Disclaimer: I have little kids. I don't get out much. Most of the media I consumed in 2015 was released before that ( Read more... )

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Served an eviction noticeThis sucks. I had no idea they were so behind. I hope they don't go out of business. Unless Ray Kurzweil is a pessimist, it's going to be a long time before Amazon can make a recommendation engine as good as Dave Nee ( Read more... )

I didn't have much time to read or watch things, so a Top 10 necessarily includes the Bottom 10. But here are the new things I consumed this year, near as I can remember ( Read more... )

Another book I've just started to re-read is Neuromancer, upon the occasion of Mr. Gibson releasing a non-fiction collection and doing interviews where he mostly talks about old punk records. I, like many others, had my mind blown by N. and the other Horsebooks of the Cyberpunkalypse, and have eagerly bought all of his books since, even as they (d ( Read more... )

As part of my "try to unsee the events of the first three Song of Ice and Fire volumes" program, I read "Carter Beats the Devil", which is a relatively lighthearted book set in 1923, involving a stage performer who appears to kill Warren G. Harding. He also meets Houdini and an early incarnation of the Marx Brothers. The whole thing is set in San ( Read more... )

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