Jeff Lint was the author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the twentieth century. He transcended genre in classic such as Jelly Result and The Stupid Conversation, becoming a cult figure and pariah. Like his contemporary Philip K. Dick, he was blithely ahead of his time. Aylett follows Lint through his Beat days; his immersion in pulp SF, psychedelia and resentment; his disastrous scripts for Star Trek and Patton; the controversies of The Caterer comic and the scariest cartoon ever aired; and his belated Hollywood success in the 1990s. Lint's was a career haunted by death, including the suspicious death of his rival Herzog, and the mysterious 'Lint is dead' rumours, which persisted even after his death.
A sample:
'This is a craftsman at the top of his voice, who happens to want to bury us in a steamy load of despairing and accurate words,' wrote the respected Washington Post critic Simon Henwood. He concluded: 'It is impossible to imagine what Jeff Lint will do next, but whatever it is it ought to be good.' When Lint was seen naked riding a spaniel a few weeks later in Albuquerque, Henwood denied having read anything by Lint, or having written a review of anything by anybody at any time. 'I'm just a corporal in the Royal Navy,' he stated, quitting the Post all smiles.
right now i'm reading a little Francis Bacon (the four idols thing)
and carl sagan's last book - Demon-Haunted World - for class. we'll have to do a comparison/contrast paper i'm sure.
but last night, at borders, i picked up The Wasteland and other poems by TS Elliot and GRR Martin's Armegeddon Rag!
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain.
Nice gory thriller about a female psychopath.
Thinking of starting Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill next.
"-People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
Seriously, there's a "Dummies" book for everything.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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i actually went and off and bought SD Mordants Need yesterday and im going to make a start this weekend and also reading Tad Williams Shadowmarch so I shall be busy.
OK, don't pass out-it's been 10 months ago since danlo read The Golden Spruce, the first non Sci-Fi/Fantasy he's read in, like, forever. Upon the Lady Tam's recommendation I'm 26 pages into My Sister's Keeper and it's already slammed me into the floor. The author is Jodi Picoult and it's about a girl who was genetically raised to "lend" blood marrow and other bodily parts to her older sister suffering from a rare form of luekemia. You can guess the legal, personal and spiritual implications...(even though it was written just 3 years ago this issue of "clinical' offspring has been in the new for the last year and a half) extremely good writting, so far.
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