* PHONOGRAM: THE SINGLES CLUB #4 cover:

* "A new calculation suggests testing everyone for the virus and treating those who have it immediately is the fastest way to eradicate HIV." In other news, water is wet and the sky is fucking blue

* More interesting, perhaps: it appears that memories may actually be encoded on "caps" appended to DNA.

* And there’s a patent application for a hurricane-killing procedure. I’m sure the illustration isn’t supposed to crack me up, but…

Also, my toes are cold.

• Lexington News – Kentucky News | Lexington Herald-Leader
  "The 2006 law organizing the state Office of Homeland Security lists its initial duty as "stressing the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth.""
  (tags:pol cult war )
• Dancing Plague of 1518 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "It is not known why these people danced to their deaths, nor is it clear that they were dancing willfully."
  (tags:med weird history )

Älymystö are a Finnish band of my acquaintance. Their first album ATOMGRAD, which I really liked, is available now from them as a free download (direct or torrent). All details here. They say:

We’ve got elements of ambient, noise, industrial, triphop and god knows what in the mix. (If any of you can come up with a suitable genre description, feel free to let us know. We’re stumped.) The record has an ass-backwards structure, so if the first songs are maybe a bit harsh, there’s smoother seas up ahead.

Also, if you go to their website right now, you can stream a nice thing called "Sounds Of Waking Dreams."

December 1 reboot, relaunching all the monthly threads during the day.

The REMAKE/REMODEL artist’s game for this week is already up: thanks to Jess Nevins’ writings, I have found the fairly obscure Captain Justice. Yes. Captain Justice.

Debauchette narrowly escapes a lifetime of retching in the presence of bananas:

When I was walking with a friend last night, we were approached by someone encouraging us to enter a cabaret featuring a “banana show.” I wasn’t sure what a “banana show” was, so I asked, thinking it involved a lot of cock. The guy’s response: “Japanese midgets! And the monkey fucks the midgets!” Convinced he was just making shit up at random, I had to go in (you get in for free!, he said), but my friend shook his head and said, “I’ll wait for you out here.”

I decided I would go in on my own later, at least until I got back to the hotel and looked up “banana show” on the internet. Now I’m pretty glad I didn’t go in. I like weird shit, but I also like fruit. That show would’ve put me off of bananas forever.

Okay, let’s see what people have been up to lately…

* First off, happy birthdays to Matt Fraction and Trixie Bedlam.

* Highpoint Lowlife are planning something interestingly hauntological.

* Gillen’s bon mot of the day:

(Dave Sim’s comics serial CEREBUS) is an interesting thing, in and of itself – it being less a comic series and more 300 issues of Rorschach’s origin sequence (”Void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to ink ones intricate design on this morally blank world. Was Dave Sim”).

* Chip continues to worry the shit out of us:

No. I don’t know. Don’t have a clue. Chip claims "It is feeding me the wizened souls of old men."

* Wendi Strang-Frost::

* Trailer for an unfinished film: Chad Michael Ward’s FABLE:

FABLE – Trailer

• Ruin value – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Ruin value (German: Ruinenwert) is the concept that a building be designed such that if it eventually collapsed, it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would last far longer without any maintenance at all.
  (tags:architecture war pol culture )
• Table of Contents to Clausewitz, On War (1873 translation)
  A full copy.
  (tags:war books )

Via Melissa Gira’s Tumblr, I note that Amanda Palmer’s had to start looking for a new record label because her current one refused to promote her single, album and the video I showed here a little while back because, well…

Because she refused to let them remove shots of her “fat” belly from the video for Leeds United, and is therefore “uncommercial”.