I don’t know about you, but I am starting to feel like we are living in the future. Maybe it’s my age (40 years is stalking me like a lion stalking a goat), or maybe it’s because 2010 just seemed so far away and futurey when I was a child, but 2010 signifies the future …
Do not finish reading Jonathan Carroll’s books right before bed. You won’t go to sleep easily. Not because he writes horror—although After Silence is horrifying in ways both strange and mundane—but because in the last words you read, in those final sentences before the blankness of the end-pages, you will encounter profound questions about what …
I took these from my bedroom window on January 4, 2009.
Will be back to blogging soon – for all 3 of you who care. 😉
“Roo’d” (Joshua Klein) “Dagon and Other Macabre Tales” (H. P. Lovecraft, T. E. Klein, S. T. Joshi) “Metrophage (Ace Science Fiction Special, No 9)” (Richard Kadrey) “The Graveyard Book” (Neil Gaiman)
New job, new apartment, getting settled and will be back soon. In the meantime, you should subscribe to the podcast “Welcome to Mars,” and listen to the 12 episodes and tell me if it doesn’t blow your mind. The show is like a subterranean history of the 50s, rife with tales of drugs, UFOs, gov’t conspiracies, movies, and occasional sex.
Real life is not as aesthetic an experience as the movies. I mean, I know that. You know that. We all know that. Certain events, however, create an expectation that something more than real, something movie-magic making, might, indeed, happen to us. Events like weddings, first dates, proms, funerals, or reunions are supposed to provide life-altering …
The past couple of weeks I’ve tried several ways to put up a photo gallery on my site. I started off with hosting them on my site, but then realized that I would have to update those manually and they would only be available for people who visited LtL—and while the quality of my visitors …
(Photo by indi.ca) This is a commercial. Of sorts. A good friend of mine runs a game store in Kingston, RI called “Games Less Ordinary.” I’ve known Anne for almost 20 years now, and we’ve gone through a lot, and I am so incredibly proud of her for starting her own store and running her …
“Down by Law – Criterion Collection” (Criterion) If you are a fan of Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, Fishing with John’s John Lurie, or the understated but highly original story-telling of Jim Jarmusch, you should own Down by Law. Not just rent it, but own it. I recently watched this movie again and if the first …
