This Week In Miscellanea: “Thinking/Unthinking Machines”

THINKING MACHINES: Neill Blomkamp’s 2006 short film “Yellow.” All Halo aside, maybe this guy should direct the live-action version of GitS as well.

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UNTHINKING MACHINES: George Bush wants to avoid being perceived as a “lame duck” at the end of his second term. His latest initiative is trying, only somewhat subtly, to start re-classifying birth control as abortion. Seriously. If only Yellow would go kick this guy’s ass.

 

 

THINKING HUMANS: Now that we’ve opened the eBook can of worms, check out Andrew Vachss’ unpublished first novel “A Bomb Built in Hell.” Vachss defined mid-80s “hard-boiled” detective fiction with his renegade PI hero Burke. Now we can all read his first book, whose amoral hit-man story has been considered too extreme to publish for over two decades.