.: Above The Aether :.

God damn, I wish I could write like Bukowski.

Via the Comics Alliance: Since their original publication in the 1920s, the stories of H.P. Lovecraft have endured and grown into an entire subset of the horror genre unto themselves, with themes of the unavoidable insanity that comes with knowledge and cosmic insignificance that are far more subtle and ultimately terrifying than the average ghost [...]

WINNIE SMASH PUNY HUMAN! Art of Andrew Harkins (via BoingBoing) – Dave

Video link Underground comic book pioneer, Harvey Pekar, died today. He was 70 years old. His most famous series “American Splendor” was an autobiographical chronicle that started in the late 70s and lasted several decades. Actor, Paul Giamatti, played Pekar in the 2003 movie adaptation of Pekar’s “American Splendor.” If you haven’t seen it, you [...]

I discovered a new science fiction magazine online that publishes original and reprinted science fiction stories and interviews. According to the Light Speed Magazine “about us” page: Lightspeed is an online magazine focusing exclusively on science fiction. Here you can expect to see all types of science fiction, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, [...]

Video link This is an interesting 20 year old British interview with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (the creators of the Watchmen). This episode of Prisoners of Gravity was broadcast in 1991 and it is a half hour documentary about Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ genre twisting series Watchmen. Contained within this video is the [...]

Video link (This Monkey Western was brought to you by my brother Nate.) – Dave

(Top to bottom) William Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson. I think writers holding guns seem more dangerous than “normal” people holding guns.  Perhaps it has something to do with the combination of  intelligence and violence that seems to intensify both characteristics. Or maybe they were all a bit crazy (since two of the [...]

See the rest of them here. – Dave

Tropical storm Edouard is supposed to hit us in Houston tonight around midnight. Our storm supplies consist of olives, vermouth and vodka.  It worked for Rita, why not Edouard? I’ll try to post some photos or video of the tropical storm experience here later tonight. – Dave UPDATE: Monday, July 04 – 7:55PM (CST) – [...]