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Waking Up to the Unreal
[Image: promotional still from The Troll Hunter, a 2010 "mockumentary" from Norway about -- well, perhaps you can guess.] From whiskey river: Fairy tales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. [...]
Pottermore
From The Atlantic: In a much-anticipated press event this morning, J.K. Rowling announced the launch of Pottermore, a new website meant to bring all-things-Harry Potter to the Web. It was revealed in a leaked memo yesterday that a central focus of the site would be an online gaming experience developed by the company Adam & [...]
Do Not Distract the Artist
Single-minded in pursuit of your ideals, are you? Think you’re putting a lot of time into your writing, your painting, your kids, your life? You call yourself dedicated? Ha! Or so I thought when I saw the video below. The maker claims to have spent 1500 hours on this not-quite-four-minute project, an estimate which I [...]
It’s Gnawing at Me
[Click Play button to begin. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left -- row of little vertical bars.] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Help me out with something here: What, exactly — even approximately — is the deal with mice? meaning, specifically, mice as humans? (I do recognize there are many [...]
