Last night I dreamed I was on the Starship Enterprise, but nothing was going on, and everyone was bored and obsessively checking each others' blogs. I walked around the bridge to see who was updating. Spock was writing a long email forward about different systems of logic, and Chekov was reading the Wikipedia entry on the actor who played him.

I may be spending too much time on the Internet.

On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being awesome. My judgments are perfect and final.

SPOILERS FOR "SWORD OF SHANNARA" AHEAD!

Wait, no. SPOILERS FOR ALL THE STAR TREK MOVIES AHEAD!

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I donated two pages from Edward Gorey's "The Trouble with Tribbles" to the Edward Gorey House for its annual Goreyfest and Alphabet Auction. If you'd like to bid online for these stunning pieces of original art, check out the auction here. You can also bid on theater posters and big beaver coats and so on. All proceeds go to the Gorey House.

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Tiny little nerdy guys are always funny, I don't care what you say.

No Overlooked Manga Festival this week. I've been enjoying the newest show at the Cartoon Art Museum, Edward Gorey's Dracula, featuring art and memorabilia from the Gorey-designed 1970s stage production of Dracula. Among the news clippings sent over by the Edward Gorey House and Charitable Trust, I was drawn to this actual article from the Boston Globe:





Take a look at that first paragraph.



Alas, for what might have been!

( Edward Gorey's 'The Trouble with Tribbles.' )