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Through a Glass Darkly
Originally uploaded by Dr. Smax.

may be a better photographer than me, but I am a photographer of her, so I guess I like own her soul or something. Look close at both of these pics and you'll find her sweet self.

Red Detector

If you haven't done so already, go here and ask a question. I did. And look what happened.

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“How is it that the greatest mass-murderer of all time was armed only with a toy gun that unfurled a “bang”-flag?”

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You clearly underestimate him.

Lucius Entwhistle was no ordinary man. True, some of the stories about him may stretch the limits of our belief - that he tricked the Devil into selling his own soul to Lucius, that he buys his life a day at a time with the lives of others - but even if we were only to believe one tenth of what would be believable he would still be a giant among tricksters and thieves. And this was his greatest theft of them all.

Did you not hear about The Hippy? He let the secret slip to Lucius. Words have power, he told him, in a drug-addled rant at Woodstock. And though what The Hippy knew was wrong - that the power lies in ancient runes and forgotten languages - Lucius took the idea just as he took The Hippy’s acid and crown chakra. Lucius understood where the real power lies.

How a man calling himself Luke Tweet became the greatest television magician of all time is perhaps a greater mystery, but Lucius did it. What is stage magic after all, if not a confidence trick with added showmanship? Did nobody suspect? Did they suspect, but not realise what the outcome would be? Who knows. They may, but they died with the rest. Certainly there was no-one, barring the TV critic in the Times, who railed against him. A consummate entertainer, they said, and so he was.

How else could so many die?

Yes, words have power. Did you ever see a line of tape saying ‘Police line, do not cross’? Did you cross it? No, no more than you ever touched a metal box marked ‘Danger - high voltage’ or drank from a bottle labelled as caustic. Words have power. This is what Lucius understood.

This is how Lucius bought himself one billion days of life with a simple flourish at the end of Luke Tweet’s last show.

You know what stigmata are? Half of them are psychosomatic, of course. People believing too strongly in the wounds of Christ. Open sores festering on their hands and feet (or wrists and ankles) until they are holes from one side to the other, stab wounds appearing in their left (or right) sides, pinpricks in their scalps. They don’t just believe, they know. The power of suggestion. No more or less than the power of words.

A weapon, in the hands of a man with a personality as hypnotic as Lucius Entwhistle. Even when it’s fired from the barrel of a gun that unfurls a “bang” flag.

wrote me a Gibber. I sent him a pic, he wrote a story about it. Click here to get your own. Scroll down to see the goods. (BTW, that's me holding up the base of the missle with my foot.)

If one has the right to bear arms in order to protect oneself as part of a citizens militia, one must concede that if that right cannot, or will not, be removed from the constitution, it must be considered as applicable now is it was when originally enumerated. In this case I am forced, with great reluctance, to concede that the arms available to a citizens militia must be of a nature that is reflective of the dangers facing said militia. With growing threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction around the world, possessed by countries hitherto thought incapable of constructing or purchasing them, and considering the hatred with which our nation is viewed by it’s enemies, our citizens must be allowed to defend themselves on an equal footing. I must therefore find that Mr Klugg has every right to the weapons in his possession, and in fact has been deprived of his constitutional right to do so. We must not forget that the right to bear arms is also a responsibility to defend ones country with them. That is the essence of the law. In this instance we must remember that for a constitution to be effective, it must be resistant to change on a structural level. Thus we are forced to interpret the structure of our laws based on the morality of the day, as has always been the case.

-Excerpt from a Supreme Court ruling By Justice Patton Cabbot-Harrison III 25th July 2007.

Jombie Chomp
Originally uploaded by Dr. Smax.

Jombie on my mind

Monkeys be payin' gallons o' juice for this, yo:

http://www.fluffinbrooklyn.com/html/2005/02/3-you-gots-to-turn-yer-head-to-left.html

Jombie pays extra

Monkeys pay for sexy pics

Macaques swap juice for a glimpse of leaders' faces and females' rears.

The discovery, made by neurobiologists at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, supports the theory that monkeys will make sacrifices to gain socially useful information, much as a human might spend money on a newspaper.

Male monkeys will 'pay' in fruit juice to look at a picture of a socially dominant monkey or a female's hindquarters. In the wild, the animals help their fitness by monitoring what their leaders are doing, and which females are sexually receptive.

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050131/full/050131-5.html

Toothpick Rocket
Originally uploaded by Dr. Smax.

Structures elongated along their vertical axes available for viewing in person in Germany.

für die Völker

New Godz
Originally uploaded by Dr. Smax.

New Godz