Just saw Lady Gaga's new video. Um... WTF? I mean, Telephone was strange. Alejandro was stranger. And the new one is all the way over the edge into crazyland. Sometimes, you get so rich you can pay off your editor. And that's what she did. The voice of reason who should have said "um, what?" and "please don't try write your own deep monologue, you' ( Read more... )

Worked on Oichi today. Learned how to cover armor in vinyl -- it looks SUPER AWESOME. Even the most boring pieces can be instantly made cool. I will be redoing pretty much everything this way. Gwendolyn... here I come! Again ( Read more... )

I was listening to A Prarie Home Companion on my way back from work today, and the song was "Memories Don't", as in "people die, memories don't". And I couldn't help thinking "well, actually, memories get rewritten all the time. Every time you look it over, it changes a bit ( Read more... )

Today I made a petticoat, and cut out lining for the Detour masquerade outfit.

I also spent hours researching the stuff she has in her hair -- her kanzashi. She's wearing a red tama kanzashi, a 20mm ball on a stick. It's red for winter months -- green for summer. She's even wearing it on the correct side -- on-duty they wear it on the left ( Read more... )

I've been on a dystopian literature kick lately ("If This Goes On-" by Heinlein, Farenheight 451, Atlas Shrugged, The Stand, The Handmaid's Tale [if we suddenly go to Theocracy, I'm moving to Canada no matter how awesome Theocracy is in CIV4]), and what could be more dystopian than vast segments of society vanishing without a trace, leaving the ( Read more... )

Second-to-last day of work today. It was totally dead -- and then it was an absolute madhouse all the way through lunch hour. I didn't eat until after 2 ( Read more... )

Today I made great strides on the Honeonna costume. Also figured out what size the Vanille backplate is, so I can tool it next week at work. And bought spacer beads ( Read more... )

Just got back from a trip to the cabin in Nisswa ( Read more... )

I have enjoyed a flirtation with facebook, but it doesn't let me say as much as I'd like to say. I think I'm just a long-winded writer, and Facebook is not conducive to that. So even though Facebook is all "all ur data is belong to us" and LJ is "hay ur dudes can pingback ur private stuff" or something, I have returned.

( A short version of what you are about to read: slept in a bed on the way down, Gwendolyn needs repair, Velvet is pretty hot, ballroom panel was ok, formal dance was terrible, Patti and Liz were appreciated, we sewed ALL saturday on Ever After and almost missed judging, and won Best Master. )

SO I've been trying to take an online English course at Anoka-Ramsey for the past 3 weeks, and they keep setting up hoops for me to jump through. "Oh, a placement test, oh, an unofficial transcript, oh, lolz, we mean OFFICIAL... oh wait, we lost your payment information, please fax us your unofficial transcript again ( Read more... )