Seems about all that we have on offer these days. A jumbled, joyous, gesticulating spasm of random stuff is le menu du jour. My apologies to the rational and the reasoned, but this post is liable to quickly become unmanagable. So here it goes…
– I welcome a new denizen to the blogroll, enreal, recently self- described as hopelessly “sarcastically” romantic. I jive.
– Sci-fi writer Rudy Rucker has just finished the first draft of his new novel Hylozoic. Love the title…
– There are a wealth of interesting podcasts over at Occult of Personality. Download one and play it on your iPod (or other variously branded mp3 player breeding a deep sense of inferiority in you…). Better than books on tape.
– If you haven’t checked out the Raincoaster I urge a little sampling of her weird-coast collage of star (and star-shaped) baiting, haute net culture and other associated strangeness.
– Not sure about the whole U.S. spy satellite situation — maybe there is a “safety” issue involved with it coming down unpredictably, but shooting it out of the sky seems heavy handed. And why is the space shuttle conveniently in orbit at the same time? The Russians don’t think it’s kosher…
No matter, in a few days it will be nothing but a light dusting.
February 17, 2008 at 4:28 pm |
Hopelessly sarcastic romantics are my favorite kind of people.
February 17, 2008 at 9:52 pm |
Right on.
April 8, 2008 at 3:21 pm |
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