Bond Collector’s Weekend

August 15, 2005 / / 4 comments

My next event will be Bond (as in 007)-related. I’ll attend the Bond Collector’s Weekend (BCW) in New York City on Aug. 29-31. Hope to meet some cool, interesting Bond folks there, and there’s a costume party! Whoopee.

On edit: Since you asked, I’m going as Magda. She is a minor Bond girl/villainess who changes sides in Octopussy. The advantage of this choice is, Octopussy takes place in India, and in one scene, Magda wears a pink sari. I already own a pink sari!

Somewhere out there, there are Bond girl name generators, but the one I saw was stupid. You end up with a name like Happygirl Humpalot. bleh.

Book? Author? Whatever…

August 5, 2005 / / Comments Off on Book? Author? Whatever…

So I’m now looking at my contract for the Bond book, and the title appears to be malleable, but we’ll see. The amusing part is they got my name wrong. 😀

See, if you use wordprocessing at all, you know that you open a document, Save As, and voila! New document. But they left another author’s name in my contract, so you can call me “Bob.”

But please don’t.

Site updates and publication news

July 28, 2005 / / One comment

More new workshops, including “Festival as Community” and “Pain Management.” Updates to “In Print” and “In Progress.”

My big news is that The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book will see print next spring. I can’t begin to tell you how happy it makes me. Just hear the Bond theme in your head while reading this and you’ll get it.

Can you hear me? Hello? Hello?

July 28, 2005 / / 4 comments

Yes indeedy, that’s what WE call site problems. Come back from Starwood, all happy and sun-poisoned and exhausted and dying to write, and curses! thwarted!

Anyway, here, for the second time ever, phrases only heard at Starwood:

1) “Mike, your skirt is caught on the drum.”
2) “My son’s first sarong. I’m so proud!”
3) “The secret ingredient is Pringles.”
4) “So, is your girlfriend in a relationship with your wife’s boyfriend?”

And, the three most important rules of Starwood….

“Hydration, hydration, hydration.”

I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.

Oh yeah, and many people totally rock, including the Utiliklan, the Brushwood staff, the entire Dalton camp, the folks at ACE, Charlie, Matt, the Parkers, Chris Penczak, LaSara Firefox, everyone from Kalamazoo, linguists, Patricia Monaghan, thorasic surgeons, the First Aid guys, and Sparky’s cow. Take a bow, everyone.

Starwood Schedule

July 14, 2005 / / Comments Off on Starwood Schedule

Tentative schedule available in PDF format.

I will be speaking as follows:
Thursday, 11 a.m.: Festival as Community
Friday, 11 a.m.: The Structure of Spellcasting
Saturday, 5 p.m.: The Way of Four

See you there!

Getting ready…

July 8, 2005 / / One comment

I need someone to feed the cat. And water the plants. And water the cat. I need to squeeze everything I own into my car. Also Charlie and Arthur. And, I guess, everything they own.

Starwood here I come! (Okay, next week. I’m just excited.)

Free Spirit Gathering

July 4, 2005 / / Comments Off on Free Spirit Gathering

…What a great event, so laid back, so friendly and easygoing. Love every minute of FSG even with all the last minute chaos of Will She or Won’t She? She did and it was lovely. Saw old friends, participated in some Sacred Tattooing and some other rituals, acquired some tan (with plenty of sunscreen), taught two classes, and boogied the night away. See ya next year, kiddies!

Finally getting around to updating things…

July 4, 2005 / / One comment

Updated Events with Pagan Pride info. September only seems far off.

Updated Workshops with the new version of Spellcasting. It has gotten too burdensome to squeeze Spellcasting into two hours; there’s too much good material, I end up talking a blue streak and having not enough space for questions. So, for Starwood, I’ll cut some material so we can have some fun. And in the future, I’ll give all the material, spread out more.

Starwood’s only 2 weeks away. I can hardly believe it.

Change of Plans

June 4, 2005 / / One comment

Due to a miscommunication, I won’t be presenting workshops at Free Spirt after all. But I’ll be there anyway.

AND…now I will be speaking at Free Spirit. Communication is a wonderful thing.

So Beltane was prophetic…

May 27, 2005 / / One comment

What a miserable May we’re having. Turning 39 is not as fun as it used to be. I am really looking forward to Free Spirit: Fun in the sun, and of course, workshops.

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