The hagiography of Stewart Brand I'm reading states how much he was influenced by Marshall McLuhan. Seeing Brian O’Blivion of Videodrome is based off McLuhan.
Because Katz treads lightly on the Business Plot, his 1/6 musings don't quite make sense. He knows Trump is no J.P. Morgan.
It makes a connection to 1/6 and Trump, but the book is at its best when at connecting Smedley Butler's career in empire building to current U.S. foreign policy.
The kid's forgotten all about it anyway. Yesterday he found an electric typewriter at a thrift store. It's his newest favorite thing. He was trying to make music with it.
So Freeman Dyson was conscious of Kurt Vonnegut's experience in Dresden. (This must've been rattling around in the back of my skull.)
It's blowing my mind to see that Theodore Stephanides, from Gerald Durrell's Corfu books, has a weighty Wikipedia entry. I read those books as a kid & adored Theodore.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Stephanides
Alan Moore reading his collaboration with Bill Sienkiewicz, Brought to Light.
https://youtu.be/P4eA5vCx_B4
Black Sun Ensemble. 1985. https://youtu.be/s5ZmZd6fRRQ
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