We're back from our trip to Houston. It was amazing! I'm writing up a trip report on the whole thing (which I hope to have done real soon now) on my art car weblog. Check it out!
During the trip we stopped to meet Tarot artist Elizabeth Cherry Owen and her husband Barry. Elizabeth and Barry are both artists, and both wonderful people. She decorated a VRT box for me -- yay! -- but I haven't had a chance to post the photos yet.
Sent out the deck orders that had come in while I was away -- including one which I had packed up before I left, and had accidently left in the back of Georg's car. Ack! I feel awful about it. I'm going to have to send her back her postage expense along with a letter of apology.
We've gotten some really nice reviews in the meantime, including one from Lee Bursten on Tarot Passages that actually kind of embarrassing. Really, it's so over the top that I worry people will be disappointed when they see the actual deck. I mean, it's a nice deck and all, but it's not all that.
I just finished watching this week's episode of Buffy. I must say that as this season has gone along, I have been finding it more and more annoying. Good thing F/X is showing reruns of earlier seasons! So far this season we've seen four major cliches, any of which has the potential to kill a show:
1. musical episode
2. long-term antagonists with long-term sexual tension consummate their relationship (actually, they handled this quite well until tonight. I didn't even notice until now that it was a cliche)
3. it was all a dream ... or was it!!!
4. bring back a popular character only to kill her off immediately.
I'm starting to have serious concerns that the writers have seriously run out of ideas. It maybe wouldn't have annoyed me so much except that last week's trailer said "you've heard the rumors, and they're all false!" which gave me hope. But then it turned out that I had heard the rumors and they were all true, every last one. Tonight's episode left me feeling cheated.
I think that's about all for now. It feel kind of weird to be back, after being away for so long. If you're going to the Chicago conference this weekend, I'm terribly envious of you!
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