At last, a theory that explains that I probably do have more readers than Stephen Mejias, John Atkinson, Buddha, Adam Sohmer, Alan in Victoria, Jeff Wong, Al Marcy, my wife, and Monty. According to the 1% rule, I actually have almost one hundred readers!
Part of NPR's You Must Read This series, which mostly seems like a better idea than it is. Anyway, this one intrigued me because The Dain Curse always struck me as nigh unto incoherent—perhaps it's time for a reconsideration.
What, no Angels and Insects? No Blade Runner? No Giant? Okay, I'm wrong about Giant—I've always over-rated it because it was almost exclusively made up of boring parts, so I got to make out with my girlfriend in the movie theater for nearly three hours. Now that was a visceral cinematic experience.
Site hero Fred von Lohmann weighs in. Read it all for the long of it; the short of it: "YouTube's 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates."