tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post1538552862566150239..comments2024-01-18T05:18:48.819-05:00Comments on Wombat's World <small>(a blog for writer K. A. Laity)</small>: Where's Marlon?K. A. Laityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-59855799931034935872011-10-06T03:16:29.340-04:002011-10-06T03:16:29.340-04:00You know, I neglected to explain the title and tha...You know, I neglected to explain the title and that photo, just assumed that people would either know or ask. Good to know it hit the mark at least for you, Todd. <br /><br />That the entire industry has shifted around planning and release dates to pitch works for the Oscars tells you everything you need to know. It's a business. Art is just an occasional by-product, coming when you least expect it.K. A. Laityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-55982775734453009972011-10-05T20:46:35.401-04:002011-10-05T20:46:35.401-04:00Sacheen Littlefeather certainly made for a more in...Sacheen Littlefeather certainly made for a more interesting ceremony...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-47604784332106080352011-10-05T20:34:42.621-04:002011-10-05T20:34:42.621-04:00Very strange. As co-publisher of a small-press mag...Very strange. As co-publisher of a small-press magazine, FANTASY TALES, one would think that Jones wouldn't be quite so quick to dismiss...but that was some time ago, and even the last few issues of FANTASY TALES were, back when, somewhat clumsily produced by Carroll and Graf as trade paperbacks in the US. And whatever one thinks of the circulation or pay rates of BLACK STATIC, it's certainly a professional package and I've not heard of anyone having to dun Andy Cox (as opposed to, say, Leisure Books). Ah, well...it doesn't help what might well be (and in many ways seems) a reasonable argument to dump extra vitriol in...<br /><br />My favorite utterly ignorant whining a couple of years ago was that involving the "best picture" shortlist at the Oscars being expanded to ten entries, which 1) was the number the Oscars originally had and 2) meant that some actually interesting films were nominated for a change and 3) fulfilled its only real function, in spreading attention to films for promotional purposes...including those actually interesting ones.<br /><br />As someone rather happy to have picked up two campus awards for writing back when I still haunted several campuses, and nominated more recently as a "straight" guy for a Lambda (for homosexual-friendly/equal-rights-advancing fantasticated fiction), I'll simply fall back on the only true measure of any award...the caliber of what it's awarded to. Thus the Nobel is too often a bad joke, and it does better than many.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-43065831800954561762011-10-05T07:51:18.735-04:002011-10-05T07:51:18.735-04:00Why am I not surprised at that, Mr B? Hee -- I thi...Why am I not surprised at that, Mr B? Hee -- I think it fairly clearly sounded like ballot-stuffing in some categories, but yeah, it seems there's a lot of indignation that the self-proclaimed "professionals" aren't getting their propers. Oh well.K. A. Laityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-84116386359084943652011-10-05T06:41:06.391-04:002011-10-05T06:41:06.391-04:00Oh, I didn't know anything about that. I do en...Oh, I didn't know anything about that. I do enjoy the odd kerfuffle.<br /><br />Maybe the old guard-some writers included- are getting worried that their ivory tower is becoming a bit wobbly these days.Paul D Brazillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12881642426845398389noreply@blogger.com