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uziq wrote:

yeah but what sort of person writes movie reviews for the major publications?

Israelis

dilbert reading jacobin? i thought that was exclusively for pink-haired columbia undergrads.

lol well it's one of the most explicitly left-wing publications on the web, in a very 'student activist, fight-the-power' kind of way.

but isn't the alien fictional universe all about grunts and miners being sent to far-off rocks with bugs on them to die for shadowy megacorporations?

i actually dimly remember reading several alien franchise novels when i was in my early teens. sort of thing you pick up at a library and read in an afternoon. i was nothing if not a voracious reader then. so i can dimly remember some of it. very noir'ish and cyberpunk, kind of sub-william gibson, a genre version thereof. probably couldn't abide the hacky prose now but it was immersive at 13.

more to the point: how are you still so keenly knowing this stuff at, what, 55?

was just looking at said franchise novels, to see if it stirred any memories and i could figure out which ones i'd read. genuinely hilarious, almost quaint in a way. the hacky authors who get enlisted to write these things. it's a vanished world even as recently as the late '90s. these anoraks who came up writing short stories and fanfic for pulpy magazines. i bet they made good bank off that career, too. that entire ecosystem is gone.

the equivalent money/activity today is almost entirely in ghost-writing celebrity or political memoirs.

Last edited by uziq (2026-07-16 06:55:13)