Thon update

It appears that I shall be going to the thon with daerr and xartofnothingx. Yayyy! A veteran and a newbie, respectively, so this will be a good time. I know some of y'all're planning on attending too, and I look forward to seeing you there. (Are the seats up in the balcony still from the 19th Century? If so I think we'll stick to the ground level...)

BTW, the thon is from Sunday noon to Monday noon at the Somerville Theater. Its website isn't all that hot this year at explaining this sort of thing.

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Here is the entirety of a Dan Clowes comic that recently ran as a serial in the New York Times. I love Clowes, but this story, about a blind date, is so incredibly igry that I currently can't bear to click past the seventh page.

Let me pick your costume brains.

I need prop and costuming assistance for a nearish-future Gameshelf shoot. If you can give me ideas as to where I can acquire or produce these, I'd be most grateful.

Props:
Something that can be reasonably construed to be a ship's railing, wide enough for three people to stand behind, and stable enough to stand up on its own. Other than that it can be quite simple, even crude.

(I'd composite one onto the frame in post-production, but people behind the railing are going to be throwing other props "overboard", so that wouldn't work too well.)

Costuming:
Some dress elements hearkening to Colonial America, enough for three or four people. Full costumes would be hilarious, but a merely a few tricorn hats would definitely suffice as well.