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The Lost PowerPoint Slides: Ruff ‘n Ready in Merry Olde England (Part 15)

Queen Elizabeth I In her day, the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I), was widely regarded as the scariest female to roam the planet since Lucy the Menopausal T-Rex. Of course, her closest advisers and the members of the English … Continue reading →

Ask General Kang: Do you have a profile on Facebook?

Absolutely! You can’t take over a planet without a few friends. I like the way that Facebook allows me to be connected the minutia of my friends’ lives. This is why I’m so fond of the “status update,” which allows … Continue reading →

Spikey messiah

So does this mean Moses was a stegosaurus? Alltop turns all four cheeks.

Bathtime Follies

Belinda was a notorious cheapskate, who was cloned from several ancient lines of DNA; not of any single species, Belinda’s genetic material was a chimera of strands originating with proto-humans from places that are evocative of myth, names to conjure … Continue reading →

The Mash-Up Mentality

With derivative art invading our cultural spaces like never before, is this the start of a new artistic movement or the death of originality? In 1951, the science-fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon said 90 per cent of everything is crap. Since … Continue reading →

How to be a Visionary

At least as far as this mash-up world goes, anyway. (In which running someone else’s cartoon counts as content.) Alltop is a vision of humor. How to be a Visonary, a photo by lunchbreath on Flickr.

Ask General Kang: Did you have the Olympics on your home world?

That is a ridiculous question! I come from another planet, deep in another galaxy, on which the dominant lifeforms have evolved along a completely different track from you humans. What are the odds that we would have a celebration of … Continue reading →

Where all the aliens at?

Maybe Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is onto something here. Perhaps the reason that nobody has visited us yet is because they can’t agree on what they’re going to do with us when they get here. Or they could just be … Continue reading →

Ask General Kang: Apparently, only one in four people read a book last year — how can we improve that figure?

I’d start by disabling the publishing industry in some way — perhaps an elite cadre of pulp-loving squirrels armed with plasma-shredders and capable of firing book worms out of their mouths? Or perhaps you could change the tax laws so … Continue reading →

Forty-seven Signs of the Apocalypse (#32)

From the Book of Toll-Free Numbers And lo, there will come a time when it will be possible to talk to the other Faithful, who live at great distances. Truly, there shall be some among us who will provideth of … Continue reading →