SHADOWRUNNING

Don’t know how I missed this last June, but Barnes and Noble does a series of author/musician reading/playing events and featured Gibson and Wainwright. 71 minutes long and haven’t checked it all out yet, but … facinating to be sure!

I love how dedicated Gibson fans are. Have seen this site in the past, but it bubbled up again as the 16th anniversary of Agrippa came to pass. Seems they found an ol’ floppy of the self-destructing poem and where able to rejigger it and run it again. And they took a movie of it running! Here’s MediaBistro’s review of it.

Meanwhile, my Gibon newsbot found a most interesting set of gifts, one a $500 gibsonesque notebook bag. Nice!

Haven’t had the opportunity to post in a while but I hope to do so more regulary as things in Real Life calm down.

Wanted to give some quick insight into Neal Stephenson’s new book Anathem which I have been reading since it came out in September. Neal Stephenson is one my favorite authors but I would not say that any of his books since Cryptnomicon would be considered “easy reads”. Neal  is either tackling complex storylines based on historical events, juggling multiple characters and or discussing “heady” topics that require some real thinking.

In Anathem we are focused for the most part on one character, named Fraa Erasmus ( Fraa = Father) and his life and experiences in what can only be called a monastery for scientists. The book so far has been heavily focused on the concept of Plural Worlds or World Tracks (Narratives) and takes quite sometime to digest. So far I am really enjoying it and I cannot tell you more without spoiling the book. I will give my final thoughts when I am done reading it but I would definitely encourage anyone to go out and pick up this book.

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How can we be better virtual citizens? Wherein the article tells briefly of Gibson’s experience in Second Life, on par with the first day at high school.

But I’ve never looked good in the classic sneaker, but c’mon,  a Buzz Rickson’s William Gibson sneaker?!?!?!