Vision of the Divine

We live in an odd universe, full of dark mysteries. Visions spring forth strange and uncertain.

Dream visions.

Restless images that ask more than they answer.

But amid the murk and confusion of our twilight world, certain avatars offer the gift of clarity.

Behold a figure strong and straight and powerful.

We have praised her before. Indeed, she was the guest star of our site’s very first entry, and she continues to embody eternal notions of courage and fortitude.

This week, SurfingtheSpectacle has traveled out West to more closely view this guiding muse as she spiritually transcends the tribulations before her. Stay tuned.

[Top image from Stalingrad, 1942. Iraq war image by Michael Kamber of the New York Times. Image of Ms. Hilton from the Pacific Coast News.]

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RIP hitchBOT

In loving memory of the

Hitchhiking Robot.

It is dead. It remains dead.

And we have killed it.

“My love for humans will never fade.” (hitchBOT)
Single True Work of Art

“The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.”

(Albert Camus in "The Wager of Our Generation")
Protect the Children

In this age of terror, it seems there’s a new school shooting every week in the USA. Can’t anything be done to protect the children? Thanks to new exciting technology seen below, the answer is YES!

Remember, a classroom with a loaded gun is a safe and happy classroom!
Shut Up and Be Happy

Your neighborhood watch officer will be by to collect urine samples in the morning. Jello Biafra with a timely announcement. Image by Winston Smith.
Eat and Grow Strong

We May Be Needing You Later.
So Beautifully Generic

We salute the beautifully generic values found in the ads of all the wonderfully generic companies. They really are improving the world.

Originally expressed as poetry by Kendra Eash in McSweeney’s.
Completely and Cheerfully

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.”

(Mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal from his Pensees (Thoughts), 1670)
Our Artists

Hitler was an Artist

Try avoid making the same mistake.
Carefree Days of Childhood

Amid the siren call to conformity and consumerism, a thing of worth occasionally emerges from the MTV machine. This time a short and brilliant film about children, labor and the world in which we find ourselves.

The music is Radiohead’s “All I Need.” The project comes from MTV’s Exit campaign against human trafficking & exploitation.
Cavalry to the Rescue

In the wake of a police shooing, protests, civil unrest, and the prospect of a race war, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, sought out a public relations firm to help it with its tarnished image.

A glance at the “team” it selected shows they know exactly what it takes to fix the problem!
Beauty

“It is amazing how complete is the illusion that beauty is goodness.”

(Leo Tolstoy)
Fashion in the Modern World

Everyone knows how hard it is to stay stylish when you put on your bullet-proof armor. Thank God then for the genius of Miguel Cabballero whose expanding line of protective fashion (all based in Bogota, Columbia, naturally) has really made our lives more splendiferous.

Now if there was just a stylish way to accessorize our sawed off shotgun!
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