I’ve been following the controversy over sales rankings, and I have to say that I’m appalled by the double standard at work here. (See http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/12203.html and http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html for more information, if you’re unfamiliar with this issue.)
Why can I find sales rankings for a book of Playboy centerfolds and not for the autobiographies of gay men [...]
The other piece of Old Shit I’m reviewing is The Crow: City of Angels. I’d started looking into the Crow franchise again after Beka admitted to never even having heard of The Crow, which struck me as deeply wrong. The original Crow movie was something I watched when I was an impressionable little teenygoth, and [...]
Right, so I fail at updating anything — I need to get into the habit of writing more. Funny how being in a relationship cuts into blogging time.
Today was interesting, for two things: first, I came home to find a present from Beka on my desk: the first issue of the Devil May Cry comic [...]
Now here’s hoping I can keep all my bloggish things relatively well-updated.
No, there’s not a point to this post, except to get me in the habit of updating, and to wish everyone out there all the best in 2009.
Wiping the slate clean one more time…
See, here’s the deal. Once upon a time, I had five or six different sites. I ran a mailing list, a couple of webrings, my vanity page, and so on and so forth. So the main page of MtM was a pretty, splashy portal page type of thing, where [...]