🎶In my salon, come gaze upon, my kooky canvas!🎵 "In most nations, the creation of multiple conscious, high-res mind emulations of a single person ('xox ghosts') is illegal. However, simply maintaining one or more backup uploads without running them is not usually against the law. Xox shadows are legal in some countries, illegal in others. Violations are generally either deleted or taken offline and confiscated." -David Pulver (Transhuman Space, 2002). Our squeesh is deleesh! Behold the wonders of the orient! A history so ancient it can accommodate any conspiracy theory you bring to it! "The way we see it, the world's all alleys once you get your mind right." You can almost hear the cartoon sound effect when they dink around on those tiny feet of theirs. Thy skin changes country and colour, And shrivels or swells to a snake's. Let it brighten and bloat and grow duller, We know it, the flames and the flakes, Red brands on it smitten and bitten, Round skies where a star is a stain, And the leaves with thy litanies written, Our Lady of Pain. -Algernon Charles Swinburne "Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)" (1866) The Orals Board is master of the Examination. Only the defending author stands before them. I want to walk in the open wind. I want to flock like horses do. Want to dive into your ocean. ...Is it chilly out here? "You can really taste the circulating vitamin D!" "You can really taste the circulating vitamin D!" Read more → "It's always Fish Taco Tuesday somewhere!" LOOK AT THEM! LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE BLINDING FURY OF THESE ADS! "The indignity! To have been outrun by a tree!" Gain one free attack of opportunity per turn when wielding a bludgeoning weapon. The better to smell our enemies with, my dear. New horse? Bring it here, let's see those teeth. 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No, this is deeper, darker. It's very calm actually, very relaxing. Young love sure is something to behold! It's not enough to win the battle. Mother knows meanest. See you tomorrow! It's important to give your sharks the breathing room to really be themselves. "Oh geez, did y'all just collect my buddy? Am I the last one left?" A play in three acts! My thousands of fans who all believe me can't be wrong! A top vacation spot! (For ruminant herbivores) All good puppies! No problems here! That's what makes them so dangerous. Imagine what it will be worth in five years! I can only imagine they're nice people under all that shell of theirs. "A friend under glass stays a friend as years pass!" "We're being issues arms made by the lowest bidder. What were you expecting?" Huge owls are desired by many. This causes a variety of problems. Eat, drink, and be naughty! This green won't Ever all by itself. Gimme fifty. Lemme tell you, steppers don't come much higher than these! Just in time to get these wrapped and onto the sleigh! The card(sharp)s know and the card(sharp)s tell! I'll be slipping into dream any moment now! "The vintage Furby is good condition and has been tested and is working properly. The Furby's eyelashes have come loose and are being kept with the Furby but are not attached." You snooze, you delay losing by ten additional minutes! "If you've got to go somewhere, then you better go somewhere far." -EL VY, "Return to the Moon" (2015). You're not going to manage a triple double unless you rack up some assists. How'd they get all that pointy into these round shapes?! Descending the segmented spiral. You fools! Did you think you could glimpse the mysteries with *uncorrected vision?!* The Goose, The Swan, And The Birdly. That smoke's got me thinking we might need to change some of those plowshares back. The beauty of the forest is that it's so much bigger than you are. "I've been sleeping a thousand years, it seems." -Evanescence, "Bring Me To Life" (2003) Normally, he's the White Trapezoid, but he doing a big steppy. Seriously, though, why don't we see more chocolate-tea collabs? "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster." -GLaDOS, <em>Portal 2</em> (2011). This, surely, is the future of transportation. These production lines involve an awful lot of blades. "Hey, Atropos, you sure you didn't want to go for something a little more intimidating?" "I've got the sinking feeling my creator doesn't have my best interests in mind." "You idiots! We've all got tentacles!" If you see something, say something. (The something is a dog.) Globe Earths, balled fists, let's go! A sweet treat that only gets better with age! In the culinary justice system, some candies are especially heinous. You know, if we don't look at the clocks, we can pretend they're on time! "Two steps in the extrusion process reach temperatures capable of reducing bioburden in the feed." We're more fun than the leopards, too. Buncha sticks in the mud, them. I need to place this piece very careful. If they win, the moon falls! Sometimes, they run all through the night until dawn, trying to outrun their dreams. Sing, my angels of hairspray! "Dear Diary. The nobility have yet to discover my secret that I am, in fact, not an Asian pear at all, but a humble Golden Delicious." "Europe was then able to get back to the important business in which it has been engaged for hundreds of centuries: Chewing off its own leg." -Harlan Elison, from <em>Mindfields</em> (1993). Past the ice, it's ten times as nice! "I was born hungry." -Ashleigh Brilliant Sometimes, it be entirely the brain that make be snakes. "It results from the encounter!" Oh Yes, the bees! The bees! Chew on this! Good heavens, it's all spilling forth, isn't it? Have you spilled your share of ink today? Please put your whole ass into this escapade, if you don't mind. Better keep writing, you're going to need another couple chapters to adress the remaining loose ends... We're just incredibly comfortable right now, what's going on with you? With the record selection and the mirror's reflect, imma fighting with myself, oh oh! Compared to this bunch, the bumblebee seems downright plausible! Every means of locomotion is permitted, nay, encouraged! On the face of it, there's really only two sides to this one. "Still too soon, buddy, still too soon!" "I have a message! It is that someone in your neighborhood likes to feed the crows." "I try to serve life, but you only seem to want to destroy it." "So that when the moment comes, I can say I did it all with love." -"Monument" (Royksopp & Robyn, 2014) The impossible dream of harmonious coexistence. You gotta work *with* the updrafts. No point in working against them! "We decided to go for more of a melded style along the ramparts." "What we're working with, they're not strictly speaking *chemicals*." You know what they say, one man's thief is another man's trash collector! "Look, we just need ot be at war with *someone*, who that might be isn't so important." No Link required! We just puff up when we croak, we're not all inflation enthusiasts. Dancing on the speakers. Are you peaking with the tweakers? I hear it's best if you wait a few days to slay the beast, if you're looking to make bread. No acts of persuasive mimicry here, nothing at all to worry about! The forecast indicates we will also be blue in the afterward times. "Point is, we're at the center, not you!" Where they're going, they won't need eyes to see. Though I sleep no longer, the vision of a city beyond the clouds remains with me still. "It's Deluxe, Son! Deluxe! It's not that hard!" -Deluxe_247 If Utopia is "no place," maybe this is the road to get there? I'll be honest, I've just got the shoot button taped down. It's not so much a matter of creating something that is alive as it is altering a living thing beyond recognition without killing it. "Hmm, I don't know, sounds like a skillet issue." Why yes, we *do* have merch with the logo on it. Hang on, can any of these boats survive the open ocean?! Go for it, just splash it wherever. This egg has met its end, after all, but the chicken goes on. Don't think for a second that you're coming into this house. Will someone think of this poor woman? She's maintaining her composure but she's also clearly melting. One plus one plus our prey makes three. After all, the dogs are hot, the ice cream is cold, and we've got plenty of loaves. "Don't you wanna just scoop them up and put them in your pocket?" Welcome to the mediocre cinematic universe. Putting up with him would leave a sour taste in anyone's mouth. Progressing inexorably past the point of no return. What a relief that, in this moment, what we have is one another. I'm going to need you to focus up, Joe. "If you got real hair, real fingernails, you got a job, you goin' to school, and y'all don't need nobody to help you handle yo' business, make some noise!" -DJ Kool, "Let Me Clear My Throat (Live)" (1996). It's not a real flavor, it's a fiction that someone made up. "What's in it?" "Typewriter ribbon!" -"H.R. Giger At Home," Superego Podcast Thing are heating up and love is blooming! "I swear to God, if you don't do this, I will take your bones." -Angoose, as read by Drawfee in "Drawing Animals Based On Their Skulls" (2021-04-27) You think that's loud? Wait until the square gets cleared. If I'm being honest, the last one didn't so much get away as there just wasn't much left on those bones. "Hey, will you babysit my Tamagotchi® while I'm away for the weekend? My last one died and I can't go through that again bro." This little note of mine, I'll pass it down the line. What's the matter, can't take a little heat? "What's a' matter? You feelin' yellah'?" "Everyone drifts, all the time! It's impossible to drive straight." -Overdrift (2007) Is someone going to tell him that his horse is made of wax?! Hang on, the music of what now? School's out forever. "Mind if I just hum?" "SAMUS: Ridley killed my parents. RIDLEY: One time!" -Awkward Zombie (2014-09-21) Take a moment, you deserve it. A justice no less hard for all the softness of its color scheme. "I learned this strategy from Dorian Smiles, but I put a little twist on it." -Brian David Gilbert, "Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss" (2020). And there was much rejoicing. Pretty sure it's a skill issue. A sword hath sharpness to slay a savage beast, or butcher innocent folk. "Why did it have to be snakes?!" -Indiana Jones, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) So many suitors, my heavens, how will I ever choose? "And when I stand on my head, you never react. I can't get you to crack, I can't get you to crack, not one fucking smile" -Veruca Salt, "Stoneface" (1997) "Hey, do you ever get the feeling like maybe there's an imposter among us?" What do you mean, it's just painted on?! I mean, I tried, but I decided that returning to target owner's hand was the best course of action. Our hero is about to shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark. It don't matter where you parade. You better plan for rain, just in case. Enter a world of tiny, iconic delights! What better place for it than my vaulted art cavern? Hey, you ever wonder what the aliens find so interesting about about watching us struggle to survive? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? There's none smaller, quod erat demonstrandum. They're all around us, even now, even though we can't see or feel them. You'll cheam your creezies when you speep our Pestist Grevias! These two really know how to breathe fresh air into their relationship! Looks like we're going to have to take nature into our own hands! Every bnuuy needs some bduuy to love. Not sure that I enrolled in this school to do this, but I guess it's what we're doing! "I could do great things, if I were'nt so busy doing little things" -Ashleigh Brilliant What we gotta do, you see, is build them too big to succeed! Because if not by our hands, and then by whose? This honkin' snoot's a beaut. I'm gonna let it hoot. Wah-wah-wah-wipeout! Things will work themselves out, no doubt, no doubt. "Lord, it's deep, and the sides are steep, and the night are long and cold" -James Taylor, "Down In The Hole" (1991). Brighter than the tallest lighthouse! He sees you. You’ll do this again. We cannot now know the consequences of our triumphs. "I'm a needle on a spiral in a groove." -Jethro Tull, "Something’s on the Move" (1979). So perhaps you might consider making a small donation to support a free resource from which so many benefit? 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. Love police, I think I'm forming, I'm forming a crush. "I'm cold and I'm bold and I don't do what I'm told." -Information Society, "Mirrorshades" (1990). 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. I could let them, but I'd have to charge. "Want something?" -VHS Head, "Frozen" (2014) Those aboard, at no extra charge, may stay on with us for all remaining stops. "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) There's a lot going on, dress warm and keep watch. I hope it is! There might be five minutes in it! Don't given 'em the satisfaction, is how! The trick is to work to keep their disorganization from becoming a feature rather than a bug. "Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the window." -Ashleigh Brilliant Don't dream it's clover. 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. 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!) 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. We thought today would be a good day for rolling. 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. 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. Conviction is a terrible thing to concede. Once you get to know the Big Guys, they're easy enough to get along with. Turns out, the world is actually overflowing with things we should be thankful for. I'm as surprised as anyone. Never mind what's fueling my unstoppable flurry of blows. Come on, daddy needs another couple hundred tickets. 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. Keep your finger on the X button, this sequence is brutal, and it goes on *forever*! It's a very slow dance, but on a truly grand scale. 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. Can't look away, now that they've fallen into orbit. 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). From purple timber no good thing was ever drank. Though it be cool, and dark, much grows in the waters of the bog. It's remarkable what you can turn up when you're a journalist by day. 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. Watch party at our place! We're going to binge Candle Cove! 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). “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. Let me tell you, when these gummies hit, they *really hit!* Why is it that the owner class so frequently don't have any class at all? Crossing the veil's not so hard when you can relax to fill the contain you've been placed in. 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? All it takes is just one dropship, order yours today! 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. "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. And if you can believe it, it's Friday once again, Chère. Those copper-bottoms are no match for our shell-tops. Pikmin! Five of them! 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. It's almost as though what the heart wants is not necessarily precisely what the body needs. Look, the expected value of going again is infinite. So hit me. Hit me. Hit me. 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?" 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? "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. "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. Time to get out from these narrow confines and stretch our limbs! Discard your ideas, replace them with orbs, for a spherical future! 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? You know what would really get us ready for out astral raids? *Costume jewelry!* Watch as I inject this code straight to its root. "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! They're technically all woofers, even their tweeter! A businessman is beset by sexy wingsuited beachgoers with knives! This is making everyone else nervous. If it wasn't for the certification, you'd never even know the place was haunted. 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)! 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! Oh my goodness! Do you mind? Can I get a picture? The stripes make it hard for you to tell how many of them there are. "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. Cut through the air like a hot knife through butter with these fashionable, aerodynamic helmets! Bears shouldn't walk on sunshine! Not like this! 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. "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). Who needs spinal column when you've got all this brain power?! Why work together to accomplish something, when you can shun the company of others and complain to strangers? "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). 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." "Now, you say you spell 'slaadi' with two As? Fascinating." The beauty of analog systems is that you can always given 'em a good hip check if they're not behaving! Why go to work when your place of work can come to you, direct as the crow flies? Guess I'll wait here until someone restarts the level. "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. These ladies aren't going anywhere. It is the world around them that will change. Unfortunately, as reliably as the conveyer belt provides ants, food preparation times quickly add up. Reach for the top with the flats of your feet! WARNING: Improper use may cause a hazardous condition. Do not top off. Teach a monkey to shoot, and they'll paint on a grimmer, grander canvas for the rest of their lives. 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. 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! This motley crew of brash trend-setters are making their way downtown the way *they* would prefer to travel. 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 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?" "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. 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. "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 The essence of the chaotic alignment is a little less conversation, a little more mayhem. Folks will do whatever it takes to be these dogs' best friends. Sure would be a shame if we took these, the only remaining Talismans, into the Valley with us! 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. 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. To go on this journey, goat north. Check out the eyelashes on this one! Just don't step into the circle. It would be best if you simply do what these giant women say. 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. Ladies! Now available in blue. The jeans are from grandma, the Nintendo is from Uncle Red. 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. 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. 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! 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?! Just *every* kind of animal, all hanging out together! Let me introduce the team: The Muscle. The Bankroll. The Fixer. The Infiltrator. The Grand Palace is getting positively mobbed by flying aircraft. "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. Can't hardly ponder 'em all, there's so many orbs out here! Surely reading all this trashy gossip isn't bad for me! 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. "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. Don't hate us because we're beautiful. Well, maybe go ahead and hate, it's great for our metrics. A feast fit for one or more rodents! 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. 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. A bunch of beaky busybodies band together. 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? Make way for the new goth royalty. 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. Have you considered... the cheese unknown to science? Vaccines make you figuratively (literally?) demonproof. Team Rocket takes a tumble from a castle into the trash. This little sprawling gloom, she's gonna let it loom. 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? This bird had it all figured out, or so they thought. 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. Bespectacled British scholarship is no match for theropods! Nothing to do on a rainy day but take it in stride and dress appropriately. Bookmaking is a machine for turning forests into knowledge. 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. A pink zebra is looking to get a trio of animals drunk; only the one with the worst judgment is interested. 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. 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? 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. 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. These cats are cross, so leave 'em be. Warning: Coffee may be the brutal, searing temperature of the sun. What if praying mantises, only Byzantine? 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! Three royals ladies, three noble creatures. 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. An unfortunate king drowns as a snake and an angel look on in alarm. Three performers make music for you across the wires, and into your ear alone. The next move you make could be your next. Cats inspired by box chart a course to become box. Truly, it's good to be alive. Ooh, let's slip that gap! 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. Folks with skin untouched by the sun. 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." Now is the springtime of our mild affect made glorious summer by these daughters glam. Don't rate this sports car in terms of horsepower, but rather in terms of cow power. 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. "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! Two onlookers witness slowpoke, painted liked one of their French girls. Two string-instrument artists struggle with and dwell on their art. Mazeppa regrets riding bareback in the company of much wilder ruffians. This place is just chock full of dogs! A book tyrant descends to announce that reading is now mandatory. The month of June is a time for beautiful flora. Things are getting hot, and some foundations are starting to crack. The desert is full of strange and wondrous visions. Jack's lucky chucks attack Waluigi's semi-wahtomatic wahndgun. "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 Ain't no rule say that dogs can't take baths. Behold some freaks who always thinks with their tentacle ganglia. Where'd you get those creepers?! Think about it. Have you ever *seen* your skull? Or anyone else's, for that matter? What girls want: Trash & Cats. "Did you know? It is impossible to outrun your own reflection." -Celeste (2018) These boys done been kicking your ass so hard, their shoes wore out! A delicate boundary between worlds, but doom awaits those who believe their love will carry them across its threshold. Few can deny that cats are miniature demigods, albeit with quite constrained empires of influence. "There's freakin' cats everywhere, dude." -Jacob Andrews "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 gaggle of clowns gather, as if to say, "There is no out there. There is only in here." The Knight brandishes its nail as it is borne by the Last Stag into the deepest, buggiest corners of Hallownest. This is a tribute post in honor of Grace Hopper (1906-1992). "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 mean, you're not doing it now, either." A couple of sketchy characters find their way to the far side of the moon. Three dogs in a circle greet one another. 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. "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. The look of ire (that's the look, that's the look). 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). It's a cloudy day, but this kitty's not going to get caught unprepared. Swan atop the battlement, Goose down on the pavement. 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. L’ENRÉGISTREMENT ÉLECTRIQUE LE PLUS PERFECTIONNÉ Foreverer? More like foreverest. A soul singer is accompanied by attendant musicians. 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 All soft horses, no straight lines. 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. "Why'd they make that drawer so hot?!" "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 The Tacoma Art Museum invites residents of 2009 to discovery how David Macaulay works. Smitten lovers paint the town red. 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. "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. A man grasps at an arrow in his back, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." An angel points at a skull, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." 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. The hottest take of all time is also literally the most superficial. Three amniotes are enthusiastically ready for things to get weird. A dog dreams, calmly and cozily, of what it is like to be a dog. Cats playing golf, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A man is nuzzled by a sphinx. 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." A tuxedoed gentleman appears with a winged alchemical symbol. Eight ants circle on a Moebius band, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." 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 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 mysterious woman nibbles at a butter biscuit. A sixteenth century depiction of an autopsy, with a speech bubble saying, "oh no." A man holding a and puppet aloft, 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." 
