The Hierarchy of blogging is like the Geek Hierarchy (published science fiction writers feel superior to science fiction readers who feel superior to science fiction movie fans who feel superior to Star Trek fans who feel superior to… all the way down to writers of furry fanfic or whatever). Here it is the bottom rung belongs to Bloggers who publish pictures of their cats on LiveJournal in Spanish L33tspeak. With a big pink pagecounter (and use lots of smileys
.
Link via LMG, which is humble about it’s status as a linklog.
Considering where I end up on this, I should probably give up on climbing and just move down a rung, from Reposts links from BoingBoing.net without commentary
to Posts pictures of their cats
…
LoL.
Author: Dotan Dimet
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Marvel Comics, 1971
A Rolling Stone article from 1971 about Marvel comics (via LMG) has interesting interviews with Marie Severin (who has some shudder-inducing comments about fans visiting the Marvel offices), Herb Trimpe (artist on The Hulk), Roy Thomas (a fan living the dream), Jim Steranko (a fascinating character who tells about his youth as an amateur locksmith, escape artist and juvenile delinquent. Here’s a very cool fan page for Steranko) and Stan Lee.
I think LMG might have picked up the link from this thread on the Comics Journal board, where someone posed the question when did Marvel jump the shark?
and surprisingly, got some interesting answers. (link to the thread via Fanboy Rampage, a blog which provides the invaluable service of reading the comics message boards so that you won’t have to).
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Dungeon Majesty
Dungeon Majesty (Quicktime at the link) is a cable TV show where four women play D&D. Awesome garage TV.
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LARPers and Shroomers
Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report, by Susie Dent covers all aspects of contemporary English as an evolving and mutating language
. As a gimmick, it selects a single word born in each year of the 20th century and the opening years of the 21st.
The selection for 2004 is the disappointing Chav
, apparently some form of variation on חובת”ים (specifically, loutish young people exhibiting council estate chic
).
For a spot of fun, the BBC is running a short story contest in which you’re supposed to use all the 101 words in the list.
And the only reason I post this, is that the book’s title describes two of the hobbies of a sizable portion of my readership…
Neal Stephanson interviewed at Slashdot. Where we learn that he’s been reading Etgar Keret, and that he can wax elequently about the difference between commercial and literary writers, and perhaps most importantly, his answer to In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?
(via Bruce Sterling)