Okay, it’s not really much of a trip, seeing as the convention hotel is less than 10 miles from my apartment … but still, I’ll be spending a lot of time at NorWesCon 35 this weekend. If you’re in the greater Seattle area, you’re a science-fiction/fantasy fan, I expect to see you at the show! [...]
As hard as it is for me to believe, it’s time for Emerald City Comic Con again! I’m planning to be there on Friday and Saturday for certain … Sunday I’m leaving up in the air, for the moment. Mostly, I plan to just wander the exhibit hall and attend a few seminars … but [...]
A few years ago, Hyrum told me about this thing he’d read about called a “No-Lose Lottery.” Now, just by the name alone, I was suspicious, but he’d told me some crazy things before that turned out to be true, so I listened. It turned out he was talking about a financial product generally known [...]
I neglected to mention it the other week, but I put a new comic up at the 10′x10′ Toon site. That’s a pretty rare occurrence these days, and it makes me feel sad to realize it. There was a good 10 months or so back a couple of years ago where I was succeeding in [...]
On Saturday night, just for a change of pace, I went with a couple of friends to see a professional lacrosse game. Now, if you’re like me, your first reaction to a sentence like that is something like, “There are professional lacrosse teams?” As it turns out, yes. The National Lacrosse League (NLL) has been [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
I spent most of the weekend working on a freelance assignment, checking in occasionally with the manager of my apartment complex. When, at 6:00 on Sunday night, there still was no electricity to the buildings, I figured that for sure I was going to have to impose on my friends for another night in their [...]
When last I typed here, I was having a bit of fun at the expense of Seattle area drivers and their winter weather skills. Apparently, the Great Northern Wind took great offense at this and decided to teach me the error of my ways — that, or a confluence of bad weather and bad luck [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
It’s snowing in Seattle. Now, in other parts of the world “it’s snowing” might just be a statement about the weather, but here in the greater Seattle area the words carry the weight of an emergency klaxon. Snow … SNOW … SNOOOOOWWWWW! Now, to be fair, the snowstorm we’re having today DOES seem to be [...]
Last week I went to the Sci-Fi Museum in downtown Seattle. I’ve been a member of the museum for a number of years (many of which, I wasn’t even living in Seattle) just because I wanted to support this kind of institution — a museum devoted to the art, literature, movies, and TV that most [...]
A few weeks ago, my friend Jeff made a post on his blog about a trip he and his wife made down to the Tacoma Art Museum to see a Norman Rockwell exhibit that featured ALL of his Saturday Evening Post covers and a roomful of original paintings. Rockwell is someone whose work has always [...]