Lion of God
What happened to video games?  They used to be simplistic yet challenging, cheap yet replayable, and pixilated yet awe-inspiring.  Now, it seems that there is too much focus on the new technologies (especially with the addition of gaming via internet) and not enough where it really counts.

This week’s cartoon is by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott (creators of “Zits“)

Plaits, pastries, desserts, oh my!

The anticipation was palpable in the Facebook-sphere: Barack Obama—President of the United States Extraordinaire—was to pay humble Rutgers a visit on July 16 as part of fellow-Democrat Jon Corzine’s campaign for reelection as New Jersey Governor.

Beginning immediately, a major financial firm will be seeking motivated customer service representatives for a temporary proxy project in the greater Edison area.

An Inconvenient Truthiness

Darwin’s theory of evolution relies on the fact that there is variation within a population that is too big to be sustained by available resources. Those who are best fit to obtain those resources will be the ones to reproduce, thus genes are filtered through each reproductive cycle. Cybernetic technology seeks to eliminate the chance in this economic equation, insofar as chance is equivocal to the phenomena we come to know as God’s intention.

Moto
394 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.circa1938.com

Moto was extremely reluctant to serve me coffee. The people next to my girlfriend and I were served their entire meal with two rounds of coffee before we got our coffee.

Poesia

A soundscape of whispers
spreads over the room
like a hindering wing
while I straighten my lapelle.

As Of Yet Untitled
Corruption in New Jersey politics is not a new phenomenon. Rather, it is a part of everyday political life in New Jersey, the lard that keeps the densely packed population from grating against each other. The topic has even been touched upon in the Johnsonville Press in months past. Even so, never in my time in New Jersey have I seen the hailstorm that is Jersey politics reign down so openly and violently as it has in July, 2009. Rallies, races and arrests are converging on …

“The Wizard of Wall Street”
Is what he said he was
And so we donned the rose-colored glasses
And entered a ruby state of mind
Thinking ourselves rich
Or was it:
That was rich!
But he was a shy guy
That was what he said he was
So we paid no attention
To his doings behind the curtain