Huh?

MTV recently put out these ads (click on each to see bigger picture and read text). They put a picture up of someone you don't recognize but is really important next to someone you do recognize and isn't important (maybe they wouldn't put it that way). They then have text that says who the person you don't recognize is. Wouldn't we not recognize them because (1) we didn't grow up in that era and (2) we are in a TV/Visual age where we constantly get visuals of everything current and the same technology didn't exist 50 years ago.

Is my brain so damaged by MTV that I can't even understand why they are putting out these ads. What are they trying to say? Are they admitting we are all dumb because we watch MTV? My brain hurts.

(From Copyranter)

23 Small Disasters

Shameless Self-Promotion Warning!

A fiction hypertext project called 23 Small Disasters that I was involved in launched last week as the March issue of the great science fiction/fantasy online magazine, Ideomancer.

The idea of the project was simple: Seven writers write short interconnected pieces based on random words and see if it all comes together as something tangible. When we started, we didn’t have a theme or a cohesive idea, but after everyone wrote up their pieces, a sort of loose collective idea of endings and disasters emerged.

The other writers attached to the project are Benjamin Rosenbaum, Christopher Barzak, Mehgan McCarron, Greg van Eekhout, Kiini Ibura Salaam, and Tim Pratt.