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Mom had died (not really my mom because dream-me wasn't really me so i wasn't feeling any grief) so my brother (not Paul) and i spent the day taking care of post-mortem things with our stepdad, J. G. Ballard (none of whose books i've read; i blame reddragdiva for mentioning him recently), and at the end i invited him to move in with me and my brother (neither of us were married and dream-dad was long gone).

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[epileptikitty.livejournal.com]

Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan. (http://the-purest-of-treats.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-i-want-to-fuck-ronald-reagan.html)

(Berg Katse writes "From the archives: The best, most appropriate, and mysteriously prophetic comment about the late Ronald Reagan was made by J.G. Ballard in 1967, an innocent time when the idea of a lousy B-movie actors running for political office was still considered an utterly ridiculous idea.

At the 1980 Republican Convention in San Francisco a copy of the Reagan text, minus its title and the running sideheads, and furnished with the seal of the Republican Party, was distributed by some puckish pro-situationists to the RNC delegates. It was accepted for what it resembled: a psychological position paper on the candidate's subliminal appeal, commissioned by some maverick think-tank.)

[epileptikitty.livejournal.com]

For those who don't know: Empire Of The Sun was his childhood memoir. He spent ages 11-13 in Japanese internment camp near Shanghai- when the Japanese retreated he and the rest of the camp walked for days through desolate landscape to Shanghai. Then- boarding school!

His first several books are about a few people in or traveling through a scene of massive desolation. After that, he switched to the profoundly creepy. Crash (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/) (the good one!) is from another of his novels. Ted Turner sat on it for a year befor allowing it to distribute in the US. I am soooo goddam pissed that someone else ate the name. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_the_Sun_%28film%29)