Did we have fun at Anthrocon? We got to play Klingon, of course we did. Here's Rene Gobeyn and I getting ready to shepherd the fursuit parade:


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In seven hours, I leave for Anthrocon. Time for bed.

On the other hand, this is the time of year when the coolest pictures get posted.

Since completing my listen of the 2006 SXSW torrent, I've been filling in my collection with a number of the more promising artists encountered there. That's good, but...a remarkably large percentage of their material is now out of print. Even bands that have now landed major contracts have had their earlier material go OOP ( Read more... )

It's solstice. In our neck of the north woods, that means sunrise at 5:58 AM and sunset at 9:16 PM, or 15 hours and 18 minutes of daylight. When you count in the 'official' twilight hours, that mean 16.5 hours of useful light. Sometimes it's nice living this far north ( Read more... )

Tactical. Corset.

Do you really need any other description?

Tactical. Corset.

Look especially at the interrogation pouch, left and below the top picture.

Tactical. Corset.

http://tacticalcorsets.com/

Probably not safe for work.

One of the things lost in the mist of things done since the beginning of this year is a listen-through of the 2006 South By Southwest (SXSW) music festival torrent. Like the 2005 torrent, about 80% is stuff that hearing it once was enough, thank you ( Read more... )

Stanley Cup ( Read more... )

The last two weeks we've been lucky enough to catch antepenultimate and penultimate episodes of "Pushing Daisies." I say "lucky enough" because originally the network wasn't going to show them at all, and because apparently some folks are finding it pre-empted in their areas ( Read more... )

Prefatory fact: My wife rarely imbibes, and never drinks beer ( Read more... )

For those of you new to the game, OOCQ are "out of context quotes", where we write down something that someone said which perhaps they shouldn't have ( Read more... )