last python alive
i can’t really tell if terry jones’s constant reversion to his old shtick in terry jones’s medieval lives is i. tactical, ii. just kneejerk, or iii. semi-sheepish.
you can hardly accuse jones of dumbing down or s[…]

“and if the devil doesn’t like it he can sit on a tack!”
“Even before Family Christian started selling its karaoke music line, its store in Augusta, Ga., was holding monthly karaoke nights that really weren’t karaoke ni[…]

“he entered the forest and the phantoms came to meet him“
between my house and my friend T’s new house (see story in link) lie the Hackney Marshes (well sorta, if you take a bit of a northward curve on the way): the marshes i first[…]

No more decisive moments :(
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)[…]

map that proves that london is donut-shaped
it is simple: i. the City of Westminster cannot be part of the city of london by logic IT IS THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER WITH A COMPLETELY DIFFT NAME!! ii. City of London – called ‘City’ on o[…]

ON NAMING
back when Gibson’s Neuromancer wz just out, i recall my colleague d4vid qu4ntick getting into a strop abt the fact one of its characters is called “Quine”: he argued – he may be right – that the ONLY reason fo[…]

GLAMPIRES (by mark s) (Bah but k-punk made up the word ‘glampirism’ when he quoted a bit of this piece, so i am jealous…)[…]

AN OBLIQUE AND I HOPE NON-RANCOROUS RESPONSE TO BLISSBLOG’s LONG NON-RANCOROUS RESPONSE to etc (zzz)
While tidying up at Stone Lanes, I reread Teach Mark S a Lesson: Louis Prima. As it’s set long ago, it doesn’t strictly speaking a[…]

WHAT ALIENS MIGHT BE LIKE pt something-or-other [isn’t this a PBS series?]
On the whole science fiction novelists are no more convincing (though maybe more inventive) than science fact dreamers. Frank Herbert is the exception.[…]

“I’ll wager xwaxboz quatloos on the newcomer“: [v.long post alert]
Aliens in SF movies are mostly humans in rubber suits for a good practical reason. But since humans read books to find out about themselves, aliens in SF novels are[…]