Costume, Some Monkeys, No Elephants
Aug. 12th, 2004 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni stayed home from an event this evening (and i miss C, who was obligated to go) but i'm incredibly glad that i stayed home since my old college friend Zanna called to tell us she's getting married, October 2005. being who she is, she will be making herself a dress a la Galadriel in the LOTR films, and plans to require costumes (but not necessarily LOTR, praise be) for all guests. yay! plenty of time to plan and beef up my sewing skills. (i still have this thing about figuring out how to do goat legs on the boy, but somehow i don't think Z's Mennonite relatives would appreciate the full Roman look. grrrr.)
last night i got to hear the first reading of Matt Ruff's new project, Bad Monkeys, at the UVillage Barnes & Noble. so far i like it. he read for a good hour, and perhaps my best description thus far is like the love child of Sewer Gas Electric and Set This House In Order. he said it won't be finished until a year from now :(
i bolted there from happy hour in Belltown on short notice, oddly enough after having been to the Barnes & Noble downtown, which was mostly to pick up a copy of Amazing Stories. i've finished reading it. i will ponder further before i comment much more. i can say that i tend to agree with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_monkey_king both in his reviews (of the one book that i have read, spot on, and congrats to him) and in his assessment of the cover and logo design (ineffective). the editor should be (mostly) congratulated for the selection of stories.
i also discovered that the Paizo publishing logo is not a blue bow, but a little man. it makes more sense, but i just assumed that the bow had some secret meaning to someone. ah well.
i introduced my young coworkers to the happy hour spreadsheet today.
last night i got to hear the first reading of Matt Ruff's new project, Bad Monkeys, at the UVillage Barnes & Noble. so far i like it. he read for a good hour, and perhaps my best description thus far is like the love child of Sewer Gas Electric and Set This House In Order. he said it won't be finished until a year from now :(
i bolted there from happy hour in Belltown on short notice, oddly enough after having been to the Barnes & Noble downtown, which was mostly to pick up a copy of Amazing Stories. i've finished reading it. i will ponder further before i comment much more. i can say that i tend to agree with
the_monkey_king both in his reviews (of the one book that i have read, spot on, and congrats to him) and in his assessment of the cover and logo design (ineffective). the editor should be (mostly) congratulated for the selection of stories.i also discovered that the Paizo publishing logo is not a blue bow, but a little man. it makes more sense, but i just assumed that the bow had some secret meaning to someone. ah well.
i introduced my young coworkers to the happy hour spreadsheet today.
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Date: 2005-06-04 10:52 pm (UTC)depends on which flavour of mennonites they are - i mean, there's mennonites, and then there's mennonites. some of us are pretty relaxed about things.
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Date: 2005-06-05 12:48 am (UTC)her grandmother, not so much.
a friend today told me about her mennonite piano teacher/church organist, Frank, who came out to the congregation and regularly dressed in mennonite drag - with the little net cap and a flowered dress. whee.