Jan 23
Although I’m not too big on leaving the house, I attended this talk by Robert J. Sawyer and William Gibson at the Toronto Reference Library. Aside from trips to the tailor and organizing my cupboards, This is the sort of thing I get excited about. I’ve been wanting to see these two in conversation for years. Reason …
Jan 07
Some of you might remember the Philip K. Dick robot that went missing. As a fan of science fiction and the strange, I posted about this weird incident back in 2006. Well, this creature has been rebuilt. Hanson Robotics just rebuilt the Philip K. Dick Android! To replace the android that we lost in 2005, …
Dec 09
I want to give you some background. Be patient. My reasoning will, I hope, become clear. Before I was published, I walked into Bakka Books and was recommended a novel by Minister Faust. Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad. I read it and cursed him out. It was the book I wished I …
Aug 20
It’s supposed to be one of the big moments. You write a book, sell it, edit it then, after years of doing all that, finally get to hold the thing. You’ve joined humanity’s library. Most young writers imagine this as their ‘I arrived’ moment and I suppose I was, once upon a time, much the …
Aug 04
In an alternate universe version of Spiderman, Marvel Comics killed Peter Parker and made him into a half black, half latino character. Racists immediately lost their mind. I’d quote some of the things being said but don’t even want to dirty my fingers typing it. And I’ll type just about anything. People who hate this new character …
May 21
It’s almost The Rapture. You’ve formed a plan for your atheist pets, deleted your porn stash and got right with Jesus.Either that or you’re shooting heroin with a prostitute while being double penetrated by a goat and Anton LeVey. But whatever you’re doing, there’s only one thing left to figure out. Just what do you wear to The Rapture? …
Mar 20
My novel, Technicolor Ultra Mall, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It’ll be released in October 2011. To give you the elevator pitch . . . It’s a satirical and ultra-violent dystopia about consumerism. In a world where people live in giant malls, a young man tries to escape the crushing poverty of the …
Jan 04
This link to some Doctor Who fan art arrived in my email so if you’ve seen it on some other, bigger blog, then tough shit. Why don’t you just go back there if they’re so great? It’s an extensive collection of printable templates to make paper dolls of a whole whack of Doctor Who ephemera. …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
