apparently, this cat sits on you, then you die two hours later. Unclear whether the cat can see the future or is made of poison.
(↝via strangemaps of course)
(↝via nytimes sunday book review)
I was going for a giant blue disembodied head of william gibson effect there, but images are styled
background-color: #FEFEFE;
so no dice.
and that would be intentional!
Meet the new boss, same as the blah blah
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The Dreamer
“…ice cream, gunpowder, fruit candy, hot cocoa, marshmallows, blood-orange peel, and probably some DDT.”
“After the fruity opening, it settles down to the smell of a freshly opened pack of cigs.”
“a lot like a gin and tonic being sipped by a gentleman smoking a pipe.”
“starts…under a bitter chemical haze that does bear some relation to a gin & tonic…What I remember instead is the distinct smell of tootsie rolls, some powdered sugar, a touch of auto parts.”
“it has a toxic-industrial edge that I find disturbing.”
“For all that, it is a soft, subdued scent once it dries down, and could easily qualify as unisex.”
From various reviews of Versace’s The Dreamer, a smell for dudes.
“
You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,” she said. “It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We’re thankful it wasn’t, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.”
—Spokesperson for the New Haven Mayor, on arresting some beer club germans
“The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.”
“forced,” huh?
“
We call them terrorists, virtue terrorists, that are destroying our kids.
—Ron Luce, founder of Teen Mania
See here.
Nice posters, though fairly expensive- for sale here.
Similar to the recent Dead Machines/Damon Romero/John Wiese LP seen here.
(↝via AisleOne)
“
But there are moments when—depending on what neighborhood I’m in, or what city I’m in, or what channel on television I’m watching—my eyes get really wide and I go, “Chandler wasn’t even close. This shit is truly dire.”
—--william gibson in the avclub interview
actually practically every line in this interview is gold. this guy even talks cool.
it’s nice to read an interview with billy g where the interviewer appears to have some familiarity with his work and has actually thought up some legit questions.
also: tagline gold.
last comment, I promise. just had to call this out: “if you’re seeing characters operating on the outside of things that they can’t fully comprehend, then you’re seeing part of the zeitgeist, and I think you might also be seeing an emergent, new kind of realism, where the individuals that write books are willing to admit to themselves—and to some extent to the reader—that they don’t know what the hell is going on.”
which led me to the Rogue Restoration Project.
which led me to the unmaintained Cthangbad.
now I want to make another try at getting into nethack.
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09152006
and finally: Wallace, a genetic algorithm for teaching a computer to play Super Mario Brothers.
i saw this on CNN in a cafe two months ago, and then had it forwarded to me by everyone that lived in Providence, ever.
there’s a japanese horror movie in here somewhere.
oh man some how i missed the pvd cnxn. Speaking of, on sunday I was walking down Bedford and I heard the following convo:
Hep Girl: “Oh yeah? That’s crazy. So what’s he doing now?” Hep Guy: “Well, I guess he’s just kind of a ‘Man About Providence’ these days.”