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Dragon*Con

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:07:04 +0330

The best picture I took all weekend and definitely one of the highlights of my time in Atlanta.

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Comic-Con 2009

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:12:32 +0330

I think I've come down with a case of post-con SARS, so this will be short. Comic-Con, as usual, didn't disappoint. Highlights included catching the panels for Legion (angels with machine guns), District 9 (wassup Peter Jackson), Extract (Jason Bateman hollerifyouhearme), Zombieland (hella violent), 2012 (it's the end of the world as we know it), Iron Man 2 (Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle and Sam Rockwell in the same room? Yes, please, may I have another? Also, that movie is going to be hellatight.com/cantwait) and hearing Kevin Smith talk about the moistness of the Twilight room from last year as well as reenact a hockey locker room circle jerk/bukkake scene on stage. I love that guy.

Hammed it up for a bit as Flora The Good Fairy from Sleeping Beauty with AJ and Judy and it never ceases to amaze me how popular we are in those things. The amount of excitement and joy we get from people while we're out in about is damn near contagious. (Much like this cold I think I have.)

More Comic-Con pics here!

Thanks to a tip from a friendly girl who was waiting in line with me, I got to see the touring Alice in Wonderland exhibit as well. Originally promoted via Twitter, you had to go to an off-site location to pick up a ticket (in this case, a rusty brass key attached to a tag) which gave you a time to return to go on your tour. Rather than talk more about it, how about I just show you pics?

More Alice in Wonderland Touring Exhibit pics here!

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Let the madness and the music get to you...

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:00:19 +0330

Life ain't so bad at all...

I don't even know if I can express how I'm feeling right now about the passing of Michael Jackson. As someone that grew up listening to his music and other artists who were influenced by him, his work served as the background music to many of my memories. Regardless of what happened in his personal life, I hope that people remember him for his talent and his ability to unite people regardless of race, age or language through his music.

I will be tearing up a dance floor tonight in celebration of his life and I know I will not be the only one.

Rest In Peace, Michael Jackson!

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Maker Faire & Yosemite

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:43:51 +0330

Maker Faire was pretty awesome. Robots! Steampunk! Motorized cupcake bikes! Life-sized Mousetrap! Am I going back next year? Hell yeah!

More Maker Faire pictures

Last weekend I went to Yosemite with Judy, AJ, Aimee, Mitch, Ben and Wei-Ling. Realized two things: 1. The only thing preventing me from being more of a hardcore camper is my inability to function properly without a daily shower. (I paid $5 for on the second day we were there and jumped into one the moment I got home on Sunday.) 2. Judy's planning/organizing skills are second to none!

Besides being slightly damp all weekend due to the rain, Yosemite was beautiful and it was pretty awesome to get out of the norm with a group of people I'm usually indoors with (as in sewing or cosplaying). I hadn't been there since I was 6 or 7, so everything was entirely new to me. We rode bikes around the main valley floor, hiked up to a couple different waterfalls, had a picnic by a stream and had two different meals in the rain. Judy also revealed the wonders of a Dutch Oven with apple cobbler, cherry cobbler and this uber-omlette breakfast thing!

I'll be the first to admit I'm a concrete jungle kind of girl, but this whole outdoors thing on occasion is pretty sweet.

More Yosemite photos

Looks like I'll be strapping myself to my sewing machine for the next couple of weeks. Dangit.

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Purikura!

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:18:17 +0330

HCC at Fanime 2009

I haven't taken one of these in forever! Thankfully the folks Pika Pika were wise enough to take advantage of a large gathering of goobers who like to take goofy pictures at Fanime and brought down a couple of machines last weekend. I love purikura!

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Ella!

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:34:48 +0330

My Super Niece who's a little over a year old. Fun fact: this is basically what I looked like as a baby and the family calls her my Mini-Me. Which basically means she's AWESOME. (Not to discredit my scientifically-proven, already awesome other niece Zoe and nephew Ethan.)

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Cupcakes!

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:31:20 +0330

WonderCon 2009
Originally uploaded by kimicosm.

With any other costume, this view would've been pretty boring. But giant hoopskirts plus frosting-based colors equals us looking like cupcakes and a pretty awesome photo! I dig how it looks like we're on the move somewhere with our wands held out!

In case you can't tell, we're the Three Good Fairies from Sleeping Beauty. I would be the giant pink thing known as Flora.

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This accurately describes my weekend

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:56:20 +0330

In more ways than one.

Aw yeah.

Found on Digg.

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AAAAAHHHHHH!

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:30:24 +0330

Torchwood: Children of the Earth trailer

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Texture and memories

nobody@vox.com(Two eLs) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:39:27 +0330

Take a picture

Yesterday the Zigster and I headed out to the old hometown to stomp around Mare Island Naval Shipyard, one of the victims of the widespread base closures that happened during the early/mid-90s.

Since it's been closed they've gotten several businesses and agencies to move in and even developed a chunk of area for residential use. However, a large majority is home to several decaying buildings that used to be filled with the hustle and bustle of a busy naval base.

The area brought back a lot of memories for me. My Dad worked there for the majority of my life growing up and it was always kind of this nebulous place in my imagination. It's where my Dad would disappear to early every weekday and was the cause of him not being able to talk about work much. Mare Island did a lot stuff with nuclear submarines for a time, so there were a lot of projects my Dad was involved in that were top secret.

Accompanied by my Obaa-chan, I learned how to swim there in its overchlorinated pool (and almost drowned once... ha). I went to birthday parties at its bowling alley. I spent many a Sunday morning grumbling along while my parents went grocery shopping at the Commissary. Later on after it had closed, I used its empty streets to learn how to drive with my Dad.

So Zignormous and I wandered around and did our first jaunt in "urban exploration". We took pictures like tourists of everything and anything we thought was interesting, climbed up precarious ramps and stairs, wandered through a burned building, left footprints through dust covered floors, stepped on broken glass and braved strong gusts of wind on rooftops. Needless to say, it was hella fun!

Zigizzle took some awesome photos which you can see here. I seemed to keep up a theme of empty chairs and/or texture with mine. Here's some favorites:

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