Attn Nasturtums, Remington, and other younger members:

[Cainad (dec.)]

Surprised I missed this.


I don't even know what I see in the future anymore. It's just a numb haze when I try to piece together how it'll all look when it's time for me to be a cranky old fart (well, crankier and older, anyway).

"Yeah, you whippersnappers think you know what's real, but let me tell you, we still had the vestigial remains of a mighty empire to suck the last decadent dregs from before we all moved into the Arcologies."

There are only two things that I have forseen:

One, shit's gonna suck, hard. In a really, really big way that even my neurotic, overanalyzing brain can't wrap itself around. Things may, and probably even will, come around again to not sucking so much, but I have already had the less than one-in-a-billion lucky break to have been born in the First World. I'm not counting on my luck to hold when the shit hits the fan and Eris rearranges the furniture on a global scale.

Two, things are gonna get really, really weird. Yeah, I know things have been incredibly weird for decades already, but I'm talking weirdness on a level that makes the Church of the SubGenius and the Rocky Horror Picture Show look quaint. All the massive upheaval, shifts in power, and mass craziness that accompanies the collapse of a world-influencing empire, accelerated and altered by technologies that grow and advance even faster than the world they help to change so drastically.

Me, I keep on doing what I'm doing and try not to get down. I don't really know how spending my time in deep contemplation of The Oncoming Fuckery is supposed to help, and my brain and body were not optimally built for what this century is becoming.

Every day, the world creeps closer to the world of Transmetropolitan. But the kicker is, I'm not Spider Jerusalem, nor am I any of the other real characters in a world like that. I am one of the hideous, nameless freaks on the street going about my own futuristically banal business.


Indeed, you burned up all the Fun and sucked away all the Good Stuff before we could get our greedy, entitled little hands on it. But what you left behind is something none of us will ever be ready for.