I just had the unsettling experience of driving home late at night after a long day and swerving around a cat lying in the road, and I found myself looking at him in the rear-view mirror at him thinking, “Oh no, that’s somebody’s kitty, somebody’s baby. What if he’s lying there hurt, not dead? And even if he is dead, I can’t just leave him there. Should I turn around?” I turned around in the parking lot of the nearby funeral parlor, drove back…

I have to show these guys off, even if they aren’t really my thing. They turned out far better than I expected, and they’ve put me through enough trouble that I’d be remiss if I didn’t give them their day on my blog.

I’ve finally gotten around to configuring my Tumblr account and posting on it. I figure it’s good for those days when I’m feeling purely visual and don’t want to talk much, as opposed to Twitter for when I’m feeling quirky and pithy. Or here when I actually get around to writing more than a sentence or two… 😉 While there will certainly be some cross-posting, especially in relation to art projects, I expect that the Icon Alchemy Tumblr will …

As Creative Director of TempleCon, the retro-futurist science fiction and gaming convention that I co-founded ten years ago, I am currently in the thick of pre-convention planning for TempleCon 2015. One of the popular features of TempleCon is a tradition of hosting seminars related to the appreciation of (and in some cases brewing or cooking with) various kinds of alcohol, scotch in particular being the drink that started it all. Led by three…