Thoughts While Watching 'Doppelgangland'

"I'd love to meet the alternate universe evil me."
"Alex, you *are* the alternate universe evil you."
"Well then, I'd like to meet the alternate universe soppy me and do terrible things to them."

For once I'm in a little early, only to find that in my absence my machine appears to have lost my inbox and my Explorer settings, so I can't actually attend to the inevitable mountain of email. Fvcking A.

Life's much more fun if you pretend it's fiction

872 items deleted unread*. I've tasted blood and I'm ready for the new year; I've even done a bit of work. Plus I've fought my way back through the friendslist (though admittedly Stay Beautiful and the V are as yet untouched). I will document the last week or so at some point, but right now I'm blogged out so content yourselves with some fripperies:

Some of you have encountered my copy of 1967 SF novel Agent of Chaos, which details the exploits of laser-toting future revolutionary Boris Johnson. Within that group, some encouraged me to bring it to wider media attention. Done.

"Censoring is really a form of editing and a measure of maturity in a culturally diverse world", apparently. I wish I could learn to lose my amazement at the human peonic capacity to declare that black is white.

A new one-shot magazine called Final Edition contains a piece called 'Twilight of the Superheroes', which "paints a brutally honest portrait of New York City today and of our lives today, wherever we live. Through observing the lives of some sophisticated residents of the great metropolis, we encounter truths which are both poetic and deeply political". Sorry, but for all the acclaim this mag is garnering among the literati, stories which aren't by Alan Moore and don't feature John Constantine and Batman conspiring to kill Superman don't get to use that title.

*Promoter arrogance has reached a new high in my absence: "Pop New Years Day 2pm-midnight The biggest party of the year".

Nevermind the 150,000...

Will Eisner's dead.

He was about the only pre-Alan Moore writer in comics whose work I enjoyed reading.

Still, at least I found out about it in less than four days from the announcement, unlike Susan Sontag.

I know the tsunami was probably the biggest natural disaster since Santorini blew (Tunguska excluded on grounds of no one actually being there), but for all that it has tinged my week with mortal thoughts, I am beginning to tire of not getting any news about anything else.