Like a gopher wearing a miner's hat and your bare asshole in his sight

SFSignal gives an overview of Joe Lansdale's Hap and Leonard novels. This is a mystery series dealing with a pair of good old boys, a white het Vietnam vet and a gay black bartender, who "solve mysteries" and "fight crime" in Nacodoches Texas.

Why We Lie Awake

Arkham Blend, Innsmouth Grown, Is Finest Kind

Have a little Cthulhu in your coffee.

Hinges On Your Definition of "Sex Ed" I'd Guess

Brazil's president has suspended the production and distrabution of films dubbed "anti-homophobia kits".

From the headline on the BBC site, I thought these films could be anything from softcore gay films to a warning on what to do to not get a prolapsed anus.

Cosmic Distance Record Broken

Cataclysmic explosion of a star that travelled some 13.14b years before being picked up by NASA's Swift observatory is considered the most distant event/object to picked up a single telescope.

Camping has something to answer for

A California woman slit her daughters' throats wanting to spare them from the Tribulation, an event that is suppsoed to follow the Rapture according to US Evangelical Christian tradition.

Neil, Amanda isn't in Europe this time?

Icelandic airspace is closed again over a volcano eruption.