Rob’s been having some trouble at the winery with his hands. He’d been losing sensation in his fingertips, dropping things and dealing with general weakness. We were pretty sure it was carpal tunnel syndrome, so he was trying to put off going to the doctor until after harvest. A persistant tingling in two of his […]
23:55 Gluing skull to shoulders plate. # 00:26 Wiring a humerous to the shoulder plate, then will hotglue ribs in place. Using gaffers tape as a “design” element. # 02:33 All righty, it’s time to finish off the fog witch’s costume. With luck, I can call it a night soon. # 03:27 I just realized
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Personally, I think the outcome of this has the promise to be pretty darn exciting. A message from Roy Blount Jr.: A couple months after I became Authors Guild president in 2006, we met with Google to propose a settlement to our class-action lawsuit. The Guild had sued Google in September 2005, after Google struck
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So, I was building this collar for Hecate and you know, it’s late and there are all these spare bones lying about. Some of the pieces I couldn’t use, like the pelvis, because it was so shoddily constructed that it didn’t really look like a pelvis if it wasn’t attached to the skeleton. What did
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20:12 Shopping for Halloween costumes with my parents. I just needed more bones. # 21:05 At puppet kitchen, installing an armature into Hecate’s collar. Mom and Dad are having pizza with Rob. # 22:21 Sent the family home. I’m sawing a skull open. # 23:39 Spraying the skull with vanilla. # 23:41 And now pausing
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We don’t normally take the paper because neither of us are home often enough to really read it, but with the folks here we picked up a copy of the Sunday New York Times. I found this piece on the Op-Ed page and was startled by the opening paragraphs. John McCain isn’t boasting about a
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I’ll tell you, it’s strange not to be going into the Puppet Kitchen to build things. I kept feeling like there was something I needed to be doing all day today. What I did instead of that was head up to the farmer’s market and pick up some produce plus some apple cider. After I
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Hypothetically, let’s say you were going to an convention over Halloween that had a no costume policy. Let’s further say that you respect the desire to have a professional convention, but still… Halloween. One might opt for what I call Stealth Halloween. What is this, you might ask? It consists of two components. Stealth Costumes:
This morning we started off with bagels and cream cheese then headed out into the world. We took the train down to South Street Seaport, which took forever because all trains were running local. When we got down there it was Icelandic levels of windy. I mean,really, the sort of thing that threatens to push
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My folks arrived last night to spend the weekend with us. They were supposed to arrive around noon, but the weather out of Atlanta was apparently foul. Normally I would have been distressed to lose those hours with them, but honestly, after the past week having a little extra time to clean was very welcome.
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01:32 Taking a break for ice cream sandwiches. # 01:47 Back to making the collar of bones for Hecate. # 02:28 My friends in the same studio have just made the most beautiful dragon puppet. The thing is thirty feet long. Gooooorgeous. # 06:16 Heading for home. My parents arrive at noon for the weekend.
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03:20 Installing fog witch’s head on the mechanism. # 04:05 Braiding crowns. # 04:10 Beginning to paint the fog witch. Have I mentioned that the painting is my favorite part? # 06:11 Finished with painting the fog witch head. I’m starting the costume now. # 09:19 Finished the fog witch’s costume. I’m putting gold glitter
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01:44 It looks like we’ve managed to salvage the fog witch’s head. We cast it today in papier mache and, with a little rebuilding, it looks fine. # 17:21 Whew. The gun repair was only $300. I was worried it would be pushing a thousand. # 18:53 Making a Pict helmet. # 20:38 I’m sanding
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This is an amazing resource. The Center for Puppetry Arts, where I intered lo these many years ago, has opened a virtual puppetry museum which has 91% of their collection online. I can’t tell you what an amazing thing this is. I remember spending hours in the museum when I was there. It didn’t matter
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