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clayhornikApril's Book List
The Holographic Universe I read this to supplement some ideas proposed in an issue of Planetary. By Warren Ellis. Could I go a month without mentioning this man's name? At least I've ceased genuflecting when I say it. (Alan, Warren and Grant: The Holy Trinity)
Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper Aaron Magruder's edgy comic strip's first collection. I made a person read it in the store after I made refrence to Hewy Newton and he didn't know who I was talking about. The angry younger brother of Doonesbury, takes no prisoners... McGruder's so dangerous a recent issue of The New Yorker with an interview with him was shrinkwrapped. Tell me it was just a coincidence.
How To Be Alone Ah. If only Oprah had read his essays before choosing him as one of her authors, she would have saved herself a lot of trouble.
Future Shock a bit dated... but hell, it's thirty years old. Surprisingly accurate though.
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda Required reading for anyone who watches cable news.
Tomorrow Now Bruce Sterling looks at where we're going. Future Shock for the twenty-first century.
Free Culture RCA tried to supress FM radio in the thirties. Read this book. The e-book version is free, so no complaints about the price. Then go out, buy it and donate it to a library. Knowledge in viral.
Warren Ellis's Bad World is a collection of essays and notes from the web illustrated by Jacen Burrows. Fortean and dystopian in it's outlook it's scary because they're out there... the people who live in the Bad World
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Words to live by:
My child,
if we were planning
to harm you, do you think
we'd be lurking here
beside the path
in the very darkest
part of
the forest?
— Kenneth Patchen, But Even So
--
I saw the Fog of War with my father at the Naro this week. Discussion afterwards was interesting. I never realized how... grossly shallow the liberal bunch of Ghentiles were. Pretentious, yes... discussion of Mulholland Dr., specifically the recurring color of red in the movie, elicited the comment "Red is the color of the root chakra". Sure. Right.
During the discussion of Fog of War, one of the people accidently invoked Godwin's law- she brought up Hitler in comparison to GWB. Everyone knows that discussions are pretty much over when they reach that point.
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I got some unexpected exposure to mister sun on friday. Ouch. New nickname at work? Lobster boy. As someone who can appreciate Amphibian Humanoids, it was kind of cool, but "Hell Boy" would have been cooler.
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Ohhhh, necrotizing fasciitis outbreak!
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The Holographic Universe I read this to supplement some ideas proposed in an issue of Planetary. By Warren Ellis. Could I go a month without mentioning this man's name? At least I've ceased genuflecting when I say it. (Alan, Warren and Grant: The Holy Trinity)
Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper Aaron Magruder's edgy comic strip's first collection. I made a person read it in the store after I made refrence to Hewy Newton and he didn't know who I was talking about. The angry younger brother of Doonesbury, takes no prisoners... McGruder's so dangerous a recent issue of The New Yorker with an interview with him was shrinkwrapped. Tell me it was just a coincidence.
How To Be Alone Ah. If only Oprah had read his essays before choosing him as one of her authors, she would have saved herself a lot of trouble.
Future Shock a bit dated... but hell, it's thirty years old. Surprisingly accurate though.
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda Required reading for anyone who watches cable news.
Tomorrow Now Bruce Sterling looks at where we're going. Future Shock for the twenty-first century.
Free Culture RCA tried to supress FM radio in the thirties. Read this book. The e-book version is free, so no complaints about the price. Then go out, buy it and donate it to a library. Knowledge in viral.
Warren Ellis's Bad World is a collection of essays and notes from the web illustrated by Jacen Burrows. Fortean and dystopian in it's outlook it's scary because they're out there... the people who live in the Bad World
--
Words to live by:
My child,
if we were planning
to harm you, do you think
we'd be lurking here
beside the path
in the very darkest
part of
the forest?
— Kenneth Patchen, But Even So
--
I saw the Fog of War with my father at the Naro this week. Discussion afterwards was interesting. I never realized how... grossly shallow the liberal bunch of Ghentiles were. Pretentious, yes... discussion of Mulholland Dr., specifically the recurring color of red in the movie, elicited the comment "Red is the color of the root chakra". Sure. Right.
During the discussion of Fog of War, one of the people accidently invoked Godwin's law- she brought up Hitler in comparison to GWB. Everyone knows that discussions are pretty much over when they reach that point.
--
I got some unexpected exposure to mister sun on friday. Ouch. New nickname at work? Lobster boy. As someone who can appreciate Amphibian Humanoids, it was kind of cool, but "Hell Boy" would have been cooler.
--
Ohhhh, necrotizing fasciitis outbreak!
--
