By The Way...

Some doings transpiring out there in the blogoverse:

* Jeff Jarvis remembers Jonestown, and other events:

I sometimes feel as if I've lived at the edges of too much tragedy, a cursed Zelig: near Jonestown, near Moscone-Milk, near AIDS, and then near the World Trade Center. It's enough to make a sane person want to run and hide. But no, the sane person remembers.

* Pamie notes that Stephen King's getting the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters this week and asks: Do you divide books into worthy and trashy? You'll want to dive into the comments here. For the record, I say: Go Stephen King! He's a damn fine storyteller, and that counts for something.

* The always-excellent Strange Horizons online magazine is having a fund drive. If you've never been, SH publishes cutting-edge science fiction and speculative fiction on the Web and is roughly to SF in the early days of the 21st century what Astounding Science Fiction was to SF back in the 1930s and 40s (sure I can say that. It'll only take 70 years to verify). It publishes the biggest names in SF, the hottest emerging stars and the occasional complete loser. Check it out and enjoy.

* Josh Marshall wanders over to a Howard Dean fundraiser; Calpundit goes into the Schwarzenegger era skeptically.

* James Lileks goes to Vegas, finds New York there. Hilarity ensues (the story continues in subsequent entries).

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