New Windows
Our house was built in 1907, so for it’s 100th birthday we are giving it new windows. They just arrived today and the workmen are installing as I type. Yay!
Journal
Where in the world is Mary Robinette?
For a while now, our status has been somewhat up in the air. Were we going back to Iceland or staying in the US? If the US, where? We know the answer now. We are moving to New York. Manhattan, in fact. This is a move that Rob and I have been talking about for
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Bone rings exchanged by couples
Thanks to -e- for sending me this link. This is freaky, amazing and wonderful, all at the same time. The BBC news reports on an experiment at growing bone in the lab, which then spins out of the laboratory and into the hands of artists. Couples are being given the opportunity to exchange jewellery made
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Bones & Clones – Talebones #35
Talebones just announced the table of contents of #35. The cover artist will be Richard Pellegrino who is doing the fantastically cool “Painting a day” blog. “Landing Day” by Michael Canfield “Two” by Jack Skillingstead “Mildred’s Garden” by James C. Glass “Death Comes but Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal “Sweep Me to My Revenge!” by
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Free Puppet T-shirts to good home
Well, gentle readers. I’m cleaning house and have a whole passel of puppetry t-shirts ranging from new to very used, and they all have very cool illustrations. Rather than taking them to Goodwill, I thought I would see if any of my puppetry readers wanted them. I’d like to see them go to a good
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Superheroes?
I’d seen this floating around, but it hadn’t tempted me because Ken Scholes had already given my super-hero name in his story “Action Team-Ups Number Thirty Seven.” (Which you can listen to here.) But then a friend sent this quiz to me, and what’s a girl to do? I’m just hoping it’s not truly some
Set hardware
I just uploaded some photos of the set hardware on my touring set. Here they are, for you nutty types who are into such things. Set hardware The schematics are here but you have to look through the other drawings to get to them.
Backing up and moving forward
When we got back from Iceland my desktop computer wouldn’t boot. Uh-oh. We took it into a repair shop and learned that the hard disk was frozen. For a mere $1000 they could ship it off to California where the data could be retrieved. Was there anything on it that I needed that badly? Our
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More set
Most of the time a set designer draws a pretty picture and then a TD (technical director) makes it a reality. I think I’ve been able to do that with one set. Most of the time, because of the limitations of puppets, I have to think about the mechanical as I’m designing. Also, because I’m
School tour set design goals
Touring to schools is different from touring to venues in one major way. The performers set up the show in schools. In venues, you frequently have stagehands. School tours also often have to set up and tear down the same show at two different locations in a day. Here’s what I’m thinking about when I
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Cicada is here with “This Little Pig!”
The mailman just knocked on the door with a fat envelope from Carus Publishing. Inside were six beautiful copies of Cicada, with my story, “This Little Pig” inside. I used to read Cicada, when I was in the right age group. Can you imagine how exciting this is for me? Not only was this a
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Sale! “Death Comes but Twice” to Talebones
What a fantastic way to start off 2007. Patrick Swenson just emailed me to say that he’d like to buy “Death Comes but Twice” for issue #35 of Talebones. I’m delighted. Talebones is one of my favorite magazines and I’ve been hankering to get in there. Happy New Year everyone!
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The speed of blogging and oral story-telling
I biked down to Hawthorne to have lunch with Jay Lake, so that he could sign the limited edition chapbooks of his story Christmas Season. The wind was pretty ferocious and it was like biking uphill the whole way there, which was frustrating, since that’s the downhill direction. By the time I got home, two
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New Year 2007 360 Panoramas
John Scalzi pointed out this page of panoramic photos of New Year’s Eve. The one for Reykjavik is up by Halgrimskirkja (the big pointy church you can see from everywhere) and has sound. It’s not the same as being there, but looking at the rockets going off in the middle of the crowd certainly gives
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New Year’s food
For years, I’ve had a standing date with Sue and Albert on New Year’s Day for black-eyed peas and greens. Oh, and cornbread. See, Albert is from east Tennessee, and totally gets the whole traditional food thing. Sue, on the other hand, has a long-standing tradition of champagne and caviar. It is surprising how well