Archive for January, 2010
I had a lovely little review for Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch planned (short review: love!), but now I can’t get a bunch of questions and thoughts out of my head about this whole Amazon Macmillan iPad Kindle Apple Crapsplosion. These thoughts are wildly unformed; they are amoebic, just blobs of gel ill-contained in a quivering skin. [...]
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I’ve had a number of requests — in person, over email, over Twitter — where people want to hear my thoughts on the Post-Avatar Depression Syndrome (PADS, this week’s second unfortunate instance of that word, “pad”). Why do people want that? Can’t say. I suspect it’s because I am the Overlord of Pop Culture. I [...]
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Slowly but surely, I’m getting back into the groove of things. The trip to and from Utah was in many ways exhausting — mentally at first, but then physically. I’m feeling now like I’m picking up a wee bit of speed, gathering a head of steam. Steam I will vent upon my foes, blistering their [...]
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Everybody just calm down. Shhh. Breathe easy. Here, towel off with this pair of old underpants I found under my desk chair. Let it absorb all your sweat and stress and… well, whatever other fluids are seeping out of you right now. Are you calm? Are you better? Don’t relax so much you void your [...]
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No, seriously. We may have skipped the Second Coming. It didn’t happen fast enough. It didn’t happen awesome enough. The Second Coming wasn’t portable — you couldn’t take it into the shitter with you — and so Steve Jobs punts us right into the Third Coming. He’s good like that. The guy is basically a [...]
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