My friend Jeff on Facebook shared a link to the wonderful TS Eliot poem in response to this status update: Ash Wednesday He quoted: because I do not hope to turn again because I do not hope because I do not hope to turn again desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no [...]
Library worker and student Ruth (who goes by the handle CthulhuChick) created a complete compendium of Lovecraft’s works for Nook and Kindle, because she “couldn’t find a free or inexpensive (or expensive) EPUB eBook of Lovecraft’s complete works for my Nook. Many compilations or standalone stories exist, but as you can see from the table of [...]
My wife got me a Kindle for Christmas this year, and from day one I’ve loved it. I’d spent some time with both tablets (iPad) and the Kindle for work last year and had a chance to dig in and understand the virtues of both. In the case of an ereader like the Kindle, it’s [...]
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West, is not an easy read. The language is archaic and dense, the philosophy is weighty and ambiguous, and the story is as violent and gory as the most revolting contemporary horror movie. Nevertheless, the reward for the hard work of persevering beyond the first [...]
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SlushPile Hell describes itself as “One grumpy literary agent, a sea of query fails, and other publishing nonsense.” If you’ve ever read (or written and submitted) queries to literary agents, this compendium of atrocious epistles and wry commentary is worth checking out. (I tweeted a link to SlushPile Hell a while ago and realized this [...]
There’s an app for that, but should there be? CNET’s Chris Matyszczyk comments on this Sesame Street sketch satirizing app culture. As he puts it: “This song reflects quite beautifully man’s excessive reliance on technology to alleviate the deficiencies of his own narcotically addled brain.”
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The animator, James Jarvis, is also a smoking fast runner with PRs of 32:20 for 10K and 2:35:34 for the marathon! Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.
If you’re a horror movie buff (I have been since I was a kid, though my taste in types of horror have changed quite a bit), take a listen to the 9/10 interview with Fangoria editor Chris Alexander on Darkness Radio. Specific discussions include zombie movies, especially George Romero’s work (he and Alexander are friends), [...]
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