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Tag Archives: kage baker
Storytime Tonight!
Kage Baker loved storytellers. She loved stories, yes, but maybe more than even those, she loved the people who made them. It was not sparkling gems that moved her so much as the jewelers that made them that captured her … Continue reading
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Tagged dead white guys, kage baker, Mark Lewis, storytellers, Walt Kelly
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The Mysteries of Packing
Kage Baker loved travelling. She loved packing – she was very good at it, too, and always managed to get all her clothes into bags she could almost carry unaided. But then, she also loved luggage, and made sure she … Continue reading
Something Is Coming
Kage Baker loved the winter holiday season. She didn’t especially love winter – those beer commercials that show beach side huts and palm trees festooned with Christmas lights were actually pretty much her heart’s desire. But she loved the holiday … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas lights, Christmas tree, kage baker, winter holiday season
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Stuff Happens
Kage Baker would sometimes observe, with a world-weary shrug, that “Stuff happens”. She wasn’t speaking casually. That particular phrase was a declaration of deep rage. When she said it, she was quoting Donald Rumsfeld, partial architect of Dubya’s war effort … Continue reading
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Tagged Baghdad, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, kage baker, National Museum of Iraq
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Dress Rehearsal: Making Christmas
Kage Baker loved doing the Dickens Christmas Fair. It was her perfect Christmas, and it went on for 5 weekends, one of them a 3-day: 11 glorious, over-the-top days of Victorian Christmas, in all its tinselled, ornamented, be-hollied and stained … Continue reading
Doing It By the Numbers
Kage Baker was always looking for subtext. Or meta text; the structure attached to, but outside the boundaries of, the story now in progress. She said it was frequently the most interesting part of the plot. It was also the … Continue reading
Intermission!
Kage Baker loved the old-fashioned Intermission ads you get in some movie theatres. Nowadays, they can include all manner of bells and whistles – enormous panning shots of Brobdingnagian candy counters, CGI roller coasters shooting you right into a bucket … Continue reading
Movie Time
Kage Baker loved animation. She revered animators and illustrators the way other kids loved favourite story tellers or television shows. She loved it so much that she boycotted Disney when the animation went down hill in the 1970’s and 80’s. … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, kage baker, Spongebob Squarepants, Stephen King, Tom Hiddleston
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Falling And Getting Up
Kage Baker was convinced that ordinary life caused the worst obstructions to a creative life. It wasn’t the strange people, the bizarre accidents or the foreign diseases that most undermined an artist’s life – it was the plumbing. The grocery … Continue reading
Other Plans
Kage Baker took, as part of her basic philosophy, the statement: Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. She thought that was pretty much self-evident, in fact; so obviously accurate that it was largely overlooked, … Continue reading
Kathleen, Kage and the Company 