Archive for June, 2007

Story Up at Subterranean Online

Posted by Mandolin | June 2nd, 2007

In case anyone’s interested, I’ve got a short story up at Subterranean Online.

Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind

Aunt Jemima Petition

Posted by Rachel S. | June 1st, 2007

Ann is working to put a stop to Aunt Jemima (and the mammy image of black women in popular culture).  You can read her entire post on the history of Aunt Jemima here, and you can sign the petition here.

Art vs. Commercialism, round 1,675,098

Posted by Mandolin | June 1st, 2007

I *hate* moving. My fiance and I are in the process of relocating for the summer. It’s amazing how much crap accumulates during the course of a school year.

When we git outta here tomorrow morning, we’re going to commence drivin’ cross country. Consequently, I probably won’t be a font of great political posts.

Instead, I’m chewing on art versus commercialism this morning. Nick Mamatas posts today, wondering whether writers do themselves a disservice by focusing on the social, commercial, and networky aspects of the field. He’s “beginning to wonder if being a busy blogger and con-hopping and online-workshopping and all that other stuff actually slows one’s rate of learning how to write a story.”

I’d imagine this sort of debate is generalizable to other artistic fields. It seems like there are a bunch of artists hanging out ’round here — even an SF writer or two. So what do you all think?