REPRINTS, REPRINTS, REPRINTS
I keep finding stuff of mine reprinted on the web. Lately it’s been the things I do for LA CityBeat. I know writers who throw a shitfit at things like this, whining about how they’re not getting paid (waaah, poor baby, go work for Conde Naste) but just see it as a wider audience and that maybe some good will come of it. God knows I was never in this life for the money. (Although the striven for changes in the world didn’t come about as planned, either.) And even on the days when I feel wholly and totally used up, I’m not about blame anything but my own overwhelming ego. The most fun of this reprinted stuff is that it comes with comments (like proper orderly comments not like the Doc40 free-for-all that must be getting close to some record overload.*

This week, the Smirking Chip ran my CityBeat piece on censorship and though crime.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=20250

And something called Free Republic ran my thoughts on the cultural implications of Battlestar Gallactica, which seemed to garner over a hundred shots, mainly of right wing savagery, and only reinforced just how pig ignorant the fascist classes are when it comes to any kind of popular culture, even the kind they like.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1351052/posts

There was also, however, a cute question from Tom Galloway...
What would happen in a battle between an Enterprise security team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a planet?

* An impassioned comment has recently been posted over there Billy Oblivion on how the brutality of the Bush mindset had spread to the UK. Check it out.

ELVIS MEETS BODY PIERCING
You gotta see this...
http://www.bodycandy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=4484&source=froogle

RAINBOW WARRIOR
HCB sent this over as an example of just how weirdly unfettered Brit pre-school kiddie shows were in the 1970s. What he didn’t know was that, back around 1975 when I was writing the DNA Cowboys and songs for Motorhead, the Rainbow – and ultra-low budget puppet show was the only thing on TV when I rolled out of bed into a Ladbroke Grove one channel noontime, hungover from a nights drinking at Dingwalls, the Speakeasy or both. Also I seem to recall that the only overt human in the cast was a suvivor or some one-hit pop band getting what he so richly deserved.
http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/rainbow_tv_episode.html

The secret word is Zippy

A GOREY GIFT
I have always love this and having found it on the web, I couldn’t resist reproducing it. Alas I don’t have the drawing to go with it...

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clair who wasted away, D is for Desmond thrown out of the sleigh. E is for Ernest who choked on a peach, F is for Fanny, sucked dry by a leech. G is for George, smothered under a rug, H is for Hector, done in by a thug. I is for Ida who drowned in the lake, J is for James who took lye, by mistake. K is for Kate who was struck with an axe, L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks. M is for Maud who was swept out to sea, N is for Nevil who died of enui. O is for Olive, run through with an awl, P is for Prue, trampled flat in a brawl Q is for Quinton who sank in a mire, R is for Rhoda, consumed by a fire. S is for Susan who parished of fits, T is for Titas who flew into bits. U is for Una who slipped down a drain, V is for Victor, squashed under a train. W is for Winie, embedded in ice, X is for Xercies, devoured by mice. Y is for Yoric whose head was bashed in, Z is for Zilla who drank too much gin. -- Edward Gorey "The Gastly Crumb Tines"

CRYPTIQUE – Elvis didn’t live long enough to feel the tongue stud.

Yup