Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption
Where I talk about books, movies, television, art, pro-wrestling and other forms of culture and pop-culture
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Dancing Brolgas, Steel Balls, and Beating Hearts of the Universe
Today I spent a lot of time walking around the city, alternating…
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Hope and Fear and Figuring Out a Story
Yesterday, I wrote 979 words on Pixie Dust, with Whisky Chaser. Finished…
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Old School
I am still one of those people who follows blogs through an…
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Watching Deep Space Nine
I never really jelled with Star Trek. The SF of my childhood…
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Places You Should Be: Angela Slatter’s Corpselight Launch on July 14
Angela Slatter’s second novel, Corpselight, is on my table alongside a fresh…
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The Flaw of “Not That”
I’m halfway through Glen Weldon’s The Caped Crusader, a book that traces…
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The Bloody Chamber
In need of distraction, I started reading Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber…
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Reading Inhabitat Again
I started reading the Inhabitat blog eight or nine years ago, maybe.…
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What I’m Reading: Dear Sweet Filthy World, Caitlin Kiernan
My copy of Caitlin Kiernan’s latest short story collection arrived in the…
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I am the worst possible judge of what will actually be useful
Over the weekend I dropped three hundred bucks to pick up a…
