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Happy November!

Aaron Retka — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:11:33 +0000

Hey, everybody. Sorry for the radio silence. We’ve been busy, what with work and the circus and space camp and stuff. So … How ’bout that 2C not passing? And fatty-bo-batty Doug Bruce finally getting his way? (I just imagine him in his shower later that night, pleasuring himself while moaning, “Oh god, no rain tax. Oh, that’s right. It feels so good. Small government. Oh, golly ….” I imagine this because I hate my brain.)

Anyway, this is what I’ve been up to lately. Hope your November’s just peachy.

i feel like this sometimes

The Finn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:16:28 +0000

One Nation, Continued

Andrew Hutchison — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:42:07 +0000

http://board.vivalavinyl.org/thread/view/98075/&p=13

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!

One Nation …

Aaron Retka — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:35:47 +0000

So you saw Barb’s post about this painting:

A little on the nose, right? So we did some revisions. Check out our version here.

Jesus & the Constitution…Art?

Barb Van Hoy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:34:28 +0000

Here’s your “wow, really?” moment for the day.

“Immigrant - There are many good people in America, they are not all Christian. I wanted him to have a look of shock when he realizes where the source of America’s greatness comes from as he sees Christ holding the Constitution.”

and it goes on and on….! (Satan is there, too.)

My Very First Tattoo - SCOOP

Brian Nemeth — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:54:58 +0000

(Click on this photo above)

I got it done at TO THE GRAVE TATTOO SHOP - 26 South Tejon Street - between Pikes Peak Avenue and Kiowa (where the original Zerbe jewelers used to be located). The artist name is Drake, and he was the one that did my tattoo. It was Last Saturday - September 19, 2009 - at 3:00pm, and it took two hours to get done.

It is a tattoo of a journalism pirate flag:

it is a newspaper in the background
for the crossbones, it is a pen and a pencil
It has the skull

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another great article by taibbi

The Finn — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:05:19 +0000

rolling stone’s matt taibbi once again tells it to us straight…

“All that’s left of health care reform is a collection of piece-of-shit, weakling proposals that are preposterously expensive and contain almost nothing meaningful — and that set of proposals, meanwhile, is being negotiated down even further by the endlessly negating Group of Six. It is a fight to the finish now between Really Bad and Even Worse. And it’s virtually guaranteed to sour the public on reform efforts for years to come.”

if you haven’t already, it’s a good read.

Whee!

Aaron Retka — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:38:37 +0000

It doesn’t matter if he’s using one razor-sharp axe or seven.

Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?

The ultimate home-schooling.

Aaron Retka — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:59:00 +0000

Say! Let’s say, for just a moment, that you are an insane convicted rapist who has kidnapped an 11-year-old, chained her in your back yard and then, over the next 18 years, fathered two kids by her. You are also (quelle surprise!) a religious fanatic who believes that God speaks through you—since, you know, God is pretty much all about raping tweens. How would you get things off your chest? Duh—you’d write a blog.

Yeah. Spend some time there and realize that, for all your minor little mental health problems (”I’m like kind of depressed or something because it’s raining …”), you have generally a working brain. This guy? Not so much.

Thanks to JS for the heads-up on this.

Oh, and—check out the comments, which to me are fascinating; the general vibe is one of wishing death and/or prison rape on Ol’ Kidnappy, which I can understand. But that many of these comments come from Christians I find interesting, since the difference between their delusions and Garrido’s are simply a matter of degree. ‘Course, they aren’t child-rapists, but they’re using God as an excuse to wish or visit harm on another—the same way Rapey Rapesalot did.

Dear Colorado Springs …

Aaron Retka — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:35:15 +0000

Thank you so much for buying the sculpture titled Trailblazer, by Fred Darpino. By demonstrating such vision, you have ensured that we, the people of Colorado Springs, now own the very worst piece of public art in the entire world (perhaps the universe!). Carpe diem, Coz! Keep reachin’ for the middle!