hell’s paving stones

Okay, admittedly the highly over-paid and under-worked staff here at hell’s paving stones have been diverted of late by a series of highly lucrative book offers that may or may not in fact exist. The already variable flow of posts has accordingly slowed. For those of you who’ve never worked out how to set up a news aggregator, or why you keep coming back here to check for updates, this might be a little vexing.

Our startling academic transcripts and improbable journalistic careers notwithstanding, we here at HPS like to think that we have always managed to steer away from developing a certain… arrogance in outlook. Not that you’d be able to appreciate the kind of moral fibre it takes to do that.

So it’s in that spirit that we’re going to try a little experiment in… democracy. Normally this would call for an assortment of military hardware as capital, but instead we’re going down a different path by letting you, the reader, be editor! Editor, that is, instead of ol’ “Red Teeth” Joe who, God - and possibly a very tenacious federal policeman - knows, has made us pay in human flesh for deadline tardiness before.

Hence the Parliament of the Damned is open! For the first session of 2005, let us lay this proposal out for your deliberation: the past month or months or however long it’s been, we have, all evidence to the contrary aside, gone through a number of ideas for new posts. For various reasons - poor timing, other commitments, uh…over researching an idea, old-fashioned mulatto laziness - they were abandoned. But you can bring one of them back! Here they are:

Yet more meditations on the Media’s love/hate affair with Douglas Wood (including recent revelations of his business dealings and his partial blindness as a result of his kidnapping), and HPS’s actual affair with same.

An account of the Chinese Cola Wars and the unholy triumvirate between Coke, Chinese pop trio S.H.E., and the World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online computer game.

Just who do these getup.org.au kids think they are?

The next chapter in the Oil-for-Food scandal, starring a whole bunch of corrupted officials who certainly aren’t in the Bush Administration, yes sir that much is for certain!

The shoot to kill policy re: terrorists/innocent bystanders

The first, fragile strip in a webcomic that I would call my baby if that didn’t entail a certain level of soul-wrenching grief should it die/be taken away from me.

Choose wisely and submit your decision in the comments. Remember, punch the right hole clean through, vote Greens in the Senate and remember that hell’s paving stones is all about the Politics of Hope! Ahem.

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