Crowdsourcing Great Tales of the Apocalypse

Monday, April 19th, 2010 05:29 pm
jesse_the_k: Ultra modern white fabric interlaced to create strong weave (interdependence)
WisCon 34 will feature an Apocalypse Jeopardy game, where teams of great minds will demonstrate their knowledge of end-of-the-world facts, minor and momentous.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to contribute your favorite apocalyptic morsel via the following poll. Anonymous posting is on, so be as outrageous as you're inclined. Answers are hidden so nobody will know you're the last dog on earth.

Poll #2791 Harvesting the End of the World
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 7

OK, there's this really cool

book
4 (57.1%)

short story
0 (0.0%)

comic
0 (0.0%)

anime/manga
0 (0.0%)

movie
0 (0.0%)

vid
0 (0.0%)

fanfic
2 (28.6%)

other, detailed in comments
1 (14.3%)

called

created by

where this happens:



(There's a parallel poll happening at my LiveJournal; answer wherever you please).
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Three things make a post

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 04:04 pm
jesse_the_k: text: Be kinder than need be: everyone is fighting some kind of battle (Default)
The last few days have been lovely.

1. Lovely weather.

2. Lovely company: my house has been graced by [livejournal.com profile] were_duck (bearing CSA shares, nummy) and [livejournal.com profile] sasha_feather (bearing SGA disks, goody).

3. Lovely art. Duck turned me on to Banksy, a brilliant grafitti artist. Since I use mass transit, I have a very low tolerance for grafitti in general and tagging in particular. But Banksy's stuff really makes me think. Check out the heart-breaking New Orleans series on his site.
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WALL-E

Sunday, September 7th, 2008 05:39 pm
jesse_the_k: text: Be kinder than need be: everyone is fighting some kind of battle (expectant)
...was a beautiful movie. Not perfect: the overwhelming whiteness of life-on-the-hive-ship was jarring, and the conflation of disability, power mobility, obesity, and moral laxness was infuriating. But the good bits were gorgeous, elegant, dreamy, awe-inspiring.

The Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac news is veryconfusing. I'm a total illiterate when it comes to economics. I'm trying to decode this NPR primer on the next big crash.
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Writer development, class analysis of

Thursday, September 6th, 2007 09:28 pm
jesse_the_k: text: Be kinder than need be: everyone is fighting some kind of battle (Default)
This NPR commentator, Bianca Butler, does an excellent job explaining -- in privileged talk -- the culture shock she experiences as a black, working class student at a Seven Sisters college.

Truth & Beauty clarified the class differences among writers as they learn their craft. Sarah Lawrence grads like Grealy & Padgett may have to work as waitresses, but they're also all over various "colonies" and "fellowships" (Yaddo, McDowell, Guggenheim, &c) pipelined to people like Sarah Lawrence grads. While "genre" writers scratch their way up by actually writing books (and working as waitresses).

Me, I'm just happy that I can look forward to reading all the stuff, who ever is writing it.

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