Okay, folks. The preliminary website for 42 Magazine is up. (It will be located at 42magazine.com soonish.) I'm very excited.

For those who don't know already, we're going to publish a print magazine in the spring of '09, celebrating meaning in life. This is something I've been dreaming about since someotherguy's 42nd birthday, and now, with mine coming up, here it is.

Click here to see the call for submissions, which I've excerpted under the cut.

Whee! *bounce*

( Call for submissions, Spring '09 issue )

Tags: 42, launch, writing
Current Location: 94609
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: "Cradle and All" earworm

 

My Dear Seattle…

I am desperately trying to find a bar that will be showing the Obama acceptance speech tonight that is NOT charging a cover.  I’ve already tried to get into the "party" at the Showbox Sodo but they’re full to capacity.  Not even bribery can get me in.  So, I turn to you knowledgeable Seattle community…where can I get my drink on AND watch a brilliant speaker? 

 

Love-

Kylene

Current Location: on the eastsiiiiide
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: born of a broken man...RATM

I had the box set in hand before noon on Tuesday - I am dedicated, yo. (Unfortunately my eagerness cost me yet again - I bought it at Borders, when I really should have bitten the bullet and taken the long trip out to Target, because yes, just like last time, there IS a special limited edition box set with a sketchbook booklet of Tim Sale art from the season that's exclusively sold there. Damn it!)

I would love to write up a meta post about my thoughts on rewatching the season - and the deleted scenes - but I'm going to save it for now. I will say, in brief, that the deleted scenes were worth the cost of the DVDs - hell, the deleted scenes for the first episode are worth $31 all by themselves - and while I'm still super-down with this show and it's a gorgeous thing, I found myself absolutely appalled at the massive continuity errors, character inconsistencies, and dropped plot points as the season drew to a close. It's really quite shocking and they really should know better; there's absolutely no excuse for that kind of sloppiness, looming writer's strike or no. And it really does amaze me that Tim Kring gets writing credit for both some of the best episodes of the season, and almost all of the worst. Has he been paying attention to his own damn scripts at all? This is a genre show; rock-solid continuity is half the point. Shame on them.

They fucked up, big time. Here's hoping they can pull out of that tailspin before they drive away their most devoted fans, because as far as I can tell, the general audience doesn't really give two shits about this show unless it's giving 110%, and the creators have shown in the past that they're capable of that. Take a page from Ronald D. Moore's book (and hell, J. Michael Straczynski's) and just go for it; to hell with the general audience, and reinforce that fan base with immaculate continuity, genuine emotions, and intensely compelling storylines. So what if it gets cancelled after only three (or maybe four) seasons? MAKE THOSE SEASONS COUNT. They've already thrown a season out the window. Bring that magic back - for the fans! We're the ones who will be buying the merchandising, tuning in every week without fail, bringing new eyeballs onto the show (and the ads, remember?) and loving it for years to come. I know Kring & the Gang know that the writing's on the wall, but I hope they understand EVERYTHING that went wrong, not just "oh, the new characters didn't work out quite right, and we spent too much time in Japan..." No, that's not the problem. The problem is that they need to be paying at least as much attention to the writing as they do to the photography, lighting, and costumes (which are all absolutely incredible - Heroes is still one of the best-looking shows I've ever seen, up there with Carnivale) - and preferably more. Babylon 5 looked like shit half the time, but I didn't care; I cared passionately about that world, those characters, and the horrible choices they had to make.

Get. A. Clue. Kring.

Tags: awesome, geekery, heroes, meta, rant
Current Mood: ambiguous

Just a reminder that 9/11 is my birthday, and I wanted to encourage everyone to celebrate in the proper manner.

International Orgasm Day is an important holiday. Please celebrate joyously and repeatedly.

I can't believe real life would set up a joke so perfectly for me.

My boss, Lisa, is fast. I feel a breeze and suddenly she's on the other side of the building. I suggested to a co-worker that she should dress as The Flash for Halloween. My co-worker said that maybe a hummingbird would be appropriate, and we talked about how to make that costume work. I emailed these ideas to Lisa and she emailed back "I may just go as the Invisible Girl." She doesn't like to be the center of attention.

With a setup like that, how could I resist?

"Lisa, you can run but you can't hide."

( ...in which I prove myself to be a terrible partner. )

 I don't know what I did to deserve the coolest neateast friends in the world but I have them!!!!


My friend gave me her old machine and now I'm a proud owner of a Mac (never owned one before) and it's a G4 and she was like it's only this and it's only that.

I'm like you're giving it to me?

You're just giving it to me?

You're just giving it to me?

I go to the Mac store at least once a week in Alderwood mall and oggle the laptops, then go home and think one day, talk myself out of it because I have no idea how to use them. Now I own one.

hehehehehe

hehehehehehe

yeah

hehehehehehehe

I'm happy 

hehehehehehe

Ok so I have to remember what our password is so I can get on the internet but other then that I'm excited to start playing with my music and photo's. 

oh I hear the photo programs are fun. 

oooooo the potential.

I'm going to make a cd of movies/photos with music. I read about it. ohohohoh yeah baby


thank you My friend!!!!!! you rawk!!!! you are my hero!!!!


Now I have this great need to pay it forward. :)

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

Paradise is this week and I feel really anxious I'm not there. I know they are doing just fine with out me. There is probably a lot less stress in fact. I'm betting everything is running smoothing in the rain. A part of me wants to hear all the bad stuff because my super inflated ego wants to believe that it can't succeed with out me. That's bullshit though. It did great before me and it will do great after me.

I'm learning a lot about being honest with myself. It's hard. I have huge mixed emotions about paradise and the center. I think if my mom didn't get sick and if I didn't look all my vacation and sick time for the year I would have done it. I would have been resentful. The idea of working on my vacation sucks, the idea of working for a greater cause is cool.

anyway..

I'm going to put a fundraiser together, I always want the center to stay in place and I'm going to volunteer for SEAF. :)

I'm looking forward to the rest of the week I hope it stops raining.

so here is something fun for the day

Friends,
St Philaret's in Moscow asks for a paper for a conference
(which I will not be able to attend) on "SPIRITUAL
RESISTANCE TO EMPTINESS IN CHURCH AND SOCIETY" mind
a blank(perhaps appropriately to the topic)for the moment.
any ideas?

My car key was taken care of very inexpensively by the
dealer, a first in my experience with dealers, Just
eight dollars for a new key, the old having worn and lost
grip on the door. The electronic remote worked yesterday
and they did not recommend a new one as the failure the
day before might have been in the car's electronics not the
key. Anyhow electronics is beyond me...
As are many subjects but as the academic year approaches
it occurs to me to gather a few items of interest related
to study. I find four I like(#3 is from an old post five
years ago).
The first is hard to define
The second is a problem
The third is a professor from Oz
and the fourth from Vachel Lindsay perhaps
puts academics in a larger context.

So:
(1)
There was an old man who said "Do
tell me how I should add two and two?
I think more and more
That it makes about four--
But I fear that is almost too few."

Too few indeed! But perhaps it will be enough...
Anyway our items today are but four and
now it is time to proceed by asking you if you
will to click to the right just here( Read more... )
I hope you may have found some interest in these...By free
association from the last item I have added a patchwork moon from
apod(astronomy picture of the day)and invite
as always all your response on these or on anything else at
all, and am yours
+Seraphim
.
Dr.Wogglebug of item 3.