The Simpsons and Philosphy

[Dave Monroe]

Also picked up my copy of ...

Irwin, William, Mark T. Conrad and Aeon J. Skoble,
eds.
   The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh of Homer.
   LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 2001.

Kinda sorta, if not underwhelming, less than just
plain whelming, at any rate, but ... William Irwin
also edited Seinfeld and Philosophy, though I'm not
much familiar with that one ...

Anyone familiar with Lance Olson?  Reading his Burnt:
A Novel (LaGrande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1996), one
of those things I picked up cheap after all the
textbooks were sold for the semester.  Blurbs from
Paul Di Filippo (The Steampunk Trilogy) and Lewis
Shiner (Eclipse et al.), William Gobson, Norman
Spinrad, Jack Womack (just read his Going, Going,
Gone, in his Ambient series [q.v., esp. Elvissey, much
gnosticism going, going on]), John Leyner, and one
Thomas Pynchon.  Seems to have written critical works
on Wm. Gibson, Lolita, his Tonguing the Zeitgeist was
a "1994 Philip K. Dick Award Finalist," have something
else by him I've barely opened called Sewing my Eyes
Shut.  

Also picked up a copy of Richard Lehan's The City in
Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History
(Berkeley: U of Cal P, 1998), which jbor had mentioned
here.  Part 5, "After the Waste Land: From Myth to
Mystery" discusses V., The Crying of Lot 49, and
Gravity's Rainbow well enough.  Oh, and I got a nifty
Plastic Man action figure (NOT, of course, to be
confused with a doll ...) in honor of the birthday boy ...

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