“Julius Knows” in “Catamaran”

BY C.M. MAYO — October 18, 2021
UPDATE: This blog was then entitled Madam Mayo (2006-2022).

Yea verily, even in the doldrums of the present rhinocerosness, the American literary short story lives on. I must thank Richard Polt, author of The Typewriter Revolution, for the prompt that inspired me to write my latest typewriter short story, “Julius Knows,” which, I am honored to report, appears in the gorgeous new Fall 2021 issue of Catamaran.

I’ll post “Julius Knows” here on the blog, as soon as I get around to typing it up on my Hermes 3000. Meanwhile, you can read my previous typewritten short story about a typewriter, “What Happened to the Dog,” which originally appeared in the anthology edited by Richard Polt, et al., Escapements: Typewritten Tales from Post-Digital Worlds.

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Neil Postman’s 1997 Lecture “The Surrender of Culture to Technology”

BY C.M. MAYO — September 20, 2021
UPDATE: This blog was then entitled Madam Mayo (2006-2022).

I find it startling in the extreme, here in the present rhinocerosness, to reencounter Neil Postman’s lecture on “The Surrender of Culture to Technology” from 1997. Actually, I read Postman’s Technolopy: The Surrender of Culture to Technology a few years ago, but just this week I revisited his lecture apropos of that, archived on YouTube. Perhaps you, dear reader, will find it as eerie as I did.

P.S. So 2021: Wingwoman Géraldine Fasnacht jumps off the Eiger.

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