I always suspected the angels didn’t like us very much. Alltop is an angel of humor.
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mark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Short Fiction: Jesussic Park
Jesus was visiting a lost valley that was reputed to hold a few holy men who separated themselves from the rest of the world so they could better understand the nature of God. He was hoping to talk to them … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ask General Kang: When is it okay to call someone to a Nazi?
I suppose it’s not a problem if the person is a Nazi, but I can’t think of a lot of other circumstances where it would be helpful. Presumably, you’re doing so to damage their reputation in some way, but consider … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: A Short History of the Death of Culture (a cartoon)
Related: Selected Media Fads Through the Ages. Alltop is doing its part too!
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: It’s morning in the Singularity
Bob was not a happy cyborg. He’d had to skip is plasma bath and neural detox that morning because his dick of a boss, a narcissistic self-sustaining photosynthetic artificial intelligence named TODD-bot, needed him to come to work early. And … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Small talk for the technological singularity
Right now, the only time we talk to our machines is when they don’t work right, we yell at them, or to ask them for directions. (GPS, Siri, etc.) However, when our machines become as intelligent and then smarter than … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Absurd Panhandler Party
Making the morning commute a little brighter. Environmental (absurd) theatre at its best. Alltop just needs a few minutes of your attention too. Via Laughing Squid.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Enter the Serif!
For centuries, two font clans have been fighting it out. Who’s typographic Kung Fu is stronger? Warning: font nerd humor. If you liked this, then it’s a cinch you’ll enjoy the silly typographic references in The Fridgularity. Alltop has an … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: A taste of the world with no Internet
So anyone who uses Rogers for their Internet access got a little taste of the world depicted in my latest novel, The Fridgularity. The Internet services provided by the company went down for up to three hours last night. Is … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Piracy 101
A tall, strong and heavily muscled man enters the lecture hall; his nut-brown face is marred by a saber cut across one cheek. It has left a dirty, livid white scar that practically glows out of his dark face. He’s … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Selected Media Fads Through the Ages
24,000-22,000 BC: chunky fertility goddess statues (pictured at right: notice the prominent and large brains.) 10,000 BC: cave painting 4,000 BC: ziggurat construction 3,000-1,250 BC: pyramid raising (later revived by Mesoamericans and I.M. Pei) 1480-1700: Witch burning 1500s: homoerotic sonnet … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: How it all began, I mean, AFTER the nuclear explosion
[phone rings] Sumiko: Soto Noodle — you will want to suck them fast! Godzilla: So you serve noodles? Sumiko: Yes sir, we are noodle shop. Godzilla: Excellent, I’d like an order of noodles, shaken not stirred. [pause] Sumiko: I’m sorry…
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Sadisucation
You sometimes think that certain teachers experience a certain glee because of the essential irrationality of English. Alltop write good. And funny.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Going cold turkey in The Fridgularity
For some characters the sudden disappearance of the Internet in The Fridgularity frees them from their addiction. (For others, it’s a challenge recovering from their habits.) This is a scene in which the two main characters, Blake and Lyca, go &#…
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Excerpt: Cyber-zombies in The Fridgularity
As the self-aware entity Zathir takes over the Internet (and promptly locks all humans out of it), a noticeably portion of the population become unhinged by their loss of their favorite thing. It’s not just the economic crisis the event … C…
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Excerpt: Internet addicts, looking for a fix in The Fridgularity
The Fridgularity begins with the Big Crash — the Internet goes down, as an entity takes over all the horsepower available through all the devices connected to it. This has certain deleterious effects on the folks who NEED the Internet … Con…
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Let the toaster revolution begin
Yeah, these guys really need to read my new book, The Fridgularity. The good folks at SigFox are planning to connect everything to the Internet. Where’s the harm in that? Well, what if you don’t want your toaster and fridge … Continue…
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The Journalist: More Trustworthy than the Prison Snitch
Montreal (The Skwib) — In their yearly survey of how much trust we have in a variety of occupations, Leger Marketing discovered that journalists were more trusted than quite a few other occupations. Nearly 49 percent of Canadians felt that ……
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: From now on: every mash-up includes Star Wars
Is it me, or is Mr. Vader a bit shorter than he used to be? Alltop used to work at that lightsabre facility.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Rebranding Thor in the Age of Facebook
The account rep jumped right into it: “we’re thrilled to have your account, but I’m afraid your numbers are down since our initial chat.” “You’re kiddin’ me.” “I’m afraid not, and I don’t wa…
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