(Serpenteese)

(unfinished)

By Matt Powell:

This came as a bet from William Christensen. We were talking about new projects a while back, and he made me three bets: that I couldn’t write a zombie book, that I couldn’t write a fantasy book, and that I couldn’t come up with a superhero project that outdid the vogue for “high concept” superhero events. I won. So now he has to sit in his office and weep while I put videos of him being forced at gunpoint to rub his junk on dogs up on YouTube. I always win. Spread the word.

• INCENDIO – Tragic Skyscraper Fire in Sao Paolo (1974) VideoSift
  “Brutal documentary account detailing the infamous Sao Paolo high rise fire of February 1, 1974.”
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(gone to pee, leave my drink alone)

(she looks happy)

SAVANNAH, Ga. – A convicted child molester and his father took turns sexually assaulting a 6-year-old boy while the molester’s mother watched, then they choked the boy to death…

Mugshots of the perpetrator:

George Edenfield and his 58-year-old father sodomized the boy and forced him to perform oral sex while Peggy Edenfield watched and masturbated…

(conformitory)

Human skin is only about 0.07 inches (2 mm) thick.

Originally uploaded by tetheredto.

* OBIT: Drew Hayes (POISON ELVES)

* That Seventies Meme

* The State Of Writing About Comics

* Image Slimline: Who Should Be Doing FELL-Style Books?

“People like me will end up in the Second Life equivalent of a medieval monastery, passing each other poisoned books and muttering darkly in subdued text about Microphone-Kiddies and multi-uddered furries yelling obscenities at the compound walls in stuttering packet-loss Portuguese…”

Radical Face

(while simultaneously downloading the new Panda Bear from Emusic)

3pointD.com reports:

NASA, the U.S. space agency, is getting ready to launch its own exploration into virtual space. NASA’s Learning Technologies arm has issued an intramural call for proposal ideas for the development of a massively multiplayer online game that is intended to be “the front-end of a larger synthetic environment.” The program is funded to the tune of $1 million a year for fiscal years 2007, 2008 and 2009.

And then:

[UPDATE: now postponed, oddly]

NASA can no longer afford the future:

NASA will likely shut down its Institute for Advanced Concepts, which funds research into futuristic – and often far-out – ideas in spaceflight and aeronautics, officials say. The controversial move highlights the budgetary pressures the agency is facing as it struggles to retire the space shuttles by 2010 and develop their replacement.

“”Right from the start I knew we needed to have something different if we were going to stand out from the rest of the sex services. That’s when I remembered my buddy, who bragged about how he really loved having his nipples licked,” the manager of Bichiku Boyz tells Spa! (3/27). “Then I realized that everybody has at least two nipples…”"

I’m going to the pub.

Fifteen British Navy personnel have been captured at gunpoint by Iranian forces, the Ministry of Defence says.

Svetlana

Originally uploaded by Cassandra M..