velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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a configuration that can’t possibly be true, and yet here it is
The shock of the same old new.
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so immersive that they transcend words on a page or pixels on a screen
Lock up your libraries, the brand-marketing people have discovered worldbuilding.
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the months of rot
Reflections on the dog days of a) summer, b) that thing we still insist on thinking of as “civilisation”, and c) the human life-arc.
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and not a drop to drink
This, I presume, is why Amdahl was out there in the Gulf, hanging on at the trailing edge of the business: Big Blue was focussed on the big-ticket players, and a fading rival could still pick up some gigs on the fringes of its interests.
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who loves ya, baby
Signs that a) you’re getting old, and b) you don’t follow the news too closely: on seeing a picture of Jeff Bezos on the deck of his yacht, you think “whoa, I never realised Telly Savalas spent so much time at the gym”.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”