William Gibson published Neuromancer in 1984. It’s the first book of his “Sprawl trilogy” and often pitted against Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, published in 1992, as the origin of (or precursor to, depending on your religion) cyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre. But whichever chicken you believe came first, there’s no doubting Neuromancer’s influence on all the eggs that hatched after […]
Yesterday, I accepted the role of Oscar Wilde in Temple Theatre’s March 2014 production of Sherlock Holmes and the Jersey Lily. By the time the show opens, it will have been two years and a month since my last appearance there as poker player Vinnie in The Odd Couple and my sixth at Temple overall. I’d been feeling […]
Acadia and I visited Poinsett Bridge yesterday, purportedly the oldest bridge in continuous use in South Carolina. Located about 25 miles north of city center on a heavily wooded stretch of County Road 42, the bridge was built in 1820 at the direction of Greenville founding father Joel Poinsett. I’d street-viewed the bridge before driving […]
