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Random updates while I work on another project for a couple of days:
A friend gave me a Kodaslide tabletop slide viewer from the 1940's. It's this amazing little space-age glowing podlike device. I plan to show some video shortly (it still works!)
Typewriter journal! The deadline is approaching! Now I know from prior 90's era zine experience that it's quite common for people to say they will contribute to your publication, yet have nothing for you at the deadline. Don't let this be you. Last time I unlocked the P.O. box, a cool wind blew through the slot from inside the mailroom, unobstructed by mail of any kind. Oh, and --probably a little late to mention this-- but you're going to want to leave a margin on both (long) sides of your paper, so your art/writing/etc. won't be obscured by the binding. To be entirely technical, I'd say a thumb or a thumb and a half. If you've already done your submission and are now cursing my name, go ahead and mail it anyway and I will figure something out.
Yes, there are adsense ads on my blog now. I would like to think this is not selling out, which I define as a huge honking banner at the top of your page that bumps down all your content. I may backtrack and declare it selling out later on. But clearly, I'm not afraid to try weird blog experiments (see 'foxygate' controversy in the comments of this post).
Anyone out there a freelance writer? I've been investigating those sites that pay you a pittance for creating articles and other types of copy, and am slowly forming an opinion on this that I may share at some point... feel free to preempt my musings with your own thoughts on this one.
That is all.
Banning the Big Black Box
5 hours ago
7 comments:
I found a couple of working slide-viewers recently though I haven't done anything with them yet, except for one experiment. Based on your handiwork with the paper wallet and money, I expect greater things!
"Foxygate." Snort.
Oh yes, the freelance writing things does look enticing, doesn't it? Also, do the positions available on these sites remind anyone else of the "gargoyles" from Snow Crash?
Uh Oh....
I just picked up my entry from the printer this morning- and what I have to send you is on a borderless 8 1/2 x 11.
Can you have it reduced slightly?
I can also send you the jpeg, too, by e-mail.
(word verification is "velomedi," which must be to say, "a mid-sized bicycle.")
I've finally gone so far as to buy a mailing envelope for my Silent Type submission, so there's that. Part of my problem is that I'm not really content with the story, and I keep hoping something brilliant will occur to me at the last moment, and since I can probably get away with mailing the day before the deadline...I'm procrastinating.
Word verification: gless. Like glass, only not so much.
That cool-wind-through-the-mailslot thing almost brought me to tears. I'll get moving on my submission ASAP.
I'm completely frozen up. Performance anxiety on a massive scale. This is typewriter day, however (isn't it?) and maybe that will give me the fortitude I need.
(word verif. = "apeto" (n.) A puppet-making primate.)
I sent mine. This afternoon. I now have a raging headache and a bad case of nerves.
As I mentioned on my own blog, I sent both a poem and a short story--please use whichever fits best!
I also pretty much messed up the top of the first page, trying to put some little description there. Ugh.
Word verification: ceaullow. I have no idea what it means, but I think it may describe my current emotional state.
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