Erectpire

1. This article is a gas. Quite literally. And I’m thinking it should be kept a secret because otherwise all the men who would have been aided by this drug will go flaccid at the thought of fart-induced erections.
2. This is just creepy. Bleeding from the mouth. Gross. And it got me to thinking about what it must have been to be alive during the plague. Can you even imagine? I believe there may be places in the world today where people live under similar circumstances, but here in the cushy bubble where we live, it’s just impossible to imagine. The idea that (conservatively estimating) one third of the people you know would die – and die suddenly is just mind boggling. Our personal philosophies would have to shift so drastically to accommodate that kind of reality that it’s hard to even hazard to guess how different we would be…

That is all but for one question of the day: I was at a coffee shop this weekend looking at the magazine rack and I took a gander at Adbusters. Except that Adbusters comes in a plastic sheath so I could only see the front and back covers. And I could SWEAR there was an honest-to-goodness advertisement on the back. Was I duped or has someone gone mad? If you have the answer, please take a moment to comment because I will not be able to sleep until I find out if indeed the culture jamming headquarters has sold out, which would be simultaneously ironically hilarious, and utterly sadtimes.