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Bright Shiny Morning

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:52:26 +0000

Just finished reading Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey. Despite his past, Frey is one of my alltime favorite authors. In Bright Shiny Morning Frey tells the story of Los Angeles alongside the stories of characters that have all found themselves in Los Angeles one way or another. Straightfoward and full of both facts and gritty detail, this is a book you shouldn’t sleep on, all previous critisim aside.

Project Pluto

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:37:32 +0000

An essay about the failed development of what could have been one of the worlds most devastating weapons.

But what drove the last nail into Pluto’s coffin was a question so deceptively simple that the wizards at the lab might be excused for deliberately overlooking it: Where do you flight-test a nuclear reactor? “How are you going to convince people that it is not going to get away and run at low level through Las Vegas—or even Los Angeles?” asks Jim Hadley, a Livermore physicist and Pluto alumnus who now works on detecting foreign nuclear tests for the lab’s hush-hush Z Division. There was, admits Hadley, no way of guaranteeing that Pluto would not become a nuclear-powered juggernaut beyond its inventors’ control — a kind of airborne Frankenstein, a flying Chernobyl.

Eerie.

‘Tussin by Eric Feezell

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:37:44 +0000

What do I look like, a direct descendant of Jerry Garcia, Beowulf, and MacGyver?

A hilarious read, as always.