Thirty-nine years ago today, the disastrous Altamont free concert took place, and the age of peace and love came to an end. Jake Morgendorffer was there to see it. Terrible tragedy, but he did get his money back. [cough]Another era (almost) ended on this day nine years ago, when the webmistress of Lawndale Commons, one of the famed fansites of the late 1990s, threw in the towel and decided to turn off the site. (It apparently went down a few years later in 2003, the webmistress having decided not to throw in the towel until much later, thank heavens.) An essay written about this incident notes that flame wars drove several of the webmasters of the time away. Interesting. More on Lawndale Commons later.
One hundred twenty-two years ago, a poet named Alfred Joyce Kilmer was born. We were treated to seeing a library named for him in Lawndale, in the Daria episode "See Jane Run." (There's a little in-joke about that library's name. The DariaWiki link explains it.)
The guy that everyone thinks of when they hear Luhrman speak was born fifty-three years ago today: Steven Wright. I love his stuff. Awesomely funny.
Still working on spiffing up the blog. Needs more cowbell. Need to think. Hmmm. Suggestions for perking it up?
Now 2,064 pages on DariaWiki. Now 1,052 members at the Daria Fan Club. Now 54,200+ hits on this blog.
Lorenzo Sauchelli's brand-new logo for the Daylight shared multiverse is online at PPMB. Thank you!
FF.net
- Call of Quinnthulhu, by Janarky (a.k.a. Dervish): A now-classic tale of horror and ugly pores.
SFMB
- Apocalyptic Daria: Brave New World, by Doggieboy (Part 5): “Where’s Diana?” (FF.net)
More fanfic listings on the way, later today.
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