• Getting worse at keeping up on LJ, obviously. Trying to get back to at least reading my Friends page once a week.
• Season 2 of The Deadersons has started!
• I survived directing GreenMan Theatre's "Spooky Stories" storytelling program, and will not be doing it again. I thought I was prepared for it to completely eat my October, and I guess I was. But I ( Read more... )

The vast majority of fandoms that have taken sufficient root in my imagination to inspire fic have always been small ones. Couple that with the near-complete lack of any romantic pairing tags, let alone popular ones, and I've always been content with archive stats that would drive many fic authors of my acquaintance to despair. So the response to ( Read more... )

After much investigating of options by Mom, my uncle's honorary son made a deal with the buyers of the house (which he also arranged) to throw in a few grand extra and keep (most of) the Cherished Teddies right where they are, presumably to sell off at market rates at their leisure ( Read more... )

First, some brief background: My uncle is a retired Catholic priest, who until a couple years ago was retired for values of "retired" that still included teaching at a university and assorted volunteerism. But now he's actually retired and, after some health issues over the past year or so, has moved into assisted living. A buyer has been found for ( Read more... )

...is a shiny, shiny toy.

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I recorded this the day before Free Comic Book Day, for which I dressed as Rey, carried the lightsaber on my belt, and had a marvelous time letting children turn it on ( Read more... )

Things I have done lately (in no particular order):

• Put together a satisfactory Rey costume for C2E2
• Decided which tweaks I want to make to said costume
• Costumed this production of The Arabian Nights primarily from thrift stores (the pics currently on the site are what I threw together for photo call, not the final costumes)
• Continued to obsess over ( Read more... )

(crossposted from my pro blog)

Thirty years ago today, about ten minutes into chemistry class, the phone rang.

Before that moment, I don't think any of us had really noticed that there was a phone in the science room. We all stared, bewildered, as our teacher walked over, picked it up, listened silently for a moment, and put it back down. Then, ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for Episode 7 within )

I'm already bored with the woobification of Kylo Ren (that's not a spoiler -- water is wet, bears shit in the woods, villains are woobified), but I'm very impressed with Adam Driver's work in playing him.

And yesterday I ran across this article that makes it apparent that's just the beginning of his impressive. (It's a reprint of an article that ( Read more... )

( More Star Wars spoilers. )