Mike Glicksohn, fanwriter

[gerisullivan]

A few minutes ago, I asked Google for links to "Mikecon" so I could include a pertinent one in a piece of email I'm writing.

In addition to finding Tommy Ferguson's MikeCon issue of Tommyworld, Google turned up the remembrance of Joni Stopa that Mike Glicksohn wrote for Mimosa. Like all of my favorite fanwriting, it tells as much about the writer as it does about the subject. Recommended.

Comments

Re: fwiw

[gary-farber.livejournal.com]

Hmm, speaking of unfamiliarity with different platforms, LJ is telling me that the rest of my comment, the second part, has to be "unscreened to reply," and it's got a dotted line surrounding it, and what this means, I dunno, and obviously I could find the Help and read it, but I've really gotta be going.

I was otherwise just going to throw in that also, for what it's worth, this feed has been up since sometime in late 2002 or so, I think, and on the sidebar of Amygdala, and so far as I can tell, only two people have ever used it, but that, too, might be something I don't know about LJ, and, after all, all of us can only master and keep up to date on so many systems.

Which is why I'm personally an agnostic, as I am about most things, and think everyone should use what tools they prefer, those that work best for them, and enjoy as they like.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/amygdala_feed/

Should I try reposting that "Unscreen to reply" comment separately? I don't get tons about LJ, I'm afraid: the threading drives me somewhat nuts, the way I can't tell who most people are is what really gets to me, but it's all a matter of simply taking the time to Learn Yet Another System, and, again, it's why I myself don't tout one system over another: they all have pros and cons, and comfortability with the familiar is a normal and useful human trait, and we all only have 24 hours in a day (and yet the world, and software universe, change constantly and unrelentingly and ruthlessly, and faster all the time.

And now I have a cat that demands attention, so: cheers.

Re: fwiw

[gary-farber.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that seems to have been it. Well, it was just a trivial joke, and I'm guessing you have some kind of moderation set to do something to posts with links. Anyway, toodles, and here's to more cross-platform interoperability and mutual understanding.