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Ask General Kang: Is there anything wrong with using the word ‘sartorial’?

You probably get a lot of funny looks when you employ that adjective. Some of the looks are from borderline homophobes, who believe that you’d have to be a little too effeminate to be interested in men’s clothing. You can … Continue reading →

La dolce vita

It wasn’t always so easy. There used to be an anger in him. An emptiness that nothing could fill … nothing material anyway. He fell through time and space, and into a kind of dream. And it seemed as though … Continue reading →

A Short History of the Death of Culture (a cartoon)

Related: Selected Media Fads Through the Ages. Alltop is doing its part too!

It’s morning in the Singularity

Bob was not a happy cyborg. He’d had to skip is plasma bath and neural detox that morning because his dick of a boss, a narcissistic self-sustaining photosynthetic artificial intelligence named TODD-bot, needed him to come to work early. And … Continue reading →

Small talk for the technological singularity

Right now, the only time we talk to our machines is when they don’t work right, we yell at them, or to ask them for directions. (GPS, Siri, etc.) However, when our machines become as intelligent and then smarter than … Continue reading →

Get The Fridgularity free on Kindle — today and tomorrow!

Chill out. It’s only the technological singularity. Okay, this is absolutely your LAST CHANCE to get a copy of my new book for free. Get on the bandwagon early! Check out some of the great reviews this book is getting: … Continue reading →

Joel and the Corporate Ziggurat

Joel LeFrappe was an up-and-coming executive in the Massive and Deranged Cricket and Palmistry (MaDCaP) Continuum, homeworld of ToryWorks 4000, a rival firm of NaziWorks 3000 (The Caring Company). While ToryWorks was not as cruel and deliciously monolithic as NaziWorks, … Continue reading →

Absurd Panhandler Party

Making the morning commute a little brighter. Environmental (absurd) theatre at its best. Alltop just needs a few minutes of your attention too. Via Laughing Squid.

A humourous vintage photograph

After this photo was taken an alien zygote burst from this child’s chest at a tremendous velocity, blasting through the watermelon slice a moment later, and then running down the street; the photographer experienced years of insomnia, heaving drinking, and … Continue reading →

Mozart’s birthday today

To celebrate, let’s play his famous requiem: And then go check out The Amadeus Net, a novel in which I posit that: the big guy never died he toys with the idea of gender realignment when not contemplating the snipping … Continue reading →