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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    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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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    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 Dearhaw Dearhaw
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    The Curta calculator, for me, is probably the most ridiculously irrationally lust-worthy item. I really can't explain why I want one so much, but I do, and I'm determined to find one, somewhere, some time (for a reasonable price :-) #williamgibson
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/07/09

    @Dearhaw: They're pretty cool. I want one, too. #williamgibson
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    Image of daveNYC daveNYC
    11/09/09

    @Dearhaw: I remember checking out the prices on Ebay when the book first came out. A few months later they had doubled. #williamgibson
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    Image of Dearhaw Dearhaw
    11/09/09

    @daveNYC: Haha, did the same damn thing. Shoulda bought one back then, when the prices were way more affordable. #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 TonyRockyHorror TonyRockyHorror
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    Honestly, this is probably my favorite book of his. It's hard to describe how awesome the Sprawl trilogy and the Virtual Light trilogy are, but Pattern Recognition transcends genres and push speculative fiction of all sorts to better things. #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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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    11/06/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Spook Country... also pretty damn fabulous. #williamgibson
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    Image of lazyeight lazyeight
    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 BaggerMcGuirk BaggerMcGuirk
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    Great book, and it seems to predict the whole 'viral video' thing by just a hair. My favorite of his since Idoru. #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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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    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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    Image of papercup mixmaster papercup mixmaster
    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 CoyoteBrown CoyoteBrown
    11/06/09

    In reply to William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
    I'm a dude, and i have no taste in fashion, but i want that Buzz Rickson's jacket. #williamgibson
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/07/09

    @CoyoteBrown: The Buzz Rickson jacket that Cayce wears isn't to my taste... but I'm a little embarrassed to admit that my winter jacket is a Buzz Rickson Army Field Jacket (black of course). The standard Field Jacket liner ($12) fits in it perfectly.

    Ummm... I might also have a pair of the tactical boots that appear in SPOOK COUNTRY. #williamgibson
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/22/09

    In reply to Gas Masks That Turn Biochemical Warfare Into Art
    hey woah! that's my buddies dad! awesome! #steampunk
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    Image of Rtrain Rtrain
    10/21/09

    In reply to Gas Masks That Turn Biochemical Warfare Into Art

    I don't get steampunk. It seems like an overly elaborate excuse to wear goggles and make shitty clothing with bronze all over it.
    The people who have festivals about it seem like the kind of BS hippie artsy fartsy types that would through a festival about anything.
    Not to mention the fact that it seems like the only reason its so prominent is because it gives fangirls a reason to wear bodices and corsets while gushing over how good Firefly was.
    Ok. So, it isn't all bad. #steampunk
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    Image of Spaceboy Spaceboy
    10/22/09

    @Rtrain: "Not to mention the fact that it seems like the only reason its so prominent is because it gives fangirls a reason to wear bodices and corsets while gushing over how good Firefly was."

    I fully endorse this steampunk thing. #steampunk
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/22/09

    @Rtrain:

    ...and firefly WAS good, after all... #steampunk
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/21/09

    In reply to A Lamp That Celebrates Alien Cow Abductions Everywhere
    i would totally blow 100 bucks on that.... #scifashion
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    Image of kwhyte2 kwhyte2
    10/21/09

    In reply to Gas Masks That Turn Biochemical Warfare Into Art
    Steampunk may say one thing when looked at as a projection of the past into the present, but it says something more when looked at as the tool of the future into a primitive past. How would you introduce technology into a backward world? Lasers and computer chips are beyond most workers in our society -- the only way to bootstrap is to go via steam and steel.

    Chris H.

    [www.double-dragon-ebooks.com]
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/21/09

    @kwhyte2: that's an interesting theory #steampunk
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    Image of TomSkylark TomSkylark
    10/21/09

    In reply to Gas Masks That Turn Biochemical Warfare Into Art
    Can someone please explain to me the hook of gasmask fetishism? I mean, I get the whole death/life liminality thing to some extent, as much as I find the horrors of WWI anything but chic, but I'm still not getting the attraction. I'm not being judgmental here, at all, I'm just trying to understand the point. #steampunk
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