James James

Obligatory mention of Bloomsday. The LA Times is all over it, Los Angeles being the home of Shakespeare. I find it all a bit... easy. But it gets a writer talked about and turns people onto Joyce, so that's a good thing.

Fuck ebooks: I want to write fiction for the Allosphere:

...a house-sized ball of data viz at that allows researchers to literally get inside their information. Choice AlloSphere projects so far have included examinations of how hydrogen atoms bond together and a giant model of the brain derived from fMRI scans. Up to 30 people can fit on the catwalk, and they get silly-looking glasses and wireless joysticks to mess around with the streaming imagery. Dozens of speakers play sound into the echo-free chamber. The result is psychedelia with research applications.

Doug Liman's new film might be based on the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel All You Need Is Kill. I don't know if that's Sakurazaka's or the translator's title but shame on the publishing bodysnatchers who have revived the Bond novels for not thinking of it first. The previous post-Fleming Bond novel was called Devil May Care, which sounds like the crawl for a Sex and The City movie.