Robbing the Pope!

I'm Starting a Circus of Crime

"The CLOWN does not take that LIGHTLY!"

Sweden Declares War on the Internet

Me, I'm gonna side with the Internet. I've never been more ashamed of being Swedish than today. Just kidding! Or am I?

As you've probably heard, SUPERBLOG!! heroes The Pirate Bay Boyos were convicted today. All four of them, weirdly. Carl Lundström may not be a very nice guy but I listened to the entire two-week trial and it seemed obvious that he has almost nothing to do with TPB. But Lundström is a multi-millionaire so, unlike the rest of them, he could conceivably pay the damages. Could that have something to do with the verdict? Nooo, of course not.

The damages, yeah. 30 million SEK. That's for running a website that facilitated other, unspecified people's file-sharing of a handful of movies, games, and music files. By way of comparison, 30 million SEK is a hundred times the record amount ever awarded a rape victim in Sweden. Oh, and they got one year each in prison.

Of course, this will be appealed to a higher court, and then probably appealed again, to the Swedish Supreme Court. And by the time this case is resolved once and for all, file-sharing will be obsolete and we will all have information automatically BEAMED INTO OUR BRAINS.

But right now, Peter Sunde is our Rosa Parks!

Currently Reading #7-8: Oops

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Zero points for guessing this time since I accidentally posted the covers. How stupid of me.

Currently Reading #5: The Book Behind the Film

Happy Rudolph and Smiles All Around!

Yes! Two cheers for the Hess! Rudolph AKA Rudolf celebrates his WHATEVERst birthday today and I want to publicly congratulate him - just like I did last year. (Come to think of it, the entirety of that blog post is just as relevant today as it was a year ago.)

What you see above is not a picture of Rudolph, but it IS a picture of Rudolfo Robinson. It was the closest thing I could find. Mr Robinson is about the same height as Rudolph, they are both too hardcore for society to contain them, and they kind of look alike if you squint.

Batman by Dostoyevsky

Go read "Dostoyevsky Comics" by comics mimic R Sikoryak. It's an adaptation of Crime and Punishment, drawn in the style of '50s Batman artist Dick Sprang.

Sweden Breeds Sperm Dog

I'm totally not making this up. Commie tabloid Aftonbladet reports that the police in Gothenburg, Sweden, will be the first in the world to use a specially trained dog to sniff out semen. The purpose is to secure evidence of rape, and the dog will primarily be used outdoors.

The dog has yet to be approved by Rikskriminalens polishundtjänst, the National Council of Crime-Fighting Dogs (or whatever), located in Karlsborg. Which is just as well because so far the dog has utterly failed during practice.

Incidentally, you have to click on this link (or the next one) and check out the acronym of another Karlsborg project. Sweden rulez!

Please note: The picture above is not of the sperm dog, but of an unrelated cocker spaniel. Get the connection? Cocker spaniel? Cock? Semen? Hello? How can you not get this?!