Pat Perrin's Blog, page 14
November 27, 2012
Of Gadgets and People
My car is smarter than I am. Worse still, it has a wicked sense of humor. It knows that I’ve never really learned all of its buttons, commands, signals, gauges, options, and manifold gadgets stacked inside one another like Chinese boxes. So it plays tricks on me constantly. It’s favorite prank is to be utterly [...]
November 10, 2012
The “Single Synapse” Theory
“The transformation of the personality begins with the deliberate activation of a single synapse.” Thus Spake Aforista. The Postfuturist Sage Aforista makes it sound so easy! Most of us find it difficult to utterly change our personalities from the bottom up. But maybe, in a world on the brink of fiscal cliffs, climate change, global [...]
October 28, 2012
Bureaucratic Mummies
I’m currently reading 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann. If you haven’t read it, it’s absolutely breathtaking. It not only shatters the hoary belief in a sparsely populated pre-Columbian America, but also demonstrates that the “New World” stumbled upon by Columbus and subsequent Europeans was anything but “new.” State-of-the [...]
October 18, 2012
Apocalypse and Rumors of Apocalypse
RUPERT GILES: It’s the end of the world. SCOOBY GANG (in unison): Again??!! Pat and I dearly loved the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For one thing, we could relate to the show’s perpetual threat of apocalypse. Just about every other week, poor Buffy had to wrangle the demon hordes of multiple hell dimensions, [...]
October 5, 2012
Llixgrijb: The Story that Got Away
By the time we’d published a few issues of The Jamais Vu Papers newsletter, we’d talked with several brilliant and open-minded people, posing nosy questions about the nature of reality, Story, and just what we think we’re doing in this tangle of phenomena that we call a universe. Then an entity named Llixgrijb turned up [...]
Writing Together
Our guest blog on writing collaboratively is up on Blogging Authors here.
October 2, 2012
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September 27, 2012
Metaphor & Tom Robbins
As we reported in our post of 9/10, the storyline we set up for The Jamais Vu Papers newsletter required a psychiatrist named Hector Glasco to bring his jaded celebrity patient, whom he referred to as Hilary, to a condition of wonder, to a state of jamais vu. At the time, we were fascinated by [...]
September 19, 2012
Living Story
Even while we wrote about Story for PragMagic, we were living it for our newsletter, The Jamais Vu Papers. Updating material from Brain/Mind Bulletin for PragMagic put us in touch with fascinating people. We began to contact some of them along with friends about appearing in the newsletter. Issue by issue, we learned how to [...]
