The following conversation took place between esteemed members of The Falls Society DP, The Immortal Goon, Q Musing, and Process. In this conversation we reference three articles. The first article is an interview of atheist(I guess…?) Sam Harris by Salon. The second article is a published correspondence between Sam Harris and notable political commentator(read: DANGEROUS SOCIALIST) Noam Chomsky. The third article is a…
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Beneath The Recessional of The Apes by Dr. Rudyard Zaius
Great Ape of our fathers, known of old— Gorilla of our far-flung battle line— Beneath whose stinking paw we hold Dominion over palm and banana— Great Ape of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! The net throwing and the shouting dies— The Orangutans and the Gorillas depart— Still stands Thine Ape sacrifice, An humble and a contrite…
The Fight of the Century
With so much focus on today’s BIG FIGHT between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, I thought I’d take a minute to recognize another fight that’s going on. The TRUE fight of the century. It’s the fight between me and that goddamn bird that keeps waking me up at two o’clock in the goddamn morning. Hey bird- WTF?? Why are…
California’s Drought
California’s four year drought is finally starting to get national attention, and since other people are chiming in with their two cents, I figure I will too. I’m an authority, after all – I’m a geologist, I’ve studied hydrogeology, California’s Central Valley is my home, and I lived a quarter of a century in a place with lots of water:…
Jack of Spades
Two classic music videos from the band 2029. These are great examples of mid-to-late 90’s Cascadian-Noir Metal that was popularized among the disenfranchised youth of the Oregon coast. Places like Newport, South Beach, and Beverly Beach were havens for this music revolution. 2029, along with the coast-rat punk band, Soldiers of Misfortune, helped change the face of music in the Pacific Northwest’s post grunge era.
These videos were produced by the multimedia artist, and visionary, DJ Danimal Styles.
Colonizing the Solar System and the Cosmic Manifest Destiny
I was taking a bath and perusing my Twitter feed earlier today, as the unemployed geologist is wont to do, when I came across an interesting argument. Essentially, this person, a woman who blogs for Scientific American, was claiming that the calls for colonization of Mars are inspired by the same white privilege that drove the colonization of the Americas…