Greg A. Brown

“please let me OUT”
Message scratched into the table of the study room I’m working in right now

I gotta write a ten-page paper tonight so instead of a thoughtful post on the substructure of things, you’re gonna get a boxing kangaroo. Sorry?

China Mieville, a sci-fi/fantasy/hard-to-classify author and part-time writer on international law, wrote a scathing indictment of libertarian philosophy that also laments how they stole the original coolness of floating city-states, giant ships that only function under their own laws. It’s a great, great read.

Chewbacca is the new Virgin Mary.

Documentary called “Guys and Dolls” on realdolls, the anatomically correct, life-sized artificial female facsimiles that often serve as a replacement for human companionship. Ultra-weird. Weird beyond weird. Typically I consider a documentary to be good if it totally surprises me at least one or two times. Even knowing of realdolls’ existence for a few years, the documentary still managed to surprise me every one to two minutes. It just screams surreal, and is stranger than any possible fictional attempt at covering the subject. See also: Uncanny Valley.

I do this too!

Gliding around mountains using a special wing-suit; easily up there with parachute skiing as one of the scariest and most exhilarating things I can think of.

A PC vs. Mac forum with thousands of posts, but only one user. Exceedingly odd, with tendrils reaching over into creepiness as well.

Watching this clip with some friends spawned an afternoon of looking up Maury videos on YouTube. While it was totally worth it, none of the videos even stood a chance at matching up to the amazingness of this one. Just wait until the Tony Scott-like video of Victoria going off on her “bay-beh.”

The internet seems to have already passed through the “collect all information” stage and “enable new ways of doing business” stage and - with this video - may be close to finishing the “compile all the awkwardness ever put to videotape” stage.