Monthly Archives: August 2007
He said he liked the writing
Brian Leung: So I didn’t even have the chance to tell you about this one fan. Me: Tell me. [we both laugh] Brian Leung: Well, he wrote to tell me how much he loved my book. And then he mentioned … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, books, writers, writing
Thinking of you during this liquidity crisis
Every now and then, when the really rich are panicking, I like to make fun of the rich people I actually know, and send them text messages like the above. Of course they write or call back to explain how … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, fiction, white collar sweatshops of the east coast, writers, writing
Dick Cheney in 1994 explaining on video why toppling Saddam Hussein would lead to a ‘quagmire’ in Iraq.
Via Rawstory/Editor and Publisher Related items: Iraqi Officials implicated in black market weapons deal with Italian Mafia— Iraqi contacts say they had US Approval. US misplaces 190,000 AK-47s in Iraq—The Daily Show investigates.
Filed under apocalypse
William Gibson on Second Life and his work
You recently did a reading in the virtual world of Second Life, where you are a kind of patron saint. I got shut out — I didn’t realize capacity would be an issue — but I caught up with it … Continue reading
the new pc
Patriotic Correctness. This from Henry Giroux, promoting his new book, The University in Chains. Via Pylduck.
Filed under vocabulary
Stephen Colbert vs. Rain
Thanks to Sue Pierce for sending it to me.
Filed under Korean life, political art
China hints it could destroy U.S. economy if it doesn’t get its way with Congress
For years I’ve tried to get people interested and/or concerned over the way in which the US was borrowing from China to fund the extraordinary national debt we have accumulated in the last 6 years. I would sometimes explain that … Continue reading
Filed under product
are novelists liars?
Interviewer: Are novelists liars, and if they are not, what kind of truth do they tell? Italo Calvino: Novelists tell that truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. To a psychoanalyst it is not so important whether you tell … Continue reading
man jose
“Man Jose” is the nickname for San Jose, where men are 65% of the population and many of them are single programmers and engineers.
Filed under Uncategorized
welcome to conquer
WE COME TO CONQUER, read the t-shirt in front of me Tuesday as I stood in line to board my morning Jetblue flight to San Francisco. I was tired, though, and had a moment of what I call Freudian reading, … Continue reading
Filed under letters from away
