An angry rejection letter I once got wrote incredulously that it seemed like I’d just “made up” the supernatural elements of my story (set in a modern urban setting. idk). After I got over my amusement at this objection, I did think more deeply about it. Whether you call it mythpunk or non-Western sources, speculative fiction is trending very ( Read more... )

(Can you just pick this sort of thing right back up and not apologize for absences? Hope so. Catching up is boring and makes me ramble.)

Pomo ain’t boho no’ mo’.

(Sorry about that.)

So guy runs a sex shop and decides one day to take some ratty teenagers and make an ironic shock band out of them to piss on the institution of rock a little, and ( Read more... )

Briefly, I want to impress a lot of people I've never met before.
Ciro
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"The in-dark answered with wind."
- Samuel R. Delaney, Dhalgren

Yesterday I signed my first Director of Photography contract, this one under foreign and international law (hmm yes hmm) with the London Film School, wherein I agree that I will accept 6% of the proceeds from any profit made upon the work I rendered my services to deliver.
Profit, I assure you, will not likely follow.
But, holy crap it's a ( Read more... )

Possibly I will be married by August.
Ciro

Seed has posted their endorsement of Obama.
Favorite paragraph - Far more important is this: Science is a way of governing, not just something to be governed. Science offers a methodology and philosophy rooted in evidence, kept in check by persistent inquiry, and bounded by the constraints of a self-critical and rigorous method. Science is a ( Read more... )

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"So many of the arguments that knowledge goods industries make for extending their reach are really naked self-interest and rhetorical tricks."
Ciro

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. . . about the Firewater show -
1) Tod A. spit in my mouth.
2) Tod A. put my glass to his lips.
3) Tod A. gave me his bourbon.

Whoa.
Ciro
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"So you light a dog-end smoke, and you're laughing as you choke, and you give the wheel of fortune one more spin."
- Firewater, "Bourbon and Division"