Electric Grandmother has this posted on her site and it looks like fun. I would like everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions: no more, no less. Ask me anything you want. Anything! Doesn’t mean I’ll answer them in the way you expect. Then go to your journal, copy and paste this, allowing […]
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Take an oil lamp. Light it. This oil lamp can not be tilted in any direction or the flame will “jump.” Which means that oil will pour out of the lamp in a stream of fire. Hand it to a puppeteer to hold over the head of two other puppeteers. Now make it leak.
On Tangent Online, Jason Sizemore just reviewed Shimmer, Summer 2006, #4 Shimmer Magazine is the type of publication that you’re proud of reading in front of your peers. It is journal-sized, with an attractive, simple front and back cover layout. The interior has a clean, professional design. The font is eye-grabbing and large enough for
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Things that are bad ideas, #1. Take a rod puppet. Now put a cup in its hand. The cup is plastic, so you can’t pin it to the puppet’s hand. You must hold it in place with a complicated arrangement of thread and tape. Be warned though, that despite your best efforts the cup will
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Rob and I collect typewriters, and the Oliver, featured in this 1922 ad on Modern Mechanix is the prize of our collection. The visible action is beautiful and smooth. It’s so nice to see the original ad copy for it.
I’ve got my ticket back to Portland. I’ll be arriving at 1:06 on the afternoon of the October 27th. Then, I’ll be jetting off to Austin, TX for World Fantasy Convention on November 2nd, returning to Portland on November 5th. Rob will come back in December, probably on the 15th. We’ll both be in the
Apparently this happens every year, because it happened when I worked here two years ago. After we wrapped, everyone went to Magnus’s house for a party and then on to the Studmenn concert. Last time I had been here for a week and a half so I was still fairly dazed. This time, I was
I use bloglines to keep track of other folks’ blogs and thought you might be interested in seeing the sites I visit regularly.
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Cross-gender voices are a tricky business. Even if you can really do a convincing cross-gender voice–and I know folks who can–the fact is that in a live reading, people know there’s one person doing all the voices. There are two ways cross-gender voices can throw people out of listening. It’s really bad, and embarrassing, or
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We had folks over for dinner after production today. It was just a light meal with conversation. I made a Roasted Cauliflower soup, which I love because it’s easy and you can do other things while it’s becoming tasty I also made Mixed greens with feta, pinenuts and blueberries for the first time. Again, a
Look! Now you can take the Advanced Southern Accent Test I scored 43%, “barely out of Dixie” when I answered the way I say things. When I answer the way I hear things back home, then I score 100% Dixie. Rob is 6% Dixie.
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Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk : Fiction by Ken Scholes The simplest review I can give of this is, “Go read it. Now.”
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While I don’t have a story in this, I know a lot of the writers in this anthology. If you are looking for some good horror, check it out.
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To kind of shake things up a little, I thought I’d explain what these things mean this time. Things said at work. I need to get his head in my lap. Will it be faster if we just take her arms off? What kind of head do you want? Our director said, “I need more
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Today was gorgeous and warm. We walked down to the Kolaport for some groceries and then came back, ate lunch in the front yard and took a nap. I also had a breakthrough on Ginger Stuyvesant and the Case of the Haunted Nursery which makes me very happy. It’s also 2000 words lighter, which is
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