I'll admit it, sometimes I purposefully set out to find some kind of weird fucked up thing on the net, mostly so I can post it here. This is still devoid of anything *new* or *exciting*.

Star Trek: The Next Penetration
(Star Trek Erotica)

Trekkies are a fucked up group o' folks. Frighteningly most of the stories seem to have to do with Kirk and Spock having sex with each other. More disturbing is their rape of Chekov. And something about T'Pol, Hoshi and the eroticizing of menstruel blood. I'm too scared to read.

Read this from AICN.

The gist? Kevin Smith is planning a new Jay and Silent Bob movie despite what he's previously told the press as a present to Jason Mewes for finally getting sober. Ben Affleck who, after everything I've heard bout Jersey Girl will do anything for Kevin Smith, is also attached.

On the subject of free comics, here is a Great one by Doug (Earthworm Jim, Creature Tech) TenNaple.

Click here for Solomon Fix!

Seriously. Do it.

Oni Press, I LOVE You!

Read free comics.

Matt Fraction and his Graph paint a picture of the Comics Industry today here.

artbomb has some numbers on the situation from yesterday's blog post. Worth checking out.

Its a crime how little Popbot sells compared to Jhonen-Vasquez-Wannabe crap like Bear. To the creator of Bear: Congratulations on getting published! Now find your own style ya fuckin rip-off artist.

My pathetic attempts at caricaturing Uma Thurman. From my sketchbook:

See Tim Burton's ex Lisa Marie hangin naked with Jeff Goldblum. They aren't grainy or photoshopped.

PROTECT YOUR PORN!!
Help lick Bush!

It's definately a KILL BILL DAY

So, I got the password for ew. And to those who wish, I can send you the entire Tarantino interview via e-mail if you'd like. Just tell me in the comment box, or e-mail me. Or for this week only go to the previously given link and type the password subscribersite to view it yourself.
(Printing that may be illegal, but whatever. Like anyone ever reads this site. And like you can't read EW in any waiting room.)

Here're some hilights that I think you'll all enjoy. An excerpt:

QT: "I might do [Bill] as an animated movie -- more about his origins and Bill's three godfathers -- Esteban, Hatori Hanzo, and Pei Mei. This little journey that starts when he's 12. I've already got a deal with Miramax, I can do this anytime. I spent so much time writing the script, that I know all the mythology of it. I even like the idea of writing a Frank Miller-style graphic novel."

In another interview, he elaborated that this graphic novel of which he speaks would be about the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.

Cameron Stewart's Kill Bill Vol. 2 Illustration:

KILL BILL - Vol. 3! (Yes, THREE!)

I fucking hate Entertinment Weekly. I picked up their last week's issue to read the interview with Quentin Tarantino. Its a good interview, and just as it was warming up, it says to read the complete 3 hour interview, go to ew.com/tarantino. Now the "access code" is expired since they have a new issue out with the royalty of nutjobs on the cover; Prince. So I can't get on-line. (Hey, if you get the access code [in the table of contents or in the letter page] write it down and post it here please)
Anyway, I got the print interview and the important part is where Quentin Tarantino has tentative plans for a Kill Bill Vol. 3 of sorts. Only this time centered around Nikki, the daughter of Vernita Green, now raised by the armless Sophie Fatale to get her revenge on The Bride. (I won't spoil the Bride's real name for you, like every single fucking review of Vol. 2 did.) Tarantino is even contemplating shooting scenes for it now, so he has everyone when they're the age they are now, shelving it, and filming the rest of the movie in 15 years.

Cool eh?

Desert Island Albums

By now the desert island album thing has been used to death by every music listener in the western hemisphere. But regardless, I'd like to hear the 10 albums you'd bring if you were doomed to a desert island for the rest of your life, a la Napoleon. Post your answers in the comment box.

Here're mine:

1. Weezer - Blue Album
2. White Stripes - Elephant
3. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. The Coral (self-titled)
5. Rushmore Soundtrack.
6. Weezer - Pinkerton
7. Beck - Mutations
8. Coldplay - A Rush of Bood to the Head
9. The Best of Bob Dylan
10. White Stripes - White Blood Cells

I imagine putting a Best Of on a list like this goes against the principle, but I like his best Best, what can I say?

For those who learned nothing from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...

Therapeutic Forgetting

Scientists who work with patients suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are developing a new science that has been called "therapeutic forgetting."

But by erasing traumatic memories, are we changing the person? Are we erasing capacity for empathy?

Last year, the President's Council on Bioethics expressed concern that "memory numbing ... could dull the sting of one's own shameful acts ... allow a criminal to numb the memory of his or her victims.

"Separating subjective experience of memory from the true nature of the experience that is remembered cannot be underestimated," says the Council's report. "Do those who suffer evil have a duty to remember and bear witness, lest we forget the very horrors that haunt them?"

The research community is divided on this issue. "I think there's an ethical concern," says Mark Barad, MD, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. "It's hard to estimate what's important about a memory, how the memory interacts with who we are, how it affects our ability to empathize.

More Here.

PETA Announces Sexiest Vegitarians Alive

At ages 28 and 26, Justine and Lisa Bradley live in Hollywood, California. They refuse to eat anybody with a face or a mother and especially those who can't speak up for themselves. In their five years as vegans, they've participated in "Fashion With Compassion" shows and are now working on their very own vegetarian Web site. I wonder if they still perform felatio, despite the vegan thing... you were wondering the same thing, don't even lie.

In July, ADAM STRANGE RETURNS!

One of the greatest heroes of the DC Universe is returning in Mystery in Space...by Grant Morrisson!

from Comics Continuum:
The Julius Schwartz Tribute continues with Mystery in Space #82. Grant Morrison and Jerry Ordway and longtime DC scribe Elliot S. Maggin & J.H. Williams III each share their takes on spaceman Adam Strange having to decide the fate of two worlds.

And a cover by Alex Ross.

Kick in the Head
A list of Canadian independent bands.

Progressive Aggression:
"After giving both of those flaming homos a kick to the nutsack, we changed the name of the band to progressive aggression and started rockin faster and harder than any band that I know of in northern BC.After much time spent together jamming we decide to write originals,and thats what we did.We then recorded a demo and started playing shows in our hometown shithole fort st john."
More.

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!! The attitudes of home really shine through in this excerpt.

For Rob:
Keith Slade's Home Page

Well I am still missing shad and everyone there. It is so great how everyone is keeping in touch. I have gotton over 200 e-mails since I got back from Shad. Every night there are atleast 6 Shads on ICQ at any given time. My page has some new quotes and poetry for you enjoyment.

Are you keeping in touch Rob?

I think Easter is cancelled.


Just fucking click it.

NEW KILL BILL VOL. 2 TRAILER!

UNBE-fucking-LIEVABLE!!

Click HERE for a look at the Batmobile for Batman Begins.

And, for Stephen:
A poorly written Blog by a married couple reviewing their favorite porn and porn sites. I stumbled on it quite by accident on the side bar of the Blogger log-in page. But you may as well check it out. Everyone loves Porn!
Porn-Loving Couplings

Mike Mignola's AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD to be NEW ANIMATED SERIES on Sci Fi Channel!

From Comics Continuum: Cable network Sci Fi on Monday announced it is developing Mike Mignola's Amazing Screw-On Head as animated series. Here's how the network described the show: "Adapted from the critically acclaimed, Eisner Award winning comic book by Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Amazing Screw-On Head is a half-hour animated comedy based on the exploits of one of history's unsung heroes. A secret agent who never made the history books, Screw-On Head is in the employ of the U.S. Government. A robot that screws his head onto a wide variety of bodies, Screw On Head battles those who threaten our civilization."

Bryan Fuller and Jason Netter will executive produce. Fuller will be writing and Netter, of Kickstart Productions, will oversee animation.

The network also announced the Shawn Ashmore of X2 and Kirstin Kreuk of Smallville will be starring in the event movie Earthsea, and that it is working with Stan Lee on three new movies.

I loved Amazing Screw-On Head. Other than taking away my chance at making my own creation Hollow Monkey (a character of my own with a screw on head and a hollow body) for fear of looking like an imitator, I truly loved this comic. It remains as one of my all time favorite stand-alone issues. I would murder to work on that show.

Artist of the Day
NEIL SWAAB



Illustrator and Comic artist Neil Swaab has seen his comic Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles published in anthologies (most currently Attitude 2, edited by Ted Rall), Terminal City Weekly (where I discovered him), The NY Press, Real Detroit Weekly, and Gear magazine. (before it went belly up) He's also self-published his comics, such as the hilariously titled I Got Pregnant Off a Pity Fuck and Now My Baby Looks Like Jerry Springer: A Book About Kids.

Check him out, lots of samples on his site. His Illustration work is brilliant as well, I may have to sample one for a later posting.

Tree Climbing an Emerging Sport

I was doing it before it was cool to. I even got blacklisted at a studio for doing it.

The top of a 90-foot-tall Southern white oak may be a great place to spend the night if you're a cardinal or a bluejay. But it's not exactly the place you'd expect to see a group of, say, Internet executives setting up camp. Not, that is, unless you're a fan of the emerging sport of tree climbing, a pursuit that takes the childhood passion of hoisting oneself into a favorite tree's branches to new—and sometimes extreme—heights. "It's a mystical experience," says certified arborist Peter Jenkins, founder of Atlanta-based Tree Climbers International, which teaches a climbing course that takes people to points among the canopy from 60 to 200 feet high. "The wind comes up and stirs the tree, like it's speaking to you. It's about being with nature, and being with yourself."

More here.

Tree Climbing International site here.