All posts for the month October, 2009

Support the Goldstone Report!

This newsletter-type-thing just came in from Jewish Voice for Peace: Dear Jonas, Frankly, I’ve had enough of the lies and distortions surrounding the UN Goldstone Report. I’ve had enough of the maneuvering by Israel, the US, and other countries in order to dismiss the report and its authors and bury it altogether. If you are [...]

Tell me what you love… (Part Four: TV Series)

This one should be easier. I love TV as a medium, but there’s not that much excellent work floating around. Babylon 5 (1994-1998) Firefly (2002-2003) Rome (2005-2007) Futurama (1999-????) Friends (1994-2004) Star Trek (1966-1969) Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) The Prisoner (1967-1968) The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) The Education of Max Bickford (2001-2002) Some day [...]

Search Engine Term of the [Insert Time Period]

I love it when I get hits from really cool search engine terms. It’s rare, but it happens, and I felt I had to share this one: harold bloom is full of shit Amen!

Tell me what you love… (Part Three: Films)

This is almost impossible to do. I have seen a lot of films (there were times when I’d watch two new movies a day), and I have loved many of them. This is even worse than with books. Which is why I will cheat and make the list longer than usual. This list is not [...]

Good news, everyone!

Today has been a day of excellent progress in Phenomenon 32. I still occasionally build levels that are too big (i.e. that won’t be playable on normal hardware and have to be altered), but I’m very happy with this strange post-apocalyptic world that is coming together. Will I finish the game before the end of [...]

Oozy Rat in a Sanitary Zoo

Some things never get old. Especially things of genius. Back to level-building. We’re getting there.

Tell me what you love… (Part Two: Nonfiction)

(You can read part one here.) The real world is a fascinating place, and a good work of nonfiction can draw me in as much as any novel – if it’s beautifully written and true to the human spirit, that is. (I have decided to include autobiographies here, though some would argue that they belong [...]

stross, to (v.)

Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, [...]

Terry Gilliam, we love you!

I just saw the trailer for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, one of my most-anticipated films ever, and it’s stunning. This film is going to be awesome, in the literal sense of the word. Want. See.

(Un)Dead Art

I’ve been looking through literary magazines lately. Why, an intelligent reader might ask, would you want to do that? Why would you want to burden your already tired brain with the idiotic pretension and self-congratulatory pseudo-originality, the Lacan-worship and intellectual stagnation of these warty outgrowths of an artistic elite that has lost all vision and [...]