Intellectual Parasitism

The rallying cry, as far as there was one on this feel-good protest day against SOPA and PIPA seems to be “end piracy, not liberty”. I am aware that for some, it is highly impractical to outright support piracy, especially since many still believe there is a non-constructed, deeper moral right in content creators being [...]

Bookworm: Quirky Singletons

The selection of highly recommended stand-alone novels and non-research non-fiction that made me go “wow” this year boils down to a measly six books. I blame the people in the previous post for being so awesome, which is most certainly not to say that these fellows below are not. Although diversity is now mindlessly accepted [...]

Bookworm: Grand Series

This is them. The motherfuckers who made me feel like I’ve only read a handful of books this year, despite their collective page count of roughly 5000. No matter how many different tomes you read from a single dude or gal, once you’ve spent two months with their work, it all feels like one book. [...]

Bookworm: Midlist to Bottom

My awesome fucking car and lack of proper job are making me stupid. I remember a time when a book per week was the minimum.  Time for reading was distributed across three distinct slots: before sleep,  on the shitter and in public transport on the way to and from work, with the latter being dominant [...]

It is a Very Good Year

Two Januaries ago I decided that I’d do two things during the coming year.  Both were ambitious, especially for someone who has to work for a living, and particularly for someone as good at procrastinating as myself, and quite predictably, though in the end I did make a heroic (oh, how the silent “h” version [...]