Uhhh I kind of just wanted to alert you to these things:
1. Makers, by Cory Doctorow. I haven't finished it, so Idk if it ends satisfactorily or what but damn am I digging it. It's about GETTING EXCITED AND MAKING THINGS! and set in the sort of '20 minutes into the future' world I enjoy. It's got flaws, but the overall mood is so positive and cheerful and LET'S GO MAKE STUFF! that I am totally willing to forgive them. It's like an Etsy-generation cyberpunk novel, with the doom/gloom replaced with slapstick and lighthearted satire. DIYpunk, that's a thing now.
WARNING: there's some graphic sex scenes, which I did not know about until I read them on the El and died of awkward. (There's an Orson Welles interview where he's like, you can make a masterpiece of pornography, but not a pornographic masterpiece - you're either jerking off and missing the art, or you're paying attention to the art and the sex seems gratuitous and out of place. You can't be in both mindsets at once. Ymmv, but I tend to agree.)
MILD ALERT: although there's an excellent lady main character, her pagetime seems to be petering out, so if you're not willing to read another 'dudes do stuff' book your enjoyment will end around the halfway mark. Unless things change! Like I said, haven't finished yet.
2. THIS SONG. Apparently it's on a GTA soundtrack but I don't GTA, I just remembered !!! were a thing.
EDIT: shit! Completely forgot! I met Sigourney Weaver! That may be misspelled. The cast/crew of her new show (...Political Animals, I think it's called?) came to the restaurant July 4th. She's very tall, and seems like a reasonable human being, which is rare for fine dining customers in general, let alone Famous Actor Fine Dining Customers. We exchanged brief functional words (while I was weeded, so with limited awkward basking on my part).
In retrospect, I should have ganked one of the themed napkins they brought with. I was too busy lol'ing over the coals to Newcastle aspect, sadly.
1. Makers, by Cory Doctorow. I haven't finished it, so Idk if it ends satisfactorily or what but damn am I digging it. It's about GETTING EXCITED AND MAKING THINGS! and set in the sort of '20 minutes into the future' world I enjoy. It's got flaws, but the overall mood is so positive and cheerful and LET'S GO MAKE STUFF! that I am totally willing to forgive them. It's like an Etsy-generation cyberpunk novel, with the doom/gloom replaced with slapstick and lighthearted satire. DIYpunk, that's a thing now.
WARNING: there's some graphic sex scenes, which I did not know about until I read them on the El and died of awkward. (There's an Orson Welles interview where he's like, you can make a masterpiece of pornography, but not a pornographic masterpiece - you're either jerking off and missing the art, or you're paying attention to the art and the sex seems gratuitous and out of place. You can't be in both mindsets at once. Ymmv, but I tend to agree.)
MILD ALERT: although there's an excellent lady main character, her pagetime seems to be petering out, so if you're not willing to read another 'dudes do stuff' book your enjoyment will end around the halfway mark. Unless things change! Like I said, haven't finished yet.
2. THIS SONG. Apparently it's on a GTA soundtrack but I don't GTA, I just remembered !!! were a thing.
EDIT: shit! Completely forgot! I met Sigourney Weaver! That may be misspelled. The cast/crew of her new show (...Political Animals, I think it's called?) came to the restaurant July 4th. She's very tall, and seems like a reasonable human being, which is rare for fine dining customers in general, let alone Famous Actor Fine Dining Customers. We exchanged brief functional words (while I was weeded, so with limited awkward basking on my part).
In retrospect, I should have ganked one of the themed napkins they brought with. I was too busy lol'ing over the coals to Newcastle aspect, sadly.
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