{"id":3265,"date":"2012-07-25T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2012-07-28T07:24:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T15:24:29","slug":"bullets-and-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=3265","title":{"rendered":"Bullets and Binary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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I’m in the middle of one of those extended island writing retreats I’ve mentioned in the past: they didn’t stick me in the women’s washroom<\/a> this time, but they did<\/em> stick us in a room with a binary shower. Turn it left, you freeze: turn it right, you scald. Turn the tap in between those extremes and the flow shuts off entirely. To paraphrase Yoda, There is no warm.<\/p>\n

The day starts with a run and a swim, in water which has somehow, miraculously, gone from borderline flammable to drinkable in a measly twenty years (that’s right: part of the environment actually getting better<\/em>, right here on my front porch: who’d’ve thought?). It ends with the raucous nightly consumption of numerous bottles of wine in the commons area. What with the endless writing and reviewing and critiquing in between, there just hasn’t been time to weigh in here on preemptive homicide as a legitimate form of self-defense, or the fascinating way that the popular press \u2014 after their awestruck initial descriptions of James Holmes’s “best of the best” intellectual stature \u2014 have already begun to rewrite his history as that of a dolt and a hack, as though the premise of a genius-level mass murderer simply Will Not Stand here in the real world (Hannibal Lecter’s popularity notwithstanding in the fake one). Hopefully I’ll get there eventually.<\/p>\n

At the moment, though, there’s no time for anything but a bullet list of upcoming appearances and recent nods, which are at least timely insofar as a couple of them have only just been made public by their respective organizers:<\/p>\n

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The Post-Apocalyptic Shower Control.<\/p><\/div>\n

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My Post-Apocalyptic Running Route<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Post-Apocalyptic Beach Path<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Post-Apocalyptic Swimming Beach.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Pre-Apocalyptic Lighthouse cleverly constructed in an inland location that utterly conceals it from any viewpoint on the water.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nature Reclaiming the Post-Apocalyptic ruins from which we have fled.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Imminentest, Most Scary Apocalypse of All.<\/p><\/div>\n

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1<\/a><\/sup> Probably to be preceded by a quick bounce dive into Norway, but I don’t think that’s your typical public event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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