Seriously, time to update your links, mmm-k? If you're reading this, you're committing the bloging equivalent of wearing spats because you think they're cutting edge fashion. My new, new blog is here. It's called in second person, and it's all eclectic and stuff. Try it, you might like it! Hugs and kisses, The blogger formerly known as MercerMachine over here... ...you'll find my new home. On writing Severance, the birds of leaving call to usYet here we stand, endowed with the fear of flightOverland, the winds of change consume the landWhile we remain in the shadow of summers now past.When all the leaves have fallen and turned to dustWill we remain entrenched within our ways?Indifference--the plague that moves throughout this landOmen signs in the shapes of things to come.-Dead Can Dance, " P.S. - Buy this This is the first reason I have put blogging aside for an undetermined amount of time. A bunch of short stories have built up over the years, and I wanted to clear the decks, so to speak. If you want to, you can buy it here. Um, please? Just don't tell me about any typos. So long, folks. Hi everybody. Been thinking a lot about this, and I've decided it's time to close up shop here at SomethingSticky. I've had a lot of fun and met some great people, virtually and otherwise, but I think this blog has run its course. It's time now for me to concentrate on those other areas of my life, like my family, my studies, and my serious writing. If you'd like to keep in touch, please do! Fiction: And All the World a Grave (final) I never drew any pleasure from killing. Malthus and others I've known seemed to delight in it. Killing, inflicting pain. Pain especially, be it mental or physical or – best of all sordid worlds – Killing after torturing some poor wretch to the point of madness. I never took any pleasure in it. Ironic, wouldn't you say? Malthus thought so. I think Ahenobarbus would, did he believe that what I did I laughed until my spleen came out my nose Since I posted this, you know how many new links this blog has gotten? I'll tell ya: -2. Either people really, really don't want to see me dressed up as Xiaxue, or this blog is simply becoming stale. Shrug. At least I'm not this loser. Anyway, here's some random hot babe: Fiction: And All the World a Grave (part 2) Ahenobarbus says I must be the most evil person who's ever lived. He says it with a smile, but I really think he believes it. He can't understand how I could care for no one and nothing. He says even the old Emperors, as sadistic a lot as they were, had appetites and enthusiasms. Metitus, butcher of Cispades, built toy boats. Aphranus, the man who plucked out his mother's eyes and ate them, loved Chocolate is GUD. Chocolate is GUD. Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. This one is from MrsMachine. That's a choco-stick he's holding. Well, was a choco-stick. Sticky Issues: Not a Threat Sticky Issues: Not a Threat Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. Not that I have much sympathy for TT, mind... Sticky Issues (untitled) Sticky Issues (untitled) Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. Sticky Issues: "A Threat Too Far" Sticky Issues: "A Threat Too Far" Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. It's been a long time since this first Sticky Issue, and I decided to do a remake, but with a bigger budget and better special effects in honor of TT's impending jail sentence.Click on pic, then click on 'all sizes' to see it in all its monochromatic wonder. Now I know... How to get more hits. Check this out. So here's my version: If I get 4,707 links, I will dress up like you-know-who. On Orchard Road. On a Saturday. Makeup, wig and all (not that she wears a wig (that I know of)). Fiction: And All the World a Grave (part 1) i. They called this place the Abode of Wraiths. It is a very old place in a very old city, this pile of stone set high on a hill overlooking the Vanach bay. It is—was—the black heart of a twisted body, steeped in history and foul deeds. It's home, now. They used to bring the Witches here to execute them, and I am smart. You can tell by the hat. That's why I'm gonna put together a book of all the decent Sticky Issues cartoons and sell it and stuff. I'd like to conduct an informal poll on whether anyone would actually BUY such a book first, so if you don't mind, leave a comment telling me whether you'd shell out your hard-earned cash to see never-before-seen episodes of Ninja Joe and other stickiness. Thanks! For the lost and the lonely From the comments section of I'm that guy: "I'm the woman who pretends to have it all together. I'm the woman who always pushes you away. I’m the executive who drops e just to feel something. I'm the woman who shreds your tax forms because you didn’t fill out a change of address. I'm the woman who ran out of the sushi restaurant to help you when you fell down. I’m the woman who flipped you the When you go to the flickr meetup... ryan dozing off Originally uploaded by Coppertane. you meet people who can actually take pictures (unlike yours truly). Coppertane RAWKS. Sticky Issues: Time for a Tiger Sticky Issues: Time for a Tiger Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. Too small? Can't see? Click on pic, then click on 'all sizes'. But please do so apolitically. And dear Tiger PR sugar daddy/momma? Have I told you lately that I love you? Tiger Beer Singapore Sticky Issues Cartoon Sticky Issues: The Podcast! Sticky Issues: The Podcast! Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. Too small? Can't see? Click on pic, then click on all sizes. 'Cuz yer mama said so.This one's dedicated to Miyagi and Brown. podcasting cartoon Sticky Issues Sticky Issues: "The Package" Sticky Issues: "The Package" Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. Too small? Can't see? Click on pic, then click on 'all sizes'. That should satisfy your package! Singapore cartoon A blue hippo and other likely things Found this image in one of MachineBoy's books -- "Good-bye Mommy" to be precise. (Illustrations by David Melton, illustration copyright 1977, there, that should get the blue hippo lawyers off my back.)Other likely things:Um... wait, I'll think of something. Gimme a minute. No, sorry, nothing's coming to me. I just really really like this picture. God knows why. I think it would be an excellent Sticky Issues: (NKF) "Reunited" Sticky Issues: (NKF) "Reunited" Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. Too small? Can't see? Click on pic, then select 'all sizes'. That should get you paroled. The NKF Rogue's Gallery - Redux The NKF Rogue's Gallery - Redux Originally uploaded by MercerMachine. Durai check.Yong check.Loo check.(hmmm... arrests coming just before elections. Coinkidink?)Too small? Can't see? Click on the pic, then select 'All Sizes'. That should see justice served. An Unpopular Opinion An Unpopular OpinionNo-one who knows me would ever accuse me of being conservative, or right wing. On my list of favorite things, I rank George Bush just below genital herpes; I rank George Bush with genital herpes just above winning the lottery.Am I a liberal? Sort-of. I believe in freedom of speech and the right to privacy. I believe in freedom of religion for the religious, and freedom from Some People like their Bath Some People like their Bath Originally uploaded by littlejennifer. The bag "Why do you carry that thing around?" she asks for probably the hundredth time. "What have you got in there? Bricks?" It's my shoulder bag she's referring to. Yes, it's heavy (heavy enough that at the end of a day carrying it and MachineBoy around, I can feel the muscles in my shoulder and neck protesting. I stretch and stretch, roll my head this way and that, but only sleep will relieve it, and