Come’on…Agnes..Bingo starts in 5 minutes..
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Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "Walker Hill Dairy." And a milk truck that's been around the block a few times. National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.
HOW TO GET HUMAN FOODS
1: ask nicely FAIL
2: beg sweetly FAIL
3: demand politely FAIL
4: fake a hunger swoon FAIL
5: cry like a baby IN PROGRESS
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Okay. Things are going to be a bit patchy here for the next seven days, due to work and travel. So no more Station Idents, I’m just going to post when I can.
FAQs for San Diego, then:
* PLANETARY #27 comes out in October, I’m told.
* FELL #10 is underway right now on this end, so don’t bug Ben. We’re on it. It’ll be a while before it’s ready.
* DESOLATION JONES remains in temporary limbo for various reasons. Wildstorm and I are working on it, is all you need to know.
* NEWUNIVERSAL remains on pause while Steve and I do an IRON MAN thing, and we’ll return to finish it once we’re done. Scheduling was the enemy — after the loss of the computer, there were only so many scripts and stories I could reconstitute simultaneously, and ASTONISHING X-MEN trumped it on the scheduling.
* Phil Jiminez just turned in his first ASTONISHING X-MEN issue. I love working with Phil.
* I arrive at San Diego a hair before midnight on Thursday and leave first thing Saturday morning. I’m there exclusive to the Marvel Anime zaibatsu, and my time is scheduled tightly all through Friday. I start at 9.30am, for god’s sake. I normally never even see 9.30am.
* My only public appearances there are:
* The Marvel Animation Panel, 4.30pm - 5.30pm. I think I don’t actually go on stage until 5.10.
* Signing at the Marvel booth, which is #2429, from 6pm to 7pm. There will probably be a limit on number of items to be signed, and if you turn up with a handtruck stacked full of comics I will have Security rape you with a Wolverine toy behind the booth.
* This is a weird one, but… a lot of people ask if they can bring me whisky. Which is incredibly kind and not at all required. If you bought a comic I wrote and liked it, then that’s really all I needed. And this time, in fact, it’s really not necessary, as I’m travelling very light and won’t be able to take it home with me. I feel weird even mentioning this.
* And, yes, I will shake hands with you. The reason I don’t shake hands at other shows is that I’m signing for six or seven hours a day, for a minimum of three days, and everyone sticks their hand out, and the lesson I learned at Heroes Con is that shaking hands with everyone who sticks their hand out means that by the end of the second day my hand is pulp. Poor old Steve Saffel shook hands with me when I was on my way out of the building after my second or third long signing and I yelped. I’m not a professional politician, I’m a writer, I already type for at least 12 hours a day, and I kind of need the hand. One hour at a signing table is a different thing. People get unusually stroppy about this. So I mention it now. And, really, if my not being able to shake hands with you at San Diego or Chicago really did ruin your week, enough for you to keep complaining about it online years later? You’re mentally ill. Seek help before you ruin the lives of your friends and families.
* Also? I am not scary. I mean, I am completely not scary. Do not approach in fear.
* These are, internet snark mongoloid reading this, NOT rules. It says FAQ at the top there.
* Also, I won’t have sex with you unless you pay me.
There. Done. Tom Spurgeon has a proper guide to surviving San Diego, a must-read.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)It's the opening page of the issue.
The cat is The Orphan, the dog is Pugs. The paw belongs to Miranda, an apprentice Wise Dog.
SPARC is concerned about that impact that these changes will have on the economic vitality of Somerville businesses and artists, and quality of life for Somerville residents and visitors. SPARC is also concerned that such sweeping decisions were made by a commission appointed by the Mayor and not by an elected body, and that the Traffic Commission took the vote quietly and without real opportunity for public process.
On May 21, 2009 the Somerville Traffic Commission approved city-wide changes to change meter and resident permit parking regulations. Changes include making all city streets resident only parking, and increasing meter enforcement to 10pm in Davis Sq and Magoun Square and 8pm in other Central Business Districts. Meter rates will also increased from $0.50 per hour to $1.00 per hour. The Mayor formed the Parking Solutions Task Force to recommend modifications to the parking regulation changes and the Task Force’s recommendations were released on June 10th.
The Traffic Commission will vote on the Task Force’s recommendation this Thursday July 30th at 5pm at the Traffic and Parking Office, 133 Holland St. SPARC encourages anyone concerned about the impacts of the changes to attend the meeting.
SPARC’s mission is to work collaboratively with the City of Somerville towards the creation of an innovative parking plan, devised through community input, which allows the City to serve the vehicle parking needs of residents and business patrons, to maintain active business districts, and to generate the revenue needed to continue vital City services. SPARC strives to ensure that Somerville establishes itself as a national leader in managing parking for economic vitality.
SPARC members include:
Davis Square Area Resident Business Initiative (DARBI)
Somerville Local First
Union Square Main Streets
East Somerville Main Streets
Magoun Square Neighborhood Association
Somerville artists
Somerville residents
SPARC is calling for the postponement of the implementation of the parking regulation changes and the opening up of a city-wide community process to evaluate the impact such changes will have on the community. An online petition is available at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Some
More information is available at www.somervilleparc.blogspot.com
To keep up-to-date on SPARC email SomervillePARC@gmail.com to be added to our list
i prefer mines on da rocks but this will do.
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Today in NYC~ Musical Saw Festival 7th Annual Concert & Ar
Apothecary jars + apothecary style media cabinet -- it's obvious when someone else does it, isn't it?
My husban Ben has been wanting an old typewriter -- Eva found this one for $15 at a junk store! She's planning on filling the jars with old keys and gears.
Very Victorian style botanical prints.My take-aways: Apothecary jars are key to the "Victorian Naturalist Laboratory" look. (And there have been so many in stores over the last couple of years they are starting to show up in thrift stores -- I scored a smaller pedestal one just yesterday.) Uncluttered is good (a constant tension in steampunk decor). I do think the room would benefit from a bit more organized clutter on the walls -- maybe some Haeckel prints to play up the unsweet side of our naturalist?
See her whole set of pictures, including before and afters, here.
What would you fill apothecary jars with?
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sarrabellum . I hope that, at least today, you have a day that doesn't suck. My wish for you is that this day would be full of love and all things good, so that even just for a moment, you can have a smile on your face.</span> perclexed ! You are an awesome and amazing and ever-so-sweet woman and I hope that you have a fantasterrific day! We don't see each other nearly as much as I would like to, but please remember that I love you and I know that my life is a lot better by having you a part of it!</span>WTF is a regional summer theatre in the Berkshires, and a frequent summer destination for Broadway performers and film stars who want to tread the boards in a regional company for a show or two. They won the Tony for a regional company in 2002, and they tend to strike a balance in their programming between classics and new premieres. (Incidentally, their Artistic Director is Nicholas Martin, who took over artistic direction at Boston's Huntington Theatre when i worked there ten years ago, small world.) WTF draws a lot of well-known costume designers, as well, so in a production context, working at WTF for a summer is a good way to get some prominent names on your resume, and have an opportunity to work with some top-rung talent and innovative creative teams.
One of my former grad students (M. Spencer Henderson, whose millinery work was featured in this blog a couple years back) is their shop manager this summer, and when a set of designs crossed his desk with some prominently-featured millinery, he called me for a bid. (WTF doesn't have a staff milliner.) I explained bid jobs in this earlier post, but basically, it's a name-your-flat-price sort of situation: you give me this much to make those items.
The show in question is George Kelly's The Torch-Bearers, a 1920s farce about amateur theatricals--like a flapper version of Waiting for Guffman...or something. I have permission from costume designer Ilona Somogyi to share some of her renderings, so that's exciting, because we can consider her designs as a jumping-off point to discuss the collaborative process of designer and production artist in the context of a distance bid like this one.
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