After years of preparation, Worldcon was held in Dublin this week, for the first time ever. A month ago I was, I confess, pretty exhausted by the very idea of it, even knowing that I tend to dread, rather than anticipate, big events. By a couple of weeks ago, though, my friends feeds were starting to fill up with variations on “Ireland, I am in you!” and I was starting to get pretty excited about the whole shebang. I’d been claiming it was CatieCon, and while I *guess* there was…
These, like every other molasses cookie I’ve ever had, are incredibly addictive, and are a family favorite that I don’t make all that often because (I realized as I was making them) the dough isn’t nearly as good to eat raw as chocolate chip cookie dough is. :) Raisin Bar Cookies 3/4 c butter 1 c sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 c molasses 3 3/4 c flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp ginger 1 c raisins 1 c powdered sugar 2-3…
Here are the formal (and some less formal, but already-booked) places I’ll be for Worldcon 2019 in Dublin! YAY! The popularity of Anti-Heroes in Comics Format: Panel 15 Aug 2019, Thursday 11:30 – 12:20, Odeon 3 (Point Square Dublin) Deadpool, Harley Quinn, The Punisher, Ghost Rider: in many ways insane, evil individuals – hardly what we would call heroes! And yet they are some of the most popular and interesting comics characters around! Are they better-written characters (and if so, why)? Do readers, and creators, need a counterpoint to all…
It wasn’t exactly a conundrum, really, but I couldn’t think of a word that started with ‘c’, meant ‘mistake’, and wasn’t profane. :) I want you all to understand that I went into this will full knowledge and aforethought and the expectation that I would throw my back out. My son has been practicing his cartwheels, and can’t quite get the speed he needs to get his feet all the way up over his head. After trying to walk him through it several times, and mentioning that I needed to…
Last Monday evening I found out at the last minute that the Lighthouse Cinema was doing a showing of Benedict Cumberbatch’s 2014 #Hamlet & I decided I was going to make a terrible mistake, and go. I did not make a mistake. Ciaran Hinds is the best Claudius I’ve ever seen. Ophelia’s death is the best staging I’ve ever seen. Cumberbatch is excellent throughout, and gets to show off his considerable acting range, which almost nothing he does in film allows him to. Everyone was very good, although I thought…