Feed, M.T. Anderson: I don’t read post-apocalyptic sci-fi anymore, and certainly not immediately-pre-apocalyptic, but I didn’t know that’s what this was. All I knew was that it was about a future in which everyone has the internet in their brain and they’re advertised to all the time, and that it’s extremely popular and draped [...]
Entries from April 2007
Reviews: Feed and Zel
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
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Hall of Human Origins
April 17th, 2007 · No Comments
I went to New York City this weekend to see Paula. After yummy dim sum with Jesse on Sunday, we slogged through the torrential downpours to the American Museum of Natural History to see their new Hall of Human Origins. Now, I am a huge origins of man nerd. I never get [...]
Hyperbole of the day
April 6th, 2007 · 7 Comments
I’m reclassifying all the Shakespeare (he’s the only author in Dewey who has a special set of sub-classification letters: B for Biography, D for Critical appraisal, a code for each play and criticism of that play, etc.), and came across Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom. The front flap claims that [...]