Doug Lain is a fun interviewer and I thoroughly enjoyed talking to him on his podcast for Diet Soap. Check it out. We talk about swine flu, tarot, and I rip the veil off Doug Lain's canard about his having "children."

Meanwhile, in H1N1 news, a new study suggests that Mexicans of mixed ancestry (roughly 80% of population) may have genetic predisposition for killer flu.

"The future world painted by Anderson is a believable extension on the current state of affairs between the U.S. and Mexico: the shared border disintegrates into anarchy; governments turn tyrannically corrupt; cultural and racial tensions escalate to a fevered pitch."  --Bahia de Banderas News (Puerta Vallarta)