Someone here at LiveJournal suggested that something I said reminded them of The Story of Your Life, by Ted Chiang, so I read it and really enjoyed it. In fact, it has been a secret nerd handshake until now, an indicator that the speaker was one of us, people who still read sci fi, not just watch movies and television with spaceships, et cetera. ( Read more... )

Okay, Dr Chaos is right. Dude is high in this one:


Jesus Guru Timothy Leary Warning: Psychodelic ZoneHave you every really looked at your field of wheat, man, I mean, really looked at each individual stalk of wheat? It's so beautiful, man, it's about doing and activity as Love, man ( Read more... )

I wrote this in November 2004:

The Spine was a little slick, and also contained a disappointing lack of the WTF Factor. Any TMBG album that I eventually love starts out with me being puzzled and surprised - if it's all laid out neatly, according to a larger, easily- penetrated, grand schema, the album will get boring fast. Mostly, The Spine was ( Read more... )