{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Off The Top of My Head: Snow Crash", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/617509609215852544/", "html": "<h1>Off The Top of My Head: Snow Crash</h1><p>Hiro Protagonist is a half-Japanese drifter, living in a storage facility and working shit jobs in a dystopian neoliberal projection of SoCal circa 1990. However he\u2019s skilled with a katana and respected in Basically VR Second Life As An Equatorial Street.</p><p>Also, there\u2019s some punk skateboarder chick, a Camp of the Saints flotilla that stands in for the 80s latino immigrant wave, and Basically Lobo With A Nuke</p><p>&hellip;</p><p>&hellip;in the end, it turns out it was an informational virus from ancient Sumer or something. I have no memory what \u201cit\u201d was.</p><p>Also there\u2019s a gatling gun called Reason and I think the skateboarder chick knocks out Lobo with a syringe in her vagina at one point.</p><p>Okay, I\u2019m starting to see why a movie never worked out.</p>"}