http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/05/31/isbd-on-this-day/ The Fundamentals of Our Publishing are Wrong Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:37:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/05/31/isbd-on-this-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1537 Paul Riddell Thu, 31 May 2007 17:18:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/05/31/isbd-on-this-day/#comment-1537 I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Timothy Leary joined the great slushpile in the sky on this day in 1996. Besides his finally stopping writing, it also buggered the ambitions of another writer: technoweenie favorite Charles Platt had been assigned to cover Leary's decline by <i>Wired</i>, seeing as how Platt was a customer of the now-defunct cryonics company Alcor and Leary had made noises about having his head cryogenically preserved. From several reports, Leary and his assistants decided not to go that route because of Platt's obnoxious attitudes toward such preservation, including allegedly loudly complaining about when the old bastard was going to kick off. (Platt still writes about cryonics, most recently for <i>Make</i> about a year ago, but when <i>Wired</i> was sold to Conde Nast, the new management decided that giving such leeway to prima donna writers wasn't in its best interests.) I’m surprised that you didn’t mention that Timothy Leary joined the great slushpile in the sky on this day in 1996. Besides his finally stopping writing, it also buggered the ambitions of another writer: technoweenie favorite Charles Platt had been assigned to cover Leary’s decline by Wired, seeing as how Platt was a customer of the now-defunct cryonics company Alcor and Leary had made noises about having his head cryogenically preserved. From several reports, Leary and his assistants decided not to go that route because of Platt’s obnoxious attitudes toward such preservation, including allegedly loudly complaining about when the old bastard was going to kick off. (Platt still writes about cryonics, most recently for Make about a year ago, but when Wired was sold to Conde Nast, the new management decided that giving such leeway to prima donna writers wasn’t in its best interests.)

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