I see a highly lucrative business for prosthetics.

is that guy wearing a prosthetic forehead?

The Last Ten Years

Cape Cod, rough time, always enough money for beer and Chinese food, but little more. Worked for a medical supply company, forty hours of weekly hell. I used to play with the prosthetic boobs when nobody was around. Shake the box and watch them jiggle. Got a dream job as a front desk clerk. No job lets you read and write like a front desk gig at a dinky motel. I had a favorite strip club where my favorite girl used to shoot me in the face with her panties. I pretended I didn't like it. She and I would talk about movies sometimes.

Roswell, tossed a resume in the mail and landed a whale of a job, programming. Great money, shitty people. Suddenly more than enough money for my bar tab, and I needed every cent. Met some friends. A few died, others moved away, the rest I hardly see because they got married, or got DUIs, or decided to quit drinking.

Throughout, I was writing poems. Some winners, some stinkers. Started a few novels that I never finished. I fall in love with my characters, the good ones. They're always very different. Old men, old women, lonely pervs, strippers, loser teens, the underachieving hero, the skeptical professional who finally sees the light.

Got laid off in January, 2007. Totally unexpected. Haven't seen a paycheck since. IRS wants me to give them money I don't have. And the only woman in this town who strikes my fancy is married to one of the coolest guys I know.

I dream of leaving Roswell every day.

okay, so, man + prosthetic tits - women's clothes + auto shop + flirtation with sexy girls = lesbian. I think I understand, but the mathematics of sexual identity I find baffling sometimes.


In reply to this comment by marinara:
RLY? He's in drag AS A LESBIAN A country music lesbian apparently with fully tooled auto garage. I'm not familiar with the automotive lesbian stereotype but...

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Is that a lesbian? I thought it was a man? I'm still so confused.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
funny thing about promoting videos, is that little things make the difference, but brute force doesn't. So, yes, I'm redoing my lesbian garage video!

Is anyone else wildly impressed with the use he's getting out of those prosthetics? Bitchy bank teller for sure but, god damn, I'm focused on watching him drive. Go get em dude!

Yeah, this movie was definitely well worth the time. It gets you pretty wrapped up in some of the prosthetics and special effects. Even the CGI, while not exactly sparse, was actually only used where it was impossible to have an object or creature in real life. It's even got a pretty original view point on the whole "ZOMG, alium!" genre.

Bonus creepiness: The theater I was in, no one made a sound the whole movie(not even a cough), no one got up to go to the bathroom, no one said a word till we all could see daylight. It was outright trippy. Super happy I got to see this movie.

>> ^deadgoon:
What the fuck is a "nazzy"?


It's like a dutch windmill, but with a prosthetic arm.

>> ^westy:
"ITS THE END OF THE PAST GUYS "!


I CAN FIRMLY STATE THAT THE PAST IS ALL BEHIND US NOW!

>> ^quantumushroom:
As long as dem hands can hold the handlebars of a Segway (and Fleshlight) ALL SYSTEMS GO.


Thanks for reminding me about the time Bush fell flat on his face trying to use a Segway... That was priceless...

But seriously, that's just plain tasteless, even for you, QM. Good to know there's people like you to "support" our troops, especially those who have given more than they should have.

Back to the vid though this is awesome, however, I'm a bit concerned of the obvious (to me at least) military applications. Why send a soldier home minus an arm when you can put him back on the battlefield thanks to a prosthetic with an integrated firearm (no pun intended)?

Then again, I'm a huge Ghost in the Shell fan... so maybe I'm just paranoid.

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I for one welcome our new cyborg overlords...
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Very good series.
I would have thought they'd also deal with the prosthetic face, which I find quite convincing, sometimes better than reconstructive surgery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgO0-fD7GuM&feature=related

Also did you catch the Youraaagh! in there?

This is what would have happened to the chick's AR-15 prosthetic leg in that Grindhouse movie thingy.

I think technology that improves physical performance will become more widely accepted as people with disabilities start surpassing the abilities of "normal" people.

Eventually prosthetic legs will be faster than natural legs, an cochlear implants will provide better hearing than a normal person without them. People with "moral" objection to body amplification will have a hard time arguing that people with disabilities shouldn't have access to such performance, and normal people will want access to a "level playing field".

By the time it is available it will seem fairly natural.

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