My heebies are properly jeebied!

[lotus0kid]

Kind of bushed right now. I got back from RenFest a little bit ago- a good time, as always, but when did all the cosplayers decide to show up? I saw two Tenth Doctors, one Eleventh Doctor, one Darth Maul (with full face make-up), a Queen Amidala (also with the face make-up), a Catwoman and a Batman, one of those black-skined white-haired DnD elf dudes (at least that's close, though still a first for me), and no less than three steampunk people. Also, more top hats than I'm used to seeing in a medieval setting. Probably a steampunk thing. I guess folks were basically breaking out their Halloween costumes early, which I don't particularly fault them for. But it still bugged me in a stupid nerd way.

In other news, I just started listening to the Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast and it's pretty amazing. It's a full-on radio play, stuffed with extremely talented folks (and several recognizable guest stars) and a nice dollop of humor. Honestly, it's... it's kind of a program I imagine would fit well into the Middleverse. I can see Wendy and Lacey and Noser listening to this. Each episode is less than thirty minutes long, and there are a bunch of different stories going on. There's the scifi western Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars, and the one that's like the Thin Man series plus supernatural stuff Beyond Belief, and there's the WWII action adventure with Nathan Fillion Jefferson Reid: Ace American. There's a noir-ish one about the guy who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon and another one about Amelia Earhart and some time-travel ones and another scifi one and some others and basically I'm going to be busy for a while is what I'm saying.

In conclusion, I'm recording a couple of haikus written by Tom Wilson (Biff/Griff/Buford Tannen of Back to the Future I/II/III). They're actually haiku songs, BTW. As the man himself says, haiku songs are "easier to write, right to the point."

It's strange that a dog
will eat a dead bird, but will
never eat a grape.

Life rushes on, fast-
er and faster, but the fact
is you can't rush toast.

Ah, okay, I think I need some tea. And I need this dang Downton Abbey episode to finish downloading sometime before Walking Dead at nine. Come on, little buddy, you can do it!

Comments

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

This seemed apt. ;)

I had the most beautiful guy on one of my tours today, it was almost impossible to talk to him when he asked me a direct question because he was just too pretty. I just felt like sharing.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Ye-eah, that is... apt. NGL. I wonder if the Doctors I saw were pretending they were exploring a strangely anachronistic planet.

Mm, congrats. Did I ever tell you about the beautiful guy who ran the counter at the Indian restaurant in Hull? Almost definitely. But he's worth repeating.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I think it would be awesome if they were. At least they'd have an excuse, because the steampunk, Darth Maul, and the rest make no sense at all.

You definitely did, but that's okay.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

I'd kind of love to see Eleven go "Shit, has time stopped and squished itself into a big ball again? Oh, no, it's just a Ren Faire."

Heh, I will try not to in the future. I can't even really remember exactly what he looked like. Just... general YES, I guess.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

LOL, that's sort of like Discworld, in a way, isn't it? Because time is all squished together there, and all the time periods show up together.

Nah, it's okay, always good to hear about attractive folks.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Eh, I wouldn't really say Discworld is like that really. I mean, there isn't much in the way of modern stuff. No motorized transportation (unless you count the turtle thing in Small Gods) or electricity (unless you count the clock in Thief of Time).