Alackaday : JG Ballard RIP
“Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.”
JG Ballard, 15 Nov 1930 – 19 April 2009, RIP
** UPDATE ** There's a nice review of the man and his work by Irish writer Patrick Chapman over at Eyewear.
Mother Mary
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My mother, Mary Margaret, has died.
Three days ago.
I'd like to write more now, but she was very private, and did not want
public obituaries or death n...
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