Archive for April, 2008

The Object Stares Back

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 On the Nature of Seeing by James Elkins ISBN: 0156004976 There is no such thing as "just looking"; Elkins argues persuasively that seeing is more complicated than that. As an art historian with

Under My Roof

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 by Nick Mamatas ISBN: 9781933368436 In near-future, slightly dystopic Long Island there are hundreds, thousands of discarded smoke detectors at the dump, ripe for the scavenging. Why would anyone want to scavenge

Third Class Superhero

Monday, April 21st, 2008 by Charles Yu ISBN: 0156030810 "Third Class Superhero" might be the most straightforward story in this collection. Which is odd only because it's mostly about Moisture Man (yeah, about as impressive as

Paint by Number

Monday, April 21st, 2008 The How-to Craze that Swept the Nation by William L. Bird, Jr. ISBN: 1568982828 ...hobby kits, like paint by number, functioned as a compromise between genuine creativity and the responsibilities of homemaking and