Grand Guardian GO!

Sip your champagne in peace and comfort as the the Grand Guardian Tokyo apartments keep you safe from earthquakes and Black Helicopter attacks!

Serve and Protect

Cops give lighter, cigarette to kerosene soaked man...

Kubota refused to change his kerosene-soaked clothes at the police station and asked to smoke during questioning, according to police.

Despite no-smoking rules in the building, a police official gave him a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. When Kubota stood up, his right knee was ablaze and he quickly turned into a fireball, the reports said.

- from Japan Today

In Memoria

Had to shave the giant chops off today in a crass attempt to sell out to the Mans, and so, in honor of the passing of all things i present:

Political Proctology

Did you ask him to cough, Joey?

Nice Poster!

The comic's not so bad either...

Speaking of White Power

Teh Awesome.

McHate

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From the SoCal Crime Map /Mean Streets

The flyers were made to look authentic correspondence from McDonalds, and stated that due to a string of robberies, African American customers are now required to pay an additional fee of $1.50 per transaction. Police were trying to get fingerprints off the fliers to see if they could identify the suspects.

I have to wonder, hate crime or just unfunny political prank?

As the "flyers were made to look authentic," isn't this actually an attack on McDonald's?

The flyers make McDonald's look A) racist or B) ridiculous or C) both, but don't actually say anything at all about African-Americans, save that they are being targetted by a faux racial price profile.

Perhaps this is a failed attempt at irony from someone pissed off about the "string of roberries," said person may even be a "cracker" -

BUT

Making a tasteless joke isn't the same thing as making a racial attack, is it?

And what about free speech issues? Do they not apply to anonymous attempts at LULZ?

Is there something I am missing?

Were the flyers downloaded from WWW.WHITEPOWERPRANKS.NET or somesuch?

Because calling this a Hate Crime, I just don't get.

And if it is one, how soon before The Mans starts hauling in every punk rock band that has a tasteless flyer?

Why, I designed a poster for my buddies' punk band back in my onbnoxious High School days that deployed Nick Utt's famous "Vietnam Napalm" photo with the tagline:

"Everybody Comes Running to See The Incredible Smerphuckers."

Tasteless? Yes.

Racist? No. At least my 17 year old self sure hopes not.

And so Hate Crime?

I say thee nay!

Uh, what was my point again?

Oh yeah - so which is it - "flyers" or "fliers?"

Do They Know It's Nucleotide At All?

What, too much of a reach?

"We Are The BioRad?"

Boom Boom Boom

...looking out my front door...

ah, City Life. It's peaches, I tells ya, peaches!
Imagine tryin ta live without folx blowing up cars in the middle of the night! Haw! You rubes don't ken whut ya mizzin'!

More blurry photos here.

St. Elsenet

And then there are the days when you get hit by a bout of HTMaLgia and spend a little too much time randomly following the dying trail of links and discover sites like this.



Tommy Westphall.

The Idiot God at the Center of the TV Cosmos.

Beware, Yog-Sothoth, beware.

Ears Peeled for Easter Eggs

As you join the throngs going to see Iron Man this week, keep an ear out for the original iron tune sprinkled liberally throughout...

GTFOOT!

Someone named Marvin KILGORE owns the FUKANG meteorite?

I just woke up inside the lost collaboration between LRH and PKD...

World's Worst Comics Museum

Visit it HERE.

Extra Credit quiz: how many of these comics do I own?

And no, "the Saga of White Will" ain't one of them...

Deadlier Than A Raygun?

Boomerang-probe
by newsprb

Behold! The Zero G Boomerang!

No longer live! From NZ!

Get caught up on the Giant Squid wonder here

"Where Innocents Dwell"

Courtesy Crooks and Liars

Mordor or Media?

Thy Divine Image

Orangutan caught spearfishing.

'Course it's only a theory...

Murder, TM

Radar is currently running an article on Bill Geerhart's recent follow-up to his "Billy Letters" of the late '90s.

Contained therein is the latest installment in our ever-growing series "News to ME!":

Serial killers now have their own LOGOS???

I shudder to think at what they mean when discussing 'Branding' these days...

Gaiman's "Doll's House" here we come...

Where Is My Tutu?

Target: Adventure!

SKARAVAN - LIVE!

Diminuitive Defacer Leaves a Need for Decrypto

20-b
by newsprb

The Zenkoji Buddhist temple in Nagano Japan, considered a national treasure, was defaced with graffiti after they refused to be a part of the Olympic Torch relay event.

So, probably someone making good on these type of threats:
"Chinese people won't forgive [Japan] if the Japanese do the same things as the Americans and Europeans, such as making distorted reports about the Tibet issue."

Here's the strange part - as the video shows, the temple was defaced with lines and circles, spraypainted at a height of one meter, so no one is quite sure just what it means.

A curse? A hex? A puzzle? A really obnoxious viral?

See for yourself.