A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

Looks like Seattle is host to the brand spanking new Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. I'm a sci-fi fan in all its forms and also a fan of museums (yeah call me square). Putting them together and I'm in geek heaven. No big surprise too that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen had a hand in putting up the museum.

William Gibson reads Neuromancer in mp3 format. (via the accordion guy)

Everything I Know I Learned From... "If Mad Magazine is a child's primer in irony, Marvel [comics] is its equal in angst." From Who's Afraid of Doctor Strange? by Jonathan "Fortress of Solitude" Lethem (found through the brand new Elephant Still Missing) Totally Unrelated and a Note to Myself: I really need to start having obsessive behavior toward projects again.

Can you tell I'm excited with the upcoming Return of the King movie? (Not Da King okay?) In any case, thanks to the new found popularity of Tolkien, some of the local bookstores are stocking up on Tolkien's other books. I'm glad to have found this in Fully Booked: Letters from Father Christmas

I made the mistake of going to the bookstore earlier tonight. Fully Booked at the Power Plant mall have books which I want need: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez * Marquez's latest and the first book of a planned trilogy. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson * Stephenson's prequel of sorts to the awesome Cryptonomicon. It's also book 1 of an intended trilogy. (What's with trilogies these days?) The Singapore ...

Sci-fi novelist William Gibson is giving up blogging: "I?ve found blogging to be a low-impact activity, mildly narcotic and mostly quite convivial, but the thing I?ve most enjoyed about it is how it never fails to underline the fact that if I?m doing this I?m definitely not writing a novel ? that is, if I?m still blogging, I?m definitely still on vacation. " Hmmmm...