someone to fool us, someone like you

[freckles_and_doubt]

Outside it's windy and bucketing with rain, and I'm as happy as a duck in a puddle. Personally, I welcome our new wintry overlords. But I'm odd that way.

I have one thing to say this morning, which is that everyone should read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, on the grounds that it's essential subversive propaganda for the age of Bush, spreading via Creative Commons like a particularly lively meme. I just read it in a giant gollup - it moves fast and is a rather beguiling adolescent coming-of-age story as well as a call to arms and an indoctrination to hack.

I shall now head off to introduce oblivious third-year Humanities students to the joys of Internet sex, feeling, for some reason, extra subversive.

Comments

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Outside it's windy and bucketing with rain

That sounds like an English summer, particularly last year!

The House Martins, at least, arrived Sunday. Haven't seen any swallows yet, though.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I am led to believe, by Exiles Who Know, that the UK don't got rain like we got rain. Cape Town can bucket with a capital Buck. Today actually wasn't very hard, other than a few minutes at a time, but a good winter rainstorm can leave you with the impression that someone opened the sky and then went away, laughing, while all the water fell out.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

I will defer to the Exiles Who Know, merely say that in more recent years torrential downpours seem to have become the norm. What was that about Climate Change?

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

I will try to read Little Brother before Les Miserables, a book about the size, shape and weight of a brick.

Did you read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town? I rather liked it.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

curse you, evil seducer! I was all set to actually do some work this afternoon, and then I started downloading Doctorow novels instead. I am halfway through Down and Out. I'm going to stop now and do credit transfers instead. I'll get to Someone Comes To Town sometime, recommendations always good.

[xavierxalfonso.livejournal.com]

I don't look at your blog for weeks and what do I discover when I do? A brilliant Doctorowian tip. Thank you.