I used to like the scifi novels of Larry Niven when I was a kid. The most famous is probably Ringworld, featuring alien tiger men and a world in the shape of a ring.
Now, thanks to the internet, I’ve been exposed to some of the opinions of the author, unfiltered by fiction:
Now a fixture at [...]

I just started to read J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man. The opening sentence goes like this:
The blow catches him from the right, sharp and surprising and painful, like a bolt of electricity, lifting him up off the bicycle.
I envy Coetzee his economy of language. No wonder his novels are always so pleasurably slim.

My friend Ninni Aalto has some designs available as t-shirts at Genrewear.

This is the kind of stuff you run across when you’re planning a wedding…

Liittyy romaaniin, jota olen viimeistelemässä…

Liittyy romaaniin, jota olen viimeistelemässä…

Rosa Meriläinen:
Poliittisesti korrekti minäni kaipaa reilun kaupan pornoa. Sellaista on vaikea löytää ainakaan kansainvälisiltä markkinoilta. Yritin joskus lobata europarlamenttiin sääntelyä, joka turvaisi pornotyöläisten oikeudet nykyistä paremmin. Kaikki kirjeeni juuttuivat roskapostisuodattimiin.
Ehdottomasti tylsimpiä ovat kuitenkin pornonvastustajien maalailut siitä, millaista olisi oikeasti hyvä erotiikka. Sellaisesta tyhjän hiplaamisesta ja tuijottelusta ei kyllä kukaan kostu mitään. Tuskinpa tällainen lemmenkuvasto auttaa [...]

Roolipelaajan viimeisin numero on saatu painoon. Sen pitäisi saapua myyntiin ja tilaajille kuun vaihtuessa.

Book: Claire Keegan: Antarctica (Faber and Faber, 1999)
This is a collection of Irish short stories. The title story uses Antarctica as a metaphor, and that’s where the collection’s connection to the continent begins and ends. The title story is intereresting, and a couple of the others are good as well, but in general the writing [...]

Movie: Peter Delpeut: Forbidden Quest (The Netherlands, 1993)
A Dutch fake-documentary Antarctic movie! This is a great Antarctic film, done with very little means. Its a documentary about the fictitious Hollander expedition, put together using the actual vintage Antarctic and Arctic footage shot by Herbert Ponting, Frank Hurley and others.
The story soon veers into the weird [...]

Movie: Ron Krauss: Alien Hunter (Bulgaria, U.S.A. 2003)
At first you think you’re watching the X-Files, then John Carpenter’s The Thing. Closer to the end you realize this is actually a pretty clever B-movie with some moves of its own.
In the beginning, alien stuff is found in the Antarctic ice, and we spend the rest of [...]

Here’s something for the novel I’m writing…

Art major Aliza Shvarts ‘08 wants to make a statement.Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as [...]

Avasin Virginie Despentesin kirjan King Kong -tyttö satunnaisesta kohdasta, ja löysin tämän lauseen:
On vaikea ymmärtää, miten dildovyön käyttö erityisesti nakertaisi naisten kunniaa.
Haluan, että kun oma kirjani avataan satunnaiselta aukeamalta, tulee vastaan joku tuollainen lause.

Here’s a video I made recently (only in Finnish, sadly).
02:37 Sinebrychoffin puistossa (02:37 in the Sibebrychoff Park, 3 min, DV, 2008)