This was the week every year when the snapping turtles returned, and the neighbour boy was preparing for it. He laid out careful patterns of rocks and stones in elaborate geometries, here and there stashing bits of lettuce and other vegetables among his seemingly random mineral ley lines. The confusion of columns and divisions gradually…
And I don't mean in the Pacific near Midway. Let's not deny that the West's hungry obsession for circuses of distraction, via entertainment, substances, free love, free speech etc has kept a great many of its greatest creative innovative potentially ambitious minds anonymous, less importantly occupied from focussing on fixing the world. Too much freedom? Hey…
"We can never remember the things we always forget." - Men Without Hats Even the best among you can't expect to remember every thing. A good rule of thumb is: if it seems like it's worth notice, it's worth remembering. And you're not going to remember it by tilting lampshades and wrapping an elastic around…
No! say it ain't so. Sure, I find great pleasure galore in the poetic prose of its pages, a textural, substantive satisfaction like A Clockwork Orange or Trainspotting... but it's ultimately a superficial immersion. The sights and sounds and smells and kills of the era convey swimmingly, and in the language the storytelling reflects the…
What I had in mind was a complete outline for an exciting unique take on an idea that was just there one thought ago, dammit, between the time Fragile finally ended and I put on whatever it was I decided to play. There where I lost! one of the best ideas I ever had, because…
"No you can't see our sign for fire." "That's right, the quick white flying side-wheel bird." Og can do. Og .400 against lefties. "Og, where's your helmet?" * "Og here may be 1 for 4 and 0 for 2 tonight, but he's .400 against lefties and he knows this pitcher." * "That's right Mike, not…
After all, where else will you see a robot, loosed randomly into open space by a princess, land on a sparsely populated sand planet and within that desolate expanse find the brother she never knew existed? As a scientist I have to allow that it could happen: space is vast but not infinite. I'll even…
I can’t say for the evil part, but it’s not so much they see him as insane as they are suffering a sort of insanity themselves. Let me Marksplain. It’s a worldview thing, dating back to the early hilarity of godamutherufkn Donald Trump expressing political aspirations and then rising to the upper echelons of Republican…
Donald Trump will go down as one of if not the greatest peacemakers. Kim Jong-Un is primed for Trump. He was born into this nonesense, completely fucked up by his fate. No one's talked to him like 45, and by the way his country is in mortal peril. His predecessors and ancestors brought things to…
For you reading at home, Point Break, the first modern action movie, was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and in 1991 released a week before her then-husband James Cameron's little indie flick Terminator 2. Soon after, Jim left Kathy for one of the big stars of his movie. Few doubted that he chose between his stars…
The Dulcless Tone 