Diary of a Madman: August 2012

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Assorted X-Men Covers 2008-2011

Robert E. Lee on Slavery

Odd story about this quote. It comes from a page from a book. I found this page on the ground while walking home from the library one day. It has been in the elements for some time; ran over, stepped on, wet then dry. It is now hanging on my wall.

Madness is the emergency exit...

Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. 'The past tense,' I suppose you'd call it. HA HA HA.

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant child-hood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all the sentimental candy-floss... The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go...

...Somewhere dark and cold filled with the damp, ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children I suppose. HAHA.

But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can't face them, we deny reason itself! Although why not? We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause!

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of though, heading for places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there is always madness. Madness is the emergency exit...

You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away... Forever.

Batman: The Killing Joke

Alan Moore Writer

Brian Bolland Art and Colors

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Postcards From the Apocalypse

I started Postcards 2 years ago. It came from the idea that the world is ending and there are stunning photographs all over the internet that are documenting the terror in such alarming clarity. I've neglected it somewhat due to time constraint. If you have images you'd like to share, there is a submit button on the right side of the page.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Found Fan-fiction

These are snippets of a novel I was writing back when I was in 6th grade or possibly junior high. It was fan fiction based on the characters in Star Trek Voyager. Sadly, this is all that still exists of the story. It was written on an old Apple IIc computer and there was no way that I could figure at the time to transfer it over to a Windows PC short of making a hard copy and manually typing it back in. I found this when I was tearing down science project from that time. The stains are dried rubber cement. I had used the pages, apparently, to print my presentation.

It is odd that I find this now as my wife and I are just finishing our ambitious task of watching every single Star Trek franchise episode and movie. We are currently on the final season of Voyager. If you are a fan of the show, I believe I set my story sometime within the first 3 seasons prior to any interaction with the Borg.

The title of the novel was to be "Star Trek Voyager: Homeworld" and it was to tell the origin of the Borg race.