KAIJU KEEPS ON ROLLING

Speculative biography. It's twelve years from the end of next week. A giant monster is the center of a huge movie franchise. Carl's Cartoon is the Awesome is the heir apparent of the Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park. The True Crime Fiction Variety Show airs five nights a week. A painter has tea with doped-up models lounging across invisible furniture. The hits from the last Suave Prospects album, Mesopoontangia still get plenty of airplay. Baby mills run by the Christian Right are subject to law-enforcement crackdown after crackdown. You can't smoke inside your own home anymore. Or on public property. Milk is fourteen dollars a gallon because gasoline is eight dollars a gallon. Cars are bigger than ever. Alternative fuels have yet to catch on in any significant way. There are 1.9 cars for every licensed driver. There are more licensed drivers than ever. The internet has be shut down three times in the past two years. Your neighbor is spying on you, but it might not be for the government. We don't talk anymore, but all we do is communicate. A man needs a communications director just to wish his mom a happy birthday. People are dying and you are being blamed for it. The biggest Suave Prospects fan may have the answers to your questions, but she's dead too. Thankfully, we're still able to laugh about it.

This is Kaiju Jugoruma.