Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

18 Jul 2003, 12:16 p.m.

Dreams Too Weird to Recapitulate, So Instead

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2003 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

This morning I saw a bit of Reading Rainbow and thought two things:

  1. What if Reading Rainbow is a huge payola scam for certain publishers? LeVar Burton in a back room shaking down Random House and Macmillan, as giant vats bubble with fuming, mouldering Play-Doh.
  2. Reading Rainbow for adults. Still LeVar Burton, maybe with his Geordi LaForge VISOR on, talking about Ellen Ullman's The Bug, as varying-aged adults give little book reports on Douglas Coupland's Microserfs and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It and Michael Crichton's Rising Sun. Especially commissioned illustrations by Neil Gaiman.