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I’ve been neglectful in my posting! I was busy putting together a costume so I could participate in a Halloween parade with my friends in the Creaky Theatre puppetry troupe! Here’s Elo (skeletal bird-thing) and me (horned tiger-looking thing)
 
and here we all are:
 

 It’s hard to tell in these pictures, but Elo and I had giant bamboo frameworks under those costumes, making us two or three times life sized. David Mack (in the center) built his around a twenty-foot-long pole. Jason Matherly (on the left) has a small phantom on a stick (and a mouse costume, and Michele Chidester (on the right) has 6-foot-long arms and some amazing horns. We invited a bunch of folks to march all around downtown Athens making noise, and had a good crew of people in some awesome costumes.

I was a little cavalier about the eyeholes in my “mask”; as a result I ended up maneuvering this giant thing through crowded, wet streets with about the same range of vision that you might get through cardboard-tube binoculars. I was tooting on a trumpet pretty raggedly, and some guys starting hassling me and wanting to play my trumpet. I haven’t played since middle school! Anyway, all very exhausting but hopefully worth it.

Here are some more photos and videos, please look at them and say that all the costume-construction time was well-spent:
A Flickr gallery
Some Youtube videos
Creaky Theatre Facebook page
Some photos on Facebook

Brewing beer today! A brown ale for nippy autumn nights.

I’m down with a cold, and If I try moving around with too much alacrity, it prompts my lungs to try and escape my body. So I’ve been mostly lying around, drinking pots of tea and reading MFK Fisher food essays, which seem like just the sort of thing to read when you’re only feeling partially alive (even though I don’t trust half her anecdotes).

Hey! Eleanor’s Secret Science Alliance got a pretty awesome review in Toronto’s Globe and Mail. That’s a big deal paper, right?