what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “When I was young, I invented an invisible friend called Mr. Ravioli. My psychiatrist says I don’t need him anymore, so he just sits in the corner and reads.” Mary is an eight-year-old girl in Australia who picks Max’s name out of a New York phone book and writes him a letter. Mary has a […]
{4/5} “A miracle is what seems impossible but happens anyway.” Boris the Animal breaks out of prison on the Moon and then goes back in time to kill the man who shot off his arm — Agent K. When Agent J realizes that the timeline has changed he also goes back in time to try […]
This web site has some really cool ideas on it — both things that are fun and things that will help make the world a better place. From an exoskeleton to help paralyzed people walk again to 10 steps for improving capitalism to an index of difference-making nonprofit organizations, these are ideas that are worth […]
{4.5/5} “The internet’s not written in pencil, Mark, it’s written in ink.” Mark Zuckerberg creates Facebook while a student at Harvard. His roommate Eduardo puts up some money to start it up — and later sues him. Some other students wanted Mark to work on their own similar project — and later they sue him too. Mark […]
{4.5/5} “The notion that time-travelers might disrupt the present world by meddling with the past had seriously troubled Madame Guderian for many weeks after the departure of Karl Josef Richter. She had concluded at last that such a paradox must be impossible, since the past is already manifest in the present, with the continuum sustained […]
{3.5/5} “I wouldn’t ride with you if you were the last man on Earth.” Zac wakes up to find himself seemingly alone in the world. He believes that a scientific project called Project Flashlight might be the cause of everyone’s disappearance — a project that he was part of. As he tries to find a […]
{4.5/5} Samsara was released earlier this year. It’s playing at a limited number of theatres, and I encourage you to seek it out — it’s one to see on the big screen. This is a movie with no dialogue and no plot. It’s a collection of images from around the world, set to music. It’s […]
{5/5} “Man, she’s got good lookin’ handwritin’.” Harvey Pekar is a file clerk who likes jazz and comics. After his friend Bob Crumb becomes a comic book writer and illustrator, Harvey decides to try it himself. He can’t draw, but Bob and others illustrate his stories for him. Harvey’s comics have no superheroes — they’re […]
Here are a few blogs that I check on a fairly regular basis. Robert J. Sawyer Robert J. Sawyer is the author of such brilliant novels as Hominids, Calculating God, and Wake. He’s Canadian, and we once interviewed him in Challenging Destiny. On his blog he talks about his books, of course, but he also […]
{4.5/5} “Never wiser than when we’re children. They say it and it’s true. We’ll never see things that clear again.” Michael is a professor who teaches a class on American terrorists. His wife, who worked for the CIA, died some time ago. He’s now going out with Brooke, a former grad student of his. After […]