Jezebel
Anxious about what the year 2008 will bring? What about 2070? Forward-focused Jezebels might want to head over to our new science-fiction sister blog, io9, which officially launches today. Described by editor Annalee Newitz as a pop-culture site in which she and her team of writers get to focus on "fantasies as well as realities in terms of what's going on in the future," the blog focuses on stuff we love — books, movies, Lost! — and stuff we don't, but might — space porn, "how to shit in space". And you gotta love that half-creepy, half-cute as a button girl-with-implant avatar.
What Is An io9? [io9]
Related: Gawker Blasts Into Sci-Fi With New Blog, I09 [Wired]
Gawker Media Gets Strung Out On Sci-Fi [NY Times]
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Oh my. I might have found someone to cheat on Jezebel with!
Oh, goody. Another place I can go to waste time and as a geek site, the most appropriate one so far.
space porn! space porn! space porn!
I for one welcome our geeky SISTER site. I always thought what Jezebel lacked were Katee Sackoff Snap Judgments.
It looks pretty fun and interesting. I also just wanted to say that I read about your apartment on Gawker, Tracie. I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hope those fuckers pay you back for all that damage. That is the exact reason why I'm always a guest, never a host.
Until I clicked on that link, I though "Space Porn" was, like, that futuristic sub-plot in Wong Kar-Wei's '2046'. My bad.
Only one word... awe-some!!!
@athertonmerriweather: There's something to be said for being in Time Square... the NY Dept of Sanitation does the cleaning for you!
Klaatu barada nikto!
AWESOME! They post a spoiler section EVERY DAY! I am totally geeking out right now!
One question... when will it show up in the site list at the bottom of the page?
@JennaW: That would make me sooo happy. More Battlestar, less the Hills please!
OMG! They have a Firefly post already! See ya Jez! ;)
Oh, for the love. I have to, like, do stuff, you know? Damn internets.
The success of this site hinges on its first "Lost" post. Do right by my favorite show and you'll have a fan for life.
@SinisterRouge: OOH! Firefly! Woohoo!!! See you there!
OMG so excited.
@jenndavo: Yes! And we will find out soon enough!!!
@MSDIRECTOR: And Joss and JJ Abrams. It's gonna be a geekfest over there!! I LOVE it.
Aaah! Not only do I love it, but I totally know someone who knows Annalee, and that means that I AM COOL BY ASSOCIATION.
@SinisterRouge: Although I welcome a new blog to read, especially a nifty scifi one, I could leave the JJ Abrams, plz.
@Jeremy: Yeah, not a huge fan of his, either.
@Jeremy: Mostly, it's the Star Trek of his I'm into. Please let it be good. Please let it be good!
@SinisterRouge: They've got Simon Pegg, baby. Of course it's gonna be good!
OMG! A Yayoi Kusama post! I'm officially obsessed with this blog. But of course, scared shitless to comment. It's like the first day at a new school, so intimidating!
My new year's resolution was to spend less time futzing around on the internet, and more time thinking about writing that science fiction novel... Now I'm confused. Oh well, I'll see you lovely ladies over there, I'll be the one wearing the Hello Kitty / Darth Vader outfit.
Agreed on the Star Trek thing. While Picard is a bad-ass, Kirk is the original gansta.
I'm basically just one of those people who both watches but hates LOST and by association, JJ.
Welcome to the party. The site looks great.
@TruculentandUnreliable: Yes, I am so unimpressed by JJ Abrams. When he and his writers got all excited by the idea that, y'know, maybe they'd figure out where they were heading with the LOST plot, I just laughed and laughed and pointed and then shook my head and laughed some more.
Anyone who trained at the "Make it all up as you go along" School of Mysterious Plotting (Headmaster: Chris Carter) cannot be trusted.
And, yes, I am still very bitter about the trainwreck that was Alias.
JJ is the Kevin Smith of Sci-Fi. Take that as you will.
@JennaW: Couldn't agree with you more, my dear.
@hortense: You just made me inhale my coffee.
@hortense: Aww, I loves the Kevin.
@TruculentandUnreliable: @Jeremy: Sorry kids. It's early. It's -5 below. I haven't slept in days.
Plus, dropping comic book references and winking at the camera in everything you write does not a genius make.
While we're riding the Star Trek train, does anyone else out there get hot-n-bothered about Riker? I would like to feel less alone in my love, please.
@hortense: No, that was in laughter. Because I agree with you. I will say it loud and proud I FUCKING HATE KEVIN SMITH.
@TruculentandUnreliable: Whew! I was afraid you had a hatred-filled coffee inhale.
@jenndavo: Exactly. So far the casting is like my geek wet dream.
@hortense: Oh my! I mean I have issues with JJ, like any good scifi lover does, but KEVIN SMITH? That is downright insulting!
@JennaW: But Seasons 1-2 was great. JJ is no good at all at anything longer than a movie or 1 season of a show.
@hortense: No, I just thought it was a good comparison. Though I think that Abrams hasn't quite jumped the shark as badly as Kevin Smith.
does this mean i have to stop geeking up jezebel?
@TruculentandUnreliable: Not yet, but it's on the way.
@SinisterRouge: That is absolutely my point. He (and Chris Carter [X-Files for those who've forgotten he existed]) thinks that throwing all this mysterious shit at the wall is enough. Almost anyone can START a cool story; it doesn't mean anything if you don't know how to end it well, too, *especially* one where the mystery is so integral to what makes the story enjoyable. And Abrams has yet to prove he can follow-through on a series. I refused to watch LOST because it was so obvious he didn't know what the hell he was doing or where he was going as ALIAS progressed.
@TruculentandUnreliable: WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It feels so good to have a venue in which to let out my Kevin Smith hate. Seeing as how no one talks about him anymore & all...
@biscuitdoughjones: Don't worry, I'm sure he's talking about himself somewhere.
@hortense: Ha! I heard that he has an autobiography out that's, like, 1000 pages long. Ugh.
@TruculentandUnreliable: I bet 500 pages of it are references to X-Men and Star Wars.
@hortense: i'm picturing kevin smith alone in a room somewhere having a tea party with his action figures and having a pretend coversation with them about how awesome he is
Is it wrong that I want them to take up the mantle of calling it SF, NOT sci-fi?
Not that it matters as I'm going to be over there geekin' out over the Charlie Stross and the Firefly. Thank goodness I'm done with classes...
@hortense: @tetracycloide: Hilarious. I feel bad for his wife. (Are they still married?)
@Chryss: No, I thought the same thing. My husband said something about sci-fi in reference to some classic shit (don't remember what) a couple of weeks ago. I had to correct him and delineate the difference between SF and sci-fi. He was not amused.
@JennaW: I was never as disappointed as I was when Alias just turned to shit and you just knew there was no hope and he really had no idea what he was talking about the whole time. Whatever happened to '47'?!?! We don't know and neither did he.
In defense of Abrams (which is something I don't think I'll ever say again), Mission Impossible 3 was good.
And this new site is my niche even more than Jezebel is.