Showing posts with label Long Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Long Island. Show all posts
Hello, Fallon
Meet Fallon, our Christmas puppy. And by “our” I mean my mom has to take care of her while I get to walk and walk and walk her on weekends. A nine week old Scottish Deerhound -- currently a lapdog, soon to the size of a small pony.More pictures, because she's cute as a button, here.
Love on a Stick
1989, Hauppauge High School, Terence Dollard wrote, sang, and directed "Love on a Stick." Now it's available to the world...
Eustace, SFWA, and SVA
Just a quick catch up on a a few art and/or SF related events I went to over the last few weeks.It turns out that Eustace was a neighbor. By which I mean, Rae Irvine, the man that drew Eustace Tilley, the monocled New Yorker logo, used to live down the block from me. (And if I'm looking at the picture correctly, in my dream house.) A few weeks ago I attended a local historical club's lecture given by John Dietz outlining the various artistic residents of Brookhaven Hamlet in the first half of the 20th century. It turns out to be quite an impressive list, especially considering how tiny the Hamlet is. The quote of the day was about pianist Emily Wagner, apparently the New York Times obit reported she was "one of those women with short hair and long vision." William Glackens, also a neighbor.
Then there was the annual Science Fiction Writers of America cocktail party, affectionately known as the "Mill & Swill". Always a good time, but this year particularly so because two friends I had not seen since High School showed up. Out of the blue, Jen Salerno and radio host/screenwriter/all around cool guy Mike Sargent. Oddly-but-entertainingly, they brought Melvin Van Peebles with them. Bridget McGovern writes up the evening here.
Lastly, Bridget McGovern, Liz Gorinsky, and I attended the SVA graduate class exhibit, including a Cthulu show. I was glad to meet Viktor Koen in the non-email sense. Viktor had just completed a cover for Tor's steampunk novel The Affinity Bridge. Also in attendance were a number of illustration's luminaries, including Marshal Arrisman and 
Brad Holland. (Brad talked about possibly doing some sequential work for Tor.com. Which would be awesome, needless to say.)IMAGES: Irvine's Eustace. Joe and Gay Haldeman and Mike
Sargent. SVA opening. SVA student You Byun.
The Scottish Games
Chucking trees must be harder than it looks 'cause only the guy blue tights and blue sunglasses was able to up-end this log. At least that I saw. No mind, it was a great day of falconeering, SCA fencing, classic cars, garden strolling, dueling Ashley MacIsaac step dancing, and goats! And, very oddly, a taxidermied pet collie in the old Westbury manor house. By the way, it does not appear to have sucked to live in the old Westbury manor house...except for the whole stuffed dog thing.
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