“…In The Astounding World To Come!”
Conversation on a porch, 2065 A.D.: * GRANDFATHER: Hey, kid! KID: Hey, Grandpa. G: What’d you learn in school today? K: (pauses; looks at the Grandfather skeptically) Well, in History […]
Category Archives: The Criticism of Luxury
Interview With A Figment, Part VII
Sorry for the delay, Bloggers! I’ve been busy with STUFF… …And I’m actually still busy, but as a palate-cleanser (if only for myself) I thought I’d post you a daydream […]
Google Update: The Lady Or The Tiger
Gratifyingly, there seems to be a small backlash brewing against the evil device from that Eighties And Nineties Movie…and a nice list of problems with them is pleasant reading here. […]
On A Dark Desert Highway
So, did you see this? Ideological tech companies whose visionary founders were raised on a diet of SF cautionary tales and shabby reading comprehension skills are conspiring, Bloggers, to make […]
Don’t Listen To The Bear, Conan
I guess what bugs me most about Alan Moore these days is how he’s always popping up in some venue or other calling for a mass boycott. Clearly interested in […]
Topics In Fantasy: Richard Dawson, Dave Bowman, White Zero, And Horselover Fat…
…All come together in the band. Science fiction is a state of mind. I’ve talked about this before, perhaps with greater perspicacity, but I’ll never be able to talk about […]
Universe Part Four: Through The Looking-Glass Self
So, as I was saying earlier… It’s a little bit counterintuitive, this stop-smoking method of mine. Or, rather, it isn’t counterintuitive at all, but we’ve just learned to think really […]
Project Blue Box: Epilogue
Mystery Machines: Trash Culture, Cargo Cults, and the Escape from Participation Mystique Epilogue: The Blue Surf Well… So… It’s religion, isn’t it? But let’s have the counterpoint first, before proceeding […]
Project Blue Box, Part Three
Ah, September, Bloggers: when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of theses. Of course I don’t know if I’m really equipped, any longer, to chase one down or follow […]
Project Blue Box, Part Two
Is it interesting? Is it overwritten? Is it all going to hang together, or hang separately? Your guess is as good as mine, Bloggers; but here’s some more of it: […]
A Trout In The Milk 