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British Surveillance Game is Prelude to Orwellian Future
Today, Britain’s Daily Mail Online gave us a glimpse of a possible future distopian solution to unemployment.
Internet Eyes is “a worldwide online instant event notification system utilizing video feed to notify the owner of the feed (customer) that an event is occurring.”
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The Time Traveler’s Wife Redeemed!
Scientists have recently discovered that mastodons once excreted what has become our canon of elite cinema. This may have prompted Mep Reporter Russ Gooberman to declare the recently-released film “The Time Traveler’s Wife” a “steaming pile of mastodon dung“.
(Here there be spoilers.)
The Time Traveler’s Wife: A Faux Sci-Fi Chick Flick Disaster
Last night, at the behest of my girlfriend, I saw the steaming pile of mastodon dung known as The Time Traveler’s Wife. Going in without reading the novel, I carried several misconceptions about the movie. I will now disabuse you of any of said misconceptions that might cause you to accidentally watch this thing…
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Bush to Chiriac: “I am the Fourth Horseman”
A genuinely frightening story from the Council for Secular Humanism, revealed that in several meetings with high level foreign officials, “Governor Bush,” revealed that the Iraq invasion was part of a fulfillment of the biblical apocalypse and that,
“This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use the conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”
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I am Ahab and Jury Duty is the Whale…
…without the whole loss of a leg and focus on revenge.
Since I turned 18 and registered to vote, I have been looking forward to the opportunity of doing Jury Duty. As the years passed and people around me got called in, my excitement grew. Their stories of boredom, frustration, and loss of pay were lost on me. I had my eyes on the prize and the prize was Jury Duty.
Mep Report #114
The Meppers Navigate Down a Brook/Stream/Tributary of Troubles; Deeeeoooo; Greg, Neil Gaiman, and Bathtubs; Storey’s Great Society, or All Maim All the Time; Mep Mayhem; Analog Memorials in a Digital Age; and Shakespeare Pays a Visit.
And now, we bring you this shameless bit of self-promotion.
Specifically, promotion of Greg’s new novel, just released by Five Star Press. The Third Sign, a work of epic fantasy called “a very satisfying tale from an intriguing new voice” by Bram Stoker award winning author David Niall Wilson and “memorable…gripping…if this book is any indication, the author is in for a long and successful career” by reviewers from The Beezer Review to SFFWorld to Library Journal, has gotten positive pre-publication attention, and if you have any interest in fantasy (or in supporting a Mep Reporter 
), please stop by Greg’s personal webpage for information on how to order the book. And thanks in advance for putting up with a bit of self-promotion!