Yesterday I spent what amounts to about a dozen hours on a bus from DC to Toronto.  I've come to the great white north for the TEDxLibrariansTO conference.  I've been psyched about this conference for weeks and the fact that this is my first trip to Canada as well is also a kind of joy.  Counting the United States I've been in five countries this ( Read more... )

This was my first expedition out of the house without my translating friends.  So I had  that little hurdle to climb to begin with.  But I made it down to the XiaoBA, little van, just fine and off to the main gate.  The main gate drops you off at Luojiashan, aka Plastic Street. So I headed down there to either find food or make my way to the mall ( Read more... )

So tonight the faeries donned their gay apparel and went forth to Lambda Rising and proclaimed ourselves queens of the wild frontier. Actually we just went forth to proclaim that we published our issue of RFD and it was fun. There wasn't a very large turnout, but those who came enjoyed it ( Read more... )

Oh Thank Cod!

dmlaenker and I have finally fully booked our tickets, and we're flying out to Seattle, and we'll be staying out there from November 8-14. If any of my Seattle people want to meet up with me I'm sure we'll hold court at the College Inn Pub one night at least, and probably go out to a number of various attractions throughout the city. We're ( Read more... )

So, I've been superbusy, not posting and all...

For that I apologize dear friends.

I have been reading loads and loads, working loads and loads, and basically doing home stuff in the in between times and occasionally catching some time to sleep.

What have I been reading:

Buddha by Osamu Tezuka. Think Walt Disney meets Siddhartha. A mix of ( Read more... )

Yes, I know that Baltimore is a mere hour away, but still I'll be there all weekend for Ecumenicon. Teddy and I will be setting up shop in the vendor's area and selling our wares. I hope that it's a rollicking success.

So: Thursday Evening-Sunday afternoon: Gone to Bal'mre

Love love, kiss kiss and all that.

Hey y'all ( Read more... )

I'm off to Richmond for the weekend.

Have fun folks!

In one respect I don't want to pay $150.00 to ride the fucking bus to Cincinnati and back because it's going to take 16 hours both ways, and that's always crap ( Read more... )