Due to the closure of La Guardia airport yesterday, Dr. Anne Jamison’s talk on fanfiction, scheduled for today (Friday March 6, 4 PM, 646 LB) has been cancelled. Dr. Jamsion is fine, and did her utmost to find alternate transportation to Montreal, but was unable to do so. We will reschedule this event for fall Read More
1: Everything I Love Hates Me In 2010, I started writing about heavy metal seriously. It was an act of self-preservation, really; I discovered I was spending more on concert tickets than rent every month, and so I approached a website to barter live reviews for guest list spots. Soon I was writing a column Read More
For a little over a year, I worked for an internet porn company. It was very boring. I’d been un- and under-employed for the better part of a year before, picking up contracts from private high schools and tour groups and science museums, but nothing that stuck. Then, a friend, another writer, told me I Read More
Way back in March, I was at the Toronto Spec Fic Colloquium, and Liana K gave a talk on representation in video games that included a discussion the lack of diversity in playable characters in cases where you can’t design your avatar. In the process she finally helped me put a finger on something that Read More
I spent a year and a half playing Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. My brother and I got a Super Nintendo for Christmas from a rich aunt and uncle in 1993 and spent somewhere between the next 18 and 20 months doing almost nothing else in our spare time but play the Read More
I have a complex and difficult relationship with Twitter. No other content strategy strategy or social media platform has done more for me. My feed has gotten me an agent and several jobs; it’s connected to to innumerable people who have become friends and colleagues, collaborators and co-conspirators. It’s gotten me in the newspaper for Read More