Purple Door was a lot of fun.  I'll have pictures from the fest and a proper write-up soon.  I just wanted to say thanks to all the people who said "Hi" to us, the people who came to see Julia and my seminars, and the nice people who put on Purple Door.

Here's a quick preview of my write up.  Here were the good shows that I saw: The Honor Recital, The Wiitala Brothers, Last Tuesday and The Myriad (who was amazing).  

In other random Conrad thoughts…  

Did you hear that we might now have 12 planets instead of 9?  There's a new one in the asteroid belt called Ceres and one way out there further than Pluto called 2003 UB 313.  I remember the Roman god Ceres, but can't seem to remember the Roman god 2003 UB 313.  Oh yeah, wait, he was the child of Mars and Venus and was the god of pork products.  The other gods didn't really like him that much cause he was always so greasy and smelled like swine.  Even Jupiter refused to get close enough to him to do anything about it.  

There was one time when 2003 UB 313 was trying to put the moves on Neptune's daughter, but he forgot that she lived underwater and when he tried to visit her, he just floated.  Then all the marine life around him died.  Needless to say, Neptune wasn't too happy.  

Pluto, which currently holds the title for the last and smallest planet, who also is the Roman god of the underworld, might actually get demoted.  Like, Pluto won't be called a planet. And what we were calling it's moon, Charon, the god of Cuchi-Cuchi, could end up being dwarf-planets, meaning they aren't really normal planets.

Charo, The Roman god of Cuchi-Cuchi.

I think that once you've been declared a planet, you can't be demoted.  It's like the Supreme Court.  Once you're elected in there, that's it, you're there for life.  You can't get voted out.  The scientists might have made a mistake in the past.  Is that Pluto's fault?  No.  So they're gonna take away all his benefits and health care just because scientists in the past screwed up.  What's the god of the underworld supposed to do?  I mean he's like totally freezing and has to listen to Charon all day long.  And a day on Pluto 153 hours long.  That's a lot of latin music to listen to.

So Pluto has a hard enough life already, we don't have to go around making it worse.

Please, think of the underworld.