"If you’re bold enough to go mask off, you’re bad enough to get smacked on." -2 Mello, "PULL UP" (2021) 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" "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! "I am afraid of the unknown... and also many parts of the known." -Ashleigh Brilliant From kinky timber no chaste thing was ever made. 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. Do you want to build a ski lift? Don't dream it's clover. Now that's some good eating! 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" "Stare into the subliminal for as long as you can." -They Might Be Giants Quit stalling and get in the sleigh, gramps. There's treasure everywhere! So really, you should be thanking me for all these great gifts. You ever get the feeling that the scissors had better watch out, because they might not be the victors in this encounter? Conviction is a terrible thing to concede. Invaders beware: This Kasbah's ready to rock back. 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. Let's just say there's been some real *combustion* in these internals, you know what I'm sayin'? Keep your finger on the X button, this sequence is brutal, and it goes on *forever*! Devastating momentum! (Mediocre turning radii) You wanna know how I got these wings? All you need to do is turn your eyes toward the things creeping at the edge of the frame. Fast fashion, you say? Well, they're available for a limited time, I'll tell you that much! Above us, the celestial fire. Below us, the infernal heat. I'm nourished by the lives that wove the web inside my haunted head. "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 Watch party at our place! We're going to binge Candle Cove! "And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee." -Harlan Ellison, "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (1965). 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. I hear that there's no comparison, that this is peak duck! Welcome to the haunted world of HORRIBO. What will be the face you wear after The Change sets in? And if you can believe it, it's Friday once again, Chère. See them run hither and thither, each sporting their own accessory! Just add ears (imperative)! "This would fix me," said many furs. 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. 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... That your car? Pretty nice, I love convertibles! This is the luckiest thing to happen to Mazura since he got kicked out of Parapa Palace. 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. 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. As above, so below. All that remains is your execution. Discard your ideas, replace them with orbs, for a spherical future! With family like these, who needs mortal enemies? "Surely someone can just buy some carbon offsets to make up the difference," they said as they struggled to understand one another. 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)! I can fix him in post. 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 "I'm just really feeling the 'action' part real intense, like. I could honestly take or leave the 'direct' part." 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! 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). "Distance doesn't really make you any smaller, but it does make you part of a larger picture." -Ashleigh Brilliant 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! The beauty of analog systems is that you can always given 'em a good hip check if they're not behaving! Guess I'll wait here until someone restarts the level. "Sinuously erect?" Looks, *New Aeon*, you said it not me. Look, all I'm saying is that we're never going to run out of space up there. You can't even call him Mr. Potato Head anymore. Because of woke. Which of of the sky's faces will it turn towards us tomorrow? Some voids swallow the light that shine on them, but others wholly deflect it. 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. "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. Folks will do whatever it takes to be these dogs' best friends. "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target." -Ashleigh Brilliant "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" It's race to discover land between the lookouts in the crow's nests and the crew looking into the water! Who keeps so many birds in boxes?! The jeans are from grandma, the Nintendo is from Uncle Red. When you're a resurrectionist, you get to be in everybody's will! Each and every dog normal, not made of unusual materials at all, don't worry about it. "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 Would you like you memories with tea? Or with gravy? Arduino? I hardly hippo! 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. Don't hate us because we're beautiful. Well, maybe go ahead and hate, it's great for our metrics. 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. American cereal manufacturers ask: What if the Bride of Frankenstine was instead his no-strings-attached DJ cousin? Make way for the new goth royalty. In the abyss, a face. Upon the face, sweet honeyed mans. The salt is implied. Look, it's just a bunch of little guys! They don't have top-shelf gear, leave 'em alone, don't worry about it! This little sprawling gloom, she's gonna let it loom. It's autumn, and what better time to share our reflections with one another? These are *original* vampire characters, they are *not Dracula*! Strength? How about this dog show you what strength looks like? Bespectacled British scholarship is no match for theropods! Bookmaking is a machine for turning forests into knowledge. ’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. Space bear was promised space whales, and boy are there space whales! Was she rescued from the water, or is she merely humoring her gormless suitor? The world is so much simpler when it's this complicated! The fruits of the past are delicious today, the fruits of today are delicious forever. These pups don't run! Are we sure we want to keep spinning this particular wheel? Now made with only real ingredients! A celebration of NASA computer Katherine Johnson. ALL HAIL OUR FEARSOME CELESTIAL ORB! The quest for justice is worthy work, and befits the use of a little magic. Things are getting hot, and some foundations are starting to crack. A delicate boundary between worlds, but doom awaits those who believe their love will carry them across its threshold. "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.) "Did you know? Most climbing mishaps occur due to exhaustion. Remember to take regular breaks!" -Celeste (2018) Wake up. An eye is upon you, staring straight down and keenly through, seeing all that you are and everything you can never be. The tripartite faces of slumber, the boy, the bear, and the forebearer. "You can’t deny this song is actually a banger." I exist in this wasteland, reduced to one instinct: Survive. A stack of tetraminos, vandalized and decaying, stand forgotten in a warehouse. 
