Busy Weekend....

Well, on the tail end of a very eventful week, I've had a very eventful weekend. Saturday it was Pantheacon, the local yearly Pagan shindig. It was a lot of fun, though the programming I managed to catch wasn't nearly as good as last year. I need to pay more attention to that next year; all the stuff I would *really* have liked to have been in on was Sunday. A real high point was getting to play with Danse Macabre again, my old renfaire band. I love the people and the music and I've been meaning to get back in with them for a long time. Maybe now I'll make that happen.

Just as well about the Sunday though, because hanging out with corpsefairy, madmanatw and the rest of the Momentum House crew was more fun, anyhow. In the afternoon, we saw 'Dragonwings', a community theatre show that corpsefairy did the costume design for...adequate acting, great costumes, including a dragon tail that I WANT to WEAR to next FC...even though I'm, uh, not a dragon? After that, we *got to see Jonathan Coulton* in concert, which was just all kinds of cool. Geek rocker par excellance, he was just as delightful in person as on the 'net. (all of which is here: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs) He does mostly tunes about mad scientists, zombies and love, often in the same song.

Watching peoples' reactions of amusement to 'Skullcrusher Mountain', particularly those who clearly hadn't heard the song before, was great. Having a whole, packed house doing the chorus of "All we want to do is eat your brains!" was inspirational. Also, he signed a little sketch I did during the show. I should scan and post that. Um. After I scan and post all of my Valentine's art. :( I mentioned that this was an eventful week, yes??

So, I need help, everyone, as I do on occasion, NOT bringing home an African Grey. (I got a chance to play with one at the bird shop in Berkeley, which brought up my periodic insane desire to do so. So beautiful! So smart! Whenever I decide that I really want another parrot, I scrub everyone's cages spotless and buy them all new toys).

So, when I bring home that grey I'm never gonna have, I'm even more so not gonna teach her to say/sing, "Oh I'm so into you/but I'm way too smart for you/even my henchmen think I'm crazy/I'm not surprised that you agree..../

But any of you who have greys or similarly talky parrots, I suggest playing that song at them. It's too perfect. ;D And I mean, parrots DO have hench(wo)men, after all. See also the comment about scrubbed cages and new toys above.

Official Announcement

I'm a bad puppy. I've known this for months now...where does the time go?!?!, it dosen't seem so long ago...but I've not posted here about it, and now any of you who may be potentially able to go may not have time to plan it. But, here goes...

I'm one of the GoHs at Morphicon 2007, a little furry con in Ohio in the last weekend in May.

http://www.morphicon.org/2007/

If you can go, please do, especially if you are one of those people on that end of the country who I never get to see 'cause of that continent between us thing. :D Come see me and help me celebrate my 31st birthday at the con. It's little and mellow compared to a FC or AC, but should be nice for good relaxed arting and socializing.

I will also have my first ever dealer's table. (sigh). I need to make that jump, I really do, and to that end I'd like to make plans with someone now for sharing dealer's table space at FC '08 now. Because, y'know, I won't have a pile of stuff to sell, just sketches and some prints, and I don't want to be shackled to a table for the whole con. Anyone interested, drop me a line willya?

I'm about 1/2 done with the art for the con (a painting and a b/w button image). The theme gave me pause (paws?) because it is 'technofurs/furrys and technology', and I am REALLY bad at/usually don't have any interest in depicting machines. But when I went to turn of the century/steampunk type tech, my creative block melted, and I'll have what should be a really nice little acrylic painting for them by the end of the month. Which I probably won't show anyone 'til a specified period after the con.

So YAY everyone, support Morphicon and come if you can!!!!!!