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by Serena Valentino and Crab Scrambly. Serena Valentino is the writer of Gloom Cookie (drawn by Ted Naifeh). I don’t know.  I wanted to be happier with this graphic novel than I was.  I like the art, I generally like the writer.  But the book just wasn’t scary enough, and the plot twist just didn’t […]

I didn’t expect the FAC to have such a sweet theater.  Allow me to gush:  it’s the perfect size.  Not so flat that they’re tempted to rely on tricks like doing theater in the round (annoying), not so small that they can’t sell enough tickets to pay for professionals.  Not so big that you can’t

I’ve been messing around with settings – here’s use of a higher ISO setting with no flash.  The graininess comes from the setting. Here’s messing around with the camera’s pitiful macro setting. Microplane! A picture for Ray – Tiger LPS in conquest of lasagna. And Tiger LPS explores the world of Mouse Guard. Ray’s foot

by David Peterson. Have I mentioned lately that I am in love with characters that show perseverance?  ‘Cos I am. Mouseguard is about a group of mice working as guardsmen for the mouse town, Lockhaven.  The mice, while living lives the length of normal humans (I think) live in a world where everything is bigger than

by Liza Dalby. This is one of the finest books I’ve read in years.  My tastes don’t run toward the literary and fine, but this was worth stepping out of the genres to read. It’s the “discovered” story of the author of The Tale of Genji, that is, the world’s first novel (debatable, but pretty

by Stephen Brust. Stuff is starting to fall into place.  If you’re a Stephen Brust fan, you should read this book. And maybe that’s all I need to say. For anybody who doesn’t know who Stephen Brust is or what he writes, he writes high fantasy that might be SF, if you look at it

by Tom Ang. I’m at the point with digital photography that I have two concerns:  how to make the camera do something even remotely resembling what I want, and what, exactly, am I looking for when it comes to good pictures. I read one of the Dummies books on digital photography and learned a lot

We went over to Dave and Margie’s for Twelfth Night on Saturday – not exactly the twelfth night after Christmas, but not March, either. Mary, Jackie, Stan, Doyce, Kate, and Randy were all over, too.  Margie did something I’ve never heard of before – as each guest came through the door, they had to take

Watch me bounce off the walls. "What do you think about Choose Your Own Adventure Books?" [Insert evil laugh here.] # @elizawhat Your high school boy-on-boy plot sounds like MANGA! # Semantic Saturation – a repeated word losing meaning. RT @BarelyKnit http://tumblr.com/xcq5i9mi8 # @bookoven Re: book soul mates. That's like having a library filled only

I went to my good-bye party for my old group at work, a month and a half after I actually left.  I guess I was kind of lucky; if we’d had it any earlier, the people I’d been working with the most wouldn’t have been able to go, and I would have been too broken