- Excellent article by Ashley Eckstein about geek fans and costuming, and sports fans and costuming. She makes an excellent point; the parallel is obvious but I honestly hadn't made it before. In general I thing she's an awesome spokesperson for geek women.

- Excellent article on the politics of SW, specifically how the political landscape in ( Read more... )

Halloween is past and my thoughts turn to Thanksgiving. Today I'm thankful for my many wonderful friends; good friends, great friends, best friends ( Read more... )

Halloween things that freak me out:

- From atdt1991: Edible Spray Paint. Paint your food to look like a metallic plastic centerpiece - and eat it too! Ugh...I just can't...ew. I mean, part of me thinks this is neat and Science! and stuff, but...that doesn't look very appetizing.

- How to truly terrify your trick-or-treaters: a remote-controlled ( Read more... )

Lots of Halloween stuff, of course. :)

- Star Wars art: Tea time on Dagobah. Very nice.

- I went to Mid-Ohio con last weekend and really enjoyed the art of Sara Richard. I bought three of her pieces: The Rocketeer, a gorgeous horse, and "It's a nap!"...because baby Ackbar is frakking adorable.

- More art: Seeds of the Dark Side. "He's ( Read more... )

And back to your regularly scheduled fun links. :)

- New favorite SW art: Steampunk Echo Station. If this was available as a print I'd have it yesterday!

- I emailed this one to my dad: Star Wars AT-AT pancakes, in 3D! It's amazing! I have both sets of SW pancake molds from William-Sonoma and Dad and I have used them several times with much ( Read more... )

More links to share....because I enjoy them. And yes I could slap them up on Facebook, but FB does not have the archival/tags ability that LJ has. So there.

On Halloween:

- Another good one from Surviving the World, this time on making Jack-O'-Lanterns. :)

- From atdt1991, a clever and rather adorable father/son costume: one has a HazMat worker, and ( Read more... )

Life has been good lately. Also somewhat busy. Not omgpantsonfire busy...but a kind of medium-busy that is somehow quite draining. And I've been reading a lot of books...and I tend to get sucked into a book very easily, which means I'll spend an entire evening reading instead of posting pictures or emailing (or laundry or grocery shopping, heh ( Read more... )

It's been posted everywhere, but I'll repeat it anyway: today's XKCD is a nerdtacularly awesome chart outlining the character narrative flow for Star Wars (Original Trilogy), LOTR, Jurassic Park, 12 Angry Men, and Primer. (Click for huge.) It's amazing and brilliant. (I've never seen Primer; based on the chart I probably won't any time soon, heh ( Read more... )

Heh, great juxaposition of people there ( Read more... )

tawneypup, disarray2 and I went to listened to Jacqueline Carey talk about her Kushiel series and her new book, Banewreaker. We also got all our books signed. The other ladies bought the new HC and once tawneypup is done I'll be reading it. The fact that her new book would be a $30 hardcover somehow fell out of my brain, and even with my newfound funds I wasn't prepared ( Read more... )