HAMMERTIME!

I did, in fact, wake up in time to drive across town and get to Westwood for An Evening of Electronic Literature. veek was pretty easy to find, and we talked for a bit before the show started.

It was interesting. Attending with veek made clear how foreign I was to this grouping, most of whom knew and recognized each other and had been talking and eating with each other for the past day and a half, not to mention keeping track of each other's work.

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Interlude.

Before long post, I decide to do the puzzles.
SatNYTX: 15. That's very good, especially considering the unusual 60A and a NW corner filled with authors. Also, yay 46A!
FriLATX: 10. NW corner gave me an inordinate amound of trouble.
SatLATX: 18. Nice grid, double-triples are more often found in the NYTX. I had most of my trouble on the center third.

Mooseover.

Attending the tonight's reading and talking with veek got me thinking about this "e-literature" thang. On the whole, I don't like it. And I take exception for "interactive fiction." I thought that I should put these ideas down into a concrete form, so I'm doing it here, fully expecting, and anticipating, a response from veek, at least, pointing out flaws, raising questions, and directing me towards e-lit that is more my style.

Let me begin by saying that the term "e-literature" is amorphous and academic and since I don't really travel in those circles, I'm probably going to horrible misuse it. Further, "interactive fiction" is a vague term defined by tradition among a group of people who often can't come to a consensus about whether or not to come in from the rain. So my terms are undefined, and they will probably get worse as I go on. This is why I am writing in my journal, and not to some important place.
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