Photo by Savannah Mirisola-Sullivan
You read that right; Wilder Voice is done. We finished the last round of copy edits (we're not The New Yorker, with their obsessive ten rounds; we only do three) late last night/early this morning. I should also mention that I finished copy editing The Grape Wed. night/Thurs. morning at about 5:30 AM. Lovely. So, yes, I've essentially been copy editing for two days straight. If I see another widow or comma splice I might vomit.
Really, though, it's quite a release to be done with Wilder Voice. It's been fun, but I'm exhausted and have--let's see--three papers to write before the end of the semester, including my private reading paper, which should be around 20-30 pages. Fuck.
Enough whining, though. Just be sure and pick up your copy of Wilder Voice mid-next week. For those of you not in Oberlin, I'll be posting a copy of my article, "The Watchmen," sometime later today. I gave Glenn Greenwald one week to respond to my request for quote confirmation, and I figure, as he hasn't responded, he doesn't mind if I print without confirmation. So there.
A couple of other things. I've been following, with only some interest, Warren Ellis's free online comic, FreakAngels. Why with only some interest? you ask. Because it didn't get all that good until recently. Which makes sense. As with most science-fiction, you've got to wait a bit for that suspension of disbelief to set in. Furthermore, it's pretty classic Warren Ellis, which is to say it takes a bit to get over the Ellis-esque quirks: the dystopian pseudo-science, the sexual perversion (only hinted thus far), the misanthropy, etc..
In other news, Sen. Clinton went on The O'Reilly Factor. She did pretty well, when she wasn't using Republican frames to attack Obama (she only did that a couple of times--and I'm not being snarky when I said that she did pretty well), and when she wasn't being an elitist:
Rich people... God bless us
On the bright side, O'Reilly made an ass out of himself, calling Teddy Roosevelt "a socialist," and not getting that his hometown was a GI Bill haven. I think we can all agree: O'Reilly is a douche.
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