Creativity

"As the black hole hovers--uncertain--over the desolate Martian landscape, your thoughts return once more to Abstinence....

I created this Windows®-brand Desktop Theme for SATA as a way of saying thanks for so many years of wild inspiration.  I call it Emptiness and Pain.

The images and sounds are mostly of my own creation, but the haunting recording of the Fiend's actual voice that serves as the "Exiting Windows®" signal was generously sent to me by Force Sneez, a good friend and long-time collector of all things SATA.  Kudos go to Force Sneez and of course also to the helpful folk at SATA who've agreed to make Emptiness and Pain available free now to Members and non-Members alike!

How to get Emptiness and Pain onto your computer in just minutes:
1. Simply download the installation file (size: ~1MB) by clicking HERE. [Update: Sadly, you will need to find another source for this dramatic re-envisioning of the Windows® desktop, as our current web host does not permit such files.]
2. Run the install program (usually this means you have to double-click the installation file once it's finished downloading onto your computer).
3. After it's installed, change your Theme to the one called 'SATA' and enjoy!!!

Special safety note: You can run a virus-scanner on Emptiness and Pain if you like, but I don't support the spreading of computer viruses and have already scanned it."

[Editor's note: Linux is SATA's Official Operating System.  Although SATA in no way endorses the use of Windows® for any purpose whatsoever, we are providing the above Windows® Desktop Theme as a service to those Members and non-Members who have not yet switched to Linux.  This Desktop Theme may be freely distributed without cost, provided it is not altered in any way.  Please refer to the SATA Copyright Page for more information on copyright and liability issues.]

Hencognita (detail)
Oil on canvas, 1926

Do Not Drink Beer
(a poem in three verses)

Oh, please be a dear
And do not drink beer
For you know not what
Might spring from that cup!

It may be that you
Do find yourself too
For abstinence true
Will keep from your view

Ev'ry falsehood and lie
That from that cup fly
Down into your gut
And make you eruct!

[I've written two limericks on a subject very dear to my heart. I hope you'll publish them even though the last one is unfinished...]

A Nantucket man drinking his own juices
Swallows, then smiling, deduces:
"A lone hot dog is fine
But I have half a mind
To put my old bun to brand-spanking new uses!"

There once was a man from Massachusetts
Who could drink of his own divine juices
A quick shot of the stuff
Was much more than enough
****

If I were the Grim Reaper
and into Hell I pulled you deeper,
would you still like me?

Rock push kitten triangle Uncle Lazlo HAMMER!
Desert APPLE PIE! ice cream banana
Triangle triangle square HEADBAND! round
Bar Happy Chappy kitten GORILLA!
Pull toy red toy push circle GORILLA!

[Now for Dr. Toth's translation:]

In the distance... a face
Mourning, mourning, mourning
Sing me a song of hope... for I am so sad
In the distance... a sunrise
Morning, morning, morning

Your Little Miracle