Art Eugene Fischer | 04 Aug 2009
This was quite an eyeball kick when it popped up in my RSS reader. From Brock Davis, via the Street Anatomy blog: I was asked by NY magazine Tokion to create a piece for the project section in the new June/July issue, based on the theme of sex. I took an approach around the idea [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 04 Aug 2009
Time to close some tabs. Popcorn Fiction — prose fiction written by screenwriters. Mosquitoes as a vaccine delivery system. Can you eat a mermaid? For some, this depends on their halal status. Islamic scriptural precedents are divided on the subject. Terry Pratchett writes a compelling and heartbreaking essay about why assisted suicide should be legal. [...]
Books Eugene Fischer | 03 Aug 2009
I don’t know how widespread this is, but the Borders near my apartment is having some huge sales right now. I went in there this weekend, and on a table covered in boxes of what I assume is overstock there was a box full of attractive copies of Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad, priced at $4.00 [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 02 Aug 2009
This is popping up everywhere. Deservedly. World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Blog Eugene Fischer | 02 Aug 2009
Mostly in here: This is my brain, age 20. Is there a story out there somewhere in which a character pays extra to get his own copies of an MRI? That may have had a real world inspiration. I got this because I was having weird twitching convulsion things that eventually just went away on [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 01 Aug 2009
My friend Megan has recently posted about her hair, and my friend Kat is taunting everyone by making bold claims which she declines to prove, but which I am inclined to believe all the same (don’t tell). I am inspired by these events, especially Megan’s comment: I love when you ignore it for a while [...]
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 01 Aug 2009
The world today is a subtly changed place, full of mystery and curiosities. The tide of popular opinion waxes on strange shores: Long familiar things have mutated into nearly unrecognizable forms: But the most important change of the day? That would be this: What? You don’t see it? Understandable. Look closer: My friend and former [...]
