icier aberrations

"We live in a new era of neoliberal savagery."

Scrap Iron Man.

"Animalistic features inform so many of the human figures left behind them that one is tempted to think of the Olmecs as a race of changelings--snake-eyed, jaguar-mouthed protohumans molded by the gods before they decided on the final appearance that humans and animals were to take in the newly created world." --Ptolemy Tompkins, This Tree Grows Out of Hell (1990)

"In Moscow, Kremlin planners were said to be preparing for a possible military intervention should political instability spread to the nearby oil-producing region of Texas."