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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and they burn so bright, while you can only wonder why
Like the faerie folk, once you’ve learned to see them, you always will—and also like the faerie folk, they can see that you can see them, and that marks you out for whatever blessings or curses they may choose to bestow upon you.
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i’d buy that for a dollar
Few things hurt quite so much as a confrontation with one’s obsolete exceptionalisms.
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meme opera
All things considered, I guess most USians of my acquaintance would probably rather have the penguins.
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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.
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].”