Some recommended books:

The Laughing Sutra by Mark Salzman
One of my favorite stories in Chinese legend is Journey to the West, the didactic story of a Chinese monk headed to India to bring back sutras. Transformations, monsters, and a couple of the main characters are anthropomorphics, more commonly referred to as furries. Anyway, the Monkey King ( Read more... )

This just makes me grin like a silly little fool.
http://beatbots.org/

I'm sure most people have seen it already but for those who haven't its a fun video.

In other notes, finally went around to see The Simpsons Movie this past weekend. Some very hilarious parts, notably in the beginning and at the end. They were able to be more bold about their ( Read more... )

Labor Day weekend was spent at Vegas. Had some good food, lost some money, gulped lots of second hand smoke. It was okay, but I've definitely had better times. Didn't see any shows this time, so that was part of the non-excitement. At least the air conditioning was nice. Home temperatures were about the same as Vegas temperatures, but we have ( Read more... )

I posted the sketch of a kingfisher I did at the World Natural History Museum
here . I got the one done while K was able to get three colors and three sketches. She is way faster ( Read more... )

Get with child a mandrake root, etc. etc. Went to see Stardust today, a thoroughly enjoyable movie. There must be something seriously wrong with the marketing because it was showing on a pathetically small number of screens for a major motion picture. I highly recommend it, not as a Neil Gaiman fan, but just as a fun fantasy film that's clean ( Read more... )

Right, so no CC photos posted yet; at least I pulled them off the camera already.
Have this instead ( Read more... )

Got home Sunday night, late, and collapsed into bed. Three days at ComicCon is both very exhausting and comprehensive, though there still wasn't time to do all I wanted to, but that's more the nature of that massive con than anything else. Overall I had a ton of fun, despite the few downers. Only way I got in this year was by volunteering, though ( Read more... )

Last weekend I was off to kitsumi's place with dakinestuff for a little after-birthday shindig. They've changed one of the 7-11s over there to a Kwik-E Mart, 1 of only 3 in the state. Some pictures here.
Right, so two more days before I'm off to ComicCon to view artists, comics, authors, and so much more!

Went to go see Weird Al at the OC Fair yesterday. Much fun, and much silliness with dakinestuff and her family. Unfortunately, they've change the seating arrangements, and now it costs $20 to sit right next to the stage, so we were up high in the bleachers, as evidenced by photos here. Hmm, other camera batteries are pretty dead, so photos will be ( Read more... )

Saturday night was the culmination of a larkish decision, as I went with da kine stuff to go see The Decemberists at the Hollywood Bowl. Inspired to listen to them live when listening to them play acousticly on the show "Sound Opinions" on NPR, which prompted a search on their website of concert dates, and finding out they were playing locally on ( Read more... )