While Many of You were at a Serious Literary Con...
...I was at home, doing this: "Story Time: Live-Blogging 'Taken By the Gay Unicorn Biker.'"
Bitter Empire has promised me business cards that say: "Reading weird erotica, so you don't have to."
Seriously, a very important conference is happening in town right now, the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) is happening. I will tell you that I looked at their off-site events schedule (here's today's) and I know none of the people doing readings. I don't think they invited the spec fic community, though I might be wrong about that.
So, yeah, I stayed home and read unicorn porn, out loud (rather: on-line) instead.
Also, after yesterday (wherein I got a surprising amount of attention for what I thought was a very 101 Hugo's post), I feel the need to post this:
For the most part, I have to say, I remain lucky. If people are saying vile things about me because I compared the puppies to Nazis (possibly an unwise hyperbole, though the fascist stuff is very much connected to the rabid pups and I linked to my source in the article), I'm not really hearing it to my face. I had one troll come on my FB feed to say "How many lies can you print in one article?" to which I have to confess my first response was going to be "ALL OF THEM" (but I feared I might be taken seriously or out of context), so instead I asked for clarification, got it, and refuted it.
I also pointed out that the blog was not an article, but an opinion piece, which had been clearly labeled as such.
Kittens and unicorn sex. The only antidote, IMHO.
Bitter Empire has promised me business cards that say: "Reading weird erotica, so you don't have to."
Seriously, a very important conference is happening in town right now, the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) is happening. I will tell you that I looked at their off-site events schedule (here's today's) and I know none of the people doing readings. I don't think they invited the spec fic community, though I might be wrong about that.
So, yeah, I stayed home and read unicorn porn, out loud (rather: on-line) instead.
Also, after yesterday (wherein I got a surprising amount of attention for what I thought was a very 101 Hugo's post), I feel the need to post this:
For the most part, I have to say, I remain lucky. If people are saying vile things about me because I compared the puppies to Nazis (possibly an unwise hyperbole, though the fascist stuff is very much connected to the rabid pups and I linked to my source in the article), I'm not really hearing it to my face. I had one troll come on my FB feed to say "How many lies can you print in one article?" to which I have to confess my first response was going to be "ALL OF THEM" (but I feared I might be taken seriously or out of context), so instead I asked for clarification, got it, and refuted it.
I also pointed out that the blog was not an article, but an opinion piece, which had been clearly labeled as such.
Kittens and unicorn sex. The only antidote, IMHO.
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