It looks like the boon of the steroids is starting to wear off. The backslide becomes more obvious day to day, though I have to admit it's still better than before I started them. I'm just not sure how far the decline will continue. It's fallen enough that I've had to start poping codeine again at times and the ibuprofen alone isn't always doing it ( Read more... )

I was browsing on dealnews and stumbled across an entry about a sale at BuyCostumes.com. I decided to take a look on the off-chance there was anything interesting and ended up dropping $50 on various goodies for Killer Breakfast. I hadn't really planned anything special to wear for the event and simply figured that I'd go more or less as is with ( Read more... )

I was chatting with someone through email about the possibility of wrangling that pinata for Killer Breakfast when it occurred to me that I have no clue where to buy one. I've certainly never purchased one before and I have no clue what stores might stock them other than those party supply warehouses. I went online figuring I'd run a quick search ( Read more... )

I finally got a response and it looks like it's all go. My friend Sewtipsy (her id over on sissyfight) has graciously consented to make the doll and we already hashed out a few points. It looks like size won't be all that much of a constraint since materials are cheap, which means this should be a good sized tracy doll hopefully ( Read more... )

Well, I sent out feelers and got a hit of sorts. I knew someone in chicago who does arts and crafty stuff as a side buisness and after being reminded of her, I dropped her a line. She seems to be interested in the project and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she'll be willing to find the time to take on the commission. She even offered to do it ( Read more... )

I just suffered a mometary pang of panic. Killer Breakfast is less than 4 months away and I still don't have a gimmick, nor have I spent any real time thinking about it. What brought me to this line of thought is that gencon popped up a page advertising the event here. It looks like Tracy used the pictures I sent him of the previous events. You can ( Read more... )

It took a while but Gencon History finally updated their entries at some point over the last few days. I had been waiting for the annoucement on the site before making an entry but I've officially won a badge for gencon with my photo entries. The specific picture that won was from True Dungeon at Socal a couple years ago. It turns out that I also ( Read more... )

As this is the 40th Anniversary of Gencon ... and since Peter Adkison came to Killer Breakfast last year and was thrilled with it ( Read more... )

I was searching around online for something related to killer breakfast and stumbled over a blog site where someone was recapping the event at gencon this year. The blog's by Kameron M. Franklin, an author I'd admittedly never heard of before stumbling over his site: Pens & Swords. A quick search on Amazon however shows that he's put out a couple ( Read more... )

Still chugging along. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.... This particular entry is going to be very picture heavy. At certain points during killer breakfast, I was just snapping shots about as fast as I could get the camera to zoom and focus right. Even with some pruning afterwards during the resizing, there's still a crapload of images ( Read more... )