Interesting opinions…
"Lotus" is one of the most memorable songs from "Up". Sellout song or not, when the album was first released, I remember being disappointed that nothing else on the album sounded remotely like it. Thankfully R.E.M. has (for the moment) abandoned its "revised-to-oblivion bad poetry over…

Noel's take on this episode was pretty much the same as I mine. I come here every week to be reminded that not everyone is as bat-shit crazy (or winkingly referential) as Doc Jensen. Boy, you can't deny that man loves his work, though, even if his constant asides and absurd leaps of faith (Smokey = Faraday?) make me…

I loved this book for its first half… found it a frightening, thoughtful, punchy, mysterious piece of apocalyptic philosophy… I was fully ready for this to be one of my favorite pieces of science fiction. But then it devolved into rambling erotica after a bit. It finished somewhat strongly, but it never recovered…