{"id":2954,"date":"2008-04-22T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2008-04-22T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:24:11","slug":"kaleidotroping-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"Kaleidotroping along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><i>(cross-posted to the<\/i> Kaleidotrope <i>weblog)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to get some feedback on the most recent issue of <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i>, and I think contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/billwardwriter.com\/?p=48\">Bill Ward&#8217;s comments<\/a> might be my favorite so far:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just read through my contributor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s copy of the fourth issue of Kaleidotrope and the magazine continues to impress. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a healthy dose of surreal scifi and cross-genre slipstream shorts between the covers, and a variety of poetry and prose poems. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the quirky humor of Fred Coppersmith that really comes through in his magazine and makes it different than a lot of other small press cross-genre \u00e2\u20ac\u02dczines, which take themselves far too seriously. Kaleidotrope, with its eclectic stories and articles (the standout here is a history of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfembot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in popular culture) and weird little vignettes like faux horoscopes and ironic photography, is a magazine that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t scared to have some fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bill&#8217;s fun short story, &#8220;The Three Wishes of Miles Vander,&#8221; appears in the issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/kaleidotrope\/subscribe.html\">on sale now<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(cross-posted to the Kaleidotrope weblog) I&#8217;m starting to get some feedback on the most recent issue of Kaleidotrope, and I think contributor Bill Ward&#8217;s comments might be my favorite so far: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just read through my contributor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s copy of the fourth issue of Kaleidotrope and the magazine continues to impress. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a healthy dose of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2954\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-kaleidotrope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}