| This malaise tastes great on sandwiches |
[06 Nov 2009|04:31pm] |
Here's the difference between a backyard Elise-chicken egg and a store bought "local organic" egg.
We are going to be full of vitamins.
One of the dudes I play volleyball with keeps getting texts from someone who thinks he's someone else. Last week while I was drinking tequila with him, he got this gem:
Feel free to call this person and let them know that they are sending these things to the wrong number, and may or may not be raided by the police soon.
Here's part of a personal ad that I must have made in 2002 or so. At the time, Cinnamon printed it out and collaged with it. 2002 me's awkwardness and shameless self-disclosure makes 2009 me feel really uncomfortable on her behalf.
Har Mar Superstar tonight and Mountain Goats tomorrow. I'm excited somewhere in here, I just know it.
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| And the masters of the universe |
[05 Nov 2009|11:29pm] |
Shortpacked!: He-Man blah blah blah.
 Hey, just got back from seeing Ok Go. That's why we're a little late.
1) What the fuck.
2) Here is the first photo of our baby hams that we were able to take! They're about a week old now, having been born the day after we realized the little slut was preggers.
If you disturb her too much or cause her stress, she'll, well, eat the tiny purple turds. So, yeah, we keep our distance. But I had a moment of opportunity and took a photo today. So we finally know there's at least three! Three tiny purple turds.
They stay buried in the huge nest their mom made for them pretty much always. The mom will leave to grab food and then disappear back into it.
Man, how do these things work out? I mean, she started building a nest a few days before these kids popped out. How did she know? No one ever told her how to care for babies, but then she totally does. She even knows she has to build a nest for them.
But then, hams tend to cannibalize their young, so it's not a foolproof thing.
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| He has a man-sized safe. |
[04 Nov 2009|11:00pm] |
Shortpacked!: Underwearabouts.
 I thought it would be funny if, while Shortpacked! was preoccupied with monster-fighting superheroics, Joyce and Walky! did Batman jokes. A switcheroo, if you will, from the norm. And so it was! But then Eric Burns-White had a response to the strip, which I replied to at first with a snarky rebuttal in the form of a scripted story. Well, screw that, I decided in an instant. That could have been a Batman-themed Shortpacked! strip, wasted as mere prose! So I deleted my post and basically drew my original script as today's strip.
As I mentioned previously, faithful reader feywulf shipped me a Penguin along with my Joker. Penguin is from all the way back in the very first wave of DC Universe Classics, so I'm pretty grateful! He's as short and pudgy as you'd expect, and he comes with a metal-plated machine gun umbrella. Due to his gut, he doesn't have the standard mid-torso articulation, and his girth deprives him of the standard hip articulation as well. He can raise his legs forward, but not out to the sides.
Oh, and he's got kind of an ugly face.
 My bestest man Graham and I were talking just the other day about how Penguin is generally kind of an uncompelling villain. He's just not very interesting. He's a short ugly dude in a tuxedo who likes umbrellas. This material could be implemented well, but rarely is. He's not depicted as a good fighter, nor does he have a compelling backstory. Heck, in the old Animated Series, he and his thugs were beaten by a pair of of nerdy preteens. His other chance to shine was the episode where Batman was rendered temporarily blind. He's just not very threatening. You have to weaken Batman considerably to make him a credible opponent.
But for some reason he's a very very important villain. It's always him, Joker, and Catwoman as the Big Three. Why? (Probably the 60s show.)
One Penguin that I think got it right was The Penguin from The Batman. He was more agile and more threatening, but more importantly he was funny and he had a backstory that mingled with Bruce Wayne's. Character connections can be important. It also didn't hurt that he was Spongebob. Future Penguins should take a serious cue from that version.
Hey, those of you who ordered the Amber statue, there's further news. Patch Together told me yesterday that the statues are on the boat from China and they should be here in the States in a few weeks ready for shipping. I can't wait!
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| Dresstro for Successtro. |
[03 Nov 2009|11:00pm] |
Shortpacked!: He probably wants the store across the street.
Now this is the Destro Combat Heroes figure I was wanting! The first "Movie" figurine of him was actually his Resolute design. But this is the real deal, pimp suit and everything! He's carrying a nanotech-firing gun, I guess.
He comes with Cover Girl, who has an unfortunately small amount of time on the screen. Poor Cover Girl. Didn't even get to shoot nobody!
Anyway, Destro totally had this mask on in the movie for more than thirty seconds.
Sequel can't come soon enough.
Also, maybe I should have gotten one of those Batman: Brave and the Bold mini-figurine thingies so he could punch this guy. Ah well.
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| The first Ravage that can actually contain the soundtrack to "Cats." |
[02 Nov 2009|11:08pm] |
Shortpacked!: And get your damn fool hands out of your pockets!
 G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra comes out on DVD/Blue-Ray today (Tuesday), and I'm actually pretty excited! Rise of Cobra was surprisingly a fun, tolerable movie. And since it didn't go on and on and on and on forever, punctuated with robot-on-chick's-leg action, I'm probably looking forward to watching it more than my copy of Revenge of the Fallen! I was really looking forward to owning Revenge of the Fallen, sure, but that was to help fill out our beloved Transformers Wiki. But I'm looking forward to watching Rise of Cobra.
To celebrate this glorious day, enjoy a photo of Batman punching Rex "The Doctor" Lewis. (Microman Batman donated by The Last Gamestore.) I've actually been searching for the white-coated version of Rex so I can steal his labcoat for my Dr. Biggles-Jones kitbash, but he's been mighty scarce. I saw him for the first time with a batch of the new jungle/arctic/desert-themed guys. Is that who he's shipping with? Should I expect to see more of him? Because if I shouldn't, I'm painting this guy's coat white and ganking it.
(Man, that's a pretty good likeness on him.)
 Anyway, Rex is just a sidebar. Because of today's strip, as the main event I thought I'd throw in some photos of the actual Device Label Ravage toy, rather than just screenshots of his computer program like I did on Saturday. He's a pretty big guy! He's about twice the size of most actual thumb drives, which makes some amount of sense. Real thumb drives don't have to accommodate an assortment of limbs. And if you want to carry him around in your pocket without fear of damaging the USB connector, you can slide it right inside. Thoughtful! And you could probably get a key ring through the holes in either of his shoulders, but I haven't tried that for myself to confirm.
 The working part of the thumb drive is at the back of Ravage's neck, and it hides away inside the torso while in jaguar mode. The hind legs sort of clasp around it, protecting its tip, and also locking it from accidental movement. During transformation to jaguar, the head and neck flip around, and the legs unstraighten. The end! The jaw is articulated, as are all the limb joints, so you can get him into a number of poses.
And his head is proportionally larger than most Ravages, so he's kinda adorable.
My Ravage has spent pretty much the entire weekend plugged into one of my USB ports so that his computer program was activated. I foresee him plugging back in soon, now that I'm done photographing him. Too bad! It's a pretty nice Ravage toy. But it keeps being used on my dumb computer, like some sort of functioning technological device. What mockery is this?
Eh, I have plenty of Ravage toys. I guess I can spare one to stick out the front of my desktop machine so a digital kitty can jump around. (I like seeing him occasionally stalk just outside the borders of my program windows, sometimes only through Vista's transparent title bars.)
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[03 Nov 2009|05:02pm] |
Okay, a proper update that isn't about art. Well, only a little.
Surgery! Right, well, it was horrible, but that was to be expected. It actually went very well, The general knocked me out, the anaesthetist got my vein first go so there was no real pain, the nurses all crowded around my paper-clad body to oogle my tattoos, and i didn't even have to see the surgeon(who was a very scary fat man who i didn't want touching me)
Afterwards i woke up from silly dreams to a very nice nurse who hung out with me for a while and made me a special non-meat sandwich. Apparantly hospitals are big on meat. They didn't have anything not meat! as it was i had to make do with egg (egh) which kind of killed my whole vegan spree. I was deathly tired (well of course, general anaesthetic...) but convinced myself that i wasn't allowed to sleep in the hospital, so i spent an hour trying to wiggle my toes so energetically that i wouldn't fall asleep. So general also turned me into an idiot.
I didn't bleed eccesively(accesively? blaugh) ( i am a bleeder, we were all prepared for another "SHES BLEEDING TOO MUCH GET THE ACID") so i didn't even have to spend the night in hospital.
IN OTHER NEWS. I am moving in a few weeks and its causing crippling panic attacks. I dont want to leave my wonderful home to live in some squatty overpriced wellington flat. Also, i have far too much stuff. How do you pack records without breaking them? i sure as hell don't know.
ah.. i'm in some group shows that are coming up soon, i will post more about them later/closer to the date.
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