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As I mentioned last week, ImagiCon was my first real convention. The turnout was disappointing, with high estimates being around a thousand visitors. The event suffered from disorganization,but while I was there, I got the scoop about the current Birmingham convention scene, and that shed some light on the situation. Birmingham’s big convention […]
Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is my absolute favorite picture book of all time. I loved it as a child, but as an adult, it’s even better. Reading this outloud is so much fun! The language is expressive and beautiful, and of course, nothing beats a story with a wild rumpus […]
This weekend is Imagicon. I’ve never been to any SciFi (not to be confused with SyFy), Gaming, or Fantasy conventions before. Imagicon is all three.
I was concerned that I wouldn’t find anything to do while Chris plays Dungeon Master to total strangers, but it looks like I’ll actually be strapped for […]
It has been a very busy day, and nearly everything has gone differently than I expected. Rolling with it really worked out for me today. A nearby framing store was going out of business, and everything was 90% off. I got frames for things that have been waiting for over a year to be […]
Springtime has me craving some real dirt time, and I’ve been spending a lot of online time looking at plants and agriculture and gardening news. I’m a city dweller, living in apartments. Happily, I live right across from the city’s Botanical Gardens, so I have more green in my life than many cityfolk. […]
This week, the House of Representatives shocked me. Admittedly, I’m pretty jaded. The whole scandal over AIG bonuses being handed out despite the fact that the government taxpayers were bailing them out didn’t phase me in the least. In fact, I was amused that people wanted to run the AIG scoundrels out of town on […]
As I’ve already established, Friday is game night at my house, and has been for nearly a decade now. Looking back, I realized that last week’s Friday post wasn’t translated for the non-gamers. We’re playing Dungeons and Dragons, 3.5 edition (3.5E D&D), though at times we have branched out into other rulesets and […]
Most of my friends are gamers, with the majority playing World of Warcraft as their main computer game. Lately, many of them are abandoning the game, bored and unimpressed with the expansion packs, and frustrated at the option of Player vs. Player (PvP) as the only “new” thing to do, since they’ve managed to do […]
I was talking to the Spousal Unit about learning to blog today. He challenged me to write something that really “put myself out there” and not be so safe. I’ll try to not be so uptight this go round.
Every post I’ve made so far has been a learning process. I didn’t expect there to be […]
They Might Be Giants has been a staple of mine since high school. The Tiny Toon Adventures videos of “Istanbul” and “Particle Man” inspired one of my friends to buy the album, and of course he made me a copy. My dubbed copy of Flood got stuck in the […]
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