Ligotti collaborated with the musical group Current 93 on the albums In A Foreign Town, In A Foreign Land (1997, reissued 2002), I Have a Special Plan for This World (2000), This Degenerate Little Town (2001) and The Unholy City (2003), all released on David Tibet's Durtro label. Tibet has also published several limited editions of Ligotti's books on Durtro Press. Ligotti also played guitar on Current 93's contribution to the compilation Foxtrot, an album whose proceeds went to the treatment of musician John Balance's alcoholism.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
i actually knew about the Australian megafauna (actually, not just the Australian; there were horses and camels in North America before human beings arrived there, for instance)
i thought i read somewhere that recent research suggested climate change was the main factor leading to the mammoths' extinction, but i can't remember the source for that so maybe i made it up
Humans are clever enough to know that attacking an entire herd of elephants will probably end badly.
Crocodilians are too stupid to figure this out; but, in their defense, they are crocodilians.
Yeah, have an overly-developed brain that takes up boatloads of oxygen. Oh wait, your lungs are terrible.
Our lack of intelligence is more than made up for by our awesome respiratory system, our more efficient digestion, our greater bite force, and tetrachromacy. We at least have things we can do well; but Teenagers don't even have intelligence, which is the main selling point of humanity.
I mean, seriously, Teenagers can't even go an hour without breathing. Laaaaaaaaaaaaame.
I mean, suuuuuure, be able to run huge long distances all endurance-like, all able to out-endure any animal and run anywhere on land; see if that's any advantage when the water is up to your hips.
i like how tentative baby spiders seem after they've just hatched
their little legs
They are cute.
I removed a surprisingly large spider from my room a few days ago. I think that it was pregnant. In the dark, before I knew what it was, I picked it up thinking it was an earplug that had fallen from by my alarm clock... until it ran away. It did not bite me, though, which I thought was cool, and it seemed less afraid when I took it outside in a glass than anxious and miffed. I do not generally expect that much personality in small arthropods. It was endearing.
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we are the most efficient endurance runners of any species, maybe you knew that?
but also i imagine having the ability to plan and devise traps and weapons gave us an edge over most prey species
It's actually highly probable, based on a couple points of evidence:
1) The Pleistocene has numerous interglacials, which the mammoths appear to have survived.
2) The Australian megafauna disappear soon after humans showed up.
i actually knew about the Australian megafauna (actually, not just the Australian; there were horses and camels in North America before human beings arrived there, for instance)
i thought i read somewhere that recent research suggested climate change was the main factor leading to the mammoths' extinction, but i can't remember the source for that so maybe i made it up
seems like it's a controversial issue, tho
Our lack of intelligence is more than made up for by our awesome respiratory system, our more efficient digestion, our greater bite force, and tetrachromacy. We at least have things we can do well; but Teenagers don't even have intelligence, which is the main selling point of humanity.
I mean, seriously, Teenagers can't even go an hour without breathing. Laaaaaaaaaaaaame.
I mean, suuuuuure, be able to run huge long distances all endurance-like, all able to out-endure any animal and run anywhere on land; see if that's any advantage when the water is up to your hips.
so, like, they have that in their favour
on the other hand their hormones render them emotionally unstable
except when it comes to language acquisition
I think it's fun to watch them figure out how to move their hands; and that developing motor control.
or baby terrestrial vertebrates, at least, but some other species as well
baby human beings are adorable, but entirely helpless
their little legs
oh you mean, what is actually making the sound?
a Minion impersonating a siren, with the aid of a loud hailer
I have found Satan.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
do you know what kind of spider it was?
I keep getting this popup and I am not sure if it is my computer having malware or the site having something nasty on it.