The Dinosaurs Issue Featuring John Kitchen Dwane Reads Kirsten Tambling Cover design: macawnivore.deviantart.com Laurie Penny’s Discordia Reviewed Apeksha Harsh WWW.HERECOMESEVERYONE.ME CONTENTS P3. Editorial, Adam Steiner p19. What would you do? p4. HCE Credits Karolina Twardosz P5. Rabbit bones in the Pre-Cambrian, p20-21 Scenes from webcomic, Ben Nightingale ‘Dinogeddon’, Kaylie McDougal P6-7. Scene from the Webcominc p20. A poem, Ian O’Neal ‘Dinogeddon’, Kaylie McDougal p22-23. Stegosaurus: P8-9 The Point Is..., and three poems, An Embarrassing History, John Kitchen Chelsea Schuyler P9. T-Rex Portrait, Karolina Twardosz p23. Dinosaur study 1, Kiyasu Green p10-13. Dinosaurs in Albertopolis, p24-26. After Man, Apekesha Harsh Kirsten Tambling p26-27. Dinosaur sudy 2 & 3, p14. Attack of the Yankee War Kiyasu Green Lizards, Ben Hayes p28-29. The Extinction of the p15. Two poems, Laura Huntley Dinosaurs, Sarah Richards p16-17. Everybody Loves Dinosaurs, an p30-32. Acropolis Now: A review of Interview with Paul Thompson, Discordia, Adam Steiner Adam Steiner p33. Last Man Standing: David Star p18. Two poems, Dwane Reads key, Douglas Maudlin p19. HCE Artists p33. Laurie Penny Vs David Starkey, Kirsten Tambing Want to Submit or Get Involved in HCE? Contacts Us: Editor/SP Co-Founder - Gary Sykes-Blythe: [email protected] Deputy Editor/SP Co-Founder - Adam Steiner: [email protected] Art Editor - Jennifer Easley: [email protected] Tell us what you think of The Dinosaurs Issue on Facebook or Twitter using #dinosaurs! All rights reserved, inclusion in HCE grants SP full rights to feature submitted work in future physical and electronic publications within SP’s published submission guidelines 2 WWW.HERECOMESEVERYONE.ME Editorial t’s odd to me that we start ered, analysed and recorded delight shown by children in to dream into life creatures and perhaps without the mys- dinosaurs, explained in Ben Iwith which humanity as we tery we might lose interest Hayes’s oddly dark story, know it has never even shared and look beyond the Earth to [p.14] must be for more than a stage – but perhaps that is explore the natural universe – their mere novelty factor. the great appeal? Humans are if such a thing exists. We continue to fascinated by scale generally, It is worth noting recieve some truly stunning and the sheer enormity of the that descendants of the dino- artworks. The bold, pop-art dinosaurs, coupled with the saurs still walk among us, such style of Kayleigh McDougal ro- fact that they once “ruled” as the cassowarie in the South vides a feast for the eyes [p.6 the earth in their varying Pacific and Australia, albeit in & 7], so credit to Jen and all of shapes and sizes casts a large slightly truncated form. And the artists who submitted to shadow over the relatively though the original reptile/ the Art Department. short and recent period of bird mash-up creatures are A final note, pictured modern homo-sapiens’ time long gone they continue to to the right is Brenda Ander- on earth. fire people’s imagination. son, winner of last issue’s As research contin- The theme of Dino- Colours Competition, model- ues, new discoveries are being saurs proved both controver- ling the much sought after SP made about the dinosaurs sial and challenging for the t shirt. Congratulations again and that seems to give their writers and artists who have to her. natural history a sense of submitted their work to The HCE welcomes John the ‘undiscovered country’ Dinosaurs Issue. The most Kitchen, our new regular compared to easily accessible interesting thing has been the poetry columnist and to say modern mammalians. different approaches to de- simply: The esteem in which coding our popular fascination we hold the long-lost dino- with dinosaurs, a question as ‘Long live the dinosaurs!’ saurs raises future questions great and mysterious as the about the protection and origin and extinction of the Adam Steiner, HCE Deputy preservation of rare species ‘terrible lizards’ themselves. Editor. currently threatened with As we discovered extinction. Will children of the from our interview with Next Issue: you voted and future gaze in wonder at the dinosaur-fan, Paul Thomp- chose the theme for issue 5 of stuffed bodies of creatures son [p16- 17] the difficulty in HCE, Prophecy, deadline for that we curently take for writing about dinosaurs, let submissions is 15/5/2013, please granted? alone talking about them, visit www.herecomeseveryone. It seems dinosaurs is that there is still so much me/submit for details. are the kind of fad that might we don’t know, and yet they never fade, but there remains continue to have a powerful the risk of eventual dinosaur hold on our popular culture, fatigue, when all that there is through cartoons, films and to be known, will be discov- merchandise. Similarly, the Meet HCE Gary, Editor Adam, Deputy Editor Jen, Art Editor Ben, Sub-Editor Alyson, HCE Communications 3 In this edition Everyone was: HCE Contributors: Ben Nightingale John Kitchen Kaylie McDougal Karolina Twardosz Kirsten Tambling Laura Huntley Dwane Reads Ian O’Neale Chelsea Schuyler Kiyasu Green Apekesha Harsh Sarah Richards Andrea Mbarushimana Douglas Maudlin Ben Hayes Adam Steiner Special Thanks to: Paul Thompson Haydn Bailey Laurie Penny Molly Crabapple 4 WWW.HERECOMESEVERYONE.ME Rabbit Bones in the Pre-Cambrian by Ben Nightingale What would it take for you to 10,000 years old, that the Sun regardless what the revisionists, accept the theory of evolution is orbited Earth and that man was empiricists and relativists may wrong? The geneticist J. B. S. Hal- created essentially as he is now say. dane famously offered the image and in God’s image, because of mammalian fossils in the pre- that’s what the Bible tells us. The Don’t imagine I am now only Cambrian layer. According to our hammerblows of scientific dis- thinking of the Catholic Church, understanding of evolution, this is coveries have overturned each or even the religious. How often impossible. That’s why the phrase Biblical certainty and made it a does the socialist call the Tory a has since become a shorthand falsehood (just as the believer dinosaur? Remember when David for falsifiability in theories; that fears about science itself), and yet Cameron called Dennis Skinner a things which cannot be tested with each strike, there has never dinosaur? What makes a politician therefore cannot be proven. been a religious equivalent of the a dinosaur and who escapes the Evolution has been pre-Cambrian rabbit: what would censure? tested to destruction and we may it take for you to accept the Bible It comes back to the rabbit confidently call it ‘fact’, but the is wrong? Take it apart piece by bones. Ask the question: what concept of its falsifiability re- piece and the answer (as 40% of would it take for you to think mains important: science accepts Americans will tell you) is ‘I will again about socialism/capitalism, its own potential fallibility, that not accept it is wrong.’ or accept their respective faults? those answers we think we have Ironically, those people who Let’s ask this of Owen Jones, or may not be true. As the profile cling to the old certainties are Laurie Penny, or Harry Cole, or of the evidence changes, so too sometimes called ‘dinosaurs’ some of the frat boys from the must our understanding change — something which ought to Young Britons Foundation. You with it. have died out a long time ago, a might (possibly) get a response In the context of the museum piece, an anachronism. similar to this: ‘What’s wrong religion/science conflict, which Take the flock of cardinals and with having beliefs?’ Substitute probably started with Galileo, their secret smoky election. A bit Karl Marx/Ayn Rand for Jesus and this is regarded by believers as medieval, isn’t it? Certainly, secret there you have Jesuits in differ- a weakness and scientists as a ballots are important but most of ent coloured robes; make either strength. Weakness, because it us don’t pretend we’re one finger of them born to a virgin, there means we cannot trust it, that on the hand of God as we put our you have two churches. Habemus what is true today will be false X besides a name… papam! tomorrow; strength, because we And yet — how effective! How It was the American physicist may always keep striving for what many people waited with baited Steven Weinberg who said that in is true, ever honest, never resting. breath for the smoke to change the natural order of things, good But there one spies a difference colour? How many people can men do good things and bad men in temperament: where believ- actually speak Latin who cried do bad things; to get a good man ers say ‘we know the answer out on Twitter ‘habemus papam’? to do a bad thing takes religion. already’ (that’s God, by the way), How many of those were actually I would amend that statement. scientists say that there are some Catholic? How many were atheist? Accepting religion as but a par- things in this universe which it is It hardly matters, for all of them ticular manifestation of ideology just not possible to know and we missed that it was an election, in general, it takes ideology to were better off accepting that like any other, dressed up and make good people blindly do, say than pretending. smoked out to make it seem un- or think wicked things; and the Appropriately, it was Dar- like an election, unlike any other.