{"id":3885,"date":"2010-04-27T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T22:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2010-04-27T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:20:26","slug":"tuesday-various-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>   <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>It goes without saying that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/26\/AR2010042602595.html\">Arizona&#8217;s draconian new immigration law is an abomination<\/a>,&#8221; right? [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtBusiek\" title=\"Kurt Busiek\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>In semi-related news: <a href=\"http:\/\/ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html\">Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aescifi.ca\/\">The Canadian Science Fiction Review<\/a> is an interesting idea, though I&#8217;m not sure I like their chances for getting fully funded by May 15, I&#8217;m sad to say. I was also surprised to discover that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onspec.ca\/\">On Spec<\/a>, &#8220;the Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic,&#8221; <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/join-us\/sfwa-membership-requirements\/#shortfiction\">SFWA qualifying market<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m an editor, and even I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/?p=14104\">we should get book royalties<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, Neil Gaiman on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoc.net\/thepoc-features\/metakritiko\/metakritiko-features\/5730-neil-gaiman-on-writing.html\">the path not taken<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The nearest to a real job I ever came actually, is when I was starting out as a young journalist, my father informed me\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe knew that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d starve as a journalist\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe had this great idea, I could show off show homes and I could write while I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t showing people around, and I sort of really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to say no because it was such a kind thing to do, and I was starving.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">So I got on a bus and I went all the way across London by bus and went to this place where I was going to meet this guy for an interview and I sat in the reception for an hour, then they said &#8220;we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re really sorry, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had to go home, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too late&#8221; and I said oh okay, and I went back across London by bus. And then I thought, well that was that. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t plan on going back across London by bus, it was a ridiculous bus journey, so I never went back, and that was the nearest I ever got to having a real job.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Imagine if that guy had shown up!<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It goes without saying that &#8220;Arizona&#8217;s draconian new immigration law is an abomination,&#8221; right? [via] In semi-related news: Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black. [via] The Canadian Science Fiction Review is an interesting idea, though I&#8217;m not sure I like their chances for getting fully funded by May 15, I&#8217;m sad to say. I &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3885\">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":[125,82,129,83,78,37,6,11,31,10,12],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-activism","tag-canada","tag-editing","tag-legal","tag-magazines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-publishing","tag-sci-fi","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885"}],"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=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}