Lexicon writing

[jeregenest]

I've begun working on the entry for my first entry to the Museum of the Missing lexicon. I think I hit a snag though as the piece I picked seems to have latter been recovered. So I'm debating between talking about it and casting doubt on the recovery (or something else) or picking a new work. Matters how weird I want to go in the first entry.

Just as a reminder the Museum of the Missing is a lexicon about stolen art:

Art theft has been done for the purpose of resale or ransom; stolen art is also often used between criminals in an underworld banking system as collateral for drug and weapons deals, or to barter for those items. Even more worrisome is the state sponsored looting, such as that from 1933 through the end of World War II, of the Nazi regime which maintained a policy of looting art for sale or for removal to museums in the Third Reich.

Art Recovery is serious business, the FBI, London's Metropolitan Police, and a number of other law enforcement agencies worldwide maintain "art squads" dedicated to investigating thefts of this nature and recovering stolen works of art. In 2007 a consortium of these agencies met to discuss some of the most long-standing, strangest and down right weird cases on their files. This Lexicon is the report of those proceedings.

First round is due Wednesday, November 14th. I'm excited about the interest but there is always room for one more in a lexicon.

Comments

[shiffer.livejournal.com]

It's due on Wednesday? I thought they game starts on Wednesday. Well, I guess I need to pick up the pace then.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Start, due, its a vague point for lexicons. I figure they don't start really until the first entries are in. Guess its just my preference, up until the first entry its really just all potential.

[ivan23.livejournal.com]

Hate to say this on a Friday morning, but it looks like the index page of MotM took a spam attack.

[jeffr23.livejournal.com]

Fixed it. (It's not all that difficult to revert them; just go into the page history page and hit the right 'restore' button.)

Starting slowly, it is, so it looks like there's room for a lot more than one more right now...