Fun Weird Stuff From the Weekend

[mbarrick]

There was more to this weekend that just throwing my back out. There were moments of sublime absurdity, like a girl in the group of people I was chatting with outside the club at the "7 Deadly Sins" party going to pitch a can of Red Bull over her shoulder and over the construction hoarding behind her and not succeeding. The can hit the wood just shy of the top and ricocheted back to bounce off the top of the top-hat of my greed costume. Also in the realm of the sublimely absurd was being approached by someone in the film industry about making some fake money for a TV show because they were impressed with the quality of the fake money on my costume. I'm waiting to hear back about the price I quoted, which may be more than they were expecting, but designing a realistic series of fake banknotes is going to be a fair bit of work (albeit bizarrely fun). Just being asked is fun enough considering the only reason I made my own fake money was I didn't want to use money that looked American like most play money does.

And in other weird news, I was contacted this weekend by a technology columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald doing an article on steampunk. He asked me about my keyboard mod and requested some good high-res photos. I'm not sure when the article is going to run, but hey, I'm getting press in Australia!

Comments

[cheekydevil.livejournal.com]

It was definitely an awesome party ... I lost track of the random, fun, light-hearted, good-natured things that happened. There seemed to be a virtually non-existant turnout of hosers, and as soon as you got there you could tell it was a great crowd and an excellent vibe. Definitely my favourite of all our anniversary parties so far!!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Perhaps all the hosers were at the fireworks?

[magiknat.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's my paper!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

If you see the article, let me know. I'd love a scan of it!

[magiknat.livejournal.com]

...I read it online... :P

But if you know when it's coming out let me know, I'll go buy you a copy and post it over if you want?

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome! He said it will run sometime next month, but he's not sure when yet and will let me know - so I'll let you know when I know.

Do you have a PayPal account? If you do I'll pay you back for the postage that way, if not we'll figure something else out.

[magiknat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the postage won't break the bank, Don't worry about it :)

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Looks like it ran today (he didn't tell me in advance as promised):

http://www.smh.com.au/news/articles/the-mod-squad/2008/08/23/1219262604091.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

I'm not sure if this will appear in the print version as well, but if it does, and you can scrounge up what will be yesterday's paper by the time you get this, I'd love to see it in print.

[magiknat.livejournal.com]

I tried but to no avail. I even asked my Aunty Chris who owns a news agency but they send them back that afternoon. I have one more hope, I'll let you know if it comes through...

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

M my dear the photo linked on this post for "greed costume" of you & Elaine has it the the copyright is mine. You might want to change it, since I wasn't even there. Cheers & hope your back feels better soon!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

LOL - it was taken by the *other* Tanya McDonald that I introduced you to a couple weeks ago :-)