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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sort of like lizards, but for jizz instead of the sun
I do not recall how I came to find Eleanor Janega’s Going Medieval blog, but I know damn well why I still have it in the ol’ feedreader: it’s because it’s good to have someone on hand to 1a) correct widespread misconceptions about the medieval, to which I am definitely party as much as anyone…
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the influence of anxiety
Fredric Jameson, clearing his throat before a long piece (from 2007) on the half-centennial of Garcia Garquez’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude: Influence is not a kind of copying, it is permission unexpectedly received to do things in new ways, to broach new content, to tell stories by way of forms you never knew you…
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].”