{"id":96,"date":"2006-04-18T06:59:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T14:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:16:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:16:37","slug":"reading-fresno-state-cuttlefish-buddhabrot-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/18\/reading-fresno-state-cuttlefish-buddhabrot-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading, Fresno State, Cuttlefish, Buddhabrot, Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned before, John Shirley and I are reading in SF<\/a> today, Tuesday, 7 PM, New College Theater, 777 Valencia St. near 19th, Parking lot on 21st near Valencia. That's NOT a map of SF below, that's Fresno State because…<\/p>\n

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On Thursday I’ll be giving a talk on “Gnarly Computation” as a guest of the Math Department at Fresno State College<\/a>. The talk will be will be in the University Business Center (attached to the Peters Business Building) from 4 to 5PM.<\/p>\n

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“H.P. Lovecraft’s Seafood Cart”, 1993 Todd Schorr. I love this picture; it's the cover of a book<\/a> of comix based on H. P. Lovecraft stories. For lots more great Todd Schorr pictures, see his home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Can't look at just one<\/i> Todd Schorr picture. Rembember I mentioned my fear of Mr. Peanut the other day? Here he is in Todd's picture, “A Goober and a Tuber in an Exchange of Fisticuffs.” 1998 Todd Schorr.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been thinking about cuttlefish and Cthulhu lately — Cthulhu being the H. P. Lovecraft alien whose face is covered with tentacles. I got the New American Library edition of H. P. Lovecraft for my birthday, and read “The Call of Cthulhu,”<\/a> and then my friend Paul Di Filippo lent me a cool movie of the story, a low-budget but very clever production by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’m planning to have Pharaoh cuttlefish play a role in Postsingular<\/i>; they squirmed into Spaceland<\/a><\/i> and Frek and the Elixir<\/a><\/i> as well.<\/p>\n

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On Easter, my cousin told me about a new variation on the Mandelbrot set called the Buddhabrot<\/a>. There’s a variant called the Nebulabrot as well.<\/p>\n

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Oddly enough, the Nebulabrot looks exactly like a cuttlefish larva!<\/p>\n

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On Easter the rain ended and we saw a rainbow.<\/p>\n

“…and now, in the Zone, later in the day he became a crossroad, after a heavy rain he doesn’t recall, Slothrop sees a very thick rainbow here, a stout rainbow c*ck driven down out of the pubic clouds into Earth, green wet valleyed Earth, and his chest fills and he stands crying, not a thing in his head, just feeling natural…” Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow<\/i>, p. 626 old edition, p. 638 new edition.<\/p>\n

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The rainbow led to pirate flag on the other side of our valley.<\/p>\n

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I’m gonna dig up gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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