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    William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"

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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    03:42 AM

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    Astronaut Fall is a knockoff of a Ray Bradbury story. Bradbury's ending was a child wishing on a falling star. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    11/07/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    Unfortunately, the website seems to have missed the point, even though this quote is right there on the page:

    "She can only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. "

    Everything they show would have been glaringly comment-inducing when worn by a woman before probably the mid-sixties... Certainly before the mid-fifties.
    -Kle. #williamgibson
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    11/07/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    Damn, we've broken the site, apparently.

    I love the idea that, with Gibson's work, we're moving back from a not-so-distant future to a not-quite-there-yet present.

    Give it another two books and he'll be predicting tomorrow. #williamgibson
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    Image of Jeremy Tapsell Jeremy Tapsell
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    I also saw Marly Krushkova as a strong feminine Gibson character. When I read Pattern Recognition after Count Zero I saw echoes of her in Cayce. And her anti-style is actual style. Like Kat says in her article, Cayce embodies the quality of cut, context of style, and the semiotics of fashion which a lot of people who love clothes are more interested in than branding or elitism- that is what true style is.

    In a strange way it is that mentality, that awareness of fashions semiotics, that creates an elitism in style. It is what makes certain designs and brands more desirable, and therefore more marketable.
    I suppose Cayce's ability to sense this is what makes her a sought after coolhunter. #williamgibson
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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    i reread this book at least 15 times.

    i have purchased at least 8 copies. 1 permanant copy, several loaner copies and several gift copies.

    it is my answer to, "whats your favorite book?" #williamgibson
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    William Gibson's prose is just beautiful. Not in the flowery, lyrical way that so many writers strive for and end up sounding like Stephanie Meyer. The bandwidth and information density are so high. A lesser writer would take twice as many pages to get the same information across. I liked the original SF well enough, but this near future stuff he's been writing lately shows that SF can be literature. #williamgibson
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    11/06/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Spook Country... also pretty damn fabulous. #williamgibson
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    11/07/09

    @PostMarque: I'm not a conspiracy buff, but I got the feeling in Spook Country that Gibson was circling the edges of the now. Gibson said himself that he wished to write about happenings 15 minutes into the future. I think he blew it, and instead wrote only about 5 minutes out. #williamgibson
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    11/07/09

    @lazyeight: 15 minutes into my future may include a trip to the water closet to release my bowels... prolly not a chart topping best seller. #williamgibson
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    Cayce is an appealing character (to men, anyway; I have a feeling that to women she may seem a little too much like the super-thin, super-sophisticated girl a couple of years ahead in high school and college; nice Jane Birkin reference there, Gibson), but "rejection" is a funny way to put it: after all, "Pilates" is a brand name, with all sorts of very expensive branding (as a friend of mine who is an instructor mentions from time to time). Moreover, a pair of Levi's with "Levi Strauss & Co." ground off the buttons remains a pair of Levi's, maybe even if one unpicks the rear pocket stitching. Buzz Rickson is a brand, too, with logos. At a little remove from the novel, Cayce seems more like a hipster and less like a victim of an overbranded society -- "I'm allergic to brands" sounds like the sort of thing that one would hear pretty regularly in Williamsburg and Portland, etc. #williamgibson
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    11/06/09

    @Rasselas: Also, if her name is an allusion to the psychic Edgar Cayce, as many people seem to think (rather than to the hacker in Neuromancer), I think it'd be pronounced "Casey." #williamgibson
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    Image of sjct sjct
    11/06/09

    @Rasselas: I'm a woman and I found her very appealing as a character primarily because I could identify with her. #williamgibson
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    11/06/09

    @Rasselas: She tells Voytek that she was named for Edgar Cayce, but that her name is pronounced "Case." There's no "seem to think" about it. #williamgibson
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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    11/06/09

    @sjct: im a guy. and i also identify with the allergy reaction she has. tommy hilifgher and walmart draw the same reaction from me. i broke out in hives once at both stores. #williamgibson
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    The Perry Bible Fellowship deserves every last good thing that's said about it, and much more.

    HOF material, and 175% awesome. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    Wow, the Postman would have been a way better movie if what he delivered was a Publisher's Clearing house mailing. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of Rumblytums Rumblytums
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    We ran his comics for a while in the alt-weekly I work on, but ran out of "family friendly" comics pretty quickly. heh. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of spocko spocko
    11/06/09


    @Rumblytums: I can imagine. Very dark but also some really funny ones. It's a rare comic strip that I remember so vividly. One of my favorites is this one. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    "No one's buying lemonade..."
    "How 'bout now??"

    "HELP ME JENKINS"

    It's just too bad he doesn't update anymore. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship
    WOW! Never heard of this guy. Stellar jokes and nice coloring. #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/06/09

    In reply to Enter The Multiple Demented Worlds Of The Perry Bible Fellowship

    My absolute favorite strip of his.

    I'm buying this thing now.
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    Image of rek rek
    11/06/09


    @omgwtflolbbqbye: #theperrybiblefellowship
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    11/05/09

    In reply to YA Authors Explain Everything — Even Twilight — In New York Tonight
    I can't recommend Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle books enough they are just so amazingly well written and have such a great feminist message with great atmosphere, gothic melodrama and girls doing magic.

    I'm in favor of books where girls do magic and have powers. I will read anything where girls do magic or have powers.

    Also, seriously, why all the hate on YA? There are so many great classic works of literature that are YA (Robert Cormier and Judy Blume come straight to mind as well as Robin McKinley's stuff).

    It's historical fiction not sci-fi/fant but I would also heartily recommend the last National Book Award Winner "What I Saw and Why I Lied" by Blundell (who's- fun fact- only other titles she's written were Star Wars books targeted for 9 year olds). It's flipping amazing.

    Another great war/historical one is Peet's "Tamar" which is a fantastic WW2 intrigue/spy novel. There's loads more but I'm prattling on...

    I'm just saying it's not all Twilight and Gossip Girl people.
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/05/09

    In reply to Max Barry's Weird Cyborg Publishing Experiment Could Be A Movie
    This seems like a huge lost opportunity.

    Surely the best way to deliver the 'Machine Man' experience to the audience would be in the form of 43 one minute, 'blipverts/pages', delivered online and on broadcast TV, over 43 consecutive days.

    That would add up to exactly one 'TV hour'.
    For the one-off, TV 'event', reprise.

    Then the theatrical, DVD and online release of the whole 120 minute film the next day.

    For $6.95.

    Just like the book. [io9.com]

    But why would a film studio use an innovative and hugely profitable new business model? #maxbarry
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