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10 tips on writing from Joyce Carol Oates, a fine...
10 tips on writing from Joyce Carol Oates, a fine addition to our ongoing archive of wisdom on writing.
Just yeah, yeah, I hear you Joyce Carol, I hear you.
July 21, 2013
Sergio Leone quotes
Went looking for more.
My favorite from this bunch:"The function of the flashback is Freudian…[Y]ou have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream."
July 20, 2013
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I wasn’t too chuffed about the weird changes I saw in my favorite start-up guy. Crawferd was a techie I knew from my circuit: GE Industrial Internet, IBM Smart Cities, the Internet-of-Things in Hackney hackathons. The kind of guy I thought I understood.
I relied on Crawferd to deliver an out-there networked-matter pitch to my potential investors. He was great at this, since he was imaginative, inventive, fearless, ti...
July 19, 2013
"There used to be all sorts of criticisms of the old “culture industries" like Hollywood and the top..."
There used to be all sorts of criticisms of the old “culture industries" like Hollywood and the top 40, which entertained us with stories or songs that always ended on an upbeat note, no matter how false. But at least the culture industries went to the bother of entertaining us. Their replacements don’t even bother. They expect us to entertain each other, and pay a tax for it. Facebook or Google’s YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information...
I don’t know what Mr. Sterling is at work on here, but...
I don’t know what Mr. Sterling is at work on here, but I’m in.
July 18, 2013
Overheard at Comic Con
By a petit young woman climbing a lamppost so as to get a clearer view of a red carpet arrival: “I’m so short I can’t even see who it is."
It was, for the record, Emo Philips.
Comic Con, not all its cracked up to be.
Hi Clementine!
Because I could, you know?
Hi Clementine!
Because I could, you know?
The Spirt of Comic Con
It is more than slightly telling that...
The Spirt of Comic Con
It is more than slightly telling that when you check into Comic Con you receive not only the con program and a souvenir book, but also a beejuzus big, multi-branded, shopping bag. Yes there is true fan joy here, yes it is geek prom and a place where people who feel (with increasingly less reason in terms of their interests) marginalized come to bond with their ilk, but it is mostly a place to sell shit.. Some of it is cool shit, but it is very hard to find anything in th...
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