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Four years later, and nothing remains.
Jun. 5th, 2005 01:07 amTried to check out the old Realms Magazine homepage (http://www.realmsmagazine.com), and nothing's there.
I was hoping to find a remnant of the old Highlander article (holy shit! Thank the nice people at Web Archive.org, but here it is! And the time![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pyat pissed off a larper. And the time Pierre Savoie called us racist. Fuckin' A) and nothing came up.
Realms was really a great idea. Just a bi-weekly newspaper dedicated to things of a geeky slant, with more than just a little snark to it. And they let me write for them.
After an unfortunate lawsuit, the paper shut down. In 2000, we started back up again, with lots of neat stuff. Unfortunately, we started up with no seed money or investors, and nobody selling advertising.
I always told Pete (the EiC) that the audience was relatively cash heavy, and that we should go after both traditional (book & game publishers, videogame publishers, toy manufacturers) and non traditional (beer and autos, baby).
Of course, they never even tracked down the ad requests we sent to them, and the mage went out of business a few months later, not owing a dime to anyone (except the owners, which technically is not 'debt').
Of course, I'm out my copy of Unseen Masters, andpyat is still short his Star Wars Holiday Special bootleg VHS.
But, yeah. It was a blast. And the late, great Paul T Riddell called us the last great hope of SF journalism. Or something like that. Of course, Pete did keep me from getting a complimentary PS2 from Sony (FUCK your "journalistic integrity"! I want the God Damned Jamacain Brandy!). But I forgive all sins in time.
A copy of the Highlander article, btw, is behind this ( cut, for safekeeping. ) Remember, it was a long time ago. I was a lot angrier. And slightly less coherent.
I was hoping to find a remnant of the old Highlander article (holy shit! Thank the nice people at Web Archive.org, but here it is! And the time
pyat pissed off a larper. And the time Pierre Savoie called us racist. Fuckin' A) and nothing came up. Realms was really a great idea. Just a bi-weekly newspaper dedicated to things of a geeky slant, with more than just a little snark to it. And they let me write for them.
After an unfortunate lawsuit, the paper shut down. In 2000, we started back up again, with lots of neat stuff. Unfortunately, we started up with no seed money or investors, and nobody selling advertising.
I always told Pete (the EiC) that the audience was relatively cash heavy, and that we should go after both traditional (book & game publishers, videogame publishers, toy manufacturers) and non traditional (beer and autos, baby).
Of course, they never even tracked down the ad requests we sent to them, and the mage went out of business a few months later, not owing a dime to anyone (except the owners, which technically is not 'debt').
Of course, I'm out my copy of Unseen Masters, and
pyat is still short his Star Wars Holiday Special bootleg VHS.But, yeah. It was a blast. And the late, great Paul T Riddell called us the last great hope of SF journalism. Or something like that. Of course, Pete did keep me from getting a complimentary PS2 from Sony (FUCK your "journalistic integrity"! I want the God Damned Jamacain Brandy!). But I forgive all sins in time.
A copy of the Highlander article, btw, is behind this ( cut, for safekeeping. ) Remember, it was a long time ago. I was a lot angrier. And slightly less coherent.
