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Ahh, now this should be interesting. I’ll go out on a limb (I swear, no pun intended.) tonight, as this is one I’m only now delving into (though it seems highly recommended). If you’re here with me tonight, then I’ve brought Hirotsugu Hamazaki’s Texhnolyze along. Class warfare, prosthetics, and consideration of a culture which has become overly obsessed with technology and the necessary human consequences of such, seem to be the order of the day. A bit like Repo in the anime form. Let’s watch together, shall we?

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Tags: Aesthetiophilia, Videophilia by Etruscan
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GIBBERING CITY,  EAST YAMMERSTEIN -Feeling very Cornered
here in my little Corner of America tonight.

Not even a finger’s worth of this worthless rotgut in the
house to guard against the willies.  Talents all but wasted away…
mediocrity looming…

But who the hell put this fucking sign at the end of Ma
and Pa Money’s street down in the ‘Burg?

What is going on here?

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I think this response— the methodologies, the rhetoric,
the bizarre off-topic ADHD, the AR-15’s, nail-biting about taxing
 sodas and killing grandma by committee, beating this uppity
half-breed just to beat him— I think this is the Real Issue at Hand.
 Look at it.  This is far more important than the debate about or
even getting healthcare.  And it’s ironic as this whole shebang has
proven just 

how very  

sick 

 this nation really is. 

The prognosis is dire.

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Slept in way to late today after another one of those Infamous B.O.L. Board Meetings. We brought the ruckus, the cast and crew met at our favorite German Restaurant to sample some of the Oktoberfest brews. You know how we party, and if you don’t this should give you an idea.

Well, maybe it didn’t go quite like that. We tried, oh we certainly tried, but unfortunately the bartender was too strung out on the Be-bop to let us bang some righteous Um-pah-pah. Maybe next year we’ll organize our own block party.

Tags: Audiophilia, Technophilia, Videophilia by Gestalt
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Ahh, now what would be a decent Dystopia with a wee bit of Steampunk? Sure, cryogenics and giant mech suits are lovely, but can they really top the aerial escapades of overly chivalrous musket-wielding pseudo-Brits on massive floating cannon platforms (with ill-defined technical specifications, I might add.)? I think not. Tonight, lizards and squabs, we have for you Koichi Chigira‘s Last Exile (the same group that also brought us the inimitable Blue Sub no. 6). A true feast for the eyes, and one series that I am pleased to say does not contain an entirely massive-sucking-headwound of an opening theme song.

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OIL-SOAKED EQUATORIAL GUINEA — There is very little in this world that I can officially say has “blown my mind” or “floored me,” but while I was writing my chronicles, I brushed briefly with a fictitious version of Simon Mann based on his then recent arrest for some kinda botched mercenary operation. A few months later, thanks to my fine associate, playwright and raconteur, Timothy Charles Browne, I got my hands on The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Adam Roberts only to discover— much to my bemused chagrin— that The Truth was ever so much more crazy—so completely and jaw-droppingly half-baked and unhinged— that I never ever would have thought it up even with my promise to make my blog the most over-the-top nonsense possible.

God damn you, The Truth! Why do I even bother?!

Roberts’ book was, and still is, the best thing I’ve ever read with the possible exception of Sam & Max: Surfin’ the Highway.

THE PLOT: some mercenaries try to overthrow a tiny blip of a country in Africa, install a new president who will grant them the contracts to re-arm and train the country’s army for obscene amounts of money and fail.

Sounds pretty cut and dried, right?

BWA! Fools! This is the Greatest Comedy of Errors of Our Time! Allow me to explain by way of introducing…

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