• 09:21 Mysterious Halloween UFO set: Cat, Vampire and ... er .. Elf? flic.kr/p/7fkvh4 #
• 10:01 @amiryfenn twitpic.com/pd8wt - Octi!!!! You can't go wrong with cephalopods. #
• 10:24 The very best of my collection: the Stitch Toilet Seat Cover. flic.kr/p/7fq233 #
• 10:28 @Templesmith "In Los Angeles, every bartender under the age of 70 has a screenplay and is in a rock band" - Ebert's review of Overnight. #
• 11:03 W
  ho took all the Kit Kats?????? #
• 12:05 @twotone Gah! I totally burned out on reading the BPAL seasonal site about 1/3 of the way down. Guess that's why I'm not a scent person. #
• 12:25 This won't quite stretch over my iPhone. ^_^;;; Japan, why won't you make a Stitch cover for my 3G? flic.kr/p/7fnoLc #
• 21:41 Stitch's World Tour: North America. Dangit, I'm still missing one!!! flic.kr/p/7fsdm4 #

• 09:21 Came back to work to find server frozen. Does this mean I get to go home again?? #
• 09:28 Went through my set of monthly astrology Stitches last night & found I'm missing 2 of them so far. AARGH! flic.kr/p/7f8dbV #
• 10:23 I see London... A selection of Stitch underpants. flic.kr/p/7fcccf #
• 10:41 "Beginning dump of physical memory." Oh, Windoze, you scamp! #
• 11:07 @amiryfenn twitpic.com/p8tg6 - Oh, hells, you weren't kidding about how long it
  was getting! #
• 11:57 Dx: Windows 2000 impaled itself on its own security update. Rx: back to the shop with ye! Thanks, MS, for bringing thrills! #
• 12:13 @amiryfenn Back when I was studying low fat dietary intervention, people at parties would use this as cue to tell me about their diets. :-P #
• 12:21 Another odd one: Disney characters cavort on lady-shaped plastic bottles. From Japan. Of course. flic.kr/p/7fdU71 #
• 13:27 Stitch "disaster prevention" hood: supposedly flame-resistant materials. Use as cushion during non-disastrous days. flic.kr/p/7feyRC #
• 14:27 Stitch dog costume: because there's NOTHING more awesome to do to a dog! flic.kr/p/7fbpfF #
• 15:34 This is pretty darned cool: Stitch Toys R Us Limited Sanshin from Japan. flic.kr/p/7fc4v6 #

Is this a Sanshin? Not 100% sure, but here's the Toys R Us link:

http://www.toysrus.co.jp/product/product_detail.aspx?skn=306687&pin=800&top_id=001

The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission plans to protest the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which President Obama signed into law last month, by preaching outside of the Justice Department. Pastor Paul Blair is apparently concerned that the law will infringe on Christians' constitutional rights to act out their bigotry.

• 09:06 Since no one else is mad enough to buy a Japanese laptop just for the Stitch icons, here are the exclusive desktops. flic.kr/p/7eSWTp #
• 11:31 Philip's holochess table is a thing of wonder: bit.ly/2GfSTk #
• 12:50 OMG it's the Stitch credit card from JCB! So you can pay for Stitch with Stitch!!! flic.kr/p/7eVEDK #
• 13:41 Soft drink? Check. Popcorn? Check. Extra large box of Kleenex? Check. OK, ready for UP Blu Ray!!! #
• 14:15 @patchworkboy I only saw Up once in
  the theaters. Which is just NOT enough of Dug dog!! #
• 20:08 There's a Monsters Inc ride at Tokyo Disney? Sweeeeeet! #
• 21:18 "Your RIGHT hand, Brittany!" Oh, Glee is back. #

They included this with my toys from the Disney Store.

If you live in Japan, JCB will issue you a STITCH CREDIT CARD!!!

You can pay for Stitch ... with Stitch!

*runs around the house in a panic*

I've GOT to figure out how to apply for a Japanese credit card......

No matter that I can't speak a word of Japanese, a little finessing of the registration screens (and a sprinkling of appropriate curse words) and I'm in! There are 4 exclusive desktops, which I've posted to Flickr. So, see, it wasn't all just for the sticker on the case!!!

• 09:05 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Chatty Stitch plushie bit.ly/2lLMpU #
• 09:07 LEGO headphones? That is TOO cute! bit.ly/1C3UyE #
• 09:28 @KateSherrod You are a brave woman! I've loaded the 'pod with Glee soundtrack. Yes, I AM SHALLOW! #
• 09:29 Astrology Stitch plush wearing a gleefully ridiculous Scorpio hat. flic.kr/p/7eDn4R #
• 12:05 Stitch's good deed counter - from Dr. Jumba! flic.kr/p/7eF3MK #
• 14:19 Teensy Halloween-themed Stitch Tomica Cars. Because it's not enough just to have Stitch dressed as Maleficent! flic.kr/p/7eLu31 #
• 16:46 Someone needs to invent a Seattle umbrella that works in horizontal rain. #

Advocate.com:Glee creator Ryan Murphy didn’t go the typical route for casting the show. How did you connect with the show and what was your audition process like? What song did you perform?

Chris Colfer: It was very grueling and was probably the most stressful experience I've ever had to go through. Originally I was auditioning for the role of Artie [played by Kevin McHale] and I went in to the casting director and he liked me and put me through to the callback with Ryan and the rest of the creative team. The audition was OK; I was extremely nervous. I don't remember being truly there for the whole thing. Then I got a call from my agent saying that they didn't want me for Artie but they wanted me for this new character they were writing. At the audition the first thing that Ryan said to me when I walked through the door was, "Why do I have a feeling you've been in The Sound of Music?" And I said, "Oh, I was Kurt in The Sound of Music." So I get to the next audition and I discovered the new character that they just wrote is called Kurt. I was a little suspicious of the name and what kind of character it would be, but I was still reading the lines because the character hadn't been written yet. I went through the network auditions and the studio auditions and I got a call later from my agent, who said that I got the role and that the role had actually been written for me....

• 10:24 2012? UW just issued one of these to everyone. flic.kr/p/7esxHs #
• 15:11 Gotta go do STUFF, take this for now. flic.kr/p/7ewvhU #
• 15:50 @amandatinney You can get one! On Etsy!! #
• 15:59 Behold! The Stitch laptop computer!!! flic.kr/p/7et358 #
• 17:18 Retweet, because Nicholas Cage would approve. (The bees! THE BEES!!) #helphoneybees tinyurl.com/yhmpwqp //via AnnLarimer #
• 20:10 Maybe Heroes should be renamed "We're All Sylar Now." #

Yes, really.

Now I need to decide whether it's worth taking it out of the package.

To play with. Or, poke with a stick Or, something.

I dunno. It's Windoze (don't tell anyone!!!!).

Chewbacca won’t be coming to Baltimore next year.

Organizers of the Star Wars Celebration V rejected the city because its convention center doesn’t have enough room, said Tom Noonan, who heads the city tourist bureau. The four-day gathering could have attracted 35,000 visitors and filled 12,000 hotel room nights — a larger impact than any convention the city currently hosts.

That doesn’t factor in the media attention a Star Wars convention draws. Like Star Trek, fans of the George Lucas films are passionate about everything Star Wars.

Fanfest-type conventions are huge draws for tourists. Baltimore’s largest convention, Otakon, last year brought in $27 million in spending and 26,300 fans of Japanese animé.


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• 12:59 Having ongoing issues with the structural integrity of my Stitch plushie pile. #

Lots of Moon auctions ending today. Only a few more hours to write me and bitch about shipping costs!

And, you can guess what's up this week...

Link to my auctions.

I'm also posting Takara Mink Barbie this week, to see if there's any interest. Her coat is actually made of mink. Buy her and have your PETA dollies throw read paint on her!

• 09:48 Moving boxes to find new items to eBay. Did not find one more box of Sailor Moon. Found TWO more boxes of Sailor Moon. *sigh* #
• 13:06 Thought I was done with eBay. Then realized I'd misspelled "Japan." In every single listing. #
• 21:16 There's gonna be a werewolf movie ... With Sir Anthony Hopkins? And Benicio del Toro? Always the last nerd to know. #
• 21:57 OK, banana crepe? Maybe not a good idea. #

Just opening up some boxes to see what's left for eBay. And, well, you can see. The box underneath as well. And a couple more by the door.

• 09:52 Finally put all my MindStyle Stitch vinyls into a set: www.flickr.com/photos/tikistitch/sets/72157622747405646/ #
• 10:38 Angry Woebots completely hand-painted Stitch Artists Proof. Woe fully repainted a vinyl figure. flic.kr/p/7dy6q2 #
• 12:04 The Great Wall of MindStyle Stitch Artists Proofs. flic.kr/p/7dzQcX #
• 12:09 @bonniegrrl Sadly, that Han is 1:4 scale, and would look freakish next to a 1:6 Barbie. He needs to date a Jem & the Holograms doll instead. #
• 17:01 Whoa, didn't even count to "1" between the lightning and the thunder. #
• 20:15 Nooooo, cable, don't go out during Clone Wars!!! #
• 20:35 @AnnLarimer Yes, but you can't *possibly* brew coffee that's as nasty as Starbucks drip. #