"Have you considered changing everything?" As if you thought we could be stopped, or even slowed, by inclement weather. Back to the homestead we go! Don't you dare collect the Hammer Fragments to repair the Ball Hammer. "Nurse come in, please, where are you?" -Dr. Octagon, "General Hospital" (1996). "History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth." -Ashleigh Brilliant Love police, I think I'm forming, I'm forming a crush. We'll get along great if you stand *right* over there. "I'm cold and I'm bold and I don't do what I'm told." -Information Society, "Mirrorshades" (1990). I'll have you know that I underwent the ritual, and it ordained me as fit to have only good opinions! There is no need to cry when everybody Hz. Feels like making progress toward the goal is harder than ever. We figured we could storm one last megashroom together, just to cap things off. "If you’re bold enough to go mask off, you’re bad enough to get smacked on." -2 Mello, "PULL UP" (2021) I could let them, but I'd have to charge. "Want something?" -VHS Head, "Frozen" (2014) There's not too much you can do about, they're eventually going to find a way in. Those aboard, at no extra charge, may stay on with us for all remaining stops. "Corporate city, lucky for some, richest island in the sun." -Public Image Ltd, "Bad Life" "We wanna invite you to go hunt with us." "Some conscious light gets through somehow, yet I fail to notice, then I'm heading for the ground" -BT "Running Down The Way Up" (1999) The only thing I'm looking to break is even! There's a lot going on, dress warm and keep watch. I hope it is! There might be five minutes in it! "I am afraid of the unknown... and also many parts of the known." -Ashleigh Brilliant Don't given 'em the satisfaction, is how! From kinky timber no chaste thing was ever made. Revived out of a sense of begrudged duty. Surely, this will be sufficient! (It wasn't.) These dogs do *not* have a job. If you read the fine print, a castle on a cliff is actually required under the terms of the Holy Rome Owners Association. The trick is to work to keep their disorganization from becoming a feature rather than a bug. They will be the ones to tell you so. "Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the window." -Ashleigh Brilliant Do you want to build a ski lift? It's all in the game, though, right? Don't dream it's clover. Thanks for havarting my back, you're a life shaver! My boots! My boots! My controlling shares for my boots! Friends keep their friends dry, and open up to one another. "Everything must finally fall. In war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash, the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes." -Orson Welles, *F for Fake* (1973). What you're making in a year, I blow it in a week. In a way, the most powerful sorcery is that which has nothing at its center. Now that's some good eating! A curious war. The only way to win is not to kill. Seriously, who forgets a whole island?! If you're just now joining us, this is buffo tenor Ultros, performing the opening number from *De Vermis Mysteriis*. Come on in! The water's cold and under enormous pressure! Love is free. Love is free. Love is free. Love is free. (Ready to kick some ass!) If you stack one atop the other, you can make yourself a staircase to anywhere. Look to the sky, and you will see, in its vastness, all things. "Just watch me pulling up my socks, and then they get away right out from under me." -Dragonette, "My Legs" Feel like a winner; where air is thinner; take it from me. Rejections by mail don't get any easier when they come from across the veil. A future we can all aspire to: "Become your best self. You can do it. We can help." "Stare into the subliminal for as long as you can." -They Might Be Giants Nature, uh, finds a way. Quit stalling and get in the sleigh, gramps. There's treasure everywhere! So really, you should be thanking me for all these great gifts. These fun guys are now making all metropolitan stops. We thought today would be a good day for rolling. You ever get the feeling that the scissors had better watch out, because they might not be the victors in this encounter? They want you to know what's in the books; they do not want you to take them. Poison Dart Froogo is a little bummed to learn they're not the biggest frog in the land. The next big things arises from what came before, even if it need not be of the same stuff. Been a long time gone, Leningrad. Why did Leningrad get the works? Things keep rolling along, but at what cost? Where I'm going, I won't need color to see. This hall of whispers ain't quiet enough for the both of us. They say that creatures can perceive the beings beyond the veil that we cannot. Shuffle the deck, cut the cards, bury the evidence, and throw away the knife. Some dogs are created more orb than others. If you don't watch out, there's gonna tamagetcha! Conviction is a terrible thing to concede. Once you get to know the Big Guys, they're easy enough to get along with. Invaders beware: This Kasbah's ready to rock back. Or angry? Or ready for dessert? They make me feel less alone, but I'm starting to worry it's not in the way I intended. One need only point out where the artifact is hidden and command, "Fetch!" Turns out, the world is actually overflowing with things we should be thankful for. I'm as surprised as anyone. I was alarmed to discover that the bear could not only speak, but knew all my sins. Never mind what's fueling my unstoppable flurry of blows. Come on, daddy needs another couple hundred tickets. Please turn to p. 104 and consult the Wheel Table. Let's just say there's been some real *combustion* in these internals, you know what I'm sayin'? "It's even more exciting, not being able to see where they lead, don't you think?" It's always brunch somewhere! Her witch hat brings all the dogs to the moors. She could walk them, but she'll stay indoors. The morning air's still crisp, best to keep the java warm. We're gonna need a bigger magnifying glass. None can contest that this hoard is mine and that it is safe in my keeping. Keep your finger on the X button, this sequence is brutal, and it goes on *forever*! Forgive me. It's not you, nor is it me, it's just autumn. It's a very slow dance, but on a truly grand scale. This little cloud of mine, I'm going to make it thine. "Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand." -Luke Jackson, *Cool Hand Luke* (1967). Watch as these even dumber drawings speak to ravenous, feral audience! Three of two of them. Devastating momentum! (Mediocre turning radii) Our geodes runneth over. They say the only way that anyone ever comes to know her is in passing. Oh, him? He's definitely not on the list. Deception is a dish best served by an unwitting mail carrier. "When people ask me what I do in the mountains all day," the mole quipped, "I tell them I'm boring!" "Scum of the Earth, overpaid to rob anonymously from a distance" -Metric, "Doomscroller" (2022). "The Dark Wizard further encouraged me to build visualizations and tools to reinforce my superstitions." -Thomas Walter Murphy VII Can't look away, now that they've fallen into orbit. Big smile, head empty, ready to be filled with candy. You wanna know how I got these wings? Orange above, dew-chilled below. "Open up for me, Max. I've got something I want to play for you." -Barry Convex, in *Videodrome* (1983). All you need to do is turn your eyes toward the things creeping at the edge of the frame. From purple timber no good thing was ever drank. We keep it tight, you know? Gotta be there for the wolf pack. Though it be cool, and dark, much grows in the waters of the bog. Fast fashion, you say? Well, they're available for a limited time, I'll tell you that much! It's remarkable what you can turn up when you're a journalist by day. Dealer vs. dealer, the edge is going to go to whoever has more arms. Above us, the celestial fire. Below us, the infernal heat. I'm nourished by the lives that wove the web inside my haunted head. Creatures with which one might relax/ensorcel. The committee of independent consultants has decreed: It kinda seems like an extra city would just be redundant. "starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost" -vamprisms, 2022-09-17 🎶If you want to destroy your reason, trace this thread to its origin.🎵 These raptors are capable of velocities their ancient ancestors could never imagine. Not sure how you can be so salty but not salt your password tables. Watch party at our place! We're going to binge Candle Cove! Feed them, Seymour. "And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee." -Harlan Ellison, "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (1965). "My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs." -Dragline, in *Cool Hand Luke* (1967). It seems you've got a reply for my every quip. You wouldn't happen to be my foil, would you? Remember, everyone, it's about what your embodying, it's about attitude, it's about transformation! Remember the four Cs of gemstones: Color, Clarity, Cut, and Cpecial Abilities. Sometimes, it's nice to visit a theme park whose theme is modest sincerity. Cogito ergo that's some people, I tell you what. Cornifer, from Hollow Knight, explores a cave described as "cold, dark, damp, and stinky." Stay outta my personal space! Following the upheaval, life must go on. "The biblical Tower of Babel was built so high as to defy understanding. Those who built it began to talk nonsense. The tower could no longer be comprehended. There was simply too much of it." -Jon Bois, "Troy State 253, DeVry 141" a.k.a. "We're Serious About Success" (2017). "I was an animal then. Behind all this, I'm an animal now, and someday, some grim situation or another will, with its claws, steal from me my humanity and leave me for a moment in philosophy a shattering animal. Today, I'd like to hope that's not me. I'm not there. I'm here. I will always be right here." -Tim Rogers, "action button reviews boku no natsuyasumi" (2022). “Sax, who's paying for all this?” Sax tilted his head, blinked. “The sun.” -Kim Stanley Robinson, *Red Mars* I shall stop and think, from time to time, and from the ocean of my mind, I will pluck a memory of you, and smile. If the bounty of the earth is sate my every hunger, why do I still feel uneasy? Let me tell you, when these gummies hit, they *really hit!* Birk a bork today, and you'll both bark at a berk tomorrow! Is this your first time on the path? Knuckles the echidna said "Fuck TERFs" and it roared across the battlefield from his mech's broadcast system. Why is it that the owner class so frequently don't have any class at all? I hear that there's no comparison, that this is peak duck! The bigger they are, the harder these little guys bring them down. "As long as the lookout manages to stay hidden, you can hide here as long as it takes to recover." "We will be the hands that lift you up and we will be the arms that hold you high. We will make you say our name forever. We will make you want another try." -Röyksopp, "Skulls" Crossing the veil's not so hard when you can relax to fill the contain you've been placed in. Crowds part when I go out on the town with my ball & chain. I don't know where this idea comes from that we're the quiet types. We're chattin' about delicious mortals all the time! Everything just gets more imposing with adulthood, doesn't it? Next stop: Exceeding 300 kilometers per hour! Look, everyone, I'm sure one of us is going to crack their ICE eventually! When the only tool you've got is a lever, every problem looks like a fulcrum. All it takes is just one dropship, order yours today! Welcome to the haunted world of HORRIBO. "And bein' the baller that I am, I talk to them; Givin' a damn about them not feelin' my attitude." -Chamillionaire, "Ridin'" What will be the face you wear after The Change sets in? Once upon a noontime sunny, while I pondered something funny, written in a quaint and curious book of a romantic strain — while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my window pane. “’Tis the breezy trees,” I muttered, “tapping at my window pane, only this, the wind's refrain.” It's not just about kaiju; it's about kaijhistory. Owl be seeing you later! "Well, it's very simple. See, if you inflate a balloon and seal it, at which point you've got -1 holes..." "There's nothing sexier than giving the last blow to a candle that's about to go out." -I-No, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R "What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp; Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" -William Blake, "The Tyger" By land, by air, or by sea, we've got the world covered. "I hope you'll excuse my cheap wit, but the hour is late and it's all I have left." -A humble crow. What better way to honor her contributions than to post via wifi? I'm just coming back from the shops. Hope these supplies aren't too haunted! Maybe you can't take it all with you, but this paraphernalia's gonna let me bring 'em all back! "I never thought so much would happen that I never thought would happen." -Ashleigh Brilliant Two frogs go on a coastal hike. One is bringing the sense of adventure, and the other is bringing the snacks! And if you can believe it, it's Friday once again, Chère. "Pull this lever," they said. "It opens all the cages at once, easy peasy," they said. See them run hither and thither, each sporting their own accessory! Those copper-bottoms are no match for our shell-tops. Just add ears (imperative)! "This would fix me," said many furs. We're sorry/thrilled to take over/leave it to you! Pikmin! Five of them! Just think of it, a land created by Lord Larethian for all our kind. We'll just need to relocate these pesky humans. While we're at it, any chance we could get your plow as well? We're going to need some battering rams. Backed by the full faith and credit of the company, some exceptions apply, void where prohibited. "Now, fellas, how exactly are we going to proceed with no judge or jury?" A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Hope you had a pleasant recuperation!" This retro aesthetic has a particularly appealing crunch to it! Look, Eunice, the company has done quite a lot to wind you up, it's only right that it get the song and dance it expects. "I did my makeup all by myself! Well, maybe one person helped." She's navigating that tenuous Middle Kingdom between cat girl and catgirl. I know some people say think they're very one-dimensional, but I sure think they've got depth. It's like I've got this whole dense orb on my back! Won't anyone take pity on the burdens felt by the powerful? When all you have is a skull, every problem starts to look like a fortress gate. I hope this doesn't corrupt any sectors in me... It's almost as though what the heart wants is not necessarily precisely what the body needs. That your car? Pretty nice, I love convertibles! It's kind of wild how much the flora of an ecosystem rely on flowers to round out their collective color wheel. Take heart! There will be fascists enough to punch anon! Look, the expected value of going again is infinite. So hit me. Hit me. Hit me. Sweet things come from those who fly! A rare window into how royal succession plays out after the chess game has concluded. Within these pictures, we will no doubt find the hidden secrets that will reveal the identity of the murderer! This design is also available on one of our commidi-tees, available in the gift shop! (grumbles) "Goddamn group projects, how come I'm always the one picking up the slack at the last minute?" These felines bee-line to bumper gleams and laser beams. This is the luckiest thing to happen to Mazura since he got kicked out of Parapa Palace. I'll tell you what, when we're done down here, it's going to be all mine! I'm hot 'cause I stayed out in the sun too long. You ain't 'cause you showed reasonable levels of restraint in the face of a fiery sky orb. If you think she's going to make a splash when she hits the waves, wait until you see how big a splash he makes! Sure, some things end, but in the grand scheme, everything keeps on going. Sure, the sun's out and life feels easy, but do you ever get the feeling that the shallows are getting less shallow all the time? "It's our spilled milk, and we'll cry if we want to!" I heard that, back in the day, they'd put a whole sausage in your burger if you asked them! "You say you can't stand me when I'm quiet, and so I shot you with my silence. I can't get that trumpet out of my head." -Lykke Li, "This Trumpet In My Head" (2008). Beware the prisons we build for ourselves, invisible to others, that trap us in our own minds. You're going to need to put a lot of heads together to outsmart this wolf pack. "Who do I know this man?" -The hosts of Drawfee I'll keep them close so I'm never alone! As above, so below. All that remains is your execution. This shaggy trio of pups looks like trouble! "Why be among the last to do what's right, when you can be one of the first?" -Ashleigh Brilliant High Priestess Luna bids you to mind your manner in her domain, for it is where her beasts are at their most powerful. Make your immortal rodent happy. Give her the cheese she has relied on for over 75 years of Constant Nutrition®. Time to get out from these narrow confines and stretch our limbs! With DOS on your PC, you'll be blown away by the discussions about DOOM and SSI you'll have on AOL. LOL! I'm hearing a lot of good things about, I think they're called "Lancers?" All the rage, I hear. You'd never guess which of the two has the higher power level. Froogo's having a grand old time living that monospaced life! Discard your ideas, replace them with orbs, for a spherical future! It was in the Vosges Mountains, they're famous for it. Eggbug's doing the best they can, but let's just say it's a lucky thing they can fly! RIP to Laurent de Brunhoff (1925-2024), who carried the torch for a father taken from him far too early. Sure, the Moon is a lot smaller than the Sun, but it's also a *lot* closer! These sculptural creations are ready to make some mayhem, and are also immune to critical hits! What reason do you have to doubt? Have you ever met a pig who tells lies before? "What do we make? Motherfucker, we make *money!*" All it takes is a bit of the old one-two, one-two! As everyone knows, benevolent clowns favor bicycles, while malevolent clowns have all flocked to these new "motor vehicles." Betcha can't kiss the Spider Woman just once! The future is not yet determined, but we may know ourselves in the present moment. You know what would really get us ready for out astral raids? *Costume jewelry!* With family like these, who needs mortal enemies? Watch as I inject this code straight to its root. Marx: "Don't you know the emancipation of the working classes can only be achieved by the working classes themselves?" Lenin: "No, but if you hum a few bars I'll try and fake it." Don't count this silly little mouse out just yet! Even so, it's going to be *quite* a climb, with some gnarly battles along the way. "Surely someone can just buy some carbon offsets to make up the difference," they said as they struggled to understand one another. If that girl's going to keep her hearts full, she'd better use a spin attack! People sure seem upset about something on campus, but so long as I've got my barrier up, I can ponder my orb in peace. They're technically all woofers, even their tweeter! A businessman is beset by sexy wingsuited beachgoers with knives! This is making everyone else nervous. Whatever they're doing, it's not thinking. If it wasn't for the certification, you'd never even know the place was haunted. Bulma is excited to reveal the DBZ Spacelab to the audiences of Earth. Don't mind him, he's just pining for the fjords. A nibble here, a nibble there, and before you know it, you've made a treasure from someone else's trash! Robots! We're doing our part(s)! They say that by the time you make it to the deep end, visibility goes down to zero! "I wonder." -President Lindberg, *The Fifth Element* (1997). Despite early accusations that the hare had thrown the race, a deeper investigation revealed a more complicated web of culpability. I can fix him in post. Things aren't going so hot for these amateur rocketeers! What a mysterious collection of bones, behaving in most unexpected ways! No need for the stick, the carrot's all the incentive anyone needs. Just one problem! Someone put all the racing stripes on sideways! United, she sits. Divided, we fall. LOL, owned. Oh my goodness! Do you mind? Can I get a picture? We need to claw back these resources before nature does it for us! They say she's got specimens to die for. The stripes make it hard for you to tell how many of them there are. At whose behest are the cities remade? At yours?! "Text me back in like 30. I'm watching that episode of SpongeBob where he has a 3-day rager with his jellyfish." -Alfred Pennyworth Ponder it, won't you? Ponder the eternal and beautiful orb, seen across so many orders of magnitude. "I'm just really feeling the 'action' part real intense, like. I could honestly take or leave the 'direct' part." This looks like a job for Claude Chappe, inventor of wireless long-distance semaphore! A serpent of a thousand miles begins with a single mis-step. Like my graduate adviser used to say, if you want to study a good boy, study yourself! "Just make sure you don't leave this one out overnight like you did your last bike." Cut through the air like a hot knife through butter with these fashionable, aerodynamic helmets! Bears shouldn't walk on sunshine! Not like this! "Everything that its developers would need to crank out GranTurismo sleeps in Motor Toon Grand Prix's prehistorically simple action gamey race flow." -Tim Rogers, 2019 Think what you will of these cats, they've certainly thought a great deal about you. If enough of us force ourselves into this box, you won't even be able to tell there's an echo! Maybe y'all better go home, because I'm about to go big. Raise the iron curtain on the first of many acts, but never lower your guard! "In a logic that perhaps no man will ever understand, the true winner is the last to finish the race." -Dr. Nils Hellstrom, *The Hellstrom Chronicle* (1971). "Distance doesn't really make you any smaller, but it does make you part of a larger picture." -Ashleigh Brilliant Who needs spinal column when you've got all this brain power?! Integers! They're only natural! Why work together to accomplish something, when you can shun the company of others and complain to strangers? I think you'll find that the meaning this duel takes depends entirely on where I cleave things. In today's 'Feat Head-To-Head,' we'll be comparing two different options for spicing up your NPCs Our best bet is to stick together and find a nice sunny patch where we can all photosynthesize! Come to the fortified city of Provins, guaranteed to be safe from armies with small-to-moderate siege capabilities! "Spring has sprung! And all the lovers knowing that spring has come!" -Terry Taylor, "Spring Has Sprung" (1997). When the worshipers of the Golden Capybara came into contact with the worshipers of the Golden Eggbug, the Golden Horde was born. Maybe she's born with it. Maybe she knows some really talented craftspeople. My health is assured! I'm gonna live forever! I shall remake this world in my image. Starting with this tree that I shall punch. "Are these dreams a clutch of stifled memories? Was there something in my mind? There are things they say man was not meant to know... Is this shadow out of time?" -The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" (2007). Every turn you make, you're heading downward, and yet there's never any bottom. You can't surprise me! My vision's periphery all the way round! In the criminal justice system, the wealthy are represented by two separate, yet equally obnoxious groups: billionaires, whose demands outline what is and is not lawful, and cronies, who enact those demands. "Come closer. Closer." (Whispers in your ear) "Now fight me like a man." *On the Fresh Grave of Your Lifelong Love Who died of Consumption and Being Found the Next Morning Unconscious, Naked, and Nearly Frozen to Death by the Groundskeeper. "Dinosaurs are not dead! Dinosaurs are life!" "Now, you say you spell 'slaadi' with two As? Fascinating." On the Internet, everyone knows you can't possibly be a ghost who died before 1969, because they never received the necessary operating system upgrade. The beauty of analog systems is that you can always given 'em a good hip check if they're not behaving! My journey shall take me beyond the shore, beyond the sea, beyond even the sky itself. Why go to work when your place of work can come to you, direct as the crow flies? We all saw you both from across the room, and we agree: We like what you've both got going on. Guess I'll wait here until someone restarts the level. Vee are going to PUMP YOU UP! "Sinuously erect?" Looks, *New Aeon*, you said it not me. "Did you think such a treasure would have only one protector, waiting around bored and alone for you to blunder in and take it?" I didn't give my heart to a rubber wasp, so much as have it stolen. From the north to the south to the east to the west! Elasmobranch fish are the boss and the best! It's the first of April, and you know what that means! That's right, FISH, FISH, FISH! They're the reason for the season! And I realized it wasn't a blade at all. It was a key. These ladies aren't going anywhere. It is the world around them that will change. The discrepancies of scale are not a bug of the polycule; they're a feature. Unfortunately, as reliably as the conveyer belt provides ants, food preparation times quickly add up. 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The streets of the old city are teeming with schemers, miscreants, and those just trying to get through the day. Lost in an bush with Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. Of course I'm going to let him come right back, I'm still wearing his denim vest. I emerged from the disorienting journey changed in ways I could not have anticipated. Which of of the sky's faces will it turn towards us tomorrow? All I need is water, and fruit, and to impress my friends. This is not a genre-defining collection of contributions that transformed multiple creative industries. This is just a tribute. I touched the giant geodesic orb at the American Pavilion and all I got was this self-referential chost. When you're looking at the world while you've got the blues, a blue Moon just looks like the Moon. It's a tough market out there, no horsin' around permitted. Behold, the first feed manufacturing facility to shift the focus from responding to contamination of the supply to preventing it. Just who is being protected from whom, here? This couple of aces doesn't get their rocks off like an ordinary couple. A place for every color and every color in its place (not you, pink). "I'm addicted to shiny things," they said, as they both reached for the lizard. When the trees are under the spell of winter's anesthetic stupor, we teach the blade-bearers how they may be safely diminished. These troublemakers are about to blow their tops! Things are gonna get hot! Some doors will only open to a stranger who you feel deeply that you knew in times past. This motley crew of brash trend-setters are making their way downtown the way *they* would prefer to travel. These saxa aren't going to frangere themselves. Some voids swallow the light that shine on them, but others wholly deflect it. The centaurs have been over this before, but sometimes the spirit of jazz is too strong to partake in archery. Fortunately, someone brought a spare bow. "In an orderly world, there's always a place for the disorderly." -Ashleigh Brilliant In the future, music will consist of food sounds, and be prepared by those no longer among the living. They say the uprising was started by a cadre of Jameson-type cyborgs. The spirit of the millennium is alive in the mix of Rs and Bs. "If you think about it, Platinum, the whole rest of the world is Sheep, isn't it?" Republic Space Force: The Wings of Hollandaise "You never know when you're making a memory." -Rickie Lee Jones. "I went to see a psychiatrist. He said, 'Tell me everything.' I did, and now he's doing my act." Richard Prince. What if a tingus and a tangus... fell in love? A lizard prince sits in a library, reading, wide-eyed. Machines should do the work. That's what they're best at. People should do the thinking. That's what they're best at. "I got no complaints, it's regular hours, and I can jog to and from work on the parkway." If it were Ours, We'd make it much bigger. This crew's so gently pliable, they've not got one bone between them. No book in the world held the secret I sought, so I gave myself the book in dreams. A lancer pilot sits atop a stone wall. Ahead, a pastoral landscape of rolling farmland. Behind, a darkened industrial hellscape. All the armaments known to the artist that are mightier than the sword. SNAKE FARM SNAKE FARM SNAKE FARM "When asked by a noted art scholar the appropriate distance from which to stand when viewing his magnum opus plainly entitled Loss, Tim Buckley famously responded 'What? Fuck You!' and banned me from his forum" -Hareton Splimby These feathered fellows bring the "smash" to "smashing the chains of the oppressed." Food fights: Questionable. Kitchenware fights: Unconscionable. The essence of the chaotic alignment is a little less conversation, a little more mayhem. Just sit back and let them do all the cutting. Folks will do whatever it takes to be these dogs' best friends. Are you telling me that cats dressed as finely as we should feel hunger? Preposterous! Film's future is so bright, we've got to wear shades! A charging armored knight is no match for a nude longbowman whose aim is true. No more fearsome collection of bounty hunters has ever been assembled! "When all other means of communication fail, try words." -Ashleigh Brilliant "Reach for a book and you touch the stars," they said. "As above, so below," they said. And look at us now! Sure would be a shame if we took these, the only remaining Talismans, into the Valley with us! From blunt force all sharp things are made. A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "The animals will feel an overwhelming peace descend when you are around." Be grateful! The seasonal staff have been working through the night to lay out the white carpet for you. Two test tubes, and within them, two individuals. Their respective genders are not for others to decide. "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target." -Ashleigh Brilliant A mountain guide stands near a warm cabin and points across a vast expanse of snow at a shimmering peak. They say you can kill over 200 pounds of rabbit and bison with just 1 Bullets card. Is that really true?! "You are becoming Gods. There's a new master of creation, and it's you. You've unraveled DNA, and at the same time, you're cultivating bacteria strong enough to kill every living thing. D'you think you are ready for that much power? You lot? **You lot?**" - *The Second Coming* (2003), as sampled by Orbital (2004) on "You Lot" One might go so far as to say that we live in a society. I dunno, if it doesn't, can you *really* say you're living the dream? "Tutto quello a cui riesco a pensare è prendere altre patatine!" -Every seagull in Venice, probably. Now that they've been adorned with flowers, there's no denying that these are the beasts of all time. Together, these two owls break the law to get justice. Ah, Paris. City of love, city of cake. To go on this journey, goat north. What do the acoustic guitar, the electric guitar, the mandolin, and the fiddle have in common? Sicks shreds. Check out the eyelashes on this one! Just don't step into the circle. "Cause every chromosome is a hand-me-down." - Weird Al Yankovic, "I Think I'm A Clone Now" (1988) It would be best if you simply do what these giant women say. These bugs are some next-level moon fanciers, so they deserve nothing less than The Moon, fancier. It's race to discover land between the lookouts in the crow's nests and the crew looking into the water! Four intimidating figures, each a force to be reckoned with, indicates the object of their sinister ambitions. Who keeps so many birds in boxes?! Sunset with the girls. What's not to love? Behold the future conveyances of ages past! The moon is not a place for people. It will never forgive these people for trying to be Selenites. One of these bozos show their face, and you're getting that *special* boss music! Ladies! Now available in blue. The jeans are from grandma, the Nintendo is from Uncle Red. Zardoz gets to play Santa this year. The results are surprisingly heartwarming! When you're a resurrectionist, you get to be in everybody's will! Beneath the city, the harbor. Beneath the harbor, a sleepy community and fish. Beneath that community, a friendly slumbering mass. A woman, dressed warmly, gathers some flowery sprites in from a garden overtaken by frost. See how they sparkle, see how they shine, see how you're drawn from yours into mine. A shady ne'er-do-well pulls himself from the ocean only to discover more than he bargained for. Where my guinea pigs at! Come and get some citrus! Look, I'm just saying, these creatures are, like, *all wing*, know what I mean? A duel is when two people agree that the other person dying is more important that keeping oneself alive. Crimson acid can hear what they're saying to her. This gnome's got a sword, and a dog, and a wardrobe that just don't quit. Beneath the canal, and deeper out beyond the harbor, there are things in the water. "Take this milk. Why do we drink *cow* milk? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'? Isn't that weird?" -Calvin & Hobbes, 1993-06-14 Stripes, checkerboards, it's as plain as black and white. It's a chimeracle! I'll lead, you follow, try not to get burned. You know what would look great in this untamed landscape? A housing development. Oh, they laughed at me at the academy, but who's laughing now?! The heart want what it wants, which is trouble if the heart wants the heart. Just *every* kind of animal, all hanging out together! Hold me closer, dabbing Lancer! Each and every dog normal, not made of unusual materials at all, don't worry about it. Let me introduce the team: The Muscle. The Bankroll. The Fixer. The Infiltrator. Tell us experience that we can earn. The Grand Palace is getting positively mobbed by flying aircraft. The aftermath of deuterium and tritium loving not wisely, but too well. "There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas." -Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin If you do it with a twist. Yes, artistically. You have nothing to lose but access to a power supply! Can't hardly ponder 'em all, there's so many orbs out here! Sure, these reptiles can get flat, but they're flexible. What other other shapes would you like them to make? Would you like you memories with tea? Or with gravy? Nothing shiny is safe from this clever birb! "The name of the story will be Time, but you must not pronounce its name." -Robert Penn Warren Surely reading all this trashy gossip isn't bad for me! Arduino? I hardly hippo! Don't get it twisted, the bozo on the horse knows what he did. Emmy Noether, iconic physicist and mathematician, was operating on a whole different level. When you stare into the maze, the maze stares back into you. "One of the book's signs is the sounding of seven trumpets, the fifth of which brings forth a swarm of locusts." The material world is behind you. Ahead is the world of spirits. All! About! Bees! Don't hate us because we're beautiful. Well, maybe go ahead and hate, it's great for our metrics. Even your sharpest barbs aren't making it past this armor. A feast fit for one or more rodents! Games have rules, so it follows that they probably also have those who think themselves rulers. We greased the rails at the station terminus, and you won't *believe* what happened next! A squeezebox, two flutes, and *three* stringed instruments?! Now that's what I call a party! It's November, and all around, the natural world is settling into its slumber. Something about them all, can't quite put my finger on it... A couple meets under a starry sky filled with fruit. Say 5 degrees by the next 100 years and it sets the world on fire. You think the people aren’t just going to sell the Earth and move? A crowd of real cool shades-wearing dudes can be found on the streets of Los Angeles 2019. A salamander fires an alcohol-based superhero out of a cannon at William Shakespeare. You know, like you do. American cereal manufacturers ask: What if the Bride of Frankenstine was instead his no-strings-attached DJ cousin? A bunch of beaky busybodies band together. Hunted by horrors, Horace had his heart humbled and his hopes hollowed. Long after the collapse of the imperial core, a long and cryptic shadow is still cast by its ghosts. A man and woman ponder an ord, within which is an alien who ponders them back with an order of its own. From the beyond, further orbs, and further pondering of this pondering. What more does a witch need than the Moon, the stars, an orb, a tower, and ten or so animal companions? Person: "Guys! What if everyone got replaced by robots and I'm the last real person left?" Narrator: "He was." Make way for the new goth royalty. "In the final analysis, everything depends on everything else." -Ashleigh Brilliant A macaw, a parrot, a crow, and a raven walk into a bar. The bartender looks up at them and says, "What is this, some kind of chost?" In the abyss, a face. Upon the face, sweet honeyed mans. The salt is implied. Mary Anning (1799-1847) was one of the great paleontologists of the 19th century. Food is broken down into smaller pieces through chewing (mechanical digestion), while the extensive process of chemical digestion begins. As food is chewed, saliva is produced and mixed with the food. The saliva contains enzymes, like amylase and lipase, that begin to break down carbohydrates and fats. Look, it's just a bunch of little guys! They don't have top-shelf gear, leave 'em alone, don't worry about it! Just some frogs taking the express train to the lake. Have you considered... the cheese unknown to science? This motley crew's only got one thing on the mind: Dem bones. Vaccines make you figuratively (literally?) demonproof. Yellow his room, with a new yellow curtain, and two yellow eyes, and everything is jaune for him. A bipedal cat, a degenerate, and a two-faced scoundrel welcome you to a world of illusion. Team Rocket takes a tumble from a castle into the trash. This little sprawling gloom, she's gonna let it loom. In a state of nature, nobody knows you're *Canis lupus familiaris*. Now, all is dark, and we may let the strings sing to those beyond the veil. It's autumn, and what better time to share our reflections with one another? These are *original* vampire characters, they are *not Dracula*! The light from the early universe is right there, waiting for us to grab it. "The axolotls were like witnesses of something, and at times like horrible judges. I felt ignoble in front of them; there was such a terrifying purity in those transparent eyes." -"Axolotl" (Julio Cortazar, 1956). Strength? How about this dog show you what strength looks like? Cannot attack if defending player controls no islands. If at abt time you control no islands, bury Dandân. This bird had it all figured out, or so they thought. Look out everyone, Drawfee is being horny on main again, and the community is *wound up*. In fact, we're better than nice. We are unbelievable! Two beaked warriors with blades drawn are ready to protect a beaky baby. A bad day for small boats out on the big, big ocean. For thousands of years, cats have had homes. Now, they have demands. A salmon is dead, and the culprit has been identified by a witness. The powerful gather in secret to toast their unassailability. Scavengers gonna scavenge. So yeah, mind if I grab a couple fries? A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "The pets are happy for your safe return." Bespectacled British scholarship is no match for theropods! The Zee shines with all the colors of the Neathbow. Nothing to do on a rainy day but take it in stride and dress appropriately. Bookmaking is a machine for turning forests into knowledge. A diminutive kobold is ready for training with the swordmaster. Cube. Pyramid. Sphere. Hexagon. Crescent. Perfection. "The triffids are coming! The triffids are growing! The triffids are killing!" Three imposing figures consider their respective blades. ’Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world. Now could we drink hot blood, and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on. "If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system" -Ashleigh Brilliant. A pink zebra is looking to get a trio of animals drunk; only the one with the worst judgment is interested. The car's not going to know what hit it. A pair of stegosaur sailors discuss the dream of starting over on a new continent. The Great Wheel is the hottest date spot for singles in all of Paris. Princess Zelda is very unimpressed by this clown's Android. An antelope has the undivided attention of seven dogs. Assassinate the Imperator with the power of light! You see a world made different when viewed through cracked glass. Space bear was promised space whales, and boy are there space whales! Walk slowly through the forest, for it is full of resting creatures. Imagine, if you will, a field with every kind of flower. Was she rescued from the water, or is she merely humoring her gormless suitor? Lady in stone, her crew made of bone. A stretch of ocean separates the ambitions of the explorers on the left from the predations of the pirates on the right. You can really feel the notes of regret and lament as it goes down. These dinos are *very* cool. The world is so much simpler when it's this complicated! It's hot in this desert, it's boring, and it's time to go home! The future corpses of America face down the power behind the throne. The fruits of the past are delicious today, the fruits of today are delicious forever. "How to survive eating animals in the wilderness: The tongue, eyes, and brain are all edible." These cats are cross, so leave 'em be. There are a dog and a cat inside you. Each contains multitudes. Warning: Coffee may be the brutal, searing temperature of the sun. A space telescope gazes across a starry expanse at the white-hot chaos of a black hole accretion disk. What if praying mantises, only Byzantine? Such meat and cheese that you'll think you've become titled royalty. WereGarurumon se gare sur La Rue de la Gare, aux ecart de la rousse avec la roue dans la route. These pups don't run! A pair of rabbits find themselves way off the agreed-upon route. "According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless." -Ashleigh Brilliant. A young witch reads an occult tome by the light of a single very intimidating candle. Three royals ladies, three noble creatures. The Knight from Hollow Knight is surrounded by adoring fans. Loose lips cost souls. If you think about it, a tongue is like a snake but also like a brain. A supergroup over 400 years in the making. A group of 19th century women paint a sitting model. Are we sure we want to keep spinning this particular wheel? Pigeons are very fine birds, but please appreciate them respectfully. An unfortunate king drowns as a snake and an angel look on in alarm. These junkyard felines just might have designs on some of your treasures. Three performers make music for you across the wires, and into your ear alone. That grinning cat can't pierce my force field. The next move you make could be your next. Never forget what social media was, and didn't need to be. Now made with only real ingredients! Tintin is threatened by an unnaturally big spider. Yo, listen up here's a story about a little guy that lives in a stone world. Cats inspired by box chart a course to become box. Truly, it's good to be alive. An especially fresh fortress is appreciated more by its onlookers than by its inhabitant. Ooh, let's slip that gap! Many birds, many eyes, an insatiable hunger. A star-struck owl gazes into the vast unknowable depths beyond the atmosphere. A trio of big fans. Hell is empty, and all the bastards are here. "After the last sixty million years, I suddenly feel very tired." -Ashleigh Brilliant It is by your hand that the truth will be revealed to you. A ground-based galleon must fend off an armada of airships descending from space. Folks with skin untouched by the sun. Various cards, blank in one way or another. A celebration of NASA computer Katherine Johnson. Crowd around the scrying pool, you're not going want to miss the preview of next week's episode! Some round, chill friends soak in the sunshine. "Please turn down the volume or play something other than Drake." When three clocks disagree by this much, best to call it a day after lunch. The Moon has many secrets, and many feel a pull other than that of the tides. A royal crow announces, "Hooray! A brand spankin' new place to work!" A dog is astonished. I mean, what could the odds that this result is a fluke possibly be? The sages agree: Ancient Egypt is pretty cool. I see your card has (I see your card has cards in it)s in it. Now is the springtime of our mild affect made glorious summer by these daughters glam. A diamond hardback in the bookseller's rough is truly the greatest of treasures. Don't rate this sports car in terms of horsepower, but rather in terms of cow power. ALL HAIL OUR FEARSOME CELESTIAL ORB! The quest for justice is worthy work, and befits the use of a little magic. Orange you tempted by this dizzying cornucopia of vices? Even a flat Earth resides in a vast and voluminous universe that is full of wonders. Have you remembered the moon today? You cannot learn statistics without first considering the simple coin flip. Link meets his match in the Sword Hoarder. "We've got to build our life on new foundations. We must get back to primeval integrity." -Eugène Ionesco, 1960. "That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful." The Little Prince (1943), on the subject of The Lamplighter. Just a whole bunch of little guys! "It's strange, but wherever I take my eyes, they always sen things from my point of view." -Ashleigh Brilliant Two onlookers witness slowpoke, painted liked one of their French girls. Rock lobsters, scissor lizards, and paper tigers cannot attack or block. Two string-instrument artists struggle with and dwell on their art. A battle group of bookish ships close in on a space station. Two leviathans consume meal fit for a world-devouring hunger! Mazeppa regrets riding bareback in the company of much wilder ruffians. The feeble scribblings of humanity are no match for the combined efforts of the flora and fauna. Got a secret. Can you keep it? Swear, this one you'll save. This place is just chock full of dogs! The painting spoke to me, and only to me, and fell to me to rescue her. A book tyrant descends to announce that reading is now mandatory. A trio of long-beaked birds jointly consider their shared two centuries of experience. The month of June is a time for beautiful flora. Few people today realize that King Charles the First had specialized in dual-wielding. You are a toad. Toad toad toad. What, were you born in a book barn?! Things are getting hot, and some foundations are starting to crack. Over a dozen entirely normal armchairs. Nothing to worry about. The desert is full of strange and wondrous visions. I'll cut more off than a nose before I'm done with you. It's plane to see that it's all geometry. Jack's lucky chucks attack Waluigi's semi-wahtomatic wahndgun. The Kird Ape is 1/1, and receives +1/+2 when the controller has forests in play. Some vampires being spooky, in a glamorous, aspirational way. A variety of cephalopods present an intimidating front. "It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need." -Alan Moore, 2007 These ladies in red are the belles of the bug ball. The Great Telescope of Birr meets the telescopes of the future. "Don't do something we're both going to regret." The hills are alive with the sound of ravenous, toothsome, flowering plants. Good? Bad? She's the girl with the gun. Blind albino eggbug, ravenous, cloaked in a darkness never once touched by sunlight, must attack each turn if possible. Ain't no rule say that dogs can't take baths. Just do one thing, however small, that will allow you to start. Believe that you have something to say. A whale's song is sometimes a plea to find a point of reference. Let me tell you, Cohen's couldn't believe how big my effect size is. Behold some freaks who always thinks with their tentacle ganglia. The museum of the French mint provides a showcase of the cheddar them French been gettin' for two millennia. Where'd you get those creepers?! Think about it. Have you ever *seen* your skull? Or anyone else's, for that matter? "Yes, but you're taking the universe out of context." -Ashleigh Brilliant Six hungry ladies set out in search of fresh fish. What girls want: Trash & Cats. "Did you know? It is impossible to outrun your own reflection." -Celeste (2018) A flock of books take flight. These boys done been kicking your ass so hard, their shoes wore out! An array of threatening mirrors shine back to you the things you fear to see. A delicate boundary between worlds, but doom awaits those who believe their love will carry them across its threshold. Electric mice are able to metabolize both direct calories and alternating calories. "Normal times may possibly be over forever." -Ashleigh Brilliant Few can deny that cats are miniature demigods, albeit with quite constrained empires of influence. "A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge." -China Miéville, 1998. (A rat's become a fat cat, flanked by kings gone rank.) Various lights shine coldly in the dark, but do not assume that anyone is home. Two rabbits prepare for a coordinated, synchronized attack. "There's freakin' cats everywhere, dude." -Jacob Andrews Betray your tyrants and choose violence. "Did you know? Most climbing mishaps occur due to exhaustion. Remember to take regular breaks!" -Celeste (2018) This ad dares to ask: What is Napoleon... was a refrigerator? An array of vices are laid out before you, ready to take you to the stars. A team of horses mill restlessly at the edge of the world. "All the evidence concerning the universe has not yet been collected, so there's still hope." -Ashleigh Brilliant Wake up. An eye is upon you, staring straight down and keenly through, seeing all that you are and everything you can never be. "One life is worth as little as any other." -Power, Chainsaw Man (2022). On behalf of Battle Mountain's mayor, Isabelle is excited to welcome you to the neighborhood! Link is armed with lon lon milk as he makes his way through woods soft and silent. A gaggle of clowns gather, as if to say, "There is no out there. There is only in here." You wouldn't Potemkin Buster a trans girl. Right? The Knight brandishes its nail as it is borne by the Last Stag into the deepest, buggiest corners of Hallownest. One, two! One, two! And through and through the vorpal blade went snicker-snack! She left it dead, and with its head she went galumphing back. Hackers from the 90s attempt to infiltrate the Internet of the 21st century. This is a tribute post in honor of Grace Hopper (1906-1992). Auber on fiddle, K. K. Slider on guitar, Snake on flute, Turtle on drums, Oryx on lyre, Prizmatik on pipes, with vocals by Cool Cow. The ambassador has a message for the diplomat. Look at these little scamps! What possible trouble could they get into? (Narrator: They would get into a lot of trouble.) In the mind of the creature, fly away from here, from this human cognition to the Umwelts that are near. "I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses." -Arthur Rimbaud, 1871, as translated by Graham Robb (2000). The Fish of April swam all the way from France to bring you this apology bouquet. "Oh wad power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as others see us!" After successfully playing the long game, the roiling darkness above is commanded to produce a bolt of elemental lightning, bestowing power unto Long Marty. Three women, accented in gold, present their respective trigrams of power. Three buggy judges stand before you, prepared to judge whether you be bug enough. Are the arms I'm supposed to take up against a sea of trouble... the very arrows I've already had the fortune of receiving? "I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it." -Ashleigh Brilliant A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "I will eventually invent a time machine." "I mean, you're not doing it now, either." You don't know what you ask, traveler. My spiciest takes will kill a dragon, let alone a host. You'd better go to a guest that shares milder takes. Several minds are blown, either figuratively or literally. "By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated." -Ashleigh Brilliant One rabbit buys another a pint and both benefit. A couple of sketchy characters find their way to the far side of the moon. Three dogs in a circle greet one another. Hop in your time machine and come to the Bad Apple, serving customers from 2011 to 2012. A wolf is alarmed to learn that this fluffle of rabbits is much spikier than they had anticipated. The tripartite faces of slumber, the boy, the bear, and the forebearer. A parade of blacks, from gray to black, are scrutinizing you with yellow eyes. "You can’t deny this song is actually a banger." "It is unbelievable that this stubborn darkness, this eternal eclipse, this flaw in geometry, this eternal cloud on virgin truth can be endured." -Farkas Bolyai, c. 1825. People go in one end, chosts come out the other. All we do is turn the handle. In case of rampaging wall emergency, break Aleph. It's the landing. "Nonetheless, collectively these results offer a clear conclusion: A large portion of replications produced weaker evidence for the original findings despite using materials provided by the original authors, review in advance for methodologi- cal fidelity, and high statistical power to detect the original effect sizes." -Open Science Collaboration, 2015 The look of ire (that's the look, that's the look). When living deliciously, it's important to keep in mind that it's all a matter of taste. “They are real, and that’s why I will never work out that hard again, because nobody wanted to believe they were real." -Nicholas Cage, 2022 Is this a dog I see before me? Or is it three? Seems, nay, 'tis a split in my vision. A continental mystic of some notoriety seeks to complete a quest amidst an array of assets and obstacles. Bet I can fit this whole book in my mouth! "The Thousand And One Nights is not something which has died. It is a book so vast that it is not necessary to have read it, for it is a part of out memory." -Tim Rogers (2020) quoting Eliot Weinberger's (1984) translation of Jorge Luis Borges (1980). A view from the ocean of the Hale Kai condominium complex, with a hearty salute ready for the next setting sun. It's a cloudy day, but this kitty's not going to get caught unprepared. Swan atop the battlement, Goose down on the pavement. "You're having delusions, Jobe. Struggle for reason!" -Dr. Lawrence Angelo A winged strawberry floats above a windmill in a snow-blanketed cityscape. Light up the night! There is a city that this darkness can't hide. "Another Sears will be an arcade, but every game is Sears." -Brandon Bird, 2022 Nobody can resist your Stromboli dynamism. L’ENRÉGISTREMENT ÉLECTRIQUE LE PLUS PERFECTIONNÉ Foreverer? More like foreverest. I wish I was the animal which fits into that mood. Four cats, 36 lives, 72 tales sold! A soul singer is accompanied by attendant musicians. But as the wind changed direction, and the temple band took fire, the crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive! Corpora descriptio, corpora delicti. Every zoo is a heavy petting zoo if you're brave enough. A mighty blue whale visits a decidedly uneventful bay. Orbs, orbs in all directions! "Today my mind is concentrating and my body's like an antenna." -Miles Davis, 1989 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA Code 21 CFR) sets the standard and regulates the range of irradiating laboratory animal food products between 10-50kGy for Electronic Beam (e-beam), X-Ray and Gamma (Cobalt) Irradiation. "The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again." -Lewis Carroll, 1865 All soft horses, no straight lines. A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Everyone is delighted that we're bound by that pact." I exist in this wasteland, reduced to one instinct: Survive. "I accept that the planet is warm, and I rejoice that it is warm." -Mark Steyn (ghoul), 2015. "This is me beating the shit out of you until you manifest that idea you had in the shower." -CJ the X, 2022 The quest for knowledge is an infinite game played by finite creatures. A pair of two-dimensional eyes gaze though anaglyph glasses into the third dimension. "It grows harder from here," she warned the cat, but it dropped to the path and walked forward as though to say, 'You are wasting your time.' -Kij Johnson, 2016 "Why'd they make that drawer so hot?!" The world isn't getting smaller. Every part of it is simply accelerating toward you. "Is this the original board game of death?" -Colin Barras, 2020 "LOOK AT HER. y'all need to appreciate her more" like girl... she's lines "When a man tries to see into the distance, what does he do? He narrows his eyes." -Katsuhiro Otomo, 1987 Five enemies defeated and only one round left to defeat the resulting sadness. The Tacoma Art Museum invites residents of 2009 to discovery how David Macaulay works. Smitten lovers paint the town red. A royal crow announces, "Hooray! A significant personal accomplishment!" A dog is astonished. How is an ungulate like a human-powered aircraft? Three eggs. Or is it four? A man peers up at the James Webb Space Telescope, far beyond the Moon. It should be noted that the motor car was also invented by pedestrians. But for some reason the motorists soon forgot about that. They began to run over the meek and mild, clever pedestrians. The streets built by the pedestrians passed into the hands of the motorists. the roads doubled in width and the sidewalks narrowed down to the size of a tobacco wrapper. The pedestrians began to huddle against the walls of buildings in alarm. -Ilf & Petrov, 1962 The reader is commanded to keep thinking. A bookmark promoting the now-defunct Gotham Book Mart. "What we all dread most is a maze with no center." -G. K. Chesterton, 1913 An incredulous bird is surrounded by smaller birds and approximate birds. Two masked and robed individuals recline in a gondola, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Three wacky ladies are really excited to share their opinions. A variety of grim portents induce a melancholy atmosphere. A variety of book-loving creatures communicate their love enthusiastically. A portrait of Bonaparte remains trapped halfway between the sketch and the render. The capybara is a singularly luminous animal, and space aliens have concerns. Kings and queens brandish their weapons, but in a sensual way. A single powerful tome can have the weight of a whole stack of fluff. A stack of tetraminos, vandalized and decaying, stand forgotten in a warehouse. You have been greeted by an inhabitant of the Moon. A man grasps at an arrow in his back, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." The animals are immune to rhetoric. An angel points at a skull, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "It's time to sleep in to commemorate the New Year!" A man creates/discovers the world, while a giant speaks/is silent. A pair of 3D Glasses provide depth to a game that converges toward a vanishing point. Several unnerving horse-like entities. The hottest take of all time is also literally the most superficial. Seven knives pierce an apple, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." They call me Pitopotamus, my kisses are bottomless. Three amniotes are enthusiastically ready for things to get weird. A train journeys to space, with a speech bubble saying, "AAAAAAA" A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Will you explain your mind?" A postal cat swipes at a postal rat, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A dog dreams, calmly and cozily, of what it is like to be a dog. A harlequin reclines on bench below the stage. Birds are made creepier by their unknowable secrets. Cats playing golf, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "According to this article I read, 84% of people are thankful for your existence!" A man is nuzzled by a sphinx. Amish women rise a horse-drawn carriage into Intercourse, Pennsylvania, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A cowled girl with a battle axe races across a tennis court to seek revenge as Ayk Danroyd looks on. A shadowy figure beside a table looks out over a desert, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Cats demonstrate a variety of emotions through pose, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A person holding a brilliant lantern aloft, with a speech bubble saying, "holy crap." Movie poster for Manon Des Sources, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A tuxedoed gentleman appears with a winged alchemical symbol. Eight ants circle on a Moebius band, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "The animals are eventually going to confirm my suspicions." Opus the penguin tries and fails to fly, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A person stands with their head bisected, with a speech bubble saying, "holy crap." A green monkey clutches his bananas, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "It's time to perfunctorily send a card for Halloween!" A giant squid with a chicken's head attack's attacks fictional submarine The Nautilus, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A wanderer stands above a sea of fog, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A man crouches in order to demonstrate to a dog how to defecate. A surfer tips off the crest of a wave, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Dr. Strange is attacked by a monster, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A mysterious woman nibbles at a butter biscuit. A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "The animals will reflect on our shared humanity until the world forgets our names." A sixteenth century depiction of an autopsy, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A Hippopotamus cast in bronze, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A wolf looks on. A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Will you accept my emotional outburst?" A man holding a and puppet aloft, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Various dogs, with an imperative to "Vote Dog." A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Just a friendly note to say how are you!" Two theatrical stars are pressed into a dispute over a crown, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." Saint George, having broken his lance, swings a sword at a dragon, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A Chinese print of a bird, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Hope you will have a successful semester!" The Eiffel Tower, manipulated to appear upside-down, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." 
