This past weekend, and this week, have been all about getting ready for Steam Powered. Over the weekend sinmix , clockworkbuddha  and self hit Scrap, which was a little overwhelming but tons of fun. Cliff's Variety, Costume Party, Goodwill, etc. have all contributed to the piles of costume bits that I now have all over the damned place. Sometime in the next month or two I'm definitely ordering new storage furniture of some type.

I still don't have anything near a completed outfit, of course, although I have like ninetyzillion partial concepts.

On Sunday I went to a going away party for my friend Ian, who is going back to Peru after visiting for a few months. It was a nice party at a place across the street from where I used to live on Fell Street, he has an eclectic group of friends so it;s always interesting hanging out with him. It was also much nicer to be able to actually say hasta luego this time.

In other news, Chris Garcia's Drink Tank just ended it's quite entertaining Fandom on Infitine Earth's series and I provided the cover for #185. I'm not done reading them all, but I looked at all the purty pictures!

Also, over at Huffpo I found this fascinating piece on clean tagging
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The new ish of SF/SF is up, with a column by moi.

As is the Vonnegut memorial Drink Tank, with art by YT as well. 

And finally, if you hand't seen it yet, the flyer for

warriorfoo's clothes swap at BayCon.

 

Belated mention on feeling rather chuffed at seeing I received two whole votes as Best New Fan for the FAAN awards, thanks Chris (presumably) and mysterious stranger (I didn't vote for myself, honest!) 

I actually tied with lady_leandra in which is ridiculous really, she should have gotten tons more votes. I got more points than Howard Waldrop... I am unstoppable! 

Just hit my inbox, now the decision: vote for friends or do actual research?

Ok, ok... research it is.