30 Jan - 1 Feb, 2026
All four members of our household will be there.
We are:
Magpie
- vocals; harmony arranger and voice coach
Magpie, a small black-and-white corvid, is attracted to shiny things
like beads and other jewelry-making supplies. They are frequently
accompanied by their familiar, a small black-and-white cat.
Naomi, a pocket-sized creature with the appearance of a chamois goat
who occasionally also manifests as a human folksinger, has been lurking
around the back of filk rooms since the early eighties, when she was
too young to know better. Persuaded to sing by Callie Hills and Steve
Savitzky in 2007, she discovered she liked it, and can now even be
found experimenting with djembe, tenor guitar, and other things which
make noise, such as small children. She and Steve Savitzky joined
forces in 2011 to become the band Lookingglass Folk.
Steve, a hacker/songwriter who occasionally manifests as either a
middle-sized bear or a vaguely ursine and infinitely fuzzy fractal,
started both programming and folksinging back in the 1960s. He was
dragged to his first con in 1978, and has been happily committing acts
of filk ever since. Call him an old folkie, if you will; you can't
call him an "aging hippy" because he actually remembers the
'60s. (His late wife Colleen has a stronger claim to the title, having
grown up in San Francisco across the street from the Grateful Dead.)
In his day job as an aging hacker (his most recent business cards said
"software development engineer", but we all know what that really
means), he was known for acts of wizardry, derring-do, and unspeakable
horror with makefiles, shell scripts, and perl.
Our label/publisher is HyperSpace Express, where you will also find Naomi's book, The
World as it Ought to Be.
