PodCastle #33, The Girl With the Sun In Her Head by Jeremiah Tolbert is up with an introduction by me. I very much enjoyed this story and think that you’ll enjoy listening to it. Emelia’s home is in a city where only children are allowed to draw graffiti on the crumbling walls. The old bricks […]
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PoconoRecord.com put together a slideshow on the dangers of plastic bags. Intellectually, I knew a lot of this and already use cloth shopping bags when I go to the grocery store, but seeing the pictures… well, I’m a visual person. I just rolled up a lightweight canvas bag and stuck it in my purse for
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10:04 Heading for the puppet kitchen. Actually working on something besides witches and dead babies today. # 17:50 My eyes hurt from painting the little tiny things I’m painting. I think it might be time to get new glasses. # 22:15 Calling it a night. The tininess of this project makes my eyes cross. #
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What I said I need a mounted woodcock. Someone stole the bag of extra body parts. Why are you puckering? I had to unplug the time machine. Where are the monkey balls? It’s between the barfing panda and the orange fuzzy man. I’m really looking forward to mounting his head. I just need to cut
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01:14 Attaching the bones to the glove. I’m concerned that I might have to do this with it ON my hand. Bad, since the operation involves hot glue. # 01:34 Missing five finger bones. Cutting them out now. # 02:03 Finger bones cut, covered, painted and attached. Connected the forearm to the upper arm. I
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There’s a tendency for people to focus on things that go wrong in their life, or the ways in which they’ve made a mistake. On balance though, we get more right than wrong, it’s just that a lot of the things we get right we take for granted. Or they are too small to feel
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I just ran across this article that I clipped as part of the research that I was doing for “Waiting for Rain” about how China planned to halt rain for Olympics and it occurred to me that you might be interested in some of the other research behind the story. Wines Sula Vineyard “India’s leading
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12:14 Rob has the day off and he’s made waffles. I love my husband more than I can describe. # 21:41 Making stone bones for the stone witch’s small arm. Sigh. I want to be finished with her. # 23:27 Totally cheating and using grey gaffer’s tape on the polyethelene instead of making my own
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09:17 Heading for the puppet kitchen. # 12:48 I’ve cut the stone witch’s forearm off and am going to rotate the wrist 90 degrees and reset it. # 13:43 My god! My mother has joined facebook! # 13:54 I mean… my MOM on Facebook. It really IS the twenty-first century, isn’t it? # 14:04 While
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Papier-mache is one of the oldest forms for creating puppets and so a lot of people think that there must be something better out there. Actually, there are very few contenders. Done well, papier-mache is light, strong, fast, and non-toxic. I know, we’ve all had the experience of the lumpy paste, and corners that stick
They’d like to come up with a title for my column at AMC and asked me for suggestions. Other columns are things like, “Masters of SciFi” or “Web Stalker,” for horror. I’ve come up with Cinema Fantastic and Dream Factory, but that is the total of my ideas. But you folks, you folks are brilliant.
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So, I keep seeing all these people who’ve added “Hussein” to their middle name in order to point out the silliness of get worked up about it. What I’m wondering is, how many new babies now have the middle name “Hussein” for real?
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My new column is up at AMC and I’m talking about films that you might not think of when you think of the word Fantasy. Granted, I’m sure that some of these films will come as no surprise to the folk who hang out here regularly. For instance: 1. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
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Is it snarky of me to point out that in addition to the human rights issues, Prop 8 also hurts the economy? Way to protect the American dream, folks. In June, the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, which studies sexual orientation and the law, estimated that legalizing same-sex ceremonies in the
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To catch you up on what I spent the last several weeks building, I’m going to be posting some photos that I took during the build. The wood witch needed hands capable of picking things up. Fortunately, you can find such a thing in your local neighborhood hardware store. This trick won’t work for a
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