July 23, 2008
“[...] Tell me straight out, I call on you–answer me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child [...]
June 7, 2008
Penguin is reprinting the Bond books, all with newly illustrated covers. They’ve been doing it a lot to older titles and I think it’s a great idea.
May 14, 2008
Published in 1963 and still beautiful, are the macabre illustrations by Edward Gorey in The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
April 1, 2008
Asimov kicks it with god and wins.
Twice.
Also Sci-Fi is the last bastion of Philosophy, Wired affirms. Finally, my pre-teen years of sneekily reading instead of sleeping are vindicated.
In other geek news, the queen geek thespian herself, Milla Jovovich, has a music career and has recorded with the likes of Maynard Keenan and The Crystal Method. [...]
April 15, 2007
Miranda July has a great idea and makes the website promoting her new book on a white-board. Not only is it quite funny, but it endears you to her writing style before you even think about the book. If nothing else it’s a perfect example of how simple and easy a great idea is on [...]