Happy Birthday, The Matrix!

March 31, 2009 Morphizm 0

The movie took cyberfiction staples like those found in William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy and mashed them together with anime, wire-fu, postmodernism, metaphysics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations, and a torrent of other texts and contexts.

Watchmen Tunes Merge Comic, Cash

March 10, 2009 Morphizm 0

The slightly good news is that some of the music that made it into the film, but not the comic, didn’t make it to the soundtrack. The bad news? Some lousy songs made both the film and the soundtrack, but never made the comic at all.

Climate Change’s Firestorms and Deep Freezes

February 17, 2009 Morphizm 0

Those who would argue that these are isolated events do so at their own peril. The more time passes, the more both examples of extreme weather resemble two sides of the same fearsome coin known as catastrophic climate change.

Happy Birthday, Sofie!

February 9, 2009 Morphizm 0

Time sure flies when your life is changed. Thank the Big Bang for my daughter. Happy two years on Earth, my angel. Your mother and I love you forever.

The Prisoner Reboots the Panopticon

January 14, 2009 Morphizm 0

I spent last week chatting up actors Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen and other principals behind the reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s culturally influential sci-fi allegory The Prisoner — and it was […]

Show Obama The Money

January 13, 2009 Morphizm 0

[Scott Thill, Morphizm] UPDATE: My fine fellow journos at the Huffington Post have syndicated this post there. Hop on, stir it up, spread the noise. “This disaster is not set […]

Sorry, Bill Richardson. My Bad.

January 6, 2009 Morphizm 0

I feel like a jerk. I wrote a hopeful piece about Bill Richardson, president-elect Barack Obama’s selection for the Department of Commerce, for AlterNet. Sure, it was also about Richardson’s […]

Best Of 2008, The Playlist

December 16, 2008 Morphizm 0

What a year. My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver returned, Juana Molina and Marnie Stern spacetracked my brain strange, the playlist goes on. Speaking of here it is. Some of the […]