China Miéville: “The Scar” Opened the Top of My Head

I first encountered China Miéville via his stunning third novel, The Scar. What I find amazing about this interview with Miéville about his latest novel, Kraken, in The Onion’s AV Club is that The Scar isn’t mentioned at all.  Yet so many of the commenters echo my amazement with The Scar. Words like “stunning” are… Continue reading China Miéville: “The Scar” Opened the Top of My Head

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The Oozing Sublimity of Zuckerberg’s Flop Sweat and Hoodie Removal

I cannot get this out of my head.  I had heard about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breaking out in a huge, visible sweat when Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal asked him about privacy problems that Facebook has brought onto its users recently. Mossberg and Swisher, I should mention, did not… Continue reading The Oozing Sublimity of Zuckerberg’s Flop Sweat and Hoodie Removal

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Hausu: Watch At Your Own Peril

Holy crap. Hausu (1977) is a Japanese film that blog Dangerous Minds calls “a mixtape compiled by a demented Carl Jung–immersive, repellent, hysterical and visionary.”

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