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Decent but pretentious

Revisado: 09-19-22

There are good points in this commencement speech, but it's a bit pretentiously delivered. Still worth a listen.

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Mockingbird meets Lovecraft à la August Derleth

Revisado: 03-09-18

This was a wonderful book. It is arranged in a series of chapters that read more like various separate short stories. each story captures the times and culture of racist America, while also capturing the secret society essence of those Lovecraft stories which were written mainly by Derleth. I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, and found it very enjoyable to recognize the themes and cameos peppered throughout this book. I highly recommend devouring Lovecraft before you read this volume so that you can enjoy those as well. they really add to the ambiance of the book, and I don't know that I would have enjoyed it so much if I hadn't been aware of them beforehand. This book also seems to carry Lovecraft forward into conversations about the monstrousness of humanity that he was never brave or thoughtful enough to broach. I like that it goes there, and I feel that it rebuts and challenges some of Lovecraft's baser works while also lifting up the parts of him that are worth keeping. well done. I look forward to reading many more from this author.

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Wheaton + Scalzi = Yes

Revisado: 08-10-17

When Will Wheaton narrates anything by Scalzi, you just press play. There's no hemming and hawing of "should I get this?" or "is this going to be good?"

When these two collaborate, those are questions you never have to ask. The answer will always be some version of "yes," "duh," or "obviously."

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useful, but creepy

Revisado: 06-13-17

This book had quick and helpful tips for beginning photographers. it was a good mix of artistic approach and technical descriptions that were explained in plain English. and the book is relatively short so you can absorb it, go out and apply it, and relisten if you want, without it feeling like a hassle. However, there are several parts where the author randomly inserts strange sexual things into the otherwise normal photography explanations. For example, make sure you take good prom pictures so your kids can look back and realize how sexy they were as teenagers. There's another passage that warns against taking pictures of strangers' kids without permission, which is good advice. But the author goes on to explain that pedophiles might like those pictures. These weird insertions are certainly random and off-putting. It's still a useful guide, but the creepy stuff definitely distracts.

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Tornado thought miasma

Revisado: 05-25-15

There's a lot of good and interesting ideas here, but Chandra seems to smash the most disparate of them together in some sort of frenzied confluence of idealism and fever dreams. I read it straight though, which was exhilarating, but I will definitely have to go back and pick through things in order to find theme or thesis. Chandra seems to hit on these a few times, but the scope of this work is so big that each time he approached having a pristinely packaged unification of thought, it would switch to a new topic, leaving things unfinished, still in scaffolding. However, this may have been intentional--the flow and pacing may indicate that this was by design, and perhaps this frenzied form adds to the conversation. Either way, the whirlwind mixture of feminism, computer science, lit crit, eastern philosophy, and personal memoir was thrilling, even though it took work not to glaze over during some of the thicker passages. Very interesting perspectives.

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