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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

Heinlein/Huxley 1/7/19

I never finished Stranger In A Strange Land but doesn’t it seem like “Stranger” is a kind of spin off, a…riff, on Brave New World? Sort of a reverse?

It’s much better than Island. I don’t know what it is Jay sees in that book. To me it just seems like a self righteous hippie jack-off fantasy. “Well, we were all really stoned and smarter than everyone else, our consciousnesses being several inches longer than yours. The End.”

It’s not that Jay had bad taste in books. Not at all.

Island has this tiresome lack of conflict, the conflict is watery and petty. Brave New World doesn’t have this problem, but it easily could have.

Some aspects of Brave New World are still sort of gross, like say, sort of pandering, but not nearly so bad as Island.

It’s not…genuinely misanthropic, that is to say, it’s meant to be misanthropic, but feels forced. Brave New World I mean. Still, it’s a good book.

Elisa Carlson