give embarrassing names to animals: they won't get the joke.

[cimorene]

I have a cousin who is named Perrin Dunlin, which are two kinds of birds, and Merlin is another. (Corwin sounds a bit like one but it's actually from the occupational name for leather-workers in England.) Wouldn't it be funny to name a bunch of kittens entirely after birds? (This is an example of my and Wax's sense of humour. I'm admitting it up front. On the plus side, you can count on us not to keep up a stream of puns for an extended period of time, like my Dad has done in the past. Although I can't forget my high school friend who said his dad once kept making cheese puns for the entirety of three hours in the car. I wish I'd been there.)

This isn't exactly on the same subject, but I had drawn a design with ribbons and little flowers that said "Medicine is the best medicine" and I was going to print it on a shirt or hoodie for Wax (I got the idea from this Emilie Autumn t-shirt design), and then... I saw this at Threadless two weeks ago. Although it doesn't preseve the tattoo-inspired design element and the font is really ugly and I find the "actually" completely superfluous, but... someone else had the same idea! I suppose it wasn't really that original...

And on a final note unrelated to anything whatsoever, I'm going to see Emilie Autumn again live in Helsinki at Nosturi in just a few weeks, 18 April! That being a Saturday instead of Friday, it meshes with Wax's schedule so that we'll have Saturday to spend in Helsinki, assuming she does ever contact her Helsinki friend for crash-space. Which is cool because I've never seen much of Helsinki - just Stockmann and Akademiska Bokhandeln over and over.

Comments

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

I know it's churlish, but I wish that Emilie Autumn would freakin' come back to the states at some point!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

She already did tour the states a bit in between these last two European tours, I think. Or at least, she played in NYC. But I suppose it's much easier to make money in Europe.

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she was in NYC. But I think that was it, really. I'd like her to come back to Chicago, for my own convenience :)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

According to the site, it was just NYC and a few shows in Canada... I gather the Asylum The Gate II was tacked on after unexpectedly good response to her shows in Europe this tour. She'd never been to Finland before and had no plans to return in October, but she and the muffins and Bunny the tour manager kept saying they'd like to come back if they could and it seemed like there was definitely enough demand for more shows. So I gather they just kind of... booked another round.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

When I had rats we named them after antidepressants. That was fun.

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

a propos of nothing, I've a friend looking 4 sf/fantasy art 4 small-press bx & magazines. Guess it's a propos of yr job-in-abeyance.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I don't really consider myself an artist. I don't even produce that many sketches these days...