Ear-ly in the morn, we’re off to to New York City, to attend the World Premier of Yumper.  There’ll be stars above and below and a bunch of photographers looking at me and Laura and going, huh?

While we do this I want all of you to keep one thought uppermost in your minds regarding the movie.

Please don’t suck.  Please don’t suck.  Please don’t suck. 

Noble Girl made me my Headcrab Zombie doll and her mom was so impressed (and jealous!) that NG has been working on a project specifically for Laura. From the Analog cover for Glass Houses, Laura J. Mixon’s 1992 critically acclaimed novel, comes Golem and Ruby.

You can see a C-Print of the original cover in the background.

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Sock Robots Rule!

We’re all high-tech here at the Mixon Gould household.

Let me ’splain.

I am entire yards (uh, if you’re so high tech, Steve, how come it’s not meters? Cause it’s in the back YARD, that’s why!) away from Laura’s office in the house. And it’s no easy journey. Perilous, in fact.

First, as you step out of Laura’s office, you come to the utility room with its extreme hazards: laundry baskets, the occasional box of art supplies, the dogs water and food dishes in their metal stands, convenient to shin and ankle, the front loading washer with its soap and bleach and fabric softener tray sticking out a hip height (I have bruises!) and the most perilous danger of all, Tasha the Wonder Dog, lying there, but who will, as you step over her, stagger to her feet, neatly causing you to crash into the wall or floor (but not usually the ceiling.) Read More »