Current location:	Anaheim CA
Current mood:	chipper
Current music:	Flaco Jimenez - "Una Tarde en el Alamo"
Entry tags:	ribbons

...Over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly through a hogshead of real fire...
Ribbon orders -- enough people have decided on their ribbons and paid for them that I've already sent in paperwork for 2000 ribbons. Mostly for other people. If you want ribbons ($6.25 for 25, $10 for 40, etc.), it's not quite too late; tell me right away what you want them to say, and get the payment into me by the 5th.

Sixteenth installment. Some miscellaneous fancy ribbons. These are all currently in stock.


I mentioned LUX THEATER earlier. I've taken to supplying the Lux Theater crowd with ribbons. They don't have a consistent logotype, but this typeface is used for "Lux After Dark" which they'll be showing at laconiv after the Masquerade on Friday night. I'd printed the plain "LUX THEATER" ribbons with the stock typeface in 2004; for 2005, I had these ready for them to wear at Loscon, and I reordered more this year so we'll have plenty at Worldcon.

And this other ribbon, "left intentionally blank" -- I came up with these last year to bring to inter_action and any other convention that has vertical-format ribbons. See, if you've got two vertical ribbons, you can use a horizontal one to bridge them; but if you just have one, you've got a lopsided situation. So these ribbons make a good "spacer" ribbon. You won't see these at Worldcon this year, because the official ribbons are all horizontal. But I've got them on file, in case I need them in the future.

Typefaces: Cast Iron, Clarendon Condensed.


I ordered plain OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER and UNOFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER ribbons in 2003, using the ribbon people's plain roman type. I usually have no official status when I run around taking pictures, so the "UNOFFICIAL" ribbon made perfect sense to me. But, also, I was heading up a team of photographers to take pictures at a Loscon -- so we all had OFFICIAL ribbons.

And then after the convention, the OFFICIAL ribbons went into storage. Not much call for them, most days. Sometimes I handed out UNOFFICIAL ribbons to other people packing cameras, as long as they weren't the official photographer for the con... Eventually, I ran out, and made up the art you see. I had the fancy UNOFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER ribbons printed up in 2005.

But the OFFICIAL ribbons -- the first eleven I bought lasted for a few years. I gave away one to our official photographer at animelosangeles, and when he was a FGOH I gave him a stack of UNOFFICIAL ribbons to hand out.

Earlier this year I decided that since I was down to less than a handful, I'd get the fancy OFFICIAL ribbons printed. I expect they'll last me a good long time, though.

Typeface: Clarendon Condensed. I drew the camera silhouette myself.


"Big damn hero." On matters of grammar and usage, I usually consult colleency. I asked her, would the phrase from Firefly be "big damn hero(s)" or "big damned hero?" We decided that while "damned" would be more grammatically correct, "damn" is how the characters would pronounce it themselves and probably how they'd spell it, too. I had plain BIG DAMN HERO ribbons printed up in 2004, and the fancies done in 2005.

This is a ribbon that's handed out very sparingly; it's meant to reward heroics. (In contrast, you can usually get a BROWNCOAT ribbon from the daughter of my heart by answering a simple Firefly/Serenity trivia question.) I was touched when Colleen told me I deserved one, for getting their "Shindig" cast and crew fed when it looked like they might end up going on stage hungry.

EXCESSIVELY PREOCCUPIED also has to do with Colleen and obishawn. She related a conversation where Shawn claimed not to be obsessed with Star Wars; she pointed out that he drives a Star Wars-themed car, complete with R2-D2 in the back. He countered with "I'm not obsessed, I'm... excessively preoccupied." When I heard this, I figured it was a natural ribbon slogan for anyone who carries a preoccupation to excessive levels.

Typefaces: Clarendon Condensed, Clarendon Bold.

(Taken in whole, the ribbon collection has used quite a few different typefaces, even though I've settled down a bit of late; that's how this series ties in with the Victorian music-hall playbill-inspired song I'm quoting this time. But you already figured that out...)