Over Memorial Day weekend I attended Clockwork Alchemy, a steampunk convention put on by the good folks at Fanime. It is held at the venerable San Jose Doubletree, which has been the home base for many conventions over the years ( Read more... )

 Memorial Day weekend was full of cons, of which I visited two and had some contact with a third.

Normally you'll find me at Baycon, but this year I headed over to the venerable San Jose Doubletree to check out the new player in town; Clockwork Alchemy. It was too small for the space, really, but shows a lot of promise and I'll be interested to see ( Read more... )

YIPE! Volume 3, Issue 4, “Riveting!,” is now available for download:

• YIPE! Issue 4 (Low-Resolution PDF, 4.5M)
  (single-page format)
• YIPE! Issue 4 (High-Resolution PDF, 29.94M)
  (two-page spread format)

Nova Albion was a ton of fun, it still has organizational issues-and I'll write a proper report for SF/SF with more detail but it was undeniably a good time with plenty if brain-stimuli and eye-candy.

This weekend is Wondercon of course, and I plan to be there all three days, attending panels and helping out at the SF Outreach table and checking out ( Read more... )

Clockwork SF was on Friday, and I've been meaning to attend since it started a few months ago. Once the momentum got rolling we ended up with a nice group; sinmix , clockworkbuddha , jadecat9  and kilah_hurtz  and self all piled in the DadMobile and headed over to Julie's Supper Club to see what was what.

I was worried that it would just be a goth club with goggles slapped on but it was ( Read more... )

The new issue is out, Steam Powered coverage and more.

Back from Steam Powered ( Read more... )

New to me that is;


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Friday I was all jazzed for the weekend and got home in the evening with a huge list of things that I wanted to get done. I figured I'd start right away so my Saturday would be more relaxed. So of course I got home, put clothes in the washer, fixed dinner and took a "nap" that put me out until 8AM the next morning... which did mean I was able to ( Read more... )

I'm spending far too much time at work googling around for costume ideas and steampunk pretties...

I want this coat;


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