I read Dr. Bloodmoney and then read Amnesia Moon( Lethem, but I really didn't like it) right away. They are connected! Weird. There is actually another essay that sort of references "the Waking Life" segment: If you Find This World Bad. Sometimes you blog about the same exact shit that I have read earlier in the day. Is there a connection?
No, but I wish you lived closer to San Francisco so we could be friends. Real-life friends. I would still love to play you GO. I play chess almost religiously and I would love to learn to play GO.
also: I love the no Obama news day!
I am so ashamed at California for not ending this election outright, but the counties where i voted and live( Santa Cruz and San Francisco)
both went for Obama and that made me feel at least a little bit better.
Somehow I missed that you linked to the essay that I mentioned as well. Whoops
john, PKD would surely tell us that there's a connection between the stuff you read and my subsequent blogging about it. Clearly one of us is a precog. I bet it's you.
Incidentally, re: Obama, with the primary settling down I should be returning to a more usual mix of politics and nerd news for awhile. The response I've gotten from the Obama stuff has generally been positive, but it's really not why I do this blog.
Presidential politics is just something I get caught up in every four years. Kind of like the World Cup.
You are too kind. I am no precog, just a nerd like my father before me. Have you seen the documentary: A day in the afterlife of Philip K. Dick.
Pretty, pretty good.
Check out his "Plot idea for Mission: Impossible"
and Gerry, don't kid yourself this Obama stuff is not even close to being done. Your analysis is some of the most entertaining on the web. That being said I love everything you blog and you are one of the first, if not first, site I check every morning. Sorry to be so gushing.
I know you may have serious reservations but check out the new terminator show. As much as I wanted to hate it I cant stop watching it so far and considering we seem to agree on just about every other show I would say that you would at least like it. Also check out Everyone Loves Raymond. Just Kidding.
Many of these essays (and much more) can be found in a volume titled _Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings_, edited by Dick's best biographer, Lawrence Sutin. It's worth a look, if only for some of the really weird moments like his Mission Impossible script proposal (!). Sutin also edited a volume of selections from Dick's _Exegeses_, which I own, but am too terrified to read.
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