Photos of the first few microseconds of an atomic blast. (via Warren Ellis)
Month / February 2006
You Can Write These Political Diatribes, George, But You Can’t Say Them
The Democrats unveil their secret weapon and it’s…George Lucas? Huh? Is there a lightsaber-swinging voting bloc which might counter the Christian right? I thought that only mattered in Australia. (via Ghost in the Machine)
Yippie Kayee, Mother Oprah
In an utterly baffling development, James Frey has found an unexpected supporter in Bruce Willis: “Look at what happened to James Frey in the last two weeks,” says Willis. “That’s a great book and so is the follow up book. And just because his publisher chose to say that these were memoirs, it took it out of being a work of fiction, a great work of fiction and very well written to this guy having to go be sucker punched on OPRAH by one of the most powerful women in television just to grind her own axe about it. ‘Hey, Oprah. You had President Clinton on your show and if this prick didn’t lie about a couple of things I’m going to set myself on fire right now.'” (via Defamer)
“Why Don’t You Write a Book, Ed?”
Oh boy, is this spot on.
The Impatient Insist on the Dust Heap
Dan Green on John Barth: “These days Barth is most often criticized for failing to “move past” the metafictional game-playing for which he has become perhaps the emblematic figure. But where, exactly, is he to go? Toward some more conventional kind of narrative strategy? Presumably he determined long ago that this was not the direction in which his talents would take him or he would never have abandoned conventional techniques iin the first place.”