Archive for June, 2007

Guess who’s coming to dinner

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

It’s been a long time since I saw Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. I can’t help but wonder what it was like around the time it was released. Was it scandalous? Were people blase about it? Did they have problems finding financial backing to make it? Who was impacted by [...]

This is not a Mickey Mouse

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Here’s a post I wrote on the IGDA ARG mailing list in reference to someone asking about ARGs for kids:
I’m sure I’ll get shouted down by the anti-Disnites , but I’ve spent quite a bit of time pondering lately about the nature of Disney World. They treat all the characters as absolutely real, [...]

Resume updated

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I’ve updated my resume to reflect my last two projects - working as a community liaison for World Without Oil and working as the writer (and eventually head writer) for the extended reality campaign that promoted the premiere of USA Network’s television series The 4400.
You can see my ARG resume in all its glory at [...]

Speaking of Las Vegas

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Here’s a piece I wrote for The 4400 “Battle Over Promicin” campaign. I guess I have Las Vegas on the brain lately!
Casinos Go Promicin-Free

Mikki Grayson | Staff Writer
Las Vegas casinos are scrambling to deal with the effects of promicin. The city, famous for its tourism and gambling industries, has suffered a huge economic [...]

Another dog update

Friday, June 15th, 2007

So what happened to Cuervo was a bad reaction to one of the immunosuppressants he was taking for his anemia condition. His front feet swelled up really badly and basically just sort of blew out. His left foot has almost no black pad on it at all. We’ve been having to tape [...]

Woof

Monday, June 11th, 2007

My history class brought up early feminism this week. I think I’m relatively lucky in some ways that, although I may have bumped heads from time to time with a few old coots who just don’t believe that chicks can do stuff, too, I haven’t really run into anything major career-wise. In fact, [...]

Doggie update

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Quickie update - Cuervo’s still staying at the vet, but they have been calling us daily with reports. He’s “scarfing down food” and keeping it down. He’s also said to be in good spirits. The only problem is that they had to stop treating the big bad long-term problem in order to [...]

Bad news

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The kids are with their grandparents in Houston right now. The dog is really sick. He’s got a particularly virulent form of autoimmune anemia and dogs with this condition have about a 40% survival rate. He’s been in and out of the hospital a few times over the last couple of weeks, [...]