Negative Space: satire
- Along came Ray
- Ray Stevens takes on the health care takeover!
- As reporters grow dependent on their regular drug-crisis fix
- Adam Paul Weisman writes about the “journalistic dream-world” where he “can write almost anything” and “nobody is going to call him on it”. From the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, September 26, 1986, p 21A.
- Black Man as a Cash Crop
- According to Xona, America’s most profitable crop is the Black-American, reaped by the Criminal Justice System.
- Combat Monster
- A freeware generic game. Well, generic in the sense that you can beat people up in any genre. This one’s pulling your funny bone, folks, and then beating you over the head with it. Enjoy!
- Drugs and Drug Abuse
- James Cassens wrote this for “The Christian Encounters” series. Some interesting information culled from a variety of sources.
- Drugs From A to Z
- Richard R. Lingeman compiles a summary of recreational drug terms and slang, and includes some interesting if anecdotal histories and other information.
- Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing
- Charles Dodgson—AKA Lewis Carroll—gives us advice about writing letters that may be satirical but also might not be.
- Erewhon
- Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is a challenge to Darwin and a challenge to socialism. It holds its bite against the latter, but has become more of a prophecy of the future with regards to the former: Butler took Darwin’s theory, applied it meticulously to machines, and forecast the computer.
- The Exon Song
- A little Christmas ditty in response to the Exon Internet censorship bill.
- February 27, 1993: It Isn’t Murder If They’re Yankees
- “The true story of rural Virginia schoolteacher Carolyn Purcell, the small town of Walkerville, and the Washington, DC foolkiller known as the Quiet Man, as told by one of the Quiet Man’s famous victims.”
- FlameWar: The Passion of the Electric Messiah (Official Site)
- “Seattle is Fallen. The words reverberate throughout the former United States. From Seattle to New York, the world can no longer ignore the Wiccan revolution that toppled a nation. In Seattle, barrista Megan Ley lives through revolution, a rising anti-Lesbian backlash, and the political aspirations of her girlfriend. In Los Angeles, blogger John Beat looks at the revolution from the other side, as controversial filmmaker Marco Leihome fans the flames of anti-Wiccan and anti-Homosexual sentiment.”
- Gaming Humor
- Humorous, satirical, and comedic texts regarding role-playing games.
- Jerry Stratton
- Jerry Stratton is the author of “The Shopping Cart Graveyard”, “It Isn’t Murder If They’re Yankees” and other works.
- Red and Sloppy Meat is Delicious
- once upon a time i was running through the forest…
- The Roll-Playing Game of Big Dumb Fighters
- A freeware fantasy game. “This game has been designed with gamers in mind, and we know what you want—sex and violence.”
- Satire isn’t comedy
- Satire isn’t comedy. It can be, and often is, but that isn’t what makes it satire.
- The Shopping Cart Graveyard (Official Site)
- “The Shopping Cart Graveyard” is the story of a young boy who runs away to live with the shopping carts in the shopping cart graveyard on the beaches of San Diego.
- The Walkerville Weekly Reader
- In the end times, one newspaper dared to call God to task for His hypocrisy. That newspaper was not us, we swear it. Not the eternal flames!
- The Walkerville Weekly Reader
- Editor Carolyn Purcell’s vision is continued by friends Sam Lee and Shaheen Hamedi.
More Information
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
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“Canticle” is unquestionably the best story of mankind’s demise since revelation itself. Miller traverses a thousand years beyond the apocalypse, the “Flame Deluge”, as seen through the eyes of a small order of monks in the southwest desert of the United States.
- Animal Farm (paperback)
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“Animal Farm” is a critical look at anyone who wants to keep us down “for our own good”. It is brilliantly written and easy to read on many levels. (George Orwell)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Perhaps the purest of Thompson’s searches for the American Dream because it is untainted by politics; or perhaps the most pointless for the same reason, as politics have tainted the American Dream since the Adams anti-sedition acts almost as soon as the country was born.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Criterion Edition
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This DVD not only presents a great transfer of the movie, but it contains a lot of interesting footage of both Hunter Thompson and Oscar Acosta.
- South Park Season 1
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I was first introduced to South Park through the movie (which also kicks ass). The television shows are amazing. Variety, of all things, calls it “gloriously subversive art”. Yeah, whatever. It’s great shit that you must eat.
- The Ruling Class
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When Jack’s aunt asks him how he knows he’s God, Jack replies, “Simple. When I pray I find I’m talking to myself.”
