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The Icy Flame, Mad Monk Mix

Live on, thou damned!–Baudelaire, The Double Room Life is the lashDriving us onToward the flameWithout hasteWithout pauseCalm, cruel, fixedIndifferent to usIts raw material that serves some purposeWe cannot knowInto the chilling fire, slave-soldiers!Into Nature’s maw!This command the only counselOf a universe without conscienceAnd desperate Man takes his ownHe imagines worlds beyondOver and above this graveClearContinue reading “The Icy Flame, Mad Monk Mix”

We Come in PC

My name is ghetwI‘, and I’m a Mormon.

Brian Jonestown Massacre, Anemone

Rum, Sodomy, and the Rag

Fun facts encountered while looking up aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), presently anchored alongside Syria: Reports began surfacing immediately after delivery in May of 2009 of issues with the ships toilet system. As of November, 2011, the entire system has gone down at least twice, rendering all 423 commodes in the ship’s 130Continue reading “Rum, Sodomy, and the Rag”

Lone Doof

The quality of “lone wolf” terrorists remains underwhelming: Two law enforcement officials said Monday that the NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to get the FBI involved at least twice as the investigation unfolded. Both times, the FBI concluded that Pimentel lacked the mental capacity to act on his own, they said.

Ask not for whom the strife bodes…

The New York Times knows multiculturalism when it sees it (abroad): Sectarian Strife in Diverse City Bodes Ill for All of Syria With all these models of truly multicultural (as opposed to whatever is meant by the phrase here in the States) societies around us, you’d think our elite might question its policy of plannedContinue reading “Ask not for whom the strife bodes…”

There is no crueler phrase than “life goes on…”

T-Shirt Slogan

Works for any number of disciplines.

Glib Talib

The Taliban are now deploying snark: NATO figures show that enemy attacks declined by 8 percent during the first nine months of this year compared to the year before. The United Nations, on the other hand, reported in September that insurgent attacks had increased by 39 percent in the first eight months of this year.Continue reading “Glib Talib”

Contextualized for Your Protection

I love this. Tintin is being sold with a familiar, reassuring paper band: A spokesman said: “This is why we took the unusual step of placing a protective band around the book with a warning about the content and also included an introduction inside the book by the original translators explaining the historical context.(…)The warningContinue reading “Contextualized for Your Protection”