Cliff Burns

Political cartoonists are some of our best satirists these days--and they have plenty of material to work with.

Last night I read at the launch of a new horror anthology SASKATCHEWAN SCREAMS. A number of fellow contributors were there and the location for the event (The Art Bar in Saskatoon) was intimate and congenial. The place was full and we all had a great time. #darkfantasy #horrorfiction #books

Spot on!

#racism #xenophobia #refugees #Christmas #Nativity

My kinda guy. Mate, if there were more people like you, the Farages of this world would be cleaning toilets or flipping burgers at McDonalds. Solidarity.

Good cast, Roy Thinnes (under-rated) &, of course, the brilliant Herbert Lom. I heard Malcolm McDowell talking ruefully about a Lew Grade-produced film he was in with Orson Welles. The cast jokingly referred to him as "Low Grade"...though he did gift us with "UFO" and "Space: 1999"--some fun there.

Love "Andromeda Strain"--James Olson was terrific, so was my fellow Canadian, Kate Reid. Apparently Olson was a bit of a free spirit, suffered no bullshit. I like that. Lived to be 91--good for him. Another oldie but goody was "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"--remember that one?

"Forbin" was a terrific little chiller--saw it on the late-late show when I was in my early teens (a loooong time ago) and it really put the whammy into me. Finally scrounged up a DVD version some years back and found it still packed a wallop.

It seems like we've seen all the films ("Forbin Project", "Terminator") but we're still consciously building an A.I. controlled dystopia regardless. There is something innately stupid and self-destructive about our species--how we've lasted as long as we have is nothing short of a miracle.

I see what you mean...I sound bad enough without the misspellings.

Very good. Very, very good.

EARTHLY POWERS (Anthony Burgess)
GOSPEL (Wilton Barnhardt)
TOWING JEHOVAH (James Morrow)
THE INTUITIONIST (Colson Whitehead)
THE LAST GOOD KISS (James Crumley)

BIG fan of Jake Arnott's work and dearly wish I could be there. Good luck to all involved.

Thanks for the nudge--I'll pop over and check them out.

Big shoutout to my colleagues in the small press world--keeping it real, publishing the books we love, the stuff the corporate world won't touch with a ten-foot pole.

The words "Uh oh..." come to mind.

...plus sometimes, especially in the morning, my eyes aren't as sharp and miss those aforementioned glitches.

A-men. I'm obsessive about my spelling and when I discover a glitch in something I've posted, I'm furious. To me, it diminishes the insightfulness and intelligence of what I'm trying to communicate.

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Currently playing:

#music #Tool #MaynardKeenan #heavyrock #video #stopmotion

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Don't mess with senior citizens.

#dissent #protest #politics #fascism

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THE CANON, by Natalie Angier.

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Couldn't have said it better.

#racism #xenophobia

What I love about "Best of..." lists is that no one can agree on them! And there's always some obscure film everyone's forgotten about or don't usually characterize as SF--I mean, is "Eraserhead" SF or horror? It's certainly not set on Earth Prime.
And who remembers the ultra-weird "Liquid Sky"?

Going to see "The Exorcist" on a big screen for the first time tomorrow. In the 1970s, William Friedkin directed a trio of great films in succession: "The French Connection", "The Exorcist" and "Sorcerer". Is it blasphemy to say "Sorcerer" is the best of the three? #film #cinema #movies

We have to get to the point where people look at a headline like "Elon Musk Worth 500 Billion Dollars" and feel nothing but revulsion. We come from ancient societies that believed in sharing, an equitable distribution of goods. This greedhead mentality is relatively recent...and utterly disastrous.

In the province where I live we have "crown corporations" owned by our citizens, providing us with heating, electricity and phones/communication. Public health care. But there's always talk of "privatizing" and the Right certainly loves their "austerity", don't they, as long as it doesn't harm THEM.

But we need our ideological roots, they give us the spine of a belief system to build around. Otherwise we're invertebrates, flapping in the wind. To me, Marxism doesn't present us with a philosophy or cohesive politics, it's a critique of capitalism, how it works, exploiting us for maximum profit.

...living with your parents, eking out a living with two part-time jobs, no benefits, one of the precariate, furious that the "Great American Dream" has failed you...while forgetting the words of George Carlin: "They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it".

Talkin' to a Marxist here--it is all about class. And part of people's anger and desperation is that there is no longer any possibility of class mobility, no way of escaping the status you were born into. Education used to help that, but who can afford post-secondary fees?

I'm curious how the mid-term elections will go (historically a litmus test for any administration). After these mid-terms the gerrymandering will start so folks need to get out the vote, tip the scales either in the Senate or Congress, anything to impede the billionaires' greedhead agenda.

BTW, loved all the pics you posted of the "No Kings!" protest. Gives a person hope, even in dire times. In order for democracy to be preserved, we need more public participation, a dialogue that creates consensus and compromise rather than division and acrimony.