Creep Book: "On The Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers

"Scott Carney's The Red Market is a book-length investigative journalism piece on the complicated and sometimes stomach-churning underground economy in human flesh, ranging from practice of kidnapping children to sell to orphanages who get healthy kids to pass off to wealthy foreigners to the bizarre criminal rings who imprison kidnapped indigents in "blood farms" or lure impoverished women into selling their kidneys."

Seriously, I want off of this stupid planet. Apocalypse now please.
Via: Boingboing.net/
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Whatever Clock

Lucid Dementia has had bandmembers that had an internal clock like this.
Via Soreeyes.org
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Neil Gaiman's Library

Somehow I imagined it a little more steampunk, but well, there it is...
Impressive none the less...

Boingboing.net
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Harry Potter is a Facist?

"The entire premise of the Potter franchise fetishises primogeniture, heredity and aristocracy: the Wizarding world is a glittering ubermensch, and those lucky enough to be born into it are destined for a life more resplendent and exciting than anything the rest of us Muggles (non-magical humans) can hope for."
Same goes for the lesser creatures like Dobby, apparently...

via Soreeyes.org
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Awful Library Books Blog:

Some books were created just so they could appear on a blog like this:

"A collection of the worst library holdings. The items featured here are so old, obsolete, awful or just plain stupid that we are horrified that people might be actually checking these items out and depending on the information."

via j-walkblog.com
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Luci Wants this: "How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children"

Meet Bootsana, the baby fruitbat:
"Lewis Burke Frumkes, one of America's very best satirists, sharpens his pen on the fads, fears, and fashions of the urban landscape. Here are 49 hilarious ways to cope with them. Explore the benefits of aerobic typing. Wile a friend with "Exotic Gifts from Harry and Larry" including "Road Imperial Valium—America's Favorite Tranquilizer—Only Better." Take charge of your next meeting with Frumkes's "New Rules of Order," which include Blurting, Interrupting, and Bullwhipping. Jump in the saddle and rope a roach—apartment style. And, of course, raise your I.Q. with a delicious "Gifted Child Fricassee."

via friendlyatheist.com

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My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers

A book by Helen Morrison, a forensic psychiatrist.
She has interviewed and studied serial killers since the 70's, and with the families permission, actually owns a jar with John Wayne Gacy's brain in it.
What I got from this book is that she believes serial killers are made by society or abusive parent, they are born that way, with a genetic disposition, and that someday we will be able to identify them at birth. It is an interesting read.

Book: "Music To Die For":

Lucid Dementia has been included in a book about Gothic music that is coming out now:
"MUSIC TO DIE FOR is 624 pages long, containing individual entries on 3,581 different bands, from 70 countries, with 183 photos. It covers bands from the beginning of these scenes to the present day and, wherever possible, contains full line-up details and discographies as well as unusual facts revealed by many of the bands. This is the biggest guide ever printed about the underground scenes in which Goth, Post-Punk and all things noir co-exist with equal splendour."
Lucid Dementia is a part of music history now baby!
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Rowan of the Wood

One of the authors, Christine Rose is an old friend of mine from my college years. She with her husband Ethan recently moved to Austin and we became friends again. At first I thought this was a childrens book, and then I realized it was a young adults book (teenagers and whatnot) within the Harry Potter realm, and now I realize it is an amazing book, and even though it has some similarities to Harry Potter, it is much, much more cooler. It is full of intrigue, adventure, history, mystic folklore, and a whole lot of surprises. This book has some delicious darkness to it too. My only disappointment would be that there would not be more to come. Christine and Ethan: Don't you dare stop writing about these wonderful characters!
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