Locus

story seems to be about the life of these people and how there burn outs in the Los Angles, and the stereotypes of hollywood. great quote  "overestimating the importance of his crowd, the people who come to California to die" Tod is a painter and paints backdrops on movie sets. While in LA, he dreams of Hollywood failing apart and on fire. 

Tod also seems to be stuck as the go to guy in the relationship drama with Homer and Faye.  Seems like a horror story of low life's and bad problems all around, as well as Tod is on his own journey figuring out his place in this new city. In the end the idea of the locus swarm comes true after homer is caught beating a child up next to a movie premier and the crowd for the premier descends on to Homer. The area is thrown in to chaos and this is were Tods dream of the painting comes true.  and the symbolism of the title of the book takes shape.

I think when we went over this in class, I felt the idea of Hollywood as this place were only the lost go wasn't true. I think you can get the same kind of people any where not just LA county.  Iv seen the same kind of people in many cites from NYC to FL. Florida in my opine is filled with burn out. I feel Sarasota in general seems to attract a lot of gypsies and homeless people.  Same kind of thing that I see in the bigger cities.

wizard of oz

with the wizard of oz we see Dorothy as more of a girl with a lot of personal situation she seems to have a lot of characteristic of a very lost teenage girl that is trying to find herself. threw out the story it takes three male characters to get her to where she needs to go, which I thought was funny, because the wizard of oz seems to uses the roles that we have put in place of each other in western culture. that this girl can not make it threw this journey with out the help of these men, but whats weird is that Dorothy is the strong one in the group and that all the male characters have qualities that I think a lot of men try to gain. knowledge, courage and compassion. Even the witches play the role of a mother figure and the wizard plays the father, as the person to go to fix her problems. 

its a coming of age story of a young girl finding her self and is built to teach young people basic life lessons about growing up as well as putting a little bit of role play.

My situation as a reader.

Reading for myself has never been something I have fully enjoyed, I don't know if its the subject matter or that we live in an age where we except thing to come to us immediately. I guess reading for me has also been some what of a challenge scene a early age. I do like  reading short passages of information, such as news posts or reviews, but I never have been into books. Thinking about it, it might be because I did most of my reading in school and I never found that material anything I could relate to or connect with to really enjoy.

A SIGN I N SPACE

A SIGN I N SPACE

This story seems to follow a man that has control of the universe similar to the last story I read. He seems to be going back to what he had created before ex the milky way. and is amazed that its still there. he picks up on signs and the story ends with him coming to the conclusion that he really servers no purpose and that space it self my not exist. I thought the idea was kind of cool, that this person has this power but over time does realize that is it really doing anything? It makes you think that is what you are doing anything at all? Do you really hold a purpose in life? Or are you just here based on chance? 

GAME WITH OUT END

GAME WITH OUT END

Very interesting story about child like characters that play with the power of atoms. I got the idea that these children were like gods. Who were playing with powers of atoms. They were playing games but on a galactic level. The children play games but start to understand that the games will have no end they would never catch each other. It was a never ending circle short of symbolic to how the universe acts if you ask me. I thought the story was an interesting concept, it should that even on a child like level how things  moved in patterns and sort of acted a story based on myths. 

CYBER PUNK by Bruce Sterling.

CYBER PUNK by Bruce Sterling.

Very interesting article of the rise of a genera. I find it very interesting to hear the story of how a genres begin and the mentality and minds of the people with in the group.  It talked about how it had a cult. Also the idea of how other stories would be interpreted in the genera. Such as Frankenstein. I was able to connect much better with the idea, but I got me thinking. How many other stories has this genera fully reaped off, and at its core what is this really as its grown an evolved overtime. From its small cult roots. Is this something new? Or the same thing just with a new skin.  To be far you could put this on most other genera.

ALL AT ONE POINT

ALL AT ONE POINT

this one I had a better feel for. I got the idea that this was a small group of indviduals that were stuck inside some kind of ship or somthing like that. it seems to do do witht the idea of people acting out on there stertipyes and there realtionships with other cultuers, for example the  Z'zus were called out as immigrants, but towards the end of the story I had trouble where ph(i)Nk0s gets killed or bursted into nothing, I didnt know why this was happening and it really had me confused as well.