Brainstorming at LiveJournal Community
A few days ago, I mentioned that Michael Burstein started a couple LiveJournal communities devoted to the big three print magazines. Today, I noticed that there’s some interesting conversation going on in the comments to a new post in the F&SF community, about why readers read and/or subscribe to the magazine, or vice versa. Go check it out, and add your two cents.
NY Comic Con Pics
After the NY Comic Con, I’d intended to make a post about it, a con-report sort of thing. Alas, it never happened. So, instead, you get a Flickr photoset!
Hugo A Feast For Martin
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about George R.R. Martin’s recent Hugo Award nomination for A Feast for Crows.
Wilson In A Spin Over Hugo
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Robert Charles Wilson’s recent Hugo Award nomination for Spin.
LJ Communities
MacLeod Earns World Praise
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Ken MacLeod’s Hugo nomination for Learning the World.
Re-Mastered
For all you Metallica fans out there, check this out: Kerrang! just released a special re-recording of Metallica’s Master Of Puppets in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the classic album’s release. You can preview all the tracks here.
Or just go here and listen to what I’m guessing is going to be the best track: Trivium’s cover of the title track. It’s really quite awesome. They didn’t do anything new or original with it–they didn’t make it their own, as most good covers do. But it’s like a scene by scene remake of a film that somehow equals the original. Trivium are total Metallica fanboys, and they’re just totally true to that tune. Instrumentally, they sound almost exactly like Metallica, and vocally, Matt Heafy isn’t far off.
Scalzi Honored by Noms
SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about John Scalzi’s Hugo and Campbell Award nominations.
Blog Comments
When I recently posted to point out that there was some interesting conversation going on in one of my comment threads, I had a couple people email me because they didn’t realize I *had* comments on my blog, or they couldn’t figure out where/how to see them. This was mainly because the the individual entry archive had comments turned off, so you could only view/make comments if you accessed the entry on the main (current) page (where posts stay for about 30 days).
Now, however, comments have been re-enabled in the individual entry archive, so now you should be able to make comments whenever, and will be able to do so if you follow a direct link to a post. The comments were initially disabled to combat spam, but my server upgraded to the most recent version of Movable Type, which makes it quite easy to battle spam.