When doing a top five list of things with limited appeal, the boxed sets of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on dvd must be ranked pretty high. Probably around two or three. Four crappy movies with running commentaries made before the time of dvd. Funny enough, I don't feel the urge to go out and buy it right this very minute.

Jonathan Lethem about Philip K. Dick. It is not so much about the man as the books he wrote and their quirks. (found at Sore Eyes.)

The future just looks a whole lot better: eFanzines: science fiction fanzines on-line. No, they're do not contain what you think.

Tom at plasticbag.org has a thoughtful piece on the philosophy of incoming links. Well worth a read.

At the first disc in the Back to the Future trilogy dvd-box, there is an outtake that is worth the price alone. Marty McFly as a stereotype hispanic gang-member. It is phenomenal. (If you don't live in Scandahoovia or in the Netherlands, you'll have to wait until December though to be able to buy it. But seriously, it's worth it.)

If you happen to be in Minneapolis November 3rd around 7:00pm (it's a Sunday) you should drop in at the club called a club called First Ave. Why? Well, The Fabulous Lorraine's -- half of the Flash Girls, the one with the weird punctuation when she writes in their mailinglist, who also happens to be assistant to Neil Gaiman -- new band will have their first gig there at that time. Anyway, I myself won't be there, since it's a pretty long drive. Not to talk about a huge pond in the way.

I decided to try out the referrer-thing from Dean Allen: Refer. So far, works like a charm. Looks nice too.

Saw a book entitled "Tarot for Dummies" today. I laughed.

It can't be seen on BBC Prime -- the bastards -- but if the shows only half as fun as the site I hope it does soon. I really want to see Look Around You.

From their math quiz: "A magician pulls rabbits out of a top hat at the rate of 18 standard rabbits per hour. How long will it be before he has enough pelts to make a fur coat for his assistant, who has a mass volume of 144 gallons?"

I used to like visiting amazon.co.uk a little bit more than I do now. The reason is their little text that says hello: "Nicklas Andersson, make £x.x. Sell your past purchases at Amazon.co.uk today." Sell my books? Philistines! All of them.

Changes have occurred further down here in the left column. The current indulgences are gone and there are links to two other things: the book log and the story log. By doing this I hope to start update them more often.

I've tried to write something about The Modern Fantasy Diet, but I ended up pressing delete every time. Let's try again. In short: he's wrong. (1) Even books published in the so-called mainstream has grown thicker and thicker. (2) People want canned goods, that's why they read crap like Robert Jordan, David Eddings et al. They sell but they don't matter, not really. It's the same phenomenon everywhere, be it in other shelves in the bookstore or in a videostore. This does not mean that everything else will magically disappear. (3) Why fixation on the pulp tradition? More fantasy authors than Tolkien have been/are interested in writing literature. When reading it, I felt as if the author wanted the genre to stop moving in different directions and instead concentrate on being just like the pulp stories of old. (4) There are other things as well, but right now I can't put them into words.

Found this in my referrer log this morning. Don't know why it was there really, but who would want to download mp3s to their fridge? Probably a few of us — me included — could see a use of that function so it was a bad example. But use it as a digital camera?!

Jonathan Carroll does the same thing as Neil Gaiman did with American Gods. That is, he writes about his promotion thingie as well as other aspects as he flies around between cities.

Another China Miéville interview. Good stuff. Interestingly enough, he and I seem to have the same approch to video games — i.e. we play but we suck.

I woke up today and realized that I wanted more books. I don't have that many yet, although I'm firmly attached to the movement of readers who believe that one can't have too many books. Considering that I've bought more than a hundred so far this year, I'll be up to a thousand in no time.

According to "The Anatomy of Bibliomania" (by Holbrook Jackson, ISSN 0252070437) Mark Pattison once said that a man with less than thousand books can't have any self-respect. It seems as a good rule, of course this means I can't respect my friends but "win some, lose some," right?

Wuthering Heights Roleplaying Game. The character creation is simple and effective but nothing beats the problem table. [Found at As Above]

I read the comicbookslut column in the new issue of Bookslut. It was about the newest creation from Jhonen Vasquez and all I can say is that I really want a copy. "Everything Can Be Beaten" just seems so... lovely in a grim sort of way.

Tom the plasticbag organisation linked to a pointless Donnie Darko personality-test. As the obsessed person I am, I had to do it. Hi, I'm Frank.

It has started to snow further up in the country. Yuck. I don't like snow. It always ends up inside my shoes and me feet get cold and wet.

Since it's Sunday and I have nothing better to do, I started to clean up my font collection. Some of them were really hideous. Horrible. Ugly. And lots of other similar words.

Found "Kipps" by H.G. Wells in the used bookshop today for 15 kr (about £1 or $1.5) Originally it had been one of those bound paperbacks, but now it featured a library hardcover. I suspect that the library that once owned it is located in the Netherlands. The double a:s was a bit of a hint.

I'm seriously undergoing considerations to study elsewhere next semester. There is only one course left here that I'm interested in (though the teachers irk me at no ends), the rest is gibberish and I like to study damn it.