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Recent news:

Lost rock star flatmate, gained movie star flatmate.

Saw Johnny Cash movie Walk The Line, dug it (probably dependent on digging Johnny Cash).

Read Clive Barker novel Sacrament, first Barker book I'd read in about fifteen years, loved it.

Started learning to understand Swahili but still cannot speak or spell any of it.

Discovered the secret of time travel, rotated through time to alter past events, arranged George W. Bush to be elected US President twice in a row just for kicks, now cannot remember how to put it back. Still chuckling about that faux pas -- people will wonder for centuries how sadistic braindead shitkicker with no charisma, political smarts or English speaking ability came into high office.

Saw stoopid bugfuck Russian vampire movie Night Watch, liked it OK (would have liked it much less if it was non-Russian, best thing about it was the subtitles, no homo; otherwise was typical waste-of-millions Hollywood-style blockbuster, Michael Bay with an Eastern Block accent - still can't quite understand why $5 million usually seems to buy a better movie than $100 million; concluded that most people who watch movies these days are morons).

Set fire to Don Brash's head, disappointed that nobody noticed.

Started blogging again. Sort of. We'll see.

Instructions (because you need to be told what to do):

Listen to this speech by Bruce Sterling, and this follow-up interview.

You might want to go hog-wild and read this freeware book by Sterling.

Sterling claims to be a disciple of Harlan Ellison. His speaking voice reminds me weirdly of Jello Biafra. I love them both, but to my mind Sterling is more reasonable and balanced than either, and probably smarter too.

Posted by pearce at February 27, 2006 4:36 PM