Life can be tough sometimes. Just remember, when life gets you down, when it’s pushing and shoving you to the ground, that is the time when a person must show their mettle. When the world pushes you, you push back; you Cthulhu up and you destroy all the life you can get your monstrous claws on.

Cthulhu Up! [Artist’s Site]

Above are two gentleman, Daniel Navarro and Jose Luis Sanchez, arrested in connection with the torture of cows, which led to the recall of one hundred forty three million pounds of beef, the largest in U.S. history. I’ll admit, when I heard of cows being tortured I expected to see amateur photographs of hooded bovines attached to car batteries with electrodes and wire. However, there are pictures of cows pausing “while eating at a farm in Sunnyside, Washington” perhaps to chew or perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of life and the impact of government corruption and impotent federal guidelines upon the lives of its people.

Alas, I can’t help but feel that the two moustachioed suspects above may only be pawns in a larger, delicately marbled and tender game. My only regret is that Ectomo’s font, unlike The Consumerist’s, does not allow me to properly convey the apoplectic outrage, and adrenaline fueled frothing at the mouth of someone who has just kicked a minimum wage Circuit City employee in the teeth for not honoring an expired coupon. Perhaps a redesign will allow me to properly bring injustices such as this to you, my dear readers, in the future.

U.S. sees largest meat recall in history [Yahoo! News] : The Consumerist : Thanks, John!

Having already been privy to the insanity that is High Seas Cthulhu, it only makes sense that Lovecraft’s invention would explore other genre clichés. With that in mind, allow me to present Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World which really sounds more like an Eldritch/Barbie playset but is, in actuality, a series of Mythos related stories that take place in the American West. No doubt there is a heart-wrenching story of the love between Cthulhu and a cowboy which blossoms as they herd shoggoth in the mountains of Wyoming and ends once Cthulhu swallows the cowboy’s soul.

Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) [Amazon]