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Red.) Via The Null Device, this exciting new development from Germany, a digital camera that turns that frown upside down!

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[nightspore]

Just sucky enough is right. Just what Joseph Feinnes is too. Sorry to see {spoiler, scroll down}....

....Ricky Jay go. I do like the way he pretends to love children at the dinner. Since he's notorious in real life for hating children. He's a firend of a friend and she hates that about him. We saw him last year: he was very impressive, though he didn't do that many illusions. I've heard he feels that he doesn't have the dexterity he used to.

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I can't look at Joseph Fiennes' unusually close-set eyes without thinking of his unusually hot brother Ralph. It's a constant disappointment.

And yes they let Ricky Jay go too soon. I kept thinking he was Bernard from Lost, though! Sorry, Ricky!

[grashupfer]

I once wrote a short story about a weather machine that (among other un-intended side effects) inverted the parabola of rainbows. My Pynchon phase. But this awesome post made me think of my old story immediately.

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I never had a Pynchon phase, though if I did it would probably follow on a Zola phase and be succeeded by a Jonathan Carroll phase.

Not really a non-sequitur: Have you ever encountered Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory?

[grashupfer]

I have a copy of The Wasp Factory, which I have skimmed a bit. From my 1001 Books project. I'll get to it some day. Why do you ask?

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Just thought you'd enjoy it. I sometimes daydream about a miniseries adaptation of it produced by Lindelof and Cuse (on HBO).

[wolodymyr]

You are awesome, thanks for all this, just when I was missing you.

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*smooches*

I've been thinking about your Jared Whatshisname post and egging each other on - the most fun I've had, the most entertained I have been, has occurred in the midst of this kind of jostling and joking. And I love the artifacts of it:

--weird little stickers a friend made for another friend who was going through a Racoons-are-the-animal-kingdom's-movers phase: a company logo with cartoon racoons wearing hot pink trucker hats and hot pink gloves

--the proud mammal thing I posted about last year

--zines in the 90s

--livejournal

I think I'm giving up on FB, cos I just don't get the kind of interaction there that I do here - lots of ppl kvetching these days about what a ghosttown lj has become, but nothing beats it for conversation and egging each other on.

[grashupfer]

It feels like much less of a ghost town when you're posting. :-)

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:)

[jones_casey]

i have more to say, eventually, but:

temple grandin!

and, saul mixing quotes from all along the watchtower with the beastie boys' sabotage into his reverie? (crossroads pt ii) i don't know what that is, but it's something.

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I missed the reference to "Sabotage," will have to rewatch.

And yes! Temple Grandin!

[jones_casey]

i actually posted my comment intra-episode, so i hadn't yet seen the grand culmination of the hendrix references. the beastie boys reference probably wasn't intentional & just me "i'm tellin' ya bill, this is sabotage!". i have to wonder whether the psychedelia, magicalish resurrection of kara, and gestating cult of baltar didn't turn off some of the hardcore sci-fi fans. but what really struck me about it was, knowing only generally what's to come and not the details, that they would inject an earth-pop-culture reference into the series. i'm assuming this means that the five were alive on "our" earth at some point, but i was a little surprised that they gave away that secret (if only by implication) so early in the game.

(i have a terrrrrrible memory)

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You've seen this, y/y?

(you may even have recommended this to me.)