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Way back in the dawning days of the internet, fellow J-School alumnus and Can*SF Imagineer Gary Hilson had taken over the reins of the CanSFRG (Canadian Science Fiction Resource Guide) from Can*SF Imagineer founder Paul Neumann (No Photo Available).
Gary was in the midst of his cross country journey of discovery, working his way from Ottawa to BC developing the sprawling media empire that would be Silicon Valley North (those motherfuckers).
In between tech journalism and brutal drinking, Gary put together a Web 1.0 site detailling whatever he felt like, trying to focus on Canadian SF but, really, Bob Sawyer already had his own site.
Anyway, Gary was perpetually starved for content. One day he inquired of his fellow Can*SF Imagineers if they would like to provide for him a list of their favourite SF&F books. We each did. I provided it to him under the title of "The Bitter Guide to Science Fiction".
It was enjoyed by the readers of that day. So I wrote another one.
Eventually, The Bitter Guide turned into a series. An irregular one, to be sure. I think I hated Snow Crash.
I then became a regular contributor to RPG.net. That was a lot of fun. I was in regular correspondence with RPG.net publisher/editor Sandy Antunes, and one day he read the link to TBG in my signature and enjoyed it.
So, soon I was having TBG published in the CANSFRG and on RPG.net. I was the king of acronyms!
Gary eventually folded CANSFRG (a concept ripe for relaunch as a web 2.0 site; All Bob Sawyer, All The Time!) and I drifted away from RPG.net after everyone went crazy after 9/11. Soon, the time pressures of a shitty job and married life caused TBG to be only a fond memory.
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pyat was kind enough to give me an LJ code one day, which I used to begin the blog which you read before you.
It's a brand that's, admittedly, kind of weak. My boss at the shitty dot.com wanted to launch it as a website where I'd grind on shit and people would grind on shit, but it never came to be. Shame.
So, yeah.thebitterguy has deep roots, punks! Respect!
Way back in the dawning days of the internet, fellow J-School alumnus and Can*SF Imagineer Gary Hilson had taken over the reins of the CanSFRG (Canadian Science Fiction Resource Guide) from Can*SF Imagineer founder Paul Neumann (No Photo Available).
Gary was in the midst of his cross country journey of discovery, working his way from Ottawa to BC developing the sprawling media empire that would be Silicon Valley North (those motherfuckers).
In between tech journalism and brutal drinking, Gary put together a Web 1.0 site detailling whatever he felt like, trying to focus on Canadian SF but, really, Bob Sawyer already had his own site.
Anyway, Gary was perpetually starved for content. One day he inquired of his fellow Can*SF Imagineers if they would like to provide for him a list of their favourite SF&F books. We each did. I provided it to him under the title of "The Bitter Guide to Science Fiction".
It was enjoyed by the readers of that day. So I wrote another one.
Eventually, The Bitter Guide turned into a series. An irregular one, to be sure. I think I hated Snow Crash.
I then became a regular contributor to RPG.net. That was a lot of fun. I was in regular correspondence with RPG.net publisher/editor Sandy Antunes, and one day he read the link to TBG in my signature and enjoyed it.
So, soon I was having TBG published in the CANSFRG and on RPG.net. I was the king of acronyms!
Gary eventually folded CANSFRG (a concept ripe for relaunch as a web 2.0 site; All Bob Sawyer, All The Time!) and I drifted away from RPG.net after everyone went crazy after 9/11. Soon, the time pressures of a shitty job and married life caused TBG to be only a fond memory.
pyat was kind enough to give me an LJ code one day, which I used to begin the blog which you read before you.It's a brand that's, admittedly, kind of weak. My boss at the shitty dot.com wanted to launch it as a website where I'd grind on shit and people would grind on shit, but it never came to be. Shame.
So, yeah.
thebitterguy has deep roots, punks! Respect!
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