Category Archive: monsters
Oct 16
The Infamous Tree Octopus
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May 20
Artificial Life: Synthia
Scientists have created artificial life. It’s just a simple little thing: A living cell powered by man-made DNA and constructed in a laboratory but it’s a rather large step towards . . . Well, opinion is mixed on that one. It ranges between UTOPIA! and IT’LL KILL US ALL! I don’t think it’s terribly important. …
May 03
Mum For the Child of a Mammoth
That’s an old Soviet cartoon about a baby mammoth who somehow avoids extinction then looks for it’s mom. Worth watching just for the swinging soundtrack. In other wooly mammoth news, scientists have discovered that these ancient beasts had a form of antifreeze in their blood. What’s next? Will they soon tell us what unicorn horns …
Dec 14
Spectator
eam5tx on Flickr – Photo Sharing!. If this also had a big mouth for eating, it’d be a psycho-biological 21st century western human.
Nov 01
The Monster and The Green Hill
pic nicked from here Once upon a time, below a blue sky in a yellow land, a monster named Albert lived on a green hill. Everything in the land was yellow. The trees were yellow, the ground was yellow and the buildings were yellow. The teeth, the eyes and the hair: yellow, yellow and …
Oct 24
Ghosts
pic nicked from here There’s quite a few things whose existence I don’t believe in: Astrology, karma, religious people, happy endings, souls. There’s quite a few things that I don’t care enough about to have any beliefs about: God, UFOs, bigfoot etc. And there’s even a few things that I do believe in: Nihilism. But …
Mar 13
Undead Vampire Unburied in Venice
Researchers have discovered the remains of a “vampire” in Venice. Buried with a brick in her mouth to stop her feeding upon the living, this 16th corpse indicates that the vampire myth started during plague times. Seems that the peasants, not knowing much about decomposition and the like, would sometimes find a corpse bloated with …
Mar 01
Logical Techno Manners: Dinner With Cthulhu
post also appears at Gonzo Squad pic nicked from here The weekend is coming up and the phone is ringing off the hook. You don’t want to answer because you already know who it is and what It wants. It’s Cthulhu and It’s wondering why you guys never hang out. Unwilling to offend this ancient …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
