Scarlet Letters

MUSE: Hey. ME: You have got to be fucking kidding me. MUSE: I know how it starts. ME: Would you look at the time? MUSE: 1:44 a.m. ME: Yes. MUSE: You're awake. You're showering, even. ME: You know, sometimes I'm not showering to get ideas. In fact, usually I'm just showering because I'm, y'know, gross. MUSE: I know how it starts. ME: I don't care. MUSE: Yes you do. ME: I do not! I'm doing laundry at 1:30 a.m. I'm showering while doing laundry, which is not the most comfortable experience in the world. I've spent the entire day on the computer catching up with writing-related stuff and ignoring this disaster of an apartment, which means I'll be spending my one day of ACTUAL vacation doing housework instead of going to the botanical gardens and, y'know, relaxing. MUSE: So? ME: SO, I'm going to sleep! MUSE: No you're not. ME: Yes I am! MUSE: Oh, quit whining, bitch. ME: Good for you to say. Where the bleeding FUCK have you been? I had...

I suppose, given the popularity of GRAND THEFT AUTO, it was only a matter of time. A neo-Nazi group has actually released an ethnic-cleansing video game. According to EuroGamer, Resistance Records has just released a game in which the player hunts down and kills minorities in a mocked-up New York City. Resistance is owned by the National Alliance, the largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S. "Players take on the role of either a skinhead or a Ku Klux Klan member - dressed in full KKK robes and carrying a noose - and explore a city that's clearly based on New York. The object of the game is to kill black and Latino people, described as "predatory sub-humans", and their 'Jewish masters,'" EuroGamer writes, without quite managing to keep the vomit off the keyboard. The final villain to defeat is Ariel Sharon, of course. National Alliance "promises" many more games, including those based on the Turner Diaries - favorite reading of executed Oklahoma City ...