Author: Alex Irvine
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PKDlicious
The guy who made and then lost an excellent robotic head of Phil Dick has had his lawsuit dismissed. The judge’s dismissal is excerpted at Total Dick-Head, and it is marvelous. Wonder where the head has gotten to by now…
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Misgivings
Guillermo del Toro, in 2006: I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don’t like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits — I’ve never been into that at all. I don’t like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff.” Guillermo del Toro, in 2008: “Contributing to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ legacy…
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Baseball and Technical Difficulties
It may already be apparent to some of you that alexirvine.net is undergoing a time of travail. I’m not sure why, but with any luck it will all be sorted out soon. One of the downsides of the online merchant-customer dynamic is the difficulty of actually finding a human being who will admit to being…
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To the Barricades!
Elements of the French intelligentsia are agitating for the abolition of the semicolon. Barbarians. And speaking of barricades, on Sunday we (by which I mean L and myself) went to the Public Theater‘s Public Lab for a play called Paris Commune. Improbably, it was a musical. Even more improbably, it was a pretty good show.
Crooked House Fictions 