Stylus RIP

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://stylusmagazine.com/ - Stylus Zine is ending after 5 years. I'll miss its Singles Jukebox feature, which I also wrote for (too) occasionally. Did anyone read it?

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[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Not me. I read Singles Jukebox for quite a while, but any time I looked at the rest of the site it seemed to be written by and for total mooks. There is an ILM thread of people throwing up their hands in horror at its disappearance, which makes me feel even more cut off from the ways of the modern world!! Also old, because it hardly feels like yesterday that it started. I associate it with aggressively amateur / deliberately fannish writing, which right now seems to be the curse of the interweb.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I never had the patience for its longform articles - I felt bad about this since "moar longform thinkpiece criticism" used to be one of my NYLPM rallying cries. In fact I think Stylus was probably as "popist" a zine as we're likely to get online so I feel a bit bad that I'm not mourning it more.