Great day over here on Et Cetera Island.
1. I finally got my hard copy. Soon I shall post glorious pix. I am excited as nine bitches on a bitch boat. Holding a REAL BOOK that you edited is COOL AS FUCK. Also the book itself is COOL AS FUCK.
2. Been bouncing mail back and forth with Wes Unruh, one of the authors of the Art of Memetics. At this point I've made two derivative works for the AOM - there's the
cliff notes I started over in Literate Chaotic, and there's a cut-up of Burroughs and AOM in the
Et Cetera Discordia. So I guess they've decided to relicense it - now it's
Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial instead of
Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivs. Which I think is extremely cool -- in my opinion derivatives are the most exciting thing about releasing your work into the creative commons.
He also wrote me this really nice note:
It's really, really cool to see that text enfolded with the burroughs/gyson text -
seriously, I really dig this! it's very strange to me to realize how the ideas that started when I first read 'the ticket that exploded' back when I was still a teen have come full circle to be cut-up into the origin source.. more and more I've felt that working on The Art of Memetics has been like coaching a small, sentient entity and this is damn near conclusive proof that all the theory in TAOM is functionally alive, at least in my mind
