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Aug.09.2012
That would be my latest read, "Life," by Keith Richards of the Stones. I would never believed it. Guy is an artist, an engaging raconteur, a writer, civilized, uncouth, a gentleman and a pirate. In other words, everything I aspire to be. I was always a Beatles boy, never...
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Jan.25.2012
Frank Herbert's "Dune" trilogy! Little known fact (let's be kind and call it "forgotten") is that in Herbert's "Dune" universe, he features a matriarchal secret society called the Bene Gesserit that is striving to perfect the ritual of "Kwisatz Haderach"(roughly translated as the "...
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Nov.21.2008
Just returned from speaking at the Microsoft-sponsored MobileCamp NYC3 seminar in New York where "Manga Man" was one of the most popular presentations among the geekerati. Tremendous feedback at http://barcamp.org/MobileCampNYC3. ("Manga Man was pretty epic.")
The meta-...
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Oct.27.2008
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Greets, Fellow Red Roomies!
I've been AWOL from this site for some months, but not idling away, instead working very very hard on the launch of my new project, The Manga Man, which can only be described as "meta-multimedia" since it's the first of its kind ever, and I suppose I get to...
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Jul.23.2008
Chinese warned on 'eight don't asks' when dealing with foreigners (AP)--O.K. to ask:
1) “Is your mother Tibetan?”2) “Is your mother the Dalai Lama?”3) “Have you ever sent your clothes to be cleaned at a Tibetan laundry?”4) “Do you think that Richard Gere is more handsome than the Dalai Lama?”5) “...
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May.26.2008
Probe lands on Mars, NASA says (CNN)--But they can’t make Martians confess until they discover water.
from http://alex-de-talkville-america.blogspot.com/
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May.17.2008
Quoted from Media Bistro:
>>"Let's say, in the new world, Amazon becomes the retailer, marketer, publisher and agent combined and takes 65% of the revenues, offering 35% to the author--we end up with a much better, fairer world."
It would be fairer as far as authors making more for...
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Apr.23.2008
Today is Shakespeare's birthday. Happy Bard Day to you! Happy Bard Day to you! Happy Bard Day, dear William! Happy Bard Day to you! Now to be the candles or not to be the candles, that is the question. Blown out in your honor.
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Mar.12.2008
Paglia: Hillary campaign has 'set bad precedent for future women candidates' (Salon)—The question isn’t about the devaluation of feminism today. As Rumsfeld noted, that’s “old Europe.” The real question is: Will the Clintons steal the election like Bush did in Florida and Ohio? And what have the...
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Feb.15.2008
So I'm a little floored. Last summer I entered the Writers' Guild-sponsored Scriptapalooza Television Script competition, and yesterday I learned that my script, "The Vicious Circle," was picked by top agents etc. as one of the five finalists in the Original Pilot category, out of 843...
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Feb.11.2008
Writing's On The Wall After WGA Strike: ‘Strategies are in flux’ . . . ‘There's no real game plan’ . . . ‘The new world order for Hollywood’ (Tim Goodman, SF Chron)—Melting ratings, fleeing viewers and platform evolution = Climate change for global creativity.
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Feb.07.2008
Foreclosure Hits Renters (SF Chron)—The 'R' word, but a new one for our times: We're in the "Great Repression."
Rice: "Afghanistan progressing despite Taliban" (AP)—Best yield of poppies ever.
American businesswoman jailed in Saudi for going to Starbucks (TimesOnline.com)—...
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Feb.05.2008
Hillary turns on the tears again (NY Post)—It's Obama by a tearslide.
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Jan.29.2008
Dear Patry,
What a lovely book cover and what a great title (“The Liar’s Diary”). You had me hooked from the first sentence, so much so that I hit Amazon’s “Surprise Me!” tab enough times to know that more surprises were in store. Congratulations!
I ordered the book, and I look forward to the...
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Jan.25.2008
We have a couple of stories originally written in GERMAN that we're planning to include in "Flowers Under the Sand: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabic and Muslim Science Fiction and Fantasy." One is written by the Berlin-based Arabic diaspora novelist couple Sabine and Saddek Kebir from...
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About Alexander
Welcome to Chairman Besher’s Mausoleum (1951-):
Born in China of Russian parents as a stateless person, raised and educated in Japan, Alexander Besher is a San Francisco-based author, journalist (when journalism was still journalism), and novelist. He...
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Causes Alexander Besher Supports
Médecins Sans Frontières; anything to do with children and animals; The World Court in the Hague. (One can still dream in this fascistocracy, can't they...