Ars Gratia Artis

Michael was sitting on his vintage lounger, shifting through a bag of pistachios. He finished, wrapped up the bag, and announced, “Well, I’ve eaten all the magic pistachios.”
Puzzled, I look at him a moment. He simply smiled back at me, so I had to ask: “What do you mean?”
“The ones that just fell out of [...]

Driving the boyboy back home tonight, I found myself unable to switch into the right lane because a car with an obnoxious-sounding engine had struggled into my blind spot. He’d had to work to get into that spot, and then he sat there.
“Fucker,” I thought. I’d miss the rapidly approaching on-ramp if I didn’t pull [...]

It should be hard to become a Laurel.
I never imagined I would say that in those days before I was made a Laurel myself. It shouldn’t be so hard, I thought then, people should not be burnt to a crisp before they are recognized. While I still believe that to a lesser extent, it is [...]

Angelique met President Bush yesterday. Apparently, the company she now works for is significantly republican. Sad, really. Jed Bartlett for president.
WoooooOOOooooOOoo deja-vu. Again.
Meanwhile, if you like Monty Python and/or Star Wars, you must watch Guard Duty: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2425100
And something a bit scary:
Who’s wasting away in Hollywood?

The WIP list, strictly projects in progress.
1. Refurbish banners 1/2/3/4/5
2. Alter paisley tunic to gwazi coat
3. Refletch Arrows
4. Finish archery kit
5. finish wooden lavendar box
6. finish grooming kit
7. finish standards
8. re-waterproof cloak
9. finish appliqué on Black dress
10. finish blanks
11. refurbish thrones
From Scratch:
1. SIMPLE cloth covers for plastic bins.
2. Hangings for port interiors
3. Lamps to hang from center ridge pole
4. Spiff up outside of port ala gwen
5. green heraldic cotehardie set
I’ve [...]

I was walking through one of the many local grocery stores yesterday, suddenly overwhelmed by deja-vu and homesickness.
I’d like to go home now. Can I go home now?
The produce aisle teemed with the limited number of offerrings: so little to chose from, so very, very much of those limited things: onions and potatoes and 3 [...]

So, of course, the Crown Tourney that I’m too used up to go to is the Crown that my much-loved friend Raito wins for Aesa, whom I also adore.
::sigh::
So I determine that since I was there for his Coronet win and missed his Investiture as Prince of Northshield, it seems right and proper that [...]

I’ve been keeping an open diary online since June of 1999. At first, I just popped html pages up on my website; eventually, blogging software would become widely available and I would travel from brand to brand, trying out each system. It’s kind of a fun circle to come around to blogging quietly, obscurely, on [...]

Here is the original WIP list, with the completed items struck:
1. Gi’s scroll, due 5 March
2. Paint the downstairs bathroom
3. Relocate the sock monkey section of pendray.tripod.com
4. Finish the northshield badge
5. Complete the NS Cope badges
6. Complete 1 page of the Ruth project
7. Edit 2 chapters of Nano 2004
8. Finish the pink lucet cord
9. [...]

And so the typepad/mt experiment ends. WordPress is mighty, mighty similar; I’m not at all unhappy with it, just, as usual, notiving the differences, longing for some features, glad that others are gone.
Still haven’t tweaked the skin to all I want it to be. It’s a bit more complex here on my own server, but [...]