snackcoon

02:24 pm: Meet my Daemon, or tell me if I fudged it X3
Sweet-- I love The Golden Compass! I hope the movie's good, or else I'll be sore (I like the book too much).

So, I'm inviting my friends to comment on the daemon that I got after filling out the questionaire here and we'll see how it changes.  I was pretty happy with the one I got... but I thought, what the heck, other users have done it this way, I'll see what other people think and give it a period to mutate before it settles into a final form.

My responses revealed a lovely jackal named Lysandra and the following description of me: humble and shy, but also outgoing and sociable, and responsible.

Seem contradictory, perhaps? Well, I do have both a shy and a sociable side, and they balance each other out pretty regularly. If you've spent enough time with me, you've probably seen both.  Now I'm wondering how this  will match up to my friends' responses. :)

10:44 pm: Fursuits at the Carnival of 5 Fires in Richmond
CORRECTION
concerning the event previously announced as
"the Just Fur Fun gallery show"

NEW VENUE:
Gallery 5
200 West Marshall St.
Richmond, VA 23220

NEW FORMAT:
This will no longer be a month-long show.  Fursuits by Lynne Hassell (www.koifox.com) will instead be on display FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY as part of a larger evening of performance and high spirits, FURSUITERS WELCOME at the...

CARNIVAL OF 5 FIRES (Oct 5-7)

Lynne Hassell's work showing on October 5th (Friday), from 7p.m. till late

Weblinks:

www.gallery5arts.org

Carnival of 5 Fires on Myspace

There is a cover charge for events inside the gallery (while, outside the gallery, there will be a host of street performers).

Schedule of Carnival events from October 5 - 7

“What exactly is the Carnival of 5 Fires?” you may ask…
 
The first annual Carnival of 5 Fires was held on Friday Oct. 6, 2006 in Richmond, Virginia. Birthed from the fiery womb of the former firehouse now known as Gallery5, the night of organized chaos included lit up faces of hundreds of attendees, live sideshow freaks created by FX specialist Beth Gorley, burlesque, cabaret, clogging vampires, marionettes, puppet shows, tarot readers, vaudeville musical acts, big band, rock n’ roll, fire performance, paintings, photography, installations, sculpture, video projection, and a variety of other creative debauchery.

Koi Fox Studio has arranged with Gallery 5 to make this a furry-friendly event. There will be a headless lounge with fans for cooling down.  Word to the wise: fursuiters would probably do well to come with a handler. 

There will also be a furry documentary crew visiting from New York.
 

A fur-ther note from Fursuit-maker Lynne Hassell and Koi Fox Studio:

Someday we would like to start a Richmond furry convention.  As of this event, we're just hoping that fellow furries will join us to party at the Carnival.  However, we are thus opening our ears for ideas, suggestions, and general brainstorming.  Please feel free to drop by at our studio's online forum, here.

www.koifox.com
 

08:00 pm: yay actorfurs!
i KNEW there had to be groups for theater-minded furries.  And now I've found actorfurs!  I've already posted something there in response to Furry Tales, a "furry-positive" musical some guys in Pittsburgh wrote and presented during AC. 

11:58 am: aminal sightings
While on a walk recently I saw a small rabbit on someone's lawn, just sitting there, totally chilled out, not tensed to run at all, like a rabbit would be normally.  I could see the difference in its muscles.  It looked like a little cushion.  Bunny chill time.

Then later on the same walk, a hawk (I guess) with an incredible pattern on its back flew low across the road, not 30 feet in front of me.

Most exciting, though, was when I saw a skunk one night last year.  It was so cute, and it's fur was *so* beautiful.  And I was *SO* careful not to give it any reason to startle!!  It happened when I was going out to my car.  The skunk was snuffling around it in the light of the street lamp.  As soon as I noticed it I stopped walking towards my car and just kept moving, nonchalantly, in a wide arc away from it, but watching it for as long as it stayed around.  They are really gorgeous animals.  Sleek fur on such a smooth body, and the stripe on its back is really dramatic. 
<misty eyed sigh>

A zen point: 

Nowhere
can also be written out:
Now here.

01:22 am: Fur-efficacy
I just updated my profile on FurAffinity, www.furaffinity.net/user/snackcoon.  Got the account a couple of weeks ago and was happy that I could now look at the naughty stuff.  Computer limitations had kept me from FA before, but now... mwah, hah, hah: Things Are Different.  Anyway, I'm giddy about my new profile and journal entries.

<looks over what I wrote so far.>
Did I mention I'm kinda dramatic? yeah...

Something else...

12:17 am: spankin' brand gnew
So!  This is my virgin post to LJ.  Only how many years behind the blogging bandwagon?  10? 15? 

Hello, world!  I'm a drama coon.  The Snacking Raccoon.  Therefore, Snackcoon, as you can see at the top. 

I don't mean internet drama.  I mean more like literal drama.  I'm histrionic.  I think those who met me at RCFM recently may attest to this (RCFM was my first con ever, good times!).  Internet Drama, if you're out there waiting for me, I'm busy.  Try again later.  Thx!

Anyway, if you see a striped appendage flicker across the screen here, it means I'm actually making this whole blog thing work for me.  I've been on the internet since the mid-90s and I'm still a newbie, but maybe I can evolve.  Heck, I already grew a tail.