I spent most of the day, except for some much needed time in the beautiful weather outside, working on layout for next month’s issue of Kaleidotrope. At least, I’m still hoping it’s next month’s issue, and I’m pretty confident in that hope, but still, I’m pushing things a little late for an April publication. I’ve still got three print issues to do this year, before I move the zine online. I’m expecting to keep it as a quarterly, at least for the first year, to see how that works out, with something like 25-30 stories a year. I think I’ll miss the thought that goes into layout of a physical, printed zine but not the layout itself, miss the construction but not the tedious building, kerning, cutting-and-pasting.
I also managed to watch this week’s episode of Community and the first episode of the third season of the UK Being Human. And 9 — which, as I noted on Twitter, is a richly imagined, detailed post-apocalypse, but it’s a bit too bleak for a children’s movie, and the story is a little blah for adults. I’d have to say I agree with everything the AV Club’s Tasha Robinson says here. It was beautiful to look at it, but overall a disappointment.
Though at least this means I can finally send it back to Netflix. It’s ridiculous that I’ve had this out since December.