Stop Running Away From Global Warming, Fort McMurray
Fort McMurray is predictably swallowed by a sprawling inferno.
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Cli-Fi Is Real
Cli-fi is the cultural prism through which we monitor and experience ourselves as we bleed our planet dry while trying to become machines.
Life To The Pixies!
Unbowed, the Pixies’ reconstructed band, and brand, now soldiers ahead with street and market cred to spare.
Here Comes Precrime!
I got a chatter request from HuffPost Live about the surveillance state — and how none of it so far works or is worth the money.
Bilbo the Billionaire: A Short History of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Greed Wars
J.R.R. Tolkien legendarily wrote In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, one Oxford summer while “laborious[ly]” grading papers for some always welcome side money. Both of us, he could have added, will be stinking rich someday.
Who Is TheNewNo2? Dhani Harrison’s Cinema Soundtracker
“My dad’s soundtracks were always psychedelic.”
Swervedriver Achieves Escape Velocity
“Every new band starts out with a blank page and no history.”
Michael Bloomberg May Have His Own Army, But Has He Already Lost the War?
“No matter which door he picks in this Let’s Make a Deal episode, he comes out a loser. It’s kind of awesome.”
Bird Flu Bioterrorism Is Harder Than It Sounds
Doubtless there are further viral horrors awaiting a new millennium with dramatically enhanced genetic and chemical engineering capabilities.
We’ve Entered the Age of Mass Extinction
Every species has but one goal: To take over the planet. And every species that could, would, if it got the chance.
John Lennon, Working Class Mythmaker
Because he is unfairly lost to us now, all we have are mounting media replications to inform and console us.
Five Shamless Sci-Fi Oscar Robberies, Spearheaded By Avatar
UPDATE: This goofy roundup on Avatar‘s repurposed return has also been published by my pals at The Huffington Post and Bright Lights Film Journal. Stop by and mouth off. Riding […]
Show Obama The Money
[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 […]
Let Them Eat Hummers
UPDATE: My pals at the Huffington Post have syndicated this entry. Hop on and post a comment, if you feel so inclined. They love the love, and so do I. […]
Keep Hope Alive. Literally.
The McCain-Palin ticket is dead in the water, sundered by its allegiance to the Bush administration’s disaster capitalism and foundering on a strategy basically designed to piss off rednecks and […]
Infecting Nike, Intiating Obama: An Interview With Saul Williams
“I think it guarantees that the people in power in that corporation are listening close to what I’m saying and what their kids are dancing to.”
Ring the Alarm: An Interview With REM’s Michael Stipe
“I think we can turn this around, but we can’t wait. We need the attention of everyone immediately.”
Exponology: Hope For The Best, Prepare For The Worst
They were giving an ETA of around 2100 for the worst of global warming. That deadline has now been upgraded to, well, how does tomorrow work for you?
Exponology: Shit Happens. Fast.
We’ve all seen the shirt and the bumper sticker. Shit happens. Exponology is here to extend that reality. Shit happens fast. Real fast. In the first piece on my formative […]
Enter Exponology
“And if the ground’s not cold/Everything is going to burn/We’ll all take turns/I’ll get mine too.” — Pixies, “Monkey Gone to Heaven” Recently, I watched some global warming denier on […]