Ryan Madej

True. Its a slow burn that one!

Before the dark times…

I should watch it with my 14 year old 😆

Can never watch that fucking movie again lol

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

A Blade Runner street

A street in Akira

Two men in a smoky office with a ceiling fan

Two people in a prison cell wearing orange outfits

Blade Runner (1982) // Akira (1988) 💊

About the same as well. Starting to do some preliminary work on my next book 📖. A two part work on the Anima and Animus.

Loved that book. How have you been btw. We haven’t talked in a long while!

What book of his are you reading, Christina?

AI Writing and the Memory of the Trace When Plato tells the story of Theuth in the Phaedrus, the god offers his invention as a gift to humankind. King Thamus declines, with the warning that writing will “implant forgetfulness” and give …

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My son is 14 so getting that teenage brain into deep listening is a challenge but if I catch him in the right mood 😆. There are definitely some artists he knows within seconds though

Indoctrination through music is also a pastime with me and my son lol

He has such a solid discography. I always look forward to new releases.

Epithalamium, a consortium — rob mclennan Never in our selves, but beyond.           Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight (1998) Marriage: a portin the storm                     or the storm,                     enough      to…

From              tense        
to future tense,

   , rock      to stone

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Epithalamium, a consortium — @robmclennan.bsky.social

Rifts is a certified masterpiece.

And the sky was happy until it heard about the coastal storm that’s coming.

Great lineup David!

my novel JONATHAN MARTIN has arrived at the publishers in Prague (photo courtesy of Louis Armand) | *out later this month*
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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins <p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

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Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

I often think about books that were probably written 50-100 years ago and probably still haven’t found their time in the Sun. Patiently waiting for readers to unravel their secrets and enigmas…

Super cool!

I need to purchase that! He is one of my favourites!

David, is that a Wong Kar Wai collection to the right?

water colour of a landscape, with a large snow capped mountain, a clump of trees on an island in a lake, and on that lake a boat

Lake Kawaguchi and Mt. Fuji
Koitsu Tsuchiya

Absolutely love that movie! Beyond the Black Rainbow as well.

“This leather-bound edition of William Gibson is personally signed by *Count Zero*”

After a thousand, I’m hallucinating.

Dreams as Event The nature of dreams of seems almost taken for granted as an area to be decoded rather than respected as actual experience. Dreams might indeed be of the nature of a disconnected blurred sense in w…

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The best books don’t provide you with answers, or even necessarily deep insights, but with more questions, threads and a sense of stepping into the Unknown.

It’s a mini Bec!