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Help an Artist; Get Cool Stuff
Artist and all-around excellent dude Indigo Kelleigh is in a pretty rough place right now and, as a result, is trying to liquidate the inventory of his online store. If you're into steampunk, vintage Nintendo, fortune telling, wee minotaurs, getting cool stuff at a very steep discount, or supporting independent artists, please go buy something. -
Predictably, Charisma Is My Dump Stat.
Surprisingly thorough and (at least in my case) fairly accurate D&D character generation quiz results, as follows:
I Am A: Neutral Good Human Wizard/Sorcerer (2nd/1st Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-13
Dexterity-13
Constitution-15
Intelligence-17
Wisdom-12
Charisma-11
Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person ( Read more... ) -
Eat a Mile In My Shoes: Post Round-Up
I'll keep updating this if/as more links come in. You can find the original post here.
kadymae suggests celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a corn allergy. -
Eat a Mile In My Shoes
In honor of Food Allergy Awareness Month (who knew?), Food Allergy Initiative is challenging people to give up a favorite food for a week as an exercise in awareness-raising and solidarity.
I, on the other hand, am taking it a step further. I'm challenging you to avoid a food for a week, as if you're actually allergic to it ( Read more... ) -
Speaking of the Dead
I interviewed Karen Healey in this week's Sequential Tart. Read all about localization, research, and the surprisingly violent world of YA literature over here. -
The History of the Bullshit Epidemic
As food allergies become more prevalent--both clinically and in the public eye--a lot of people are asking where the hell they came from. Heather Fraser thinks she knows, and she has written a book about it, to which I'm not going to link, because, seriously, fuck Heather Fraser ( Read more... ) -
The Long-Arm Stapler of Justice
If you look fairly closely at the following photos, it is possible that you may catch a glimpse of me dressed up as SuperGrrrl (Original/PDX Alter Egos version, not comix version):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alteregossociety/4536240496/ costumes, geekery, supergrrrl, photosPrince of Awesome
Jake Gyllenhaal on the upcoming Prince of Persia movie: "... And I knew that there would be a huge audience of people that I would be trying to appease and that kinda turned me on too."
HOT.
(I am not fond of the decision to cast Gyllenhaal as the prince. But that is both hilarious and excellent.)Bracelet of the Dead
So, a while ago, karenhealey wrote this novel called Guardian of the Dead, which officially came out yesterday (and which you should buy, because it's oh, so good ( Read more... )