Philip K. Dick Festival coming to San Francisco, September 22-23

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The Philip K. Dick Festival, scheduled for September 22-23 in San Francisco, is sure to be a heady, reality-bending time. Organizer and Total Dick-Head blogger David Gill informs us that he's lined up presentations by Jonathan Lethem, Erik Davis, Paul Sammon, and many other big thinkers on such subjects as self-induced amnesia, computer simulations, mysticism, dystopia, and, of course, drugs. 2012 Philip K. Dick Festival

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niktemadur

Really? REALLY? So much excellent PKD material on celluloid already, and you go for searing eyeballs with the most annoying screengrab EVER of the fuckin’ governator?
- http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
  
  But at least he IS screaming. That helps.
  - niktemadur
    
    That helps.
    
    What, fake screaming while “earning” 10 million bucks? I don’t think so!
    For real schadenfreude, catch the look on his face when his banging of the domestic help went public :-P
David Gill

Without the “Get Your Ass To San Francisco!” label, it does lose something…
http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

Why so mean to David? He’s a nice enough guy.
jandrese

This makes a lot of sense really. I’ve heard that people in San Francisco just love Dick.
technogeekagain

Wrong coast, or I might be interested.
http://upcoming4.me/ Kris

Sounds fantastic!
lesbianjesus

Hey Mod’s ? Is that image not from Total Recall ?

Total Recall was written by Piers Anthony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall

Wish I was within a few thousand miles of this festival.
- Felton / Moderator
  
  The film was based on a PKD short story called “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Piers Anthony wrote a novel based on the movie. That’s in the Wikipedia link.