Excellent. After a year and a half (roughly) Peter Palmiotti and I are finally ready to launch into our webcomic, NEON EDEN.
So bookmark this page for future reference.
What is NEON EDEN about? It came from our mutual love of the older serial adventure strips in newspapers, like Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon and Hal Foster's Prince Valiant. And, Peter has a new style he wants to unleash, so we are tailormaking this project to fit. So, PeterPop is creating and swinging full line art, and we will be writing it out together, through the magic of intrawebz and long distance phone charges. While we both have other projects in the air separately, we do hope to have some manner of regular schedule for NE as soon as inhumanly possible. It is a really special story that means worlds for the both of us.
And we sincerely hope any and all readers are supremely enlightened by our efforts.
27 May 2011
24 May 2011
I Have No Money And I Must Scream
The recession is not going away anytime soon. Those who believe otherwise, and those who deny the current Great Depression 2.0 are miserably deluded. Your elected officials will not fix anything. Everybody with any power is only really serving private interests. The media (with its own liberal and conservative wings) is biased in all things. But look around you. See the businesses going under. See the buildings for sale. See the desperation, the rising crime rates all over the country. If we honestly knew the true statistics for unemployment and homelessness, there would be panic in the streets, and we can't have that. Better a slow death than a quick one.
So we raise the national debt ceiling, because the ten previous times we raised the national debt ceiling in the past decade clearly worked so well.
Let's allow the media to continue misrepresenting and downplaying how dire the circumstances truly are. We can already forget that our economic woes are the lone gunman in the ongoing global economic crises. Doing it again could not possibly make things worse.
So the southern states need billions in aid from the floods and tornado damages of recent weeks. Where can the money come from? Who cares, we can just ignore it ignore it ignore it. We would all much rather hear about Arnold's sexchild and Pippa's excellent British boobies.
The recession is not going away anytime soon. Play connect the dots with the many symptoms that surround us. Gross inflation of gas prices? Cutting federal funding to educational programming, like PBS and NPR? Cutting the NASA space program back into the realms of purely theoretical science? Shit, do you realize how many seriously long-running daytime soap operas are getting canned this year? Can we ignore that every industry is on the ropes, really?
There is no solution to this mess, as it took the entire history of our nation to build to this point. The recession is not going away anytime soon. The ONLY option left to us, is to learn to live without money. If you do what you love you cannot expect to get rich from the efforts, not anymore. If you think 40 hours of blue collar nonsense a week will continue to pay off your credit card debts, your mortgage loans, maybe even a down payment on whatever Bill Gates or Jerry Bruckheimer or Rupert Murdoch tells you to buy next, you are an idiot and you will be among the first to die off in the darker days soon to come. Reprogram yourself entirely. What are you living for? What and who matters to you? What will the future bring your way, and how can your actions and your actions alone effect that? Reap what YOU sow, damnit.
Because, the recession is not going away anytime soon. Which means, if you cannot resolve your own individual problems in this world, if you are waiting for your elected officials to magically grow a heart and a brain and a spine and suddenly cure your ills for you, then you may as well finish digging your own grave. It's what you've been doing slowly, every taxable season of your damned life.
So we raise the national debt ceiling, because the ten previous times we raised the national debt ceiling in the past decade clearly worked so well.
Let's allow the media to continue misrepresenting and downplaying how dire the circumstances truly are. We can already forget that our economic woes are the lone gunman in the ongoing global economic crises. Doing it again could not possibly make things worse.
So the southern states need billions in aid from the floods and tornado damages of recent weeks. Where can the money come from? Who cares, we can just ignore it ignore it ignore it. We would all much rather hear about Arnold's sexchild and Pippa's excellent British boobies.
The recession is not going away anytime soon. Play connect the dots with the many symptoms that surround us. Gross inflation of gas prices? Cutting federal funding to educational programming, like PBS and NPR? Cutting the NASA space program back into the realms of purely theoretical science? Shit, do you realize how many seriously long-running daytime soap operas are getting canned this year? Can we ignore that every industry is on the ropes, really?
There is no solution to this mess, as it took the entire history of our nation to build to this point. The recession is not going away anytime soon. The ONLY option left to us, is to learn to live without money. If you do what you love you cannot expect to get rich from the efforts, not anymore. If you think 40 hours of blue collar nonsense a week will continue to pay off your credit card debts, your mortgage loans, maybe even a down payment on whatever Bill Gates or Jerry Bruckheimer or Rupert Murdoch tells you to buy next, you are an idiot and you will be among the first to die off in the darker days soon to come. Reprogram yourself entirely. What are you living for? What and who matters to you? What will the future bring your way, and how can your actions and your actions alone effect that? Reap what YOU sow, damnit.
Because, the recession is not going away anytime soon. Which means, if you cannot resolve your own individual problems in this world, if you are waiting for your elected officials to magically grow a heart and a brain and a spine and suddenly cure your ills for you, then you may as well finish digging your own grave. It's what you've been doing slowly, every taxable season of your damned life.
19 May 2011
Jeffrey Catherine Jones
January 10, 1944 – May 19, 2011
Jeff Jones was one of the first artists whose work compelled me to learn about the artist as a person. She will be missed, dearly.
02 May 2011
Building The Temple
As my Canucklehead friends cast their votes today for a brighter tomorrow, I feel like spouting off with a wee rant concerning politics hereabouts in the colonies.
How To Make A Democracy Work
For starters, I believe that each and every elected and appointed position at the Federal level of government should all work for minimum wage. Then, politicos truly would be representing the people, and nobody would even bother to campaign unless they honestly wanted to do something with whatever desired position. I am realistic enough to see that just knowing there would be years of slumming it on ramen noodles and store brand coffee would be more than enough to frighten away many a technocrat from offices of power. This would also, scale back government expenditures somewhat.
Moreso, I believe our society should wholeheartedly embrace eugenics. Specifically, we should devise a biological chastity belt, to be applied sometime prior to puberty, wherein every single new citizen (without exception) would be temporarily rendered sterile and infertile- until said citizens reach a point where they might endure certain tests designed to prove themselves worthy of resolution of the belt. Such would include psychological evaluations, IQ testing, credit checks, criminal background reports, etc. In the meantime, sexuality could be more freely explored, as neither abortions or adoptions would have a place any longer in our society. No accidental pregnancies, no unwanted children. If however, a time comes when a young couple would like to procreate, they must pass the series of tests. If persons do not wish to procreate, so beit. But to bring forth life the prospective parents must prove themselves capable as mentally, emotionally, physically, and in particular financially, able to raise and provide for a healthy and intelligent child. If unable to pass, then their genes are clearly not good enough to continue detracting from the overall pool. Rather, the ones most affected would be the ones with chronic ills in terms of either physical or psychological, criminal records, the diseased, the unemployable, the unintelligent, the non-productive.
Within three generations, or a hundred years, population numbers would decrease dramatically. This would lead to less shortages in food and housing, while slowing general use of the more limited natural resources needed by all. Less waiting in lines, too.
In addition, all welfare programs should be cut entirely, including unemployment benefits, food stamps, WIC, etc. These tax dollars otherwise wasted on enabling the lazy and ignorant could then be reapplied towards total education reform, total healthcare reform. Solve such dramatic problems at their source. Give those who need it the tools to better themselves, not mere band-aids. All medical expenses should and could then be covered by the Federal government, and all interested parties should be willing to attain at least an Associates degree on Uncle Sam's tab. No more could parties abuse the system for power; and at the other end of the spectrum- no longer could parties abuse the system for a free ride.
Through this structured downsizing of society, and the many obvious sacrifices which would need to be endured by all, we as a collective would reach an era where none are brought incidentally into this world. None would go homeless or hungry or uneducated. As a society, we would then lose our lowest caste of citizenry. This would help to make all men, created equal.
Because my final suggestion, the final step would be to discontinue all elections and appointments for Federal government offices altogether. If all men are indeed created equal, then elections should be replaced with lotteries, so that each and every adult citizen, regardless of sex or caste or religion, might equally have a chance in any department, from Congress and Senate to Supreme Court Justices to the Cabinet and the Presidency itself. No more eternal ping pong match of a two party system, each side as revoltingly obtuse as the other. If all men are actually created equal, then this notion of lottery replacing elections should not be taken offensively. And through my suggestions, we would come even closer to being one and the same as a people than even natural genetics might ever allow. Embrace it.
Welcome to the Lottery Party. I do not believe in Democracy or any established form of government, but by my own reason and experience these conclusions seem wonderfully relevant, if only in terms of going "all the way" with a Western free market Capitalistic Democracy. It is not a matter of getting things back on track.
America was never on track.
How To Make A Democracy Work
For starters, I believe that each and every elected and appointed position at the Federal level of government should all work for minimum wage. Then, politicos truly would be representing the people, and nobody would even bother to campaign unless they honestly wanted to do something with whatever desired position. I am realistic enough to see that just knowing there would be years of slumming it on ramen noodles and store brand coffee would be more than enough to frighten away many a technocrat from offices of power. This would also, scale back government expenditures somewhat.
Moreso, I believe our society should wholeheartedly embrace eugenics. Specifically, we should devise a biological chastity belt, to be applied sometime prior to puberty, wherein every single new citizen (without exception) would be temporarily rendered sterile and infertile- until said citizens reach a point where they might endure certain tests designed to prove themselves worthy of resolution of the belt. Such would include psychological evaluations, IQ testing, credit checks, criminal background reports, etc. In the meantime, sexuality could be more freely explored, as neither abortions or adoptions would have a place any longer in our society. No accidental pregnancies, no unwanted children. If however, a time comes when a young couple would like to procreate, they must pass the series of tests. If persons do not wish to procreate, so beit. But to bring forth life the prospective parents must prove themselves capable as mentally, emotionally, physically, and in particular financially, able to raise and provide for a healthy and intelligent child. If unable to pass, then their genes are clearly not good enough to continue detracting from the overall pool. Rather, the ones most affected would be the ones with chronic ills in terms of either physical or psychological, criminal records, the diseased, the unemployable, the unintelligent, the non-productive.
Within three generations, or a hundred years, population numbers would decrease dramatically. This would lead to less shortages in food and housing, while slowing general use of the more limited natural resources needed by all. Less waiting in lines, too.
In addition, all welfare programs should be cut entirely, including unemployment benefits, food stamps, WIC, etc. These tax dollars otherwise wasted on enabling the lazy and ignorant could then be reapplied towards total education reform, total healthcare reform. Solve such dramatic problems at their source. Give those who need it the tools to better themselves, not mere band-aids. All medical expenses should and could then be covered by the Federal government, and all interested parties should be willing to attain at least an Associates degree on Uncle Sam's tab. No more could parties abuse the system for power; and at the other end of the spectrum- no longer could parties abuse the system for a free ride.
Through this structured downsizing of society, and the many obvious sacrifices which would need to be endured by all, we as a collective would reach an era where none are brought incidentally into this world. None would go homeless or hungry or uneducated. As a society, we would then lose our lowest caste of citizenry. This would help to make all men, created equal.
Because my final suggestion, the final step would be to discontinue all elections and appointments for Federal government offices altogether. If all men are indeed created equal, then elections should be replaced with lotteries, so that each and every adult citizen, regardless of sex or caste or religion, might equally have a chance in any department, from Congress and Senate to Supreme Court Justices to the Cabinet and the Presidency itself. No more eternal ping pong match of a two party system, each side as revoltingly obtuse as the other. If all men are actually created equal, then this notion of lottery replacing elections should not be taken offensively. And through my suggestions, we would come even closer to being one and the same as a people than even natural genetics might ever allow. Embrace it.
Welcome to the Lottery Party. I do not believe in Democracy or any established form of government, but by my own reason and experience these conclusions seem wonderfully relevant, if only in terms of going "all the way" with a Western free market Capitalistic Democracy. It is not a matter of getting things back on track.
America was never on track.
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