Oh That Whacky Print Medium

The afternoon was spent wandering around Queen’s Park, near the Royal Ontario Museum, checking out an annual festival here called “Word on the Street.” It’s essentially a place where big book/magazine publishers and small or indie book/magazine publishers gather to celebrate the wonder of print. Having spent the last ten or so years in Singapore where such an event, gathering up Singapore’s entire print industry, would have filled up maybe a quarter of a small, closet sized office, this was something of a boggle to my mind. The Wife was mostly there to hit up the various magazines (of which there are a lot) that might use illustrators for their work, and she came away with business cards and e-mail addresses. She also got a book she’d read as a child and lost, and now she is happy that her Nostalgia Factor can be reinvigorated once again. I myself simply enjoyed the ambiance, and really liked the fact that there were so many people and so many literary publications. I don’t know if I could ever do work with any of them, but it sure made me realize I’ve got a novel sitting around, unfinished and unsubmitted, so it’s probably time to do something about that once more.

And, in the meantime, here is a quick sample of the character creation system from Rock Band. I expect that something similar will be available for the PS2 version, just possibly with slightly rougher looking graphics.