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2003-11-21

John M. Ford, certified genius. While his proxy-entires at Making Light are fine and all, can’t someone convince him to start one of these of his own? (But if that means his already slow output of books will get even more slower, then forget what I just said.)

A tip of the hat to DrQu+xum at MCiOS:Hyperlink Game for this link. Finally we can rest. We can sleep without waking up in the middle of the night, shouting “But how fast?! How fast do they travel?! Tell me!” Because now Jonathan Corum has estimated the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

Åka sent in the link of a book survey made at Fantastic Metropolis to the Fanac-list. It’s a few months old by now, but I hadn’t seen it before. Some of the answers the authors gave was a bit of a surprise. On question the first, “What do you most like about the book as a physical object?”:

Cory Doctorow, who seems like a nice chap in other respects, hates the books physical form and prefers ASCII. ASCII. If this gets out, millions of Boing Boing-groupies will do the same. It must be stopped or else the book as we know it is an endangered species.

But Neil Gaiman answered that “The smell of paper, the way the book feels, the look of it, the heft.” See, I’m not crazy. Neil likes the smells of the paper in books too — albeit appearantly not as much as Peter Crowther of PS Publishing.

As I’m still not comfortable enough to photograph any people, I had to go through my files and see if I could find something that had to do with a gathering. Sure, there where some to choose from. Most of them had pretty boring background though, not to the fault of the people in the pictures.

Have you ever felt as if you’re in a Hulk Hogan movie and everything is cheesy, bad and oddly colourful at the same time?

No! Chapter three of Nowhere Girl has been postponed, again. Boo doesn’t didn’t previously join my raves about the series, but what does he know about comics anyway? that was just a matter of time since he know stuff about comics. Justine Shaw has too little time — obligatory South Park ref: she needs more time, we have to to transplant some — and is therefore unable to work on it right now. The release date is somewhat uncertain, but it’ll hopefully be next year. Late next year. In happier news, she has two other comic projects in the go.