hail to the thief
It seems I may have new icons.
They're all from Transmetropolitan, which is a sixty-issue comic penned by Warren Ellis. The comic is vulgar, obscene, violent, offensive, pornographic, ridiculous, and one of the ten things I'd take with me if I could pre-select my reading material for being stranded on a desert island. In it, Spider Jerusalem -- a Hunter S. Thompson homage -- brings down a rotten president.
It's actually my favourite kind of man-against-the-machine story, which is one that creates a single heroic figure from the get-go and follows that person throughout as s/he is increasingly bad-ass, but gets to the end and makes it clear that this person would have failed completely without the loyal support network s/he has spent the whole story building up. It glorifies the main character, of course, because s/he's so ridiculously fun to watch, but it also applauds the vital contributions of the 'little people' whose names don't make top billing. In contrast to the Die Hard-esque paradigm where Our Hero single-handedly saves the day from the evildoers, Transmet makes it clear that it takes a village to save the world.
Why make the switch now? Well, I love my Avatar icons to bits, but since the US Presidential election is less than two months away, I figured it was time for something a little more thematically appropriate. What really pushed me over the line to making the change, however, was realizing that I would have the perfect Sarah Palin icon (showing here).
Ordinarily, I don't like other people to have my icons at the same time I do. This time, however, it's election season and we're all in this together, so if you find one that speaks to you, go right ahead and grab it.
Oh, yeah, and anything behind this lj cut is pretty much not safe for work...
i am fused just in case i blow out
are you torn at the seams?
there's someone on your shoulder
jumping jesus my oh my
masturbating into the flag again
amnesty interplanetary
armor.
gertrude stein and alice b. toklas
attack wombs to the ready
these things do not promote love
aviary somewhere in poland
bad president. no blowjob.
frankly things looked bleak.
bowel disruptor!
occasionally amusing brain sickness
breaks your fucking heart
bride of christ. fred christ.
i can watch but not take part
i keep the wolf from the door
does the chair leg of truth look stupid?
not as cheap as your girlfriend
choke and die
i was lying about the bowel disruptor.
rejection hurts
bad sperm bad sperm whatcha gonna do?
the ultimate inspiration is the deadline
who deserves the death penalty for 400
i decided to be depressed for a while
i swear i didn't make a word of that up
discounted suicide
couldn't bear to be eaten again
DRUGS ARE GOOD FOR ME
the true meaning of easter
to the shadows blue and red
encephally challenged but still ahead
mine is an evil laugh
in a drunken punchup at a wedding
where i end and you begin
heaven sent you to me
tell the king that the sky is falling in
i liked you better when you had hair
intend to return from grave friday
filthy assistants! to me!
but you have a good heart
republican party reservation compound
george washington focuses on your family
HAVE YOU GOT THUMBS
sexier than buddha and harder than jesus
tell us of your hate for the people
i have many head bones
headbutt the weak
first do no harm even if they deserve it
history's a wonderful thing see?
sail us to the moon
i am good. i have frogs.
ability to ask informed questions
i've fallen
i wonder.
and by 'channel' i mean vagina!
perceived lack of suckage in my job
australian drop bear flavor flakes
like a rainbow
i need monkey.
is mother nature a terrorist?
there are no cigarettes in hell.
no hard feelings. no grudges.
and you have no nipples
this is not going to beat me.
the exception that proves the rule.
off the edge of the world
one percent.
now i'm free and on the loose
parasitic little bastard
it's people that kill every revolution
people from scotland thrown at me
100% plastic
pitchfork reviews the classics
terrible night of the telephone
start protecting you from yourself
americans don't desire the unnatural
you decide what that means.
i got myxomatosis i got myxomatosis
personal recipe restorative
armed corporate hirelings for jehova
i save my right hand for better things
when i say run like fuck
SHOW ME YOUR FUCKING THUMBS
SHUTTING DOWN...
you earned it with your silence
silence. i am watching television.
DON'T COME NEAR I AM WILD AND DANGEROUS
are you fracturing?
or you should put me down
all evidence has been buried
all tapes have been erased
why so green and lonely?
dance you fucker dance you fucker
something for the rag and bone man
get the eggs get the flan in the face
EAT ME
always a siren singing you to shipwreck
all work and no play
with my x-ray eyes i strip you naked
two & two always makes up five
there'll be no more lies
take it with a pinch of salt
it's ... WRONG!
walk into the jaws of hell
at the face you don't recognize
i'm teetering on the brink
tried but there was nothing we could do
don’t know why i feel so skinned alive
i am SO tired
we're rotten fruit we're damaged goods
even the slow places are fast here
smile! fred christ loves you!
stayed here all these years
used as a photo in Time magazine
raped by a jar of clear honey or--
someone seems to have stolen the world
WILL SWEAR FOR FOOD
helping america take out the trash
i'm willing to test your vision
the future is inherently a good thing
there IS a reason
i trust nothing. these are strange days.
trust the fuckhead
wasn't that bobby kennedy's favorite?
footage of them killing unarmed students
dragging out your dead
i sense everything vaguely these days
vp candidate was grown by a fascist
crank this up to wagnerian proportions
WAITER!
like a james bond villain
i wonder who got out
it's tough being a telepathic whore-nun
WHO STOLE YOUR BRAINS?
who was Hitler?
smacks you in the head
moving target in a firing range
VACUOUS TART
so I hit him. what would you do?
i'm walking out in a force ten gale
And then there are a bunch of icons I made but I'm not using! I still like them, though, and you're still welcome to take them.
They're all from Transmetropolitan, which is a sixty-issue comic penned by Warren Ellis. The comic is vulgar, obscene, violent, offensive, pornographic, ridiculous, and one of the ten things I'd take with me if I could pre-select my reading material for being stranded on a desert island. In it, Spider Jerusalem -- a Hunter S. Thompson homage -- brings down a rotten president.
It's actually my favourite kind of man-against-the-machine story, which is one that creates a single heroic figure from the get-go and follows that person throughout as s/he is increasingly bad-ass, but gets to the end and makes it clear that this person would have failed completely without the loyal support network s/he has spent the whole story building up. It glorifies the main character, of course, because s/he's so ridiculously fun to watch, but it also applauds the vital contributions of the 'little people' whose names don't make top billing. In contrast to the Die Hard-esque paradigm where Our Hero single-handedly saves the day from the evildoers, Transmet makes it clear that it takes a village to save the world.
Why make the switch now? Well, I love my Avatar icons to bits, but since the US Presidential election is less than two months away, I figured it was time for something a little more thematically appropriate. What really pushed me over the line to making the change, however, was realizing that I would have the perfect Sarah Palin icon (showing here).
Ordinarily, I don't like other people to have my icons at the same time I do. This time, however, it's election season and we're all in this together, so if you find one that speaks to you, go right ahead and grab it.
Oh, yeah, and anything behind this lj cut is pretty much not safe for work...
i am fused just in case i blow out
are you torn at the seams?
there's someone on your shoulder
jumping jesus my oh my
masturbating into the flag again
amnesty interplanetary
armor.
gertrude stein and alice b. toklas
attack wombs to the ready
these things do not promote love
aviary somewhere in poland
bad president. no blowjob.
frankly things looked bleak.
bowel disruptor!
occasionally amusing brain sickness
breaks your fucking heart
bride of christ. fred christ.
i can watch but not take part
i keep the wolf from the door
does the chair leg of truth look stupid?
not as cheap as your girlfriend
choke and die
i was lying about the bowel disruptor.
rejection hurts
bad sperm bad sperm whatcha gonna do?
the ultimate inspiration is the deadline
who deserves the death penalty for 400
i decided to be depressed for a while
i swear i didn't make a word of that up
discounted suicide
couldn't bear to be eaten again
DRUGS ARE GOOD FOR ME
the true meaning of easter
to the shadows blue and red
encephally challenged but still ahead
mine is an evil laugh
in a drunken punchup at a wedding
where i end and you begin
heaven sent you to me
tell the king that the sky is falling in
i liked you better when you had hair
intend to return from grave friday
filthy assistants! to me!
but you have a good heart
republican party reservation compound
george washington focuses on your family
HAVE YOU GOT THUMBS
sexier than buddha and harder than jesus
tell us of your hate for the people
i have many head bones
headbutt the weak
first do no harm even if they deserve it
history's a wonderful thing see?
sail us to the moon
i am good. i have frogs.
ability to ask informed questions
i've fallen
i wonder.
and by 'channel' i mean vagina!
perceived lack of suckage in my job
australian drop bear flavor flakes
like a rainbow
i need monkey.
is mother nature a terrorist?
there are no cigarettes in hell.
no hard feelings. no grudges.
and you have no nipples
this is not going to beat me.
the exception that proves the rule.
off the edge of the world
one percent.
now i'm free and on the loose
parasitic little bastard
it's people that kill every revolution
people from scotland thrown at me
100% plastic
pitchfork reviews the classics
terrible night of the telephone
start protecting you from yourself
americans don't desire the unnatural
you decide what that means.
i got myxomatosis i got myxomatosis
personal recipe restorative
armed corporate hirelings for jehova
i save my right hand for better things
when i say run like fuck
SHOW ME YOUR FUCKING THUMBS
SHUTTING DOWN...
you earned it with your silence
silence. i am watching television.
DON'T COME NEAR I AM WILD AND DANGEROUS
are you fracturing?
or you should put me down
all evidence has been buried
all tapes have been erased
why so green and lonely?
dance you fucker dance you fucker
something for the rag and bone man
get the eggs get the flan in the face
EAT ME
always a siren singing you to shipwreck
all work and no play
with my x-ray eyes i strip you naked
two & two always makes up five
there'll be no more lies
take it with a pinch of salt
it's ... WRONG!
walk into the jaws of hell
at the face you don't recognize
i'm teetering on the brink
tried but there was nothing we could do
don’t know why i feel so skinned alive
i am SO tired
we're rotten fruit we're damaged goods
even the slow places are fast here
smile! fred christ loves you!
stayed here all these years
used as a photo in Time magazine
raped by a jar of clear honey or--
someone seems to have stolen the world
WILL SWEAR FOR FOOD
helping america take out the trash
i'm willing to test your vision
the future is inherently a good thing
there IS a reason
i trust nothing. these are strange days.
trust the fuckhead
wasn't that bobby kennedy's favorite?
footage of them killing unarmed students
dragging out your dead
i sense everything vaguely these days
vp candidate was grown by a fascist
crank this up to wagnerian proportions
WAITER!
like a james bond villain
i wonder who got out
it's tough being a telepathic whore-nun
WHO STOLE YOUR BRAINS?
who was Hitler?
smacks you in the head
moving target in a firing range
VACUOUS TART
so I hit him. what would you do?
i'm walking out in a force ten gale
And then there are a bunch of icons I made but I'm not using! I still like them, though, and you're still welcome to take them.