![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
May. 4th, 2004
(no subject)
May. 4th, 2004 11:22 amEr, um, yeah. I should have done this a while ago.
I'm not going to Writercon anymore. I'm really not down with the whole auction fundraiser thing, it crosses my line abt. making money via fanfic. I've already discussed my concerns with the head of Writercon, who was very nice about it, but this is one of those irreconcileable differences things.
I'm not mad at anyone who draws their line someplace different, either for going or for bidding/offering their services. But since I did pimp for the con and auction here, I figured I should do the retraction here too. I'm sorry to everyone I was looking forward to meeting, especially my erstwhile roomies.
Mer
I'm not going to Writercon anymore. I'm really not down with the whole auction fundraiser thing, it crosses my line abt. making money via fanfic. I've already discussed my concerns with the head of Writercon, who was very nice about it, but this is one of those irreconcileable differences things.
I'm not mad at anyone who draws their line someplace different, either for going or for bidding/offering their services. But since I did pimp for the con and auction here, I figured I should do the retraction here too. I'm sorry to everyone I was looking forward to meeting, especially my erstwhile roomies.
Mer
(no subject)
May. 4th, 2004 08:07 pmWhat erudite spam I get lately!
Subject lines:
"Annie, Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
"Cate, The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas"
"Britton, Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
I feel impelled to open them, and quite guilty for being neither Annie nor Cate, much less Britton. But once I do, they're selling Viagra. Are they trying to tap into the under-served literary women's market for erectile drugs? And why is a person with as charming a screen name as "amiable" trying to sell me mortgages under the cryptic subject heading "bernice"?
Mer
Subject lines:
"Annie, Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
"Cate, The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas"
"Britton, Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
I feel impelled to open them, and quite guilty for being neither Annie nor Cate, much less Britton. But once I do, they're selling Viagra. Are they trying to tap into the under-served literary women's market for erectile drugs? And why is a person with as charming a screen name as "amiable" trying to sell me mortgages under the cryptic subject heading "bernice"?
Mer