rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2008-06-17 11:57 am

eee!

The NYTimes is printing a letter I wrote them!

[identity profile] kiji-kat.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweet!

Any chance that we'll get a link to read?

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
When it's actually published yes. They just contacted me to say it will be in an upcoming issue. I don't know when yet.

[identity profile] kiji-kat.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool deal. I can't wait to see what you wrote in about; whatever the subject, I'm sure your letter will be very eloquent.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's funny to me, because I send them letters all the time, usually on pretty serious stuff. But it's, of course, me blathering about pop culture that turned them on.

My parents are going to have a cow though.

[identity profile] idunn.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha. I've written the Times all the time about serious stuff, too, and last year they finally published one about ... wait for it ... spam.

In any case, cool deal indeed.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
spam mail or spam "food"?

[identity profile] idunn.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Spam text messages, if you can believe it (and for which I was charged).

Haven't yet had the opportunity to sample spam the "food", and I'm okay with that.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Word.

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
The Russians still use 'canned spam' as a pejorative, which goes back to U.S. aid during WWII

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
That's an up and coming Federal campaign issue in Canada.

I am a stranger to your land, and your ways are foreign to me.

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Excuse my provincial ignorance, but is having a cow a good sort of thing, or a bad sort of thing, in this context?

Re: I am a stranger to your land, and your ways are foreign to me.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Bad. Very Bad.

Because my mom isn't really going to appreciate me coming out in the New York Times because of an intergalactic bisexual space pirate.

Re: I am a stranger to your land, and your ways are foreign to me.

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-oh. What will the neighbours think? Phasers set on guilt.
Oy!
Vey!
Still, pretty jazzed for you though!

Re: I am a stranger to your land, and your ways are foreign to me.

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Irrelevant historical note:spell check understood 'jazzed,' but I had to add 'phaser' to the dictionary. Because the world has only been known to every English speaking person for forty years or so.

[identity profile] erratic0101.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
w00t

[identity profile] ebourland.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
You go!

[identity profile] nex0s.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I had that happen once!

Congratulations :D It's a thrill, ain't it?!

N.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It really is. It's also about something silly that's really important to me, so there's a sweetness to it.

[identity profile] marchek.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember the one time my name was in the New York Times, it was pretty exciting.

Congrats!

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
This will be #3 for me (the other two were play reviews), but this -- well, when you see the letter, you'll get why this is sweet.

[identity profile] popfiend.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's really awesome.

Keep us posted.

[identity profile] zarq.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice! Congrats!

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Squeeeeeeeeeee!
(I thought it was going to be the bad kind of eee! Am relieved.)
*runs around house going eee!*

[identity profile] ludimagist.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Rock on!

[identity profile] anisoptera.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
How fabulous! I'm looking forward to reading it.

[identity profile] lllvis.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
w00t! gratz!!