Prelude, from The Onion: Now then. A few days ago, my son googled “Franz Kafka Airport” and here is what Google AI came up with: Being a public spirited sort, son informed Google that they might want to tweak this a wee bit. And so I had to check this afternoon for an update, and I get something new: Well, it’s a start? But of course there is no “Business Week” 2009 report - that was a fiction from the Onion story. The future’s so bright I’ve got to wear shades. Prompted by reading the always insightful Timothy … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2025
Children of Men
At Indiana University each spring there is an arts festival in honor of Kurt Vonnegut, Granfalloon. This year’s theme is his novel Cat’s Cradle, which is the book where he introduces the term Granfalloon (although, to my mind, not really as something one would celebrate; Karass would have been a better choice to name a gathering?). Since that novel is about the end of the world, the IU Cinema is showing films with that theme, including Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), drawn from, though with differences, … [Read more...]