SF in Cinema

SF films leave a lot to be desired. There are not too many SF films that embrace themselves seriously, just as the literary genre of SF expects the same treatment. Most are over-budgeted special effects flops. Few that shine in the detritus: 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Aliens, Alphaville, Bad Taste, Brazil, A [...]

The Fat Cat

In a halo of guard hairs, the orange tabby crouches in the warm slant of morning sun. The airspace above is intersected with darting forms that cast valkyrie shadows on spring grass and cool concrete. His yellow-moon eyes are riveted. Birdsong is belted from the top of a lamp post; haughty talons click on [...]

The Moral Police

Richard Gere is knee-deep in a bucketful of shit. India is pissed at him. Morality was violated. She was shocked. That’s Bollywood for you!
the YouTube vid.

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8 Year Old Guitar Hero
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A Weightless Hawking

The brilliant physicist is going to realize a childhood dream. It’s only fair. Question is, what took so long for him to finally do this? Maybe, with a brain that can reconstruct the physical world and crunch numbers while using calculating machines as a prosthesis, not a life support machine as the rest of us [...]

The Weather Channel

Crystal ball crones are being replaced by meteorologists, the weather being more important these days.

Showdown at the Palavra Corral

Wish I knew about the F. Scott Fitzgerald challenge earlier; I’d have liked to try my hand at this. Peek this blogger’s excellent submission.
How would one conclude Dicken’s final and unfinished novel?
(I’m just glad Stephen King didn’t pass away before completing his magnum opus. Am I being crass?)
Is continuing the work of earlier literary [...]

Bed Surfing

I ride the cunt wave, taking care to delicately crease the bucking surf with my running fingernails, to taste the pheromonal saline on the broad of my tongue, to slip a finger into palpable wetness and mingle it with the fleshly flavor of salt.

Skin Disease

Vampirism is a delicate condition in which the largest human organ is unable to handle the warm weight of photons.

On Waking

It’s tripping the life fantastic, riding the archetypal wave on the back of your dreams and opening your eyes to what the world has to tell you on markings in dust, a ching! of coins, the wind’s serrations through boughs of oak and maple and birch, the shake of a bowl and the rattle of [...]

16-bit Nostalgia

As a favor to a friend, I scoured the web for a Dr. Mario NES ROM. I found what I was looking for, but not before I stumbled onto this site: www.consoleclassix.com
I am old school. It is not retro because it never died on me. The best games were programmed on the [...]

A Chain of Sexual Angles

It was raining and for some reason I thought of the Anubis, that decadent ship in wartime Europe and its bizarre suspension of reality that is but a small snapshot in Pynchon’s sprawling novel.
Suspension of reality.
Is that why war is so appealing to the human organism? An opportunity to abandon all thought of tomorrow, [...]

On Writing

I’m a fledgling writer, the sort of fella who took his time not introducing pencil and paper but spent time wanting and trying to do so, and you could say I’ve just jumped on the wagon. Reading, that s an entirely different story. My parents like to say I started scanning ink at 2 years [...]

The Science Channel: Planet Earth

Living in civilization, one forgets the Earth is an alien planet. I highly recommend this show. When my wallet is sufficiently fat, you can bet that DVD set is going into my collection.
Somewhere in the Americas, there is a darkly green place where the flora are large and the fauna is miniature. The Pudu [...]

The Nature of Pain

Physical pain is separation anxiety: the cells know where home is!

A Father’s Concern

“My son does drugs!” He emoted some more, smote various objects around the room, and smoked some herb. Thus calmed, he rationalized through a cloud of smoke: “He must’ve gotten it from his mother’s side.”

Geistig Thermodynamics

Death is just the soul undergoing a phase change.

The Codex Gigas: the Devil’s Bible

It is not surprising Lovecraft prophesied the Necronomicon.
I don’t know how the hell I stumbled upon this but all’s neatorama.com; d’ya think I could torrent the Codex one of these days? of course then I’d have to devote decades towards learning several languages and spend my twilight years blinking myopically through light benders, absorbing the [...]

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What do you know about being deaf?

Paradox of Time

assuming time is casual, we are already tripping through time. We fall through moments too small to discern any temporal movement from one to the next. the very act of sensing is also an act of prophecy. You see a truck barreling down the street some twenty meters away and know that if you do [...]