Rob’s birthday!
No post today, because Rob and I are going out.
Journal
Bruised by Toast
In this episode various household appliances have gone beserk, including the Mayor’s toaster. The toast is not, of course, real toast. It’s some plastic thing that looks like toast. In order to create the illusion that the toaster is flinging toast around the entire house, people stand outside camera range and throw these hard square
Shimmer Spring Cover
Thought you might be interested in seeing the cover for the spring issue of Shimmer. It features the art of the amazing David Ho. Of course I’m pleased with the interior illustrations as well. Artwork by Paul Guinan, Stephen Stanley, Frank Harper, Joy Marchand and a dark new cartoon by Joseph Remy. The table of
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Meetings
I can’t remember if I mentioned that I’m the puppeteer liason, which means I get to sit in on production meetings to represent the puppeteers. Tonights was three hours long, but felt like we got some good work done. I’m not going into detail, but thought you’d at least like to know why I wasn’t
Barnafoss
Today we had an outing with several people from work. Ten of us piled into an “excursion vehicle” and headed up into the highlands for a trip to an ice cave. On the way we stopped at Barnafoss, which I’d never been to although I had heard it was beautiful. This description fails completely to
Langjökull glacial cave
Next up was the glacial cave at Langjökull. For those of you who don’t know, and that would include me before today, a glacial cave is a cave that is inside a glacier, while an ice cave is merely a cave with ice in it. So today, not only did we drive over a glacier,
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The SF Site Featured Review: Shimmer, Autumn 2005
The SF Site Featured Review: Shimmer, Autumn 2005 If I had seen Shimmer in a store, I would have snatched it up right away, because I am a book snob, and, to my shame, am too easily seduced by gorgeous cover art. However, had I indeed picked up a copy in a fit of unmitigated
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Shimmer – Spring Bonus
Shimmer – Spring Bonus To celebrate spring we’d like to offer you this special bonus; a story so exciting that we couldn’t wait for the next issue of the magazine to come out. We had to share it with you now. Download the pdf today!
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Mountain of Pizza
Today, Þor and I were trapped in the pizza cave. In this scene, Ziggy gets trapped in his room by the sheer volume of pizza (don’t ask where they came from) which meant that the set and props department made a mountain of pizza (foam) that they lay over an elevated set. Þor and I
Shimmer away!
Today was fairly dull at work. But I did finish the final edits of Shimmer and it’s going off to the press. Whew.
Science-Fiction Novel Posits Future Where Characters Are Hastily Sketched | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Well, this amuses me. Science-Fiction Novel Posits Future Where Characters Are Hastily Sketched | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source OREGON CITY, ORâ€â€Science-fiction author Morgan Richards announced Monday completion of his long-awaited novel, Zeppelins Of Phobos. The swashbuckling tale of the battle for control of the solar system depicts a terrifying future filled with
Importing old posts
I just imported all the old journal entries from my blogger account to this website. All of the pictures were lost, because of that lightning strike last year, but at least you can still read about my adventures last time I was in Iceland.
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Late start
We weren’t called until noon today and then didn’t wind up doing any performance until probably three in the afternoon. Today’s sentence is: Let’s shoot him now now. Pretty much everything was run of the mill today. I did live hands for two of the characters–this was actually the first time ever that I’ve live-handed
Stanislaw Lem, Author of Science Fiction Classics, Is Dead at 84 – New York Times
Stanislaw Lem, Author of Science Fiction Classics, Is Dead at 84 – New York Times Stanislaw Lem, a Polish science-fiction writer who, in novels like “Solaris” and “His Master’s Voice,” contemplated man’s place in the universe in sardonic and sometimes bleak terms, died yesterday in Krakow, Poland. He was 84. The cause was heart failure,
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