angelicaboron

When crafters are also fantasy fans, satire happens.

Watch for the first EMG Sketch Fest coming up Friday, March 26.  You can read the original announcement or watch emglivejournal for updates.  Anyone can post prompts for the artists.  Artists don't have to be EMG members to play, but you are supposed to sign up for the sketch fest in advance.

jolantru posted this meme about common themes in your writing.

Mine include: linguistics, extra sexes/genders, street children, dragons, Paganism, magic, feminism, cooperative living, abandoned/found babies, poetic justice, science as a solution, walking away from bad situations, oh yeah? watch me, turning disadvantages into advantages, stars and moons, evolution ...

Can you think of other things you frequently see in my writing?

And what are some of your favorite themes?

This post has a copy of the Google banner for Pi Day (3.14).

I enjoyed this post about building a very small house.  Not everyone needs large amounts of living space.

Read "Two-Trick Pony" by Elizabeth Moon for a discussion of what it's like to write both fantasy and science fiction.

This pitcher plant has designed itself as a potty for shrews.

"Mother" by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six is the Sepiachord song of the Day.

Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six



Video!

This post translates the phrase "this is war" into many languages.

The contorting corset-clad concert known as Psyche Corporation, will be performing Sunday, March 21st, at The Slipper Room for the Court of Lazarus. Psyche Corp. recently joined the steampunk label, Gilded Age Records, and has been producing music with electro-victorian themes for over four years and hails from a world of downloadable dreams accessed through neural implants. This is our LAST Manhattan show for the near future. Please come by!

Click here for the Facebook event.

summary and links:
Psyche Corporation
Sunday, March 21, 2010
10:30pm
Doors at 9pm
$5/21+
The Slipper Room @ 167 Orchard Street, Manhattan NYC
Dark Formal Dress required

courtoflazarus.org
psychecorporation.com

The World Tree setting (RPG, novel, and crowdfunded weblit) now has an entry on TV Tropes.  This includes a long list of the tropes used in this setting.  Much fun!

I like this rock sculpture.  I would enjoy having something like this in my yard.

Here's a thorough article about torture.

My stance: Torture is evil.  It is something that evil people and nations do, and consider okay to do.  It is not something that good people and nations do or consider okay to do; they are wholeheartedly against it, as it is evil.  Torture is illegal in America and many other countries.  Counting torture illegal is a sign of civilization; permitting it is a sign of barbarism. 
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Toy-Box Trio~ Album Release Extravaganza! Tonight in Seattle

March 13 7PM
Empty Sea Studios
6300 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle WA

Join Toy-Box Trio at Empty Sea Studios to celebrate the release of their first full-length album, "Miniature Menagerie".

Two shows!
with Special Guests:
Robert Rial's Bakelite 78
God's Favorite Bakelite


http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=317167476786

"Ol' Satch" by Hobo Jazz is the Sepiachord song of the Day.

Hobo Jazz

Yes: ponzi crime, ponzi economy, ponzi politicians, ponzi executives, ponzi society.  It all ends the same way.

Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era
Andy Kroll, TomDispatch.com: "Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade - call it the Ponzi Era - has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast wave of financial fraud swelled in the first years of the new century. Then, in 2008, with the subprime mortgage collapse, it crashed on the shore as a full-scale global economic meltdown. As that wave receded, it left hundreds of Ponzi and pyramid schemes, as well as other get-rich-quick rackets that helped fuel our recent economic frenzy, flopping on the beach."

Here is a lovely (but NSFW) music video featuring an animated picture of a woman's backside.  While the animation is carefree, the concept design is really clever.

My Torn Tongue language post this week is about verbs.  You can read it over on torn_world.  There is also a poll in that community about favorite additions from February.

This charming animation video considers aspects of human nature and social evolution, as we consider how to make the world a better place.

Bonus Music Review~ Les Paradisiers

New Today on Sepiachord.com, a review of
"More Tales from the Garden" by Les Paradisiers