Lucius in Stride Lucius Shepard's Hugo Nominated short story, "Stars Seen Through Stone." The intrusion of other realities into troubled relationships is Shepard's meat and potatoes. I like this as a relatively upbeat alternate version of his recent short novel, "Softspoken."
Arthur C. Clarke dies. And so the last of the triumvirate of early sci-fi giants, along with Heinlein and Asimov, is gone. Phil Dick once said that every time someone used a robot that thought it was human he should get paid. For Clarke, it's every time a giant spaceship hovers over a city and people gather together to look up in awe and fear. Childhood's End is a legitimate classic. The stories stay with me more. "The Star" and "Nine Billion Names of God" are perfect, mind-blowing constructions. R.I.P.
Lost Time I've never become a part of the giant Lost community online. I don't want to know spoilers and couldn't care less who fan nation thinks is cuter. I've also been avoiding most theories since I hope the show itself will be the best prestige. Yet, I couldn't resist peeking at this theory and this similarly time-centric theory.
Yeah, probably something like that. But what about the four toes? (Links via PopCandy.)
Bookstore Fun If you ever want to the see the extent of the right wing publishing noise machine, well, why the hell would you? It's much more fun to kill your brain cells with alcohol. But if you must check out the extent of the "Hate the Left" type books, go to one of those remainder and overstock stores. I was in one today and was struck by the sheer number of unwanted screeds. Unsurprisingly, many lonely Ann Coulter books haunted the shelves along with Trent Lott's memoirs. What a cute couple.
The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: How the Left is Blah, blah, blah I passed by. I almost picked up Intellectual Morons: Why the Left believes Blahbity Blah just to see if it had a real publisher or came from one of those phony conservative clearinghouses. Many of these books are published just to be bought in bulk to make the author a name and then they have to go somewhere. I think they should insulate houses with them. I mean, no one appears to want these books.
Liberals Hate Us was the reoccurring theme and gibberish predominated. They couldn't even name a powerful figure. It was "liberals" or "the left." Way to have some facts. I know left wing books also get remaindered, but I didn't come across any on this trip. The closest I could come was Mo Rocca's All the Presidents Pets, which didn't seem as political or angry.
The UConn women get a chance to avenge their only loss tonight against Rutgers - 7, ESPN2. Also, the Big East regular season title is on the line.
Of course, UConn is lucky to be in this position after being down 17 versus DePaul and winning on Maya Moore's steal with 7 seconds left and Ketia Swanier's bucket with 2. I wrote this game off as lost about six times. I happened to be at a party and had to turn so I couldn't see the TV. I only started watching when I noticed people intensity level picking up near the TVs. She's come through every time I've said it so once again - if you haven't seen Maya Moore yet, check out tonight's game.
