Pirate Issue
Don’t forget that you only have two weeks until the end of Shimmer‘s Pirate Issue submission window. Send in your pirate stories by January 31st.
Journal
Life with a touring puppeteer: 1998, Day 9
Wednesday, October 14, 1998Day Nine Today we got to sleep in, til 7:30 am. Oooo. We’re staying with some friends of Joe’s (Shawna and Steven) that live in Seattle. In tour talk, this is a “home stay”. Tears of Joy gives us $40 in per diem for food and hotel, but we get to keep
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Interactive Hula Dancer
While I clean the basement, why don’t you all play with the Interactive Hula Dancer.
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Life with a touring puppeteer: 1998, Day 7
Monday, October 12, 1998Day Seven Today started at 6:00am. It was very hard to get up. And it’s raining, of course it’s Seattle so I shouldn’t be surprised. We had a very busy, full day as our first day of school shows. The first show was at 9:30 in, ironically, Marysville. Our second show was
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The Old-Fashioned Girl
I’m cleaning out my bookshelves and finding that there are books to which I’m no longer attached, so those are going in “away” pile. But there are also books, which I love, that are in terrible shape. I have a copy of Louisa May Alcott’s The Old-Fashioned Girl (long one of my favorites) which is
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My plate
This is what I have on my agenda for the weekend. Arabian Nights scenic design Repair Kids on the Block puppets Pack house Design two websites Clean for new housemate’s arrival
Early fiction: A fable
While we’re on the wayback machine, I thought I’d share something I just found in the process of packing the house. A fable I wrote when I was 14 or 15. There are some other short stories in this folder, but this one makes me laugh. I have no memory of writing it. Once upon
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Life with a touring puppeteer: 1998, Day 6
Sunday, October 11, 1998 Our day together started at 9:40am. Joe came to pick me up in the touring van and we drove to TOJ to do one last run-through of the “Brer Rabbit” part of the show. I was still shaky on some of the lines. Then it was off to Beaverton to set
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Pretty!
I just got the pdf galley proof of “For Solo Cello, op. 12” which will appear in the March/April issue of Cosmos. Pretty! Full page art! In color!
IROSF reviews Shimmer’s autumn issue
Internet Review of Science Fiction reviewed our autumn issue of Shimmer. Many thanks to all of our authors and artists and hearty congratulations to Silvia Moreno-Garcia, whose story “King of Sand and Stormy Seas” got a recommendation from Lois Tilton. A man’s life comes full circle as he returns to his origins. When he was
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #8
Hey, I thought you might be interested in checking out my art in Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest‘s eighth issue. I illustrated “A Place of Snow Angels” by Matt Wallace. I say illustrated, this is almost all digital and the compositing of four different photographs. The largest is one I took of the glacial
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Life with a touring puppeteer: 1998, Day 4
Thursday, October 8, 1998 We had planned on rehearsing yesterday, but spent the day doing errands or repairs instead. Today was much better. Joe and I both had meetings, but we were able to get some time in the evening to run the show all the way through. There are some rough spots, but most
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Early fiction: Sinbad’s Adventures in Lewis Carrol’s Land
I have zero memory of this one. What makes me laugh about this is that right now I’m designing The Arabian Nights for McCarter Theater and they just finished building a show called Lookingglass Alice. Ah…when worlds collide. How did my fifteen year old self know? Sinbad’s Adventures in Lewis Carrol’s Land Sinbad was in
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Not a good use of time
The trouble with home improvements is that then you see all the other things that need doing that you could ignore before. The wallpaper in the guest room has always been bubbly. During the last year, while we were gone, it started actually peeling. I noticed this when I got home, but had so many
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Buster’s Blog
You can see a video of the dog that Rob found last year, right before we went to Iceland, on Buster’s Blog. My dad adopted Buster and they seem to like each other. It makes me laugh, at any rate.