author: Philip K. Dick

name: Steev

average rating: 4.00

book published: 1977

rating: 4

read at: 2009/09/15

date added: 2009/10/17

shelves: novels

review:
As usual, PKD messes with your head in this "what is reality?" and "what is self?" psychodrama.

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Earlier this week Greta and I went to see the new climate change film The Age of Stupid. It's a documentary with a speculative fiction frame around it, and that's what I want to talk about, the form, rather than the content of the film. I've blogged before several times about climate change. You know where I stand on that. Read more>>>

author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Steev
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1974
rating: 5
read at: 2003/01/01
date added: 2009/09/20
shelves: fun, novels, politics
review:

author: Ursula K. Le Guin

name: Steev

average rating: 3.52

book published: 1985

rating: 5

read at: 2003/01/01

date added: 2009/09/20

shelves: novels, politics

review:

author: Louis Rosenfeld

name: Steev

average rating: 3.82

book published: 1998

rating: 3

read at:

date added: 2009/09/18

shelves:

review:

author: Douglas Stone

name: Steev

average rating: 3.87

book published: 1999

rating: 5

read at: 2009/09/10

date added: 2009/09/16

shelves: spirit-self

author: Junot Díaz

name: Steev

average rating: 3.88

book published: 2007

rating: 4

read at: 2009/09/16

date added: 2009/09/16

shelves: novels

I just, stupidly enough, wasted about 15 minutes trying to figure out what happened with Kanye West. Something he did made even the president of the United States call him a jackass? Hmm. I finally figured it out (amazing how the entertainment media will always assume you know the background, as opposed to real news that is constantly re-explaining everything as if nobody has any more than a 3rd-grade education) and then found a great post by Mike Hale on his New York Times blog where he really summed the whole phenomenon (not just of what Kanye did but more importantly why it's such a big deal) up nicely:

...just the latest manifestation of our addiction to artificial drama, which has grown stronger as the stuff has become more plentiful and cheap, and the shamelessness with which the media now picks at the scabs of any sort of conflict in order to boost ratings.