When the world was little and there was no interweb with which to communicate, people would write each other letters. Correspondence between two people in the world could take months to reach its destination.

Although we live in a time where communication can be instant, some romantics like to do things the old fashioned way. For example, in Japan's Ise in Mie Prefecture, a man decided to make his cause to woman known by using a black marker to write "I'm going to rape Kyoko Sonobe" on a guardrail.

Kyoko, as you can read here, is a pre-teen elementry student. After the message, and 50 others, were found all over town her secret admirer was discovered: her elemtry school teacher.

That seems a lot more devoted to me than some tool renting a billboard to ask his girlfriend to marry him.

Often times, public communication exists in the form of ritual. Garry Robin Ford, a former member of the Queensland National Party was charged with, among other thing, indecent treatment of minors, sodomy, contributing to the deliquency of minors and all around buggery.

Gerry inducted several young boys into his Pagan "White Brotherhood" sect, that ironically wore BLACK capes. The induction included dancing, chanting to the heavens, many candles and a small amount of assraping.

Like any other tool who considered themselves "goth" back in high school /college, I had the prerequisite obsession with serial killers. It waned of course, being banal, but lately it has been coming back to mind. Why?

Because 9 out of 10 serial killers are white, middle class males aged 25-35... AND OHMYGOD SO AM I!!!

If you're a learned type, you know that a lot of cultural studies PhDers will tell you that World War 1 is considered the event in which the modern age was born. POSTmodernism, POSTanythingism for that matter, is usually considered to sort begin its ascent in this time period.

It has to due with a worldwide media machine, the concept of DEATH being so rampant without a plague, and generally just being the focal point for everything.

Because I am so inclined, I like giving that credit to Jack the Ripper. Serial killers started the modern age damn it.

But like I said, I grew out of it... but did they?

Son of Sam claims to have.



He says, in time, he's gotten better. At first I begin to wonder if he had actually done so. What he did was a long time ago. Is it possible that he was suffering from some mental disorder that is treatable now? He even wished not to be granted parole. That seems like case for somebody who has gotten better. So was it a miracle pill or therapy? No... it was Jesus.

He traded one form of crazy for another. He attributes what he did to DEMONS and Jesus saved him. An interesting note, he recently changed cells, and can hear the birds from his new cell window. Wouldn't it be funny if somebody down the way had a dog that liked to bark a lot...

Where Berkowitz found Jesus and happily continues to live under imagined influences, Ted Bundy did his best to recreate himself in the image of sanity. He defended himself in one of his trials, sure that he could prove his innocence. But it was kind of hard to disprove them pesky bitemarks. After he went to prison he even aided authorities in trying to hunt down the Green River Killer, but he wasn't fooling anybody. We has just mad some guy stole his schtick and was killing on his old stomping grounds. In the end, he matured a little. When it was clear he wasn't going to escape the chair he admitted to not only the crimes he was convicted of, but over 30 more.

Movies have showed us that serial killers are these mad genius types who allude authorities and just bad, brilliant people who have slipped along their journey. Sadly this isn't true. While Bundy was very well educated, most serial killers are "blathering retards" as my former teacher, and expert of the grotesque, Gordon Grice once said. He directed me towards a book called Lustmord, which contains a lot of text written by serial killers. It really is a bunch of psychoctic babbling. We secretly WANT John Doe or Hannible Lector. But you're just going to get Charles Manson crazies.

Speaking of Manson, perhaps one of the few real cases of serial growing up is Leslie Van Houtin.



Aged 19, Leslie took part in the lesser famous of the two Manson-instructed slayings. She maintains, that after being on acid for extended periods of times, she went along with group, and after he was already dead, she stabbed Leno LaBianca a handfull of times.



She was one of the infamous three Manson girls that shaved their heads, carved in X's, and created a ruckus during the trial. She was given the death penalty, which was later commuted to a life term when California abolished the death sentence. She has tried for, and been denied, parole 14 times.

Can a murderer change? What if she was just a kid that was high as a kite and enchanted by a chrasmatic hippie cult leader? That was one year of her life, compared to the 30+ she has spent in prison; in which time she has gotten 2 college degrees, completed several psychic evaluation courses, and done countless hours of community service. And although she is a member if a 12 step program, she didn't go totally Jesus. Times change, and so do people. Even the newer members of Marilyn Manson aren't using serial killer names anymore.

The other Manson girls have rotted away, tried to kill Presidents, or otherwise vanished. Susan Atkins- the most vocal, visibly crazy and bombastic of the famed trio that were tried with Manson, has also tried and been denied parole several times. She did however gain noteriety by developing a special diet that seems to be catching on.

Both Van Houten and Atkins are also kinda hot in a MILFy sort of way...

- Obi Wan Kenobi

I am sensing a new trend. The trend of stealth. The action of invisibility.

Susumu Tachi leads the pack. While his Japan based Tachi Labs is also pioneering sci-fi concepts like the Telexistence Master-Slave System, the Smart Finger and the Tactile Communication System, the prize for "coolest shit ever" has to go their Optical Camouflage.





Using Star Trek terms like "retro-reflective material" and "computer" these guys are making things vanish. Watch this and tell me you don't poop your pants: Breakin' 2: Invisible Bugaloo

For now it requires a large set up involving cameras, projectors and computers to make it work.


Just 5 years ago I had a cell phone that weighed 60 pounds. That means that within the decade SUVs will have their interiors made from this stuff so people can actually see out the back and stop running over kids on big wheels. It also means that you'll never see the CIA hit squads coming for you.

It's all so ninja.

You can't speak on invisibility and not mention Ninjas. ALSO invented by the Japanese, there are 3 simple facts to know about Ninjas:

1. Ninjas are mammals
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.

Source: The Official Ninja Homepage

You wouldn't think Sweden would have anything in common with ninjas, but they do. They happen to be leading the development race of the Stealth battleship.



It runs on TOP of the water, carries enough missiles to flatten any middle eastern city and is virtually invisible to radar until it's within 30 km of you. Keep in mind the range of previously mentioned missiles is at least 5x that.

The US Military is of course developing its own stealth ship that should enter service in 2011. It's giving the Defense Department a hard on because it is cheaper to make, since it's carbon and not steel, and easier to man, since it's crew size is 200 men less than current battleships. AND, no doubt it can easily land a squad of Marines in Inviso-Cloaks to finish off what the missiles missed.

Video game concept for 2016: Ninja vs. InvisoMarine.

Sometimes invisibility is actually an effect of just not being obvious. Take for example The Invisible Library. A collection of books, that only exist inside other books. Staggering to imagine that some how inside a novel like The World According to Garp there are a handfull of other novels that have their own words. How can something be bigger on the inside, than the outside?

And that leads us to obfuscation and redirection. Sometimes things can be rendered invisible simply because we are distracted. Take for example, wrestling superstar John Cena. He is a master in the art of distraction. During his matches he often employes his catch phrase, "You can't SEE me," during which time he waves his hand in front of his face. Distracted, his opponents miss the kick to the gut, and the scoop up to his shoulders. Then he delivers his finisher, the "F-U" and the match, my friends, is over.

Advantage: Invisibility

You know what this country needs?

Chivalry.

Chivalry in the name of Christ.

I should be able to hire a guy, in a suit of armor to safegaurd my company picnic or wedding or something. Hell, I'd hire him just to hang out with me. Nothing says COOL like a guy in a suit of armor.

HUZZAH!!!!

You know where I am going with this... KNIGHT FOR HIRE

I am not human.

I have no emotion.

I feel nothing.

If only there was some way to prove I can feel. I know... I shall chart my existance through the introduction of pain.

If I feel pain, I must be alive.

I shall cut off my own finger.

Hmmm. Not good enough.

How about my whole leg?

Goodness. Now I am horny. Who'd have thought.

I'm now going to cut off my own testicles. Mmm. That felt good.

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