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Yes, I have just discovered the rational insanity that is Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal now you mention it…
Viktor Hertz has come up with an idea for a seried of honest logos. The IMDb one, below, is probably the one most appropriate for me, but some of the others are much, much funnier.
It’s that time of the month again and StarShipSofa #182 comes with artwork. It’s worth visiting the StarShipSofa Main site as well because the monthly cover art is now being used to re-theme the site on a regular (monthly) basis.
The main fiction this month is Circus Town by Will McIntosh and I am looking forward to this one, mainly because I’m pretty certain I’ve already read it. If it is the story I remember (possibly from Interzone, but I’d have to check to be sure), it’s an effective and moving story of an innocent abroad and an engaging take on the idea of a world made strange by limited perceptions.
I’ll be downloading this as soon as I get home tonight, and looking forward to listening to it when I jump in the car tomoroow.
From Boing Boing:
In a T-shirt sold in 2008 to raise money for victims of violence in Darfur, artist Nadia Plesner depicted an African child holding a Louis Vuitton-style bag. So Louis Vuitton sued her. When she recently included the same design in a painting, it sued her again.
The first time around, Louis Vuitton claimed it wanted merely to stop her from selling the merchandise. This time, however, there is little pretense that it is about anything other than wanting the image gotten rid of.
Here is the image:
I haven’t read this yet but, from the write-up in Salon, it sounds fascinating.
In Yeskov’s retelling, the wizard Gandalf is a war-monger intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of Mordor and its southern allies because science “destroys the harmony of the world and dries up the souls of men!” He’s in cahoots with the elves, who aim to become “masters of the world,” and turn Middle-earth into a “bad copy” of their magical homeland across the sea. Barad-dur, also known as the Dark Tower and Sauron’s citadel, is, by contrast, described as “that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic.”
The Last Ringbearer was published in Russia in 1999 but the vigilant and litigious Tolkien estate has prevented the novel’s English publication. Until now.
Author, Kirill Yeskov has posted the novel online at ymarkov.livejournal.com. Grab it before the lawyers get it.
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