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03:15 am - in need of some radical discipline

As of tonight, I've got a new place to live with my dog and bed and books, etc. I haven't moved in yet or anything but the papers are signed and the handshakes shook, and I already have a name for the place. In the spirit of dicecat and bathhat, it is basecamp. Long may it be so.

Always envious of Brandon's lj-capping masterpieces, (and David's the other day)  I decided to make up my own. It took some doing, because I'm not exactly photoshop savvy. Impossible to believe from this little gem, I know. Only my passion for guiding grizzled mountaineers via my sleeping bag sustained me.

Over.

03:42 pm

A little more than a year ago I posted this about a movie being filmed down the street. A movie so hilariously shitty-sounding that it actually forced me to write in my lj about it. And I don't crank the old lj to life for just anything, which is how you know it must have sounded REALLY SHITTY. Here's a lil' refresher: It's called "Tooth Fairy" and is the story of a "minor league hockey player who, after telling a little girl there is no tooth fairy, is brought to Fairyland and informed he must work as a tooth fairy for a week. This obligatory service not only teaches him the necessity of belief, but allows him to rekindle his own lost dreams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!fairydust!!!!!!!fairydust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Well, that movie has been made. And it stars The Rock.



Now you want to see it, don't you. DON'T YOU. You sick bastard. Go watch the trailer. I know what you're thinking. You'd totally watch this some night, maybe a weeknight when you're sitting around with a mountain of weed or like, twenty homemade pies that will spoil if you don't eat them soon, and anyway a friend is coming over and you both hate your respective lives and just want to feel dirty, really dirty and covered in pie juice, weed residue and the silky tapestry of muscle and facial puppetry that is Dwayne Johnson.

I understand. No really. Go 'head. I just hope the combination of Julie Andrews, Billy Crystal (now, not long ago, not when that was okay), and small children missing teeth won't hit the self-hatred switch too soon and have you rolling around on the floor attempting to vomit and punch yourself in the head before The Rock has even BEGUN to be taught the necessity of belief.

(Once again, thank you for your support of BC's film industry).

07:44 am - nicky nicky nine door

This my version of a 1942 war propaganda poster, the design of which I really like. I left out GET YOUR FREE FAG BAG from the original because that just isn't cool, man. And spot the mutation/mistake. It was late when I drew this.


I'm trying not to toss every mundane personal experience onto twitter. I'm trying. So there's this.

05:06 pm - grape raisin

10:02 pm - without explanation

Let it suffice to say that the water-ring mustache is not what I'd hoped for. I drew this from memory, and I haven't looked at Garfield since I was about eight. It's not a dead-on likeness, but it disturbs me that Garfield's head floats around in my brain with even this much clarity.

02:43 am - 4 am, a time for reflection and hey I'm sleepy

AAGH. I'm so excited about my friends' comics tonight that I can't function within 140 characters on twitter and have to bring it back to lj.

Possibly the dorkiest sentence ever, but it will stand. No seriously, some friends of mine? Yeah, they make comics. Welcome to Brag City. Population: ME RIGHT HERE.

First because I just found out that (apparently) it's available RIGHT NOW and can't wait to get my hands on it: Wonton Soup 2 by James Stokoe. If you haven't done it yet go buy Wonton 2 and save the planet. I mean just in the sense that good comics help... children... grow. No seriously, shut up. What I've seen of Wonton 2 is so rad that it puts the (already sweet) first volume to shame. It SHAMES its brother. [Wait, no, it's not actually out yet. Bide your time.]

Speaking of stuff I should already own, I don't have North World 2 (Lars Brown) yet! This must be remedied promptly. I haven't seen any of the inside goods yet but the cover pleases me and it shall be mine.

Third but not second, Brandon Graham's KING CITY 2. It just looks better in caps. I'm so relieved and chuffed and wheezy that this book is coming our way. Words do not even describe. This post is already kind of a circle jerk, huh. OH WELL. The pages for KING CITY 2 are so good that I leveled up just by looking at them, and then I touched and cuddled them and I learned to fly for short distances. The upcoming Multiple Warheads stuff is equally as capable of sexing one's face. Dinner metaphor: we've been starving for a while now but get ready to eat so much that your shrunken stomach can't take it and you actually die. No wait, nicer than that! But dying is worth it, for these comics, I'm telling you.

Fourth but CONSTANTLY IN MY MIND EVEN WHILE SLEEPING is Sharknife Dub Z. This book is my long-time holy grail of comics I need to read, cover to cover, no fooling, don't even talk to me for a few hours after I get my hands on it, seriously, I will hurt you. Every page I've seen that's going into this thing is like no page that's come before. It almost needs to be struck by lightning so that legends will be told long after we're gone about this book they called Sharknife: the Z and Z. Saints will be made of those that were in the presence of this book, and anyone who got a paper cut from its pages will be granted strange powers. Oh my god I just blacked out for a second and, what's this? These words I've typed, they can only be... PROPHECY DREAM??!!?

Plus, and not in book-form yet but please santa let it be soon, Tikboom/Any and All comics by Jacob Ferguson. Jacob's comics make me so happy that I'm a little paranoid they'll turn out addictive and illegal. And they're only getting better in a big way.

But NONE OF THE ABOVE are even what I'm MOST excited about, friend-wise, comic-wise, tonight, because my BFF makes amazing comics and her book is on its way now for good and serious. It's Beast by Marian Churchland, you heard it here first, except I know Brandon has mentioned it a lot and his lj is actually, you know, read by people. But I saw it first! First dibs forever.

So guys, if it's cool, I'll just casually hitch myself to your rising stars and when you soar into the heavens I'll be stretched in different directions and get ripped into many pieces, of which the largest will be my torso. THE END?

PS - Lots of people and projects I didn't mention because my brain died but it doesn't mean I don't love you and want your creative babies in my eye-wombs. All my non-comics friends who mainly lurk, I'll leech off your success too. No worries.

07:24 pm - hang in thar

Peg leg kitten for Jacob. Scanner's not hooked up so I took a picture.

06:32 pm - snarkjakten

Doldrums gone. Freaking out still widely available.

End of term. YES.

09:46 am - kentucky

Ever since I posted three days ago I've been in and out of the doldrums. Should've known. Damn doldrums.

Now I'm in the mood for a Nat's Hearty breakfast at White Spot but it's snowing here and that makes things more difficult. Tea first.

No sleep last night: sort of a project. (Twitter may have ruined me for full sentences.)

Mainly just wanted to post this William Gedney image.



I want to emulate that kid as much as possible in future life.

08:29 am - dude

This year is better than last year. And by year I mean fall to spring, because that's how my mind works. Summer is liminal, just sort of tacked on to each year and then it blurs into the next.

Sleep seems like a good idea right now.

Only, it just occurred to me  that it might not be obvious enough that I'm talking about my life here. I'm not talking about world events other people's lives or anything. Please. I would NEVER. But you probably got that. I'm really tired right now so it seemed to me like you might not, you know, get that.

Also, by better I mean better.