Oh right, it’s Friday. Last chapter, Barris got very lucky, and took his bunkmate Allis to share his fortune. Here we see how he does as an apprentice to the machine slaves. Previously we’ve heard others talk about how bright Barris is. He is intelligent and observant, and while these are desirable traits in anyone, […]
Archive for July, 2009
A tryptich for the times
What we had: What we dreamed of: What we ended up with:
It’s a small town
and everyone knows everyone’s business. There was crack here. Not the good wet kind. The hard, fiery terrible sort that leaves you shorn. She was eighteen. She was enjoying the Fourth with her family, her mother and half-sisters and –brothers. She ran outside her house, screaming, and the 9mm bullet hit the back of her head […]
Post 501
Like you thought it would be something else.
Post number five hundred
This is it. Just thought you’d like to know. Thanks for tuning in. You poor, sad, life-not-having bastards. Now go somewhere and get laid or something, will you? It’s Friday night. Jesus.
One of these things is not like the others…
…which one is different, do you know? Can you tell me which thing is not like the others? And I’ll tell you if it is so. You know it’s only a matter of hours before the op-ed cartoons start, featuring Cronkite, Armstrong and MJ together on the Moon. Only one of them doesn’t deserve to be lionized. You […]
The Beasts of Delphos 2: The Freeman
Continuing my online serialization of the complete text of The Beasts of Delphos. In the first chapter, we were introduced to Barris and Allis, two young slaves who work in a mine on a planet called Delphos. They’re human — all inhabitants of Delphos are — but they’re clearly living in a time quite a distance from our own […]
It was a very stupid idea anyway.
When Bush 43 was still — eww — in office, news broke that circumcised men had a lower chance of contracting HIV infection than their uncut counterparts when having unprotected sex. The “news” was treated as a major breakthrough and, as I recall, a lot of counseling was done of uncircumcised men, suggesting they have their foreskins removed instead […]
Okay, Okay.
I’ll stop whining. Like hell I will. 107 degrees — and stormy. Can you begin to imagine the kind of humidity that means?
Monotony, thy name be desert weather
Sure, it’s consistent — but I mean, come on. It’s weather like this that makes you feel a day lasts an entire month. What the forecast doesn’t show, of course, is the steady 20-mile-per-hour wind that blows in constantly from the west-southwest and feels about as comfortable as standing beside an open kiln for 16 hours at a time. […]
TabletDraw: Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
Always, always always, my preferred mode for illustration is pencil and paper, with inking. Of course in our ultra-modern age, that doesn’t always work; Illustrator has taught many to expect very clean, slick graphics that are more or less entirely vector-based. There’s nothing wrong with the look per se; certainly I can work in that format […]
Yes. YES! Respect the n’t!
Nice to know I’m not the only one with a peeve or two. Via The Warehouse.
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