I didn't get to the Fringe World Awards because I was volunteering at another venue at the time, which is also the reason I saw almost none of the shows that won said awards (I did see the first few minutes of Yummy Deluxe at the end of a shift, but bailed because of the stage smoke). I'm particularly sorry to have missed multiple award winner YUCK ( Read more... )

When last we left the Swinetrek Before heading to Readercon, I visited Boston's Museum of Science to see their exhibit on The Dead Sea Scrolls. I took a wrong turn en route and found myself at Edgar Allan Poe Square, conveniently across the street from a large map that sent me in the right direction. This didn't leave me much time to see the rest ( Read more... )

Seattle is a gorgeous city - maybe not as heart-liftingly beautiful as the best of New Orleans or San Francisco (except maybe on days when the weather is clear enough for you to see the mountains, which might have been designed by Tolkien), but she's more pragmatic, with a quirky sense of humour, and doesn't seem to have a serious drinking problem ( Read more... )