Ars Gratia Artis

This may be the best picture of Michael from Pennsic:

That’s right, Michael is dressed as Sir Titanius Anglesmith of Cornwood.
Courtesy of Jodi.

… a story about me and the monkey that I want to share with you. It’s supposed to be part of the broadcast tomorrow morning, but the streaming audio segment is available now. If you are not aware of vocalo.org (and why would you be, if you are not near Chicago?), it’s a sort of [...]

The first actual webisode from a series:

I ordered a copy of Ethan’s book from Amazon.com; it arrived today. Coincidentally, I followed a link on the facebook page for Ethan’s book to an interview: http://grindingtovalhalla.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/reading-the-text-ethan-gilsdorf/
I’m the Queen of the Geeks. LOL. At least, for that one day. I always knew the SCA would make me a Queen. LMAO.
Meanwhile, Ethan’s book is [...]

Again? — sez you.
Nothin’ up my sleeve! — sez me
PRESTO!!!
AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
So, here’s the thing. I have been trying to move the whole site to a content management system, and was going to play with Drupal 6.10 and Wordpress 2.7.1. My lovely server admin, the charming and popular Belmikey, set me up a site where I can [...]

Listing to a mashup: She Wants Revenge vs. Joy Division vs. Bauhaus.
O.O
So, it comes to mind:
Skinny redheaded Kathy Griffen shouting out, “All right, where’s my gays?”
I wanna know, where is the plumpy redhead shouting out “Where’s my goths?”
Which then begs the question: Is there goth comedy? I mean, other than “If I was [...]

First, the wire is starting to buzz with the project underway: New Trek Ships being painted by respected artists. Link:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/new-enterprise-models-go.php
Eh, I am underwhelmed by the paint jobs tossed on two of the three models in the article. I wish it could be related to my deep, deep geekery and an asshat habit so ingrained that [...]

There you have it, geeks of the world. The Eleventh Doctor stepping out of the Tardis.
ETA: Yes. It’s a REAL Tardis. At least, as real as any Tardis can be. K is REALLY stepping out of it. Have you not noticed the depth and breadth of geek props we have available to us? [...]

I want to finish writing out my stuff. But right now I’m working so much that I’m exceeding 8 billable hours daily. If you’ve never been driven by the tyranny of the billable minute, that may not seem like much (especially if you are accustomed to lawyer-type of billable minutes, which means that 30 seconds [...]

Why would this picture of Dave Bowman (that is, Kier Dullea in 2001: A Space Odessy) be dedicated to the Michael Man, Miguel-san?
Oh, baby, geek joy follows.
As usual, Michel spent the greater portion of last week at WonderFest. As it happens, this year is the 40th anniversary of the release of 2001, which, along with [...]

I think it ended exactly as it should. If you are any kind of a geek, & haven’t seen it yet, you need to go do so before the end of the day. I expect to be buying the dvd or whatever. I like the way the understory is told in the character’s costumes [...]

Walking down the hall, I hear one of the other workers asking for more information on a medical practicitoner.
“Doctor who?” he says.
Immediately, I was stricken with the earworm to end all earworms. Yes. You know. The Doctor Who theme played in my head all through the afternoon.
Meanwhile, here’s all kind of geek goodness: Dr. Horrible’s [...]

Hello, Adventurer! Steve M and everything!

Dear 850,000 people who came to my website in the last 24 hours with some variation on the search “What do heraldic shields and copyright have in common,”
I don’t know what answer you’re looking for. I presume you’ve got some kind of trivia or test going on. My guess would be, however, that what they [...]

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Holy frak!
It is silent all across geekland.