Oh, the ironicness

I have not posted anything in weeks, and when I finally do, it's because I wrote an article about Immortality, and then linked it to my blog about Death. As Bart Simpson said, the ironing is delicious. Basically, science is offering us several alternatives to dying in the coming century, which is pretty cool. Except...


The world is still filled with bullets, rogue waves and scary foreigners who apparently want to kill us all (every country has someone who hates them for no apparent reason. Like to fucking Lilliputians.... God I hate those smug, Gulliver kidnapping assholes....) Of course, why would anyone want to live forever? After all, movies like The Highlander and Wolverine show us why it could suck, but there is an important consideration to be had here; those movies involve that one-off guy who can't die, as opposed to an entire society that decided not to. There's a pretty big difference.


In the second case, there is not that heartbreak because the love of your life turned into a feeble old coot who once baked the cat in a flurry of utter culinary confusion brought on by senility; she is right there with you, outliving trees and marveling that when you were in your first century of life, dogs didn't yet control Haiti and speak fluent Esperanto. It completely changes the game.

Add to that, we have huge advancements in military tech that is significantly increasing the survivability of our troops, on those odd occasions that we wind up actually having to send them. We have UVS and unmanned ground vehicles in the works, not to mention power armor and DARPA trying to make genetic enhancements to our guys and girls in the military that will turn them into super-humans.

So, it looks like immortality will probably A. happen (and soon. ish.) and B. not be the Highlander type where you can jump off a sky scraper or play RoboCop cosplay with actual criminals, but at least that whole peeing yourself and forgetting your kid's names thing will be a thing of the past, or at least only a problem after your weekly drinking binge.

Sorry about the hiatus...

NaNoWriMo is over! Shorty is done! I finished an article about alien rape! Woohoo!

Things should be back to "normal" now, with regular posts about random crap, and hopefully gory details about books and such. I have 2 completed proposals and a finished novel, so I should be busybusy.

At any rate, since I just finished an article on it, here is a Giger painting, just 'cause.

I will put something substantial up soon, I promise.

Done and Done!

Doafs should be back in business for the month of December, since I completed my NaNoWriMo mission!

Look for more awful blog posts in the near future. Huzzah! (the final chapter and epilogue of Shorty will be available on my other blog soon.)

Bring the Crunch!

Okay, so I have been seriously slacking these past few weeks, but for good reason. I am writing a novel, plus I have 3 Cracked.com articles in the works, so I am busy.


However, because it is topical (as I am a huge Cthulhu fan), I figured I would give you this teaser for last week's exciting conclusion of South Park's Mysterion trilogy (I am assuming that is what they are calling it), because all 3  episodes have the great tentacled one himself. Enjoy.

Coon vs. Coon & Friends
Tags: SOUTH
PARKEric Cartman,Bradley Biggle,more...

Because I love you all

This month has been really busy, what with NaNoWriMo eating up most of my free time, I have not had it to put anything interesting here in a while, so I figured I would link you to my work in progress, Shorty, in case you are interested.

Chapter 1: Beer, Robots and the Past

Chapter 2: Escape, Food and Zombies

Chapter 3: The PES, The PET and The PEN

Chapter 4: Planet Terror, Planet Happy

Chapter 5: The Cure, and Zomburgers Explained

Chapter 6: Pandora, R'Lyeh, Vhoorl. And stuff.


Let me know what you think, if you feel like it.

I officially freaking love Hulu

Seriously, check this out:





Episode 1 of The Walking Dead. Watch it. Love it. (ZOMBIES!!!!)

NaNoWriMo Novel: Shorty, chapter 1 is up!

I folded, I bent and I broke. I haven't even finished it yet, but it is up:
http://shorty-novel.blogspot.com/2010/11/chapter-1-beer-robots-and-past.html