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  • Who is Dawn?

    When I post on the Big Blue Mess I assume a certain level of geekery from my handful of readers and I completely forget that there are those of you who haven’t got a clue what I’m talking about. While I try to remember to include links, a few things get through the cracks and…

  • Box Dawn

    Come to think of it, I do have a story from the convention. I conned everyone into attending the Dawn Look-Alike contest, which I had remembered as being highly entertaining from two years before when Anthony Daniels (C3PO) hosted. When we got there, we’d just come from a lovely dinner, which originally was just going…

  • Sam

    Sam Back Home Originally uploaded by Big Blue Mess I picked up Sam first thing yesterday morning. As soon as she was moved from the kennel to the vet area in back, I heard her baying up a storm; she was so excited. She burst out of their area, pink bow flopping excitedly and ran…

  • So Say We All!

    I don’t have a lot of “stories” from Dragon Con. Sure, there was the gal that made it her personal mission to scream at all 70,000 attendees as they made their way up the stairs at the Marriott. She was delightful – had a great set of lungs – and when I say “lungs”, I…

  • Kendra vs. The Angry Little Troll

    P8300162Originally uploaded by thekie Here’s Kendra’s shot where she upset the angry little troll that guarded Edward James Olmos. What you miss by just the picture is the woman hollering at Kendra to knock it off; it was priceless. On a side note – the other celebrities who didn’t want to have their photos taken…

  • April’s A-Twitter About Dragon Con

    We got back from DragonCon today – for a quick glimpse at a few of the happenings, check out April’s Twitter. Just a quick “who we ran into”: Chatted up Jerry Doyle who was lamenting the Hilton’s bar not being open at 11:30am. Stood next to James Hong at our hotel’s buffet; all I could…

  • Dragon Con 2008

    This is just a post on the fly as I run around the house and do all the things you need to do before leaving on vacation and prepare for Dragon Con. I may be ruining the surprise you all had planned, but I still plan to pretend I didn’t know that you all had…

  • Dear (insert your name here): An Epiphany… of Sorts

    The writing on the Big Blue Mess really began as correspondence between my friends and family. In fact, when you read an entry, it’s very close to the kind of e-mail or letter you’d receive from me if we wrote back and forth. Sure, they’re expanded upon, dolled up, and loosely spit shined to better…

  • Crazy

    Back in the day, when you walked uphill in the snow barefoot both ways… when children labored in sweatshops and (no, wait…) errr… people still used leeches to cure the sniffles – umm err well, you know, back in the OLD days – a person could identify crazy. It was easy then, there was the…

  • Crisper Sign

    From a great friend of mine – shot of a delightful former co-worker’s sign declaring the entire crisper off limits. Note: There’s only one community fridge to serve about 60+ full-time staff and I’d only touch her food on a dare and if shots were involved.