Head Shot
Posted by Sean on June 10, 2008
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The eXile is officially dead. So says Ames. An end of an era? So much for that Medvedian “thaw.” My brief stint writing for them was fun while it lasted. Here’s Ames’ latest update on Radar Online:
The Exile is shutting down. Last night I met with my Russian publisher to “put one in its brain,” as George Romero’s humans would say. Except that putting this paper down is not so easy—imagine if Romero’s zombies had things like tax bills that can’t be ignored, debts to pay off, favors owed to other important zombies—because you never know when you’ll run into that zombie again.The partners who’d financed us fled for the hills, leaving my publisher and me holding the debt-bomb in our hands. This is not an easy situation. As a rule, my publisher is unusually easy-going for a Muscovite, but he’s also quite large and intimidating—I mean ..read more
