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Hey, Look!

It’s Rick Weber (aka Lord Percival Degage from King Richard’s Faire)!

When Can I Move In?

Have a look around this cool steampunk house!

How Many is Too Many?

Been poking around in my conlangs today, which I haven’t done for some time and I’m considering adding yet another noun case to Proto-Túfóžan. It has 46 already, so I’m leery about the prospect of adding another, but I think I may really need it, especially if I want to avoid creating adpositions (at least [...]

I Should Have Mastered the Damned Thing by Now

If anyone ever tells you that Elizabethan Secretary hand is easy to learn, they are lying. That minuscule ‘r’ that looks a bit like a modern ‘w’ is a bitch, with a litter of puppies, and I have only four-letter words when it comes to the majuscules ‘I’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘K’, ‘N’, and ‘A’.

Halloweekend 2007

The grrls are here — most of them, anyway; one was too busy with real life (stupid real life) to come and play — and though it was raining yesterday, the sewing has been sewed and silly card games have been played. Today the Hogwarts faculty takes to the streets of Salem. So if you [...]

Halloween Costumes

While I was on door-duty for the trick-or-treaters last night, I came to the sad conclusion that the commercially manufactured kiddie costumes marketed these days are just too good. Used to be, in order to have a decent costume for Halloween, you had to actually put it together yourself (or get your parents to). Otherwise, [...]

Calligraphic Preferences

I’ve been playing with my calligraphy pens lately. I had put them away last spring when the winning bidders for the two pieces of custom Tengwar work that I put up for the Museum of Science’s winter party silent auction failed to ever actually decide what they wanted me to do for them (charity aside, [...]