You know you're in a third-rate American city when...
on the way from the airport, you pass a building named Municipal Auditorium.
A Weblog by One Humble Bookman on Topics of Interest to Discerning Readers, Including (Though Not Limited To) Science Fiction, Books, Random Thoughts, Fanciful Family Anecdotes, Publishing, Science Fiction, The Mating Habits of Extinct Waterfowl, The Secret Arts of Marketing, Other Books, Various Attempts at Humor, The Wonders of New Jersey, the Tedious Minutiae of a Boring Life, Science Fiction, No Accounting (For Taste), And Other Weighty Matters.
Networks and Contacts
Who Is This Hornswoggler?
- Andrew Wheeler
- Andrew Wheeler was Senior Editor of the Science Fiction Book Club and then moved into marketing. He currently works for Thomson Reuters as Manager, Content Marketing, focused on SaaS products to legal professionals. He was a judge for the 2005 World Fantasy Awards and the 2008 Eisner Awards. He also reviewed a book a day multiple times. He lives with The Wife and two mostly tame children (Thing One, born 1998; and Thing Two, born 2000) in suburban New Jersey. He has been known to drive a minivan, and nearly all of his writings are best read in a tone of bemused sarcasm. Antick Musings’s manifesto is here. All opinions expressed here are entirely those of Andrew Wheeler, and no one else. There are many Andrew Wheelers in the world; this may not be the one you expect.
The Latest Editorial Explanations
Previously on Antick Musings...
-
▼
2008
(867)
-
▼
May
(74)
- All A-Twitter-y
- Standing Up Against Stupidity
- It's Manga Friday Time!
- B**ksp*n Exodus Update
- Movie Log: The Hoax
- Quote of the Week
- Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn
- When Batman Met Grendel
- Shinjuku Shark by Arimasa Osawa
- That's the Way to Do It!
- Movie Log: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Cr...
- Data, Endlessly Fascinating Data
- Hippo Eats Dwarf by Alex Boese
- The Fixer by Joe Sacco
- Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar
- In Which I Read Old Comic Strips and Pontificate
- Movie Log: You Kill Me
- An Unlikely Comparison
- Reviewing the Mail (SFF Edition): Week of 5/24
- Reviewing the Mail (Manga Edition): Week of 5/24
- Movie Log: The Golden Compass
- Bonk by Mary Roach
- Manifesto of the Week
- Say What? of the Week
- Indiana Jones Ages Rapidly
- The ComicMix Mambo
- Quote of the Week
- The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom...
- More Silly Things on the Internet
- The Memoir Question
- Publishing Death Watch
- Softspoken by Lucius Shepard
- I Know Exactly What The Facts Is
- Reviewing the Mail: Week of 5/17
- Sunday Is Friday When You're Lazy!
- Quote of the Week
- Walking the Mendoza Line
- Paul Moves Out by Michel Rabagliati
- Melding the Minds of Adults With Those of Teenagers!
- Check Out My New Leotard!
- Hypnotic Replay
- In Which I Am More Sexist Than I Thought I Was
- The Squirrel Mother by Megan Kelso
- Mixing Some Comics
- Reviewing the Mail: Week of 5/10
- Another Meme Coming
- Get a Life by Dupuy and Berberian
- Rex Libris, Vol. 1: I, Librarian by James Turner
- Penny Arcade Vol. 1: Attack of the Bacon Robots by...
- Quote of the Week
- Onion Editorial Cartoonist Try-Outs
- Movie Log: Hogfather
- In Which I Am Neither Sexy Nor Sensible
- Wiley Road Show 3.0
- In Lieu of a Comment Elsewhere
- Wiley Road Show, Mark 2
- Movie Log: Paris, Je T'aime
- My Attitude
- Your Jaw-Dropping News of the Day
- Allowable Prejudices
- Wiley Road Show, Take 1
- Reviewing the Mail: Week of 5/3
- Another Promoted Comment
- My Weird Weekend
- Is This the Pill That Makes You Larger?
- Oh, I Know Something...
- Small Favor by Jim Butcher
- The Difference Between Mysteries and SFF
- Nick Mamatas Sets the Record Straight
- On the Subject of Negative Reviews
- No Pants Day Is Back Again!
- Quote of the Week
- Poor Widdle "Jim" Patterson
- Read in April
-
▼
May
(74)
My Life As a Twit
Hornswogglets
Recurring Motifs
- 246 Different Kinds of Cheese (97)
- A Series of Tubes (50)
- Abandoned Books (8)
- Adaptations (3)
- All Knowledge Is Found In Fandom (15)
- Alternate History (8)
- Amazon Pimpage (80)
- America Fuck Yeah (3)
- Art Books (27)
- Awards (227)
- Backwards Glances (1)
- Belated Review Files (41)
- Blog in Exile (78)
- Blogging About Blogging (262)
- Book Marketing 101 (5)
- Book-A-Day (1319)
- Books Do Furnish a Room (9)
- Books Read (244)
- Brain and Brain What Is Brain (2)
- Burned Book Contest (5)
- Candy (1)
- Captain Underpants (7)
- CauseWired (1)
- Circles of Hell (3)
- Class War Follies (6)
- ComicMix (222)
- Comics (2281)
- Confuse-o-vision (5)
- Conventions (59)
- Corrections (6)
- Crazy People (10)
- Critics and Their Criticism (2)
- Crowds and Their Funding (1)
- Deep Dark Secrets (13)
- Deep Thoughts (287)
- Don't Talk to Me About Love (2)
- Dungeon Fortnight (20)
- Editorial Explanations (13)
- Eisners (14)
- Exceptional Writers (2)
- Fan Fiction (8)
- Fanciful Family Anecdotes (41)
- Fandom (11)
- Fantasy (665)
- Favorites of the Year (30)
- Flame Bait (3)
- Food Porn (10)
- Foreigners Sure Are Foreign (260)
- Free Stuff (18)
- Gadgets and Gewgaws (13)
- Grammar (4)
- Great Mass Movements of Our Time (12)
- Great SF Novels of 1990s (4)
- Hard Case (8)
- High Finance (29)
- Holidays (89)
- Hornswoggler's Estleman Loren Project (12)
- Horrible Images That Will Never Leave Your Brain (12)
- Horror (81)
- House Rules (2)
- Hugo Thoughts (16)
- Humor: Analysis Of (251)
- Humor: Attempts At (61)
- I Love (And Rockets) Mondays (32)
- I Never Metafiction I Didn't Like (7)
- In Memoriam (23)
- Incoming Books (248)
- Inexplicable Occurences (8)
- Infographics (3)
- Interviews (12)
- It Must Be Mine (7)
- It's Only The End of the World Again (1)
- It's the Economy Stupid (51)
- Itzkoff (37)
- J'Accuse (2)
- James Bond Daily (59)
- Kids Today (1)
- Lego (11)
- Lies Damned Lies & Statistics (1)
- Linkage (873)
- Literature (168)
- Live Theater (8)
- Lurking Under Bridges (3)
- Magazines (8)
- Maps and Territories (1)
- Matters of Commerce (103)
- Measurements (1)
- Meme-o-riffic (212)
- Memoirs (72)
- Movie Log (352)
- Music (203)
- Mystery (163)
- Nature Red in Tooth and Claw (2)
- Navel-Gazing (1)
- Networks of Socialists (1)
- New York Times (20)
- No Context For You (3)
- Non-Fiction (435)
- Notable Quotables (106)
- Numbers Wonkery (10)
- O Canada (10)
- Old Posts Resurrected (82)
- One of Us One of Us (5)
- Pedantry (4)
- Podcasts (4)
- Poetry (17)
- Politics (44)
- Polls (3)
- Portions for Foxes (52)
- Quizzes (1)
- Quora (1)
- Quote of the Week (688)
- Rants (110)
- Reading Into the Past (100)
- Reading Neepery (22)
- Reading Projects (1)
- Realms of Fantasy (3)
- Reportage (25)
- Reviewing the Mail (760)
- Reviews (2991)
- Rising Suns (14)
- Romance (8)
- Royalty (1)
- Saturday Is Bond Day (18)
- Scandals (4)
- Schadenfreude (4)
- Science Fiction (632)
- Secret Arts of Marketing (52)
- Self-Indulgence (1)
- SFF Art (30)
- SFWA (8)
- Short Fiction (40)
- Skeletons in the Attic (1)
- Skiffy (1)
- Smouldering Masses of Stupidity (40)
- Smutty (84)
- Snap Snap Wink Wink Grin Grin (5)
- Snark (16)
- Spam (6)
- Splendors of Publishing (351)
- sports (4)
- Starktober (33)
- Such A Deal I Have For You (6)
- Techno-Wonkery (13)
- Tedious Minutiae of a Boring Life (352)
- That Old-Time Religion (4)
- The Criminal Mind (4)
- The First Thing We Do Let's Kill All the Lawyers (6)
- The Great Idiot Box (3)
- The Horrors of Geography (1)
- The Joys of Bookselling (73)
- The Making of Lists (33)
- The Past Is a Foreign Country (193)
- The War Between Men and Women (26)
- The Working Life (11)
- There Will Always Be an England (57)
- This Year (53)
- Those Crazy College Kids (4)
- Thrilling Tales of Science (14)
- Tie-Ins (1)
- Towering Stacks of Unread Books (14)
- Travel Broadens The Mind Until You Can't Get Your Head Out the Door (95)
- True Names (3)
- Twelve Days of Commerce (17)
- Universal Laws (2)
- Video Killed the Radio Star (3)
- Vintage Contemporaries (18)
- Western (4)
- WFA Judgery (57)
- What These People Need Is a Honky (1)
- Wide World of Wheelers (9)
- Widgets (2)
- Wonders of New Jersey (42)
- Words Words Words (29)
- Years of Unremitting Toil (2)
- Years Prematurely Declared to Be Over (3)
- You Know: For Kids (282)
5 comments:
Atlanta, Nashville, Columbus GA, and New Orleans now; but Kansas City is not third-rate.
rgl who knows Canada has a few Munis
After following the link and looking at the title of the page, I feared for a moment that they had actually named it the Muncipal Auditorium.
Robert: That's the point; they did.
No, no, not the MunIcipal Auditorium.
The Muncipal Auditorium.
Robert: Ah, I get you now.
It must be tough to be Ralph Q. Muncipal -- no city will let you put your name on anything...
Post a Comment