31 Number 5

Some audition experiences are interesting.

31 #4

We watched "Quiz Show" recently. Excellent film. I don't know everything, you know.

31 #3

So there are a lot of good things about having a motorcycle. But. You know.

31 #2

Acting Jobs are hard to get. Blah, Blah, Blah.

There's always alcohol.
And frozen snickers bars.

Click on it to make it bigger.

31 #1

So I recently finished the game 10000000 (that's Ten Million, I know, I know) on my iPhone and I was treated to this picture.

I screen-capped it because it obviated the absurdity of these little electronic, interactive rule-based systems we call vidjimagamez. i.e. you aren't getting anything out of it except your enjoyment. As a matter of fact they got something out of you: your money. I hate to put this experience into a time:cost ratio, but if I did then I don't feel so bad - So here we go:

Would you pay 1.99$ for 8 hours of enjoyment? See, I already feel better. So if you have an iPhone, get the game it is a lot of fun. Aside from the depleted feeling of malaise I experienced I also had this feeling which points to a problem which is more intrinsic to our nature as free beings, which I already described in a previous comic.

Oh and I'm doing the comic again.

I know I started last June and stopped in November but shit gets busy, amirite?

Ok, Turkeys.

Books

I originally posted this to the FB

Books ya' might like:

The Most Human Human by Brian Christian

He takes the Turing competition in Britain as a jumping off point to make these intellectual excursions about the "human cognition as computing" idea which is the analogy dujour for the human brain. It's very good.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Most-Human-Talking-Computers/dp/0385533063

Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

A chef, an author, an artist and a nueroscientist. What do they have in common? I just can't believe how young Jonah Lehrer was when he wrote this.

http://www.amazon.com/Proust-Was-Neuroscientist-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0618620109

Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman

I had a notebook that I was using to write down my favorite quotes from this book. I quickly abandoned it because I was basically just transcribing the book. It's amazing.

http://www.amazon.com/Bowl-Cherries-Mcsweeneys-Millard-Kaufman/dp/1932416838

All Known Metal Bands by Dan Nelson

It's not so much a book as it is a kind of a book to read at parties when you're drunk.

Kind of like a list.

https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/all-known-metal-bands

Loser Goes First by Dan Kennedy 

I was tearing up reading this. Seriously. If you've ever had ten or so years of clueless meandering, prey to the violence of your own emotions (ahem) you might like this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Loser-Goes-First-Thirty-Something-Humiliation/dp/0609610368

Game Boys by Michael Kane

He's a sportswriter from New York that takes a look at the mountain dew code red swilling, counterstrike playing world of competitive video gaming.

http://www.gameboysbook.com/

I have to proselytize for these two books:

An Underground History of America Education by John Taylor Gatto 

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cosmos-Last-Self-Help-Book/dp/0312253990

The Tarp

Just go to his website. Read up.