Archive for July, 2009

Signal to Noise

If you can cipher any coherency from contemporary news, via web and news networks, then you’re better at it than I am. I’m not ashamed to admit that after even half an hour of reading news stories online or viewing it on television that I become scatterbrained, scatbrained, unfocued, and completely bamboozled by anything and ...Read more.

And Like The Prodigal Son, I’ve Returned

Sheepishly, tentatively, I make my way back to the Book Blog. Neglected like an irritating sibling and yet just as important, allow this post to mark my return to all things booky, bloggy, and Briany. I won’t make excuses as to what happened or why I dropped out for several months. Instead, let us rejoice ...Read more.

A Poser!

Citybeat‘s Isaac Thorn has updated the eternal conundrum that we know as “Which Came First, The Chicken or The Egg”: Which Sucks Worse? Wrigley or Cubs Fans? May you philosophers out there forgive me for this Gordian Knot.

Neuromancer Hits A Quarter Century

Neuromancer is 25 years old. William Gibson’s psycho-hot Hugo winning book helped establish the Cyberpunk literary movement (or brought about its end… depends on who you talk to). For me, the book was an introduction to a technological world that I was only just beginning to understand. Y’see, kiddies, back before the Internet was an ...Read more.