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kirkcudbrightIn case you were wondering what I've been up to lately...
The Arisia Souvenir Book is now available for profreading and review at http://www.psgd.org/a08/
Anyone who submits substantive comments gets credit on the staff page, even if you're not normally Arisia staff.
The printer wants it early, and we all know that when a release schedule gets compressed, the first thing to go is the QA. I need all comments by the end of the day (whatever that means to you) on Wednesday 1/2/08.
As an aside, one of the very few places I inject myself into the book (aside from the layout, choice of artwork, etc.) is in the title of the history page. The first year I did it, I wanted to cut some of the more superfluous data, so I titled it "The Complete History of Arisia (Abridged)", which is also a nod to The Reduced Shakespeare Company's "The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)". The next year, it was "The Illuminated Illustrated History of Arisia", which is of course derivative of Steve Goodman's song "Vegematic". Last year, it was "Arisia's Will Be That Was", which seemed to confuse some reviewers, but was an homage to a Pogo collection that I grew up with, "Pogo's Will Be That Was".
So the question is what to do this year. "Days of Arisia Past" is predictable but lame. "Arisias I Have Known and Loved" is only slightly better. "All Your Arisia Are Belong To Us" is probably too dated to be cool, but not dated enough to be retro. "All My Arisias Taste Like Snow" sounds like a reference to something, but isn't as far as I can tell.
Anyone have a better idea?
The Arisia Souvenir Book is now available for profreading and review at http://www.psgd.org/a08/
Anyone who submits substantive comments gets credit on the staff page, even if you're not normally Arisia staff.
The printer wants it early, and we all know that when a release schedule gets compressed, the first thing to go is the QA. I need all comments by the end of the day (whatever that means to you) on Wednesday 1/2/08.
As an aside, one of the very few places I inject myself into the book (aside from the layout, choice of artwork, etc.) is in the title of the history page. The first year I did it, I wanted to cut some of the more superfluous data, so I titled it "The Complete History of Arisia (Abridged)", which is also a nod to The Reduced Shakespeare Company's "The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)". The next year, it was "The Illuminated Illustrated History of Arisia", which is of course derivative of Steve Goodman's song "Vegematic". Last year, it was "Arisia's Will Be That Was", which seemed to confuse some reviewers, but was an homage to a Pogo collection that I grew up with, "Pogo's Will Be That Was".
So the question is what to do this year. "Days of Arisia Past" is predictable but lame. "Arisias I Have Known and Loved" is only slightly better. "All Your Arisia Are Belong To Us" is probably too dated to be cool, but not dated enough to be retro. "All My Arisias Taste Like Snow" sounds like a reference to something, but isn't as far as I can tell.
Anyone have a better idea?
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Date: 2007-12-31 12:47 pm (UTC)"arisia: created or evolved?"
"hail arisia, all hail discordia"
(sorry, it's still early in my day)
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Date: 2007-12-31 09:50 pm (UTC)On second thought, it wouldn't fit.
With "The Final Cut" coming out this year...
Date: 2007-12-31 12:52 pm (UTC)"Arisias lost in time, like tears in rain."
Re: With "The Final Cut" coming out this year...
Date: 2007-12-31 09:52 pm (UTC)Re: With "The Final Cut" coming out this year...
Date: 2008-01-01 04:08 am (UTC)Batty [played by Rutger Hauer]: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
edits to the souvenir book
Date: 2007-12-31 04:56 pm (UTC)Page 5, Boskone ad, might want to check that the registration price is appearing properly.
Page 6, Masquerade, end of the 7th line, I think "cosplayers" s/b broken after the s, not before.
Page 6, Volunteers, again replace "err" with "er".
Page 8, first new paragraph, 4th line, "women" s/b "woman".
Page 13, right column, third story, replace "[cite needed]" with correct cite.
Page 13, seems like the "Other" category s/b in "Non-Fiction."
Page 13, all the books referenced in Short Fiction s/b ital.
Page 22, Bridge Boyle, third to last line, insert a space before "(4)".
Page 23, Ming Diaz and Debra Doyle, delete extra space before the name.
Page 23, Michael Dlott, "muchkeneering": is this correct?
Page 23, Ed Fuqua, second line, change "asa" to "as a".
Page 23, Steve Hammond, 4th to last line, "bring" s/b "brings".
Page 24, Jeff Hecht, 2nd line, insert a comma after Massachusetts.
Page 24, Mike Kabongo, 2nd line, change "i've" to "I've".
Page 26, The Marvelous Merv, 5th line, change the quotation mark before Trek to an apostrophe.
Page 28, Lisa Wood, second to last line, delete extra space before the period.
Page 30, middle column, 3rd new paragraph, first line, insert a space between All and children.
Page 31, left column, Pocket Program, "Reviewers & Proffreaders" s/b "Reviewers & Proofreaders".
Re: edits to the souvenir book
Date: 2007-12-31 05:24 pm (UTC)That's intentional typo.
Re: edits to the souvenir book
Date: 2007-12-31 06:24 pm (UTC)Re: edits to the souvenir book
Date: 2007-12-31 11:10 pm (UTC)Page 5, Boskone ad, might want to check that the registration price is appearing properly.
Not my problem. They send me a pdf, and I print it.
Oh, I see what you mean - the '$' is missing. That's really interesting, because it's there in the original pdf, and it's there in the InDesign preview image.
Page 8, first new paragraph, 4th line, "women" s/b "woman".
If you read it closely, it seems to be intentional:
"...it has given me the opportunity to experience more of the women - the many facets she has - and, like her fiction, she has multiple."
Page 13, seems like the "Other" category s/b in "Non-Fiction."
"Other" is for non-genre work. IIRC, Kelly Goldberg was a horror writer, and the obit was published in Locus, which makes it genre-related writing.
Page 13, all the books referenced in Short Fiction s/b ital.
But not magazine names? I've never been sure how to handle magazine names, movie titles, etc.
Don't even look at the book titles, etc in the bios; there's no consistency, and I don't have time to impose consistency.
Page 23, Ming Diaz and Debra Doyle, delete extra space before the name.
Also Daniel Dern, Evonne Heyning, John C. Watson, and Valerie White.
Page 23, Michael Dlott, "muchkeneering": is this correct?
Got me. It's not an obvious typo, so I'm going to leave it.
Page 26, The Marvelous Merv, 5th line, change the quotation mark before Trek to an apostrophe.
Are you sure? I was treating it as an abbreviation, like '92.
Page 28, Lisa Wood, second to last line, delete extra space before the period.
Page 30, middle column, 3rd new paragraph, first line, insert a space between All and children.
?? There's a space there already.
Page 31, left column, Pocket Program, "Reviewers & Proffreaders" s/b "Reviewers & Proofreaders".
Yep, that was intentional. Now I have to change it.
I don't recognize your LJ name. If you send me your real name (or any other name you want to be known by), I'll list you as a poofreader.
Re: edits to the souvenir book
Date: 2008-01-02 05:26 pm (UTC)P. 30: huh, looked like there wasn't when I read it. Must've been a glitch.
P. 31: How about an umlauted u instead of oo?
:-)
No need to be listed. Thanks anyway.
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Date: 2007-12-31 07:17 pm (UTC)"my arisias, let me show you them"
(or possibly "we can has arisias")
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Date: 2007-12-31 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-03 03:54 am (UTC)no issues i can find that haven't been mentioned already.
Just saw it
Date: 2008-01-08 07:47 am (UTC)Fine-looking book. I can scarcely wait to hold one in my little hands. %-}
Z
P.S.: Kokyu dosa, at some point during the weekend? ;-D
Re: Just saw it
Date: 2008-01-09 04:48 am (UTC)Are you around before/after the con? Our dojo (http://web.mit.edu/kokikai/www/) meets about half a mile from the hotel, and we have class Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings.
Re: Just saw it
Date: 2008-01-09 07:33 am (UTC)Who teaches there, so I can ask
Z
P.S.: Not sure if I should pack gi/hak'... hmmmmmmmmmm...
Re: Just saw it
Date: 2008-01-10 03:42 am (UTC)Our head instructor is Dave Comi (4th dan), assisted by Jay Rifkin (3rd dan) and E'beth Haley (2nd dan). Dave and Jay are both ex-Princeton, and studied under Dan McDouglall and Gary Snyder (both 5th dan, I believe, and both of whom will be here for a weekend seminar next month - w00t!)
If you're interested, I've got spare gi. And I usually go to the Monday class.