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rolanni*We went to the ocean yesterday, and it was a fine day for it. Even the moose thought so.
*I am entering a sartorial panic -- I'm down to three denim shirts and two really shouldn't be seen in public. Denim shirts are a Fashion Necessity up here in the North, where they double as light-weight jackets on cool summer days, and are the reason Rolanni owns no cardigan-style sweaters. In any case, denim shirts with logos on them (my preferred sort) seem to have gone Out of Vogue.
I may be reduced to buying unmarked Dickies at the local KMart. Before accepting this bland fate, however, I did a websearch and came up with this. Just think of a Shirt of Stars, with each star embroidered with the title of one of our books. Con Clothes!
Not what I was looking for, mind you, and by the time we were done with the embroidery, it would be so expensive a garment that I'd be afraid to wear it, but it was good for a fantasy.
*For those interested in such things, well-known rascal and man on the town, Pascal Bonenfant, has compiled a resource page for 18th century Britain, including many cant words and phrases.
*The weather is lowering, gray and damp, but will it rain? Of course not.
*I find myself peeved at the day-job in the matter of compensation, particularly in the face of having an entire start-up department added to my plate without discussion, or, apparently, recourse. However! Balance is. The new webmail system is so difficult to deal with (to access it from home, I would have to shut down a lot of stuff that runs on my machine by default before signing into the college system), that I will no longer be checking in via email from home. I used to do that, even though I wasn't paid for it, because I thought Being Responsible counted. Clearly, it does not, and I'm glad to have that cleared up.
*The cats -- by whom I mean, Mozart and Hexapuma -- have been Very Clingy today. At one point, I had both of them on my desk, helping me answer email; one snuggled on either side of the keyboard.
*Where the hell did all this laundry come from?
*I am entering a sartorial panic -- I'm down to three denim shirts and two really shouldn't be seen in public. Denim shirts are a Fashion Necessity up here in the North, where they double as light-weight jackets on cool summer days, and are the reason Rolanni owns no cardigan-style sweaters. In any case, denim shirts with logos on them (my preferred sort) seem to have gone Out of Vogue.
I may be reduced to buying unmarked Dickies at the local KMart. Before accepting this bland fate, however, I did a websearch and came up with this. Just think of a Shirt of Stars, with each star embroidered with the title of one of our books. Con Clothes!
Not what I was looking for, mind you, and by the time we were done with the embroidery, it would be so expensive a garment that I'd be afraid to wear it, but it was good for a fantasy.
*For those interested in such things, well-known rascal and man on the town, Pascal Bonenfant, has compiled a resource page for 18th century Britain, including many cant words and phrases.
*The weather is lowering, gray and damp, but will it rain? Of course not.
*I find myself peeved at the day-job in the matter of compensation, particularly in the face of having an entire start-up department added to my plate without discussion, or, apparently, recourse. However! Balance is. The new webmail system is so difficult to deal with (to access it from home, I would have to shut down a lot of stuff that runs on my machine by default before signing into the college system), that I will no longer be checking in via email from home. I used to do that, even though I wasn't paid for it, because I thought Being Responsible counted. Clearly, it does not, and I'm glad to have that cleared up.
*The cats -- by whom I mean, Mozart and Hexapuma -- have been Very Clingy today. At one point, I had both of them on my desk, helping me answer email; one snuggled on either side of the keyboard.
*Where the hell did all this laundry come from?
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Re: Denim shirts
Date: 2010-06-27 12:14 pm (UTC)It would be a cool way of spreading interest in the books if a number of us wore them at conventions (or even at work where that is permitted). "What's the badge?" "Oh, that's Korval." "Who are they?" "Well, there's this series of books..."
Question: are the Korval emblem and the names of places permitted to be used if fans want to use them on clothing like that? I know the tree-and-dragon logo is on merchandise from SRM Publisher, so that at least is copyright. I'd prefer to buy them from SRMP, but can understand if the authors don't have time or energy to do it.