Anyone on tumblr? I seem to be spending more and more time over there. I don't have an account but that doesn't really prevent you from looking at most everything over there. But there do seem to be more and more things that amuse me over there than other places I'm looking these days. I was especially amused by this post:


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It is a dark and stormy night this morning! The skies are black and the rain is pouring down. I sort of like it. And as an added bonus as it was pouring rain, the pimpUmbrella got to come to work with me this morning to complete my Hogwarts Slytherin uniform attire ( Read more... )

I love when fandoms implode. You just grab your popcorn, sit back, and enjoy ( Read more... )

I always feel somewhat ashamed when I see an item of clothing I like on a "celebrity" and then I go out and find it and buy it. Well not really ashamed but just somewhat like I'm buying into and supporting a system that maybe I should have some regret over. But none the less this did not stop me from hounding the internet in a quest to find out ( Read more... )

Really sad to read about the passing of the author Barbara Mertz aka Elizabeth Peters aka Barbara Michaels ( Read more... )

Nice weekend. It was the annual Book Fair at the Newberry Library here. The Newberry is an independent research library which is open to the public and anyone can use. It was founded in the late 1800s by a 4 million dollar donation and its been going on that ever since. Anyway people donate books to the library throughout the year and every ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to post more in depth about two of the favorite things I attended while at LeakyCon. One was a panel and the other was the Author's Cup. I can't remember the panel's exact title but it was something like "I Was A Teenage Writer" and its something I think more literary cons should add to their track. Basically the authors on the ( Read more... )

For XRay, JetBoyGirl, and Regina....MLP/Raven Boys!

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I mentioned that the medium age at LeakyCon was skewed at a younger age than my own. And that there were quite a few younger pre-teens at the conference. As a result, there were quite a few "moms" in attendance with their children. Some were just there as a chaperon, others were quite clearly there for themselves as well and would go off and do ( Read more... )

So I'm back from a trip out west to Portland for LeakyCon. LeakyCon is a con run by the people who run the Leaky Cauldron website, a Harry Potter centric site for all things HP related. All the previous HP cons I've ever been to were run by other groups and were for a smaller and on a whole more mature crowd. LeakyCon is large (with about 5,000 ( Read more... )