{"id":60,"date":"2007-10-04T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-10-04T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T03:24:00","slug":"placeholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Placeholder"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just passed a busker on the street playing Thus Sprach Zarathustra<\/i> on an accordion. (The thing that makes me wonder if it wasn’t a hallucination is, it wasn’t half bad.) I had this strange encounter returning from the plenary session of the 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, which featured myself, Nalo Hopkinson<\/a>, Jim Munroe<\/a>, and Karl Schroeder<\/a> in a 90-minute free-for-all on literary world-building. We got a great meal out of it, free post-prandial drinks, and the discussion was lively. I think it went over well. I haven’t seen those guys in too long.<\/p>\n

There would be, at the best of times, an irony in the role of Peter Watts as any kind of authority on utopias — (“You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means”)— but the irony is especially pungent this week. I am about to embark on a battle of principle with City Hall that might get me evicted; Revenue Canada is pretending that they never got the seven grand in taxes I sent them last spring and is demanding I send it again<\/i>; and someone very close to me has just been extracted from a nest of two-month old pizza boxes and institutionalised. Let’s just say I am not feeling especially utopian at the moment, which may also account for the lack of recent activity on this ‘crawl.<\/p>\n

So, sorry for the lapse. I’ll try and get back into the groove over the next few days. At the very least I’ll try out a new color scheme, given the resounding thud with which the current “blueberry-light” motif has landed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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