MrHoatzin

Yeah, "seldom" by volume. I stopped and briefly searched for a better word there, started writing a disclaimer, then gave up and posted what I had. Their coverage of fiction is usually in the form of comprehensive retrospectives of certain authors, which in my mind makes it somehow not about fiction itself.

NYRB seldom reviews fiction—but if you also include ads in those "gilded pages" then sure.

Yup. Hobo Lobo is me. What about the crazy coincidence wouldn't I believe? I was going to wrap up the first part of the story in the parallaxer and then build a different platform for the second part. I have been thinking about using canvases for things but I am not sure if they would solve my problems or just introduce new ones. Will have to experiment I guess. Thanks.

Whoa nice! I may have to pick your mind sometime soon about <canvas> and whatnot as I am gloriously ignorant about its potential and applications. Like: is it possible to have DOM elements inside the canvas, or is it all javascript all the time? Can you recommend some sort of primer/crash course site?

As someone who's been doing a fair bit of interviewing lately, I can tell you that the time it takes probably means nothing.

If we're talking about webcomics as well (which we should as print is for suckers*) you should all already love Hobo Lobo of Hamelin. You're honor-bound by virtue of associating with its maker in these here fine forums. * Prt.

Funny. Both the McGurl book and the Dave Hickey presentation I linked to talk about the same sort of malaise in the face of post-WWII art support systems.

I've had this kind of thing in the back of my consciousness forever—it recently resurfaced when a friend described Sal and myself to a third party as the foreign couple. When if ever will it be kosher for me to include myself and my work in the American canon? At this point, I've lived in the US longer than I've lived in Serbia. I am a citizen. A lot of my artistic development happened in San Antonio, I am very much a part and an evangelist of the art scene here. I feel a certain kinship with the cowboy artist archetype. Hobo Lobo is all about America... But people will interpret my work as a product of some radical ornery Eastern European no matter what. Yet I am totally not speaking to any Serbian audience. I haven't the slightest what I would say to them. I don't really fit in either place—perhaps not as drastically as Nabokov who couldn't go back to Soviet Russia—but pretty definitely all the same. And while I don't have a foreign accent when I speak Serbian, my vocabulary and grammar are utter shit and for any kind of complicated conversation I have to either segue into English or take a gamble with sloppily transmuting Latin-rooted words into Serbian... I don't think my work should be deemed any less American because I haven't been born American, just as it shouldn't be grouped into the Serbian canon because it doesn't fit there. Ultimately this kind of bird's-eye-view taxonomy has no direct bearing on my work. But it does affect the interpretation of it in ways that I can't quite grasp or anticipate. People are too eager to interpret shit through what they imagine I've been through. I don't know how to really feel about that.

I think Nabokov is fair game. He wrote everything after The Real Life of Sebastian Knight in English, in the US, about the US, and those are his best works. Of all the ones that they put on the list, Pnin is the most wacky and curious choice. Pale Fire, Lolita and Ada are all amazing books that I wholly recommend. I should really give Ada another go; I don't think I ever finished it.

The breathless thing and the rest of the heart-attacky symptoms like the numb limbs could be panic attack related. Have you had any reasons to be flipping out lately?

A mockumentary?

boo

It is actually one of these dudes:

Not only is that a framed picture of my back, it also UPDATES IN REAL TIME!! Pretty epic technology. No moving parts! Uses no energy to run! I had to flip the phone really fast while it was taking the picture to get the flipside of the phone in the shot.

The new spoiler tag makes me not read spoilers ever, even when I kinda would want to. Is this just some random temporary wackiness or the new order of things? The olden redacted stripes were more satisfying to unredact somehow.

My avatar looks like I am livid or at the very least disapproving, but I am not:

Also: you may just make me try Civ again. I always get overwhelmed by trying to second-guess the systems and get destroyed by some belligerent AI in relatively uninteresting scenarios; I never considered it an option to just play the game as a casual simulation.

I just now got to actually listening to the last few podcasts. You dudes mentioned at some point how US is pro-active in its spreading of culture. I recently learned that the Marshal Plan contained a clause stipulating that countries receiving support must open their film markets to a certain percentage of US movies. And here I was thinking that we all spoke English because it was a simple language and stuff.

It is not our fault that we like to support wacky games that don't support us.

Mac version would be super nice.

I just need to know there is a police blimp. Is there a police blimp? With, like, a swat team on board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy#History

It's hard to miss that a lot of what they're doing is hypemongering—but I'm choosing to assume (because I am a starry-eyed optimist) the true audience for the hype are VC firms that they would go to with all this nice press and buzz and pitch the project for the REAL money that they're looking for.

Well, ok! But isn't this how open source projects are done? Put out a v1 and then iterate and improve upon it with user/community feedback? And speaking of it being a pirate's wet dream, I think their goal of building an effective curated marketplace should be enough of a deterrent against the kinds of piracy that actually hurt bottom lines. I dunno guys! I still think this is not as horrible an idea as some people demand it be. From where I'm sitting it can go either way. And all it takes at this point for it to succeed is good branding and outreach. If they fail on the followthrough, they failed, sucks to be everyone who believed in this thing. People need to be making things for standardized open platforms, and I hope these guys are not out to fleece everyone as that would retard grass-roots open gaming by many years.