…I can relate, man. Or how about fifteen slices of pizza on a Friday night? Or two pounds of Laffy Taffy while refreshing Tumblr for nine hours on a Saturday evening? None happened this previous weekend, all of happened at one point in my life. This isn’t about shaming, though. It’s about coming together as a bunch of flesh-sacks trying to make it on this Blue Marble. This isn’t about wallowing. It’s about embracing the absurdity, the rot, the excess, the loneliness, the glee, the victory, the defeat.

This is Monday Morning Commute.

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Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon  is one of my favorite books. Ever. The spiritual successor to Neuromancer  with a whole lot more fucking, it milked my cyberpunk glands with capable hands. I’ve known that it was getting a movie adaptation for a while now (Morgan actually sold the rights to the book for $1 million, which enabled him to become a full-time writer. Good for him, man) but now its getting fast-tracked.

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