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Well, as you can see, my life is moving on. Between the pressures of my family, work, artistic, and social lives, I’m unable to dedicate the time I used to to good old Bookninja. Truth be told, it’s also been pretty fucking tiring playing this character for seven years. That said, I’d like to take one last stab at saving the beast by offering two or three lucky young, hungry would-be bloggers the chance to join Bookninja as part of the editorial team. You need to know the spirit and scope of Bookninja, have an eye for the absurd and unusual as well as a good grasp of what interests our primary readers (industry folks, writers, would-be writers, readers, and sexy sexy librarians). The ideal candidate will also have OCD and a fetish for the serial comma.
Send me your basic writing resume as well as links to your clips to the .
All positions are unpaid, except in the adoration of your readership, basic ninjitsu training, and the general knowledge that you can make or break your friends and enemies the way a capricious child might stack blocks into an inukshuk-like human form and then smash them down moments later in a fit of tyrannical rage.
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October 29th, 2010 at 9:48 am
George,
Let me be the first to say that I can’t imagine Bookninja without you. What am I going to do between 9:15 and 9:30
every morning, Saturday and Sunday excepted? Where else am I going to find the same confluence of poetry, the absurd,
hot librarians and Lisa Loeb. I think you should sleep on it. Anyway, I’d like to offer your this tribute:
There once was a man named George
who wrote his way out of the gorge
of obscurity, founded Bookninja,
became a well known literary binger,
then rode away of an St. Bernard.
Notes on the text:
“founded Bookninja” and “literary binger” rhyme in South African
and St. Bernard is a thought rhyme with George.
October 29th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Will you stay on as Head Ninja (King Ninja? Chief Ninja?)?
October 29th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Probably a Guiding Ninja, or CEO Ninja, as the one who owns the company.
October 29th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Say it ain’t so, Joe! Er, George.
October 29th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
I really appreciate Bookninja’s attention to/focus on Canadian content. Just something to keep in mind when interviewing the whipper-snappers.
October 29th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
sad day
October 29th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Truly a sad, sad day….. I didn’t think this day would ever happen. Success has ruined things for us. Damn you, George, for being such a success aphorist. aphorismist…. whatever it is that you are
October 31st, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Thanks for all the links and all the laughs. Who do you hope will play George in the movie?
November 1st, 2010 at 5:43 am
I think you should give this chap a go George. I don’t know much about literature – indeed, I have a first class humaities degree to prove it – but I think Spuriel Marx, Muris i-Dock and Wary Measley could all learn a trick or two about romantic fiction from this lad:
[see link above]
Good luck with the search!
Now, read on…
xxx
Mort
November 1st, 2010 at 8:39 am
George, you’ve done an incredible job at Bookninja, not that it needs to be said. You’ve given a lot of people their daily dose of all things literary, both Canadian and abroad. This site is one of the few I would consider a must read for anyone who cares about the literary arts. Look forward to seeing you post when you can and hopefully meeting up for a beer soon (it’s been too long).
Cheers,
Steve
November 1st, 2010 at 10:26 am
I’d like to echo the sentiments above, George.
The literary world is dimmer for your decision but has been made much brighter for your efforts to date.
Very best of luck in all your future endeavors.
November 1st, 2010 at 12:00 pm
THANKS.
November 1st, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Best of luck to you George, you’ve lead a heroic, if not somewhat Sisyphean task of keeping the world abreast of the best book news. That said, congrats on whatever you spend your off-time doing. I imagine such enviable tasks as actually cooking dinner at home once-in-a-while, speaking to friends IRL, and hours upon hours of stalking Facebook. I think that’s what people do when they aren’t working on projects 24/7. I wouldn’t know.
November 2nd, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Having blogged for less than three years, and driven myself to the edge of insanity,
I can understand the need for a break. That said, I’ll miss your posts —
which always led me to wonder: “Why can’t I write with that edge?”
November 4th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Good luck to you George. Bookninja was, is and (hopefully) will be a great a site, one of the best to touch on the minefield of silliness that is CanLit.
(I’d apply for the job myself except I have no qualifications whatsoever…unless…does watching endless clips of “Ninja Terminator” on YouTube count towards one’s ninjitsu skills…? They don’t? Oh. All right then. >Walks away, head down in shame<)
November 4th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
I’m quite addicted to bookninja and hope you can find a suitable and energetic standard-bearer
(& ditto what Aaron above says about CanCon — its heroes and its sacred cows alike — but the mix of international
flavour is great too)
And yes, thanks!
January 2nd, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Sooner or later, all good things come to an end.
January 21st, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I too have read, Ninja: The Invisible Assasins, when I was a teenager, and was influenced by it more than I could ever know.
January 25th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
I have soooo much more time on my hands now that I don’t stop here every day. Is this a good thing?