In case you can’t tell, I’ve decided to give myself a vacation. I’m working on things, but not very hurriedly or consistently this weekend. In fact, I think an embarrassingly sizable part of the day consisted of tweaking my new G1. I luuuuuuuv my new phone. It is very shiny. Rob got home at 3:30 […]
I had coffee and a hamentash at the Hungarian Pastry Shop with Fabulous Girl. It was nice to catch up with her and feel like a grownup with a social life, you know? Afterwards, we went into the cathedral of St. John the Divine, which I’d somehow not managed to go into yet, despite living
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My column at AMCtv.com is up and this week I’m asking the question, “Why do fantasy films always kill the parents?” If you’re like most Americans, you spent yesterday saturated in turkey and surrounded by family. This is the season for family, and as much as we might love our families, there are will be
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Today we took it totally easy. We’d had invitations to go to friends homes for Thanksgiving and turned them down because having two whole days with nothing on the schedule seemed much more appealing. I made blueberry walnut muffins for breakfast. Around mid-day I realized that we basically had apples and some salsa in the
Matthew Jarpe, whose blog I quite enjoy, posted this meme today. He says: In RADIO FREEFALL I used the word meme to describe a mind virus that forces a person to obsess over a single thought until he commits suicide. In retrospect I should have picked another word. Since I wrote the book that word
You might remember about a month ago I mentioned that Rob had gone in to have his hands diagnosed and that the doctor wanted to get him in for surgery right away, as in that week. Â The nerves were dying. He’s been jumping through paperwork since then. Â We just found out that his worker’s comp
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PuppetVision blog is one of my favorite websites because they’re always finding great puppetry video on the internet. Witness this one. Steve Vitale documents Dave Goelz and Steve Whitmire’s visit to the Atlanta History Center including great video. This is an extremely rare opportunity to see the two men work in full view of the
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I’ve just returned home from the SFWA reception which seemed to be a rousing sucess. Kudos to Bud Sparhawk, the Eastern Regional Director, for arranging it. It was my first one, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. It turns out that it’s very much like an opening night party, without a show attached
I was on a panel today, the Latest News from Mars and as soon as I walked in felt out of my depth. The other two panelists were scientists [1. I don’t have my program book on me and it has their names in it. Lovely men and a fun conversation.] and here I was,
I’m continuing to have a good time here, although am too tired to sum up properly. Bear with me until tomorrow and I’ll write an actual post. I have a reading at 11:00 and to at least pretend to sleep before then.
16:42 I can tell I’m teaching puppet making at an SF con because one of the students has just made Cthulu. #
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10:41 The downside to giving a dinner party with “correct” place-settings is dealing with the ridiculous amount of silver afterwards. # 11:53 The upside to giving a dinner party with “correct” place-settings is that I love my china and silver. I just clearly need staff for cleanup. # 12:26 Whoops.Got our phone bill.All of my
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This is my first Philcon so I sort of didn’t know what to expect. So far I’ve been impressed with the organization of the con. Good signage, easy registration and lots of communication beforehand. On the downside, I left NYC later than I’d planned and left my demo puppets and the Campbell tiara in the
So, you know how I worked on Lazytown? And you know how I have a thing for Jackie Chan? Guess who the villain is in his new film, The Spy Next Door. I have to say, I think this is extremely cool.
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