It occurred to me that I never fully gathered my thoughts about Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm. People have asked me over the past few months and I've posted in different places like on Facebook and in the diversity thread in the expanded universe part of the forums on theforce.net ( Read more... )

Comic Con helped Ken see me in a new light.

Direct sunlight.

Ken: You have something on the corners of your mouth.
Me: I do? ::rubs::
Ken: It's still there. ::peers:: oh.
Me: Oh what? Do I have pimples?
Ken: Oh no wait. ...
Me: ...
Ken: ...You have a mustache. =(

Now I'm not sure if I should do anything about my mustache or not. I told Ken I ( Read more... )

Friday at Comic Con. Hm. Well,for starters, I drove the gang there, which resulted in lots of nervous teeth gnashing as we struggled to find parking. I dropped Ken and Jenn off at a red light and they ran to Sails Pavilion for me to get a lottery ticket for the SPACED signing for me. Katherine and I spent what felt like almost an hour looking ( Read more... )

::writing:: ::writing:: ::writing::

...Anhaje and Trista stepped off at their respective private suites, leaving Gadell trailing her with his hands clasped behind his back...

Me: ::stops writing::
...
Me: "walked with hands clasped behind his back."
Kathy: Hm?
Me: Do people really do that? ::tests it out and almost falls over::
Kathy: ( Read more... )

A lot of people asked me today if I am going off to some sort of vacation after I graduate. I didn't really know this but apparently it's quite common for people to take the summer off before starting work or graduate school. I guess I have never even really considered that an option--although I wish I could see the world, and although I wished ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, at an Enigma (the UCLA Science Fiction club) meeting, I gave a presentation called "Obscure Reasons Why Star Wars is Awesome," highlighting some of the lesser known horrid things one can find if one delves too deeply into the realm of Star Wars.


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"Please don't think I'm creepy. I'm not trying to be creepy. Honest!"

-Me. To Gaius Baltar(!)

On Sunday night, Ken, Dab, Blake, Jenn, David J. and I went to The Music of Battlestar Galactica Concert at the Roxy Theatre, showcasing the soundtrack pieces composed by Bear McCreary.


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Comic Con in minute-by-minute form.

( Friday, July 27th, 2007 )

So I started this project last year and finally finished it today at the urging of some folks at the animorphs community. “Animorphs?” you say? “Yes frakking yes Animorphs!” I say. Joss Whedon is to television and Brian K Vaughn is to comics as K.A. Applegate was to Young Adult Fiction in the late 1990s. J.K. Rowling who ( Read more... )

*Minna reads Y the Last Man Issue #50.*

Z O M G.

*Minna flails her legs and runs off a cliff.*

Dude. Dude. This comic is so awesome.

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