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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Elmslie: A Curious Conversation About Adventure Characters

December 3, 2013by plok 3 Comments

Welcome, Bloggers! To the interview I’d planned to post way back in July 2011, with countryman and comics fan Matthew Elmslie, busy at work on his actual second superhero novel, […]

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Books, Comics, Interwebular

The Inner Event Horizon, Part 1: Andrew’s Incomprehensible Condition

July 11, 2011by plok 9 Comments

Hola, Bloggers!  Special treat today — we get Andrew giving me an interview on the occasion of his new book’s publication.  It’s called “An Incomprehensible Condition”, it’s on Seven Soldiers, […]

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Books, Comics, Interwebular

Interlude: Death Wish For QWERTY

March 21, 2011by plok 19 Comments

What ho, Bloggers! Sorry, been a little busy attending lectures the last little while. Which, as some of you may be aware, never fails to start me spewing out words […]

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Oh Yeah…

August 8, 2010by plok 3 Comments

I am also in this. No, not “How To Irritate People”…although… This thing! Mine’s called “Sugar Cubes All The Way Down:  Watchmen and the Philosophy of Science”, and its argument […]

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This Book Is E To Read

February 6, 2009by plok 8 Comments

In which I present a brief digression from the weighty, weighty matters of E*N*G*A*G*E*M*E*N*T W*I*T*H T*E*X*T…next up, The Dark Knight!…and talk a bit about something more straightforward. Although you would […]

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Books, The Criticism of Luxury

The Only Good Utopia Is A Dead Utopia

September 23, 2008by plok 18 Comments

Hey, Bloggers. Anyone up for a long boring babble about nothing in particular? Some spoilers ahead. A few years ago I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Orange County Trilogy…which in case […]

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Books, Philosophy...Kind Of

Spring Review #1: The Road That Goes In Both Directions

March 27, 2008by plok 9 Comments

Is Alan Moore a Universal Genius? Well… No, of course he’s not. Though I yield to no one in my love of Voice Of The Fire — especially I loved […]

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Books, Comics

Note To Christmastime

December 25, 2007by plok 10 Comments

I apologize for not reading The Hobbit this year, even though I know full well it is one of the most Christmastimey books ever written. I am just skipping a […]

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Note To Adam Star

December 25, 2007by plok 2 Comments

The book is called “The God Who May Be,” and it’s by Richard Kearney. It’s quite dense; however a good non-dense introduction to it may be found in an episode […]

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