Wow! Look at the links!
As if you didn’t know, newspapers are going out of business. (Especially the ones that loaded up on debt to acquire more newspapers and other businesses.) No, they’re really dying. Really! See? But hey: we’ll always have journalism, kid.
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My wife thinks I need to post this Sarah Palin, um, “fan fiction” link. (So NSFW) So there you go.
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It’s the ruins of Detroit!
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On deck: the ruins of Dubai!
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Christoph Niemann: Cable operator
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I once called Grant Morrison and got his answering machine. His Scottish accent was so thick, I thought I was on the set of Trainspotting. I’m not sure how long it took to transcribe this interview with him, but the line about “Morrissey Bizarro” made me laugh out loud.
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To quote Iain Banks, “The buggers have learned to fly.”
I’m reading Xenocide at the moment. Have you just given away the ending?
Nope! Just the punchline of a hysterical (but macabre) passage of The Wasp Factory!