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Just wondering what everybody thought of the new Jimquisition theme song and opening animation, and the latest separate personality rattling around in the wonderfully twisted warrens of Jim's mind named Duke Amiel Du H'ardcore. In my opinion you can't make enough fun of elite gamers or go too far.

So impressive and enthralling was the psychosexual drama that characterised Psychotic Ninja and Bastetmon's latest recapturing of the hill, the erstwhile playwright Peter Shaffer rose from the dead and offered to dramatize the events for the posterity of theatre. Driven by worldly vanity and a ruthless desire to crush all ideological opposition, Ninja and Bastet take little convincing and agree upon a date with Zombie Shaffer to an inaugural showing of the production. Unfortunately for them, when they forgo their usual security measures in order to attend a private viewing of the play of their conquest, they find the venue closed down due to art council cuts and the rapidly melting corpse of Zombie Shaffer, a mere product of my amateurish passing interest in necromancy. Meanwhile I disguised myself poorly in a pony costume with Brian Blessed as my second-in-command-slash-lover, whereupon we waltzed onto the hill without spilling a single drop of blood - either of my own elite bodyguards or Ninja's foolishly inept security forces. Selfsurprise is now Hillfuhrer.

Whenever you deafen yourself, you can still hear an extremely obnoxious version of your own voice demanding that you restore your hearing immediately. My superpower is that I can transform into a powerful arachnotauric monster.

Eugenics

Absolutely not weird! I used to listen to vinyl records because I used to be a lot keener to own a gorgeously put-together album and to hear the music I loved in a richer tone. Mediums have their own aural quality that appeals to us, as well as titillating our tactile/aesthetic sensibilities. Being a fan of zonked-out "recorded in a wheelie-bin" sound quality I can fully appreciate the lo-fi appeal of cassettes. They are visually appealing, convenient in a delightfully redundant way, and more often than not it's the more bizarre and diverse end of the underground musical spectrum that still bothers disseminating it's records through tapes. I'm more of a bandcamp/beatport downloader these days. Am I weird for hating beetroots with a vitriol usually reserved for tyrants and child murderers?

I can't think of anything to say without seeming gross and perverted/10

"We prefer the term monoceros..."

I generally prefer comedy of the shorter-lived variety, more killer and less filler. I'm also slightly ashamed to say that although I can appreciate more cerebral satire and parody, what really get's me going is anything utterly stupid and gestural. I also have a personal predilection for comedy that involves camp chjaracters, angry and argumentative humour - providing it can tread the knifes edge of being painfully sincere as opposed to being smugly superior.

I've been buying a lot of secondhand books recently... Sigurður Ægisson, Jón Baldur Hlíðberg, Meeting With Monsters - An illustrated Guide to the Beasts of Iceland Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism Serenella Ciclitira, Indonesian Eye: Contemporary Indonesian Art Serenella Ciclitira, Vietnam Eye: Contemporary Vietnamese Art Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things Claire Colebrook, Sex After Life: Essays on Extinction Vol. 2 Asbjørn Dyrendal, James R. Lewis, Jesper Aa. Peterson, The Invention of Satanism Justin Gest, The New Minority Kristen Gudsnuk, Henchgirl Graham Harman, Immaterialism Charlotte Jansen, Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts James Kirchick, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age Hugh Mcleod, Religion and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Britain Tsutomu Nihei, Blame! Vol. 1 Lyle Rexer, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography Peter Shaffer, Equus Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby Mechtild Widrich, Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art

https://abookofcreatures.com/2017/06/30/utelif/

I've always been rather inordinately pleased with myself for coming up with my own username, based on a quotation from a German artist named Tim Berresheim on his particular drive for making digital images. Going the oxymoronic route or just jamming an unrelated adjective to an inappropriate noun can be a easy way to conjure up some memorable names, "EgoRaptor" or the Jim Stirling parodying "Jam Starling" spring to mind. I'm also fond of usernames seemingly normal-ish first names followed by a absurdly macho surname, I recall a sporadic user on the last.fm forums who went by the name Rex_Thundercock. Have you considered vowel alliteration? Anything that plays with a e i o u can be fun: "Ava Eva Iva Ova Uva", "Fae Fee Fie Foe Fue" etc.

Spot on my friend! Whether through received knowledge or empiricism I can personally say I've come across extraordinary insights from many mindsets, religious, scientific or whatever shade between those two poles that are somehow so opposed to one another, yet are individually alien to human experience without it's counter to shadow it. I've also stumbled upon the staggering ignorance either extreme end of the spectrum has for their conterminous interests. Religious and more generally spiritual fundamentals are bemoaned by atheists for being a category of non-objective knowledge, but the atheists themselves (and I say this as a borderline-atheist agnostic) are often guilty of undermining their own absolutism by disregarding subjective experience. "Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic god. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times." - Sigmund Freud

Jeb's not one to shy away from the hard questions! ;p I'm reminded of the essay Happiness is for the Pigs by the late Norwegian existential philosopher Herman Tønnessen, in which he surmised his (and consequently my own) criticism of the all too human habit of looking for meaning where it is neither present or even arguably requisite. His position is best represented by one of my all-time favourite quotations and the one idiom I genuinely feel I can live and die by; "Life is not even meaningless." So much ink has been spilled in the attempt to find answers to a question we've never universally consented to. It's ironic that in the mission to ascertain the truth, or some version thereof, most of humanities greatest literary, artistic, cultural and philosophical achievements have fundamentally contributed to the confusion and complexity of sapient experience. I'd even go as far as saying that we've learned more from our own uncertainty and ignorance than the transient human certainties of a particular time and place could ever reveal. When the anti-state activists and nihilists of the 20th century were arguing against the unassailable authority of god and culture in western thought, the biggest ace up their sleeves was their own rejection of meaning - at it's extremes demeaning and dismissing the fundamental value of existence and phenomena in of themselves. Nihilists felt that they had trumped the positive/negative allegory of "a glass half-full/a glass half-empty" by rejecting either set of values, rendering ideal sentiments null and ultimately refusing the existence of the glass at all. The glass and it's contents end up being speculative and abstract - "the glass doesn't exist and neither do I", as the joke goes. My admiration of Tønnessen stems from his essays iteration on the argument between the fundamental meaning or lack-of-meaning played out between traditional philosophers and thinkers in the advent of modernity. His aforementioned quote reveals so much meaning-making and truth-seeking to be a human failing, to think of ourselves as somehow specially ordained or qualified to assign meaning (and meaninglessness) to a higher reality. As if somehow everything outside of ourselves depends on our approval or dismissal. Tønnessen undermines this anthropocentric bias and somehow convinces me of a more ambivalent equivalent truth, that phenomenal existence won't cease, whether or not we are there to interpret arbitrary meaning or meaninglessness within it. He closes his essay with an extremely thoughtful plea to his readers, whilst not as succinct as the former quote it's definitely worth posting here: "Man, let's go on - not because we have a mission in the world, not because it makes us happy or proud, but merely because we are different. We are accidentally thrown into this world as it's sole principle of uncertainty. That's all."

Living Death by Con-Dom

Anybody here still remember me? :3

He Whoeth Chewes Moste Louwdily In Thine Earres

^ Slightly? ;p

So I saw this on the magazine racks at work today. http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/metal_hammer_feb_10_2017.jpg Doesn't seem like a very fair contest to me... ;p Do tell! (you know, if you want to, no pressure)

I'm genuinely sorry for laughing at your misfortune Reverend. Maybe We could swap our dads, or loan them out to each other for a preordained time. I must confess to loving stereotypically smelly food (English mustard, onions, garlic, coriander, blue cheese, curry pastes, etc) whilst my dad can't abide anything with a fragrance. Me and your dad could have spend ersatz father/son quality time with each other, eating all sorts of delicious aromatic crap. Meanwhile you could accompany my dad on his boot-sale excursions to find blue and white china plates - whilst eating bread and Cadburys chocolate almost exclusively...

[/chews loudly whilst standing uncomfortably close to your ears]

Absolutely not! You are looking at the statement of a bonafide ambientphile. Plenty of awesome artists and projects like Kammarheit, New Risen Throne, Christopher Bissonette, Gustaf Hildebrand, Pan•American, Blanck Mass, Secret Colors, William Basinski, Emeralds, etc. If you are weird then we both get to be weird together. Am I weird for genuinely enjoying Tiny Tim's music?

Saw this marvellous news on Leonard French's channel and thought I'd share it with you all. 8Uo9jNVJx6w I think Jim was wise to offer a conclusion like this rather than drag it out any further. He may very well of just taken Digital Homicide out of contention, he gets to retain the moral high ground and presumably can continue criticising Romine for all his shady shenanigans. Meanwhile Romine now not only to continue the steep struggle to redeem his reputation as a developer to a gaming public much savvier to his modus operandi, but has to live alongside the humiliation (maybe that's too strongly worded) of having willingly accepted Sterling's terms, we can tag the "with prejudice" clauses till we're blue in the face but I can't imagine that to most viewers Digital Homicide comes away from this affair looking any better than before.

You must muster the moral courage to eat everything with your hands. That cheese fondue isn't going to eat itself. I think I might of exceeded my monthly book budget this month. Any tips on how I can bring my finances out of the red and into the black?

Admit it, when you said "I'm going to be a running a monster character D&D campaign" you didn't think I'd stat out an entire were-pony PC. Your naivete as a DM is my gain!