What's that fragrance you're wearing...?

Why, it's Cumming!

Yeah. Alan Cumming has his own fragrance now. You may all start making bad sexual innuendo jokes now.

From The Defamer:

Cumming All Over: Alan Cumming Bottles His Scent

And we have to tip our hat to him, as he’s done something that no other celebrity has managed with their vanity perfume lines: He’s creating scents and accompanying beauty products that are completely resistant to satire. What are we supposed to do with products with such impenetrably coy names as Cumming:The Fragrance, or a cream called Cumming All Over? Joke about a mouthwash called Cumming In Your Mouth (as suggested by a reader), hoping that his marketing geniuses aren’t already planning that line, or that they won’t steal the idea?

Oy.

I suppose I should try to get to bed now... I want to try to get to the Comicon at the convention centre tomorrow.

Sunday update.

Lots happened today, but I don't know how to put it all into words. First off, I went to the Toronto Comicon today, run by the same people who do SFX. I bumped into James, one of the people who runs it, outside the door. Since I was planning to work at the TT table (though Stephen wasn't actually expecting me, I don't think), I said to him, "I'm not sure if Stephen has a pass for me or not, because I'm just here to work." He said, "Oh, don't worry about it," picked up the inkpad that was at the registration desk and stamped my hand. That was nice of him - and completely unexpected. (Although the event was advertised as "free", it was really only free if you had a coupon from a comic vendor from whom you'd bought at least $10 worth of comics. Otherwise admission was $10.)

So I went in and found the TT table, whereupon rockgoddes, who was just getting ready to leave, invited me to walk back out into the hallway with her for a chat while Rockgod Jr. spied on everyone from behind various pillars.

After the chat, I went back in and sat with Stephen for a few hours, then wandered around and got some comic artist and writer contact info, so hopefully we'll be able to put that to good use. When I came back to the table, Stephen had packed most of it up and asked me to watch things while he used the men's room. Naturally, it was during that time that someone came by to buy a Sunday membership for the convention (guess he's a Katee Sackhoff fan), so I had to unpack everything to get the cashbox and receipt book out.

redeem147, I guess you were there earlier than I was? I didn't see you all afternoon, but I only arrived around 2:45 or 3. I had meant to get there earlier, but I just couldn't get out of bed this morning. Strange, I managed to jump out of bed every day during Ad Astra on four hours' sleep (or less), but this morning, after three straight weeks of eight hours per night, I couldn't get up this one single morning.

I got home around 7ish, and the light on my answering machine was blinking. My mother had called this afternoon. It seems the cheques have arrived, so I have to meet her downtown to write the cheques for the other relatives named in my grandmother's will. I brought up dx4's suggestion that we use the property tax assessment to determine the value of the condo, and her immediate reaction was, "Who have you been talking to????" *headdesk* I didn't tell her that it had been dx4's suggestion, but she still seems intent on getting an independent assessment from someone else. I'm not sure what that will accomplish (except perhaps to set the condo's value lower, so that she won't have to pay me any money). After all, the property tax isn't going to change based on what the bank says - it seems to me to make the most sense. However, she's still bound and determined to get a lower assessment, based on what her friend Sil's son told her. Apparently he was thinking about buying a condo in the same building, and told her, "There's no way those condos are worth what they're asking." (News flash - if they're charging $213K for them, and getting it, then that is what they're worth.)

After dinner (rewatching the Sunday broadcast of "In A Mirror, Darkly" *grin*) I caught up on email. Good lord, the SMOFS list is active this week. (For those who don't know it, it's an email list for people who run SF conventions, with emphasis on Worldcons. Someone's collecting horror stories about hotels. Some of them are quite funny - it's amazing what some hotel managers don't know about their own hotels, that the fans do.)

I then did some TT Programming data entry - entering updates from travellingone and kosst_amojan into the database. Then I gave cuteteenboy a call. He's all stressed out. I won't go into details, but he needs to get out of where he is. It looks like we're going to get together at some point this week; hopefully I'll be able to get him caught up on some things that are behind.