06/09 Plearn is back!
Have I ever mentioned my love of SF? Obviously I was raised with it (given my name) and always preferred SF to Fantasy for the obvious reasons. Fantasy is about the same universe over and over again (obviously I realize this is becoming less and less true but when I was coming of age. And only had my fathers Fantasy to choose from it all was some variant of the LotR and then later of some kind of ultra-violent bodice ripper), SF is about more. It is about the unknown. It is about a world of possibility. Where through half the book you aren't really sure where you are, what is going on, or what is going to happen and then you figure it out. That feeling of transition; between confusion and clarity, between then and now, is the same feeling that I get when I participate in many anarchist activities. The ones I like.Anyway I mostly hate SF outside of reading. There are a few exceptions but only because of other things (good acting, story or whatever), and not because they are actually SF. Very little non-book SF media involves anything close to the kind of transition that I like. Recently I went to a local theaters production of a SF play called "The Listener". It wasn't fantastic, although the acting was good, and the story was a little story, a trifle, but it was an actual SF play. Not a spaghetti western wrapped in laser beams and robots. Not a space opera. An actual SF story at a play house about 5 blocks from my house. Little things can count for a lot.
12/05 Context. It always comes down to context.
I have intended to post more frequently with thoughts on the interesting things we have been discussing in the @SG, a whisper towards upcoming drama, and the next issue of AJODA but 40 hours a week is killing me. Killing any project outside of the gate of 40 hours a week and making me resent how over-committed I have become. Writing has fallen victim, along with several other things of importance to me.I guess I'll try to post on a couple of things including the rise of new-apoc, an amusing cnp from the new issue of GA, and the dramedy in Montreal of the sits vs the ap.
Here is a chunk of a posting I made over at anti-pol about a recent blog entry at Ilvox.org the new voice of APOC (http://anti-politics.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4611)
28/04 NYC: encounters at a book fair
I came to NYC for the first annual NYC anarchist book fair which was a pretty damn rewarding experience. Being around anarchists and drama that I have nothing to do with was energizing. The event was the first time for a few new projects of mine (which, once again, will be the topics of future posts) and these were very well received.I'll focus on a couple of the personalities I met throughout the day...
Older professional man comes by the table and hands me his card (who does that?) which states that he is the dean emeritus of NYU (I guess the dead of NYU does it). He proceeds to inform me that his dissertation, oh so many years ago, was on the anarchists of the Spanish Civil War. He proceeded to buy everything on the table that even alluded to the SCW. Too bad another editor of AJODA wasn't at the table, as I'm quite sure the two of them would have hit it off.
