Dr. Horrible Manga

Dr. Horrible, Penny, Moist, and Captain Hammer.  I’m really proud of this.  And the fact that I spent most of my evening making these avatars proves that I’m completely addicted to Face Your Manga.  Next project:  the characters from The Guild.

Stone & Honey

I discovered this little jewelry lined when it was blogged on Oh Joy!.  These pieces are beautiful and so simple.  They have the metal shapes on top of brightly colored agate in some of their pieces, but I just love the plain gold necklaces.  And they’re not very expensive – only $65!  Maybe I’ll ask for one for my birthday.

Stone & Honey

Rush playing Rock Band

Rush played “Tom Sawyer” on Rock Band backstage when they were waiting to go on the Colbert Report.  It totally cracks me up to see Neil Peart going “tick, tick” on the tiny plastic drums.  They got a 31% on Expert Mode. They totally suck.

I <3 Joss Whedon

This week something wonderful happened on the internets.  Joss Whedon released the first three mini episodes of a heart-felt, utterly wonderful, low budget musical progect called Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.  It stars Neil Patrick Harris (who I am thoroughly enjoying in his new-found coolness) as Dr. Horrible, a villian who is struggling to be taken seriously by the Evil League of Evil.  Things get worse when is arch nemesis Captain Hammer (played brilliantly by Nathan Fillion) steals the girl that Dr. Horrible has a major crush on.  Hurry up and watch the three episodes at drhorrible.com, because they’ll be taken off the internet at 12:00 Eastern tonight!

Fears

It’s  a distinct possiblity at this point that my husband and I will be moving to London in the next few months.  If they let us into the country, that is.  From what I’ve heard, they’re being quite selective about immigrants lately.  But I can’t blame them – it’s an island after all.

It took a long time for us to come to the final decision to go.  There are a lot of uncertainties and it will certainly be a leap of faith.  But aside from the worry of living day to day and finding a good apartment, I’ve made a list of other things that scare me about moving to London.  Since they are largely fictitious in nature, though, at least I can look at this and know that these things will never affect me.

1.  the rage virus, and thus also fast zombies

2.  daleks

3.  cybermen

4.  ghosts (because according to Most Haunted, every building in the UK is haunted)

5.  falling through the cracks and ending up in the London Below

6.  what happened in Children of Men

7.  a community of cannibals descended from Victorian railway workers that lurk in abandoned Tube stations (as in Death Line)

8.  British peanut butter and black currant Skittles (sadly, not fictitious and very, very bad)

(Update) 9.  Amy Winehouse

Update on the last post:

It sucked … a lot.

Duh Duh Duh DAAAAAAA… Duh Duh DAAAAA

giant mirrored skull

Originally uploaded by juco

Can’t wait for the new Indiana Jones movie! Despite Harrison Ford being impossibly old and Shia Labeouf being impossibly annoying, it’s going to be awesome. If nothing else, Cate Blanchett’s sexy Russian accent will atone for everything.

epic fail

*Sigh* Blog, I don’t know why I neglect you so. I didn’t write about our London trip on you – instead I documented it through my London collection on Flickr. I didn’t make anything to submit to Crammed Organisms, so no posts for that. I promise to make more things, I really do. There are lots of summer blockbusters coming out soon, so that will give me something to write about. I’m sorry bloggy blog!  Please don’t hate me!

We’re in London!

Hooray!  This is why I haven’t posted all week – I’ve been getting ready for this trip.  Yesterday and today have been a mixture of raw nerves and exhaustion, but we’re here.  And extremely jet-lagged.  It’s only 6 PM here, but I think we’re going to go to bed.  We both almost feel asleep in our pizza at the Italian restaurant we ate at.  More on our flight, our awesome flat, and awesome neighborhood tomorrow!

Crammed Organisms – a St. Louis area plush show!

Wow – I had no idea that this was happening! Crammed Organisms is calling out for artists all over the world to submit their plushie creations for this show. The show is going to be June 6, 13, 20, and 27, and applications have to be in by March 29. Dan and I are going to be out of town from March 15 through the 29, so I’ve got to get cracking. The theme is “Fairy-Folk-Fable”, so I’m going to make some awesome plush sasquatches. Maybe a few other cryptids. They’re also accepting visual art and written pieces, so if you create at all, definitely enter! I’ll update the blog with my plushie progress!