So there's a certain term often used in outsider art, horror vacui or, literally, "fear of the vacuum." It refers to the almost compulsive need by some mentally unstable artists to completely fill every available inch of the canvas with detail; you can see examples of this phenomenom in the works of Adolf Wolfi and maybe later Louis Waine ( Read more... )

There's a certain establishment in town that I've been curious about for a while.

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It used to be a Chuck E. Cheese, but, in the last year, the name suddenly changed to “Fun Zone & Pizza” and the logo switched from the familiar smarmy Chuck E. Cheese face to a picture of a kid riding on a pterodactyl. According to what little information I could ( Read more... )

From a website called The Atlasphere, it seems that some corporate fatcat has decided to bankroll a vanity film version of Atlas Shrugged after major Hollywood studios realized that no one wants to pay to watch Ayn Rand's rape fantasies:

Who is John Aglialoro? Probably no one since Ayn Rand has invested so much in Atlas Shrugged. For nearly two ( Read more... )

So when I logged into AIM tonight, I noticed that there was an article on AOL news titled "Was Darwin Wrong? An Alternative Theory Emerges." The basic gist of the story is that a couple researchers have suggested that competition between species is less responsible for evolution than an abundance of resources. In the words of the article ( Read more... )

I think Psalty the Singing Songbook is my new favorite ironally hipsterish children's religious programming puppet star, narrowly edging out McGee and those damn Superbook kids ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

( Horrifying triggering animal cruelty )

Today I was watching some delightful videos on YouTube where Ray Comfort, the guy best known for coming up with the banana argument for intelligent design, had a debate with Thunderfoot, a prominent YouTube athiest. It's nothing new -- I think it's been up online for quite a while -- but I just now got around to watching it. And it kind of pissed ( Read more... )

OH GOD YESSSSS I am going to see KYLIE when she comes to America in September. For those of you who don't know, I love Kylie Minogue more than a flaming homosexual man loves, uh, Kylie Minogue. Her music always makes me want to cry and masturbate at the same time ( Read more... )

So the Internet is all abuzz right now about Amazon delisting gay and lesbian-themed books ( Read more... )