W.O.D.

... as in ''WOD? WOD?!? 

WHAAAAAAT??? 

ANOTHER *WORLD OCEANS DAY* GOES BY 

AND NOT A WORD OF IT FROM... 

1) AQUAMAN 

2) CAPTAIN NEMO 

3) ARIEL - THE MERMAID, NOT THE ANGEL 

(...) 

999) sub-mariner ...  not that anyone ever wants to hear from him! LOL 

YOU GET THE DRIFT!!! 

Considering the abysmal state of our oceans nowadays, the constant hazards faced by its seafaring denizens, the threats to entire ecosystems, the deterioration of the all-important coral barrier reefs, the depletion of the fish stock and sea mammal population, the sadistic usage of the seas as a dumping ground by countless toxic industries AND several parts of the oceans having become a death trap with the dubious consistence of a soup of plastics WHICH WAS PROVEN TO BE THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF A WHALE, RECENTLY... well, it sucks that all of those sea heroes and ocean defenders are simply not in the mood to talk about it - ever - and not even on WORLD OCEANS DAY...!!! 

THE BLOOD OF COUNTLESS SEA CREATURES 

IS ON YOUR HANDS --- ALL OF YOU!!! 

THIS CANNOT CONTINUE --- 

IT SIMPLY CANNOT CONTINUE LIKE THIS 

Banning plastics is a start... a very necessary one. 

The question is... is it too late, already? 

The industrial age brought about the revolution of plastics - they replaced virtually everything that used to be made with other materials. They were good, cheap, reliable. But then their volatile (e.g. disposable) nature and easy-to-throwaway ''quality'' soon turned into a nightmare as these plastics started to show up ---resurface--- virtually everywhere in nature. Everywhere they shouldn't be present, most particularly in the oceans; and in cataclysmic quantities, at that. This has got to stop. But doubt lingers on many minds that such an AQUAPOCALYPTIC trend can be reversed now, this late into its very visible effects... 

Aye, it may be far too late already 

for all of the world's oceans 

and the Seven Seas... 

But that doesn't prevent our man 

-King of the Oceans, eh; K.O. is O.K. eh- 

to take out ALL of the anguish 

on that lousy representative 

of the industry of PLASTICS! 

He's a big-time freakish JERK... 

And a pervert, on top of that...!!! 

WITH NO RESPECT FOR SEA LIFE 

Aye, I tell you, verily... 

PLASTIC 

MUST DIE! 

ALWAYS SAY NO TO PLASTIC! 

Go Goths Go!

THE
*METROGOTHS* 

LIVES MATTER TOO! 

They who are not sure whether they are 
bloodsucking vampires, make-up aficionados, 
poor porphyria-stricken saps, 
ghouls, zombies, witches, wiccans, weirdos 
or quite simply anemic, slightly evil palefaces...

TODAY, ON MAY THE 22ND, 
IT IS THE GOTHS' TURN IN THE... SUN? 
(... although they're celebrated on every other 
occasion: Valentine's, Halloween... Christmas?)

Once again, for the record -and right off the bat- 

the only "goths" that we will ever acknowledge 

in these luminous parts here

are the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths 

--- capisce? 

(This in spite of what they did to ROMA! 

A barbaric twist on Veni, Vedi... Vinci, eh? 

Well - we forgive... but we don't forget! 

Don Luciano will *never* forget...!!! 

But... Hmm... that is another story.) 

Modern Goths are... 

just not the same thing at all. 

Now, we've gone over those sad details elsewhere already; 
on that certain other blog of ours (no, not ludicrous!) 
(But... yes... on the ludicrous blog, too!) 
... where we define what the Goth is, how it goes 
and why it has to go... 
We coined the term "Metrogoth" there, also! 
Not as rough as an Ostrogoth, 

nor as tough as a Visigoth... 
Just a Metrogoth! 
Could be a slogan - or a tee! 
No? Never mind... 

No matter which way you look at it now... 

The Goth lifestyle is very much alive 

(lest it is... undead, really?) 

It runs the gamut from the bloodletting 

wanna-be vampires out there... 

... now, they may not look like it just like that,  

but those are the harmless ones, in truth! 

... to the borderline cross-dressers 

with very strange taste in music: 

...but never mind those sordid sounds anyways! 

 LET'S MOVE ON! 

And what better way to wrap everything up here 

than rounding up all the usual suspects 

(as we simply love to do - you know it)  

in an attempt to beset the plague, 

extirpate by exposing the bad weed 

and circumvent any further propagation... 

perhaps? 

Hmm... Worry not, we are not so deluded 

as to think a single man -or single blog- 

could possibly ever be able to...! 

We can round them up, though - 

that we sure can do! 

Et les voici... And here they are... 

(as seen on Twitter - 

as the dozen or so above the videos were!)

I am absolutely certain that the odd ones 

over at the United Kingdom of Englandshire agree that 

... this guy and this gal should meet...

... this World Goth Day didn't fall on a Wednesday this year; 

eh? Too darn bad...! It had #WCW written all over it...! 

Aye, ultimately... it does fill my heart with sorrow. 

Aye, it really does. 

For the *metrogoth* is but the saddest of 

night creatures --- 

they put on a brave face, especially on the 22nd of May, 

but deep inside their dark hearts... there is loneliness. 

Anguish. Sullenness. Fear of rejection - or, 

worse yet, of contempt. 

They fight all those feelings off with this front 

that rejects conformity and embraces oddness. 

Yet all they truly want is acceptance... 

It is all very... sad. Aye, it is. 

It made for great tweets, though; 

one must admit! 

The best, by far:

And the second best: 

Gotta Have PI...

Science is in your blood - is it? 

Then you will give a damn about this: