News, news, news ...
Jan. 9th, 2004 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyAh, where to begin?
Well, for starters, y'all want to hear about the height of absolute pointlessness? Futile distraction for those with too much time and too much money (and, potentially, not enough brains) on their hands? Well, then, watch and wait, 'cause it's here: reusable ice cubes. Yeah, you heard me right ... I first encountered these at a friend's house. We were arguing, and I was thirsty, and (as is my wont) too lazy to get up and freshen my drink, so I decided to sip from the delicious dregs of the melted ice and their watered down, vodka-tonic flavor when I encountered something that seemed like the bastard love child of a breast implant and a used condom - the reusable ice-cube. It's a little square baggy-thing filled with water that you can freeze, use to cool a drink, and then wash to resuse again. I'm all in favor of conserving time, energy, and water ... but these things just don't do any of the above! You waste time carefully rinsing sugar and gook out of their crevices ... I'm betting that the water that runs down the sink while you're rinsing them outweighs the amount per cubic liter that you'd use to simply fill a tray ... and, well, ya still have to freeze the suckers. Why, oh cruel and merciless gods of comedy? WHY?!?!
On a slightly more serious note ... I'd been holding off mentioning this, but one of my contributors spilled the beans in the last issue of Emerald City (which is kinda cool in and of itself). I'm editing a special issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts on the hybridization of genre. Interstitial Arts, slipstream, the New Weird ... if it's liminal and border-breaking, it'll be in there. Out in fall, friends ...
And, most recently discovered: I'm going to have an article in the next issue of Extrapolations, an academic journal focusing on science fiction - so, if anyone's ever wanted to learn all there is to know about the Goblin Market (or, at least as much as I could cram into 15 or so pages), be on the lookout ...
All for now.
Well, for starters, y'all want to hear about the height of absolute pointlessness? Futile distraction for those with too much time and too much money (and, potentially, not enough brains) on their hands? Well, then, watch and wait, 'cause it's here: reusable ice cubes. Yeah, you heard me right ... I first encountered these at a friend's house. We were arguing, and I was thirsty, and (as is my wont) too lazy to get up and freshen my drink, so I decided to sip from the delicious dregs of the melted ice and their watered down, vodka-tonic flavor when I encountered something that seemed like the bastard love child of a breast implant and a used condom - the reusable ice-cube. It's a little square baggy-thing filled with water that you can freeze, use to cool a drink, and then wash to resuse again. I'm all in favor of conserving time, energy, and water ... but these things just don't do any of the above! You waste time carefully rinsing sugar and gook out of their crevices ... I'm betting that the water that runs down the sink while you're rinsing them outweighs the amount per cubic liter that you'd use to simply fill a tray ... and, well, ya still have to freeze the suckers. Why, oh cruel and merciless gods of comedy? WHY?!?!
On a slightly more serious note ... I'd been holding off mentioning this, but one of my contributors spilled the beans in the last issue of Emerald City (which is kinda cool in and of itself). I'm editing a special issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts on the hybridization of genre. Interstitial Arts, slipstream, the New Weird ... if it's liminal and border-breaking, it'll be in there. Out in fall, friends ...
And, most recently discovered: I'm going to have an article in the next issue of Extrapolations, an academic journal focusing on science fiction - so, if anyone's ever wanted to learn all there is to know about the Goblin Market (or, at least as much as I could cram into 15 or so pages), be on the lookout ...
All for now.
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Date: 2004-01-10 12:21 pm (UTC)Have you been at all alerted to the creation of theSpeculative Lterature Foundation (http://www.speculativeliterature.org)? Not that you need another thing to be aware of, but I have to plug it as I am on the staff.
It is always such a shock to see you post here!
Erzebet
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Date: 2004-01-12 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-12 04:41 pm (UTC)It is so nice to know you're alive. :)