Anticipation ( Read more... )

I meant to post everyday, but I've just been lacking the time. This con runs from 9am to 10 pm everyday, with barely enough time to eat, and then we just collapse into bed. I have been taking profuse amounts of notes, so I will have to collect them all when I get home. It's been pretty awesome so far. The whole fandom is so friendly, from the stars ( Read more... )

After two days of driving, karenjeane and I arrived in Montreal just after 2pm. We're staying in residence at McGill University, in a tower block about half way up Mont Royal. It's a 15 minute walk to the convention centre, but a hard walk back up the side of a mountain. Amazing view of the downtown however.


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Well, I'm basically all packed up and ready to go tomorrow morning for this year's Worldcon, Anticipation. It's a 14 hour drive to Montreal from here, so karenjeane and I are stopping for the night at the half way point in Edmundston, where we will see the US across the river. This trip will be the real test of my car.

I've been going through the program ( Read more... )

“For Professor Skeat, psychopaths were nothing less than the horsemen of the apocalypse. Contemporary culture had digested the meaninglessness of natural events, the fact that they were indifferent to all things human. A few stubborn fools still shook their fists at God, but most simply shrugged their shoulders. Most knew better, no matter how ( Read more... )

I've recently been reading The Vertigo Years, a book I got for my birthday from karenjeane at my request. It's a cultural history of the Western world in the first fourteen years of the last century, a time the book argues, is very much like our own. It was a time of globalization, multi polar international affairs, rapid technological development, mass ( Read more... )

On somewhat spur of the moment, karenjeane decided to attend this year's Worldcon in Montreal in August. Neither of us has ever been on a vacation together, or been on a vacation anywhere in many years. Our days and months have been ones of wage slavery, but we have little money to show for it. So, with that little money we are going to go to Montreal, ( Read more... )

I was debating someone with anarcho-primitivist leanings, so decided to post my reply, as it pertains to the critique of technology in a general sense.

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If the Livejournal front page didn't tell you my birthday is today, now you know. I'm 23. No need for you to fall over to congratulate me, as I didn't do anything to deserve it. This is the day where I get most of the year's posts on my Facebook wall. The whole social custom around birthdays means little to me. Frankly most social customs do. If ( Read more... )

I just polished off the second collection of Jason Lutes' ongoing comic series Berlin. In short, the series follows a diverse cast of characters in late Wiemar Republic Berlin. Rich, poor, artists, intellectuals, workers, Communists, Nazis, Jews and even a black American jazz band make an appearance. Even Horst Wessel appears briefly to get shot in ( Read more... )