So. which Stephen king book are we doing today, folks?
Good dogs! Sunday March 9, 2025.
Over on Whatever today, I've written a longish piece on billionaires and boycotts, how boycotts are effective (and are not), what to do when you don't feel you can boycott, and what to say when someone is telling you that you're not doing it right:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/12/t...
Agreed!
Yes, I saw a photo on Reddit of him and his escorts.
I saw he was wearing a vest and I was all, who’d want to hurt him? We all want to free him.
Drinking coffee for the first time since Sunday. If you see someone running by at super sonic speeds, that will be me getting my ya-yas out. Wheeeee!
With all this Eastenders anniversary talk I suppose I should share my favourite fact about the show:
Dead Reg Cox, the body found in the very first scene of Eastenders, was played by Johnny Clayton who was the spiky faced Delegate in Doctor Who’s Mission to the Unknown.
As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.
Next year?
The collection took a chunk out of the rental cost and really made it feel less hopeless.
The Monday plan was to start driving back to Portland, and when they got home then planning could start for how to get our booth to ECCC.
and a way to get home. It came out to $1750.
Adrian's friend went to get the rental after he got back from the police station.
Word had gone around the vendors and our booth neighbor took up a collection. We often say Gally is family, and this was absolute proof of that fact.
and could file the police report. There was also the fun of California not being able to access Oregon's DMV information.
Intermittently during the filing process Adrian was able to secure a rental van so that when the convention ended we had somewhere to put all our stock and displays,
They continued to run the booth while he went across town to the closest police station to file a police report (because you can't do it over the phone). Since the van was registered to Mikka he had to video call so the officer could confirm Adrian was allowed to have been driving it and
so Adrian immediately went into a panicked trauma spiral.
His amazing friends at the convention stepped in. His helper and another friend opened the booth while he talked to hotel security confirming the van was removed from the closed lot at about 3am.
This last weekend Adrian was in L.A. for Gallifrey One, and on the way to the show Sunday morning he and his helper planned on stopping by our van.
Only, our van, the Iris, wasn't there.
The Iris has been stolen twice before, during the 3 years she was also our home,
We just dont have the spoons to do a gofundme so if you can help our CashApp is $AdrianElliot, PayPal is wonderwoman@optimysticalastudios.com, Venmo is @AdrianElliot13, and you can also buy stuff from the website if you want goods in exchange for coin. And sharing this will also be a huge help.
TL:DR - Our van was stolen again. She's been found, but we need financial help to get her fixed and home from California. Links to help in comments.
Hi friends.
We're sharing this because 2025 is making it clear that we need help.
All hail the Sacred Carpet! #Gally1 #GallifreyOne
Catherine Tate at #GallifreyOne #Gally1
CARPET!! 💙💙
#gally1 lobbycon.
Solvang, CA. wish it was a little warmer but when you’re from Arizona that’s basically the entire universe. 😂 Looking forward to another fun filled day!
Found it!
It’s so great! We had pastry for breakfast and now we are at a vineyard. 🥰
Today is the day I got to make friends with ostriches and emus. Everyone knows the way to anyone’s heart is through their stomach.
Thank you thank you thank you. Please come find me at Gally I owe you a beverage.
This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.
Thank you!
Ostrich farm??? I have told the husband we are going to feed some ostriches.
If you have time please do let me know the name of the place with the sausages. We found one on google that he wants to go to.
