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Category Archives: Books
Potatoes On Broadway
In May 2003 we reported about an upcoming live onstage adaptation of Thing-Fish. Today, my inbox tells me a book is being written about the production: Rumours have it that the author of the book has completed the first bunch … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc
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“Stand slow!” a voice rang out with hollow ubiquity
All true excerpts from stories submitted to Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, such as: Instinctively, without thinking about it, he grabbed the woman and hugged her and then gave her breasts a couple of playful pinches. “Commander please,” she said … Continue reading
Arf, She Said
This is The End: I love Junichiro Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters but, even allowing for cultural differences, it has to have the most peculiar final sentence in all literature: “Yukiko’s diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on … Continue reading
Bands And Authors
61 Bands and their corresponding Authors. Some good ones: Kate Bush — James Joyce The Beatles — Roald Dahl Captain Beefheart — Allen Ginsburg Green Day — Dan Brown Steely Dan — Raymond Chandler Yes — H.P. Lovecraft … which … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music
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Be The Next Clarke
Have an idea for a science-fiction novel? This free online book might be of help — from story-development to creating plots, characters, aliens and worlds. (via bb)
Posted in Books
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Letter To The FBI
A letter from science-fiction author Philip K. Dick to the FBI: […] several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a covert organization involving politics, illegal weapons, etc., who put great … Continue reading
Book Meme
Kevin of Diseased Wits passed on the Book Meme baton to me a couple of days ago. You can read my responses over at moonbug dot org (which is basically the place where I post whatever doesn’t fit here). I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Personal
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The Administration and the Fury
If William Faulkner were writing on the Bush White House: “Go and get him Saddam’s gun,†Condi said. “You know how he likes to hold it.†Dick went to my desk drawer and took out Saddam’s gun. He gave it … Continue reading
Actually
Unsurprisingly, I am, in fact, probably — yet unwittingly — and although I’m not really a writer per sé — guilty of many of these agonizing writer’s mistakes, no really.
Sketchin’
Three great sketchblogs, as a reminder that I need to get off my lazy ass and start drawing again: Robot Johnny Diseased Wits De Derde Belg Oh, and you won’t regret buying this either.
Pulp Fiction
Judge a book… by its cover — a big and fabulous collection of 70s pulp book covers.
Posted in Books, Pop Cult
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A Scanner Darkly
Here’s a cool trailer for the upcoming animated adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “A Scanner Darkly“. Why oh why does every single science-fiction movie these days have to have Keanu Reeves in it, I wonder?
Posted in Books, Film
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Walley On Thompson
David Walley has an article up on New Partisan with his take on the late great Hunter S. Thompson.
Hunter S. Thompson RIP
Author/cult-figure Hunter S. Thompson, most known for his “Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas”, has apparently commited suicide at his Colorado home yesterday.
All Caps
The case for ALL CAPS in favor of exclamation marks. I tend to agree, actually.
Posted in Amusing, Books, Pop Cult
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