tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post5721718968283339292..comments2024-03-25T10:29:21.161-07:00Comments on Total Dick-Head: PKD Article Machine Strikes AgainRagle Gummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13951340313214410331noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-41068520889665694842010-10-04T00:14:19.473-07:002010-10-04T00:14:19.473-07:00Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it...Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it seems to be down... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please reply to my post if you do!<br /><br />I would appreciate if a staff member here at totaldickhead.blogspot.com could post it.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />CharlieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-18202919288228961262010-09-07T20:43:25.018-07:002010-09-07T20:43:25.018-07:00Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it...Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it seems to be offline... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please answer to my post if you do!<br /><br />I would appreciate if a staff member here at totaldickhead.blogspot.com could post it.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />PeterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-76610496275042611392008-08-11T04:59:00.000-07:002008-08-11T04:59:00.000-07:00IMHO these articles are just like those 'Bluffer's...IMHO these articles are just like those 'Bluffer's Guide' books - only not as good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-76575033589678299452008-08-09T05:17:00.000-07:002008-08-09T05:17:00.000-07:00You know, I just started the article, and in the f...You know, I just started the article, and in the first paragraph I'm caught short by this: <I>"Could renewed optimism and faith in the political system have dispelled the cynicism and the paranoia that draw readers to Dick?"</I><BR/><BR/>What fucking America is this man living in? <I>Renewed optimism and faith in the political system?!!!</I><BR/><BR/>At a time when we're facing imminent collapse of the economy, ongoing evisceration of the Constitution, failure by the democrats to stop funding the war or to impeach Bush/Cheney or to pursue <I>any</I> meaningful attempts at reform as they capitulate completely to this deeply unpopular wretch in the White House, and Obama revealing himself more and more as being just another machine politician...I've never felt more despairing of our political system, and I don't know anyone who's paying attention who feels otherwise.<BR/><BR/>I don't mean to initiate a political discussion, but this simply casts into doubt the author's dubious thesis that Dick's vogue may be "cresting," as (he asserts), Dick does well only in times of political unease and right-wing dominance. <BR/><BR/>Sez who?!Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-31538643642743421982008-08-09T05:06:00.000-07:002008-08-09T05:06:00.000-07:00This would be like a critic of Thomas Bernhard's w...This would be like a critic of Thomas Bernhard's work saying, "Well, it's good, fierce stuff, but, you know...it gets kinda <I>repetitive</I> and all...every book features a monomaniacal narrator who excoriates the world and who repeats himself over and over...each time slightly varying the contruction of the phrases and thoughts he repeats...and what's with all the redundant references to classical music?"Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-22821161447334016892008-08-08T17:16:00.000-07:002008-08-08T17:16:00.000-07:00It's almost like an editor loads a spool of PKD in...It's almost like an editor loads a spool of PKD info into a computerized Newsmatic, it goes <I>whir</I>, and out pops a new and only partially informed article about Phil.<BR/><BR/>You know what I would so love to do? Go back in time, run into him at a SF convention, and hand him an iPod.<BR/><BR/>Imagine the stories that would have come from <I>that</I>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com