More reasons why we live in the sci-fi future ( Read more... )

Returning home late at night recently, when I cross the bridge I always come upon some sort of near-hallucinatory vision. The other day, it was a car with blue headlights. Just a personal improvement someone had installed, surely: but coming out at me from the dull yellow haze of the other car lights, in the rain and the fog and the wet gleaming ( Read more... )

After resisting moving to the place where I now live for several years, I have to admit, I love it. My initial reservations had to do partly with my perception of it as a place or families and older people (and thus far too suburbia-parental), and the rather disturbing racial and income divide between it and the city right across the river. I ( Read more... )

it is upsettingly full of surprise sexism ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think that since there is no objective standard, there should really be no way to say that anyone has a "bad" or a "good" taste in music, and any pretentions at such judgment are nothing more than solipsistic elitism.

But then sometimes I think, "Man, you've got a terrible taste in music."

You know what sucks ( Read more... )

And before the Futurists, the French Incoherents ( Read more... )

Eeep, I am now 24 years old. I am not entirely pleased with this fact. 24 puts me officially into my mid-twenties, and your mid-twenties are when you are supposed to have gotten your life somewhat together, and be well on the track towards Responsible Real Adulthood (as opposed to early-twenties Beginning Adulthood ( Read more... )

When the night-road is the same color as the sky, and the Newark airport brings forth its crop of a field ripe with lights, heavy golden bulbs spreading their pollen in the ionic breeze ( Read more... )

I just saw an advertisement on BBC for some kind of horror serial episode coming up on Monday. The conceit, far as I could make out, is that a character has fallen into a coma or other unconscius state of some sort, but he's having a bad dream, and all the other characters find that they are living out his bad dream for him ( Read more... )