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| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 |
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This is the stuff I’ve been waiting for from Xeni. |
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you can now preview my entire story for popgun volume 2 along with five other tales at the anthology's official site! and if you're a tori amos fan, comic book tattoo is now out! i did the art for a story by rantz hoseley based on 'the waitress.' you can read about his writing process and see some of my in-progress artwork over at comic blog tattoo. there's also an interview with me in support of CBT in the latest issue of little blue world. to sweeten the deal, perez hilton is featured as well.  and finally, my good friend brandon bird, pop culture curator and fine art enthusiast (plus a very fine artist in his own right), has a rad new blog! there you can see such astounding sites as my first and so far only piece of smallville fanart, sketched in the president's gallery of the national museum. i thought lex especially would be pleased by that. remember to review hellboy, brandon!  |
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Ammodramus savannarum is a secretive ground-loving bird of open fields, generally agreed to be on the decline in North America, due to loss of grassland habitat. Not in attendance at this year’s CCI. |
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 I hope the whole "two-tie" thing really takes off in the next couple years. |
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Not seen on the convention floor. |
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We rearranged the office. |
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I took a minute to randomly cull out a handful of friends, comrades and fellow-travellers from the 500-odd photos I have left. Left to right, and top to bottom, they are: Novelist Cherie Priest. Writer/Pulp Scholar Jess Nevins. Comics creator Corey Lewis. Biologist Lenya Friesner. Writer Gareth Lyn Powell. Writer/photographer JR Blackwell. Mad Scientist Sara Gries. Comics creator Ben Templesmith (that’s what he looks like sober.) Artist Melyssa Anishnabie. Steampunk renaissance woman Libby Bulloff. Writer/photographer Trixie Bedlam. Artist/writer/model Zoetica Ebb. Musician Billy Gray. Musician/writer Meredith Yayanos. Writer/actor Wil Wheaton – he shot this on the set of CRIMINAL MINDS, where he’s been working this past week. Artist/model Katelan Foisy. Writer Tom Reynolds (what the fuck did you DO, Tom?!). Novelist/photographer Richard Kadrey.
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 Also, I need your advice on a very important issue: Halloween costumes. This year's Halloween is on a Friday, which means AWESOME PARTIES. I need a good one. Here's what I'm considering: - The Rocketeer. Since I'm a stickler for movie-accuracy, this could be a tough one. I could buy a replica helmet for $450, or the ACTUAL screen-used helmet for $15,000. Naturally, I can afford neither of those things, so I'd have to make it from scratch. The jetpack I can probably make on my own, but I have no idea where I'd even START with the helmet. Plus there's other aspects, like the gloves, that would be quite labor-intensive. - Covered in babies - Professor Chaos - The Riddler - Mr. Freeze - Iron Man (or, if I'm feeling ambitious) - Freddy Krueger What do you think? Any other ideas? |
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Dear lady who was running Team Trivia last night at "Joe Sent Me" in Waltham, People write funny teams to make other people laugh. We're not doing it because we think it's a solid name that will unite us as a team and bring us forth to victory. When we write our team name as "Truck Full of Burning Puppies", you're not doing anyone a favor by announcing it as "Truck Full of Puppies", and later in the evening, just "Puppies". A truck full of puppies is adorable...confusing (WHO HAS A TRUCK FULL OF PUPPIES?!), but adorable...A truck full of burning puppies, however, surpasses the sadness-factor and leaps right into hilarity. Also, there's NO need to be playing Coldplay at that volume in between questions. In fact, the preferred volume level for all Coldplay songs is "1" or, even better, "Off". Sincerely, Me |
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I don’t have a prayer of getting through all these…
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I don't understand CPR fetish. I just... don't. |
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On second thought, if my asshole mentality's going to piss someone off every other time I express myself in public I might as well just take it elsewhere for everyone else's sake. There's no point in apologizing and trying to redeem myself for an honest mistake that doesn't reflect my worldview at all because it'll just happen again, because it always does. People remember the incensed fuckups that happen when I'm still enraged over having all my irrational insecurities validated by complete strangers IRL and not the sincere apologies that happen when I'm thinking reasonably afterwards. Do you know how frustrating that is? Those of you who know me (or have debated with me) know what kind of person I am. You know that even though I come off as stupid and close-minded I try my best to forgive everyone who takes a swing at me, that I always come forward with a truce in an argument, that I don't actually mind when other people discount my opinions because I value theirs. This applies to Internet people but just as much to the individuals who gave me crap for no reason while I was buying my dinner today. They did me wrong but I'm sympathetic to their positions in life because they too are in the social minority and probably will suffer or have suffered the same abuse from others just because of who they are. That's why I didn't try to insult them back or defend myself. Yes, I vented off my anger here and yes I used an inappropriate term to describe the person who was most passive-aggressive towards me--a young woman with a notably masculine appearance and an extremely deep voice. Do I think her being transsexual or a crossdresser had ANYTHING to do with her being an asshole? NO. I was just caught up in my own repressed anger and the word "tranny" slipped out as I was venting my feelings. And people understandably took personal offense to that. It was hypocritical of me to refer to another person with a potentially offensive term when I myself had just been told that I didn't belong in the United States, the country of my birth (presumably because of my ethnicity). I'm sorry. It was stupid of me. One of my own peers whom I regard very highly is a ftm individual, so I should've known better. Right now I just need a break from dealing with any more strangers. I'm vitriolic enough right now that I'm afraid I might lose my patience with someone who doesn't deserve it. Friends only from now on, comment if you want to be added and have the balls to put up with shenanigans and badly-drawn penises. |
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| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 |
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everybody needs a little time away. even lovers need a holiday. FUCKING LOVE CHICAGO. i dont give a shit what you think. i saw them sans Cetera a few years ago in Birmingham. the dude they had that replaced him was like a younger version. it was FAB! im up too late. i need to go to bed. tonight i had a margarita and it didnt turn on me! the first one in a while. am happy. right now. anyway. |
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My apartment smells like roses and it is quite beautiful and calming. Why is Bill Hader such a freakin' babe?!!?!?     Ohhh yeah mama. I love his dorky voice so much. Not much to report, other than I've just been listening to Ted Nugent and Deep Purple all day. I think I'm going to go smoke a joint now and pretend I'm a 13 year old boy living in 1975? Edit! ACK! I just went to the store, and I heard music coming from downtown, and then I remember that TED NUGENT IS PLAYING IN TOWN TONIGHT AT HAWK ROCKS THE PARK! Arrrghahaidhf;klajsdfka!!! Motherfucker! I don't care what a racist, sexist, bear-killing old coot he is: I LOVE THE NUGE. Anyone who fucking puts out a self-titled album like his is forever awesome in my books. OH NO! That means that one of these nights this week, The Sweet will also be playing downtown (I just checked... it's Friday)! I must sneak into this somehow. But how...? Perhaps a trenchcoat, a fedora and a pair of stilts will make me look like someone important? Harumph. But seriously... if I don't at least go and sit outside the venue and listen to The Sweet jam out their sweet, sweet tasty glam rock goodness, I will die. DIE! Maybe Amy will want to go sit around and drink vodka out of Dasani bottles with me on the grass. AND Joan Jett is playing tomorrow. For fuck's sakes!!!!! :( |
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 you can probably go here to find the first episode or however you download fansubs, etc. . . . BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL the anime is coming out over seas as i type this. i dont even think the comic is finished. [still waiting for new books to come out!!!!] this is my absolute favorite comic book! ive followed it since issue one. the single issues. Hiroaki Samura is a mad man who takes full reign on this book. he draws it, inks it + writes it. i even have one of his other books, which is completely different type of book from BotI, but it was still a great read + a cool peek into a different side of his art. the art is what drew me in initially, but i love the complex web of characters in this series. of course i dig Manji, for he is almost immortal, but i'd have to say is Taito Magatsu. anyways im going to finish this fansub now and see how the adaptation pans out. so far its spot on. |
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| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 |
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I disagree strongly with many of these.. On the whole, the world has been moving to a more ordered form. Yes, this path is difficult and rocky and often has backsteps like wars and massive genocide occuring in it. But it's getting better socially, even if we're doing a very bad job environmentally. This statement makes me think the writer is probably a center-leaning-right, since they're the most often those proclaiming the apocalypse is just around the corner. Also, 13? Is wrong. So so often. Because often the "experts" are just lazy assholes. If there's one thing I've realised working with the medical profession in all its Thalidomide-Lessons, Fatphobic glory, it is this. That is not to say overwhelming expert consensus can be right. It just means that one should evaluate the expert consensus the same way one evaluates the celebrity endorsement - with a strong critical eye and a deep interrorgation of the facts in ones own time. I would always much rather side with Beth Ditto - a music celeb - over feminism and gay rights and Fat pride (three things the scientific expert community have a woeful record on) rather than most asshole doctors and scientific "experts" I've encountered, who overwhelmingly come from asshole-privileged backgrounds and thus choose those wonderfully privileged occupations of the "experts". Re: 10. They need to remove "sex". Lol moast gender-blind statement ever. 15 doesn't make sense. "Science" is no more all around us anymore than "maths" is, like the aspie hordes of atomic science majors want us to believe. Nor is it moreso than "religion". It's a method humans use of interpreting the world. It's the best one we've got at the moment, but it is not the universe itself. I hate it when people like that get the two confused. It just shows how unwise they are. |
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| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 |
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| I'm running a million miles an hour and I'm getting the over-caffeinated twitches. There's so much to do in the next 12 hours... Time to indulge in my new favorite shnack: plain yogurt and honey. | ||||||||||
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My editor just sent me a link to a review of CROOKED LITTLE VEIN at Ain’t It Cool News, coinciding with the paperback release. AICN would be pretty much the last place I’d expect to get reviewed. I haven’t read it yet, but, still, very nice of them to take the time, I thought… |
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Where is your cell phone? in my purse Your boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife/partne Your hair? finally growing out Where is your father? at work, presumably Cheesecake? Factory trip, anyone? Your dream last night? strangely, can't recall Your favorite drink? raspberry frozen margarita Your dream car? red dodge charger The room you're in? borrowed corner office George Bush? death by fire Nipple rings? ouch! hell no Who did you hang out with last night? hopeful new roommate What you're not good at? organization, timeliness, cleanliness Student loans? thankfully have none Where did you grow up? white picket fences. The last thing you did? saw batman free What are you wearing? dress, leggings,lace Tattoo on the lower back? fuck yeah, motherfucker. Ketchup? sure, with mayo Your computer? ancient imac desktop Your life? is improving slowly Your mood? tired but happy Missing? my handsome man What are you thinking about right now? food i'm eating Your car? off the road Your summer? too fucking humid Your relationship status? six months strong Your favorite color? must say purple When is the last time you laughed? two minutes ago Last time you cried? recently, i think Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow? week's going well High school? reunion next fall |
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[Eddy]"The Dark Knight" movie - Awesome, right? Everyone here at the studio LOVED it and it was doubly exciting to see the Watchmen trailer for the first time! In fact, we're all so excited to see the movie, Jim put together this jam piece for the guys here to all draw on. We should have the original available at Comic-Con too, so be sure to stop by and see the progress. Just a few more hours now! |
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Someone asked me yesterday, "why do you do the thing with the self portraits?" And it’s like this: because people forget that there are other people on the other end of the internet. People forget that they’re side by side with other people every time they visit a website, that they’re talking with real people every time they post a comment. It’s too easy for people to let everyone become anonymous on the net. I don’t like that. This whole thing is made out of people. Once a year, I like to remind you. Also, this site has always attracted interesting-looking people. Oh, and second row, far right — that’s comics writer/artist Brandon Graham. I think one of his first paid gigs would have been on a TRANSMETROPOLITAN page, in TALES OF HUMAN WASTE.
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On the horror serial GRAVEL, I work in a style called "scriptment." It’s partway between a full script and a "treatment," or detailed synopsis. It’s not quite a short story, not a Marvel-style outline, neither fish nor fowl nor arse eel. This thing then goes to Mike Wolfer, who adapts it into a full script. Some people have asked how much of GRAVEL is me and how much is Mike. Here’s the opening of the scriptment for GRAVEL #3, out in store this week: * * * * * GRAVEL OPEN ON: A TRAIN cutting through England in the morning. Inside: in an otherwise empty carriage, William Gravel on the phone, his kitbag next to him on the seat. Gravel: "…yes, she’s dead too. But you know that, or else you wouldn’t be asking me what’s next. Listen, I’m in no mood for stupid fucking games. I think it’s time you told me who you are." Phone: "William, old sock. I understand you’ve been busy, but you’re really not thinking, are you?" Gravel: "Yeah, and I didn’t go to fucking university or learn how to flex me arsehole for the pleasure of my betters. So I’m hanging up now." Phone: "Who benefits from the Sigsand Manuscript being collected and reconstituted, Gravel?" Gravel: "Me, with a bit of luck. Bye." He switches the phone off, tosses it in his kitbag. Pissed off, he settles back, looks out the window at the trees and fields. A voice from off: "Shite, ennit? Southern England looks like it were made by fucking Lego." "Aah, I dunno about that. I mean, rather here that up fucking north, know what I mean?" And then he realises that he was alone. Looks around. And SYKES is sitting opposite him. SYKES is a very old man, but his hair’s still black. Dressed in a heavy, thick black jacket, a thick blue sweater under it, a black scarf, black trousers and heavy boots. He always has a tall shepherd’s crook in his hand, which he uses like a walking staff. Very very pale — the only colour in him is his blue eyes and the blue sweater, cobalt blue. Gravel can only breathe "…Sykes." He is almost frightened. Certainly surprised. "Aye. Sykes it is. I thought it were time we had a talk, Bill." Gravel’s hand steals into his kitbag, closing around his gun inside there. "A talk? Or another shot at killing me." "Nay, I’ve got no trouble with thee, William Gravel, so you let go of your gun there. I want to talk." He stands up. "But not down here. I get a rash on me privates if I come further south than Watford Gap. Come home to Yorkshire with me." Gravel closes his hand around his kitbag, standing. "Listen, you’re here now, let’s just walk up to the buffet car, get a couple of pints and talk there…" And suddenly he’s standing up on a blasted bleak Yorkshire moor under a sky that’s grey and black. "…shit." And Sykes turns away from him, walking across the moor. He sings: "Where hast thou been since I saw thee? On Ilkley Moor baht ’at. “On Ilkley Moor baht ’at! On Ilk-ley Moor bah-t’at…" Gravel makes a face. "Do what?" Sykes: "It’s a song, Bill. The oldest song I know. On Ilkley Moor baht ’at." Gravel: "Does it translate into English, you Yorkshire bastard? ### |
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 http://www.act-i-vate.com/59-1-1.comic Free comics- because we love you. and a shit ton of ACT-I-Vate is in the book. (go buy the book) ALSO common and get me to sign it at SDCC. I'll be at the image booth these times: Thursday: 3-4 Friday: 4-5 Saturday: 3-4 |
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Anyone up for team trivia tonight in Waltham? wee_squirrel and I will be hitting Joe Sent Me at 8pm (well, we'll get there at 7:45 but it starts at 8), and we could sure use a couple more people on our team. And by "a couple", I mean "2-4", because there can be no more than 6 people per team. Let me know!
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Only another 300 to go! To join in this week, take a self-portrait and send it to warrenellis @ gmail.com. sob (17) |
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Marvel has released the contents of their October catalogue online. In Stores: Oct 22, 2008:
Ultimate Spider-Man #127, cover by your humble blogger and Richard “RGB” Isanove. Story by Brian Michael Bendis, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, Justin Ponsor and VC’s Cory Petit. |
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| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
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It's pretty amazing. The guest room is completely empty, completely clean. The carpet is bare. My room is 90% packed up. The kitchen is all packed up, so is the living room, for the most part, save for our computers and the television area. Everyone went out today to pick up ma's certificate from Michaels and to do some shopping. They came back home with coffee and some fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and fried okra. That okra was delicious. So were the taters. SO GOOD. Mmm. Used mapquest to see how far we're going to be traveling. Things are rolling along. Right now, Jessica and my ma are helping me go through all the boxes that haven't been unpacked since we left Vegas. I'm getting rid of a lot of stuff, and becoming a bit overwhelmed with nostalgia and, well, other emotions. Going through things I thought I'd lost and things I've been hoping to find again. Deciding what really matters, what I want to keep. Found my rings, including the one my dad bought for me when I was 7 or 8 on our trip to San Francisco. from the trip we went to FAO and pier 39. Nostalgia... and inside of the box for my rings, I found a penny. who would think a penny could strike such a deep chord in my heart? I'm so sappy. Found tons of old artwork, school assignments, photographs, cards... ah man. It's so therapeutic to find things I've missed so much, a relief to let go of things I no longer feel attached to. I really feel like I've grown as a person since our last move. I feel... man, can't even find the words. Life's a learning experience. To my fellows from Valley Oaks, found my issues of Echoes of Society... man. The years have just flown by. Memories, light the corner of my mind... |
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 Wow... I splurged on some lotion. I bought Aveeno's SPF 30 moisturizer that's $17.00 ^_^;; I usually buy Oil of Olay's lotion but wanted something different. My skin gets so oily around 2-ish, like all greasy and shiny. I wonder what I can do to make my face not look so nasty *LOL* Yet in the morning my face is all dry so I put on lotion. Today I went grocery shopping, a full cart of food for $110.99, that's pretty good. Usually I pay more, I'm trying to buy more things in bulk. I bought my first bag of potatoes and onions. You can make so many things with those XD wow.. I just got all excited about buying my own food. Actually, it is pretty exciting. When you have your own place you can buy whatever type of foods you want.Speaking of more things, FF IV will be out on the 28th, can't wait for the game to show up. Man I've played that game sooooooooo many times *LOL* After finishing Crisis Core, I've been playing Persona 3, not sure when that game will be beat *LOL* I <3 Amazon... I have that on pre-order, a character animation book and a manga made by the person who created Saturnalia so I"m looking forward to that.  Shaun and I have been watching The Batman Animated series, it's pretty awesome. It's neat to see the animation improve in the later episodes. I like "The Grey Ghost" because it has Adam West as a voice actor. Oh and this is an interesting website, WIR (Woman in Refrigerators). A site about dead & injured women comic book characters. hahah okay okay...that's a little morbid but it's interesting.
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optimistic.
bah.
hmm.
slightly overwhelmed.
embarrassed.
