UPDATE (LATER THAT DAY): Amazon claims it was a “glitch.” Dubiousness abounds. See the comments section of this post for more. ORIGINAL POST: Twitter is aflame today, where it’s still Easter Day over in North America. For my part, I ran across the news on Tobias Buckell’s feed. Right, Amazon, do you want to know why everyone is offended by what’s been done? It’s because intelligent people — which are presumably a big part of your customer base, seeing as you’re selling books — can’t stand to be protected for their own good.1. They abhor it, they find it arrogant …
Month: April 2009
Linky Stuff Part Deux
Some poems by my friends Maura and Neile are in the recent, excellent offering by Goblin Fruit. (And a review here.) Fascinating talk at TED by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist who had a stroke. Observing a stroke from the inside: chilling, but fascinating. My friend Charles is a bad, bad man for noting that South Park can be watched online. Not that I’ve seen more than one episode there — no time — but, gaaaaaaaaaah.
Linky Stuff
Linky stuff is less fun than kinky stuff, from what I vaguely recall, but hey, this is the internet and we’ll take what we can get, right? When I was playing in a local student big band in Saskatoon, the guy on second tenor was the funniest person I’d met up until then. His name was Jason — I can’t remember his family name, but he was Jason the tenor player — and he once said of his job at a video store, “Man, I was so busy today I didn’t have time to take a sh*t!” Suffice it to …
“SF in South Korea Today” — Article Live
For those following my on-and-off series on SF in South Korea, I just got an email from Jetse de Vries that my article summing up my recent gleanings on the topic, and also including a certin amount of the information I got from an “interview” I had with Jeong So-Yeon at Sobaeksan, has gone live at Shine Anthology’s blog. You can see it here.
Black Hole Jazz
I’m not referring to any jazz/SF thing at the moment — though I like that title, maybe it could work in another context — but rather to Brad Mehldau Trio’s rendition of Black Hole Sun on their album Brad Mehldau Trio Live. I don’t know why I’m amazed it can be done: plenty of old jazz standards were cheesy Broadway showtunes. Still, I guess the shocker is that someone, post-Wynton Marsalis jazz-fascism-era, is actually daring to do it, and doing it well. The following aren’t the album version, as far as I can tell, but they give you some idea: …