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Before google, before amazon, weblogs, myspace and youtube, the internet was a place for only 2 things; Message boards and pornography. This is not a post about pornography.
* Historical aside: Back in college I studied the history of message boards. It seems that some guy by the handle Mr. Bungle was the first message board asshole big enough to receive a universal banning.
Message boards are strange and wonderful places. Right now, I visit about 6 or 7 of them. This is a post about the one I’ve discovered recently: The Time Travel Institute’s Time Travel Forum.
The TTI forum is a place where people pretend that they’re time travelers and no one else believes them. Most of the stories are puerile, adolescent dreck (sorry) but some of them qualify as a totally new genre of sci-fi literature. I’m absolutely serious about this. Some of these threads are worthy of publication in science fiction magazines and journals. There are some outstanding stories here, written in a format and medium that no one has ever used before.
Most of the TTI stories come from the John Titor school of the future. The John Titor character invented this entire genre a few years ago when he started posting on a message board claiming that he was a visitor from the not-too-distant future. Read up a little on him (or not) and then tackle this thread. If nothing else, it’s a great story.
As I do every month, I pore over the hundreds of search terms that brought people to dovate.com and post my favorites here:
30: hetero tiles
29: rhino mating video clips
28: youtube elephant mating
27: drunk girl laying by a dumpster pictures
26: cleaning lady caught masturbating
25: pictures molly pitcher dead
24: a picture of molly pitcher’s hair
23: what does the mutter museum contain
22: monkey eat own semen video
21: angry short prose stories
20: short story of a crab broker
19: buttnaked nuns
18: grouse hunting blogs
17: is licking envelopes harmful to a fetus
16: did columbine killers read edgar allen poe
15: importance of knowing how to change a tire
14: how a man make his friend mastrubating
13: broccoli man
12: self inflicted life affirming hell
11: colon cleansing pictures and facts
And here are the cream of the crop:
10: ’smiling anus’
9: gg elvis
8: red bellied woodpecker and the bible
7: metaphysical vortex
6: bigfoot cock
5: methamphetamine parasite terrorists
4: why are birds crows seagulls pigeons dangerous to man?
3: psychosis for a long time
2: bed dovate
1: anus picket pony
Just last week, I was reminded that Kurt Vonnegut exists and of how much I love his work. Somehow, I occasionally forget that he exists and let my mind drift away from the beauty and the absurdity that he captures so well. Because of this problem and because it fits the general character of this site, I’ve made one of Mr. Vonnegut’s most famous works of visual art my new favicon. (That little icon that non-IE Explorer users see next to the url in the address bar of their browser)
The little organic looking asterisks that you now see is Mr. Vonnegut’s representation of a human rectum. It’s an ever-present image in his body of work and he includes a small version in every autograph he signs. I love the image and have even considered buying a silkscreen version to frame and hang on my wall. This beautiful, simple demonstration of a human rectum represents one, simple thing: a human rectum. So it goes.
That’s all for now.
