Saturday, February 5, 2011
Stuff I'm Thinking About
Orpheus (Greek: Ὀρφεύς; in English pronounced/ˈɔrfi.əs/
The earliest reference to Orpheus is a two-word fragment of the sixth-century BC lyric poet Ibycus:onomaklyton Orphēn ("Orpheus famous of name"). He is not mentioned in Homer or Hesiod.[3] Most ancient sources accept his historical existence; Aristotle is an exception.[4]
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Friday, February 4, 2011
National Post: Craig Davidson: The things you have to endure to do the one thing you must do
So Apt, a must read for writers second guessing themselves.
National Post: Craig Davidson: The things you have to endure to do the one thing you must do
Special to the National Post
Friday, February 4, 2011
Illustration by Sarah Lazarovic By Craig Davidson Before Christmas, I was at a literary gathering, which I don
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
SHORT STORY: THE CLIPPING OF CUPID
The Clipping of Cupid
We could never got the smell of urine out of the precinct house, gave up trying a long time ago. I quickly began to associate the yellowish odor as being home. It soothed and calmed my sixty something nerves. In secret, I matched the warmth with heat from my incontinent bladder as it released tiny rivulets of piss in my adult diaper. I was content in my incontinence and I tried not to question why, because I probably didn't want to really know the answers.
The perp was a perv. Ironically he was dressed in his own adult diaper, but that was it, no pants to cover his shame. His chest was bandaged by a half toga from a torn Disney's Pixar Toy Story movie sheet, the cartoon caricature faces of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen were unmistakable. He was found sitting among a mound of pigeon feathers in Central Park around the Cherry Hill area, a long bow in his hands and a quiver of arrows on his back.
He sat across from me in quiet dignity and although his feet were not long enough to touch the floor, he did not kick them back and forth like a child. He looked me directly in the eye, never once wavering away from my face. This was rare today and I respected his manners even though he was without question a looney tune.
"Name?" I asked.
"Name what?"
"I want your name Twinkles?" God, I hoped this guy wasn't gonna be a putz and defy my previous observations. "What is your name?"
"Cupid or Eros, your choice," He replied.
"Do you realize that it is illegal to hunt in Central Park?"
"Sure, everybody knows that, but I wasn't hunting."
"Buddy, you were found with a bow and arrows and feathers all around you like ticket tape in a ticket tape parade, plus you've got an indecent exposure charge too."
"Love is like that..."
To be cont…
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Life Imitates Art or Art Imitates Life?
Walter Jon Williams — "Walter Jon Williams' Deep State, out next week, picks up the themes of viral marketing and social media from his previous novel This Is Not A Game. And a lot of the stuff that Williams wrote about is very similar to what's been happening in Egypt and Tunisia. Is Williams a prophet of the internet age, or just lucky? Here's his take on what happened. As I watch the Egyptian demonstrations on CNN, I'm fascinated. A people-power revolution against an Arab autocrat was completely unknown until a couple weeks ago, when the Jasmine Revolution pitched Tunisia's Zine Ben Ali out of his luxe presidential office and into exile. As I write this, it seems as if another people-power revolution is on the verge of success in Egypt. I'm fascinated as I watch, but I am not surprised. I knew that this was going to happen.
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Oh, I didn't know it would happen in Egypt, or first in Tunisia. But I was very confident it would happen somewhere, sufficiently confident that I wrote the blueprint for this type of revolution in my novel, Deep State, which started appearing in stores just as insurrection exploded across Egypt. Very interesting timing, this. Once established, the Internet is like a river: it tends to flow around obstacles. The Chinese government has employs tens of thousands of civil servants to maintain what has been called the Great Firewall of China, its massive attempt to restrict information and discussion among Chinese. But any Chinese hacker worth his salt knows about proxy servers and software that will enable him to conceal his IP address, and that hacker will flow around the Great Wall to do his surfing and communication in near safety. Anyone with access to the Internet can find out what's going on around the world whether his government wants him to or not. Anyone who wants to keep their discussions and interests private has a very good chance of succeeding even against so formidable an obstacle as the Great Wall. The tools are there, ranging from Freenet to Tor to darknets..." Rest of article here:
http://io9.com/#!5751156/how-my-new-science-fiction-novel-predicted-the-egyptian-uprising
