Category: blog posts
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The Empire has fallen, but its remnants cling to power on the Outer Rim of the galaxy. The job of mopping up these remnants has been left to Republic Colonel Sigourney Weaver, and she’s gonna need all the bounty hunters and their adorable sidekicks/surrogate alien children she can find to…
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Trapped in a meaningless cycle of work, commuting, and isolation, a young worker in a busy Japanese city notices a man on his subway car brutally berating a young mother for her baby’s crying. Disturbed by the display, but paralyzed by fear and inertia, he turns away and blocks out…
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I’ve been using search engines for nigh on three decades of my life at this point. A search engine is a tool you use to help you find something that is true. Truth, because it has meaning, cannot be delivered by a machine, it’s got to be arrived at via…
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Bosnia AND Herzegovina? In this economy?
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“AI cannot hunger or thirst. It can only regurgitate.“ So claims an insightful piece by Eleanor Russell, which illuminated to me a lot of the problems I have with the idea of “art” being generated by an unthinking and unfeeling machine, not to mention whether there could be anything worthwhile…
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+ ai art, anti-life equation, art, creativity, darkseid, fascism, jack kirby, large language models, new gods+
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it’s not gonna happen. Every Saint Patrick’s Day, grade schoolers across America arrive to school bummed out to find that the leprechaun traps that they painstakingly worked on with their classmates have failed. The leprechaun(s) have once again broken out, leaving behind shamrock-shaped glitter and (if the kids are lucky)…
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A Guest In The House by E.M. Carroll I loved the art. The careful use of color in the protagonist’s mostly black-and-white world conveys emotions powerfully. I like how ambiguous the ending was, both in not spelling out fully what happened as well as leaving a huge mystery about who…
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+ book-review, book-reviews, books, comics, dorothy baker, e m carroll, fiction, joe haldeman, reading, reviews, shirley jackson+
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First: Ravi Shankar I lucked into this one. When I was like six years old my parents had tickets to see Ravi in Iowa City, and a few nights before the show my sister broke her leg. My mom wanted to stay home with her instead of getting a babysitter,…
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I became a blog addict because I was a kid who loved movies. In the early 2000s, the movie blogosphere was a very exciting place for developing nerds to find themselves. The first movie website that I got really into was the AV Club, back when Nathan Rabin, Keith Phipps,…
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Stories about characters like Punisher that dig deep into the grimmest, darkest grim darkness are, Frank-ly speaking, a dime a dozen. It takes a writer like Garth Ennis, with a vile and blackhearted sense of humor and a grotesquely sprawling imagination, to make one of these stories feel like something…
Soup Is Good Food 