Moving Internet House…

Restlessness strikes again. Hello Beloved Followers and Subscribers. IMPORTANT INFORMATION MOVING FORWARD— Faced with WordPress.com's rising costs, the irritating impossibility of controlling my site's functionality and appearance, not to mention being plastered with ads I didn't approve of, and accessory costs for having a branded email, not to mention connecting my domain name...ugh. I decided …

Proverbs of Post-Truth Heaven & Hell

With thanks and apologies to William Blake (1757 - 1827), seer, artist, and poet, for giving me the idea. Click on the image to view the file. You can magnify the image to your preferred readable zoom level. Use ctrl+scroll of your mouse to zoom in and out. ֍

Elon Musk Warns Staff Twitter’s Survival at Stake Due to Elon Musk

Office completely empty of staff in shock as shoe drops In a strongly-worded message to the remaining four people on staff at Twitter, Elon Musk, who agreed to buy the company, tried to wiggle out of buying the company when he saw something shinier, then was forced to buy the company or be sent to …

So You Wanna Have a Gay Orgy

Better disasters through planning You're in the dead zone, that stretch of time somewhere between 2AM and dawn, when normal people are enjoying the happy fulfillment of definite plans made with definite people they definitely wanted to meet. These plans were made early the previous evening, or, in cases of extreme normality, entire days in …

I’ve launched a new venture…

... and you're invited to join me. PATREON PAGES ARE LIVE Hey, it's David. Remember me? The guy who hangs around here, sweeping up the sawdust and pouring all the bits of beer left in the cans into one glass as I roll a smoke out of your cigarette butts? Man. I call that a …

Useless Objects…

...are what it means to be human. Evening Dress • ca. 1898-1900 • Silk • House of Worth • French • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1976.258.1a, b)--------"A superb example of dressmaking from the House of Worth, this dress exhibits the aesthetic of the last years of the nineteenth century. The fashionable reverse S-curve silhouette …

I think we have cover

but I've been wrong b4 The American artist creating a war-time ad for towels and Botticelli's drawings of the seventh—or was it the first? I lose count, too busy blowing demons—circle of hell make strange bedfellows. But then, so do I. All you really have to do is say, "Lovely, David!" in the comments so …

Help me choose the cover for my new book

[Click here to jump straight to the poll] Hey, followers and newbies. Fresh from the triumph that occurred in my head of my hilarious first book, "A Slow, Painful Death..." — (—the title of my book is exactly the same as the name of this blog. But it's so long I can't be bothered to …

Queen Elizabeth II Shrinks, Gets Trodden on by Truss

New Liz surprises with bold move The entire world that lives in London, SW7, is in shock after it was announced yesterday that Queen Elizabeth II had finally kicked the gold-plated bucket at the ripe old age of ninety-six. The shy girl of German ancestry who bravely sacrificed her personal life in exchange for being …

Dems Reeling as Kyrsten Sinema Retaliates

Kyrsten: Mistress of the Dems! With a startling and cynical manoeuvre that has left the Democratic congress in tatters, Kyrsten Sinema — miffed when Chuck Schumer advised her, via text: “No third-act redemption for YOU, Little Miss Stonewall, I’m gonna play with the cool kids from now on! Nyaaaaah!” — decided to send everyone at the Capitol a message …