My dad called this morning to make sure that I knew today was 10/10/10 so I could properly celebrate. Rob thinks that all those ones and zeros must be terribly exciting to a programmer. If you miss the morning celebration, you can still enjoy the evening unless you think the 24 hour clock invalidates it. […]
Happy 10/10/10 10:10:10 Read More »
This video just makes me laugh and laugh. And I thought Harriet had an issue with drinking water. (Thanks, -e-!)
Woody the Cat demonstrates his unique approach to drinking water. Read More »
While I am posting music videos that make me smile, check out OK Go’s newest, “White Knuckles.” With doggies! Via EpicFTW Donate to animal rescue at http://www.okgo.net/dogs
OK Go’s newest music video with doggies! Read More »
How did I not know that The Guild had a new music video that combined my love of The Guild and Bollywood? People, you are supposed to keep me apprised of such things by linking repeatedly to them. That’s what the internet is for. See? Here it is!
The Guild’s “Game On” Bollywood video Read More »
This is what happens on a rainy afternoon when I get a tiny bit restless and bored. I saw someone’s avatar of a Girl with the Pearl Earring and the way the headscarf fell reminded me of Oola from Star Wars and um… Ta-da! Note: The crackle on her horn/ear things annoys me but at
Twi’lek with the Pearl Earring Read More »
(hattip to Jennifer Pelland for spotting this beauty.)
A typical cosmic soap-opera: an Disney animated spoof of ’50s Pulp Science Fiction Read More »
I am all astonished. The Jane Austen Centre in Bath has a review of Shades of Milk and Honey on their website AND wrote to let me know that they were planning on sending the review out with their newsletter. Let me repeat that: The Jane Austen Centre. Likes. My. Novel. John Ottinger writes about the
The Jane Austen Centre reviews and likes Shades of Milk and Honey! Read More »
Rob’s mom sent us a care package recently. In it was a packet of roasted and ground Wattleseed, which is an Australian product that apparently has a coffee, chocolate and hazelnut flavour profile. While researching what to do with it I ran across what has to be one of the worst beverage names of all
The fellow who is doing the special effects for the Shades of Milk and Honey book trailer is a BAFTA award winning special effects supervisor who I know from Lazytown. Remo Balcells has worked on films like The Fifth Element and Final Fantasy. He’s currently doing FX for Hawaii Five-0. Tonight he emailed to say
I was talking with a friend of mine and he said that my blog read like “Mary’s Greatest Hits,” because I never talk about the things that go wrong. This surprised me since most of my best puppetry stories are of shows that go horribly, horribly wrong. But he’s right. When I talk about television
Things that go horribly, horribly wrong OR The worst show I ever did Read More »
Due to the delayed flight, I am once again ensconced on the porch of Merrie Haskell’s lake house and working on revisions to Glamour in Glass. While I am thus engaged, allow me to present to you Emma Thompson’s speech at the Golden Globes when she pretended to be Jane Austen.
Emma Thompson pretending to be Jane Austen Read More »
My most grateful thanks to Miss Ellis for sharing this video with me.
Jane Austen’s Fight Club Read More »
The National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neil Theater center is one of my favorite things. It’s a ten-day intensive workshop focused on performance and the development of new works. At the end there are performances. This is from a couple of years ago and a fine example of puppeteer humor. Every person at the
Puppeteer humor at the O’Neal National Puppetry Conference Read More »
You know how you can tell when someone on tour has gone insane? It’s when they make something like this. So hard to look away… These are not the horse puppets you are looking for…
My Little Pony singing songs from Dreamgirls Read More »