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I write mostly short stories these days, but I was writing on the internet alongside the dinosaurs.
I also wrote the book You Are Among Friends: Advice for the Little Sisters I Never Had, which is a self-explanatory title.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
A Review of 9, Or: Great, Now Everyone Will Know I’m Crazy
We just got home from seeing the movie 9.
Let me say this:
If you are afraid of the robot apocalypse, you might not want to see this film.
If you are not afraid of the robot apocalypse, see this film. You should be afraid of the robot apocalypse.
Alright, well, I think I’m biased, because I didn’t know I was afraid of the robot apocalypse before, but I was a prime candidate. Maybe it can stand as a review of this film that two ironically-Afroed high schoolers sitting above me snorted and chortled throughout the second half, while I sat clutching my hands and holding my breath, re-evaluating my entire existence. It could have gone either way. But man, I hope I don’t sound too crazy when I tell you that I think about humans as a species all the time. It’s the film reel spooled in my skull. Can we get into it? All of it? I mean, the shot starts out real wide, so I often think about space, I wonder if all of space is all of everything, and I think about the one small finger-frame that we can observe and investigate, and how most of that is our own planet. We miss a lot. We have to miss a lot.
