I sent my last blog entry to said editor of The Shine Journal. As you could read, it wasn’t an apology, it wasn’t a redaction. It was a re-evaluation. I don’t know what I was expecting for a response, if I was expecting one at all, but I would have liked it to be a bit more magnanimous than it was. Her tone was extremely defensive and proud. Maybe it’s all the Lamebook I’ve been reading, but it feels like adolescent behavior–can’t leave an issue alone, attacks all forms of disparagement, always has to have the last word, uses too many exclamation points The first thing she said was that…
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Aftermath With The Shine Journal
I may have made a mistake. A big one. Maybe. This refers to the last post I made where I compared “The Shine Journal” and “Sorcerous Signals”. First, I want to say why I said what I said. To me, the name of the name game is to get published. To get published you have to get noticed. You get noticed by getting into the big magazines. To get into the big magazines, you get into the small ones first. At least that’s my battle plan. The purpose of this blog is to track my progress and leave an account of what I did or how I did it. However,…
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Japan: What’s the deal with all the English?
I have a question about Japan. Now Japan is cool and everything. All my favorite stuff comes from Japan. I know that basically everything in their culture since the occupation has some American influence. But really, what’s the deal with all the English? I mean, translation things, yes, that’s fine. But these aren’t ‘one and the same’s, these are complete replacement of basic commands with English, and no Japanese equivalent next to it. Take this screenshot from the original Metroid, the one that had a saveable game. This is a Japanese only game, and I don’t think there’s any translation options on it. So this is the screen a native…
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Words That Drive Me Crazy #1
Words That Drive Me Crazy: Today’s entertainment headline, stuffed at the bottom where Paris Hilton news usually goes, was today’s blog fodder: Van Halen to announce their reunion tour. When I took journalism class, there was a unit/lesson about writing headlines. Half of it is enticing the reader to read, the other half is communicating the message in the most succint way possible. All of it was about writing the truth.Now I don’t know whether it’s the fault of the journalist, or the fault of Van Halen’s publicists (lord knows there’s nothing redeeming about their lot), but here’s a little tip about English. If you are about to announce something,…