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
Author: Lee Wallender
Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.
Top 3 Cars of Supercilious Grouchy Old Bastards
Being somewhat in the market for a new car and being somewhat of a guy who is getting (snort!) older, I figured the first order of business was to determine which cars I should not buy. That compelled me to reflect on the class of cars that I call Cantankerous Old Bastard Cars. First, let’s… Continue reading Top 3 Cars of Supercilious Grouchy Old Bastards
Hidden Cell Phone Towers? Try To Beat This One.
The Los Angeles Times has a photo essay about cell phone towers being cleverly disguised as palm trees. I think the best thing about Emily Shur’s photo essay is its title: Nature Calls. But come on, I’ve got this one beat. For years, my parents in Medford, Oregon have had a church down the street… Continue reading Hidden Cell Phone Towers? Try To Beat This One.
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
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.”