A Pardoner’s Tale: Masaru Emoto

This morning I was watching a very so-so movie about Quantum mechanics and “mysteries”, called What the (Bleep) Do We Know? (here’s the imdb entry)and it mentioned some Japanese fellow named Masaru Emoto. Now, during my visit home my parents had been talking about him as someone who’d done amazing research into the effects on [...]

What The Hell’s The Deal With Ian McDonald’s River of Gods?

The book’s been highly praised, widely reviewed, and yet most of the bookshops I checked for it at (in Canada) had never even had it in stock at any point in time.
Moreover, now that I’m asking an excellent book order service about it here, I’m told that it’s actually out of print! How can [...]

Wanna Kill an Hour?

Yes, yes, time is precious. But, for a little while, so is this game.

Found on Typefiend’s livejournal, via Derek Kirk Kim’s wonderful website.

Be Careful What War of the Worlds You Wish For

Well, there I was just a few days ago lamenting the fact that Spielberg chose to “adapt” Wells’ The War of the Worlds to the 21st century, and that he’d not done a period piece. And then I found a link on White Screen of Despair to a period production of the film (take your [...]

Note to all Entertainment Section Journalists:

Stop interviewing Tom Cruise. You’re just encouraging him.
Please just ignore him and he’ll shut up. Don’t call him, don’t ask him questions, don’t treat anything he says as if it’s worth noting, because it’s rather worth nothing. Don’t talk to him. Cut him off, okay?
That is, unless you’re got a plan to mock, humiliate, [...]

The ongoing slowdown

Right. You probably have noticed my posting rate has slowed down some. I intend to keep that slowdown in effect, even though I’m back from my travels. I have far too many things to do to keep blogging as extensively as I had been doing earlier in the year.
Most important now is getting my [...]

More Readings and Reviews: Books 19, 20, and 21 of my Lunar New Year List

It’s holiday-time, which also means it’s heavy-reading time for me. I’ve been devouring books, which is a good thing because I have a lot of them and I’d feel a bit funny not reading them. In fact, looking through my boxes of books at my parents’ home, I felt a bit sad seeing so many [...]

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