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11/05/09
Ellis is relatively successful but I'm sure he sees this as a big step forward. And big steps are trippy.
Hence, the "so weird." #red
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As for me I'm going to watch some episodes of James Munro's 'Callan' (with Edward Woodward') to get in the mood for 'Red'. #red
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In short: count me in.
EDIT: Is it redundant to refer to the Atom as shrinking himself to save the day or can I just say he saved the day and people can assume it was on an atomic level?
11/03/09
There is always something moral about his writing too. I find with Garth Ennis or Morrison an ambiguous ethic that Ellis avoids by being a bastard, moreover a bastard with a heart, which is what makes his take on transhumanism a little more likeable. He still emphasizes the human.
For example, with Transmet, Spiders attitude toward the digitized personalities is almost contemptuous mainly from a moral standpoint. #blacksummer
11/04/09
For years I confused Warren Ellis with Bret Easton Ellis. Took me years to realize they were not the same person. A stupid mistake, especially when you start saying things like, " I can't believe the American Psycho guy wrote Transmetropolitan!"
Just saying... #blacksummer
11/04/09
I know what you mean. I always thought that Brett Easton Ellis and Brett Ratner were the same person!!
"What? The guy who wrote American Psycho directed Rush Hour? No way!!"
Re Morrison; not that I judge Him in anyway for that! It is mainly just a point of difference I notice when comparing the two.
Its probably because he's Scottish. #blacksummer
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Why couldn't the movie be as good as this? No Warren Ellis perhaps? #gijoe
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09/21/09
The cities in Wingrove's Chung Kuo didn't cover 100 per cent of the available land area, just the more level; in City Europe, only the Alps and the Carpathians were not built over, and were left open as wilderness.
Moreover, on Wingrove's 23rd Century Earth, vast areas of continent were left open to grow food to feed the 36 Billions that the sealed Cities held.
All that being said, there's one important megaconurbation that was left out – the Hooterville/Pixley megacity, popularized by the shared universe of Green Acres/Petticoat Junction stories. Oh, it was kind of an inverted megacity – instead of being filled with humanity, it was filled with farms populated by surrealistic hayseed farmers - but it was a single, vaguely-defined entity. I think it deserved to be mentioned.
09/19/09
The problem with the old concept of mega-cities is that the future doesn't appear to be going to plan. Sure, Moscow is constantly growing, and perhaps Chinese and Indian cities, but they're just becoming supermassive sprawling versions of themselves. And in the West you don't get cities joining themselves. Los Angeles is the best example of what American urban areas will become: megalopolises. There is no city center, just a massive conurbation of many different cities and their centers which people commute to and from throughout. Even if it did get big enough with good enough rail travel to include Santa Barbara or San Diego, each of those individual cities in between will maintain their individuality, but will work together with other municipalities to make the entire area more enjoyable.
Less insanely fun, but more realistic, and arguably more personable.
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Mike Davis generally is one of the best writers tackling these kinds of issues in non fiction, and deserves the attention of folk writing the posts for the Future Metro theme. [en.wikipedia.org])
As for the merger of Edinburgh and Glasgow-the whole reason that there was all the fuss made about how Edinburgh and Glasgow should co-operate is because they don't. There's a long history of rivalry if not straight up hatred between the two.
The reasons for this are complex but imo go back to the fact that Glasgow was the centre of heavy industry and perceived itself as more working class, and masculine, than Edinburgh, the centre of law, finance and, since the Scottish Parliament was established (and now with a Nationalist government the prospect of maybe full statehood) politics and government.
I doubt that this rivalry will be overcome any time soon, as it has pretty deep pyscho-social roots, which paradoxically are perhaps worsened by the end of heavy industry in Glasgow, since Glasgow has lost a lot of its identity and feels in some ways emasculated and defensive.
However, Scotland as a whole is dominated by Edinburgh, Glasgow and their surrounding sattelites, referred to as 'The Central Belt,' and much hated by people from more rural areas like the Highlands.
Incidentally, I'm an inhabitant of Maryhill, a place that was once its own town and has since been swallowed up by Greater Glasgow. [en.wikipedia.org]