I spent the weekend with blue_lucy and Clover, her new super-adorable, super-affectionate piebald ween. On the one hand, sleep was not high on the menu, as we’re house-training a caged-for-two-years dog. On the other hand, cuddling a wriggling happy pup is pretty high on the awesome-o-meter.
Yesterday was a quality chill day at earthenwood‘s, where I made an awesome top hat that was perhaps slightly out of scale for my enormous noggin, noshed on sandwiches and double-stuff oreos, and met Metalsmith-Alex, who should be covered in a shiny aluminum coating like Mario sometimes is… and if I told him so, he probably would make it happen.
We’re trying to come up with a reasonable outfit for myself, for penguicon, and the furthest we got was “Shiny Gambler”. Yeah, I don’t know either, but M-A sketched a sweet augmentation to my glasses.
At work, we received the actual physical award we won the other month for our video work, so my intern took obligatorily cheesy photos of each of us holding aloft the Plastic Diamond of Doom.
I’m going to be spending the next few weekends in L-town, making sure my girl and her dog are treated proper-like. Now that she’s in her spacious new apartment, I’m sure she’d be happy to have a magnitude:lowkey amount of company.
Word, nerds.
Um, thanks? Now I’m singing “Shiny Gambler” in my head, to the tune of “Tiny Dancer”…
well, excellent. Now I am singing “Shiny Gambler” to the tune of Private Dancer.
and I don’t know if that is better or worse than singing us The Gambler last night, with some sort of steampunk reference in it, which I have forgotten, and hope i never remember again.
lols
Miss you.
I need to start thinking about my P-con outfit too… Hmmm…
Yes, you do. :)
This morning I was playing with the idea of getting a fan table and setting up a “Lucy in Peanuts”-Style “The Doctor is IN” booth with a sort of a card game attached where we hand out cards with instructions after doing a diagnostic evaluation. “Dr. Crusher Sez: Find Scalzi and kiss the top of his head”. I would be tempted to dress up as Dr. Crusher, but there are plenty of other Sci-fi Doctors I am tempted to recruit people to take turns being at the booth.
Would want to make the card thing included in an actual game. Maybe should consult with Jane McG? Is she already involved in a con-wide game, do you know?
We should put out a bowl of condoms too, I’m thinking…
She is, but I’m sure she’d be into it, as long as it didn’t absorb all of her time. At least be interested in the creation aspect!
We’d need to consider what kind of reward we might give – ribbons are probably ideal.
Ah, if only I had the cash to come up with a steampunk costume.
You’d bet your ass there’d be a cane involved.
So far, my materials have come from the salvation army.