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09/15/2016 · 5:50 pm

Digital Diaspora

diaspora: a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic locale. Diaspora can also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland.

There’s a chance, being that you are using the Internet, that you are experiencing an intangible emptiness, a desire to fulfill a need you didn’t know you had.

You are far from alone. This is normal.

Spoiler: they hatefuck.

Many of us used the Internet around the year 2000 because it supplied things we couldn’t find elsewhere. Easy and plentiful pornography, hurtful humor, forums and blogs brimming with lolcows; all the schadenfreude one could stand.

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Filed under Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Site Stuff, Uncategorized

Tagged as 2010s, ALF, Brett Easton Ellis, Captain OG Readmore, corporate crap, despair, Die Hard, ennui, Ghostbusters, Internet, movies, old internet, sellouts, smartphones, smoking, television, Transformers, whores

08/15/2016 · 12:54 pm

Your Emotions (Make You A Monster)

How can you tell when someone doesn’t belong on the Internet?

They get emotional.

There is no place for emotions on the Internet. Emotions are a weakness here. They’re reduced to “emoticons”; literal badges that display the current weakness of the user. This makes it easy to spot people who struggle with manic depression, bipolarity, or hypochondria.

The Autabyss.

Whether you noticed it or not, true anonymity has been eradicated from social media. You cannot post anonymously. Remember when you could? Of course you do- it was less than ten fucking years ago.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Thousand Listen Club, Uncategorized

Tagged as 2010s, corporate crap, Dead Kennedys, emoticons, Facebook, Gamergate, Internet, Jack Chick, Jaws, Jello Biafra, old internet, political correctness, punk, satire, Social Justice Warriors, social media, The Onion, Tron

08/06/2016 · 8:31 pm

Rahway The Easy Way

If you’re still reminiscing about a high school field trip almost 30 years after your permission slip was signed, it was probably a pretty sweet field trip.

My Sociology class got to go to Rahway State Prison, circa 1989. It was so awesome, I went again the next year, when I wasn’t even in the proper class.

I'm still surprised when I see this actor walking.

I’m still surprised whenever I see this actor walking.

In the late 1990s, the grittiest show on cable television was Oz; HBO’s first one-hour drama. Continue reading →

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Uncategorized

Tagged as 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1999, Bayonne, Harold Perrineau Jr, HBO, jail, MTV, New Jersey, Oz (TV show), Paul Lynde, prison, Scared Straight!, Star Trek

07/23/2016 · 5:11 pm

Blocklisting

Facebook and Twitter have a very appealing form of casual censorship; if you have a difference of opinion with another user, you can block them.

Did someone infer that Islam is dangerous? Make them disappear. Is “Black Lives Matter” not being treated with the utmost solemnity and reverence? Bye-bye. No need to empathize or try to understand a different point of view; it’s better to treat opposing ideas as annoyances, to be clinically expunged.

I’m not warning you against social media, I’m saying see it for what it is; a method of grouping people by their beliefs and predilections, so they can be monitored and controlled. By companies, government, and people who have more money. That’s all the Internet is anymore. It’s not about sharing information. It’s about controlling who sees it. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 2016 election, blacklisting, censorship, Facebook, groupthink, Internet, Josef Stalin, old internet, political correctness, Social Justice Warriors, social media, Stalinism, Twitter, underground, underground comix

07/18/2016 · 4:54 pm

The Culture Cudgel

The most efficient way you can make someone resent your culture is to force it on them.

The second best method is to insult people for not accepting your culture, as “bigots”.

Help help! I’m being repressed!

People discover cultures they love. They don’t submit to them. They submit to things they hate, because they have no other choice.

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Filed under Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Uncategorized, Worst Of All

Tagged as corporate crap, cudgel, despair, Facebook, guilt trips, Mike the Pod, Poddism, Poddist philosophy, political correctness

06/02/2016 · 2:54 pm

The Jizz

I’m not going to bore you with more boasting about how I can draw better than any contemporary “web comic” artist out there. I’m going to bore you with an explanation why.

From INVISIBLE LEGENDS (unpublished)

I’ve got The Jizz.

You could set out right now to be the greatest cartoonist in the world, spend billions of dollars, and you’d still never top me. You don’t have The Jizz. I do. Continue reading →

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Uncategorized

Tagged as Adam Hughes, Alan Moore, Bands I Useta Like, Basil Wolverton, behind the scenes, Berni Wrightson, Bettie Page, comix, Dave Gibbons, Dave Sim, Dave Stevens, Drew Friedman, Harlan Ellison, jail, Jim Blanchard, Kurtis Blow, Laurie Lipton, MAD magazine, MC Ren, Mike Patton, Mike the Pod, Mozart, music, Poddism, Poddist philosophy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rakim Allah, rap, Rick Griffin, Rolling Stone, The Rocketeer, Watchmen, Wm. Stout

05/27/2016 · 4:17 pm

A Pirate Looks At 44

I meant to use that title four years ago, when I turned 40. Then today, when I turned 44, I figured that using the title unchanged would confuse Jimmy Buffett searches. Buffett’s song, “A Pirate Looks At 40”, is one I have not heard before, but I’ve read the lyrics, and I understand it’s one of Buffett’s better tunes. So I replaced “40” with “44”, to set it apart.

Originally, I planned to use “butt pirate”, but there’s really only one definition to that phrase, and it’s not one that describes me. It would have made a funny title, but it also would have netted me a lot of attention, mostly unwanted. From pirates of butts, I’m guessing. They’d email me pictures of their hooks and peglegs, with the message “YARRRRR!!! I BE PLUNDERIN’ BOOTY!!!” Right? I’m not caught up on my pirate culture. Continue reading →

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Site Stuff, Uncategorized

Tagged as 2016, 44, behind the scenes, Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding, comix, despair, Gummo, guns, Jimmy Buffett, John's Arm:Armageddon, krautrock, laughter, Mike the Pod, motorik, pirates, Ramones, Rosemary's Baby, Ruth Gordon, Satan

01/02/2016 · 1:05 am

Here’s Your Problem

It’s 2016, and I can tell you’re not ready. The last twelve months really added wear and tear. You’ll have to do more than make resolutions you won’t keep, if you’re gonna roll through another year. I’m here to help, though. I’ve taken a good look under your hood, and I think I see the issue. It’s not a problem yet per se, but it could seriously affect your performance in the coming days.