Shown above: the expurgated version of my paycheck from one day of background work on the upcoming Christmas episode of Grimm. Minimum wage, but not bad considering I sat around killing zombies for a few hours and then literally walked…
Category: PDX
My OryCon 35 Schedule
ETA(2013-11-04): better link destinations for co-panelists, sign-up info for ORCs, Twitter stuff. If you’re anywhere near Portland, Oregon (the science fiction capital of America!) during the second weekend of November, stop by OryCon 35 and have some fun–not necessarily involving…
SnoutCast #190: This Was 40
Okay, it’s forty-eight–minutes long, that is, if you want to be pedantic. But come on, my wife and some of my best friends made a birthday puzzle hunt just for me. I think I’m allowed to gush for a while….
This is 40
The last ten days have been full of so much awesome, I can hardly believe it. I’m forty years old now, and I am incredibly happy and grateful to know such wonderful people in the world. I’ll write more later,…
Puzzle Reciprocity
TL;DR: solve this video clue and get a tiny prize!* (Famine Game peeps: find Curtis at the Friday night event, tell him the answer, and collect a physical tchotchke. Everyone else: e-mail your answer to “ZBIVRF NG FABHG QBG BET”…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Free Advice”
Read “Free Advice” at 512 Words or Fewer The problem with writing stories which involve food is that it always makes me hungry. Incidentally, if you’re ever in downtown Portland, Oregon and have a hankering for fish and rice, go…
Artisanally Hand-Crafted in Portlandia
On Tuesday, while setting up for Puzzled Pint at Beulahland, we managed to lose one of our answer sheets while stuffing puzzle packets. I quickly made an extra one by hand, just in case a full complement of 20 teams…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Who Died?”
Read “Who Died?” at 512 Words or Fewer I like to imagine Jeremy Irons performing this particular monologue. YMMV. And now, apropos of nothing, some a cappella: http://youtu.be/tJT4L7HGKzQ It’s been a rough couple of weeks. I guess I’m still processing…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Dear John”
Read “Dear John” at 512 Words or Fewer It is entirely possible, if not likely, that today’s story was influenced by “Reset,” a beautifully creepy short film I saw last week at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon. Here’s…