Robots set to replace underage jockeys: “On its first run round a Qatari camel-racing course, the robot jockey has set a time seconds off the record set by a child jockey, whose use in the popular sport has been banned after international criticism.”
“The first in a series of Mexican giant robot and monster collectible trading cards. ‘El Sismo’ (The Earthquake’), as the migrants call him, first appeared in Sonora, and is now carving a path of destruction and serenade down the Baja Peninsula. Aerial photographs show a huge swath of dust stretching for miles off the Pacific coast. Itinerant fisherman are fleeing in droves.”
Bob Dorsey steps up and delivers a kick-ass Kochalka cover (link to MP3). Make and send yours now and win fabulous prizes! I’m setting a deadline of July 4, 2005 for all entries, because I think there’s a decent chance a few of you out there will get drunk on the 4th of July and record yourselves singing James Kochalka’s “Monkey Vs. Robot.”