‘My Life in Orgone Boxes’: William Burroughs on his sexual science experiments in OUI magazine, 1977
Burroughs contemplating an orgone box As a contributor to this blog, I spend a lot of my time poking around looking for suitable subjects that…
Books Archives: 08/2016
It’s not over ’til the Horselover Fat lady sings: Philip K. Dick’s ‘VALIS,’ the opera
Tod Machover’s parents were a pianist and a computer scientist, so perhaps it’s not very surprising that when the doors of the MIT Media Lab…
Brutally honest cartoons capture the harsh reality of the stripping life (NSFW)
The Beaver Show is a collection of raunchy, funny, and honest cartoons by Jacqueline Frances. It’s a memoir of sorts that focuses on one of…
Doctor Who reimagined as Penguin Books
Well this is nice. The world’s longest-running science-fiction series Doctor Who reimagined as retro Penguin books from the 1960s-1980s. I do like Penguin books. They…
‘LET ME DIE IN DRAG!’: The sleazy pulp paperbacks of ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ director Ed Wood
During the 1960s, several years after he’d begun making himself infamous as one of the greatest terrible auteurs in the history of cinema, Edward D.…