The Modelling ThingPeople occasionally ask me about this, so here's my swift, blanket reply. I've decided (at least for now) to abandon the modelling thing. Here's why ( Read more... )

So. GenCon. Awesome, as always. This year felt a little different -- maybe a little calmer-awesome, which could be because I'm kinda used to the awesomeness of GenCon. I was also working for White Wolf, though, and so on ... well, here are the highlights. I can go by day, it'll be awesome ( Read more... )

Cousin Manda: Lydia, if you ever decide to get married -- and I don't know why you would! -- we will all be there to try and talk you out of it.

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RANGER
I know you've probably seen all those RPG-motivational posters, but this is totally the funniest one, encapsulating everything that is wrong with D&D in one fell swoop. (And if you're tired ( Read more... )

From there, after six days and seven nights, you arrive at Zobeide, the white city, well exposed to the moon, with streets wound around themselves as in a skein. They tell this tale of its foundation: men of various nations had an identical dream. They saw a woman running at night through an unknown city; she was seen from behind, with long hair ( Read more... )

Well, it seems I'm not actually as allergic to cats as I feared before coming here, at least not this particular short-haired cat. Good thing, too, because this cat sleeps in bed with me and is in general quite affectionate; you know, basically a failure as a cat. I sneeze a lot, but vacuuming helps ( Read more... )

I've been reading Hiroaki Sato's Legends of the Samurai, which is basically a whole bunch of translated excerpts from various Japanese histories / legendary compendiums and suchlike. I wonder sometimes if I'm being hopelessly Orientalist and exoticizing these anecdotes all crazy-like, since I obviously don't quite get the culture (does anyone in ( Read more... )

Random Things I Write Down In My Little Black Notebook While At Some Museum And Stick In My Purse to be Found Later, #7412.30.05 ( Read more... )

I'm positive I've posted this exact poem by Ingeborg Bachmann before, but it's awesome and it was there, so I'm posting it again.

Used together: seasons, books, a piece of music ( Read more... )

3.22.06: I wonder if my generation will be ever fully be able to understand how love felt when the schism between the sexes was so great that each regarded their opposite truly as "other".

So, we have an announcement here that's going to initially seem out-of-character. I feel sort of awkward about this, because I know I've been a bit snide about this sort of thing in the past, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't make passionately overwrought and incorrect statements every once in a while, right ( Read more... )