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William Gibson interview
William Gibson interview
02/18/2004 10:53 AMHere's a great interview with William Gibson, who is on the road
promoting the paperback of his brilliant novel of apophenia run wild,
Pattern Recognition (see my
review, too).
"When you write a science-fiction novel set in some sort of
recognizable future, as soon as you finish it you have the dubious
pleasure of watching it acquire a patina of quaint technological
obsolescence. For instance, there are no cell phones in Neuromancer. I
couldn't have foreseen them. It would have seemed corny, like Dick
Tracy wrist radios."
And he never set out to predict how we might be living a few decades
hence. "I always assumed that social-science fiction - anything set on
Earth in a not-too-distant future - is just a mutant version of the
present. But the easiest hook to hang on me was that I was a futurist.
I had always maintained that I was squinting at the present in a
certain way."
Link
(
via Futurismic)
William Gibson on John Shirley
William Gibson on John Shirley
03/20/2003 06:37 PMHere's William Gibson's introduction to John Shirley's proto-cyberpunk
novel, City Come a Walkin'.
Shirley made the plastic-covered Sears sofa that was the main body of
seventies sf recede wonderfully. Discovering his fiction was like
hearing Patti Smith's Horses for the first time: the archetypal form
passionately re-inhabited by a debauched yet strangely virginal
practitioner, one whose very ability to do this at all was constantly
thrown into question by the demands of what was in effect a
shamanistic act. There is a similar ragged-ass derring-do, the sense
of the artist burning to speak in tongues. They invoke their
particular (and often overlapping, and indeed she was one of his) gods
and plunge out of downscale teenage bedrooms, brandishing shards of
imagery as peculiarly-shaped as prison shivs.
Link DiscussWilliam Gibson interviewed by Moira Gunn
William Gibson interviewed by Moira Gunn
12/31/2004 12:49 PMMark Frauenfelder:
IT Conversations has an 18 minute audio interview with William Gibson,
from Moira Gunn's Tech Nation program.
LinkWilliam Gibson on his Tech Life and
Latest Novel
William Gibson on his Tech Life and
Latest Novel
02/19/2004 07:40 PMWilliam Gibson short: Cyber-Claus
William Gibson short: Cyber-Claus
12/26/2004 11:21 PM
Xeni Jardin:
On William Gibson's blog, a holiday-themed short which was originally
published as "Cyber-Claus", in
The Washington Post Book World
in 1991. Snip:
In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very
fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of
sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare,
genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of
states, sleep.
Even as I hurriedly dressed, I knew that dozens of telepresent
armed-response drones would already be sweeping in from the District,
skimming mere inches above the chill surface of the Potomac. Vicious
tri-lobed aeroforms that they were, they resembled nothing more than
the Martian war machines of George Pal’s 1953 epic, “The War of
the Worlds”.
And while, from somewhere far above, now, came that sound, that
persistent clatter, as though gunships disgorged whole platoons of
iron-shod mercenaries, I could only wonder: who? Was it my estranged
wife, Lady Betty-Jayne Motel-6 Hyatt, Chief Eco-Trustee of the Free
Duchy of Wyoming? Or was it Cleatus “Mainframe” Sinyard himself,
President of the United States and Perpetual Chairman of the Concerned
Smart People’s Northern Hemisphere CoProsperity Sphere?
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And now, a word from Mel Gibson
And now, a word from Mel Gibson
03/31/2005 07:23 PMFox News digs deep for expert commentary on the Schiavo case
Mel Gibson and the Passion movie
again...
Mel Gibson and the Passion movie
again...
03/08/2004 11:03 PMA man goes to see Mel Gibson's new movie, The Passion, and is
inspired to take his family to Israel to see the places where Jesus
lived and died. While on vacation his mother-in-law dies.
An undertaker in Tel Aviv explains that they can ship
the body home to Wisconsin at a cost of $10,000 or the mother-in-law
could be buried in Israel for US$500.
The man says, "We'll ship her home."
The undertaker asks, "Are you sure? That's an awfully big
expense and we can do a very nice burial here."
The man says, "Look, 2000 years ago they buried a guy here and
three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that
chance."
Gibson: Cyber-Claus
Gibson: Cyber-Claus
12/26/2004 04:44 PM
Xeni Jardin:
On William Gibson's blog, a holiday-themed short which was originally
published as "Cyber-Claus", in
The Washington Post Book World
in 1991. Snip:
In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very
fabric of the house had thus far registered a complete absence of
sentient bio-activity, I found myself abruptly summoned from a rare,
genuine and expensively induced examples of that most priceless of
states, sleep.
Even as I hurriedly dressed, I knew that dozens of telepresent
armed-response drones would already be sweeping in from the District,
skimming mere inches above the chill surface of the Potomac. Vicious
tri-lobed aeroforms that they were, they resembled nothing more than
the Martian war machines of George Pal’s 1953 epic, “The War of
the Worlds”.
And while, from somewhere far above, now, came that sound, that
persistent clatter, as though gunships disgorged whole platoons of
iron-shod mercenaries, I could only wonder: who? Was it my estranged
wife, Lady Betty-Jayne Motel-6 Hyatt, Chief Eco-Trustee of the Free
Duchy of Wyoming? Or was it Cleatus “Mainframe” Sinyard himself,
President of the United States and Perpetual Chairman of the Concerned
Smart People’s Northern Hemisphere CoProsperity Sphere?
Link
Mel Gibson Muzzles Unfriendly Clerics
Mel Gibson Muzzles Unfriendly Clerics
01/23/2004 02:21 PM
A friend
clipped, scanned and e-mailed me this item from a recent edition of
the
Orlando Sentinel
(the article seems to have disappeared behind the paper's paid
firewall). The short piece mentions actor Mel Gibson's visit to a
religious convention in Florida, where he was promoting his upcoming
movie about Christ's death. (I haven't seen it, but some critics have
called the picture anti-Semitic, a charge Gibson has denied.)
As the clipping notes, a screening for some of pastors was arranged,
with one proviso. They had to sign a document in which they agreed to
say only nice things about the movie if they talked about it. Gibson
is free to pull such tricks, but no pastor with any integrity should
have gone along with this.
'Violent' review for Gibson film
'Violent' review for Gibson film
02/11/2004 01:43 PMA film critic calls Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ "brutal",
saying it dwells almost entirely on pain.
comments on the Mel Gibson/Haiti posting
comments on the Mel Gibson/Haiti posting
03/08/2004 11:03 PMHmm... this Manila software that Harvard runs seems to have
mislinked all the comments posted. I'm cutting and pasting some
manually and please feel free to use the comments button underneath
this posting to comment on the
original (below).
From Zoran Lazarevic:
Two hundred years in a
history of a nation is a short time to change human behavior without force. For one example,
think that slavery was abolished in the U.S. in 1865, but the first black generation that
grew in freedom and equality
was born in 1970s.
Compare today Serbs
living a couple of miles away: across the river Danube which marked the border between the
Austro-Hungarian empire (north) and the Ottoman empire (south). In the north, they live in
neatly painted houses lined
along geometrically straight roads, behind tall walls keeping
the privacy of their property.
Villages just south of Danube are hectically built around worn-out curvy roads, having short
transparent fences displaying
property in slight disarray. The north prides itself with culinary craft and the taste for fine
arts from Austria and Hungary. The south takes pride in warriorship and macho attitude,
and jokes about its own
widespread bribery.
Serbia proper was
liberated from the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire in the early 1800s, and united with the north in
1918. There is absolutely
no question, that if separated, the two regions would have very different economies. Just like there are vast differences
between other ex-Yugoslavia
states. And that is all after a century of common life, mostly under communism which tried to kill
out (pun intended) all differences in religion and
nationality.
From Fazal Majid:
You could blame
Lazare Carnot (d. 1823) for fathering Sadi Carnot (d. 1832), the
inventor of thermodynamics, and thus leading to global
warming...
MSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could
be going to hell
MSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could
be going to hell
02/12/2004 06:26 AMMSNBC - Mel Gibson says his wife could be going to hell .. Read
article .. Hell
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Report: Gibson Expands 'Passion' Screens
(AP)
Report: Gibson Expands 'Passion' Screens
(AP)
02/19/2004 07:39 PMAP - Mel Gibson is adding 800 theaters to the debut of his
controversial Crucifixion drama, "The Passion of the Christ," next
Wednesday.
Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Chris' (AP)
Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Chris' (AP)
02/14/2004 07:52 PMAP - Mel Gibson said the graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion in
his upcoming film "The Passion of the Christ" was meant to make
viewers realize the extent of Christ's sacrifice.
Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Christ' (AP)
Gibson Defends 'The Passion of the
Christ' (AP)
02/14/2004 09:09 PMAP - Mel Gibson said the graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion in
his upcoming film "The Passion of the Christ" was meant to make
viewers realize the extent of Christ's sacrifice.
Gibson tops celebrity power list
Gibson tops celebrity power list
06/18/2004 04:52 AMActor and director Mel Gibson is named the most powerful celebrity in
the world by US business magazine Forbes.
Gibson Guitars Prepares Digital Network
Platform
Gibson Guitars Prepares Digital Network
Platform
01/08/2004 07:20 PMShifting Gears: Gibson to Head Tech, Ops
at NYLIM
Shifting Gears: Gibson to Head Tech, Ops
at NYLIM
04/03/2005 01:12 AMWall Street and Technology Apr 3 2005 4:51AM GMT
Net Pirates Show Passion for Mel Gibson
Film (Reuters)
Net Pirates Show Passion for Mel Gibson
Film (Reuters)
05/12/2004 12:45 PMReuters - Mel Gibson's box office smash "The
Passion of the Christ" broke the ignominious record as the
most-pirated movie on Internet file-sharing networks in April,
an online piracy tracking firm said Wednesday.
ABCNEWS.com : Gibson: 'Passion' About
'Faith, Hope, Love'
ABCNEWS.com : Gibson: 'Passion' About
'Faith, Hope, Love'
02/16/2004 11:54 PMABCNEWS.com : How Despairing Gibson Found 'The Passion' .. preview of
Mel Gibson's interview .. in this
article
abcnews.go.com/sections/Primetime/Entertainment/mel_gibson_p
assion_040216-1.html
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Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago
Mel Gibson, the Jews, Haiti, and blaming
it all on people who died 175 years ago
03/08/2004 11:03 PMPeople are blaming all of the Jew-hatred in Mel
Gibson's new movie on the visions of a German nun, Sister
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824). According to this article from Newsday:
The bedridden visionary, who is said to have borne the stigmata and
the wounds of the crown of thorns, is a particular source of
contention for Gibson because of her depictions of Jews as
bloodthirsty and venal. In The Dolorous Passion, for instance,
she "sees" Jewish priests passing out bribes to get people to offer
false testimony against Jesus and even tipping the Roman executioners.
She also describes seeing Jesus' cross being built in the courtyard of
the Temple in Jerusalem.
And Emmerich's 19th-century
biographer, the Rev. C.E. Schmoe'ger, wrote about how she had one
vision of an "old Jewess Meyr," who confessed to her "that Jews in our
country and elsewhere strangled Christian children and used their
blood for all sorts of suspicious and diabolical
practices."
Gibson, who carries a relic of Emmerich in the form
of a faded piece of cloth from her habit, vehemently rejects
characterizations of the nun as anti-Semitic.
In other news... I was listening to NPR news a couple of
days ago. All of Haiti's current troubles were being blamed on
things that the French did in 1825 and this proposition was discussed
seriously for 15 minutes. Haiti does seem to be in rather tough
shape, at least going by the
CIA Factbook page:
"About 80% of the population lives in abject poverty.
... The economy shrank an estimated 1.2% in 2001 and an estimated 0.9%
in 2002. Literacy rate is 53%."
Despite an HIV infection rate of 6.1% and a lot of deaths
from AIDS the population is still growing at an annual rate of
1.67%, i.e., there are an ever-increasing number of Haitians to share
an ever-smaller pie. (cf. Malthus)
Perhaps there are more problems in our world of 2004 that
can be blamed on those French and Germans who died circa 1825...
Anyone care to suggest some dead Europeans to blame in the comments
section?
Friars Petition Mel Gibson to Make St
Francis Film (Reuters)
Friars Petition Mel Gibson to Make St
Francis Film (Reuters)
04/21/2004 10:02 AMReuters - Franciscan friars in New York loved
Mel Gibson's hit movie "The Passion of The Christ," so much
they are petitioning him to follow-up with a film biography of
the order's founder, Saint Francis of Assisi.
Indiedownloads.com offers a Gibson Jimmy
Page Signature Les Paul Guitar, $5000 or
Studio Time to One Lucky Member.
Indiedownloads.com offers a Gibson Jimmy
Page Signature Les Paul Guitar, $5000 or
Studio Time to One Lucky Member.
06/13/2004 02:23 AMA Gibson Jimmy Page Signature Les Paul guitar is up for grabs at
Indiedownloads.com. As well as Five Thousand-dollars or a twenty-four
hour block of studio time for one artist to work on their album. A
choice of these three prizes will be awarded one registered member of
indiedownloads.com. [PRWEB Jun 13, 2004]
"William Safire"
"William Safire"
07/19/2004 08:24 PM"They Were all William Calley"
"They Were all William Calley"
08/22/2004 07:54 AMWilliam Safire
William Safire
01/01/2004 06:49 AMOffice Pool ..
published
nytimes.com/2003/12/31/opinion/31SAFI.html
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"William Hung"
"William Hung"
02/10/2004 02:52 AMFC Now: William Saroyan on Business
FC Now: William Saroyan on Business
04/15/2005 06:08 PMLast month, I posted an entry touching on some business lessons
learned from Encyclopedia Brown. Readers responded strongly enough
that I'll probably continue that train of thought in the weeks to
come. But last night, while reading William Saroyan's The...
Being There - What does 9/11 tell us
about Bush? Nothing. By William Saletan
Being There - What does 9/11 tell us
about Bush? Nothing. By William Saletan
09/01/2004 11:59 AMBeing There - What does 9/11 tell us about Bush? Nothing. By William
Saletan
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"Slate, by William Saletan"
"Slate, by William Saletan"
12/10/2003 10:15 PMFOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John
Gibson - My Word - Desperate Times,
Desperate Measures?
FOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John
Gibson - My Word - Desperate Times,
Desperate Measures?
03/25/2005 06:36 AMJohn Gibson: Desperate Times, Desperate
Measures?
foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151442,00.html
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"FOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John
Gibson - My Word - Desperate Times,
Desperate Measures?"
"FOXNews.com - The Big Story w/ John
Gibson - My Word - Desperate Times,
Desperate Measures?"
03/25/2005 06:44 AMR.I. State Sen. William Irons Resigns
R.I. State Sen. William Irons Resigns
12/31/2003 06:13 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 31 2003 3:31PM ET
William joins Charles on the farm
William joins Charles on the farm
05/29/2004 08:02 AMPrince William shows his farming talents as he checks out his father's
Gloucestershire herd.
New JIC chair William Ehrman profiled
New JIC chair William Ehrman profiled
07/20/2004 01:12 PMTop intelligence official William Ehrman is named the new chairman of
the Joint Intelligence Committee.
Historian William Manchester Dies at 82
(AP)
Historian William Manchester Dies at 82
(AP)
06/01/2004 06:46 PMAP - Historian William Manchester, who brought a novelist's flair to
his stirring biographies of such 20th century giants as Winston
Churchill, Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy, died of cancer
Tuesday at 82.
From the William Tecumseh Sherman
Department
From the William Tecumseh Sherman
Department
06/22/2004 05:04 PM
War
is Hell: Generation Kill
Torn by War Porn*? Just can't get enough?
For those of you who stopped reading Rolling Stone some time in the
80's, and therefore most likely missed Evan Wright's war dispatches
from Humvee Number One last summer, we bring you:
Generation Kill:Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face
of American War
Reviewed
here,and
here ("reprint" of NYT review).
*Oddly enough, Evan Wright's journalistic career began as a
porn critic for Hustler. True story. William W. Maslin Jr. | Computer
consultant, 60
William W. Maslin Jr. | Computer
consultant, 60
05/04/2004 05:11 AMPhiladelphia Inquirer May 4 2004 9:45AM GMT
William Hung butchers "Take me out to
the ballgame"
William Hung butchers "Take me out to
the ballgame"
05/31/2004 12:35 PMGrok Description matches for William Gibson
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