Realms of Fantasy looking to hire a designer
By Ian Randal Strock November 5, 2009

Realms of Fantasy is hiring; this time, they're looking for a designer. Publisher Warren Lapine has been handling the graphic design and layout since buying the magazine earlier this year. Now, he's looking to hand off those responsibilities, so that he can focus his efforts elsewhere (he's currently putting together the February 2010 issue).

Lapine is accepting applications at warrenlapine at yahoo dot com. Applicants should include "references and links to your work. We are looking for someone that can hand in the finished layout and design in seven days from when they receive all materials. If you're the kind of person who needs extensions or is uncertain whether you could handle this sort of deadline, don't bother applying. Being late with the work is not an option. We would like to hire someone who is willing to maintain the current look of the magazine. Some creative tweaks are acceptable, but we are not looking for any kind of radical redesigns. Writers are often told to read a magazine before submitting to it. If you're interested in this position, you would be wise to purchase a copy of the latest issue and flip through it with an eye toward its layout and design."

Traditional theory 'X'
This can best be ascribed to Sigmund Freud who was no lover of people, and was far from being optimistic. Theory X assumes that people are lazy; they hate work to the extent that they avoid it; they have no ambition, take no initiative and avoid taking any responsibility; all they want is security, and to get them to do any work, they must be rewarded, coerced, intimidated and punished. This is the so-called 'stick and carrot' philosophy of management. If this theory were valid, managers will have to constantly police their staff, whom they cannot trust and who will refuse to cooperate. In such an oppressive and frustrating atmosphere, both for the manager and the managed, there is no possibility of any achievement or any creative work. But fortunately, as we know, this is not the case.

Whereas, in the words of 'indie' music industry shaker and mover, Peter Jesperson at New West Records in L.A., 'The Suicide Commandos are THE Granddaddy’s of the Minneapolis/St. Paul music scene that later bred The Suburbs, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, Soul Asylum and The Jayhawks.'

Whereas The Suicide Commandos put the Minneapolis Music scene on the map; and

Whereas The Suicide Commandos carved a path where there was none before. Many of the Minneapolis bands that went onto big success may not have done so without the Commandos having done so."

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• I have washed up on the shores of a three-day migraine and will be moving very carefully today lest it return.
• I love it when an annoyed reviewer lets his or her inner wordsmith out to play. The NYT dislikes the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport.

  Many Bugatti buyers surely have access to racetracks, yet I’m equally sure that 90-some percent of them won’t have nearly enough driving talent to exercise this car. Mostly, I picture Euro-poseurs needing valet assistance to back up the Bugatti in Monaco, while jaws drop and the owner barks orders into his diamond-encrusted cellphone. When your car makes a Lamborghini seem tasteful, there’s a problem.

• The kitten spent all day yesterday sleeping with and/or on top of me, thus paying for his keep.  
• The rigged choice of the final three of this season's Project Runway was bad enough, but it is indefensible that [deleted] didn't win the episode challenge.  You could tell that Tim knew s/he was doomed in the critique: "I don't know what the judges will think, but ..."  Oh, yes, you did, Tim.
• I need something simple and brainless to do today.  Sewing requires brains and patience,  I never like watching TV when I'm tired, and Bujold is failing to satisfy.  I  can't explain why Diplomatic Immunity never hit my narrative kinks, but it didn't.  Perhaps it's because the antagonist was offscreen and unintelligible throughout.

• Friday night on NPR, the reporter mentioned that roughly (she had all the numbers, I don't) 25% of Russians believed that the Russians had put up the Berlin Wall.  The remainder believed that the Americans had done it, the Germans had done it themselves, or some combination of the true.  I am being reminded more and more how labile "truth" is; what people need to believe (see: the birther stories) is far more powerful than any recitation of fact.  This should not be news to me.
• I need to give the cat another sulfur bath today.  Ugh.

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