As the world prepares for the posthumous publication of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King, BBC reporter and professor Geoff Ward visits Wallaces birthplace in rural Illnois and interviews a coterie of his closest friends (agent Bonnie Nadell), family (sister Amy Wallace), contemporaries (Rick Moody and former roommate Mark Costello) and professional colleagues […]

The great literary magazine McSweeney’s returns with one of their most imaginatively plackaged issues, Number 36. Utilizing a very innovative presentation, which borrows more than a bit from Visionaire‘s philosophy of outside-the-box packaging (no pun intended), the “issue” is actually a 275-cubic-inch crate filled with goodies. The giant head box is filled with a litany […]

Creator Javier Alejandre was influenced by old black and white Sci-Fi movies when he designed the Oddbod — a chair meant to resemble a UFO invading a 1950’s American city. A whimsical “organic design” made of rotomoulded PET and pine legs, Alejandre formally works with a children’s video game company — you can no doubt […]

Madman Mundt and the Elf breakdown Sofia Coppola’s latest, Somewhere. The film is out in limited release in the US on December 22nd. The Elf As I write this, there’s a little mantra running through my head: I WILL NOT BE SNARKY. I will not say that Sofia Coppola’s movies get made because her dad […]

Do you love Terminator? Do you have $6,000 to spend on sci-fi heirlooms of dorkdom? Do you want to scare and amuse your nerd friends, all while totally blowing absolutely any chance of getting laid with that girl you somehow managed to roofie charm back to your house? (Although I’m thinking if you have the […]

Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds interviews the godfather of cyberpunk and legendary novelist/futurist William Gibson in this fascinating video. Gibson’s currently on a rare 36-stop book tour for the just released novel Zero History, and he hasn’t lost an ounce of brilliance. One of the many interesting points in the discussion is when Metzger asks […]

You’ve had Jabba the Hutt , Death Star Stormtrooper and Boba Fett on your feet, so why not get a little wild and throw some Chewbacca on there too? The latest addition in the adidas Originals x Star Wars Fall/Winter 2010 Collection, the Chewbacca version are the first boots in the collection. The brown on […]

We’ve clowned on the adidas vs Star Wars collection before (remember the Hoth Superskates?), and this is no exception. The latest in the adidas Originals x Star Wars Fall/Winter 2010 Collection is modeled ostensibly after the most famous giant talking piece of feces in Science Fiction History, Jabba the Hutt. The “Jabba The Hutt” Attitude […]