Life has done it to me again, and thrown a monkey wrench into my plans. I have been derailed, at least for the past week on my plans of finishing my webcomic Thoughts of a Simple Man… I have had to deal with my ineptitude on my wacom, but mostly it has been family. Coming home from vacation and getting the house and pool back in order so we can live and and use the pool during the heat of the summer. I promise that I will be working on the comic, I just need to “prioritize” my time as a great talented woman always says. Plus I have to remind myself that it is “Ok to suck.”

Speaking of the lovely and talented Mur Lafferty, her incredible book “Playing for Keeps” is set to be released on Amazon.com on the 25th of August. I recommend that you check out her book, and support her. She is a very cool writer and very talented and I have to say she is my idol. She accomplishes so much and I am a bit envious of that.

Monkey Wrench from the album “The Colour and the Shape” by Foo Fighters

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Ok, Balticon 42 is over. I’m still recovering I guess. It was the most awesome experience, and to anyone who has never gone, GET OFF YOUR ASS AND GO! Ok now that that is out of the way, my report from Balticon 42.

I have to first say thank you to Mae and Scott Breakall, and their friend Max. They put up with me all weekend and I can’t thank them enough. I also want to give a shout out to all the great people I met. If I miss anyone please let me know I I will update the list.

First of all Indiana Jim, you are the man. I am so looking forward to hanging out with you next time. Anyone who isn’t listening yet so head on over to the Adventures of Indiana Jim. Great Podcast.

Jett, you are still so cute. ;^). Check out her website here.

Now I move on the the greatest event of the weekend (for everyone). The Singularity. The premiere of episode 4 of Stranger Things. I can’t say enough about the shear awesomeness of this. Earl Newton and Dave Kanter are the greatest guys and Matt “Fucking” Wallace is such a great writer as well as a very cool dude. I would suggest heading over to Strangerthings.tv and checking out the awesome content there.

Now to my personal highlights. I got to see live broadcasts of The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy and the Geek Fu Morning Show After Dark. I also got to hear readings by Mur Lafferty and Chris Lester. I also got to hear the first part of The Takeover, Mur Lafferty’s new audio Drama. I got to meet great people like Mur, Tee Morris, Chris Lester, Nathan Lowell (though he doesn’t remember me, just kidding Nathan) VividMuse and Choochus from the City of Heroes Podcast, Jared Axelrod and the Beautiful J.R. Blackwell and so many others. I know I missed a few people there but I’ll remember and add them after.

Needless to say I had an incredible time. Meeting all these super creative people really made an impact on me. I highly recommend attending any Con where these awesome people are attending.

You can find my photos from Balticon 42 on my flickr account.

Ok now I want to go back more than ever. All of you guys are so awesome!

Pinch Me from the album “Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001″ by Barenaked Ladies

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Mur Lafferty announced that she is ending Geek Fu Action Grip after 103 great episodes. It was one of the first podcasts that I started to listen to and I have gobbled up everything that she has produced since then. Geek Fu will be missed, but I hope that given the extra time for all her other endeavors, that they will become even better than they were (which is hard to believe, everything she does is so amazing.) I credit her with re-igniting the desire to write in me. If it wasn’t for Mur, I would never have attempted NaNoWriMo last year. She has done so much for us her listeners, and I don’t think we can thank her enough. I hope that she understands, she has a great fan base, and we will support her whatever she does. Good Luck Mur in everything you do, we are all looking forward to reading or hearing it. I myself am looking forward to Earth, and can’t wait to listen to the first installment.

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For all fans of the Horror genre, a new horror fiction podcast announced on the Dragon Page by Mur Lafferty and the others at Escapepod. Pseudopod is going to be a horror podcast like Escapepod is to Sci Fi. I’m really looking forward to this.

I have to say that Patrick McLean is one of the freshest writers that I have had the join of listening to in his podcast The Seanachai. His spin on the world of superheroes and super villians is a great change from most comics out today. I hope you all have to the chance to enjoy it as much as I have.

“How to Succeed in Evil is not a self-help page for the maladjusted. It it is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. He’s like Arthur Anderson for Supervillians. How to Succeed in Evil began life serialized as a regular feature on the popular podcast “The Seanachai”, by Patrick McLean. Now it’s being made into a comic book!”

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Once again I have to tip my hat to Mur Lafferty for pointing out a podcast dedicated to Farscape. I loved that show from the first time I caught it way back in 2000. I found it on the Sci Fi Channel and watched or taped every episode till it’s demise in 2003. I was very sorry to see it go. But no I can get my fix with the Scapecast. Thank you Mur I’ve been looking for a podcast about ‘Scape for a long time.

Monday is here and the weekend was great, though I don’t really want to be at work. As is the norm, the weekend seemed to just fly by, but at least we had a great family oriented weekend. We really had some quality family time, which is what I wanted to have on friday so I’m glad.

I also had some interesting news this morning, Mur Lafferty actually commented on my blog! It is like a real celebrity has read and commented on my blog. I am so psyched. She is like my motivational hero, as she has inspired me so much with her podcasts Geek Fu Action Grip and I Should Be Writing. It is because of her that I have started writing again and focused my energies into writing. So I sound like a total fan boy, I don’t care. I would be doing a total geek dance if I wasn’t at work right now. Again, Thanks Mur! You are a total inspiration to me. I still can’t believe she commented on my blog. I’m such a geek.

The end of the day is near and I’m trying to get these guys, here at work, out the door so I can go and enjoy the day, because it is GORGEOUS here. I’m really looking forward to my son’s Tee Ball tonight and tomorrow. He is so happy to play like the Red Sox do. I suppose I can thank his teacher for that, I’m not much of a baseball fan, and his teacher is a HUGE Red Sox fan. The biggest sporting event I look forward to in April is the NFL Draft. though the hockey playoffs used to appeal to me before the Bruins went all to hell. Ok enough of the sports rant. I hoping to talk to a few of my friends that I haven’t talked and chatted with in a bit. I just hope that they are around and available so we can talk.

On another note, been catching up on my blog reading for my podcasts and Mur Lafferty of “I Should Be Writing” made a very good post on her blog. Read the whole thing here.