Author: Alex Irvine
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Continuing Memoir Backlash, Plus Acme!
Entertainment Weekly has a genuinely stupefying rundown of the metastasizing memoir industry over the past ten years or so. Why don’t people just exorcise their personal demons and indulge their narcissism through autobiographical fiction, the way they used to? And if you are a fan of Warner Brothers cartoons, which if you aren’t you should…
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More Mars Porn
…only of Earth this time, photographed by HiRISE from Mars. Click for a full-size version at NASA.
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Vertigopedia, Hanif Kureishi, and Flannery O’Connor
Bully was at BEA, and took this picture of a spread from the Vertigopedia. Newsarama‘s blog noted it, and also pointed to Brian Wood, of (among other things) DMZ and Northlanders fame, saying nice things about the book. And in another note: Hey, Hanif Kureishi, in this article you really come across like an asshole.…
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1997, 1998, 2002, 2008…
I nearly died in the final seconds. BoingBoing linked a little while ago to this page, which is chock-full of links to classic SF TV shows, and a few movies. Some awesome stuff, including Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. And here is a little note from ICv2 about the Vertigopedia.
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Twilight of the Gods
The Film Music Society (since picked up everywhere else) notes the passing of Alexander Courage, who composed the Star Trek theme. This in addition to Harvey Korman and Sydney Pollack over the past few days. It’s time for a memorial viewing of Blazing Saddles.
Crooked House Fictions 