- Whether Gary Trudeau should have used the Bush “Turd Blossom†nickname for Carl Rove in his column
- If the President of the United States should flip the media the bird
- The President of the United States
- The media
- The United States
- The concept of countries
- The left
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- Who the hell Ciara is
- Whether you wrote a blog entry today
Author Archive | Mark A. Rayner
Fun with hypertext & cartoons
Still in the sharing mood today.
If you like cartoons, then you’ll like this. If you think hypertext storytelling is completely impenetrable and confusing, then this will also be your thing. For my money, this is the most enjoyable hypertext I’ve ever experienced — even better than those “choose your own adventure” books I read when I was a kid.
Escape from friend zone
An enthusiastic review of The Amadeus Net
There’s a bit more postive news on the review front. There’s a critique of my novel, The Amadeus Net, that I’d like to point regular Skwib readers to today.
Stone Junction is one of Amazon’s top reviewers, and he’s written quite a thoughtful piece about the novel. You can find it here. [You’ll need to scroll down a little bit.] Of course, I might be biased because he compares me with both Philip K. Dick and Tom Robbins — two of my favourite authors.
I’ve actually been updating my news & reviews page on a regular basis, and you can find all the latest about The Amadeus Net there. And of course, you can buy a copy directly from ENC Press here.
Holy Crap! I don’t have a defense for ‘eyedar’
Do women have a special sixth sense that lets them know when a man — any man — is scoping out babes? I believe they do, and I believe The Columnist Manifesto has the goods.
Now, if only men could come up with some kind of stealth eyeball technology . . .
The water wars begin
It was hot at the Way with Words Festival in Britain yesterday. Hot enough to pay $100,000 CAN for a bottle of water?
No, but hot enough to steal. According to the BBC:
A thirsty thief is being blamed for downing a bottle of water, valued at £42,500, at a literary festival.
The “art” was two liters of water, taken from glacial runoff from the Antarctic, and was intended to highlight the issue of global warming, says the “artist” Wayne Hill.
This global warming thing is a serious issue, but seeing as this was a literary festival, perhaps the “thief” was an artist himself, and was trying to engage the “artist” in a bit of environmental irony.
BTW, the “value” of the artwork, is the “artist’s” estimate, based on a percentage of the damage of the entire western Antarctic ice sheet melting.
BBC Story
Carnival (of the vanities) arrives early
This week’s Carnival of the Vanities #149 is now up at Pratie Place.