One for the Road
It’s out July 31th!!! (Not that I’m counting… [or budgeting])
Ripping
You know, the first Matrix movie, in light of reading even more Gibson, is still pretty good. But the clusterfuck that was the second two is just even more obviously a derivative slapdash hackjob.
More on Women and Gaming
An interview with my buddy Patrick, a writer at Bioware.
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And that would be….
So, Ray Bradbury insists that the public has been “misreading” Fahrenheit 451 since, well, 1952. According to this article he wants to “make news” by speaking out about his real intent behind writing the book. It is not a book about censorship. It is “a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.” And
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And I Woke Up
I had a dream that I was watching “the real” season/show finale of “Buffy,” and everyone was running around this enormous, dim library about as big as a 20-storey warehouse with books on all walls and this huge hanging candelabra of shelves coming down from the top and everyone was being hunted by the things
French AIDS Awareness Campaign
Um. I’m speechless. Seriously.
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WEB MARSHALL [TM] (Dude, I Couldn’t *Make* This Shit UP!!)
My flight here in Milwaukee is delayed by 13 minutes, but still scheduled to arrive in Madison on time. Fascinating. I’ve been passing the time online checking up on blogs that I was unable to access at Dayton International Airport, which also has a WiFi service. What’s that, you ask? Why wasn’t I able to
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Idol
Does the whole Simon Cowell poking at Paula Abdul (physically) thing bother anybody else but me? I realized last night that if I have to see Simon Cowell poking at Paula Abdul one more time, I’m going to fly to Hollywood and throttle him. When she stands up and starts hitting him and telling him
In Which the Protagonist Has a Lot of Packing to Do
Oh my. Also, I should be reading Wiscon-appropriate material, yet here I am, frantically devouring Gone With the Wind… what’s the change, you may ask, as I’ve been trying to hammer through this book for months? Well, I finally got to the Seige of Atlanta. It is great.
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The 300 (take 2)
Steph: OMG that movie was awful. Me: I LOVE THAT FUCKING SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steph: OK, it WAS pretty cool when she killed that guy. Me: THAT WAS THE FUCKING BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steph: Really, it was horrible. Me: IT WAS THE BEST HYPER-MASCULINITY SHOW EVAH!!!! LOOK AT THE BLOOD!!!! “WE WILL FIGHT IN THE SHADE”!!!! LOOK AT THAT