joined on 10/22/03
last updated 02/21/09
Variable Star, by Spider Robinson from an outline by Robert A. Heinlein
Happy Moscow, by Andrey Platonov
The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American culture on the brink, by Mark Dery
A Life Without Consequences,
What It Means To Love You,
Jones Inn, by Stephen Elliott
Sentinels From Space, by Eric Frank Russell
The Ape, The Idiot & Other People, by W.C. Morrow
Into the Sun & other stories, by Robert Duncan Milne
History of the Movement: from 1854 to 1890, by Sam Moskowitz
The Russian Debutante's Handbook, by Gary Shteyngart
Lilith, by George MacDonald
Taras Bulba, by Gogol
New Worlds For Old, ed. by Lin Carter
"There Shall Be No Darkness" by James Blish
The Helmet of Horror, by Viktor Pelevin
Poets on the Peaks, by John Suiter
Dream Makers: the uncommon men & women who write science fiction, v.2 by Charles Platt
The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
October Ferry to Gabriola Island, by Malcolm Lowry
We Can Build You, by Philip K. Dick
Definitely Maybe, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
Stanley Park, by Timothy Taylor
Dimension of Miracles, by Robert Sheckey
Godshome, by Robert Sheckley
Journey to the Land of the Flies and Other Travels, by Aldo Buzzi
Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album, by Mordecai Richler
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
I See By My Outfit. Peter S. Beagle
Please Kill Me: the uncensored oral history of Punk. Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, by Lynne Truss
Petersburg, by Andrei Bely
The Grand Complication, by Allen Kurzweil
Krapp's Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett
The Barbary Coast, by Herbert Asbury
Perfume, by Patrick Süsskind
Cities and Years, by K. Fedin
An Open Book, by V. Kaverin
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, by Marshall Berman
Ringolevio, by Emmett Grogan
Museum of the Eternal Novel, by Macedonio Fernando
H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and SHE
The Book on the Book Shelf. by Henry Petroski
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote
A Voyage to Arcturus. By David Lindsay.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll, by H.G. Wells
A Man Without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut
Dead Souls, by N. Gogol
The Portable Platonov
Santa Claus, a biography, by Gerry Bowler
The House on the Borderland*, by William Hope Hodgson
Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
Selected Poems, by Charles Baudelaire
Tales of Terror From Blackwood's Magazine
*see "Famous Last Words" in home page, lower left
in Vancouver, 2006-08, a most agreeably cycle-friendly city
October 16, 2005
I always feel a swell of pride when Amor’s name comes up, and people are gasping about his intellect, and I can say, “Oh, we’re quite close.” I feel ridiculously like a namedropper; everyone knows I must be smart if I have Amor’s seal of approval. But what people intimidated by Amor’s crackling cynicism and ridiculously well read conversation often never get is that Amor operates fundamentally from a place of deep caring and passion about the world and his friends: why else his nom de tribe? He is an astoundingly good friend to have on all levels: he can talk and listen; he makes me laugh and is there for me when I’m blue. And he likes creamed spinach, too, which makes him just about perfect.
September 10, 2005
Looks like Queen captured the words I wish I wrote for Amor:
Why Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love give love give love?
Give love give love give love give love give love give love?
Cause Amor's such an old fashioned word
And Amor dares you to care
For the people on the edge of the night
And Amor dares you to change our way
Of caring about ourselves...
Amor y Cohetes,
La Bomba Fuego
April 22, 2004
I honestly believe that the good Dr. has 2 brains, possibly 3. I don't know how one person can be so well read, and keep up with current events, write, shoot...and still have time to eat. Conversations with him are always super-condensed in both content and entertainment value. We need more of him to help change the world. Commence cloning now.
November 9, 2003
YES- Nina is right...you MUST adore this man. So gorgeous and smart, a ruler of earth, and has read almost every book on the planet. We should really start a fan club...like now.
November 9, 2003
A force, an instigator, a catalyst. A friend, a colleague, a kindred spirit. A bright light, a star, a trailblazer. A person who inspires all, where others fail. A person I have time for morning, noon and night. A man I am honoured to call my mate.
I am dying, and my work is all before me:
As a pencil that doth break beneath the knife
So have I broke before the bitter sharpening
Of the grim blade of thought that shaped my life.
And made me fit and keen to speake before Thee,
And now I die, just trained enough to sing.
-Wm Hope Hodgson
about me
Memoirist in time of amnesia, a millenarian romantic misanthrope with too many books and not enough friends; ciclista del muerte, flaneur on Valencia St, a fly in the unguent of bidness-as-usual...
Cellar-Cinema-Cafe,
Scientology Sucks,
! Sexiest Smile !,
!! Mission Folks~ this is the barrio!!~,
![[moderator]](http://images.tribe.net/tribe/images/redesign/moderator_icon.gif)
!¡¡¡CHUsmosIs!,
$? Work Less Party ?$,
* * THE PHONE IS EVIL * *,
+MISSION Action,
12 Galaxies,
Against the Day,
Allright, now I'm really mad!!!!!!!,
Altered Books,
Angelfish Acolytes,
Ask Dr. Fiasco!,
Berkeley,
Bike,
borg9,
Boxshop,
Burners Anonymous,
Butcher Town,
...
"Join the fans of Frank Chu"
Reminisce's graffiti work in SF, 1993-1994
World at My Feet - Valencia St.
Market St early March 2005
|
Sun, November 4, 2007 - 5:54 PM
permalink -
1 comment
Sun, August 12, 2007 - 11:13 PM
permalink -
5 comments
I had the pleasure of being summoned from my house by the pied pipings of the neighborhood marching band, the Brass Liberation Orchestra. Gotta love an anarchist brass band - the very concept is a hoot! And unlike some places, playing and marching are not arrestable offenses in the city by the Bay.
www.youtube.com/watch
After parting with BLO at 22nd St., I continued walking to 12 Galaxies, and nearby encountered a cadre of Extra Action Marching band folks. By ...
read more
Litcrit from the executive branch. First Bush reading Camus...now Chavez pushing Chomsky! Who's next? The Dalai Lama praising Gary Snyder? Condi Rice kicking back with Camille Paglia? Scalia and Rove both revealed (via leak) to have Machiavelli's The Prince as bedside reading?
Who's next?
Tue, October 17, 2006 - 9:44 PM
permalink -
2 comments
...when you can buy syrup in the airport (still) but you cannot carry it on board the plane!
So in this War on Terra, I see They now have tied a yellow ribbon round the fruit of the maple tree!
Mon, September 4, 2006 - 11:20 PM
permalink -
1 comment
|
