O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done It gets lonely. George Burns was told to date girls his age. “There are no girls my age.” For all of us, there are fewer and fewer people our age. Who wants to be the last one on board? I am happy I knew them. They […]
Category Archives: cool stuff
Indeed.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
You Are Not Dead Research indicates patterns. Patterns improve predictably. And as statistics can be shown, our programming proves your worth in helping us help you temper your aimless movement. Life takes work. Death takes self. Being Not Dead takes Self Work: reflective examination, self interrogation and the guts to gash the bites and suck […]
Pseudoprosoponic Fiction
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Makers of Worlds Imagine a world – call it Mundavia – in which the dominant genre of literature is one in which plots, dialogue, and setting can be freely invented, but all the characters have to be real people.
the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree
Friday, November 19, 2010
Little Big Numbers OR: Alec – How to be an Artist, and why some stories are just too fucking massive not to be told As a writer of some of the best autobiographical fiction around, Campbell’s talent for using the right story at the right time has been carefully honed over the years, so it’s […]
“the ultimate defeat is never to have lived”
Friday, November 5, 2010
To Live (or Life After the Deluge) For as Watanabe said in the film when asked why he wasn’t angry at being stymied and turned down over and over again by the politicians and bureaucrats who preferred the status quo of doing nothing rather than taking action to help others: I can’t afford to hate […]
How is it as a lampshade though?
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The lampshade that drives its owners mad: Strange truth behind 20th century’s most disturbing object The lampshade’s current proprietor […] won’t keep it in his home and says that, even now that it’s here, safely in storage, he feels more at ease when he knows the shade is shut away in its white cardboard box. […]
Blocks and lines
Monday, October 18, 2010
James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian He wasn’t especially careful with his repainting, which is a clue to how closely he expected people to look. Art historians have noticed his change of mind, and it has been said that before the early 1920s, Mondrian thought of his compositions as part of an infinite plane, […]
Zap, pow, boom
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Margaret Atwood & Ursula K. Le Guin – Space Canon […] they’ve evidently been friends for years. […] Le Guin works very comfortably under the mantle of science fiction, having penned some of the classics of the genre, while Atwood waffles, preferring to stay in the mainstream literary conversation. With respect to SF, Le Guin […]
Good advice for anyone.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Kieron Gillen’s Workblog >> On Leaving RPS What they don’t tell you is that they don’t pick the writers randomly. From that mob of people who want to be games journalists, they can pick. And, because these are not stupid people, they pick the best available. They’re not going to pay for better writing, but […]
