We went to Footloose, which was quite the experience. The set design was inventive, the choreography was fun but the voices were weak. I think there were four good singers in the cast, and everyone else was flat. I really enjoyed the evening, but did have to adjust the lens that I viewed it with. […]
I just spotted this on mini-review of Twenty Epics on Chris Gerrib’s live journal Mary Robinette Kowal’s Icelandic-inspired Bound Man is a gem, featuring derring-do, swordplay and time travel. Well worth the price of admission.
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Today was another gorgeous day in Iceland. After work, we all went to Emily’s house for a barbecue. She made hamburgers, hot dogs, vegetable skewers and deviled eggs. I made potato salad and a corn salad. Both recipes are winners, so I thought I’d share, since the summer picnic season is here. Danish Potato Salad
I wrote this post a couple of months ago, but didn’t publish it because the episode had not been released yet. Now that it’s shown in the U.K…. but don’t worry. There are still no plot spoilers. — After we wrapped today, everyone trooped upstairs to watch Haunted Castle. It was so long ago that
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In the greenroom we played Bone Wars, a Ruthless Game of Paleontology. I picked it up on a whim at Readercon because Jodi and I had been working on a show about Mary Anning. Initially the rules looked intimidatingly complex, but once we started playing it was loads of fun. After work, we went to
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What a day, what a day. Julie normally does the live hands for Jodi, but she wasn’t in today because it didn’t look like he’d need live hands. And then…it started as a simple thing. Can the puppet tap his finger against his head? It looked bad with rods, and Jodi had to enter the
Holy cow! Check out the trailer for Dante’s Inferno – The epic toy theater film of the classic journey through hell. All of it was filmed live, with no post-production manipulation. Gorgeous. I’ll be very excited to see it. Thanks to PuppetVision for pointing it out.
I was off today and the weather was actually warm enough to sit outside and write. Amazing. I didn’t even need a coat, although I did have on a fleece. I spent some time working on revisions for Ginger Stuyvesant and the Case of the Haunted Nursery and think I have a clear plan of
First She blanched with embarrassment. Last Only the gas lights in Matriarch Imji’s home matched how Pimi had imagined her first social season. 340 words today, but I also cut a section so my total is only 1913 words.
Right. I’ve spent the last two days trying to find an appropriate image for Shimmer‘s Autumn 2006 cover. After looking at hundreds of pieces of art, I would like to know why it is so difficult to find a winged woman who is not a) nude b) carrying a sword c) nude AND carrying a
David Goldman pointed out this short film, Draw the Pirate. It has no connection to Shimmer‘s Pirate issue. Really. You’ve got to admire the fact that the film makers tell a complete story with no spoken words at all.
Indeed. The party went until sometime after three a.m. It’s weird. Culturally, when you throw a party in Iceland, you can expect that the guests will arrive an hour to an hour and a half after the stated start time. They’ll stay until three and then go downtown to finish partying. I can’t do this.
I love Modern Mechanix. Today they’ve got Mechanical Secrets of Marionette Shows Part I. This is an article about Tony Sarg, one of the forefathers of American puppetry. Check it out.
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As you might imagine, the characters on the show spend a lot of time eating “sports candy.” The puppets can’t actually take a bite, so I wind up doing one of my favorite theater tricks. The apple already has bite in it but that part of the apple is held upstage so the audience can’t