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links for 2010-03-25: they’re made of meat

Meat Terry Bisson's short story, one of the first that ever came my way over the net, back in the early 90s, coming around again (they always come around) via the Daily Grail (tags: Terry-Bisson meat scifi story SETI consciousness)

Posted on March 25, 2010 by pilgrim
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links for 2010-03-02

In Disobedient Rooms: On J.G. Ballard China Mieville on Ballard – at some length, in The Nation. (tags: jg-ballard china-mieville literature criticism)

Posted on March 2, 2010 by pilgrim
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links for 2010-01-28: Lacan at the Scene

Hop Scotch: CSI: photography (Vue Weekly) "what if Jacques Lacan—the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst—had left his home in the early 1950s in order to travel to England and work as a police detective? How might he have applied his … more…

Posted on January 28, 2010 by pilgrim
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links for 2010-01-08: Two Gentlemen of Lebowski

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski The Big Lebowski retold in Shakespearean English, beautifully done. (tags: Shakespeare Lebowski humour film literature)

Posted on January 8, 2010 by pilgrim
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links for 2009-12-21: Ed Sanders

Ed Sanders Great pictures of Ed at home in Woodstock NY, by Ted Barron. For Relix magazine (tags: Ed-Sanders Fugs Woodstock Ted-Barron photography)

Posted on December 21, 2009 by pilgrim
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links for 2009-12-09: hanging with Pynchon

LRB · Hanging with Pynchon A short memoir of encounters with TRP in the early 70s, by poet Bill Pearlman. "One of the things Pynchon liked was to be driven around LA by one of the young women from the … more…

Posted on December 9, 2009 by pilgrim
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links for 2009-12-04: Kubrick on adaptation

The Kubrick Site: Kubrick on 'Words and Movies' from Sight & Sound, 1960-61 (tags: kubrick film writing literature)

Posted on December 4, 2009 by pilgrim
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links for 2009-11-16: collected Lovecraft

Writings of H. P. Lovecraft Not entirely complete, actually, but pretty close… (tags: books literature cthulhu fiction lovecraft)

Posted on November 16, 2009 by pilgrim
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Jim Carroll 1949-2009

(via Silliman’s Blog) Possibly wrong to bring it up in an RIP box, but: whilst peering into the depths of the David Shankbone portrait on Silliman’s Blog, it struck me that if anyone were planning to make a film of … more…

Posted on September 14, 2009 by pilgrim
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Inherent Vice… the trailer???

YouTube – Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon – 9781594202247 Holy Mother of Jeebus, somebody’s gone and made a trailer for the new Pynchon. So, are They finally going to do a Cormac McCarthy on TRP? I can’t see it working, myself, … more…

Posted on August 4, 2009 by pilgrim
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