Cody McPhail

Have you hit 'Dreams in the Witch House' yet?

Why are PT Anderson and Darren Aronofsky worshipping Tarantino with their newest films? Did they discuss doing this? Are they all into feet? They in a feet gang? Weird choices.

Did Cordwainer Smith predict eveything?

Paperbacks from Hell version of Weapons

Bedside Book Mountain

Perception in reverse,
Lies paraded as truth,
The media we digest constantly has gone sour.
Who are we supposed to think are the real enemy?
The ones being slaughtered incessantly, every day, in lines for food, starving to death are who you want me to hate?
We will never believe you ever again.

The big beautiful bonfire.

How is the condemnation of a tyrannical military force conflated with the hatred of a religion?! It doesn't make any fucking sense!

Dreams of a better future as the looming terror of genocide denial permeates completely.

A test?

One that we will surely fail and then break, as a whole, into the parts.

To be human is to want humanity to continue.

To be demon is to want humanity to end.

When will this test end?

Just read A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré and really loved it. I've never read any of the Smiley books but I've seen both versions of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, love the story. About to read The Gone Away World by Harkaway, his SF is supposed to be top notch. I think I might be a spy genre fan now

It was my first encounter with extreme poverty. I didn't understand. I grew up in a middle class family. It bothered me tremendously. I wanted to know why we could have all the food and water we needed and they couldn't.

I still don't get it.

After eating we then went to walk around the streets of Ciudad Acuña. I was in shock at seeing children my own age begging for money. Disabled people laying on the hot pavement because they had no other place to go.

I was told not to drink the water because it could make me sick. The straws and other materials were reused. It was explained to me why this was the case. These people were poorer than my family. This is how they live.

While there we went over the border into Mexico. Into a town named Ciudad Acuña. We waited in the long line of cars at the border check point. It was a hot summer day. After taking a long time to get into Mexico we were hungry.

When I was 9 years old my family took a trip to Del Rio Texas, on border of Texas and Mexico, to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins. They lived on the US Air Force base there. My uncle was a career military man.

This and too many Dillingers.

But to be alive is rare and powerful and beautiful. It cancels out the fact that we die.

Death looms over everything we do while alive. Being alive is a better thing to focus on. It can conquer all efforts of grief and violence to keep us morbid. Grief has put a seed of doubt into me where I obsess over the thought of non existence.

Rydra Wong rules.

Existing in between particles. Consciousness projected into a micro reality. We discover new states of matter. Where everything is connected into one infinite mass. Where time and space are malleable. All information is accessed here. The secrets of reality have been unveiled.

Israel is Rudolf Höss's house next to Auschwitz.

Need for planting all over Dallas please.

Black text on a white background that says: There should be no such thing as a "book podcast". But there is. patreon.com/sfultra Topics include: Science Fiction. Everything else. The internet. "I try to take a broad, general view of things." - William S Burroughs "BE WHO YOU ARE. WRECK THEM. AND THEN DIE." - Rammellzee

a few kind listeners who work in bookshops/places that tolerate flyers asked if there's something they can print out and put up to promote the show. The result is below. I would really appreciate anyone who felt like doing this but no pressure at all, ofc. (yes, this is my big year three promo push)

The ICEman cometh...

Kraftwerk?

Whitby?