Surveillance Culture got you down? Feel like ‘they’ know too much about you? Companies? Governments? Identity Thieves? Go off the grid, baby!

Author John Twelve Hawks has taken his paranoia to the next level.  He’s never met his editor and he communicates using the Internet and an untraceable satellite phone, usually employing a voice scrambler.

But what’s an author to do when it comes time for the inevitable signing and satellite media tours?

Ala “Spartacus” J12H (to his fans) has hand-selected a cadre of volunteers to be him in events celebrating the conclusion of his Traveler trilogy.

Here in New York, readings will include performances by indy gay and alt-culture icon, Gio Black Peter and the Black Peter Group and by Old School Glam rocker Brett Smiley. 

The novel’s characters include parkour runners, hippies, nuns, mercenaries, sexy ninjas, interdimensional astral projectors, and very very vicious hyena-wolverine hybrids. It’s like Edward Abbey on LSD.

Here’s a link to the event or check out the flyer (right).

Following last week’s Mike Diamond Discussion, I found these scruffy puppies on Badpuppy.com. Are they otters? cubs? hatchlings? Hobbits? Amish?

Cute, I like. Especially the background from Olan Mills.

More images in this minigallery from Badpuppy. Enjoy. (The one on the left has a nice big wiener!

Fall Fashion Week is still a few weeks away, but you dudes out there don’t need to wait for big fashion tips thanks to our friends at the NY Post. Riding on the heels of the so-called pot belly look taking over Brooklyn comes a new trend: really fucking short shorts. “Man-thigh, in all its milky white glory, has emerged triumphant this summer after decades of hiding under the ample folds of cargo shorts,” boldly proclaims fashion writer Justin Rocket, who spotted more than a few hipsters rocking the look at Jelly NYC’s Grizzly Bear concert on the Williamsburg waterfront last week. Sounds too good to be true? Check out an entire gallery of shorts-wearing hipster dudes in full American Apparel glory here.

Or Nazis created AIDS, or you love Hitler, or something.  Odd (and failed) attempt at AIDS awareness from, umm, Germany.  For straight people.

Stupid, stupid straight people.

Adolf Hitler sex video condemned by Aids charities – Telegraph.

A year after miraculously surviving a fiery jet crash that killed four people and left him with burns over most of his body, celebrity DJ Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein has met an untimely end at the age of 36. His body was found last week in his SoHo apartment, surrounded by drug paraphernalia including empty pill bottles and a crack pipe. AM — who had claimed nine years of sobriety and recently filmed an MTV reality show about overcoming drug addiction titled Gone Too Far — confessed to friends in recent weeks that he had fallen hard off the wagon and promised to check himself into rehab just hours before his death. Autopsy reports seem to suggest possible suicide as he had nine Oxycontin pills in his stomach and another one still in his mouth but one cop had no doubt. “He wanted to die,” said the source.

It’s not everyday that you get to see a taxi fucking blow up right in front of you, but that’s exactly what happened to me as I strolled down 7th Avenue this afternoon. First there was a burst of white smoke, then raging flames engulfing the entire yellow cab, then thick black smoke billowing down several blocks, freaking out everybody in the vicinity. It took a little while for the FDNY to respond, but when they did hit the scene it was in full force, with maybe a dozen fire trucks and cop cars keeping order. One thing that can be said: even nine years after 9/11, explosions and smoke and loud sirens on the streets of NYC still can be extremely terrifying — even when, like this incident, nobody got hurt. Watch video of the blow-up here:

CAB BURNING, not sure how it caught fire. Luckily nobody inside.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the LBGT-friendly downtown culture and fashion rag PAPER Magazine, and the occasion will be celebrated with quite an extravagant gala at the New York Public Library. The magazine that helped make candid party snaps en vouge will be providing plenty of back-of-the-book spread fodder of its own with an invite-only guest list full of fabulous luminaries and art-world A-listers. The eclectic entertainment includes Andrew DK, British DJ Mark Ronson, pretty-boy indie-rockers the Virgins and rap queen Queen Latifah. But the evening’s true star attraction will be Liza Minnelli, who will take a break from mourning the death of her best bud Michael Jackson for a rare NYC performance — and all that jazz.

How badly does your toilet training have to go for you to end up like this? We’re all for sexual expression and all, but, umm, somethings are better left between you and your Dominatrix.

Note: by ridiculing this guy we are actually participating in his kink, and satisfying it by furthering his humiliation.  Just thought I’d point that out in case you’re thinking we’re all being mean.

Via TheSword.com: Geriatric Baby Slut Will Make Your Eyes Gush Vomit.

 Since I regularly crib stories from BoingBoing, I thought it would be a great thing to tip off Stephen Leckart, Contributing Editor of Boing Boing Gadgets, when he tweeted for where he could get a fleshlight!

His unboxing video is downright hilarious. For those of you that porn, getting plain brown boxes in the mail is nothing new. His pronoun usage is fantastic.

Well done Stephen, even if we are credited only as “One BBG Reader” pthhht!

Finally, YOU GOTTA TAKE THE TUBE OUT! And buddy you’re gonna need some more lube with that!

Video: Unboxing The Fleshlight | Boing Boing Gadgets.

My favorite part is the kazoo-fart sounding rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, as this giant slide heaves and spurts.

Via BoingBoing.net