In the distant year 2027, things looked quite different from the salad days of the New ’20s—the Greek alphabet was extended to 48 characters to describe new COVID variants, Palo Alto was digitally converted to an NFT, and Meta outlawed all art outside the ZUCKERVERSE. But these curious apes had a way to escape the hellish augments that overlaid their reality—MS Paint. On ancient tablets, on the primitive glass of “smartphones” (quaint, isn’t it?), acts of defiance occurred in the rebar ribcages of world powers. Though the creators were long gone, absorbed into the ether(eum), their screen-names lived on in … Continue reading Life is Pain(t): Part Quatre – A Brush With Death