Comments | 2muchexposition: "...written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

2muchexposition

"...written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Apr 22, 2008 02:27

[It has not escaped my attention that in just a few short weeks I will be expected to fulfill some sort of regular blogging commitment over at tor.com. Last I checked, um, eighty-seven weeks ago, I was an atrocious blogger. I talked about this with Brian Slattery over brunch before his panel at New York Comic Con, and our consensus was that we were ( Read more... )

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neutronjockey April 22 2008, 11:32:56 UTC

It appears to be Ms. Gorinsky, but as we all know Ms. Gorinsky doesn't blog.

Move along folks...there is nothing to see here... nothing to see...

2muchexposition April 23 2008, 06:21:35 UTC

If I had any idea that being incredibly flaky about something would get me off the hook for it this easily, I would have tried this strategy much earlier.

signifier April 22 2008, 12:43:08 UTC

My apologies for leading you to the fleshpots of commerce. And by "apologies," I mean "gales of evil laughter."

2muchexposition April 23 2008, 06:21:57 UTC

Too true, though one of those purchases was significantly fleshpot-ier than the other. I shudder to think how this trend will develop when you realize what true evils you can use this influence for.

gryphonrose April 22 2008, 13:26:03 UTC

Hey, nice to see you posting! Sorry I missed you at the con--I was only there Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, and when I stopped by Tor I only recognized Paul. Cool about the new gig (Hm, the freelancer side of me wonders if there will be submissions guidelines soon), glad you had a good con, and yes, it's always amazing those people who manage to blog every day. I usually only manage every other week or so myself--I keep meaning to blog more anecdotally but usually get too busy to bother. Sad.

2muchexposition April 23 2008, 06:29:39 UTC

No worries--I only had four hours of booth duty and didn't want to crowd the space when I wasn't working it, so I was mostly wandering. I doubt we'll be circing formal guidelines for the project because we'd prefer to have individual conversations with each creator, but if you have an idea for a short comics project, you can certainly e-mail me a paragraph or two about what you had in mind.

readingthedark April 22 2008, 13:36:35 UTC

It's great to see a post from you and editors do focus on concision, exactitude and structure but you're smashing in non-editorial ways too. Feel free to blog about the other ways in which you are smashing ( ... )

2muchexposition April 23 2008, 18:33:12 UTC

You are too kind, as always. I suspect that some of the strangers who have friended me really only want to hear about my job, but I guess they'll have to get used to sitting through some other stuff on the way. Lucky for them, I'm a bit of a workaholic.

I'm reflexively inclined to be dismissive of anything that's massively popular, but I've also always felt uncomfortably arrogant about asserting that my taste is worthier than millions of other people's just because it's mine. Consequently, even though I doubt I'll ever stand a chance of liking Celine Dion and her ilk, I'm still interested in deconstructing whether any such sweeping pronouncements are evidence of an unconscious classism on my part.

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2muchexposition April 23 2008, 18:37:32 UTC

Awww, but I can totally still bring you pins! I'm not sure when I'll see you next (I may be visiting Chicago for the week before WisCon and missing KGB--maybe at one of Tempest's things?), but I will make every endeavor to bring some along.

I can hardly fault you for fleeing ComicCon. It seems like an entirely sensible and human urge that I surely would have indulged myself if I didn't have my professional persona behind which I could hide from all the crowds.