Ragtime

This was not a good morning. Spring is here, and I got out of bed with the season shoved up my nose and running down my throat. We were out of bagels — and what else does one serve with iced tea? — and, worst of all, my “innovative” side was out again, and on … Continue reading »

“Ninety percent of the people in this world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contamination,” quoth one Horace Vandergelder in the 1969 version of Hello Dolly!, and if you asked me to pick a quote that would sum up my life in a sentence, that’s probably the one that I’d … Continue reading »

- Ragtime

I’m often asked by friends, in that same sort of “can you teach me how to draw?” way I’m sure every artist is familiar with, things like “omg! How do you like write music?” They insist that they could never possibly do such an insanely cool thing as composing, which, as someone in whose life … Continue reading »

Hello all! It’s time for a really quick post! Recently there’s been an explosion of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic open auditions available on the internets, among them those for General Ivan’s Pony Dubs and Mane 6′s Fighting is Magic, and because I am not one of the many members of the brony community … Continue reading »

I will be the first to admit it that I sort of have an unsavory obsession with Medic from Team Fortress 2. I mean, I’m the kind of person to take one look at an ordinary wallpaper of Medic and his doves and think, “Wow, his hands aren’t the only thing that’s oversized!” (hint: I’m … Continue reading »

It’s my friend Adam’s birthday! A while ago I told him I’d sew together a doll for him this special week, because nothing calls for celebration quite like birthdays. He asked for a plush version of Terezi Pyrope, his favorite of the cast from the popular webcomic Homestuck. In addition to being a recent internet … Continue reading »

Grandma dropped off some plain vanilla cake mix a while back and I haven’t been able to get around to it until today because I have been working my tush off at play practice. But I decided since today was my friend’s birthday and tomorrow our last dress rehearsal (amen), I should bake some delicious … Continue reading »

How many of you have wanted to actually produce your own, full-fledged novel? Have you tried and tried again at your dream, but to no avail? A novel can really be a hit-or-miss sort of thing. What we’re talking about is not shooting for the moon and landing among the stars, but shooting towards that … Continue reading »