HARDCORE UFOs PART II: 50 Years After Sputnik
Michael Louie10.04.07
Fifty years ago today America was blindsided by the Soviet launch of Sputnik into the edges of the Earth’s atmosphere. It was a success for the Russians, and an event that sent shockwaves through the rest of the world. Although the U.S. had planned a satellite launch of their own, it wasn’t deployed until after Sputnik 1 had already burned up upon returning to Earth, and the Russians sent another satellite, Sputnik 2—this time with the dog Laika aboard—to space. So, true to tardy American form, we at FANZINE present this article on the first Sputnik launch, late in the afternoon.
Useful Aliases Culled From Pornographic E-Mail Spam
Michael Louie05.03.07
What to do with all the thousands of e-mail spam you receive each week, promising cheaper pharmaceuticals and computer programs, hotter schoolgirls, more FFM action, bigger dicks, and longer erections? Don’t be so quick to hit delete; in them lies an incredible resource with which to hide your identity. First in an occasional series of lists….
Bill O’Reilly’s Great Fast Forward
Michael Louie10.17.06
I feel one attempt at my own preemption is validated in the face of all the bad news in the world about North Korea testing nuclear bombs and an impotent U.N. standing by with sanctions they cannot hope to enforce. Speaking of preemption, with mid-term elections three weeks away, Republicans are already refining various conspiracy theories in the event they lose the House and Senate. Bill O’Reilly says it’s North Korea’s fault. -MKL
“God Bless You, Kim Jong”
Michael Louie08.07.06
Yes, that’s an actual quote from Donald Rumsfeld after North Korea launched its first Taepo Dong missile eight years ago this month. Michael Louie takes some shots at the political wank that is our current national missile defense plan and its symbiotic nature with North Korea.
Hangmen of the Age of Electricity
Michael Louie05.31.06
With lethal injection encountering increasingly difficult legal hurdles, Michael Louie takes a step back to the days of death by electricity and examines the ways we have kept the executioner’s face hidden from past to present.
HARDCORE UFO’s: NASA’s Dark Days
Michael Louie02.01.06
This past week marks the anniversaries of 3 tragedies in NASA’s history. What is the future for the organization? More trips to the moon? Intergalactic exploration? Will Bush get some "folks" on Mars? Or will it begin competing with private charters sending celebrities into orbit for some hot, out of this world action. The 200 mile high club anyone?
The Rambler
Michael Louie11.17.05
This piece is coming a little late, but Mike Louie and I have been in transit, not unlike the members of the Bay Area supergroup Universe, aboard the goodship Rambler – with their utopian portable star music for the masses.
