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They Will Rise Again from the Tundra
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Evil Mammoth returns in yet another incarnation. Tangential ramblings regarding film, writing, and politics abound.
Recent Posts
A Habit Worse Than Heroin
Simon Read. War of Words: A Tale of Newsprint and Murder. Union Square Press, 2009. 320 pages. ISBN-10: 1402756127 “Journalism [is]… a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.”...
Children of the Office, I Implore You
Image Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paladin27/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 I am forced to sit here and suffer through another long afternoon of pretending to work largely because I have become more efficient as a worker. I wouldn’t even go as ...
Piracy and Kink at Bristol Renaissance Faire
Image from Wikimedia Commons It happened very suddenly. A large pair of artificial breasts shrouded in a loose-fitting shirt of the Renaissance Period slid into view at eye level as I was standing in a circle of my friends. I tilted my head upward ...
Human 2.0: Vague Principles of Destructive Evolution
There are too many stimuli and no way to unhook from from the Delivery System. Every thirty seconds or so, TweetDeck chirps and notifies me that some Twitter entity or another has posted something to the web. Facebook is running and constantly upda...
Brain Dump: Golf and Iran
There are few activities more masochistic than golf. The twisted nature of the sport has been covered all too well by golfers and comedians alike, so I will spare you the banal jokes. I'm in no mood for them after what happened this afternoon. I'...
Lawrence Lessig and the Future of the Internet
When George Orwell's famous protagonist from 1984, Winston Smith, begins to read The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, supposedly penned by the revolutionary Emmanuel Goldstein, Orwell writes that the best books are the ones that tell...

