Worldcon in the news2024 Feb 17
SciFi con drama is spilling over into world events again, this time with Worldcon and the bizarre way in which the con runs, and therefore nominates books for SciFi's Hugo award. Apparently this last year's Hugo nomination and vote-tallying processes bumped into Chinese state censorship. So that's fun.
Editing History, Alicia Keys, and the Super Bowl Halftime Show2024 Feb 14
So apparently during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Alicia Keys flubbed the opening note of her performance. I wouldn't know because everyone I was watching it with wouldn't shut the hell up. But anyway, the official recordings of the Halftime show mysteriously do not have this flubbed note, but instead have Keys singing it correctly. Is this some quick and justified editing, or are we living in a post-truth world? Do we deserve to have the error in the record as if it's a documentary, or do we deserve to have the best possible performance in our entertainment? I don't have the answers to these questions, but people are asking them, and I'm having fun noodling them in my noggin.
Seventeen years ago The Count taught us all a lesson in the beauty of censorship.