Harlan Ellison is odd fellow. At age 72 when Dreams With Sharp Teeth was put together, he seems just this side of madness as he rants and raves about the world around him. But then, he has always ranted and raved about the world around him. I have never been a huge fan of Harlan Ellison’s writing. I can’t name even a single story of his that I can remember reading, though I must surely have stumbled across one or two over the years. No, it’s more stories about Harlan Ellison than story by Harlan Ellison that spring to mind.…
Tag: madness
Evil Plans by Hugh MacLeod
Figure out what your gift is, and give it to people on a regular basis. ~Hugh MacLeod. Blogging has given us a world full of people who have a lot of mostly nothing to say and a strong desire to say it. Successful bloggers are the ones that stick with it, get an audience, and keep giving that audience whatever it is that they liked in the first place. This is a good deal harder than it sounds-as the countless failed blogs littering the internet can attest to. Even if you happen to have the chutzpah to keep blogging every…
Inception-Dreaming The Matrix
I’ve been waiting for someone to make another Matrix movie since 1999 and Inception is pretty close. It’s a sci fi movie, sort of. Sort of because there is no real science mentioned as to how the people in this universe share dreams. This is not a problem, since we are never sure what reality really is and if there is a higher level where the real technology of Dreaming exists. We are shown a number of realities, all of which have differences in how time passes, so that the 30 seconds it take a van to fall from a…