Rob always gets on my case if I forget to unplug the gluegun when I’m finished with it. My defense has been that the state of “finished” fluctuates. I mean, finished for the moment versus finished for the day. It takes the gun awhile to heat up, so I don’t like to unplug it when […]
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Woot! Look what I got in the mail. My story “Suspension and Disbelief” is in Destination Prague and one of the only two stories I’ve written with a puppeteer as a character. It normally seems like such a dull job, but it made sense here. Hey! Until recently, almost everyone I knew was a puppeteer.
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So that’s the question du jour. Should I get a New York number for my cellphone or keep my Oregon number? I can keep the Oregon number active, so that’s not an issue. The question is about getting work. I feel like the area code on the phone is becoming a sort of non-issue these
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Michael Livingston, in addition to being one of my favorite people, also happens to be a scholar of Middle English. I have just finished listening, twice, to his Chaucer’d excerpt of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. In a fit of rage against working on my syllabi for the coming term, I took a snippet from
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Finally, we got our futon. Whew. We also picked up a gorgeous bookcase from the early 1900s. The folks that sold us the futon said, “Need anything else?” And we said, “Bookcases?” Behold, for reasons that are unclear to me, they wanted to get rid of this glassfront bookcase which had belonged to the husband’s
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My business and creative partner, Jodi Eichelberger, has been doing some podcasts. Here’s the description of his latest: From August of 1994 through the spring of 1997 Mary and I toured a production of “Pied Piper†with Tears of Joy Theatre. We were particularly close to this show because Mary designed it and I wrote
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What’s this? A fever! A sore throat! Aw… he shouldn’t have. Naturally, of course, we had a dinner guest last night, so I’ve probably infected the poor fellow by cooking at the height of my contagiousness.
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When I do a bid on a puppet, mechanisms are the most expensive part. They are fiddly things and no matter how many times you’ve built something similar, each puppet is radically different. This dog puppet, which I’m creating ears for, technically has four mechs in it since each ear is capable of two movements.
After ten days away, Rob is back from his trip to Oregon. He brought with him a container of fruit, tomatoes and a cucumber (thanks, -r-!) from -e-‘s garden. I have already eaten a plum.
I was looking for something else and stumbled across the Twins Days festival, in which thousands of twins descend on this one town in Ohio. In the photo gallery, was this photo of triplets. I just loved the guys’ shirts. To save you from having to click on it to make it larger, the shirts
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I thought you might be curious to know how it ended up… Neil says: The three covers in the poll were presented in chronological order and represent a sampling of our favorites. During the 24 hour period prior to the poll, there was a lot of discussion about color, framing, fonts, and such. I have
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I’m doing the cover design for Realms, the anthology of Clarkesworld Magazine. There is a poll to see which of the three versions people respond to most. Please hop over to the Wyrm Publishing webpage and cast your vote. Which one do you most want to read? Cover 1 Cover 2 Cover 3
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I picked up our set of bookshelves today. Compared to the kitchen cart, this was a piece of cake. It was only a three-story walkup and a eleven block stroll with the shelves on a hand truck. Every man I passed offered to help me. The shelves weren’t heavy, but they were very awkward. I
Remember me showing you that article about my nephew’s friend? We just got word that he’s had a successful lung transplant. He’s still not out of the woods, but at least he’s got a path to get there now.