Ever since Pluto, that far-flung sentinel in the cold, dark outer bounds of the Solar System, was discovered in 1930 and given the name "Pluto," people began to envision that world as dark and frigid as the Styx, a realm of dark greys and deep blacks and the occasional despairing splash of white starlight and sunlight, a dirge in a never-ending ( Read more... )

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Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will arrive there on March 6 ( Read more... )

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Two new moons have been discovered orbiting Pluto, and the race to name them is on! Of course, any candidate names for them must come from GraecoRoman mythology, and must be associated with Pluto/Hades. This rules out any other names, including those taken from my own favorite modern mythology, the work of H. P. Lovecraft and his Circle. Hiw ( Read more... )

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I want to ride a black unicorn down the flank of an erupting volcano, his plutonium hooves shattering chains everywhere we go, and drink from a chalice filled with the world's greatest dreams, going to meet my dark lover among the roots of the world and the infinite halls of outer space. One great, mad, glorious ride into history ( Read more... )

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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBnZNd-2AbE)Voltaire is a genius Goth Jew from New Joisey, and one of the best things that ever happened to music and humor (unless wasting all that time prowling the Internet for gems like this is not something you really wanted to do, in ( Read more... )

I just watched Episode 1 of The Walking Dead television series. I found it enthralling, and scary as hell. I love stuff like that. I also have had lots of lucid nightmares about being caught in a zombie Apocalypse, getting bitten, getting sick, knowing I'm going to die. And from what I've heard, both are true of millions of Americans.

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