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This is a random entry to be edited through the day, so I don’t write 537 single line entries. Guess who’s oh-so-high-strung today?
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Equal Opportunity Mockery.
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Listening to Locomotive Breath. It always makes me think of Junior High School, social studies class, and the Bay City Rollers.
LOL. I think I’d just be repeating [...]

I was piddling around in the kitchen, waiting for Michael to come back from Michael’s (the craft store.) I really wanted some iced tea, but, of course, there is never any ice here. So I look and look until I find the ice cube trays, clean them up, and popped some trays into the [...]

Domesday Boke Pictures from of the An Tir College of Book Arts
Decent photo essay, nice work. Jodi, what do you think?
Jodi? Jodi? Where’d your blog go? Where did your site go? How can I email you when you use your domain as your email front? GAH!!!!
Random thoughts for my own blog: I need an “art [...]

Pennsic WIP list? What’s that?
Reason for falling behind number one follows:
I’m not really sure why, but working on the invitation for Barb and Pat’s wedding really exhausted me. I told them I would love to do it for them, I just needed them to give me the words. Unfortunately, it took them until about [...]

It’s been a quiet day, but it’s ending all cruddy. Blargh. The laptop that I was composing yet another Scadian Manifesto upon suddenly clicked into this weird cycle of turing itself off and back on. One hopes it was merely too hot, elsewise, hours of work on writing an article about British and Western European [...]

James Doohan, of Star Trek, Dies at 85
Once, Michael & I were attending GenCon; it would have been around 1993, 94. My favorite part of GenCon was always the bar in the Hyatt, and in the last years of GenCon-in-Milwaukee, I didn’t waste my time with anything beyond the bar.
And so, I was [...]

Time for lawmakers to act on Grokster? | CNET News.com
Every time I hear/read someone speak on the behalf of the RIAA and other such Robber Barons, my crapdar goes off.
There are so many legit uses of P2P, and so many good reasons to work with the allegedly illicit purposes. I would never have heard [...]

When I was a kid in 5th grade (as opposed to an adult in 5th grade, feh), there was a fad for autograph books. Some rare wit wrote in mine:
Mary had a little lamb
A lobster and some prunes
A piece of pie, a glass of milk,
And then some macaroons.
It made the naughty waiters grin
To see her [...]

We went to the Street Rod show today.
There is a certain sound the old V8’s make, of thunder and power, and no kid in his cheesy Camero with a hole ice-picked into his muffler can even come close to the sound of a real engine. I remember when all the cars in my life sounded [...]

I would walk in you.
I would take my shoes of, step softly, step in, scenting the vinyl and oil in the now, the slick cool of the tile sliding beneath me
But
I will remember the grass and the sun and the coffee, the trace of your perfume as you teased your wrist, wafting oils of [...]

We intended to leave on Tuesday, thinking to arrive about 4 pm. However, at 4 PM, we were still packing. So we shrugged our shoulders, finished up, and spent the night at home. Michael initially suggested driving up and spending the night at the Orange Moose, but I said, “Why Spend the Money?” Josh had [...]

Back from DubDub last night. Still tired today. Recap in the works. Burnt. Dry. And Back to work.

Oh, baby, goth up your library:
Click here, GOTHLINGS! You new age darkies, you!
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One of my all-time favorite movies is the animated The Last Unicorn. Apparently, there is a live-action verion underway, and the author of the initial book and animated film script is also exercising much control over the live action remake. Excellent. Excellent.
I think [...]

LACMA Collections Online
This particular page leads to something called “Costume Drawings of Tudor Nobility with Manuscript Additions” ca. 1511. And yes, there it is, the Early Tudor Cotehardie/Kirtle, even with a sideless surcoat of sorts. Likely representational rather than actually observed clothing, but the picture I am most interested in, the bottom right hand corner, [...]

A costume newsgroup FAQ
And that was a walk down memory lane. Whew.
I wonder if the Textile Outlet store is still in Chicago, is still called that? My mother and I wandered all thought that place; neither one of us could afford much, but we could afford more because the woman would give us wholesale because [...]