I can only understand a place by walking it. When traveling I’ve got to get out of the car and strike out across open land, feel the ground under my feet and see what plants brush my legs, hear the…
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Wheels, Manes, and Beers
Let’s get down to brass tacks: I need to write more. The blog has been suffering from regular updates and I hope to change that by, drumroll please, lowering standards! No more need for coherent and well-organized blog posts. Nope.…
Last of Us Cosplay – Ellie outfit
The final chapter in making a Joel and Ellie costume pair for ComicCon 2015: Ellie. Unfortunately my daughter wasn’t around to show off the clothes personally but you can see how it all came together. I recommend cleaning out your…
Posted in Events, San Diego Tagged with: CH, cosplay, costumes, ellie, joel, last of us, naughty dog
San Diego ComicCon 2015
Let’s plunge into the world of imagination. Everything in ComicCon comes from people sitting and dreaming about what could be: spaceships, talking kittens, killer robots, zombies, ten-story gorillas, warlocks, battle pigs, fairies. Entering this world as Ellie and Joel, my…
Posted in Events, San Diego, Uncategorized Tagged with: clicker, ComicCon, cosplay, costumes, ellie, Furiosa, Hagrid, joel, joel and ellie, minion, san diego, San Diego ComicCon 2015, the last of us, Vamplets, Waldo, zombie
The Last of Us Cosplay
The day arrived this Saturday, one year after I decided that CH and I would dress up as Ellie and Joel from The Last of Us, a phenomenal and heart-rending game from Naughty Dog. San Diego ComicCon! Saturday morning we…
Posted in San Diego, Uncategorized Tagged with: CH, clickers, ComicCon, cosplay, costumes, ellie, joel, joel and ellie, naughty dog, the last of us, zombies
Mister Bloat
It’s astonishing what gets built without someone at some point saying, “Nope, shut it down. This is terrifying.” At a inflatable “theme park” here in San Diego, there’s one that caught my eye. But first, when I say “theme park”…
Crows, Spiders, and Bears
Let’s start with the crow. I really, really wanted a moody picture of a crow eating trash on the sidewalk. I’d put it in black and white, scratch it up a bit, maybe even tilt the image. You know, real avant…
It’s All What You’re Used To
Something about the structure and grammar of today’s post title bothers me. How about, “It is All About That To Which You are Used?” No. “All to Which You are Used is It?” That’s even worse and I can’t figure…
Unexpected Visitors
Two visits this weekend I wasn’t expecting: animal and machine. Let’s start with the four-legged variety first. I’ll say this wasn’t totally unexpected. I know our chicken yard is enticing to all sorts of semi-wild animals in the neighborhood. If I…
Posted in Gardening, San Diego Tagged with: airplanes, chickens, eggs, ford trimotor, indiana jones, possum, vintage airplanes
It is Freezing!
Cold weather is gripping the nation, especially my hometown in Washington, DC where’s it’s a temperature that doesn’t sound like a temperature: eight. Up in the higher latitudes it’s approaching temperatures found in outer space beyond poor Pluto. It’s thirty…
