Pete Hindle

I’ve been having an annoying day of dealing with letting agencies, and was feeling pretty grumpy on my way home. As I idled up my street, my eye fell on an odd piece of garbage on the street:
(I’m just too prudish to have it on my front page, but you can click through for NSFW [...]

I’m reading Infinite Jest as part of the Infinite Summer project, and I’ve got some reservations.
Infinite Jest is a big book, but I’ve read bigger, and I’ve certainly read better. I think my flatmate summed it up best: when I pointed out the size of IJ, and how I wasn’t really enjoying it, he said [...]

“Eighty percent of everthing ever built in America has been built in the last fifty years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading” James Howard Kunstler
What are hackerspaces? I don’t mean in terms of physical location, but in terms of what societal function do they have? Deyan Sudjic’s new book, [...]

My reading of Infinite Jest is part of Infinite Summer, an online reading group of the novel by David Wallace Foster
Infinite Jest: is it really that great a novel, or is it merely called a great novel owing to its size? After all, American’s like big things: Buicks, skyscrapers, Texas. And Infinite Jest is a [...]

Infinite Summer is a group reading of the novel Infinite Jest. I’m slowing myself down from speeding through that book with my high reading speed, sometimes by reading other things, sometimes – as this weekend – by drinking and going to barbecues in the sun and small country pubs. This weekend truly felt like there [...]

I have a deep antipathy for Torchwood. You see, Doctor Who was my introduction to Science Fiction. I mean the old-school Target book series, which were novelisations of the broadcast episodes, unrestrained by budgetary considerations. A deep space station can only be written in a way that it appears in deep space, whereas careful financial [...]