To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Clearly Philip Jose Farmer wasn’t thinking about a series of books when he named this one To Your Scattered Bodies Go.  It’s a title I’ve heard from time to time and it’s made a few best Sci Fi Books lists here and there.  It’s one I recently got around to reading. To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the first of the Riverworld novels.  These are stories about a world that has been terraformed into an unending river and populated with everyone who ever lived on Earth.  It’s a concept that has some appeal, as a writer can plop down any…

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Plan B with Conan O’Brien

Conan’s new show is much like Conan’s old shows.  Conan comes out and makes a few jokes.  He gets some support and heckling from sidekick Andy Richter.  He feeds off the energy of the audience.  He chats up random famous and semi-famous and wanna be famous people.  If you like Conan, you’ll like his new show. By far the best bit I’ve seen is a commercial where Conan goes to India to create the perfect set of red curtains for his show.  I have no idea what this commercial is for, or if it is, in fact, for anything.  But…

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