Sometimes for dinner you need a good hat. Though it’s considered bad manners to wear your hat inside or in the presence of ladyfolk, sometimes you have to make an exception if the hat is ceremonial–I’ve seen bishops wear their…
Yearly Archives: 2015
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
Last of Us – Joel Cosplay
For those thinking of dressing up as a character from the Last of Us, I highly recommend it! Dressing like a gritty survivor puts you in the mind that you’re at the periphery of civilization. You look at the areas…
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
Squeak Squeak!
Sunday night I’m doing the dishes, soapy water dripping from my fingers, and I hear a surprised little squeak and the rattle of sheet metal. Coming from the oven. “No, couldn’t be,” I think. But I check the oven anyway,…
Rainbow Unicorn Bakery
Kids are nothing if not ambitious, and Child Harbat doubly so. This Saturday she tells me she wants to make her own bakery. “But just like Starbucks, what do they sell there?” We came up with a list of coffee,…
Posted in Baking, Parenting Tagged with: bakery, baking, CH, child harbat, food, meringue, pastry, rainbow unicorns, strawberry pie
Let’s Talk Beer
Before we get into talking and words and all that extra “content” you have to wade through on the internet just to get to cute pictures of cats or AMAZING AB TRICKS, let’s look at a picture. Nice, huh?…
Doctor Boy
I’m trying to get dressed this morning and a small doctor came into my room and said he needed to check me. He lifted my shirt, pressed a stethoscope onto my belly button, listened for a moment, and then proclaimed…
The Smell of Paper
Library books smell different than the sterile drawing and printing paper we’re used to holding. Library paper is yellowed, soft like thin leather, the corners folded and creased, the letters becoming translucent from the absorption of eyes, the transmutation of…
