Is A Part Of
I have been a fan of O.B.* John Scalzi since the 1900s (I am SHOCKED that his ‘Scalzi’s Best of the Millennium’ has disappeared from the web), and marvel at his ability not just to keep up a several-posts-and-several-hundred-words-a-day-blog at his own site, the wish-I’d-thought-of-it-first-titled “Whatever”, AND an almost-equally-content-rich but much-more-lamely-named blog for the Corporate Masters at AOL (intended to show users of AOL’s blogging tools how it should be done) but also his moderately incredible ability to create a World Class Internet Meme once a year.
Last year at this time, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he wrote a serious think piece, “Being Poor”, that got the whole blogosphere talking. This year, he taped bacon to his cat.
He also writes books, including the non-fiction “Rough Guide to the Universe” and “Book of the Dumb” (he’s into BIG topics – the Millennium, the Universe, the DUMB) and the science fiction “Agent to the Stars” (my favorite Alien In Hollywood novel) and “Old Man’s War” (which almost got me kicked out of my 80-year-old-father’s apartment when he caught me reading it… “Old Man’s WHAT?”). Also a sequel to OMW, “The Ghost Brigades” which I am ashamed to say is glaring at me from my bookcase because I haven’t read it yet. And he is about to unleash a book full of advice to us mere mortal writers titled “You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop“. Yes sir.
Truly deserving to be one of my Top Several Internet Idols**, if for nothing else, taking the truly tiresome web cliche of “putting pictures of your cat on your blog” and adding BACON!
* Original Blogstah, further explained in my new Weference page, “The Wendell-to-English Dictionary”
** a topic that will receive its own Weference page real soon.
