To make up for the giant marionette that didn’t attack Reykjavik. Here’s some footage of a real giant marinette. In fact, this is likely what inspired the faux marionette. Enjoy.
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Back at the ranch, our wonderful tenant and cat-sitter has gotten a new job out of town, and is moving out in mid-October. I come home at the end of October, which means that our cats will be without the attention to which they have become accustomed. They have a self-feeder and waterer, but we
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To make the body, I started by creating a fullsize mockup of the bear’s torso. Next, I covered the form in cloth and established the basic fit. In this photo, I’m attaching the boning. Because I am making a pattern of the bear, I’ll pin everything into place, then label each piece of boning and
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Maggie asked: What do you do when you make a mistake, or cough, or have to clear your throat, or take a drink of water? I know that a person can take a break when recording a reading, and one can take a drink then. I also recall readers for the talking books for the
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Last night Rob and I headed out to a friend’s birthday party. Being in Iceland, since the party started at 8:30, that’s when we started getting ready to leave. Don’t ask me why, but every party experience I’ve had here shows that guests don’t start arriving until at least an hour after the stated party
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You have no idea how many things I coveted in that raffle and I couldn’t enter a drawing for a single one of them. It was very hard. So, imagine please, my surprise and delight on seeing this in my feedreader today. The Knight Agency Blog: Critique Winner and Thanks! Thanks to those of you
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The drawings are complete and the winners have been notified. For a complete list, visit the website. If you see your name listed, but have not received an email from me, please let me know. I will be letting the donors know who has claimed their prize tomorrow. (Saturday) Right now, I’m beat and heading
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Another Twenty Epics review, this time at Tangent Online My favorite story in this collection is “Bound Man” by Mary Robinette Kowal. Ripped from the past while playing with her two children in her courtyard, legendary “warrior-god” Li Reiko finds herself six-thousand years in the future where she has been summoned to slay the Troll
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Take note, for those of you planning to submit to Shimmer’s pirate issue, of what the Slush God says on his blog. Pirates say “Arrr!”, damn it: no “gh.” “Argh!” is a cry of frustration (it is, also apparently a fungeoid esoteric programming language). I keep seeing this error over and over, and as the
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I don’t often bring up politics on my blog because I have family members with whom I don’t see eye to eye. But this is important. Please read, Whatever: On Moral Cowardice which discusses the new detainee trial law. Everytime I meet someone here in Iceland and have to admit that I’m an American, I
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For the past week, I’ve had a little bit of a scratchy throat which I ascribed to not drinking enough water. Not because I was coming down with something. Oh no. And the conjestion when I wake up in the morning? I probably got pollen on the pillow and just need to do laundry. It’s
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I got word this morning that Aoife’s Kiss would like to buy “Chrysalis.” I am very happy that this story has found a home. Chrysalis : The Husiths undergo Chrysalis to become an adult, but the enzymes involved in the process scramble their memories. As a culture, they are obsessed with documenting their pupaehood, which
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Unfortunately, the battery on my camera died so I don’t have very many pictures of this part of the process. I first removed the lower jaw and then carved out an upper and lower palate for the bear. While I’ll fiberglass all of it, I’ll wind up cutting some away later giving the bear a
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I don’t understand it. Helicopters? Giant marionettes? How in the name of all that is holy did I miss this? There are so many pieces of footage for it. How? How did I miss this? Edited to add: Ah. I missed it because it didn’t happen. No one in Reykjavik saw it and it’s not
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I have a weakness for napping in the sun. A couple of years ago, Rob and I discovered the joys of Incubus, starring William Shatner, which is the only feature length film made entirely in Esperanto. The cinematographer was Conrad Hall (American Beauty) so it’s beautifully shot, but still… Esperanto. The point of this is