Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
“Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials” by Reza Negarestani
I think “It: Welcome to Derry” is the stupidest show I’ve ever been invested enough in to watch weekly. Real “later season American Horror Story” vibes (complimentary)
Le Voyage Incroyable de Monsieur Grenouille
A crisis of overproduction has befallen our nation but in every crisis there is an opportunity for the savvy shopper! All items on clearance in the crisis of overproduction sale! Going on NOW!
I believe in ghosts, magic, aliens, unicorns, mermaids, Santa Claus, moth man, & the power of love
X-Files!
Not really relevant when we’re talking in broad strokes class terms. A lot of people are “failchildren” due to structural economic issues, not out of some inherent moral failing.
Obviously it’s only the core right now, but it all feels like too little butter spread on too much bread.
As New World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness’ strongest soldier, I want to like Curseborne; but after giving it a cursory read through, I just don’t get what the game is going for.
Our first episode on The Lord of the Rings is out! Ben and i had so much fun that we ended up having to split this one. Fellowship of the Ring, Part 2 will be out next week! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The ageless, some would even say elven, face of Bryan Johnson.
“The face of Elrond was ageless, neither old nor young, though in it was written the memory of many things, both glad and sorrowful.”
This week, we close out the Sunmerof Bad Vibes with Don DeLillo’s “Libra”. Listen now to hear John and Ben get to the bottom of this whole JFK assassination thing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Alfred Bester, Tiger! Tiger!, Penguin, 1974. Cover: David Pelham. Serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction 1956-57. First published as The Stars My Destination, 1956. #AlfredBester #RichardPowers #tiger #stars #destination #vengance #telepathy #SpaceOpera
The greatest criminal in the history of Japan is the same greatest criminal in the history of the rest of the world: youtu.be/kcS1GwOanCA?...
Not sure if this is what the person you’re referring to was thinking of, but there is a neo Lovecraftian novel called “Winter’s Tide” that has Deep One hybrids interned with Japanese citizens as a major plot thread.
i'm from a red state and i say kill us all
Always good to have a good book bull sesh with Molly, and this was no exception! Glad I finally got around to reading this one.
Probably also helps that she’s not actually visibly disabled in anyway. “Nazis were nice to outwardly-normal white woman” doesn’t sound quite as newsworthy though.
When I was job hunting last year, I applied to like 50 positions at U Chicago (mostly because i just want to move to Chicago), but now I’m pretty glad I only ever got one call back from them lmaooo
You seem to be imputing a moral valence to this discussion that isn’t here because you do view death as good. No one is saying death is metaphysically evil, they’re saying it sucks, it’s meaningless, and if we can put it off as long as possible then that would be desirable to a lot of people.
Like I said, we have a fundamental disagreement. I value my own life and would like to experience as much as possible; you don’t value your life and think of dying as some kind liberation from existence.
Given your other responses in this thread, you seem to have a profoundly negative, pessimistic view of life. Not for me, but I doubt I’ll be able to shift your perspective. Have a nice life!
The looming specter of death has structured human existence way longer than capitalism has. Assuming biological immortality would not completely upend our economic relations seems naive.
We need a reverse Down to the Countryside Movement
Black Crusade (the Chaos-centric 40k rpg) seemed to assume that there were a fair number of Chaos marines wandering around doing their own thing even if they nominally remained part of their legion.
LORD OF LIGHT (Thomas Lee, 1981)
Astronauts from Earth use technology to turn themselves into gods in order to subjugate the hostile natives of a planet they intend to colonize.
Designed by Jack Kirby and based on a novel by Roger Zelazny.
Sounds like someone lives in their retirement account…
Just providing contexts for those reading the thread 😇
