From From Club Vesta: A Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow of Love, or, Love-letters to America

The Artists' Tale: The Transition From Level VI to Level VIIAs we stepped through the door, we could see, extending away before us for many miles, a vast swamp that reminded me ominously of the one that we’d had to cross from Level Five to get to ( Read more... )

I've been working on Club Vesta since around 1994. It's a story of two women who, one way and another, end up entering a luxurious club for women that turns out to be an exotic version of Dante's Inferno. It's taken forever to get my characters to the last-but-one level of the place, the Level of the Abandoned Goddesses, and get them through it ( Read more... )

Cecelia Ingraham, New Jersey Mother, Reportedly Forced To Remove Photos Of Deceased Daughter From Cubicle (POLL)

Almost two years after her daughter Tatiana's death, Cecelia Ingraham was reportedly forced by her boss to remove photos of her daughter from her cubicle, as well as Tatiana's ballet slippers, Courthouse News Service reported.

Dante ( Read more... )

http://abstrusegoose.com/377

Got this from David Stuart at dstuart@prodigy.net -- he can also be reached via marspuget@yahoogroups.com, nss_seattle@yahoogroups.com, marspuget@yahoogroups.com. Here's the cartoon itself for those for whom the link didn't work:


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Chase Bank Reportedly Has Man Jailed Over Check They Issued Him (VIDEO)Last June, 28-year-old Ikenna Njoku of Auburn, Washington was reportedly imprisoned for four days after trying to cash a Chase check the bank itself had issued to him. Njoku remained in jail for four days. When the bank realized it had made a mistake, they left a voicemail ( Read more... )

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2015511629_apeubritainphonehacking.html

Dante describes a nice place in the Afterlife for bastards like these utterly heartless, clueless tabloid types. What does ( Read more... )

You know, being a hate-freak -- an adrenaline junkie by another name -- is a nasty perversion. Which means Fred Phelps is an arch-pervert. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when Phelps gets in front of his heavenly judge and is told where he's going to be spending his eternity . . . (Oh, and for those who preach hate against Catholics, pointing ( Read more... )

Just looked up where Fred Phelps and the members of the Westboro Baptist Church are going to spend a long, long vacation after death:

WBC members: Bolgia 3 (but Bolgia 6 might be a good bet, too)

Fred Phelps: Bolgia 8 (though I'd also bet on Bolgia 9)

How do you like your final destinations, kids?

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