Seafair Pirate Landing, West Seattle Summer Fest, Pioneer Square Fire Festival,
Chinatown International District Summer Festival, Home Alive Benefit...
Sunburn, Mudhoney, and Pirates!
Chinatown International District Summer Festival, Home Alive Benefit...
Sunburn, Mudhoney, and Pirates!
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Grab the book nearest you. turn to page 56. find the 5th sentence and post it in your LJ. Post these instructions with it. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.
"Midway between the summit of the bone and the posterior margin of the forearm magnum is a prominent tubercle, the external occipital protuberance, and, decending from it as far as the forearm, a vertical ridge, the external occipital crest."
"Midway between the summit of the bone and the posterior margin of the forearm magnum is a prominent tubercle, the external occipital protuberance, and, decending from it as far as the forearm, a vertical ridge, the external occipital crest."
From today's Rant and Rave in the Times
Rant For the man who left two toddlers asleep in car seats in his car, with the windows up, in the grocery store parking lot in 80-degree weather for at least 20 minutes. It was probably 100 degrees in that car. I called 911, but unfortunately he'd made his getaway before the police arrived.
Legally allowed to break his window: y/y?
Rant For the man who left two toddlers asleep in car seats in his car, with the windows up, in the grocery store parking lot in 80-degree weather for at least 20 minutes. It was probably 100 degrees in that car. I called 911, but unfortunately he'd made his getaway before the police arrived.
Legally allowed to break his window: y/y?
Reporting thunder and lightening on First Hill/Downtown. Please stand by with status reports.
Originally published at eclecticism. You can comment here or there.
As most who pay much attention to my ramblings know, I’ve spent three out of the past four years wandering around Norwescon taking pictures (29, 30, and 32). A couple of weeks ago I got an invitation from the Norwescon 33 publications director asking if I might be interested in the con photographer position. I, of course, said that I was very interested, and we agreed to meet at today’s Volunteer Appreciation Picnic.
So, today I showed up at the picnic, chatted with Adrienne for a bit, and signed on as photographer for Norwescon 33! This will be pretty low-key for most of the year, getting shots of various meetings and Norwescon promotional events as they happen, and then be pretty intensive (but fun!) during the con itself, adding getting official shots of key events (the opening ceremonies, panels with the guests of honor, the Masquerade, the Fetish Fashion Show, etc.) as well as the usual candids and hall costumes that I’ve been doing on my own. I’m really looking forward to this, it’s a great way to combine interests and have a lot of fun doing it!
So that’s my little happydance for the day. Woohoo!
Originally published at eclecticism. You can comment here or there.
Thunder a few minutes ago, now a good ol’ summer storm coming through Kent. Fun to listen to the rain fall.
Hey Seattle
I have one ticket to the sold out showing of Harry Potter this Tuesday night at midnight at Cinebarre- the 21 and over theater in Mountlake Terrace. I thought it would be fun to go see it at a 21 and over theater because there will not be a thousand kids everywhere. Anyways, my friends waited too long to get tickets and it's sold out. I really don't want to go by myself. Anyone need a ticket?
Edit- OR if anyone else has a ticket and wants to go with someone, I still would like to go
I have one ticket to the sold out showing of Harry Potter this Tuesday night at midnight at Cinebarre- the 21 and over theater in Mountlake Terrace. I thought it would be fun to go see it at a 21 and over theater because there will not be a thousand kids everywhere. Anyways, my friends waited too long to get tickets and it's sold out. I really don't want to go by myself. Anyone need a ticket?
Edit- OR if anyone else has a ticket and wants to go with someone, I still would like to go
Originally published at eclecticism. You can comment here or there.
It’s official: I’m now on board as Norwescon’s photographer! Next ‘con, I’ll be wandering around taking random pictures with authorization!
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Sorry for the late notice but the picnic has been canceled.
We are going to try and organize one for next weekend or the weekend after.
Sorry for the late notice but the picnic has been canceled.
We are going to try and organize one for next weekend or the weekend after.
awakeThis year's Plunderathon involved nearly a hundred pirates in full costume, and epic drinking. We wandered from bar to bar, for many hours, with the cops driving by on occasion, waving and beeping at us and shouting "YARRR!" over the horn. The route started at a fairly nondescript bar, eventually led to the Dirty stripper bar, then ended at most hardcore gay bar in Portland, where "if you're here, you're queer." I waved a friend's dildo at one of the naked underage boys on stage and congregated with the rest of the pirate crew in the back courtyard. This was actually where some of the first serious personal discussions of the night happened, perversely. A few of us decided to head to the Roxy for food and coffee and quiet so we could talk for a while, and have a bit of bacon-and-coffee-fueled post-drinking headspace. I think it was around midnight at this point.
The after-party was in progress at Dave's apartment, and walking in the door I remembered having been there with Melissa earlier in the week, and that she had mentioned Plunderathon at some point, and I was highly amused that I had not made that connection. It was nice to see the cats again, and of course there was a full bar rivaling any place we had been that night, and the familiar artwork, and space for sleeping fifty or more with how comfortable everyone was getting. There were many, many shots, and touching, and then the getting naked and piling into the hot tub, and a combinatorially impossible massage party while water was spilling out over the top and flooding everything. Then of course a few people who were still in the living room found corners and couches and swings for sex, and then the drunken tearful arguing and group comforting and safety corners and hallways and cab calling and more crying and drinking and debauchery and drinking, alcohol may have been a factor. I actually mentioned some of the flirting to one of the girls in the hot tub, who told me that she wouldn't mind if her boyfriend had sex with her best friend, if that's what they wanted. She was definitely not okay when we all discovered that it had been tested empirically on the bathroom counter-top a few minutes earlier, much to her surprise. We piled out of the hot tub into ankle-deep water and I fished around in the french drain to get it working again, put on some clothes and stood around the kitchen watching the fallout. Something like three hours later I was on the couch cuddling with a couple of cats, a few people had gone home and everyone was mostly passed out.
I still felt restless around nine in the morning, so I headed out for coffee, and was greeted by thirty police cars and SWAT vans and armored vehicles and police tape and police officers and all manner of flashing red and blue and white lights. I asked if there was any particular way I should go, the cop just shrugged and said whatever. I found out later that the apartment manager had been stabbed and the suspect had actually been in the building, I guess it's good I remembered to lock Dave's door on the way out.
The after-party was in progress at Dave's apartment, and walking in the door I remembered having been there with Melissa earlier in the week, and that she had mentioned Plunderathon at some point, and I was highly amused that I had not made that connection. It was nice to see the cats again, and of course there was a full bar rivaling any place we had been that night, and the familiar artwork, and space for sleeping fifty or more with how comfortable everyone was getting. There were many, many shots, and touching, and then the getting naked and piling into the hot tub, and a combinatorially impossible massage party while water was spilling out over the top and flooding everything. Then of course a few people who were still in the living room found corners and couches and swings for sex, and then the drunken tearful arguing and group comforting and safety corners and hallways and cab calling and more crying and drinking and debauchery and drinking, alcohol may have been a factor. I actually mentioned some of the flirting to one of the girls in the hot tub, who told me that she wouldn't mind if her boyfriend had sex with her best friend, if that's what they wanted. She was definitely not okay when we all discovered that it had been tested empirically on the bathroom counter-top a few minutes earlier, much to her surprise. We piled out of the hot tub into ankle-deep water and I fished around in the french drain to get it working again, put on some clothes and stood around the kitchen watching the fallout. Something like three hours later I was on the couch cuddling with a couple of cats, a few people had gone home and everyone was mostly passed out.
I still felt restless around nine in the morning, so I headed out for coffee, and was greeted by thirty police cars and SWAT vans and armored vehicles and police tape and police officers and all manner of flashing red and blue and white lights. I asked if there was any particular way I should go, the cop just shrugged and said whatever. I found out later that the apartment manager had been stabbed and the suspect had actually been in the building, I guess it's good I remembered to lock Dave's door on the way out.
I have really forgotten how much better my sleep is in a hammock and how much better I feel when I am getting real sleep... Like the kind where you just sleep for multipul hours instead of waking up and tossing and turning and finally being in so much pain that you just get up 'coz it hurts less.
Thanks to those who sold stuff, bought stuff or just browsed stuff yesterday. It was a lot of fun and we seemed to do pretty well. Also, considering the 85 degree weather outside it was a very cool place to be. There seems to be a lot of people who want to see it happen again, so I'll be thinking on that. I'll let you know very soon if our steampunk goblin market will reappear in September.
Originally published at Gibberings. You can comment here or there.
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And I made myself a fresh cup of tea, so I had something warm to ignore. #
Behold, the only emoticon I'.. http://bit.ly/7PLEJ # - Kids, I want to do a drawing or two tonight but the tables have turned once again: TONIGHT ON #SWEATSHOP…Pirate Names! #
- Vote for the pirate you want to see, gents. I will be drawing live. (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/3Qjc) #
- http://twitpic.com/9g2ug – @blakkkrabbit Rummy McGauger. I started out drawing my dad and ended up closer to Warren Ellis. COINCIDENCE? … #
- http://twitpic.com/9g4um – Background Guy, the unofficial mascot of the Sweatshop. And the smallest meme ever produced. #
- http://twitpic.com/9gcxa – @tekkyh and @meanrobot, thrown together by fate, and AIDS. #
- http://twitpic.com/9gcxa – For more information, refer to http://bgg.port3m5.com #
- http://twitpic.com/9go0a – WHATEVER #
- http://twitpic.com/9go9r – @mediapathic Arlington McCrumbstain, the Potentially Proper Pirate #sweatshop #
- I remembered to buy lip gloss, but not Diet Coke. My fag is flying at half-mast. #
- Unremembered Parties #hitsingles #
- A little reminder that I'll be hosting another Sweatshop tonight at 9pm PST that will stream live to DNA Lounge in San Francisco. #
- To clarify, @mediapathic will be running the visuals at DNA tonight and will be mixing in live video from the Sweatshop. #
- Get on those DNA internet kiosks tonight and heckle my drawing in real time, folks! #
- RT @rikkisimons I don't understand all this "King of Pop is Dead" news. I just checked and Morrissey is fine. in reply to rikkisimons #
- it's okay tuba, you can be in the next band. – http://is.gd/1pe3o #
- Guys, the inventor of the Urethral Condom is seeking a charming ladyfriend: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/m4w/1
253551394.html # - Streaming live to DNA Lounge in downtown San Francisco. I GRAFFITI YOUR LITTLE CLUB (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/3Qjc) #
- I've eaten this entire bag of pretzels, a peach, a cup of iced green tea and I'm STILL DRAWING (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/3Qjc) #
- http://twitpic.com/9kt1w – After many hours and many technical fuckups, thar she blows. It turned out okay, I guess. #sweatshop I HAVE … #
- Hey, everyone, thanks for joining me tonight. My robot strode ten feet tall across the walls of @DNALounge and I didn't sleep, so two birds. #
- I'm "awake." I hear I'm being shipped to Seattle to medicate some cats during August. I EXPECT DINNERS. AND CONVERSATION. #
- I plan to celebrate my 1,000th follower (which I predict will occur in the next couple weeks, offended refugees notwithstanding). #
- To celebrate my 1000th follower, I propose a very special #Sweatshop in which a guest and I each draw half of an audience suggestion. #
- Woke up after a 12hour shutdown to realize I have two galleries to see today and not even a decent haircut to my name. And a strange nausea. #
- You motherfucking Germans… Soy sauce is not supposed to be a sweet, viscous syrup. #
- While we're at it, it is neither normal nor acceptable to eat ketchup on pasta. I hate you. #
- WIKIPEDIA: "Soy sauce is produced by fermenting soybeans [...] along with roasted grain, water, and salt." Label should NOT say "34% sugar." #
- PS: Indian food should be spicy. #germanfoodsucks #
- Last night, my father told me he believes in the existence of cryptonutrients: "nutrients we don't know we need, yet." It's brilliant. #
- Germans only take medicine in seltzer tablet form. Every headache is a cocktail! Every vitamin a flavor sensation! It's actually adorable. #
- Americans just don't feel like it's medicine unless it's a bitter, chalky tablet choked down with a mouthful of fluoridated municipal water. #
- Just a little note to remind everyone that those Iranian protestors are still doing their thing, after weeks of beatings, shootings, abuse. #
- "When I'm elected dictator, I'll…" #dadprefixes #
- Wikipedia appears to be the ultimate example of the Peter Principle: a group of jerks promoting themselves to their level of incompetence. #
- When given the chance to create anything you wanted, you neckbearded trolls, you chose to create an impenetrable bureaucracy. About animes. #
- Gentlemen, since you're asking, this raft of scorn is in reference to demonstrably-notable @rikkisimons being deleted from the nerd library. #
- The Science Pirates – Spam Bots Programmed to Be Angry #hitsingles #
- Have successfully crossbred ham slices and fried egg. #
- I just realized I owe @valya some drawings. Who's up for a Sweatshop in a few hours? #
- Drawing a 'character-driven piece' for @valya and the Conclave Journal, starting from scratch. (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/3Qjc) #
- This is turning into some sort of cautionary tale about nameless horrrors and rent boys. (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/3Qjc) #
- Sorry about that, we're back and more horrified than ever. (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/3Qjc) #
- Stubby Lover – The Bi-Curious Case of Dexter Ward #hitsingles #
- RT @rikkisimons @3liza It's like Bruno meets Galaxy of Terror: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sweatshop in reply to rikkisimons #
- Sure feel sorry for all you peeps what can't draw. Years of starvation/toxic necrosis is worth it for these few seconds of getting it RIGHT. #
- http://twitpic.com/a3dph – This is how far we got tonight. Enough to go on for tomorrow's session, at least. Gauger out. #
- I am laboriously scanning each and every one of the Priority Mail series. Get ready for high-res AMAZEMENT. #
Originally published at eclecticism. You can comment here or there.
Quiet morning of laundry and general home stuff. Planning on heading to the Norwescon Volunteer picnic between 1 and 2 this afternoon.
That kitten is so damn lucky she's cute.
The bad news I got Friday, that Elmos_friend didn't want to tell me because I was having such a good day, is that the kitties at my parents' house, both of which used to be my kitties, are going into kidney failure.
Given that they are 19 and 20 years of age, this is not a surprise. I'm not not sad about it, but it's not at all unexpected. And they're not even in the end stages. The vet just prescribed the kidney diet for them. No subcutaneous fluids yet or anything.
I don't think we'll have them long, but they've had a good run. There will be Rascal-Pig and Cinema stories here in the next few weeks I think.
The bad news I got Friday, that Elmos_friend didn't want to tell me because I was having such a good day, is that the kitties at my parents' house, both of which used to be my kitties, are going into kidney failure.
Given that they are 19 and 20 years of age, this is not a surprise. I'm not not sad about it, but it's not at all unexpected. And they're not even in the end stages. The vet just prescribed the kidney diet for them. No subcutaneous fluids yet or anything.
I don't think we'll have them long, but they've had a good run. There will be Rascal-Pig and Cinema stories here in the next few weeks I think.
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Boxcar Astronaut - Boxcar Astronaut #122: Campout countdown!
Greetings, Fellow Astronauts! This week, our hero, Ben, learns some amazing news that will set the boys up for an adventure unlike any they've ever experienced. According to the local news paper, there will be a "Huge Meteor Shower Tonight"! Ever the fan of anything to do with outer space, Ben decides that the boys need to camp out under the stars in order to witness the full glory of this heavenly display. Does Devin, however share Ben's enthusiasm? Check out this week's All New Boxcar Astronaut to find out!
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