When I checked Twitter this morning right before class, I came across a Tweet that punched me straight in the gut: Ray Bradbury was dead.  Ray Bradbury, one of the last living greats of the classic age of science fiction.  Ray Bradbury whose prose was often so beautiful that it rang my soul like a bell.  Gone, like one of my other favorite authors ( Read more... )

So you've finished up a roll of tape and are about to toss that pesky plastic ring.  Stop!  You can make some cheap, classy napkin rings out of a few of those rolls!  All you need is some scrap fabric in a pattern or solid color you like, some scissors, and a hot glue gun/glue.


( Read more... )

At an early age my parents worked hard to instill in me a hefty measure of guilt.  It stuck.  And because of that guilt, I'm always looking for ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, sometimes to incyr's chagrin.  This post concerns the second of the 3 R's, reusing.

I am a Postcrosser.  http://www.postcrossing.com/  Postcrossing is like penpaling for the ( Read more... )

Last week I signed up for NYCMidnight's Tweet Me A Story contest and then promptly forgot about it until Thursday evening about an hour before the deadline to submit.  The contest was to write a 140 character "story" using an assigned word.  For my group the word was "reservation."

Today we got the first round results and I made it into the top 25 ( Read more... )

So as of Saturday afternoon, I am back home after an amazing week on the JoCo Cruise crazy er...cruise.  For those of you not in the know, and really, if I know who Jonathan Coulton is, then you guys definitely should, he is the geeky singer/songwriter who penned the song Still Alive for Portal (probably his biggest claim to fame) as well as such ( Read more... )

I just signed the contract to have my story Mermaid Silk published in Aurora Literary Journal's New Fairy Tales Anthology! 

Much has been made lately about Disney's supposed move away from its lucrative princess franchise and much of the hubbub has centered around its newest movie, which saw its title changed from the more recognizable name Rapunzel to the more "gender-neutral" Tangled.  Ostensibly this was to distance the film from other Disney princess films, which ( Read more... )

So incyr and I watched AMC's pilot for The Walking Dead comic adaptation yesterday.  I haven't read the comic, but man was I blown away by the show so far.  The makeup is literally scary-good, I'm impressed that it was shot on location in Atlanta, and the acting is amazing.  I was variously on the edge of my seat or cowering during the whole show.

What ( Read more... )

Yesterday I decided to pick up a few samples of some Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab scents.  I still have the few entelein gave me (Malediction, Fae, Maiden, Cthulu, and Thanatopsis), minus Fae, which I tragically spilled, and Maiden, which I gave to my sister.  Out of all of them Fae and Cthulu were my faves.  This time I decided to see what Olokun, Titania, ( Read more... )

It's serious crunchtime for Dragoncon.  Today I'm working until 4:30 then I have class tonight at 7:30 so there's not much time to work on my costume.  We leave for Charlotte, NC, to meet up with coffeejedi and la_ardillita  on Wednesday and are headed to Atlanta on Thursday.  I'm so glad I picked something relatively easy this year, which is Pidge from Voltron.


( Read more... )