Infamous psychedelic Lovecraftian artist John Coulthart reports on a 1965 classic dug up via UbuWeb?

Discovery reports on the drug cocktail that our brave men and women in outer space indulge in on a regular basis to stay focused and sane. Personally, I have only one feeling about this, and it’s the same one I have about sex in space. [Waits for Branson-flights to drop in price…]

Outer space, at least as we encounter it in science fiction, is basically a drug free-for-all. If character’s aren?

 
I don’t know about you, but Jingle Babies scares the bejeezus out of me! Tr?ɬ

 
Adam Cohen, writing in the New York Times, discusses FDR’s skill in defining and maneuvering public option towards constructive social goals. Cohen skillfully argues a very fine point here, and picks a great example to make it: Roosevelt’s championing of a different sort of public option. Can you imagine how different American life would be today if something like this was a legacy of the New Deal? WHO in their right mind would have been against this?!?!

As governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt crusaded for ?

 
As mentioned earlier on Dangerous Minds, Gummo auteur Harmony Korine’s new film follows around a band of masked degenerates who like to, well…hump piles of trash.  Vice magazine gives Harmony some room to explain himself, and reminisce about his childhood:

I remembered that when I was a kid there was this group of elderly Peeping Toms who used to hang out in the neighborhood, and sometimes I would see them stare into my next-door neighbor?

 
When he’s not attending Ballard memorials, RE/Search Publication’s V. Vale puts out a monthly newsletter.  They’re packed with interesting info and updates, and I now have him to thank for introducing me to the small-scale Mothra V. Meganulon world of Japanese Bug Fighting.  The rules are Chuck Palahniuk-simple:

1. Two Bugs to a fight
2. Bug fights go on as long as they have to
3. No outside weapons in Bug Fights

The Japanese Bug Fighting site currently showcases some 30 bug-on-bug matches.  Round #7—Red Spider V. Black Scorpion—follows below:

Here’s Air America’s list of the top ten companies to avoid this holiday season. (Personally, I recommend not buying anything, and instead actually spending time with the people you care about and doing nice stuff for them, but then we can’t dispense with capitalism all at once can we? Oh wait, of course we can… it’s already dead! It’s kind of like “Sixth Sense”... “Some ghosts, they walk around, thinking they’re alive, but they’re actually dead, they just haven’t realized it yet…”)

1. Children’s Place: “It gets its products from places with human rights and labor violations and had to pay $1.5 million in a settlement alleging that they violated the Securities Act.

2. Hanes: “...went the extra step to be cited for ?

 
You gotta leave it to a Druid to really give a f*ck about nature. Archdruid John Michael Greer has a go at our culture’s standards on measuring productivity. Reported by GOOD magazine below:

The author, blogger, and druid (no joke, he’s a real druid) John Michael Greer has a piece in Energy Bulletin explaining why our normal way of thinking about economic “productivity” is flawed. Greer suggests that we look at “energy productivity” instead:

In an age that will increasingly be constrained by energy limits, for example, a more useful measure of productivity might be energy productivity?

 
Hmm…is this what global warming sounds like?

For Langj?ɬ?kull, Sn?ɬ

 
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