ENTIRE WORLD ENDS SUNDAY

At least, that’s what’s this geezer Ronald Weinland claims. Russell, my brother Deviant, sent this over. Me, I’m just going to wait and see what comes to pass. Click here to read all about it.

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The secret word is Bated

DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN

Chicago pigs whup on anti-war demonstrators. Now where have I seen that before?

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THIS MAY BE THAT LAST THING YOU SEE (under slightly different circumstances)

MARILYN SEZ…

“You shouldn’t have pissed her off.”

HIP-HOP CONSPIRACY?

Our good pal Peromyscus sent us the link to this quite astonishing missive that’s been making the rounds. My first reaction was that it was a piece of wholly spurious but highly creative paranoia, but having now seen a dozen years-worth of 21^st century capitalism at work, I could be about ready to believe anything, no matter how heinous and certainly pass it around for all to see. Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite…

“The subject quickly changed as the speaker went on to tell us that the respective companies we represented had invested in a very profitable industry which could become even more rewarding with our active involvement. He explained that the companies we work for had invested millions into the building of privately owned prisons and that our positions of influence in the music industry would actually impact the profitability of these investments. I remember many of us in the group immediately looking at each other in confusion. At the time, I didn’t know what a private prison was but I wasn't the only one. Sure enough, someone asked what these prisons were and what any of this had to do with us. We were told that these prisons were built by privately owned companies who received funding from the government based on the number of inmates. The more inmates, the more money the government would pay these prisons. It was also made clear to us that since these prisons are privately owned, as they become publicly traded, we’d be able to buy shares. Most of us were taken back by this. Again, a couple of people asked what this had to do with us. At this point, my industry colleague who had first opened the meeting took the floor again and answered our questions. He told us that since our employers had become silent investors in this prison business, it was now in their interest to make sure that these prisons remained filled. Our job would be to help make this happen by marketing music which promotes criminal behavior, rap being the music of choice. He assured us that this would be a great situation for us because rap music was becoming an increasingly profitable market for our companies, and as employee, we’d also be able to buy personal stocks in these prisons. Immediately, silence came over the room. You could have heard a pin drop. I remember looking around to make sure I wasn't dreaming and saw half of the people with dropped jaws. My daze was interrupted when someone shouted, “Is this a f****** joke?” At this point things became chaotic.” (Click here for the rest.)

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The secret word is Yo

THE FROZDICK FAMILY

Christopher Robin Frozdick was never seen again. 

DOC’S PAPERBACK CLASSIC’S #101

GRATUITOUS TWIGGY

ANGELS ARE INSECTS?

I’ve never liked or trusted angels. I also found them wholly implausible. Their physiology made no sense. Where were the muscles to flap those bloody great wings on their backs? As with a bunch of other biblical weirdness like the Nephilim (who I exploited at length in the Renquist Quartet) I decided they were probably an alien lifeform deliberately confusing primitive sheep-herding humans. Now, however, we have a quasi-scientific study that they might be damn great humanoid insects.   

“Angels are most commonly represented as winged humanoids, with two arms, occasionally two feet suggesting the presence of legs, and two wings (often feathered). This six-limbed state is not a vertebrate structure, as any look at basic vertebrate anatomy quickly reveals. The capacity for flight has arisen in three vertebrate lineages — volant flight in pterosaurs [Reptilia], birds [Aves], and bats [Mammalia]; gliding flight in a range of lizards, snakes, fish and — and in NONE of those has it resulted in the addition of limbs. All three groups have wings derived from some element of the forelimbs. The forelimbs are dedicated to flight functions at the expense of some typical uses in the general vertebrate plan, but are never supplemented by additional limbs. Angels therefore are not vertebrates or derived from vertebrate stock. The implications of this are profound. The only winged invertebrates are in the Class Insecta insects [Insecta]. Insects constitute the largest taxon on earth (or, apparently, anywhere else). Insects are six-legged (hexapodal) and may have 1-2 pairs of wings, for a total of 8-10 “limbs.” Angels thus represent a highly derived insect group with secondary loss of limbs, derived from a hexapodal ancestry.” Click here for the whole story

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The secret word is Cherub

WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO IT, FLYING SQUIRRELS ARE FAR MORE PLAUSIBLE

THE ACTION FIGURE OF SATAN

First Lemmy has an action figure, then Wayne Kramer, and now Anton LaVey (founder of the Church of Satan for those of you who aren’t up to speed.) Frankly I’m jealous, and also wondering where it will end. 

POSTED WITHOUT COMIC

GRATUITOUS ALBERT

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

To paraphrase Chairman Mao, revolution is not a Sunday morning fry-up, but, at the same time, we must raise the black flag whenever and wherever, and always recall the immortal words of Tom Joad… 

“I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.”

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The secret word is Grease

MARILYN SEZ...

 “I’ll be there too.”

THE FROZDICK FAMILY

93856738 Igor Frozdick was the only witness to the secret meeting between Heinrich Himmler and Captain America. 

GRATUITOUS ADOLF

DEAD FINGER IN THE BUN

You though this was an urban legend? Hell no. It really happened.

“When Ryan Hart, 14, bit into an Arby's roast beef sandwich last week, he got a bit more than he bargained for. The "bonus" meat was a severed finger. Steve Hall, environmental health director for the Jackson County Health Department, tells the Citizen Patriot an Arby's employee had sliced her finger while operating a meat slicer and left her station without immediately telling anyone what happened. Other workers were filling an order before they became aware of the situation, Hall says. The restaurant did not close.

"Somebody loses a finger, and you keep sending food out the window? I can't believe that," says Ryan's mom, Jamie Vail.” Click here if you still don’t believe it.  

Click here for James Last’s Silver Machine. You’ll hardly believe that either. (supplied by our pal Nigel)

The secret word is Meat

(Our Lady Of The) SPACE OPERA

GRATUITOUS KATE MOSS

THIS IS HUGO CHAVEZ…

The US media portray Hugo Chavez as either a clown or a despot but this piece in The Guardian tends to indicate that he may have a possible route to the future.

"The words and inspiration of Chávez have had an effect beyond Venezuela. They have encouraged Argentina to default on its debt; to reorganise its economy thereafter and to renationalise its oil industry. Chávez has helped Evo Morales of Bolivia to run its oil and gas industry for the benefit of the country rather than its foreign shareholders, and more recently to halt the robbery by Spain of the profits of its electric company. Above all, he has shown the countries of Latin America that there is an alternative to the single neoliberal message that has been endlessly broadcast for decades, by governments and the media in hock to an outdated ideology. Now is the time for that alternative message to be heard further afield, to be listened to by voters in Europe. In Latin America, governments following an alternative strategy have been re-elected time and time again, suggesting that it is effective and popular. In Europe, governments of whatever hue that follow the standard neoliberal template seem to fall at the first fence, suggesting that the will of the people is not engaged.” Click here for more

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The secret word is Innovate 

THE SEARCH IS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE

MARILYN SEZ

“Now I’m an ugly 20 foot statue in Palm Springs.” (Image supplied by Somegirl) 

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING

I like bacon, but bacon soda? 

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING 2

Shall we get real? Sid was not Hello Kitty. This motherfucker was a psycho junkie who stabbed his girlfriend and you wouldn’t want your kids anywhere near him. 

GRATUITOUS BARDOT

OVER CONSUMPTION WILL BE THE DEATH OF US ALL

Humanity is allegedly the only species aware of its own mortality but we also behave as though there was no tomorrow.

“Humans are using 50 percent more resources than the Earth can provide, and unless fundamental changes are made in the way we produce energy, food, and if we cannot curb our consumption of other natural resources that number will continue to skyrocket, according to a new report. Released today by the the World Wildlife Fund, The Living Planet Report, warns that if humans cannot shift their behavior by 2030, even two planets will not be enough to support modern society. High income nations – which translates into high levels of consumption -- are doing the most damage to the planet per capita. The report names Qatar as the country with the largest ecological footprint, followed by its Gulf Arab neighbours Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Denmark and the United States made up the remaining top five, calculated by comparing the renewable resources consumed against the earth's regenerative capacity. Though the WWF's survey follows many others as it paints a grim scenario of the cumulative pressure humankind is putting on the planet, and the consequent decline in the health of the world's forests, rivers and oceans, it also makes note of the many available solutions. "We do have a choice," write Jim Leape, WWF International's director general. "We can create a prosperous future that pro- vides food, water and energy for the 9 or perhaps 10 billion people who will be sharing the planet in 2050." Click here for more. 

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The secret word is Greed

OVER CONSUMPTION WILL BE THE DEATH OF US ALL – 2

OVER CONSUMPTION WILL BE THE DEATH OF US ALL – 3

Art by Terry Rogers click here for more (Sent by HCB) 

THE FROZDICK FAMILY

The closest Vern Frozdick ever came to fame was frisking Truman Capote 

IT’S DOWN AT THE END OF…

IT’S LIFE AND LIFE ONLY

As our so-called leaders relentlessly drive the planet deeper into the material swamp, both politicians and captains of industry too plainly demonstrate that not only are they arrogant narcissists and mendacious thieves – which is to be expected – but also wholly inept arrogant narcissists and mendacious thieves – which is easily ten times worse. Meanwhile the loss of Duck Dunn reminds me that I have reached an age when members of my extended peer group are dropping like flies. In a moment when the aches and pains became tiresome I was heard to mutter that I was starting to know how the good Dr. Thompson felt before he offed himself. My comrades looked at me in horror and I had to explain that I might be hitting the codeine, but I really had no intention of going down on my Colt 1911. In fact, life serves me well. The despicable Rebekah Brooks has been charged with conspiracy and I can gloatingly watch her squirm on TV. The Deviants seem set fair to do well in the coming months, new poetic ideas are starting to flow, and good shit that I can’t quite going into yet is appearing on the horizon. To make my life affirming point, I even quoted Dorothy Parker on the subject of survival…       

“Razors pain you;

Rivers are damp;

Acids stain you;

And drugs cause cramp.

Guns aren't lawful;

Nooses give;

Gas smells awful;

You might as well live.”

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The secret word is Optimism

THE TV TOLD ME (So it must be true)

JACK ELAM’S FINEST MOMENT

Click here for the opening sequence of Once Upon A Time In The West contains what has to be Jack Elam’s finest screen moment.

THEY’LL TAKE MY LEGO WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS

SPACE OPERA

SUNDAY BREAKFAST (Is It A Bird, Is It A Plane?)

No, it’s the news that the world may not end on December 21^st according to this newly unearthed Mayan calendar, something that I view with somewhat mixed feelings. Okay so it’s nice to go on living, but I’m also a little disappointed. A good all-consuming cosmic apocalypse is always tons of fun. I’m not sure quite how many of them I’ve lived through already. I do recall there were two in 1999 alone. July of that year was supposed to bring holy terror of Nostradamus’ bad boy in the blue turban but he failed to materialize. And, of course, at the end of the year, there was the Y2K scare in which every computer on the planet would malfunction and we’d all be hurled back into a very unpleasant stone age. But that too never came to pass, although, merchants in Middle America made a killing – so to speak – selling portable generators, canned food, and pump-action shotguns to a paranoid populace. That’s the charm of a good End Time. First comes the panic verging on farce, and then the sheepish climb-down when we wake up find ourselves still alive. If the Mayan calendar is really out of the running, roll on The Rapture.       

“One array of numbers would be particularly intriguing to doomsday debunkers: lists that appear to denote wide ranges of accumulated time, including a 17-baktun period. "There was a lot more to the Maya calendar than just 13 baktuns," Stuart observed. Seventeen baktuns would stand for about 6,700 years, which is much longer than the 13-baktun cycle of 5,125 years. However, Stuart cautioned that the time notation shouldn't be read as specifying a date that's farther in the future than Dec. 21. "It may just be that this is a mathematical number that they find interesting, kind of floating in time," he told me. "But it certainly is expressing a capacity of time. If they were calculating something from their time period, around 800 A.D., yeah, this would have gone way beyond 2012. But again, we're not sure exactly what the base of the calculation is." Click here for more.

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The secret word is Exit

MARILYN SEZ…

“The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.”

JIM SEZ…

“Actually I said that.”

SPACE OPERA

MOTORMERCH

We always like to see what new merchandise our pal Lemmy is hawking to the fans. In this instance, I fear, you only get the belt.  

OBAMA ENDORSES GAY MARRIAGE AND SO DOES CLINT

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The secret word is Spliced 

YET (like Organized Crime) ORGANIZED RELIGION SURVIVES

OUR LADY OF KRYPTON

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GRATUITOUS NUNS

MARILYN SEZ…

“We’ll all burn in hell for this.”