Four things randomly discovered while surfing the net today

[yendi]

1. The story of Lisa Tuttle rejecting a Nebula award.

2. Jeff Smith is writing more Bone!

(and isn't it strange to actually hear comic-orientated news on SDCC weekend?)

3. Warren Lapine does not understand the word apologia.

4. The New York Post will save itself from being the sleaziest paper ever by allowing readers to make up fake words! And here I thought the newspaper industry was dying.

Comments

...he's serious?

[kenakeri.livejournal.com]

From his LJ entry, it looks like he is.

Another entry on the list of publications/authors that do not want people like me reading their stuff.

Oh. My. GOD.

[hinj.livejournal.com]

I have no idea who Warren Lapine is, but I wish the guy responding to his comment had explained how it is he believes apology and apologia are different, other than the fact that one of them has the capability of making a writer sound like a pretentious asshole...

But the same person said:
"P.S. While I’m pointing you at dictionaries, how is it that the editorial staff of a fantasy magazine failed to realize that mermaids are commonly depicted as sapients in stories in the genre? "

Sapients? Really? I even read the blog he linked to, and his comment made no sense. SAPIENT? I wonder if I'm a sapient. Are YOU a sapient? I wonder how it is that the idiot who posted this failed to realize sapient is an adjective, since he's so familiar with dictionaries and all...

And further:
"Frankly, that inability to parse a common trope concerns me quite as much as the misogynistic history of the magazine in question."

I'm guessing he's a Harlan Ellison fan who believes the more big words one can stuff into a sentence, the more intelligent he is... I. Don't. Think. So.

I have no idea why this sent me off on a little rant -- I imagine it's because summer is over, and I need to warm up for students again. I will point out that the "apology" from Mr. Ellison at the top of the page contains a heinous misspelling of "vigorish." Hm...interesting the spell checker here is also flagging it as incorrect, not having actually played craps to know what it is.

At any rate...thanks for waking me up this morning! I was up way too late last night, and had the very real intention of sleeping all day...but now my blood is boilinig. I guess I'll go to school and set my room up.

[littlebuhnee.livejournal.com]

The New York Post was a piece of crap one step above a tabloid even when *I* was still living in NYC, and that was a while ago. I'd love the know who the hell is buying it and thereby creating justification for its continued publication. You know, so I can go smack them all.

[amokk]

Is Addictionary the Trojan horse the newspaper industry has needed? We'll find out in August when the Post deploys the new feature.

Yes, but not the good historical one, the current technology-related one. Besides, wtf, both were/are not good to those who accepted said trojan and brought it into their house. Historical fail.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

yes! three levels of rhetorical fail:

(1): addictionary is not a web service in the first place, it is an ad network with sniglets baked in
(2): the NYP using it is not news, it's not even another sign of newspapers dying; it's like saying "newspapers add 'Sudoku' trend; is this what they need to survive?"
(3): "Trojan Horse" metaphor, in the meta-reportage meta-phorical rhe-torical use: UR DOIN IT RONG. I think you mean "magic bullet", maybe, but "trojan horse newspaper industry has needed"? only makes sense if the newspapers are the Greeks, and the internets/Kindle/iPhone/Twitter/blogosphere is Troy, and I think that's exactly backwards.

[wakingdreaming.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing people making snide comments about how Comic-Con really has nothing to do with comics and I don't know what they're talking about. Can you explain this to me, please?

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Wow, that Nebula story is...

wow. :P