an icepick through the keyhole

Gate opens in about 10 minutes. Desperately in need of caffeine, but I'm holding off because I plan to slip into a coma quite rapidly upon settling into my seat.

See y'all soon.

It's near time to start planning my yearly pilgrimage to the South — GAFilk 2008 is from January 11-13. How long I hang around before or after kind of depends on whether there's anybody to do stuff with.

So, who's going to be around and would have time and like to hang out?

Well, I'm pre-registered for next year's San Diego Comic-Con.

...among other goodies.

Bought my ticket for Blizzcon. Anyone else going, let me know.

I've registered for Comic-Con 2007 and will be rooming with querldox.

Anyone else going?

Crap.

Just after I posted the last one, I discovered that my passport expires in April. In case anyone else except my moronic self wasn't aware of this, you need to have at least six months left on your passport to travel around. So I ran myself down right away to Singapore Immigration to see if I could get a last minute extension.

Nope.

Best they could do is to issue me a new passport tomorrow afternoon, which means I'm going to have to push my flight back 24 hours or so. So I'll be in about 8pm on Friday night instead of the Thursday evening. Bummer.

I'll be there. Just a little later than scheduled.

Anyone up for a room share? I arrive Thursday night, and will be there to Monday morning.

Here's a nice little e-mail to wake up to:

Subject: Do you hear the pipes Cthulhu - Performed live at Continuum!
Date: 28 August 2006 12:49:00 AM GMT+08:00

Hi Terrance,

Thought you might geta  kick out of this. People love your filk so much, 
they did a rendition at the recent Call of Cthulhu 25th Anniversary 
party at Continuum last month!

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/av-continuum-06-cthulhu-sing-a-long.mp3

With best wishes, and thanks so much for inspiring people!

Paul
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Devoted to Call of Cthulhu
ENnie Gold Winner 2006
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It starts about halfway down the file, after they do a "Happy Birthday" to Cthulhu and a rendition of "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fish-Men" (from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's "A Very Scary Solstice", on which more professional versions — i.e. not me — of my "Cthulhu Christmas Chorale" can be found). The sing-a-long of "Do You Hear the Pipes Cthulhu" gets off on a shaky start but they really get into it in the end, and is followed by an abortive version of "That's Cthulhu!" (I don't think they knew the tune for the bridge) and ends with "The Song That Cannot Be Named".

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling of course, hearing other people do my songs — especially since it's for a 25th anniversary celebration of Call of Cthulhu, the game that got me into Lovecraft in the first place and therefore was ultimately responsible for my filk — full circle, indeed. To quote Charles Fort, whose work also inspired Lovecraft: "One measures a circle, beginning anywhere."

Initial photos from 1812Tones up at Flickr here.

Flight in approximately 8 hours.

See y'all there. I bring Oreos and sundry requested goods.

Oh, and music.