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[ipsenaut]

"The word "terrorism" first appeared in France (terrorisme) in 1795."
--The Department of Homeland Security's Ready Kids: Know The Facts page.

I have been watching an unseemly amount of movies lately. I am kicking Netflix's ass. This weekend alone I've seen eXistenZ, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and The Truman Show.In that pleasant post-movie haze, I

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[puf_almighty]

I like that painting. And it hits the same deeply morbid button as this: http://www.plif.com
I bet you'll love it. It's great for morbid types like you and I. I'm using it as inspiration to inject some psychodrama in a sci-fi bit I'm doing.

[ipsenaut]

Dude, I fuckin' LOVE the Parking Lot is Full. It saddens me to this very day that I couldn't get myself a copy of their book, "Like Salt for a Head Wound."

Sorry, if there's one thing I know, it's webcomics. You got your fancy sciences, I got my webcomics.

Incidentally, while I haven't been commenting on your posts lately, I've been reading them with great interest. Keep on keepin' on.

[somethinghead]

I've always enjoyed The Truman Show. Years ago I turned on eXistenZ partway through on cable and was immediately captivated by it and watched the rest of it. Though I've always felt that I needed to go back and watch it in its entire, uncensored form.

[ipsenaut]

A few people have told me this now, but as enjoyable as the majority of the film is, seeing it from the beginning makes it even better. Actually, I wonder how difficult it would be to make sense of the ending without having seen it from the start.

[adrastea_star]

I find it kind of hilarious and kind of sad that they can instruct kids on all kinds of weather phenomena, but the best they can do for terrorism is "talk to your parents or teachers about this type of emergency." If I was a parent going to that site, that's the one thing I'd probably want some help on. I can tell my kids what a goddamn tornado looks like. What are we paying them for, really?

Speaking of Klimt, have you read a book called I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young-ha Kim? I talked a bit about it in my journal over the summer 1) because it has the best cover art probably ever, 2) because the translator is a friend of mine, and 3) because it was easily the creepiest, most haunting book I read over the course of 2007. I think you'd probably like it.

[ipsenaut]

Oh, gravy. I forget sometimes that I pay taxes, and as such, have a right to be slightly nauseated by this manner of uselessness.

Also, I think the real emergency is youth ignorance of etymology, but the DHS is all over that issue. What more could one ask?

Oh. Right.

That book does seem intriguing, and as luck would have it, the library down the road has a copy or two waiting to be checked out. Thank you for the recommendation.

STATUS REPORT:

[ipsenaut]

I got a copy of the book, which is rather slim and so should help me slip back into the realm of fiction.

Re: STATUS REPORT:

[adrastea_star]

Goddamn that was fast. Saw your HBC post about it just now, glad you enjoyed it. It was viscerally disturbing to me and made my skin crawl and my brain cringe. I had to read it twice.

[swayworn]

Re The Truman Show: Are you familiar with Nick Bostrom's Simulated Reality theory?

Or T-Rex's?

[ipsenaut]

Neither! But now!

[incubus2]

holy shit- or feeling i cannot name or ascribe a description to- moment when when you read something by somebody else that sounds like it came from you.
but then again- and this is only one example- how many people have read a clockwork orange and refer to themselves as Your Humble Narrator (and derivatives) sporadically henceforth in their own journals? many, i guess