Donna Barr's Blog, page 21

Emerald City and Norwescon

Don't usually go to a lot of conventions any more, at least in person, but gonna be at both this year, because they're only a week apart (thank you to the lovely Roberta Gregory and charismatic Bruce Taylor for letting me stay on their comfy couch again in the week between).
Emerald City Comicon : I'll be in the Prism Comics booth, mostly, as author (artist/writer) pushing my books AND playing booth monkey.
Norwescon :  On five panels for this one, and probably attending a bunch to entertain myself and pick up tips and stuff.
In between:  SEATTLE!  Shopping, making contacts, whatever. I seldom get back to my favorite city in the world, so now's the time to hook up, although the events above will probably cover it.  
Oh, and I have Clallam Bay Sea Salt and bath salts made with same.  Remember to ask me if you want any.
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Mini Class Repeats Due To Snow - and Stuff

Because of the Blizzard of January (a whole six inches) and other - um - stuff, the mini class being put on in preparation for the Comicon is being repeated.  And we'll have an event (oh noes!).  Here are the flyers for the Comicon and - wait for it - the Hoodie Contest:

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A Tail of Jim

Jim are not happy.Jim's home!
Yesterday we discovered Jim had scraped an inch-long trench in the end of his tail, possibly even broken it.  We thought he'd gotten his tail caught in the door, but now we're not sure.
Anyway, he's home, with stitches in his tail.  
The vet's assistant, Naomi, said she came THIS close to putting a pink ribbon bow on the tail.  So maybe he'd better think next time.  
Vet bill, of course, so am trolling for commissions.  Nice black and white drawings (including rough and scan) for $30.00, $12.95 shipping, handling and insurance (Within the US and Canada -- a bit higher overseas).  If you want more figures, or color, we can talk; hit the email address (on my profile, here). Or donate a beer at the Desert Peach site!
Note:  PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST COPYRIGHTED CHARACTERS.  Using other people's or company's characters for money is copyright infringement and THEFT.  I hate to have to say this again, but people still need to learn this is wrong and illegal.  I DO NOT STEAL FROM OTHER ARTISTS.
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Thank you, Facebook.

Who knew?  Facebook got us back together after more than 30 years.
Drove 8 hours round trip yesterday to meet with a German Professor I hadn't seen since 1978.
Dagmar and Mohsin in the Streamliner diner.

She has hardly changed, and she has netted herself a handsome, funny Egyptian husband, named Mohsin. See if I'm wrong.  That fedora is from Chicago, where else?
We had a hugely fun time in the town of Bainbridge, on Bainbridge Island, in the Puget Sound.

Me and Dagmar on the Bainbridge Village waterfront pathway park.


Okay, so following our noses to a wonderful local café, blathering our heads off about ghosts and shouldn't teachers receive an Oscar as performance artists, just for starters, and walking along the waterfront trail, finding the magical Madrona grove,  and finally going back and having even MORE strong coffee may not sound like an exciting day of surfing or landing badly in wingsuits, but we enjoyed it.

Thankfully, people aren't carving initials on trees so much any more, but simply writing notes. Ours are very tiny, so you probably can't see them, but we know where they are.

Dagmar can still drop one eyelid without moving another muscle in her face.  It's still just as funny.

We really don't need much to sleep dry.


In the Bainbridge shoreline walking park we found a hut made of broken branches and big-leaf maple leaves.  After a day's rain, the inside of this little shelter was completely dry.

Thank you, Facebook. Even if we never meet up again, I'll remember this day forever.





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Writer's Block With A Crossbow

There's the friend whose brother cleaned out the burial fund, and used their father's body to run the HOV lane to a cheap cremation.  
And my college professor who worked with a woman who came over with her husband with the von Braun gang, and years later settled in Illinois.  There, the couple had problems with a deer eating the roses.  They applied for a permit to shoot the deer.  The state gave them one.  They were allowed to shoot the deer.
As long as they did it with a crossbow.
And people are still complaining about Writer's Block because they can't think of any ideas.....
(Somebody in the State of Illinois was/is pretty cool.)The Little Store: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com/2007/04...

The cure for too much holiday party

Sooner or later on a holiday, you have to get out of the house.
Everybody, including the cats, is turkey up to HERE.
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