I work in publishing where we’re always talking about harnessing “New Media” and a nowhere lit. e-zine just became a major player because they tweeted a short story – badly. This is pretty much the most fun thing I’ve seen in a while, and the least specious re: actually utilizing new media (not counting “Mr. Plimpton’s Revenge: A Google Maps Essay”).

But unlike “Plimp’s Revenge” this is a whole novel: serialized and super-fun – launched on David Lynch’s birthday, 1337 (pronounced: “leet”, for I guess my octogenarian demo) has a sort of William Gibson down the rabbit hole meets Cory Doctorow in Little Brother feel to it. I hope you give it a chance, because I <3 this stuff. And while you're at it, check out the context, both wiki – linked – and “developer website“, which is extensive and more Hackers than Hackers. This, folks, is Mark Fullmer Overdrive.

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Not surprisingly, this track is from when I was 21 – from a tape I got through an ex-girlfriend from a prep chef who was friends with the singer. I actually had, I think, a live demo version – which got stuck in the car I ended up leaving with my non-wire mom in New Orleans, so she ended up listening to it for a few months with STOP ANIMAL VIVISECTIONS and KILL YOUR T.V. stickers on the bumper. Now the radio’s broken and instead of fixing it she has a transistor radio you have to hang out the window, which is more rock and roll than the song, really.

Anyway, this is the last you’ll hear from me about it. Just felt like a Christmas Miracle to finally get the sound down.

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