Let’s start off today’s list of linked content with another Alan Moore item. You know we have a lot of use for Alan Moore here at Homo Sum. This is a three-part podcast interview with Moore over at the Resonance FM weekly show “I’m ready for my close up“. Part One Part Two Part Three I always enjoy hearing Moore… Read more →
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BOG VENUS vs. NAZI COCK-RING
It’s possible that some of you might have heard that Alan Moore (oft-mentioned here) wrote up a survey of 25000 years of porn for Arthur magazine‘s winter 2006 issue. Clearly this is related to, and has grown out of, Moore’s research into the history of pornography as part of his work on Lost Girls. Indeed, if you’ve read any of… Read more →
Bookish links of the day
Rick Kleffel has really been burning it up over at The Agony Column. There’s been some really top quality stuff there over the last couple of days, including: A lengthy interview with Naomi NovikI think I wanted her to sound like Patrick O’Brian or something. (mp3), A lengthy interview with Charles Stross…who does not sound “Scottish enough” to me. I… Read more →
Religion and Pornography
Let’s do some embedded YouTube videos quick, before someone notices that YouTube has no business model! I do love the Daily Show. I think this clip nicely captures the beauty of trying to debate the essentially arational. Or, as Paul Myers puts it “This is exactly what I hear when someone tries to promote their favorite cult.” Now, that’s not… Read more →
Recommended Reading (??): Lost Girls
Well, it looks like Lost Girls is finally going to be a published reality. As you could imagine, if you know me IRL, or if you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, I’m kind of a big ole’ drooling Alan Moore fanboy, so a new 240 pages graphic novel from him is a cause for some celebtration–especially… Read more →
Grabbing viral video
Have you ever been watching a video on Google Video, or YouTube, or somewhere and wanted to snag yourself a copy of the video? Maybe you want it because you want watch it again later and don’t want to lose the URL. Maybe you want to convert it to some other video format for another use. Maybe you want to… Read more →
I Am In The Wrong Country Next Week
Sigh. Blackwell on Charing Cross Road 18th January 7pm An evening with Michael Moorcock, in conversation with Alan Moore Tickets £6 normal, £4 for leeches on society. Buy them from the shop or call 0845 456 9876. This is totally going to be the Battle Of The Beards: versus Read more →
WTF (or “Amazon loses the plot”)
You know how Amazon keeps track of things you’ve purchased, and can send you emails of the form “if you liked X, then you’re sure to also like our new product Y that just came out”? Apparently there is either A) some kind of weird snag with the recommendation engine, or B) there are vast, secret, and strange connections underlying… Read more →
Geek Book Meme
Gwenda points to where The Guardian has come up with the Top 20 geek novels. This becomes a meme when you bold the ones you’ve read. I’ll take it a bit further with some comments, since there’s only one I haven’t read. Read more →
Bookstore splurges
So, while I was in Ontario last month (you remember the 10-day blog blackout?) I did get a chance to take a run into Toronto and visit a couple of my favourite specialty bookstores. The trip started with a visit to Canada’s leading mystery bookstore, The Sleuth of Baker Street, where I primarily was looking for new authors. I then… Read more →
Wednesday Linkfest
B3n (yes, that is a three), who is another online acquaintance from the Delphi days, is just as much of a language pedant as I am, and shows it while talking about the list of recent additions to the OED. I completely agree that they’re taking the whole ‘descriptive’ thing a bit far… While it does slightly warm my heart-cockles… Read more →
A few follow-ups
So, still sick, but capable of posting some follow-up links on some things I’ve talked about before. One of the topics I’ve discussed a lot is the whole “forcing creationism into schools” thing, one classic example of which was the whole evolution sticker thing. Well, you may recall that back in January the courts (correctly!) ordered the stickers removed. Apparently… Read more →
Hanging Around The House: My Office
A while back pal Gwenda tried to convince people to do photo-tours of their homes. I tried to shoot some pictures for something like that, but I found that I couldn’t take pictures that showed things the way I want to show them. However, it did inspire me to do a series showing the various pieces of artwork, etc., that… Read more →
Should I laugh or cry?
According to the Times, in an article I saw on Locus, it doesn’t bother Pullman, who seems to be taking the Alan Moore philosophical approach to what Hollywood is doing to his books, but I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry… THE Hollywood adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, in which two children do battle with… Read more →
