Apparently from “Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness #3″, found by Jon Haehnle, thanks

John Rogers:

“Great! We finally closed the deal for the TV pilot!”

“I’m really looking forward to this. When do you think I have to turn in the first draft?”

“End of April.”

“… THIS April?”

North Lanarkshire Council have ordered copies of NEXTWAVE: I KICK YOUR FACE for their libraries.

However, they’ve also labelled it as “Terrorism Fiction.”

(Thanks to Paul Buntine.)

The Secret Meeting (Curve vs Collide)

Free new material by Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Eileen Gunn, Paul Di Filippo, what the fuck else did you need to know?

(from beneath you)

this is how i could stay forever,

Originally uploaded by kristamas°.

• LiveScience.com – World’s First Tree Reconstructed
  Earth’s oldest known tree stood nearly 30 feet tall and looked like a modern palm, a new reconstruction shows.
  (tags: history sci)
• The Epoch Times | Mysterious Huge Stone Eggs Discovered in Hunan Province
  The construction workers said that Bandeng Hill is quite simply a stone-egg mountain. They found multiple nests of unique stone eggs throughout the course of digging
  (tags: history weird bullshit)
• North Sea yields secrets of early man’s happy hunting ground
  A lost landscape where early humans roamed more than 12,000 years ago has been uncovered beneath the North Sea
  (tags: history)
• An island made by global warming – Independent Online Edition > Climate Change
  The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland’s enormous ice sheet
  (tags: eco)
• Denver – News – 72-Hour Party People
  “I consider this shit an excellent use of my tax dollars,” Nick says, rattling a bottle of ProVigil. “It helps keep people from going werewolf around hour 50.”
  (tags: drugs)

“I think every English writer has to produce a postapocalypse novel in the end, don’t they? It’s in the operating manual or something. They kick you out of the country if you don’t, and then you have to become French. It’s a cruel world.”

Found in an article by one Howard Hendrix, Vice President of the SFWA, the Science Fiction Writers Of America:

I think the ongoing and increasing sublimation of the private space of consciousness into public netspace is profoundly pernicious. For that reason I don’t much like to blog, wiki, chat, post, LiveJournal, or lounge in SFF.net. A problem with the whole wikicliki, sick-o-fancy, jerque-du-cercle of a networking and connection-based order is that, if you “go along to get along” for too long, there’s a danger you’ll no longer remember how to go it alone when the ethics of the situation demand it.

I’m also opposed to the increasing presence in our organization of webscabs, who post their creations on the net for free. A scab is someone who works for less than union wages or on non-union terms; more broadly, a scab is someone who feathers his own nest and advances his own career by undercutting the efforts of his fellow workers to gain better pay and working conditions for all. Webscabs claim they’re just posting their books for free in an attempt to market and publicize them, but to my mind they’re undercutting those of us who aren’t giving it away for free and are trying to get publishers to pay a better wage for our hard work.

He calls himself the Antichrist, wears the number 666 tattooed on his arm and claims a following of 2 million people. And Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is coming to Guatemala whether it wants him or not.

The Central American country has banned the leader of the Florida-based Growing in Grace church, arguing he is a security risk because he provokes conflict with Roman Catholics and evangelicals. But Miranda still plans to fly in on a private jet today to celebrate his 61st birthday and meet with thousands of followers from around the world. “It has been predestined, and angels will make it happen,” said Axel Poessy, Miranda’s media director. “He is, after all, God himself.”

He preaches that sin and the devil do not exist. In January, he revealed tattoos of the numbers 666 on his forearms and declared that he and his followers were Antichrists because their beliefs supersede those of Jesus Christ.

(In Guatemala, a follower of Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda holds a baby with SSS painted on her head. The letters stand for Miranda’s motto, “salvo, siempre salvo,” or “saved, always saved.”)

More than a hundred men in the Philippines may have contracted rabies after taking part in a self-flagellation ritual to mark Good Friday.

A health alert was issued after a man who took part in the traditional ceremony – where participants slash their backs with knifes before flaying themselves with bamboo whips – died from the virus on 11 April. Mario Morales, the mayor of Mabalacat in Pampanga province north of Manila, told local media that Eduardo Sese may have contaminated up to 100 people who shared knives to cut themselves. He was bitten by an infected dog in February 2007.

Self-flagellation is an annual tradition in Pampanga and other parts of the Philippines in which men whip themselves into a frenzy on Good Friday to atone for their sins.

From Pata @ Irresponsible Pictures. Of these, I’ve only seen the first ep of MOONLIGHT MILE, because I’m a sucker for early-space-exploration stories.

(NASA – On the Crater’s Edge)

“…the media will eventually hurl 21st Century (humanity) back to tribalism…”

(“The morbid feminist in me asks, how many NGO workers wanted to ‘rescue’ workers here at this *clearly not like the US counterpart* Coyote Ugly?”)

the red dance,

Originally uploaded by kristamas°.

(tomoko flower)

“Within four weeks there will be six new bands called ‘Richard McBeef.’”

“Ellis Watch ’07″ at Caleb Speaks Clever.

(” * Speaks Clever” used to be the tagline for my old blog.)