Godzilla Kisses

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I has a bookbag! With a Tor.com screenprinted logo!

(Check the bottom row of photos in this post.  I was there helping with Teresa's t-shirts and dress. Claire and I also tried some gauze scarves, but they didn't come out very well.)

Show & Tell: Your Monthly Art Fix

Sunday, July 20 at 7PM $3 with food or drink to share

Climate Theater:  285 9th Street. At the corner of 9th and Folsom in San Francisco.

Bring slides of your work (of any media) to share with your peers, or come and enjoy what others are showing with a bit of eating, drinking and socializing too. Each person gets 5-10 minutes to show and you can bring digital or traditional slides.
(You can also bring actual work, which I will do.  I'm bringing stuff in progress.)

Tor.com is giving away a whole bunch of downloadable books and art this week. They're celebrating the launch of their site, which went live thirty-eight minutes or so ago.  Check out the list of freebies.

That's not the only reason to go there, of course, but I know a few folks around here are in a budget-pinchy time, and getting good reading for free is a great comfort at times like that.  (papersky's book Farthing is there!  Also mistborn's book Mistborn, which is on my to-read list.)  Also, nifty art in various formats.  Enjoy!

(P.S. If you look around the Tor.com site a bit and find a comment from me, you'll see that my current placeholder icon is that purple My Little Pony wearing the Zombie Queen crown.   I told this to the current owner of the 2 MLP crowns, cadhla, the other day, and she told me the crowns are getting their own custom ponies to wear them.  I'm really looking forward to photos of those.)

Preview Pages now online at - http://gomanga.com/

Script by me, coming out in Jan '09 from Seven Seas.

Very excited, despite lack of sleep. I can't seem to sleep in past 8am no matter what time I go to bed!

gettingshitdone, Kazzie, and teratologist!

Okay, can someone please explain to me why it is that when I plug my Canon EOS 400D into the computer pictures download smoothly using the windows import facility, but the bundled Canon utility refuses to recognise the camera?

Sigh.

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We now have 40 minutes of footage.  I had a small break. Then we go off to shoot the scene that'll probably get cut.  They're editing, I could hear myself yelling in the scene over and over.  Its a creepy sensation; I never liked the sound of my own voice.  Too tired to care.  Shot the final scene outside in the cold in front of a church.  Its a wrap at 31 hours, 29 minutes from the starting gun. 

Now its down to the post to get it down to seven minutes.  I get to go home and sleep. 
 
 

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My cheese group visited Little Italy cheese shops, first DiPalo's and then Alleva.

They gave us some cheese!

At DiPalo's, we had burrata, Piacentinnu Ennese with saffron and black pepper, Caciotta al Pepe by Perenzin, and a Primo Sale pecorino with arugula.

Then at Alleva, fresh mozzarella and manteche, which is a fascinating cheese. I had never had this exact cheese before, but it is a dry mozzarella (similar to a provolone)wrapped around a big ball of butter. I am not sure what you are supposed to do with this exactly!

I am trying to not let the amazing dinner I just had with my friend Andrew ruined by coming home to a hallway reeking of potsmoke from the Lexington Club potsmoking Annex that was, evidently, right under the hall window of the flat. A Nasty flashback to the former former roomie and her drug addiction.





BUT FUCK...that steak was good. Ruth's Chris is the bomb. rightkindofme and angelbob will be amused: we had the same waitress, Daria. She says congrats on teh behbeh.

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But first we shoot rockstar.

 OK, we just shot the scene in which I tell the whole fuckin world that all we're ever gonna do is rot, and that they can wait in hell for the rainbows to come outta their ass.  We did that for fifteen minutes.   Then we re-did it because a slew of extras showed up.  We were hurting for htem.  Then I found myself wanting some mushy cuddliness something fierce.

Its  just as hard to act out this shit having just barely had time to stew with it as it is to write it all in six short hours.

AD -"We shot too much coverage early on.  We're paying for that now."  This is all about time management, and too many of us haven't done a 48 hour before.  The AD being one of them, and he's the guy who's responsible for keeping us on schedule. He's doing great, though.

Had a dip in momentum for a while, lost our stride, and now we found out the batteries died during the last scene and we have to reshoot it.  We just decided to cut a scene b/c of time, and realized that we're missing a chunk of narrative arc in the script that we can't go back and shoot.

We're doing these shoots back in the art gallery in SOMA where their are big beautiful glass jellyfish hanging from the ceiling.  And right now speaking in a russian accent makes perfect sense.

This is hour 29ish ..

 We are now over 4K deeper in the hole, but we comparison-shopped & got the best deals.

One electric stove & matching fridge in stainless-steel finish.

One Maytag washing machine & matching dryer. (I'm esp. happy about this - they last forever.) We got them especially narrow (24 inches across) because of the challenge of getting them down our basement steps in old house.

AND we got a freezer on sale, smaller than the one that was given to us, also more energy-efficient. (I wasn't sure this purchase was strictly necessary, but what the hey - now everything will work well for years to come). All come with 5 year warranties that cover absolutely everything.

It all gets delivered next Saturday, and the old stuff gets hauled away (the cost of this is part of the total deal). So now we have nothing to do but wait.

We bought all this while a storm was raging outside. The big Saskatchewan sky was a massive mural full of cloud formations in various colors - flashes of lightning in the charcoal-grey end of the sky, fluffy white clouds & cerulean blue at the other. Partner thinks there were actually 2 storms, one chasing the other.

I'm still digesting what we signed for. 

I remain thrilled with my tattoo. It's healed down to flat with my skin,* and I can't stop petting it.

*Something the tattoo on my back never did—he really ground it in there, and it's scarred.

If you’re interested in leather community history and you’re in SF, this will be a wonderful opportunity!
If I weren’t in London, I’d help with this. I hope someone can.

:)

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From: Rae <raenforest@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:35:02 -0700
To: <raenforest@gmail.com>
Subject: Last-Minute Volunteers Needed for Folsom exhibit at GLBT Historical Society


Last-Minute Volunteers Needed!
The GLBT Historical Society and Folsom Street Fair are producing an exhibit on the 25 years of Folsom's history.
The exhibit is due to open on Thursday, and we need your help to get everything on the walls and ready for the opening! We need people to help hang photos, paint, cut and tape labels, etc.

If you're available, we could use help at any of the following times
Sunday, July 20 (tomorrow), 9am to 8pm
Monday, July 21, 5:30pm to 9pm
Wednesday, July 23, 5:30pm to 9pm

At the GLBT Historical Society, 657 Mission (between New Montgomery and 3rd), Suite 300, SF

If you're available to help out, please call (909-816-5606) or email me (raenforest@gmail.com). Or, you're welcome to stop by, you'll just need to call up to get the door code.

Please pass this along to any friends or lists who might be interested.

And, of course, we'd love to have you at the opening, to see the completed exhibit!
Thursday, July 24, 6-9pm

Thanks!!
-Rae

Rae Goldman
Co-curator, 25 Years of Folsom, GLBT Historical Society
Board Associate, Folsom Street Events
raenforest@gmail.com



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