I have to do some traveling this weekend. As I'm not sure how much time I'll get on the Internet, I'm making certain arrangements for my minions. For starters, I have several cartoons I keep setting aside because I like others better. It's time to set them free, so I'll be future-dating them so that they appear every 12 hours while I'm gone. (8 AM and 8 PM daily, Friday morning through Monday morning). Also, I can arrange for any writing exercise submissions to automatically post over the weekend if I have them by Thursday night. The deadline will be Saturday at 8 PM, but I can't guarantee I'll post those sent Friday and Saturday until Monday (though I'll probably manage to get to them). I should be able to get online to publish comments two or three times a day.
You're the last person to board a packed airplane. You make your way to your row, stow your bag, and slip into the middle seat, discovering that Evil Editor occupies the window seat. He's at your mercy for the next six hours. Should be a fascinating conversation, but you get to tell us only 300 words of it. Don't forget to include your name if you want credit.
Time-traveling, EE? Did you discover a portal in your basement?
ReplyDeleteSooo....are you taking a 6 hour flight from NY to LA? BEA?
ReplyDeleteWill you be posting pics?
If so, will you allow minions to come up with captions for your pics?
Are you going to WisCon, EE?
ReplyDeleteGUD will be on the SLF table. Take a photo of you and GUD! Go on! Even just your manly hand! Go on!
You are so thoughtful, EE. I hope you have a nice weekend. But if your flight is anything like I'm planning it, you probably won't...
ReplyDeleteBEA seems more likely than WisCon somehow.
ReplyDeleteBah.
Oh, that would be so cool if you posted pics. You could waste a tremendous amount of time taking pictures that will never identify you to your adoring public, yet cause all sorts of hilarious commentaries...
ReplyDeleteDamn! I've just written 500 words not 300. I wish I could count.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could write, too, but at this exact moment I wish I could count even more.
1.I need to go look up BEA and WisCon.
ReplyDelete2.So will you post pictures from wherever, huh, huh?
3.It's really sweet of you to keep us babysat while you're gone.
4.GUD will be on the SLF table. Take a photo of you and GUD! Go on! Even just your manly hand! Go on! I would heartily agree with the Buffster if I had any idea what GUD or SLF meant. But I hope to know shortly.
As I recall you fly to dangerous places. Be safe.
ReplyDeleteLol, Robin.
ReplyDeleteSLF is the Speculative Literature Foundation, and they're providing a dealer's table at WisCon for the sale of books and/or magazines produced by small presses who can't necessarily afford to attend, or can't spare the staff to attend.
GUD Magazine is the magazine I work for/with. Issue Three, on the theme of "Mechanical Flight" comes out in June/July, edited by yours truly :).
Cool for you, Buff!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the acronym-onious help.
So, you think he's going to the WisCon instead of the BEA, huh? Who all goes to these things --
readers/writers/authors/editors/
publishers?
Nah, it'll be some editors' bonding weekend — climbing walls and wrestling crocodiles and stuff.
ReplyDeleteHey, have a safe trip! I forgot to say so earlier. Stay away from whiskey-swilling babies and blogging moms.
ReplyDeleteDo remember the 300-word limit. I've received another over 500.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, EE. Your loyal minions obey your every word.
ReplyDeleteI shall now find out how to edit 500 words down to 300. Maybe I could just omit all prepositions, articles and auxiliary verbs. That should do it.
Thanks for looking after the blog while you're away. Have fun wrestling those crocodiles!
ReplyDeleteThis isn't the type of exercise that usually draws a multitude of submissions; however, let's limit it to three per person.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what it is, Lyle.
ReplyDeleteI was under the impression that speculative fiction was what they are calling sci-fi and fantasy now so it sounds cooler.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's just me though. Because it does sound cooler. I've got a story coming out this month is a speculative fiction journal, and it's fun to say.
EE, you do realize that none of these measures will replace your warm, acerbic presence on the site. But I love the image of an editors' retreat, so that's what I'll picture you doing.
Still arriving Austin at the scheduled time, right? I'll see you there. And yes, I packed the pink ones.
ReplyDeleteCan we get tickets to the Brenda/Robin fight?
ReplyDeleteAs long as EE isn't going to Texas this weekend, I'm good.
ReplyDeleteAre you?
Are you?
ReplyDeleteHappy hottiedays, um, sorry, holidays.
ReplyDeleteI'll bring some pictures.
ReplyDeleteOK.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be fun - seeing the pictures.
Any ideas on how to smuggle moles onto the plane?
ReplyDeleteIt could be BayCon. That's this weekend, too.
ReplyDeleteSpec Fic? Probably easiest to give examples. The most popular examples of the speculative fiction genre are National Enquirer and Hello! magazine.
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