clallam bay comiket

I’ve been underestimating Clallam Bay Comiket. There: I admit it. I have. There’re press releases and such now and it’s turning into a real thing even this year zero, and if it flies this year at all, it’ll be bigger next year. I’ll be there Saturday and maybe also Sunday at this point. It’ll be great. ^_^

And it’s also much further away than I thought! So I’m overnighting. I hope not in my car. ADVENTURE!

not that far away

PEOPLE LINKED TO THEIR ART! Here are the links promoted up, as promised!

Fishy has a very few hours left on his fire sculpture Kickstarter, but he’s made goal! AND – barely, as of now – the stretch goal. So this is LAST CALL FOR THE HARMONIC FIRE PENDULA! It’s cool.

Geri called for support for this effort to raise CAN$2,000 for a special-needs child’s bicycle. It sounds like a lot for a bike, but, well, special needs are what they are.

Irfon-Kim Ahmad is a Toronto musician! He records under the band name “Ramp,” and his stuff is all free-download. He’s hoping for comments and opinions! Check out the Ramp website here, or hop directly to the music page here.

Sarah Palmero has an Etsy store! It’s called Creature Comfort Craftworks and she hand-dyes yarn, spins fibre, takes requests, and occasionally makes things herself. Fabric artists, check it out.

And that’s all! Hopefully I’ll see one of you at Clallam Bay!

PS: This week’s instalment of my post-scarcity/post-RIAA music industry series – Part Four: Touring (Part 1 of 2) – went up late on Tuesday. So if you missed it, here it is.

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wow, that's... bracing!

You know how I haven't posted much econ lately? And how I really get into that only when it gets really interesting? Well, if you've been reading me a while, you do, and you also know what kinds of things get me interested. If I weren't going to Clallam Bay this weekend, and on tour in Canada the week after that, I'd be working up posts tonight.

As it is, I'm going to try really hard not to look at this for the next few weeks. I haven't dug too deep yet, but this LIBOR-fixing thing that's been coming out the last week or so is very interesting. The amount stolen by this market-rigging action is staggering. We're talking tens of billions of dollars in higher mortgage interest charges in North America alone. We're talking trillions of dollars in total monetary flow affected.

We're talking breathtaking levels of theft here.

(And Zero Hedge thinks there's lots more.)

Now combine that with this. I mean, I don't blame the non-respondants; I wouldn't either. We re-fied to get further out of range of, aheh, certain companies. But US$9B is a lot to completely ignore. If people really, really start to get it...

Okay, right, I'm getting started again; must put it aside. Maybe all this will blow over. But right now, things are starting to look really, really interesting again. Do with that what you will.