Sunday, December 30, 2012

2012

Books I read this year.
  1. You Are Here - Katherine Harmon
  2. The Simulacra - Philip K. Dick
  3. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
  4. Crompton Divided - Robert Sheckley
  5. Be More Chill - Ned Vizzini
  6. How to Architect - Doug Patt
  7. The Boxes - William Sleator
  8. Morlock Night - K.W. Jeter
  9. Tik-Tok - John Sladek
  10. Crash - J.G. Ballard
  11. The Iron Dream - Norman Spinrad
  12. Never the Twain - Kirk Mitchell
  13. I Sing the Body Electric - Ray Bradbury
  14. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
  15. Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling
  16. Gather Darkness! - Fritz Leiber
  17. Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks - Terrance Dicks
  18. Slam - Lewis Shiner
  19. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  20. The Stainless Steel Rat Returns - Harry Harrison
  21. Ringworld - Larry Niven
  22. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
  23. True Names - Vernor Vinge

Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Adventures of Slippery Jim diGriz

The Stainless Steel Rat Returns
by
Harry Harrison
Found this one at the grocery store across the street.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

second helping

Had to go back to the used bookstore and get more cheap books. Kinda glad I did because I've been searching for a copy of True Names for a while to add to my cyberpunk collection and I'd forgotten to look for Eros Ascending last time. I also found an old heavy metal album I hadn't heard in a long time: State of Euphoria by Anthrax.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

five books

I haven't been to the used bookstore at all this year. Till now. I kept in mind some suggestions from reddit and ended up with these five. I used to have On the Road but never finished reading it because an ex-girlfriend stole it.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

books of summer

Decided to put together a summer reading list because I noticed other people like to do that around this time of year. So I'll do it too now. I'm not doing them in any particular order, this is just what I have to choose from.

Friday, May 11, 2012

nsfw


Crash! is a short film directed by Harley Cokliss, based on J. G. Ballard's short story Crash! Starring J. G. Ballard and Gabrielle Drake.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

propaganda


Shopping on the web and consider yourself "green"? Think again chum!
You may just be breeding an ecological disaster in your own backyard...

Written by Jay O"Berski (www.littlegreenpig.com), Directed & Edited by Jim Haverkamp (www.jimhaverkamp.com).

Friday, February 17, 2012

Sunday, February 12, 2012

BLDG

I recently ordered this book online from Amazon. I got a used copy for ten bucks. I couldn't help starting to read it immediately, it's so interesting with lots of pictures and illustrations. The blog is cool too. I put the link in the sidebar down to the left. You should check that out.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Monday, January 23, 2012

options 4

It's options time again! That means the winner of the Super Bowl decides the answer to that age old question which haunts me every few weeks: What am I going to read next?  I had four options in mind a week ago, one for each possible contender. Edgar Allen Poe would have been a natural selection to represent the Ravens. San Francisco would have gotten KW Jeter. The selections became: NY Giants = Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem vs. NE Patriots = Blackbriar by William Sleator. I don't have a preference of teams or authors here. I think highly of them all. I kinda wanted the 49ers to go, so it would've been Jeter vs. Sleator. It rhymes.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Big Book of British Smiles

Screw it. I'm just gonna put this picture here instead of a video, since Hulu's embed code sucks so bad.

Friday, January 13, 2012

1st book of the year

You Are Here
Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
by
Katharine Harmon
 I've had this one sitting around for a while. I had it on the light reading list for a while, started to read it, left it in my car for a long time, forgot about it. Spent an hour searching my house for it tonight, then finally found it. It's finally time to get serious about reading it.


Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Listograph

I bought this book last year, thinking it would make a good calendar. Nope. I really needed one that lies open and flat on my bill paying desk, where I can easily see how much I owe who and when. This is more like a large paperback you'd carry around with you. I did try filling out some of the lists it gives you but I couldn't really get into it. Don't know why. I like making lists. Maybe writing in anything other than a blank notebook feels wrong.  $15.99 is a pretty expensive notebook.
This year one of my resolutions is to write a bit more and return to filling out these lists. But wait, there's an easier way. Listography is on the internet. Yesterday I signed up and have since  made 20 or so lists. Here's me.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Go Team Venture!

From Super Punch: Sean Dove's contribution to the upcoming Adult Swim show at Gallery 1988 is a Choose Your Own Adventure starring the Venture Brothers. He has various great, cheap prints on sale at Etsy.