Mr. Krongard even recalls receiving a proposal for help with questioning Qaeda suspects from an American dentist who said he “could create pain no human being could withstand.” From the NYT. I thought of Marathon Man, of course, as, I’m sure, did we all.
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No, I haven’t seen it. But Welles, in 1971, clearly fit the part of the gastronome Abbé Doucedame, as those of you who’ve read Ray’s lurid tale will know. (The credits seem to imply that Welles played the part of Cassave, but I will not take the trouble to deny this calumny.) Freud’s lamprey, a [...]
A recent paper (summary) about the encoding of a message in bacteria DNA left me wondering what the first use of this idea in literature was (i. e., a persistent, long-term message decoded by DNA analysis left by previous humans, aliens, god(s), alien gods, god-like aliens, humans who became aliens then gods then humans, etc.) [...]
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Several of my friends were Pantera enthusiasts in the early-mid nineties, but I never picked up from them that their name derived from the soldier Celsus claimed to have fathered Jesus (Contra Celsum, 1.32). The eutelegenetic details of the rebuttal are subtle. Origen had an imperfect understanding of contingency. Ernst Haeckel, who may have shared [...]
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I wish I had taken a picture of this slogan outside the Methodist Church in Cedar Island when we stayed there last week. “Common” is frequently used in the dialect of the area (where my family has lived many generations, since the early decades of the 18th C, as far as I can tell) to [...]
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Jack McCallum’s book about the Suns: “Amare, you’re starting on [Jason] Collins,” says Iavaroni. “What’s he known for?” Iavaroni likes to use the Socratic Method from time to time. It is not always successful.“Rebounds. Blocks shots,” says Stoudemire, who plucked a few words from the air. They could’ve just as easily been “eats buffalo wings, [...]
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I have an essay on Shane Carruth’s Primer in the recently published Playing the Universe: Games and Gaming in Science Fiction (Eds. Dave Mead and Pawel Frelik, Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej UP, 2007). Here is a draft version. When I wrote this essay in October 2005, I believe that no academic articles on the film had been [...]
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