Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Gandahar [1988]

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Part 1 [Contains moving drawings of non-sexual, topless nudity, aka boobs.] Gandahar, aka Light Years is a truly mindbendingly bizarre animated fantasy epic based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon's novel "Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar)." The english language version is from Miramax Entertainment and according to Wikipedia there are currently no plans for a DVD ...

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 3: eReading & Music

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

The Multi-part postings "The dreaded 'Idea'" addresses minor world needs that I'd like to see happen but don't believe any single one is important enough (for me) to go to anybody with. Part 1 spouts freely about Twitter and iPhone/iPod Apps & iOS along with a short treatise-like rant on ideas. Part ...

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 2: Media

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Part 1 of "The dreaded 'Idea'" spouts freely new notions concerning Twitter and iPhone/iPod Apps & iOS along with a short treatise-like rant on ideas. Media Monetizing great content stuck on crusty websites An opportunity exsists for acquiring old, but authoritative content that ranks good.  This written treasure is often buried on neglected websites.  There's plenty ...

Stuff David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

David Foster Wallace circled "Osmium" and about 500 other word entries in his American Heritage Dictionary. My near obsession with David Foster Wallace continues.  As I exert concerted effort to finish the last 16th or so of Infinite Jest, I keep happening upon other DFW internet material like ...

$1,000 edition of ‘On the Road’?

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

In my youth I idolized Jack Kerouac.  Ran across this upcoming edition of his "On the Road" on Amazon.  It lists for $1,000.  I'm sure it is extremely limited with many great unreleased photos but still.  I'm almost curious to learn more.  I won't ignore more details about it if ...

Distilling ‘Ten rules for writing fiction’ into one or two words

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

I'll now slaughter the multi-authored Guardian.co.uk article "Ten rules for writing fiction" by cutting several of the "rules" down to one or two words which may make more sense after reading the article.   Many of the rules could apply to other forms of writing, and possibly, some to life. Write Write Write Avoid prologues Excise skippableness Read ...

Man-Gifts at ‘What to get Guys.com’

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

A shout to Rob Stretch and his man gift site What to Get Guys.  Rob cherry-picks products for you, so when buying for males, go there first -- it saves time and prevents frustration while delighting all involved in the resulting consumption. He pointed me there to check the Digital Harinezumi Video Camera ...

Mail Me Art (2)

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Mail Me Art is a fairly simple concept.  Create a piece of art that can be mailed then mail it to: Mail Me Art 37 Thames Court Victoria Avenue West Molesey Surrey KT8 1TP United Kingdom There are some stipulations, but that's basically it.  The project's first round is done and a book of several submissions has been ...

Win the Sword of Blood by ‘spreading the word’

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I recently stumbled upon a somewhat novel Guerrilla marketing effort for a audio novella prequel that involves a broadsword giveaway stamped with a unique and exclusive flash fiction story that will be signed in blood by the author. The sword is the object/subject of J.C. Hutchens's free prequel novella podcast Personal ...

Meet Wordnik, your new meta lexicon

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Wordnik -- a suped-up and glorified word mecca-nexus -- has a goal: . . . to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words ...