the essential kit

step by step

February 25, 2013

I am slowly getting there, in terms of amalgamating mizkit.com and cemurphy.net. In fact, tonight I’ll be redirecting cemurphy.net to mizkit.com in preparation for MOUNTAIN ECHOES’s release this week. Nothing is nearly as organized as I’d like, but the basics are in place, which is to say the links should all work with the redirect. I need to go through and fix images, and in the slightly longer run I have hopes of making the CEMurphy.Net pages look different from the mizkit pages (because my delightful web designer lady has…

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Recent Reads: The Blue Sword

February 25, 2013

I had a hard time reading this for purely physical reason: my copy of THE BLUE SWORD is very probably 30 years old, and the fragile yellowed pages are losing their tenuous grip on the broken spine. I was afraid it would fall apart in my hands, and thus was weirdly careful with not only the book but the reading of it. I believe I’ll seek out Robin McKinley at the nearest possible opportunity, ask her to sign my beloved and battered book, and retire it with honors alongside my…

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Kitsnaps: Bridge Dancer

February 25, 2013

This is my sister. We did an outdoors photo shoot a few years ago for a grant portfolio, and this is one of my favorite shots from that shoot. I wish I could say the idea of matching her arch to the bridge’s was mine, but it was hers. :)

Joss Whedon JDIFF Q&A

February 24, 2013

The Q&A after Much Ado was much shorter than I hoped it would be! And the moderator, in introducing Joss again, asked the question I wanted to ask, which was: “You made Much Ado on a twelve day shoot between finishing filming Avengers and starting to edit it. (“No,” Joss said, parenthetically, “we’d already started editing Avengers…”) So the burning question here is, what’s wrong with you?” “Workaholism,” Joss said sadly. “There’s no known cure.” Which had been more or less what I wanted to ask, although I might have…

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Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing”

February 24, 2013

The verdict: just because Kenneth Branagh’s “Much Ado About Nothing” was perfect does not mean that Joss Whedon’s is not *also* perfect. Thanks to Ted’s quick purchasing, last night we got to go to the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival’s hottest, server-crashing ticket of the festival, the premiere of Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” at which the man himself was in attendance. Because we are great big geeks, we were literally first in line: I arrived to hold a place at around 4pm (before, in fact, they had even…

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