Monthly Archives: August 2006

Most of my time the last day or two has been devoted to setting up my new AIDS Lifecycle Wiki, which I expect will mostly be a community effort by one person (that would be me)–I mostly want to play with Mediawiki! It’s been pretty complex setting up the antispam guards and configuring the wiki–would [...]

So, I’ve got interviews with Tilmin (a 300-lb, 5’0″ woman who lost 75 pounds while training) on Thursday and Ginger the drag queen on Saturday. Scott the Cheerleader I’m going to ring up on Wednesday to arrange an interview; I’ve also emailed Ken and Warren to ask them if they have any “stories from the [...]

Finally heard back from my writing coach, who thinks my sample chapter is a “damn fine chapter”. I responded by asking how I could strengthen the first and last stories, and mentioned I was considering taking out one of the stories entirely because I didn’t think it was as strong as the others. Here’s what [...]

Bloody creative mind. I seem to have latched onto the idea of fabric embellishment for my AIDS Lifecycle costumes. So many possibilities! I could do a crazy-quilt, embroider with ribbon, bead, use multicolored yarns…I could dye my own fabrics, make a fused fabric from silk or angelina sparklies, explore shibori, try kumihomo again… …You’ll note [...]

Mike and I drove down to LA this weekend to go to the Fabulous Fiber Fest and admire my shawl (which won the Founder’s Award, as you may recall). It was fun–I took a class on boucle and other novelty yarns, and then spent some time walking around the festival with Mike. With my prize [...]