{"id":290,"date":"2005-01-19T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2005-01-19T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T17:14:48","slug":"arthur-hlavaty-cone-shell-envenomation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/arthur-hlavaty-cone-shell-envenomation\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Hlavaty, Cone Shell Envenomation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got the occasionally appearing and very funny zine &#8220;Nice Distinctions,&#8221; from Arthur Hlavaty, who for years called the zine &#8220;The Dillinger Relic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/hlavaty.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s hard to even keep up a paper zine anymore, what with the blog form edging it out. Arthur has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/supergee\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> as well, maintained with a fairly high-level and fanatical amount of bells and whistles, e.g. links to friends, multiple daily posts, etc. In some sense the zine was the precursor of the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur was a junior when I was a freshman at Swarthmore College.  He was 21, and he used to be willing to buy liquor for freshman such as me, which meant that I got to know him a little.  I was impressed with how worldly and degenerate he seemed.  How un-preppy.  How seedy and iconoclastic.  How recklessly funny.<\/p>\n<p>Once in an early &#8220;Dillinger&#039;s Relic,&#8221; Arthur wrote something like, &#8220;I&#039;m imagining myself at the pearly gates, and Saint Peter asks me what I did for science-fiction, and I say, &#039;I bought booze for Rudy Rucker.&#039;  And St. Peter says, &#039;But he wrote <i>anyway<\/i>.&#039;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Arthur vis-a-vis the freshmen, I found an amazing 11-frame animated gif of a <i>Conus magus<\/i> cone shell eating an innocent gobie fish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/coneshellan.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s the siphon on top, and the proboscis on the bottom.  Apparantly the proboscis harpoons the fish with a detatchable poison tooth, then reels it in, with the proboscis opening up like a tunnel to another demention.<\/p>\n<p>For full information, image credits, and a downloadable Quicktime movie, see the kickass Melbourne <a href=\"http:\/\/grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au\/cone\/envenom.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Conotoxins website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got the occasionally appearing and very funny zine &#8220;Nice Distinctions,&#8221; from Arthur Hlavaty, who for years called the zine &#8220;The Dillinger Relic.&#8221; It&#039;s hard to even keep up a paper zine anymore, what with the blog form edging it out. Arthur has a blog as well, maintained with a fairly high-level and fanatical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}