I have been informed that I am not writing enough to keep my official stalker happy. In an effort to remedy the shocking situation ( Read more... )

All right kids -- alert alert! I need all my networking skills to help locate a suitable person for the following position:

Locus Magazine, the leading monthly trade journal covering science fiction, fantasy, and horror, seeks an enthusiastic science fiction reader for a part-time unpaid internship, 15-20 hours a week for the summer semester - ( Read more... )

So what's going on in the life of the Phran. . . aside from the Pirate Festival, which I attended mainly to say "bon voyage" to Jewel and Gleepith? I am moving. . . there is terror. Yes, I am moving to the East Bay. . . into a small, beautiful condo. . . assuming that escrow closes and all is well. I am packing up my life, which is no small feat ( Read more... )

Today I was very accident-prone. Or possibly just prone. Or should have been prone.

Anyone interested in an expedition to the Palace of Fine Arts? rmjwell has a great idea to reprise our steampunk costumes in a setting more amenable to their proper display. . . Possibly the 21rst or 28th of July?

Links of the day:

Reminds me of the Shrimp on a Treadmill: Steam-powered Centipede Robot

I'm also quite fond of the Steam-powered Spider ( Read more... )

Had a great time at Baycon this weekend, despite the (thankfully) transitional hotel and its wacky, wacky floorplan (you can't get to floors 2 and 3 from the same elevator, because why would you want to?!)

Not to mention the terrifying gnome party lights in the ConSuite. . . or the collection of Actual Garden Gnomes on the mantelpiece, some of ( Read more... )

So, yesterday after work. . . (Work! Work! I love work! But I don't believe in discussing jobs online, so I will say no more.) Yesterday after work, I stopped by "Out of the Closet" thrift store in Berkeley (where you can shop AND donate to a good cause.) There I found two crop jackets and one battered old mini-grandfather clock, which I ( Read more... )

Had a great time out with mustela-nivalis at the Sunday Alameda Antiques Fair. . . I acquired a vintage collapsible top hat, a filigree brooch with red jewels, a sunburn, and an absolute crapload of gorgeous broken pocket watches which I intend to integrate into my Baycon steampunk costume (assuming I have the time ( Read more... )

Well, I'm very pleased with this week's work. I've collected a rejection, a very nicely-worded one from S & S: "We really like this story and held it until the final cut. Typeface, however, is notoriously inelastic, which forces us to return stories we might otherwise have bought." That's fine with me (it WAS a 9,000 word story, right at the ( Read more... )

Couldn't help myself. Had to do it.