Monday Addendum: Comments Contest and DR Radio
Before I forget:
1,000-Comments Contest Winner, New Contest
If you haven’t read the comments to today’s comic, Kujo Hikaru won the 1,000-comments contest. Technically I was number 1,000; since I don’t count, Hikaru won with comment #1,001. He’ll be getting a 1GB USB flash drive and a cameo spot in one of the upcoming No Style comics. (He also needs to e-mail me to tell me where to send the flash drive and at least give me a vague idea of how he wants to be drawn.)
The next goal will be 1500 comments. I don’t know what the prize will be yet; we’ll see what kind of nifty little thing I can afford to buy. Maybe an MP3 player or something like that.
Tentative Date for the First DR Radio Live/Interactive Broadcast
Looking at the calendar, right now I’m tentatively scheduling the first live talk radio broadcast for Sunday, December 16th, from 5:00-6:00p CST. I’d wanted to do it on a weeknight, but on weeknights I’m generally not available until after 8:00p and I think that may be more inconvenient for most than an earlier Sunday.
That gives me a little over two weeks to get over my stage fright.
Fun.
I still have no idea what I’ll ramble about. I was half-tempted to do a comparison between gay romance novels/erotica written by men vs. those written by women, as honestly 9/10 women are just better at it, but I don’t know how 451 Press would feel about me reading that aloud on their site.
That, and I couldn’t do it and keep a straight face.
We’ll see what I come up with. Like I said, I’d welcome any ideas from you guys. If you’re going to suffer through listening to it, you might as well have a hand in shaping the instrument used to torture you.
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November 26th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Sent.
Well, looking at the averages I would argue gay men write better gay erotica than women. However, the best of the best are women (there are just so many abysmal ones out there it skews the stats). Quite a few, I think, have never even seen gay sex. Instead, they just read about it in other erotica (often badly written itself). There’s also the whole “trying to hide what the story really is by being classy” thing and using words and terms no self respecting man would ever speak (because I call it a “pulsing member” all the time, in fact I have at lest 14 times today — bleck).
As a matter of fact, I would probably pay to hear you say “pulsing member.”
Then again, I can’t even type it without breaking out in the giggles.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
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~collapses into laughter~ No. No. Oh my god, absolutely not. I wouldn’t–I couldn’t–
I’d spend the whole hour laughing until I could barely breathe.
In my experience, when I try to read gay erotica written by other men I run across terminology that’s so vulgar it turns me off just as much as the over-flowery stuff that women tend to use, and not enough story to go with the erotica (while again, women have a bit too much fluff and story, on average). I can’t really list the words or phrases I’m referring to since I try to avoid saying such things at “work” (and this is my job, and since I sent out about fifteen applications for freelance writing/editing jobs this weekend and someone might Google me, I need to behave at least a little…). Suffice to say I prefer a happy medium between the two, something more like a well-written romance novel with actual plot, sensibility, and the female half of the pairing replaced by a man. I suppose I prefer plain speech to euphemisms either way, and in my experience it’s been female authors who strike that balance the most often.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I will try to make it the 16th, but given the starting hour I can’t promise anything =)
November 26th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Well…lesse, it’s 5:37p CST right now, so if today was Sunday the 16th, you’d be okay (and the webcast would be almost over). ~laughs~
November 27th, 2007 at 2:20 am
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November 27th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
What does that translate into in UK time?
November 28th, 2007 at 5:15 am
I b’lieve GMT is six hours ahead of CST, so that’d be from 11p-12a your time?
November 28th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Ah, good. Not even nearly bedtime yet, then. (Thank goodness for late morning starts)