At dessert truck. Coconut tapioca with mojito granita. My God. # @2muchexposition There are worse dooms than an addiction to the Dessert Truck. # @neutronjockey You know, this dessert would give a true mojito a run for the money in terms of sheer sybaritic enjoyment. #
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At Readercon, someone asked me if I had ever made a puppet show from one of my stories. Two. Sort of. Beauty Will Come is something I did for Pixel-Stained Technopeasant day last year and is not really a puppet show, though it might look like one for a moment. I used toy theater technique
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Dear neighbor with the chihuaha. Please stop strangling your dog. The echoes off the brick in the alley are bothering me. # Sleeping on the sofa tonight because the bedroom is way the heck too stuffy. #
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By this point, I think everyone probably heard about Jay Lake’s colon cancer news. The man is a cancer survivor the likes of which the world has never seen. When I heard the diagnosis, I emailed him asking if there was anything I could do for him from New York. Oh yes. Yes, there was.
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I’ve been a professional puppeteer for almost twenty years now and I’ve never seen anything quite as disconcerting as ventriloquist, Todd Oliver and his dog Irving. That’s right. A ventriloquist with a real dog.
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. . I have my official schedule for World Con now. Launch Pad: Astronomy for Writers Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Launch Pad is a week-long crash course in modern astronomy for writers founded by Mike Brotherton and held each summer at the University of Wyoming. NASA foots the bill with the goald of increasing the quality
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io9 covered our panel on steampunk design. One of the most interesting panels at this year’s Readercon was an exploration of the steampunk design movement, as it emerged into the mainstream with May’s New York Times Style article. Writer/puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal, YA fantasy novelist Holly Black, Tor editor Liz Gorinsky, and speculative fiction writer
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I spent the train trip alternating between writing a new short story and reading Ekaterina Sedia’s Alchemy of Stone. I say “alternated” by which I mean that I took a break from writing the story, read half of Alchemy and then we were in NYC. The apartment is empty without Rob, again, but he left
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Waiting for the train at South Station and they want $7 for an hour of internet. Insulting. # What is rabbit tobacco? # @neutronjockey thank you! I’m on the train with a sporadic wi-fi signal. #
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Saturday I went to fewer panels and spent more time hanging out with friends. The morning started with the Codex breakfast, which featured a completely different group of Codexians than we had at the retreat. It was good to see Elaine Isaak, Doug Cohen, Joy Marchand, ((Did not get enough time with Joy)) Cat Rambo,
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Well the kaffeeklatsch went well. I was with Scott Edelman, who was delightful. We had a nice group of people visiting with us. Whose names I remembered earlier, but my brain is a sieve now. The Tabula Rasa reading also went well. I only stumbled once, ironically not in one of the place where I
@twitter help # On the train and will try to sleep. Supposed to get into the Boston station around eightish. # Next time, I’ll plunk down the extra $30 to go to business class so I don’t have to hear cranky baby. # Also, why is the train so freaking cold? # Just went to
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I’m heading out to catch the train. On today’s schedule: Friday 12:00 Noon Vinyard: Kaffeeklatsch Friday 1:00 PM VT: Tabula Rasa Group Reading Friday 5:00 PM ME/ CT: Steampunk and Beyond: What Would a “Gibson Chair†Look Like? See you all shortly.
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Watching Act II of Dr. Horrible! # Act II of Dr. Horrible is as good as I’d hoped. # My husband is home. Giddiness ensues. #
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We spent the last two hours or so catching up and hearing the stories of the film shoot. He’s taking a nap now and I’m going to finish the last of my packing. Heading up bright and early to Readercon tomorrow to be there for my kaffeeklatsch at noon.