On Saturday Geoff and I were at Castro Valley Pride 2012 in our makeshift Outdoors booth, battling wind and blazing sun in our efforts to bring fine sketches of Matt Smith Mostly Nude to a demanding public. The previous Tuesday, Castro Valley held its first ever public debate about Marriage Equality issues, and I was there. Some of the arguments were interesting in their surface cleverness and fundamental weakness, and I wrote up my responses to those arguments here.
The Rally itself was good fun – wonderful people to just chat a fine afternoon away with, though sometimes the Gaga was pumped so loud that I had to more or less shout to make myself heard to somebody standing two feet away. I was happy to run into Kari Rakitan there, who wanted me to draw up a bit of a thing to use as accompanying art for some fan fiction she’s working on and, since I am a sucker for fan fiction and everything that it represents, I readily agreed. As I’ve said before, this is my absolute favorite sort of thing to do – to be there in the vicinity of something somebody loves and do just a bit to contribute to that passion in some way.
Speaking of passions that are rad, our good friend Madeleine Graham is still going with her Kickstarter to make a recording of multi-tracked cello arrangements of video game music. Madeleine is a wonderful person, a lover of comics, a classical musician many orders of magnitude better than I am but still willing to play with me for reasons that I don’t entirely understand, and a totally legit player of video games. I want this cd, so let’s get this sucker funded!
– Count Dolby von Luckner
One of our friends is doing a Kickstarter to arrange video game music for the cello.
If you like that sort of thing, check it out.
I, myself, can listen to cello loops combining together all day.
–Geoff



