This was taken at PAX. The tabletop roleplaying games were housed in a completely different building across the street from the main convention center. As you walked into the foyer old E.T. (Eye Tyrant) greeted you. He looks cranky but really he’s just thirsty, so I gave him some of my water.
I’m a nerd!
From left to right: Anton Yelchin as Chekov, Chris Pine and a nice shiner on his punim as James T. Kirk, Simon Pegg as Lt. Montgomery Scott, Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy, John Cho as Sulu and Zoe Saldana as Uhura.
And here’s an unexpected twist for Star Trek! Plot details revealed: TIME TRAVEL.
I was interviewed for Episode 59 of Dread Media, and you can also hear a bunch of Thickets songs. And all this stuff:
What better to make you feel woefully insignificant in the universe than an episode of this size? Last weekend Desmond Reddick attended the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, and this week he has more than three hours of footage to share with you. There’s several reviews of the films seen at the fest and interview with the likes of: Frank Woodward (director of award-winning documentary Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown), Mars (composer of said documentary and the man behind Dead House Music), Jovanka Vuckovic (editor in chief of Rue Morgue Magazine), Toren Atkinson (from The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets), Sean Branney (from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society) and Andrew Migliore (festival runner and head of Lurker Films). There’s also recorded footage of speeches, awards ceremonies and a panel on Lovecraft in Pop Culture. There’s also tons of inane and profane chatter with fellow cultists and guest co-hosts DZ (from Cinema Diabolica) and Brother D (from Mail Order Zombie). On top of all that, there’s music! “Weird Tales” by Dead House Music, “Main Theme from In Search of Lovecraft” by Troy Sterling Nies, “Lovecrafted” by Dead House Music, “Cultists on Board” and “Sleestack and Yeti” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, “Neither Dead nor Dreaming” by Troy Sterling Nies from The Call of Cthulhu and “The Innsmouth Look” by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Sit back, oil up your tentacles, relax and enjoy this massive show. Contact me: feedback@dreadmedia.net, or 206.203.1213.
Did you know that until this week I had never been to the West Edmonton Mall?
Now I know what I look like when I’m trying to laugh through intense fear.
I had a dream that there was this vast landscape of candles that represented each person who would be at the Olympics. It was thousands or millions of candles lit up at night and it was beautiful but an environmental travesty. I railed against it – mostly to my dad – and decided I wasn’t going to take it sitting down. I started wading through a crowd to get back to my truck (!) and the crowd realizing that I was going to denounce the Olympics in public started to try to grab me. I had some kind of impromptu weapon on hand like a acetylene torch or a bug sprayer or some such and I started shooting people in the face with it.
We were down to two suites.
One of them, though nice and spacious, at Renfrew and 20th Ave is farther from my workplace than I would like.
The other, though nice and very near to my work, is very small. The landlord originally wanted 1800 – this is for a one bedroom plus nook. She went down but not as low as we wanted. We would not have room for two computer desks which means I’d have to have internetless computer at my studio. We went as far as drawing a map and trying to figure out where everything would fit. I would have to dispose of the bed I just bought a few months ago. The final kicker was that she would want us to be out during the olympics so her family could stay in the suite, and rather than offer us a stipend for the inconvenience, the privilege of staying would incur a raise to the rent for that month. You can guess which of our two options we went with.
So I’ll begin packing as soon as I get back from Saskatchewan and will reserve some kind of a truck from the Car Co-op sometime in the last week of the month. Who wants to help me move? +1000 xp!
A very nice and interesting interview.
http://www.ultimaterockgods.com/index.php?topic=4513.msg88453#msg88453
or
http://myspace.com/ultimaterockgods
Please enjoy responsibly.
Taken by David Herrold
Photo taken by David Herrold at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival (specifically Tony Starlight’s Supperclub Lounge) in Portland OR, Oct 4 2008
Tomorrow I go to Saskatchewan to have Thanksgiving with Deanna’s family. The thing I will most be thankful for, as always, is not being an aboriginal American while the white men settled this land. Gobble gobble!
Also I’ll be seeing dinosaurs at Drumheller. It will be my very first time!
Hannah will be taking care of Kodos. Wish us all luck in the way that people do.
Back on the 18th. I’ve set some post-dated blog entries so you won’t all die of boredom.
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