Harry art by Frank Hannan.

Thanks, Frank. :)

Here's Harry in midpoint of a hyperspace teleport.



Ditto, but this time, he finds...company.

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Two years of Shmegalamonga!!

So, last year was year one, and I sort of grueling Rocky montage-ed my way to 100 rants.

So, how's it gone since then?

Whelp, new decade.

Dingoo.

Beeble.

Buncha new sections.
Podsville, "things that don't give me nightmares", snarky comments, been a fun year.

And of course, a crapload of Harry strips that I finally worked my way back around to.
Didn't think I would didja?

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If The West were an episode of Star Trek...

....I'd have to say it'd probably be an episode of Voyager.

And the one where, the command crew, and anyone of good conscience in general, were barricaded up in the Holodeck, and playing the Fairhaven simulation.

Meanwhile, running firefights were going on in the corridors, violated women lay dead in their quarters, the Kazon have the bridge, and are using the Voyager to fight some other ship full of Kazon, and both Kazon leaders are being sucked off by babies, and are eating bowls of baby stew.

Meanwhile, everyone in the Holodeck, they just don't wanna hear about it.
And if anyone suggests shutting off Fairhaven, they'll be ripped apart with rusty razors.

Remember that one?

Just me?

Well, anyway, that one.

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Guest artists, reiterated.

Bumping that I'd be interested in guest artists for Harry strips. Read More......

Sidebar update 3.

Added Postcards from Podsville to "key areas of Shmegalamonga". Read More......

Fuck angst.

Got a little existentialist/angsty here and here, but the final cure for it, turned out to simply be this! Read More......

Postcards from Podsville #34.

Eh, let's go with titles from here on out.

In fact, lemme do retro titles for the other ones.


#0- On Weirdness. (natch)

#1- Postcards from Podsville (it begins)

#2- Myth worshippers threaten violence.

#2.5- Corporate entity caves to myth worshipper violence threats.

#3- Sideshow Bob really is Sideshow Bob.

#4- Observing the start of the whole "the world hates Arizona", deal.

#5- Bill Nye is a whore.

#6- Banking industry almost makes me believe in Demons.

#7- Myth cult still full of kid fuckers, Hitch pummels them with prose.

#8- On the homeopathic properties of blasphemy.

#9- Still no answer to my challenges.

#10- No apologies from the tinfoil fear mongers, just dead creepy silence.

#11- Ditto on "climategate".

#12- Myth cult kid fuckers don't like being made fun of.

#13- The meaninglessness of petty conflict.

#14- The sensitivity and paranoia of tyrants.

#15- Liars, crooks, and thugs continue to run the planet.

#16- Guy from Podsville #12 slapped on wrist, relocated, for taunting myth cult kid fuckers.
Irony sails over myth cult kid fuckers heads.

#17- Fuck authority.
(A.K.A "insolence!")

#18- The news is always awful, and other observations.

#19- Sorry, "myth cult RAPISTS", they rape everybody.

#19.5- The myth cult rapists kick out a nun for being "feminist".
Gotta love those priorities.

#20- Law of the pie eating contest.

#21- A semi-poem on contradiction, and futility.

#22- The news is still horrible, and similar observations.

#23- If life were only like this!

#24- The talk I wish someone had given me in my 20's.
(A.K.A "get the fuck out of there!! A.K.A "Insubordination!")

#25- The talk I wish someone had given me in my teens.
(A.K.A "get your shit together or this shit'll happen!")

#26- Insouciance!

#27- Whelp, America's finished.

#28- Individuality!
(It's in short supply in this country)

#29- Pissing on the 9/12 list.

#29.5- Straining out a movement.

#29.75- The "four Is", coat of arms!

#29.8- On philosophy.
(Hardly anyone's philosophy actually is one)

#29.85- One more glancing blow at the news.

#29.875- Inside the zombie mind.
(Bullshit yourselves!!)

#29.89- News parody starring Captain Beeble.

#29.9- The Fountainhead was on.

#29.95- Sorry for the angst. Don't wanna get Emo. Fight the Emo, fight it!

#29.98- "The real world".
('Taint no such critter)

#30- The shining habitrail on a hill.
(The contradiction of how our society is ordered, as opposed to how it's marketed)

#31- Fuck the PTC!

#32- Pompadours for chicks! It's the look of the '10's!

#33- On the source(s) of America's cultural dissonance.

#34- The one with the names.


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Sidebar update 2.

Added friend's blogs to "links of importance". Read More......

Blogroll

Galaxy Next Door

Steve's posterous (Zarbi 3)

Tea Fueled Madness

Musings of a strange mind

Rhetorical rants from Epsilon Reticuli

The critical thinker's speakeasy

On the other side

Cinders in Spain

Fulcrum Ruminations

Clodhoppers

Good grief, Linus

The tufted titmouse

Strawman cometh

Cynicism is healthy

I don't go out for brunch

Billy's ocasional blog

What I learn...and do

Philosophical neuron

The bald black hole

The life and lies of Anna Banana

Quiduncs

Zarbi (1)

Zarbi (2)

Blogus

The anti-theist

Ivy's memes Read More......

Sidebar update.

Added Harry Hembock: Dark Designs to "key areas of Shmegalamonga". Read More......

Postcards from Podsville #33.

America is an irrational mess, and it's taken me 35 years to sort it out, cuz no one will give you a straight answer, because they're caught up in the irrational mess too.

But, here it is.
In summary.

Christianity, and capitalism don't go together.

They just don't.

Jesus ranted against rich people, and rich business people typically have to be ruthless, and decidedly anti-christian.

They just don't go together.
Completely opposing value systems.

Christianity, and nationalism don't go together.

They just don't.

These three things totally don't go together, they repel like, well, like oil in water.

Yet, your typical American believes in all three at the same fucking time.

And then wonder why anything that comes out of their mouth based on the premise of those three pillars being glued together comes out as incoherant bullshit.

So, how did these contradictory notions get glued together into an irrational malfunctioning triad?

Politicians.
Politicians trying to appeal to everybody.
Generations of presidents shoveling bullshit, layered on top of old, dumb, bad ideas not going away, and being carried over into the next cycle.

And that's what you get.

America. Nationalist, capitalist, and superstitious, all at the same time.

It's like having a country that's made up of gay Jewish Nazis.

Makes no fucking rational sense.

And wonder why we have so many people in therapy, and on pills.

And wonder why Dr. Phil has a steady stream of victims.

This is what happens. This is what you get.
I'm continually surprised that people are surprised.

Well, that's the dissection.
That's the core of it.
There are hundreds of other factors, but I really think that's the guts of it.

Hope this helps dissolve some confusion.

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Guest artists.

Okay, first arc is done, and collected, so now I'm putting the word out.

If anyone would like to do an episode, or two, or three of
Harry Hembock, lemme know.

Either in this post, or via e-mail.

Having, y'know, real artists take a crack at would be cool.

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Harry Hembock cover #2 by Paladin!

Awesome, man!
Thanks a million!

Click here for the previous one, which has been tinkered a bit (by Paladin) to have the minisode count on it to match this one.

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