Anyone get the feeling that a shit storm’s coming? It’s crisis, after crisis, after crisis. Why can’t humanity get its act together? Yes, this is a bitch against the whole fucked-up world. It’s kind of hard to rage against a machine that is so chaotic, but what the fuck, eh? How does one make sense of what’s happening? There are the rich and powerful, and the ones on varying levels of in-betweeness and then there are those with no power… the sick, the starving, those under the thumb of oppressive regimes. The markets fall, governments fall, Great Britain burns, mother nature is fucking us over… not all problems are human made… but it seems that these days we’ve had a pretty big stake in it. I won’t say that it’s the end times because people have said that for millennia but something IS happening. Those of us who are rich enough to own vast amounts of technology and information are so entranced by what we have wrought and we live in little boxes, little dream-worlds, and then there are those that scrabble in the dirt for the very basic things of survival. The field will be leveled, that’s one thing that’s guaranteed. —Rant Against the Machine

This article appears in Aug 11-17, 2011.

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  9. I just adopted a 21 year old cat named Simon. He has a cast on his back leg (from a fight with a racoon!!!) so we called him Simon Peg. I love Shaun of the Dead! Have you seen Paul yet?

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  12. Ever see “Black Books” with Dylan Moran (the Welsh Harry Potter Lookalike who gets eviscerated at the Winchester) & Bill Bailey (Bilbo in “Spaced”)? Gotta love the incestuous world of Brit-coms.

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  14. Love Black Books, LOVE!!! Bill!!! Bailey!!! Soooo talented!!! I couldn’t even pick a youtube link, there all so good!

    < Here's the new guy!

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  16. Awwwwwww, what a sweeetie. That’s one lucky little moggie who landed on his feet. A happy long life to him. Purrrrrrrrrrr, Purrrrrrrrrrr.

    There’s a hard-core of booksellerfolks in this city who swear by “Black Books” both as a reflection of reality and a series of instructional videos.
    I’m guaranteed to use the phrase “We do sell a lot of wank” at least once a week.

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  18. The doom and gloom we feel is the power of mass media in part. Every disaster that occurs is downloaded, uploaded and dispersed to all areas of the planet within seconds. You can get earthquakes in New Zealand, riots in the Middle East and raging floods in the U.S. on your computer all at the same time. Gives the feeling of the world coming unravelled.
    That said, there are real global problems associated with having way too people on the planet but I won’t get started on that.
    There’s always going to depressing news OP, it doesn’t mean the end is coming for mankind. We are all going to die eventually, so enjoy life while you can. Start watching some British sit-coms, they’re a riot. No pun intended. Well maybe it was intended.

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  19. He’s a hardy and slightly but justifiably cranky old fella! Eats like a pig and has, ahem, bathroom orientation issues. I’ve always presumed that our house will have to be razed after I take the dirt nap because of his sort!

    I work in the book world too! I’m familiar with wank! There’s lots (and lots) of wank!

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  20. There are too many idiots these days who are so into themselves they can’t help their neighbor. This is the stem of all the issues in the world. Love is absent except amongst the ones we are blood related to.

    If people would open up and Love, unconditionally each other, we would have very few problems that we couldn’t deal with.

    Earthquakes will happen, but the people will be able to overcome the after effects if we all stuck together.

    Unfortunately, that is just a pipe dream at this point.

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  29. PEOPLE PLAY WAY TOO MUCH GODDAMN VIDEO GAMES, Information overload, vaporized middle classes, selling our jobs overseas, unresponsible gov’t, AND irreverent youth. That about cover it?

    Put down the controller; open door or grab spouse, grab a musical instrument, grab a BOOK, TALK to that hot chick at Starbucks instead of looking for her on Plenty Of Crabs, I don’t know…

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  32. OP, don’t worry, your stocks will rebound. Now is still a good time to buy. As for people starving, it’s not your fault so don’t worry about it. Think of it as mass population control.

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  33. Amazing a country goes from getting 100% on an exam to 95% and now the world goes to hell in a handbasket. Thanks media. I could take this bitch, put it anywhere in the world for the last 10,000 years and people would recognize it for their own world.

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  34. may 24 2012, at about 12:24 p.m., it won’t be much longer. then all you nasty fucking humans can join daddy and me, in HELL. think i’m kidding, watch the skies in the next month, should see something cool.
    then you can read all your good books as much as you want to, it won’t help one bit. ivan, there is a special place for you, and a few other bitchers there.

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  35. LS, the only problem with that is my utiliies, landlord, and creditors will be wanting their money on 1 June 2012, and me telling them the world is gone ain’t gonna cut it.

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  36. but see bru tim, the world will be gone, and so will most of the people on it, i guess that is what he meant. i could not care less, we are all going to the big debt house in the sky, anyway, right?
    just for arguements sake, if right, what happens after may 24th.? other than maybe may 25th.

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  37. “A special place for me” Lifer? I’m afraid that if karma exists, then I’m coming back as a Raging Grannie’s tambourine >: 0 Oy Vey.

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  39. I even used it wrongly. Let the cut and paste quotations from “Eastern Philosophy for Gullible Dummies” begin.
    I’m psyched for a luverly Saturday. Hopefully the turistas will be courteous, the skells in lockup and the sundresses, skimpy.
    Wishing you and yours a fun Saturday, as well *Glug Glug*

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  42. IF the worlds going to end in 2012.
    I’m going to start using the chinese calander, so its 4709,year of the rabbit.

    No more worries about 2012 here ~:p

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  43. HRM’s world is about to end once Minister McKay announces whatever the frig he’s going to announce.

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  44. Dateline Ottawa: Defence Minister Peter McKay announced today the cancellation of the CF-35 purchase and Ottawa’s decision to divert all funding into the HRM Convention Centre on the proviso that instead of a Convention Centre the HRM uses the funding to create a combined “Low-Income Subsidized Condo/Needle Exhange Clinic/Urban Garden/Arts Installation Space where NASCAD Grads can throw poo at each other.

    PSYYYYYYYYCCCCHHHHH! >: )

    Nah – we’re gettin’ a convention centre. More windows for the Anarcho-Syndicalist-Panhandlers to smash the next time the G-8 comes to town.

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