M*W Room Sale

To offset the car repairs, I'm going to be doing a little bit of sales out of the room at Media*West. A couple of random zines (how in heaven's name did I get a House "/" zine in the first place? What was I thinking?), but mostly Stargate SG-1 and Doctor Who zines and my extra Big Finish audios. Complete with discounts if you take all issues of a title and a "Don't make me take this home" group price for everything in a fandom. (Dudes - if y'all do the bundle route on SG-1, you're getting quality zines for $5 a pop. Can't beat that, not when some of them are still for sale new at $25 an issue!)

The big ticket stuff - which I'm selling for under the price of import - are the John Barrowman audiobook of "Another Life" and a Neverland/Zagreus bundle.

Essay Rec

Neil Gaiman's blog has reprinted a really brilliant intro he once wrote to a Doctor Who novel. Go read the whole thing.

[T]he shape of reality – the way I perceive the world – exists only because of Dr Who... It redefined reality... These days, as a middle-aged and respectable author, I still feel a sense of indeterminate but infinite possibility on entering a lift, particularly a small one with white walls. That to date the doors that have opened have always done so in the same time, and world, and even the same building in which I started out seems merely fortuitous – evidence only of a lack of imagination on the part of the rest of the universe.

I do not confuse what has not happened with what cannot happen

I often talk about the viral nature of fandom. He is talking about a deeper virus - the whole imagination. Fantastic stuff!