Yesterday, Jeff and I rented a car and hauled 5 HUGE bags of clothing to the Salvation Army for donation. Prior to that we delivered 2 equally huge bags of vintage clothing to the Theater Development Fund Costume Collection. I rented 1916 costumes there for a book video. This is a costume rental house for the theatrical community and anyone else. ( Read more... )

So, my sister was visiting. I'll write more about that later. Not much to remark upon, it was a pleasant visit, there was stuff with my mother, again, later ( Read more... )

I am so pissed about Carl dying I want to shriek from the rooftops. I didn't watch the episode, I followed on live chat. I knew I wouldn't be able to take it. It's DVR'd. I loved Carl and this gratuitous death crap gets to me, in part because the relentless nihilism is just too fucking much. We already had devastated!Rick when Lori died, then again ( Read more... )

SO, back in the 90s a book I wrote, “The Devil You Say”, was published by Avon as the start of a comic fantasy series.  It was a P.G. Wodehouse pastiche, more specifically, the Bertie/Jeeves stories.  The leads are Aubrey Arbuthnot, a perennially penniless English psychic detective, and his stoic manservant, Hornchurch.  The story involved a ( Read more... )

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The other day I had to go out from about 11 AM to 5 PM. Fletcher has been able to escape EVERYTHING I put him in.  First, he learned how to climb out of the puppy pen.  A friend gave me a proper crate with a top.  It has two latch closings.  News flash: it took one day for him to figure out how to pull the latches!  SO, yesterday when I closed the ( Read more... )

I have two much older sisters.  The oldest bought 1960s/1970s "comix" and The Realist, a satire magazine I was unable to appreciate at the time.  Years ago I saw Paul Krassner, the founder, performing in San Francisco.  Today I did a Google search, and found this tribute to Walt Disney:( SO Not Safe For Work! )

Last night I realized why I've have been having so much trouble completing TP&TP.  Nothing to do with logistics.  Shit.

And it's not what you'd think.

Not to mention sticking hubby with the check!


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