Goats from Underground

“Do you think the word love gets thrown around too much these days?”“Naw,...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:00:05 -0600

“Do you think the word love gets thrown around too much these days?”
“Naw, probably just the right amount.”

St. Oran was a druid in Scotland who converted to Christianity and followed St. Columba around. St....

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:07:54 -0600

St. Oran was a druid in Scotland who converted to Christianity and followed St. Columba around.

St. Columba was trying to build the famous abbey in Iona, but it collapsed every night. Supposedly it was cursed by the devil.

St. Columba was told by a voice that it could never be finished until a living man was buried alive in the abbey. So Oran volunteered and the chapel was finished. But one day Oran pushed his head through the wall and said that he’d seen the afterlife and that there was no heaven and there was no hell. Alarmed by this Columba had Oran reburied and made sure he could never get out again.

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:54:09 -0600

watch-him-die: Six Gun Gorilla.

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:16:08 -0600

watch-him-die:

Six Gun Gorilla.

Six-Gun Gorilla is O’Neil, a gorilla. As a baby he is trapped in Africa and brought to the United...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:15:00 -0600

Six-Gun Gorilla is O’Neil, a gorilla. As a baby he is trapped in Africa and brought to the United States. In Colorado he is sold to Bart Masters, a prospector. Masters is a kind man and treats O’Neil well, and O’Neil grows up to love Masters. Masters teaches O’Neil how to dig, fetch firewood, haul up buckets of water, cook, clean, and load and fire a revolver. Unfortunately, Masters is murdered by bad man Tutt Strawhan, leader of the Strawhan Gang, for what Masters knows about “the great motherlode.”

When O’Neil finds Masters’ body, he swears revenge. O’Neil straps on a bandolier and two six-shooters and begins tracking the murderers across a hundred miles of Colorado mountains and badlands. He picks them off one by one, meanwhile discovering a talent for holding up stagecoaches and using them to chase fleeing gunmen. O’Neil dies as he kills Strawhan.

— From Jess Nevins‘ Encyclopaedia of Pulp Heroes

Apparently no one knows who created the original Six-Gunn Gorilla, and the rights have fallen into the public domain, but now someone’s only gone and done a sci-fi comic book of it. More here: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/06/05/six-gun-gorilla-preview-simon-spurrier-jeff-stokely-boom-studios/

Books I've Read Recently

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:30:17 -0600

Playback by Raymond Chandler.

Black and Blue by Ian Rankin.

Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer. When I get my time machine fixed, I’m going to warn myself not to read this piece of CERN fanfic. Jesus Christ.

Snowdrops by A.D. Miller.

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman. It’s about a Ghanian boy who moves to the U.K. and he’s just a kid but he wants to solve a murder and piss in bleached toilets, it’s perfect.

Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden. About that poor kid who was born in a North Korean concentration camp, and escaped at age 22. Harrowing.

Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar by Kelly Oxford.

Irma Voth by Miriam Toews. It’s not the sort of thing I normally read, but I really liked it. Canadian Mennonite girl grows up on Mexican farm with shitty, abusive dad and *secrets* and runs away to the city and overall it was pretty good.

I love easing myself after Mamma puts bleach in the toilet. The bleach makes mighty bubbles, then...

Fri, 31 May 2013 13:58:52 -0600

I love easing myself after Mamma puts bleach in the toilet. The bleach makes mighty bubbles, then it’s like easing yourself on a cloud. I save up a long one for specially. Nobody’s allowed to flush the cloud away until I’ve done my special piss on it.
….

Me: ‘Mamma go sound you when she finds out you used all the bleach.’
Lydia: ‘I’ll just tell her it was you. I’m not the one who has to ease myself on a cloud all the time.’
Me: ‘No I don’t.’
I don’t have to do it all the time. I only wanted to see what God felt like.

from Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman.

David Mitchell will always be one of my heroes.

Thu, 30 May 2013 16:45:09 -0600

David Mitchell will always be one of my heroes.

My spirit animal.

Mon, 27 May 2013 19:46:56 -0600

My spirit animal.

THERE'S ALWAYS HONEY IN AFGHANISTAN

Sun, 26 May 2013 01:57:48 -0600

BEST. LINE. EVER.

Soyuz landing in 42 minutes, watch...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:50:46 -0600

Soyuz landing in 42 minutes, watch here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public

So sick of fake beekeepers on the Internet. Sorry sorry sorry I’m the worst I...

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:02:00 -0600

So sick of fake beekeepers on the Internet.

Sorry sorry sorry I’m the worst I shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet.

@ChrisHadfield With deference to the genius of David Bowie,...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:08:00 -0600

@ChrisHadfield

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo …

Still prefer the Gale Boetticher version, tbqh.

Joe the Barbarian by Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy is the comic...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:22:15 -0600

Joe the Barbarian by Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy is the comic book that other comic books aspire to be.

“What do you think about the Visitation?”“My pleasure. Imagine a...

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:39:00 -0600

“What do you think about the Visitation?”
“My pleasure. Imagine a picnic.”
“What did you say?”
“A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. A car drives off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out of the car carrying bottles, baskets or food, transistor radios, and cameras. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave. The animals, birds and insects that watched in horror through the the long night creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see? Gas and oil spilled on the grass. Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around. Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind. Oil slicks on the pond. And of course, the usual mess — apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire, cans, bottles, somebody’s handkerchief, somebody’s penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded flowers picked in another meadow.”
“I see. A roadside picnic.”
“Precisely. A roadside picnic, on some road in the cosmos. And you ask if they will come back.”
“Let me have a smoke.”

From Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

This movie looks amazing and it’s exactly what I want to...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:02:02 -0600

This movie looks amazing and it’s exactly what I want to watch and the kind of realistic sci-fi we need and it’s by the Children of Men guy so you know it’s gonna be good

BUT

Releasing the trailer while the real ISS is prepping for an unexpected space walk to fix a coolant leak was a terrible idea.

Mulcair quotes Arrested Development. Meanwhile in Nova Scotia,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:44:00 -0600

Mulcair quotes Arrested Development.

Meanwhile in Nova Scotia, the NDP minister of tourism was arrested for punching a Liberal MLA.

Really into gorillas today.

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:53:16 -0600

Really into gorillas today.

Gorilla vs Canada Goose

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:47:00 -0600

Gorilla vs Canada Goose

Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3 was really good.

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:14:40 -0600

Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s We3 was really good.