I am mildly amused that the Bloggie for “best European or African weblog” went to a Canadian living in France.
Hey, it’s been a slow day, all right?
Month: March 2003
Jon Kilgannon writes:
Post a detailed (or an undetailed, even an amorphous) precis of what you want the magazine [Lethe Dreams] to be and I will happily point people at it.
What I’m hoping for is the unexpected, science fiction or fantasy visions both unusual and unearthly, strange dreams of distant shores. Stories, poems, and art that make you think, make you laugh, make you angry, leave you puzzled — that explore the limits of the genre, or delight in exploding the myth that there are any limits. Feel free to toy with expectations, to throw genres together, to act silly. You decide where you want to go. You decide what you want to dream. Imagination and a desire to share that dream with others should be your guide.
- Fiction and poetry of varied length (from the short-short to the “to be continued next issue”)
- Artwork (drawings, photographs, or digital creations)
- Nonfiction (explorations of the genre, interviews, reviews)
Is that undetailed and amorphous enough? And is anyone interested?
Every now and then, as long-time readers probably know, I make a plea for submissions to the webzine I want to start. It’s mentioned briefly in the sidebar, but I thought I’d mention it once again. Nothing much ever seems to come of it (maybe I’m not asking in the right place; maybe I need a clearer focus), but I figure it couldn’t hurt to ask around. Lately, I’ve been leaning towards a sci-fi/fantasy bent to the zine, but I worry that by limiting myself like that I’ll get even fewer submissions than I got in the past. Anyway, if you’re interested (or can suggest people who might be), please let me know.
Through the magic of my boss finally installing Adobe Acrobat on our two computers, the first five six issues of this semester’s Completely Different (the newsletter of the Penn State Monty Python Society) are now online in PDF format. If it has my name attached, I wrote it. If it has no name attached, I wrote it. If it has an obviously fake name attached (like Jojo Monkeyboy), I wrote it. Just so you have an idea of what I am writing when I should probably concentrate on other things.