Valentine's Day!

Look at the beautiful surprise Valentine I got in the mail from Pattidee:

I love it!! Thank you!! So...they make Elvis rubber stamps? I will have to look into this.

The ladies and I had a successful evening of Pornentines last night! Of course I cannot post the photos. Please believe they are filthy. Hooray!

In other news, I have finished another batch of Dragon*Con survival patches. Oops, one is kind of NSFW -- let me go censor that right quick...

That's better. So the one on the left represents the self-indulgent weirdness we witnessed with the werewolf group. Top right is for my bro and his buddy who, due to over-packed elevators, regularly had to climb 22 flights of stairs to get to their hotel room. They're young! It's good for them! (We hopefully will not have the same problem this year.) And the third is for surviving four days of PB with no J sandwiches. Dragon*Con is a marathon wrapped in a Death March wrapped in a frat house. It is not for the weak!! LONG LIVE THE CON!!

Let's see, what else have I been doing...I made a 2 disc black metal compilation for a friend of mine consisting of all Finnish bands. Of course I had to create appropriately bleak packaging, which I constructed out of poster board spray painted with my beloved Krylon black primer. Then I used a white Prismacolor pencil to draw a fake K-Tel cover, the shape of Finland, Shatraug, and the grim forest from the cover of the Horna album "Hiidentorni."

We had an old can of spray fixative, like really old, that I sprayed over the whole thing to keep it from rubbing off. I took a big chance with that stuff, and it did come out kind of blotchy, but I think it adds to the grymness of the whole thing.

However, it will not stay closed, so I added an elastic ribbon that came on a box of totally awesome chocolates from my friend's company, go buy some now:

Awwww. How cute! I'm not trying to brag or nothin', but this compilation kicks so much ass that it blew out a lightbulb in the ceiling fan of our den while I was listening to it. Finland FTW.

Being a huge fan of Shatraug and all the projects he's involved in, I spilled over with exuberant glee following the Horna show last year. To which the BFF offered this response:

So touching.... If you'll excuse me, I have something in my eye!! *sniff*