The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Steve:

Quick particles question - Teresa, did you ever see American Psycho? Obviously, you weren't a fan of the book, but I thought the movie rather perfectly captured the replacement of any sort of interior life with a GQ "What to Buy" spread (although not the deadness of affect). The business card scene and the Huey Lewis rant (which was moved rather effectively) were quite well done, I thought.

Notice too the rise of corn syrup (and the decline of sugar beets) as another issue.

I'll spare people my corn subsidies rant: [imagine rant here]. But agriculture policies in America are insane; corn and sugar policies are only the worst example of it. In a world where the Ogallala Aquifer is not an example of the tragedy of the commons and water policy bears some relation to reality (or, you know, market pressures), the idea that Texas would be a major rice producing state would be laughable. My grandfather grew corn in western Colorado (not even using drip irrigation); that's nuts, and it's a sign of a system that's going to eventually break dramatically.

"Slipstream", as far as I can tell, means either "genre literature written by people who have read Gravity's Rainbow" or "genre literature that I am praising in order to convince people that I have read Gravity's Rainbow", depending on the usage.*

Thanks for the Anvil of the World recommendation.

* Disclaimer: I have read Gravity's Rainbow.

Teresa already did jackalopes. I'm personally waiting for her post about restaurants that look like the food they serve.

Holy cow, Teresa. What a post. I've just added a number of things to my list of abandoned structures to try to visit sometime (previously it contained the abandoned Roosevelt Island hospital and the High Line).

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