkpoints in, boarding pass printed and in hand, checked and rechecked, it seemed United was about to disavow that had any dealings with us, ever. They stopped short of denying that they were an airline when we showed them the tickets with their logo all over it, but that was it. Imagination filled with visions of escape, vengeance. They also arranged for any flights that did eventually occur, to be in the company of a daycares worth of teething toddlers coming down or going up on their various behavioral drugs... In some ways it could have been worse. I met some poor bastard that had been trying to get home since last Friday. I saw an agent tell a bewildered ninety year old woman she would be sleeping on the floor of the airport that night. Unnatural things were taking place all around me, but we were all thankful that someone was managing to locate and keep at least a few of their planes in the air.
I require some resoleing in the soul.
Prescription: Beer. Curry. Banjos.



Porter Wagner does Satisfied Mind.
The Association
Tony Joe White
Unknown Hinson
Nolan Strong and the Diablos.
Space: 1999
Ray Charles.
Roscoe Holcomb

My New Years resolution: End up like this Tough Ol' Gal.
"Doctors ordered Violet to stop breaking horses and riding bareback..." So she took up clogging and fiddle making.
98 year old Ozark fiddle maker in Yellville, AR