Shaking my fist towards Apple HQ
Still nothing done towards a job, or even writing.
I spent the day temping at a mineral resources company downtown, struggling to put files on an iPad. When I was informed of the job, I researched the process, and I wasn't sure that it could possibly last the day. I assumed it would be like an Android device: treat it like a drive, drag and drop, done. Nothing could be further from the truth. I can see the design philosophy of the device, but it had the paradoxical effect of making it even harder to do what should be a fairly simple thing. Add to that the complexity of transferring device ownership, and it took up most of the day. Why does Apple inspire such devotion in people?
I finished Supergods. Morrison is a very good writer, and in a parallel universe he could have done well as a prose writer. He's known for incorporating some out-there theories into his work, and his bio includes descriptions of what could be described as visitations. He mentions seeing life on earth as a single, transcendental organism, which has informed his work and life ever since, and as personal philosophies go, you could do a lot worse. When he started talking about ideas like the Sekmet hypothesis, the claim that solar flare cycles influence cultural trends on Earth, usually I would roll my eyes at such things, but I felt more like I was talking to a good friend who occassionally goes off on a pet theory. Besides, he prefaces that section with, "This is a tip, not a dogma."
When he talks about a conversation with an eerily accurate Superman cosplayer at a convention that was the inspiration for what became All-Star Superman, he states that he decided to treat this incident as a numinous experience, a subtle form of contact with the fictional universe we have created within our own. That's what's inspiring about Morrison's life and career for me, his eagerness for experience, mental and phyical, which requires an acceptance of risk and the downside of such experimentation. While writing Invisibles, he began to merge psychologically with his alter-ego/"fictionsuit" character, King Mob, so much so that after his character developed psychosomatic infections, Morrison himself was afflicted with a life-threatening staph infection. This kind of thing cuts both ways.
I spent the day temping at a mineral resources company downtown, struggling to put files on an iPad. When I was informed of the job, I researched the process, and I wasn't sure that it could possibly last the day. I assumed it would be like an Android device: treat it like a drive, drag and drop, done. Nothing could be further from the truth. I can see the design philosophy of the device, but it had the paradoxical effect of making it even harder to do what should be a fairly simple thing. Add to that the complexity of transferring device ownership, and it took up most of the day. Why does Apple inspire such devotion in people?
I finished Supergods. Morrison is a very good writer, and in a parallel universe he could have done well as a prose writer. He's known for incorporating some out-there theories into his work, and his bio includes descriptions of what could be described as visitations. He mentions seeing life on earth as a single, transcendental organism, which has informed his work and life ever since, and as personal philosophies go, you could do a lot worse. When he started talking about ideas like the Sekmet hypothesis, the claim that solar flare cycles influence cultural trends on Earth, usually I would roll my eyes at such things, but I felt more like I was talking to a good friend who occassionally goes off on a pet theory. Besides, he prefaces that section with, "This is a tip, not a dogma."
When he talks about a conversation with an eerily accurate Superman cosplayer at a convention that was the inspiration for what became All-Star Superman, he states that he decided to treat this incident as a numinous experience, a subtle form of contact with the fictional universe we have created within our own. That's what's inspiring about Morrison's life and career for me, his eagerness for experience, mental and phyical, which requires an acceptance of risk and the downside of such experimentation. While writing Invisibles, he began to merge psychologically with his alter-ego/"fictionsuit" character, King Mob, so much so that after his character developed psychosomatic infections, Morrison himself was afflicted with a life-threatening staph infection. This kind of thing cuts both ways.