Saturday was busy. Sunday we went to Alexander James Adams' concert in the morning (ALWAYS a joy, that) and then hung around for a bit until it was time to meet davidlevine who had generously offered to give us a lift to the Beaverton Powells for the book signing event that afternoon. When we arrived at the store it was to find a gratifying melee of shoppers carrying shopping baskets *FULL...

davidlevine is a genius. Some time back, he executed an analysis of the Mainspring world that caused me to amend the worldbuilding in Escapement to keep the clockwork universe as rational as possible (in context). So now, a few weeks ago, at the writing retreat he had organizes, David read a draft of my short story, "Torquing Vacuum", a short in the Sunspin continuity. He gave me some...

And it's a wrap :>. Discussions, panels, more walk ins (we had many on Friday, some on Saturday and a few more today). Yesterdasy Peter Davie and Jeff Sturgeon spoke (GOH sessions), today they served on panels - Jeff talking about his aluminum technique and Peter on a panel about Writing Funny (along with jaylake , davidlevine and GeneB (who may have an LJ, but I don't know his handle...

via davidlevine , indirectly... Davy Jones sings "Your Personal Penguin." So that's what happened to him... (I think it's mostly that he's totally still Davy Jones, but I'm having that OMG YOU GOT OLDER WHILE I WASN"T LOOKING AT YOU thing.)

Yesterday, while coming back from davidlevine 's Oregon coast writing retreat in Rockaway Beach, OR , we passed a steam engine, an 0-2-2-0 logging locomotive, to be specific. The Genre car tends to want to pull over in such situations, so I let the vehicle have its head. calendula_witch and zellandyne stayed in the vehicle and chatted while I walked around the steaming hunk...

As reported here by Davidlevine , calendula_witch and I enjoyed a grand weekend at the Oregon coast in good company. David hosted a workshop that included himself, kateyule , zellandyne , amberdine , Mr. amberdine , Corie C., and of course, us. The suspects, photo by C. Amberdine. This work by C. Amberdine is licensed under a Creative...

A few notes of potential interest: The voting poll for the Flash Fiction Open contest [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] will close Sunday night or Monday. This is part because I will be mostly or fully off the grid from Friday afternoon through Sunday evening. calendula_witch and I are going to a writing retreat on the coast with a cast of 2/3-dozen. (She'll be here tonight. Yay!) davidlevine...

Well, calendula_witch is leaving the Witchnest this morning — about now, in fact — to make the drive to Oregon. She'll be here for about ten days, during which time we'll make davidlevine 's coast writing retreat (along with the lovely and talented zellandyne , who's currently visiting as well), do a bunch of homebody/couple stuff, and hit Foolscap. I can't wait to see her....

Courtesy of davidlevine comes news that the title of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie (PotC: On Stranger Tides) may mean just what you think it does.

The August babies party at kzmiller 's house. The gnome concentration camp the_child 's friend I— davidlevine holding a praying mantis the_child recoils from having her photo taken with the flash The fire in the pit © 2009 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. & B. Lake This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. and B. Lake is licensed under a Creative...