{"id":5325,"date":"2014-06-22T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2014-06-22T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T14:00:02","slug":"your-happening-world-june-19th-through-june-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/06\/22\/your-happening-world-june-19th-through-june-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Happening World (June 19th through June 22nd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blog fodder for June 19th through June 22nd:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arcfinity.tumblr.com\/post\/89245740023\/were-reading-barricade-by-jon-wallace\">Arcfinity &#8211; We&#8217;re reading BARRICADE by Jon Wallace<\/a> &#8211; In case you are thinking otherwise, I was not scouring the text for these solecisms, setting out to set you up, but like all people who are preparing a review I was keeping notes throughout the reading. The protocols around a first novel by a young writer do matter. I kept noting all the bad stuff (much more than reported here), but I was looking for good bits with which to try to encourage you. I found none. It gradually dawned on me that I was wasting my time. Barricade was unyielding in its awfulness. It was a book I did not wish to write about.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/174918\/\">Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance | TomDispatch<\/a> &#8211; Yes, guys like this pick on other men&#039;s books too, and people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they&#039;re talking about. Some men.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hrj.livejournal.com\/tag\/lhmp\">Lesbian Historic Motif Project at The Rose Garden<\/a> &#8211; My goal here &#8212; beyond the selfish utilitarian aspect of organizing my research &#8212; is much in parallel with that of sites like the Medieval People of Color blog, or Kameron Hurley&#039;s award-nominated essay &quot;We Have Always Fought&quot;. I want to help change the unexamined assumptions about the place and nature of lesbian-like characters in historic fact, literature, art, and imagination. I want to do it to help other authors find inspiration and support for the stories they want to tell. And I want to do it to affect the reception of my own writing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedutilitarian.com\/2014\/05\/all-quacked-up-steve-gerber-marvel-comics-and-howard-the-duck\/\">All Quacked Up: Steve Gerber, Marvel Comics, and Howard the Duck &laquo; The Hooded Utilitarian<\/a> &#8211; This article is a history of the editorial and business relationship between Marvel Comics, their representatives, and the late writer Steve Gerber (1947-2008). Its focus is their dealings over Howard the Duck, Gerber&rsquo;s signature character.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/longstreet.typepad.com\/thesciencebookstore\/2010\/11\/ueber-spectacular-understatement-dept-the-happy-post-apocalyptic-america-and-the-awakwardness-of-hol.html\">Ptak Science Books: Ueber-Spectacular Understatement Department: the Happy Post-Apocalyptic America and the &#8220;Awkwardness&#8221; of Holocaust, 1962<\/a> &#8211; How rich we&#039;d all be after the bombs dropped!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog fodder for June 19th through June 22nd: Arcfinity &#8211; We&#8217;re reading BARRICADE by Jon Wallace &#8211; In case you are thinking otherwise, I was not scouring the text for these solecisms, setting out to set you up, but like all people who are preparing a review I was keeping notes throughout the reading. 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