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2001-08-27

I’m a bit ecstatic right now, as I’ve just found out that an almost local stf-con next year (Warning: link goes to a foreign page which will rot your brain) will have China Miéville — according to some sources dubbed “the sexiest man in politics” by the Evening Standard — as Guest of Honour. Finally an author I’ve read and whose books I’ve enjoyed.

How am I supposed to get any work done on my essay when crap like She’s All That is on tv? It’s annoying, because it is bad and therefore I must watch. It’s a compulsion. When I die, I’ll go to bad movie heaven, where there is no God. Only heaps of bad movies that will last for maybe two eternities if I’m lucky.

Now, I don’t really have time for this because I want to pass the damn thing. Right now its going slow, a slug could type faster. Besides, the mythology part of semiotics is the most fickle grey mass of ambiguous ramblings I have ever seen in my life. Well, there was that lecture in last November, I still do not understand what it was all about.

“The myths which are generated in a culture will change over time, and can only acquire their force because they relate to a certain context. In myth, the context and history of the signs are narrowed down and contained so that only a few features of their context and history have a signifying function.”
Media Semiotics by Jonathan Bignell (p.23)>

No, sorry but I want to be honest. I lied before, the exam is not damned; it’s quite the opposite. Semiotics is pretty cool, neat, groovy, and other out-of-date expressions that are synonymous with niftiness. At least if done on my own terms, which if I might add, this isn’t.

Most of the semiotic-books are clear on the importance of text and letters, but they seem to have forgotten one very important part. The font. Nowhere they mention that the typeface also matters in how certain things are perceived. I mean, no one would take a warning seriously if it was typed with a script font such as Avalon. Right?