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So Many Words
Everyone keeps telling me to read Cory Doctorow’s novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. The book is available to download for free, but I’ll probably end up buying a printed copy. I know I’m...
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Future Lit
Yesterday I finished reading William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties. I love the details he comes up with, like the stuff about the “bridge” subculture and the way that the Lucky Dragon stores are all...
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To Mars!
Earlier today, I finished reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. If you haven’t read it, it’s basically a collection of short bits about the colonization of Mars. Several of the chapters...
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No comment
Should I be disgruntled because my comments are gone? The way this site is set up, my comments are hosted in a different place than the rest of the blog, and sometimes they don’t load. Maybe if we all...
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Unbrand America
Adbusters has a new campaign. I agree with what they are saying (and I like the NY Times ad), but I think I might have liked the concept even more if they had narrowed the focus. It’s both...
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I have a seriously geeky bookshelf
I just stumbled across this list of geek novels and realized I own a bunch of them (the ones in bold): 1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams 2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell 3....
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My Literary Diaspora painting: Mountain View
A while back, I met YA author Cecil Castellucci (whose books I love, btw — her latest is First Day on Earth) at a book festival, and we talked about her Literary Diaspora project, “an experiment in...
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New robot painting: I like it out here.
This little robot likes to drive out to the desert near Joshua Tree with his old-timey camper, and spend the weekend out there, all alone. The book he’s reading is First Day on Earth by Cecil...
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