...BoingBoing was having a bit of a Philip K. Dick moment yesterday, offering up links to a BBC Radio 4 documentary on Dick's mystical encounter with God in the 1970s, R. Crumb's illustrated version of the story (left), and a podcast where the host explains his fascination with Dick's novels, including an attempt to summarize the plot of Ubik to a tattoo artist while getting the word inked on his arm.

Why now? Maybe it's got something to do with the expectant buzz around the March release of Richard Linklater's animated adaptation of A Scanner Darkly. Or maybe Philip K. Dick is just way cool.