Greil Marcus, the guy who wrote the supercool Lipstick Traces back in the long ago, has produced this retrospective on Twin Peaks that any fan of the one-time Greatest Show Ever Made should immediately consume.

The new Google Reader interface is outstanding! Now I have to decide whether and how to ditch Liferea and go back. It's like RSS reader volleyball here.

That took like 30 seconds: export to opml from Liferea, import into Google Reader. Duplicates? removed! Folders? maintained!

Just because you have a right to "free speech" doesn't mean I don't have a right to tell you to shut the hell up. It also doesn't mean I can't actively work toward persuading you to shut the hell up.

It is therefore that groups like the Wacky Christians orgs or the Family Before Fairness groups -- while extremely annoying to those of us who prefer adulthood to their protective brand of banishment -- have the right to organize boycotts or protests or letter-writing campaigns or whatever it is they do down there in the church basement when the choir isn't singing. They have the right, and I have the right to protest them etc too. It's only the Government who has no right to prevent any of this. That's all that "free speech" means. So shut the hell up.

This couldn't possibly be all of them, but it sure is a lot. I have endeavored to exclude pre- or potential- apocalypse novels (like Burdick's Fail-Safe), as well as far-future and time-travel novels that show some vision of a post-apocalypse (Vance, Wolf, Wells), the plethora of Dark Scary Future novels, and any localized disaster novels. I have not read all of these but I might try.

After the Rain, John Bowen
Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
Apocalypse, Nancy Springer
Battlefield Earth, L. Ron Hubbard
The Black Cloud, Fred Hoyle
The Burning Book, Maggie Gee
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Cell, Stephen King
Children of Men, P.D. James
The City Not Long After Pat Murphy
Clowns of God, Morris West
Damnation Alley, Roger Zelazny
Darwin's Radio, Darwin's Children, Greg Bear
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
The Death of Grass, John Christopher
Denver Is Missing D.F. Jones
Dhalgren, Samuel Delany
Doom Wind, Max Gunther
Dr. Bloodmoney, Philip K. Dick
The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
The Drought, J.G. Ballard
Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
The End of the Age, Pat Robertson
The End of the Dream, Philip Wylie
The End of the World News: An Entertainment, Anthony Burgess
Eternity Road, Jack McDevitt
Fire of Heaven, Bill Myers
Footprints of Thunder, James F. David
The Forge of God, The Anvil of Stars, Greg Bear
A Gift upon the Shore, M. K. Wren
God's Grace, Bernard Malamud
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Ice, Anna Kavan
Implosion, D.F. Jones
The Inferno, Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle
Into the Forest, Jean Hegland
The Killing Star, Dust, by Charles Pellegrino
The Last Ship: A Novel, William Brinkley
Left Behind (series), Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins
Long Voyage Back, Luke Rhinehart
The Long Winter, John Christopher
Lucifer's Hammer, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Millennium Rising, Jane Jensen
Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel, David Wellington
Moonfall and Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
Moonseed, Stephen Baxtor
The New Madrid Run, Michael Reisig
No Blade of Grass, John Christopher
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Out of the Ashes, William W. Johnstone
The Postman, David Brin
The Revelation, Jean Grant
The Rift by Walter J. Williams
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, Walter M., Jr. Miller
The Seventh Day, Hans Kirst
Shiva Descending, Gregory Benford, William Rotsler
Some Will Not Die, Algis Budrys
The Stand, Stephen King
Strike Midnight, Dary Matera
The Sundial, Shirley Jackson
Swan Song, Robert McCammoron
This Is the Way the World Ends, James Morrow
Warday, Whitley Strieber
When Worlds Collide, After Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
The White Plague, Frank Herbert
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
Year Zero: A Novel, Jeff Long