Stardust Asylum

I don’t want to go among mad people…

Oh, you can’t help that…we’re all mad here.

Who says I can’t help it?

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This would be the odd Alice in Wonderland scene that has evolved on my mantle, featuring Willow all dressed up in Hatter Williams’ clothes, and a tiny wee new thing. I suppose I should introduce this [...]

The world falls down…but at least I have spats.

This was me right before Dolpa, lounging, not so attractively, but aren’t my shoes cute?

So today is going largely unsuccessfully. Tried out the new curtains for my bedroom and they don’t…work. They don’t keep light out and the ties to pull them up are stupidly engineered. Back to the store they go!
So I decided to try unpacking the books and pretty things that go on the bookcases now that [...]

Armeleia and I watched “Sweeney Todd” again tonight (I picked up the special edition of it…because I liked the cover better. That’s…bad.) and I thought of something.
Wouldn’t it rock if there was a Sweeney Todd game for Wii??
I even demonstrated some of the things that would be required of the player, choosing which customers to [...]

Why is it that my body interprets any illness as a fever and cough? What started out as a normal sniffy sneezy cold has moved on into a wheezy cough and a too hot fever. Blargh…no fever reducer in the house.
Eh, I’m just the one fated to die in this novel, at a young and [...]

Spent the weekend failing at things. It was just one of those weekends that nothing quiiiiiiite works out as you’d planned, including having two sets of weekend plans fall through and having some baking turn out…not the way it should have.
Read the rest of Deathnote…tragically, the last manga wasn’t as shocking in its [...]

Well, before my weekend imploded, I had a lovely Saturday. The morning was spent in the artistic, scientific, and ghastly presence of dead bodies, at the Our Bodies exhibit at the science museum. I’m sure you’ve seen examples of this…where the preservers replace the fluids and fat in human bodies with polycarbon material to make [...]

So…now we’re on Version 4 of Thomas. *sigh* This time he’s Volks SD10 Mark, who I picked up in Buffalo when I went home for the funeral. Armeleia repainted him last night and while it’s taking some time to get used to his new face, I think that for the moment he is my Thomas [...]

This artist is really a wonder. I’ve spent the better part of an hour exploring my way through his images. It’s reminiscent of a Nintendo DS game, feeling around with the stylus to find the hidden things. Oddly intimate, probing around with the mouse for the sensitive spots.
NFCTD 
Caleb Johnston is the mastermind behind the illustrations, [...]

While I was in Japan, I was distressed that I missed seeing the lavish “Phantom of the Opera” movie on the big screen. There were several years of my life spent sitting in my dark bedroom, with a single candle glowing, and Colm Wilkinson crooning “Angel of Music” in my ear. I even have black [...]