Main Line Mamma charged with assaulting *another* nanny

It looks like the Main Line's own Susan Tepper has been charged with assaulting another nanny. She was charged with two counts of assault and one count of harassment for allegedly leaving scratches on the nanny's face and bruises on her body, as well shoving the nanny's 9-year old daughter to the ground.

This charge comes just three months after Susan was sentenced to a year's probation for assaulting her previous nanny with a bag of carrots. I don't think the judge is going to be too happy to see her the second time around...

Dorsai Thing 32 Con Report

Yeah, I procrastinated on this for quite a while. I actually wrote up most of it in the airport while waiting for my flight back, but never got a chance to finish it off. So anyway, here's my con report from Dorsai Thing 32. It was held in Ann Arbor, MI, March 30th to April 1st.

Thursday

I flew up to Detroit a day early to meet up with girtygrin and some of the local Michigan Furs to hang out, drink and chat. In attendence were Gir, 2_gryphon, nikvulper, Kargo, and Jason. Here, Nik shows us how to drink two beers back to back:



On Friday, we bummed around downtown Ann Arbor. It was quite a lovely town, and the weather was great. In the middle of our trip, I was shown the giant spinning cube:



What is difficult to convey in this picture is that the cube spins freely on the corner that is attached to the ground. Anyone can walk up and give the cube a spin. I decided to do this a few times, and discovered that it's not unlike the big $10,000 wheel that one finds in the final round of the game show The Price is Right. It takes a bit of effort to get it spinning, but once spinning, it will do so for quite a while, and is difficult to stop.

Friday

On Friday, I swung by the hotel where Dorsai Thing was at this year and found the con suite in full swing. This year's theme was "And now for something completely different". The con did not fail to live up to this name.

To start with, Dave and Dianna Stein had brought in a rather pristine gumball machine. Except this machine did not sell gumball, it sold pins with sayings about the Dorsai on them. I got three buttons which read:

• "The Boogyman checks his closet for Dorsai"


• "People can piss names in snow. Dorsai can piss names in concrete."


• "Dorsai Capitulus: Veni; Vidi; Bibo"

Also, I had bacon mints. They were pretty uh, interesting:



( Nobody expects The Dorsai Inquisition! )

For those interested, my entire collection of pictures from this year's Thing can be found on Flickr.