One of the CDs I came across last week while packing was my copy of Steven Jesse Bernstein’s Prison album. It’s a fine album, but the sole reason I treasure that CD is his poem, More Noise Please. It’s heart rending. I feel like Jesse is holding on to the world by his fingernails. But it’s also funny, self-aware, and tender.
Bruce Sterling’s Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories appeared on my Kindle this week. I had forgotten I had purchased it in advance months ago. I’m looking forward to spending an afternoon reading it this weekend.
A boy and his dog.
I was hoping to sleep in this morning but the grandkid had other ideas. He woke me with a present: a toy car with Mini Mouse as the driver. Best morning ever.
Would you sell your DNA as a NFT? Whose DNA would you buy? I’m experiencing a Gibsonian moment thinking about it. https://cointelegraph.com/news/akon-to-sell-historic-dna-data-art-as-nft-on-oasis-network
I was one of those latchkey kids. One of my favorite summer activities was picking a direction at random and riding our bikes until we came across a pond. We’d swim all day and come home at dark.
Just as Egan cribbed from Dennett for his book, Diaspora, I need to read Terence Hawkin’s The Rage of Achilles because he cribs from Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
I was primed for Diaspora because I had just read Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained, which Greg Egan cited in his novel. Egan did a neat trick turning Dennett’s ideas into fiction.
Egan’s Diaspora is so hard sci-fi that even though the book is almost a quarter century old, it hasn’t aged a day. After all this time it never fails to blow my mind.
Speaking of Greg Egan, the pronouns of Ze/Zir in my profile were taken from the AI protagonists in his book, Diaspora.
The idea of using a synthesis of Greg Egan’s Diaspora and Bruce Sterling’s Shaper/Mechanist stories for the setting for a RPG is really exciting. At least this nerd thinks so.
I’m surprised there are almost no videos of p.m.’s bolo’bolo on YouTube. I did find this one, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKf71qHmJLk
I am wrapping up my Sunday evening watching the X-Men animated tv series. The animation is both crude and sophisticated. The same goes for the plots. The voice talent is pretty good. Overall, the show is better than I anticipated.
While eating lunch at Birria El Rey I overheard the guys at the next table talking about a podcast called Midnight Ambience. Naturally, I was all ears. The show focuses on underground black metal, dungeon synth, noise and neofolk.
For a brief time Campbell’s was selling soup in bags. The Colbert Report mocked Campbell’s but I’m hear to tell you that it was actually quite tasty and I wish they’d bring them back.
60-hour work week has left me so drained that I can’t decide how to spend my day off apart from being on my phone.
It’s mandatory that my phone has a copy of my custom Killing Joke mix and Rudimentary Peni’s Cacophony album and on it.
I prepped tomorrow’s Soundwave featuring an awesome mix from Nate Heard. My neighbors will no doubt be relieved to stop hearing his mix over and over again.
Getting rid of some gear I picked up when I started podcasting over a decade ago. They served me well in the early years.
Once a year I consider signing up to play EVE Online. And ever year I talk myself out of it. Seems like a lot of work.