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This weeks top Ghouls and Goblins are: grimmthepansexualgoth.tumblr.com postmodnik.tumblr.com addicted2gore.tumblr.com retro-fiend.tumblr.com

Thank you for your continued support of this awfulness!!!

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Speaking of Alf, I still need to frame my Alf comic book Postmidnik got me for my bday awhile back.

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Life Lesson #4702

Pretentious people cause headaches. Always carry Tylenol.

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Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

Frank Herbert, “Chapterhouse: Dune”

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tumblr vs. facebook according to my dad.

I was reading my parents a really cool fact I found tumblr and my dad said, "That's not real." and I said "No it's real, it's on tumblr, if it was on facebook it would fake; tumblr has sources" Then he said "If it's tumblr it's true and if it's facebook it's false? So 'T' for true and 'F' for false."

OMG! My 62 year old father who has never really used a computer, just explained the secret behind the initials of tumblr and facebook. He totally gets it!

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Remember how much of a ritual it was in Kindergarten to change the day on the calendar. And it was a big deal if you were picked to be the one to change the calendar, especially if the month changed too.

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Brandon's Book Reviews. 13.11.13

I just finished reading “The Pump House Gang” by Tom Wolfe. It is a masterfully written snapshot of life from 1966-68 of various people, and the micro-societies these people have created and belong to. He calls them “status dropouts “, as they have decided to breakaway from the established society and status based classes.

Wolfe paints a vivid and often poetic picture of various people from the surfing gang of the title, to a London Mod, and next Hugh Hefner. He highlights the events of a person’s life within the group they have chosen to be a part of, described for the reader in chapters, originally from previously published articles in such magazines as “New York” and the London “Weekend Telegraph”.

This is a very important book, that provides portraits of the life and style of people living in The United States and England during the mid to late 1960’s. Much of what is shown is easily transferred to today, either directly or with minor evolutions, or for some, to a nostalgia of a previous time. He paints a picture that draws you into the world, into the life of the person Wolfe is writing about in a prose as swift and colored as the time it was written.

Of special note are the chapters,”What If He Is Right?” and “O Rotten Gotham-Sliding Down into the Behavioral Sink”. The first one deals with Marshall McLuhan and his theory about television reengaging a total sensory experience that was lost in the medium of books, and how this is and will continue to influence how we receive information. This is most interesting having the knowledge of living in 2013, where words and images deluge us daily.

The latter (and final) chapter is about Dr. Edward T. Hall, an anthropologist concerned with population and space, and what he calls the “behavioral sink” that is caused by overpopulation in one area. In a time 7 billion people, this chapter about societal breakdown due to the proximity of people in urban places is a sobering call of dire concern. The information presented is worrisome, but I see many things in the world today that give hope about humanity’s ability to evolve and survive.

I highly recommend “The Pump House Gang”, (and it’s sorta companion, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, two books which were originally published on the same day), especially to anyone interested in the 1960s, and the lifestyle of that time. It really is an important and well written book, that I think anyone will enjoy.

Next up is “Chapterhouse: Dune”, the last book of “The Dune Chronicles” written by Frank Herbert. I am unsure as to if and/or how I would comment on that book due to the complexity of the series, though we shall see. And as always, thanks for reading.

- Brandon Moore

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Sober Writing

I don’t believe in sober writing. You may not have any drugs or alcohol in your system, but writing itself brings about one of the most intense, maniacal and pleasant highs I have ever felt. Being drawn into the page as the words just pour forth, seemingly of their own volition, but coming truly from within yourself, through you and on to the page. This is why I don’t believe in sober writing. The act itself transports a person, time stops and there is only the writer, the page and the pen, beyond that there is nothing else. The world disappears, until you fall back into it, still alive but forever changed. This is the magic of ink and paper, the power of words.

- Brandon Moore    10/27/13