a) I'm a cover artist. A photo I took in France has been included in a book of photos of pharmacies around the world... and my photo was used for the cover. How about that.

b) Scientists found a plant that has outlived us all by cloning itself after every brush fire. It sacrificed the ability to reproduce for the ability to keep perpetuating itself again and again, slowly growing as human empires rose and fell. That's amazing.

c) Friend-of-SignalStation Pete Toms invites you to explore the world of comic book PSAs, including one harrowing tale of a boy who learns about bike safety after the devil gives him a demonically powered bicycle.

godownmatthew: almost every videogame (esp action games) i've played in the last few years contains a macho, 'cool' adoptive father figure...
godownmatthew: fathers: if you raise your kids to be wimpy nerds, they will use technology to replace you in adulthood.

signalstation: @godownmatthew One of the highlights of my childhood was when Pac-Man told me he was proud of me.

godownmatthew: @signalstation i always wondered why q*bert was distant and uncaring growing up, then i found out frogger was my biological father.
godownmatthew: call of duty: daddy issues 2

signalstation: @godownmatthew Batman: Awkward Hug Asylum

This is nice: UbuWeb Sound is actually sharing the entirety of William S. Burroughs' first spoken word album, Call Me Burroughs, among other things.

It's been one of my favorite odd word collections for awhile. I think one of the things I like most about Burroughs is his language-as-a-virus idea... that the non-traditional patterns in his prose & cut-up experiments can actually change the way you usually think, just by having to work harder to find patterns and reason in the word salad presented. The Call Me Burroughs album contains pre-cut-up Burroughs, so the narrative elements are stronger than you might expect.

Anyway. It's free.

Drove all night, came at dawn to a warm misty place. Barking dogs and the sound of running water.

Because really, is there any theme more universal than skeletons driving some sort of transportation device?

Many more stupid comics introduced here at Mr. Kitty.

Serious question: when you got out of bed this morning, could you possibly have suspected that before the day was through you would read a hilarious, surreal, disturbing meditation on the hands of Mickey Rourke?

My suspicion is that you couldn't have known. Had you known, you would have skipped everything else you've done today and gone straight to pondering the mystery of Rourke-mitts, as they're known.