Photos!

I am now officially one of those people who puts photos up on Flickr.

Subjects: pictures

Tintin author turns 100!

Happy birthday Herge!

Subjects: comics

Tom Bissell on Wet Asphalt

Today on Wet Asphalt we’ve reprinted Tom Bissell’s article on The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, which is notable because it’s an article we previously recommended.

Subjects: reviews, wet asphalt

Kafka has a blog

Kafka has a blog.
No, really.

Subjects: diary, fiction, kafka, blogs

Television

The bad news: Veronica Mars is probably cancelled.
The good news: Heroes gets a spin-off.
Who would have thought the superhero genre would trump mystery in popularity?

Subjects: tv

Mundanity

On the SF blogs there’s talk right now of something called “Mundane SF” which apparently is SF without all the spaceships and alternate universes and things. But all I can think any time I see that name is “what a stupid, awful name for something.” Seriously, I wouldn’t want to write anything that would get […]

Pine for the early years

The two sites I miss most from the early days of the World Wide Web are Suck.com (which has been promising to come back for years now) and Feed (which was once at feedmag.com and is now gone for good). Suck had a format that I still think is perfect for the web: one article, […]