Check it out. This Friday the 19th, we’ll officially wrap up the second volume of Significant Objects. This is your LAST CHANCE to bid on an object from SO v2, proceeds from which will be donated to 826 National. SPECIAL INCENTIVE: After the jump, a risqué, never-published photo of the Mermaid Figurine.
Toy Airplane — with story by Robert Lopez — currently only $11.50!
Mermaid Figurine — with story by Tom McCarthy — now selling for $68!
As promised…
BID NOW
Joshua Glenn is an editor, publisher, and a freelance writer and semiologist. He does business as KING MIXER, LLC.
He's cofounder of the websites
HiLobrow,
Significant Objects, and
Semionaut; and cofounder of
HiLoBooks, which will reissue six Radium Age sci fi novels in 2012. In 2011, he produced and co-designed the
iPhone app KER-PUNCH. He's coauthored and co-edited
Taking Things Seriously,
The Idler's Glossary,
The Wage Slave's Glossary, the story collection
Significant Objects (forthcoming from Fantagraphics), and Unbored, a kids' field guide to life forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
In the '00s, Glenn was an associate editor and columnist at the
Boston Globe's IDEAS section; he also started the IDEAS blog
Brainiac. He has written for
Slate,
n+1,
Cabinet,
io9,
The Baffler,
Feed, and
The Idler.
In the '90s, Glenn published the seminal intellectual zine
Hermenaut; served as editorial director and co-producer of the pioneering DIY and online social networking website Tripod.com; and was an editor at the magazine
Utne Reader.
Glenn manages the
Hermenautic Circle, a secretive online community. He was born and raised in Boston, where he lives with his wife and sons.
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Damn.
It’s Rump Day on Significant Objects. (Stole your joke, Rob.)
Mine.