I was going to say that this is my second late post, when I looked back and realized that the last late post never actually made it up on the site. I went ahead and put the old one up, just so I can say that I’ve faithfully posted every week. My bad.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do with this site lately. I’ve felt since it started that I could see clearly what this project should be, but I’ve been struggling to put it into words. I can picture the pieces that go into what I want with Polu Texni — hanging out in the con suite with my knitting and striking up conversations with the other knitters, arguing in the art show over whether a piece of art really belongs in an SF art show or not, reading a book or a story that I’m so excited about that I have to talk to everyone about it, knowing people who do metal work and wood work and electronics who play three instruments, speak four languages, and have never quite been able to choke down holding a job so they live in their parents’ basement (and somehow the stereotypes are true at the same time they miss the mark completely.) How’s that for a run on sentence?
Lately, it occurs to me that what I want is more than an art/literary magazine, it’s an online SF convention. I want to hang out in the con suite and argue with you folks. I’m sorry that I can’t provide chinese food or chocolate chips cookies after midnight. But it seems to me that there is a lot that will translate. We can have an art show, we can have panels, we can have guests of honor, with a little thought maybe we can even filk or have masquerades. And of course, we will continue to have book reviews and articles and fiction. To me, the root of this community is in the literature. I may be a huge fiber geek, but none of this would exist without the fiction.
I have lined up about three months of material for my weekly postings. While these are going up, I’m going to be working behind the scenes to move this webzine in this direction. I would love to hear your thoughts. What would you want to see? What about cons do you love most, what do you want to see reproduced in this format?
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