Hey gang, I just found out that there are still openings in the Pup-It workshop tomorrow in Portland. If you have the time and are interested in puppet construction, I highly, highly, highly recommend this workshop. Eric Wright, one of the three head chefs from New York City’s The Puppet Kitchen, is visiting the Portland […]
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As part of the show that my puppet company is taking to WorldCon, we promised that we’d create a new piece specifically for the event. For that, we need a little input. We need your favorite lines from science-fiction, fantasy and the related genres. No promises that we’ll use all of them, but we need
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Technically, Friday was the first day of the con but since I got here on Thursday it feels like Day 2 for me. We started with the opening ceremonies which were short and simple. The various GoH’s introduced themselves and said, “hello” to the audience. Martin Young, the Toastmaster, gave me the straight line of
I’m hopping on a train to Santa Clara TODAY for BayCon, where I’m one of their Guests of Honor. I’m looking forward to seeing the always fantastic art Goh John Picacio and to meeting Fan GoH Bobbie DuFault and Toastmaster Martin Young. I’ve got my schedule below, but wanted to point out a couple of
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Those folks who have been following me on Twitter, have probably seen some particularly gruesome puppet building posts. I haven’t told anyone what I’ve been building because it was SECRET. Now I can tell you. Last night, I went to Seattle to John Scalzi’s reading as one of the surprise guests he’d promised for this
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It’s nice to see a puppet wrangler get her due. The LA Times has an article about the wrangler who maintains the Beaver puppet in The Beaver. The new film “The Beaver” stars Mel Gibson as a mentally ill man who begins to speak through a battered hand puppet that he retrieves from a dumpster
As one of the rewards for our Kickstarter campaign to take our puppet play “Whatnot” to WorldCon, I’m offering an unpublished short story. This is exclusively available to our donors, whether we make our funding goal or not. All you have to do is donate, and the story will be visible to you. Even if
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Since I know you like process shots, I took pictures the other day when I was hastily constructing the pencil-necked little weasel. For those who missed the whole thing, a politician in Minnesota called multiple-award winning author Neil Gaiman a pencil-necked little weasel, accused him of being a thief and said that he hated him.
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Help me, Bio Wan. You’re my only hope. I’ve been asked to write a longform bio for BayCon, where I will be Guest of Honor at the end of the month. (Please come!) Writing bios gives me a sad face. They’ve asked for something 300-500 words long. I’ve just carved a 390 out of granite
Guest post by Rob Kimbro We opened Odd and the Frost Giants on Tuesday morning with a great show in front of a wonderful crowd from Briscoe Jr. High. This morning we had our first elementary-age audience – 150 or so first graders. Definitely a different energy with that age. Various jokes and moments in
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I realized that I talk about our cats Harriet and Marlowe quite a bit but that I’ve never introduced you to our pencil-necked little weasel. Here’s a photo of him lounging with Harriet in the sun. His name is Neil and he’s an exceptionally friendly and intelligent pencil-necked little weasel. While he can be a
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As part of the Kickstarter campaign to get our puppet company to WorldCon, I will do the occasional blog post to explain what the prizes are, or to talk about the show. This is cross-posted from Kickstarter to talk about the $25 reward, which are hand-crafted puppet faces. Thank you so much to those of
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So, look. Renovation has invited my puppet company to perform at Worldcon. They don’t have the budget to bring us there. I’ll already be there, but it’s a three person show and puppet shows are expensive. But we’ve been given a blessing to run a Kickstarter campaign to get there Not only do you have
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I wish I were in Houston with the rest of the Odd and the Frost Giant team, but director Rob Kimbro has some photos to with you. Too tired to provide any sort of commentary or context here other than to say that we have dress rehearsal tomorrow and the first student matinee Tuesday morning.
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Dave Farland has these very cool conference calls through his Authors’ Advisory, where folks can call in and talk to an author. Tonight it is me! At 8:45 EST, I’ll be talking about the Long and the Short of Fiction. Or puppets! Or SFWA. Ask away. You can get instructions on how to call in
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