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Category Archives: Media
Well, I’m back from my recent travels – and utterly exhausted. I’ve been trying to catch up on my sleep for a week, but that doesn’t seem to be actually working. Last night, for example, I slept for a good eight hours and still woke up exhausted. This is disturbing, as I have a long […]
Yesterday I had an amazing meeting with several of my friends and coworkers to discuss a new possible project coming down the pike, and although I can’t tell you what that project is yet, it wound up triggering some intense late-night thinking. How do robots tell stories? We’ve all seen robots as characters – C-3PO […]
January 30, 2009
11:49 am
Thanks to the hard work of my old friend Bill Coughlan and our film troupe Tohubohu Productions, I have recently had an old dream realized. I am now in the IMDB. The film that got me there is The Big Lie That Solves Everything, the third short film I produced with Tohubohu and our entry […]
(Note: I should preface this bit of writing with a warning: what follows is a first attempt to set down some things I’ve been struggling to articulate for the past couple of years. As such, it may be slightly less than ideally coherent, but hopefully out of it some clarity will emerge.) What is literature? […]
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The New York Times’ Freakonomics blog is weighing in on the “public library renaissance”: …If nobody seems to be out buying books, movies, and music, what are they doing with their leisure time instead? Apparently: going to the library. The Boston Globe reports that public libraries around the country are posting double-digit percentage increases in […]
November 26, 2008
9:31 am
Now I’m a big fan of the gray lady, and I’m also a big fan of long, complicated sentences, but Manohla Dargis should be taken aside and given a strict talking-to for this doozy in today’s review of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia: Though “Australia” is narrated by a young boy of mixed race, Nullah (the newcomer […]
November 18, 2008
11:29 am
A bit of a hiccup in my NaNoWriMo scribblings, due to this turning out to be an incredibly tempestuous week (and it’s only Tuesday). Big news is breaking here in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, which I’ll link to as soon as it is officially announced… And now the cat is out of […]
I have just discovered that, in addition to Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Pratchett’s Nation, Link’s Pretty Little Monsters and Carroll’s The Ghost in Love, Louis De Bernieres’ new book A Partisan’s Daughter hit shelves today. I yield! I yield! My poor wallet! What else could this fall possibly throw at me? (Well, there’s this, this, […]
September 30, 2008
3:00 pm
Consider this a public service announcement that Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Terry Pratchett’s Nation AND Jonathan Carroll’s The Ghost in Love are out today. TODAY. Go! Stop reading this and go, dammit! Hie thee to a bookstore! Or Amazon! I could also note that the 2-disc Blu-Ray set of Iron Man is out today, […]
I don’t have time to respond to the piece in-depth at the moment, but a very intriguing piece has appeared on the blogosphere that argues the “Death of the Niche Market” is upon us. Besides a couple of small annoyances with the author in general (an infestation of “it’s / its” mistakes and his billing […]
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