This is a ranty post from an LJ user back from the dead, but only for a little bit.  No one need read it.  I just need an outlet to organize my thoughts that I can't talk to anyone about ( Read more... )

The sky is always grey in Berlin, a cold and cool blast of non-color that hurts his eyes while he’s looking up - so he looks around and to the sides of buildings.  His father hurries Otis along, but his eyes take in the endless, crushing grey with wide hopelessness.

“You’ll not be so slow at your work, will you?” asks his father.  He quickens ( Read more... )

I never write here, do I? I refuse to join the MySpace brigade, or any of the other primary web-connection areas. For some reason, I desperately value real human interaction. I know that the most significant mode of communication is over non-personal lines now, but I don't want to join in. I know that part of it is simply the need to stand ( Read more... )

I'll be at Katsucon this weekend in Arlington, VA. Visit Katsucon's web site at http://www.katsucon.com. We'll be there as Demon Fart Cabbage, our first Katsucon show. Wish us luck, or even better, come and buy things from our table! People who mention this post will get a 10% discount!

Nevermind all the previous angst of the previous post. Here's a little Good Omens drabble that came from an email conversation with Kaysha, a convention friend for whom I'm creating Aziraphale and Crowley (plus Crawly) plushies.

( First Sight )

The past eight years I have spent in numb, dumb stupor. The first election I participated in was 2000, the first tyranny of Bush ( Read more... )

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I find myself enthralled with two-dimensional, symbolic characters. Throughout my education, the two-dimensional character has been an object of derision as incomplete, stock, imitative, or otherwise faulty. Only the domain of comic books. But I find them a treasured resource -- a series of idealised concepts with voice and structure. ( Read more... )

The world can breathe a little easier.  Thank you, Mr. Obama.  I look forward to January 20th ( Read more... )

Could we really be a blue state?

Let's keep a good eye on it!

And totally hooray for free-Krispy-Kreme-for-doing-civic-duty.  I love donuts for voting!