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Concession
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Jul. 10th, 2008 @ 02:31 pm
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I will say, though, that, when I'm too fuckin' old to afford real fuckin' food, tuna-flavoured Fancy fuckin' Feast smells like the real fuckin' thing.
Oh, & I've been listening to a fuckload of Diceman this evg, as if you couldn't fuckin' tell.
...and when her blog was dry & shut...
A these-days tiny 80G HD takes a little while to defrag, eh?Tunes: The Diceman Cometh |
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Sharing
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Jul. 10th, 2008 @ 02:12 pm
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Nothing productive happening except trying to get my PC in decent running order again (I feel like a fuckin' technological idjit sometimes) & ushering in a new member of the family. She will be the subject of an upcoming post. But first: a bit of wisdom from George Carlin...
BTW, I recommend spending a couple of hours listening to Bill Maher's audiobook When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden. Maher, bright man that he is, has shed a bit of light on America the Current World Power. It makes me reconsider my hardline thoughtspace of Political America the Evil Empire. Not that it's not evil or horribly fucking arrogant, but it could be a whole lot worse. In comparison to former world powers, America seems, at least from Maher's perspective, to have shown remarkable restraint.
But, yeah, arrogant as fucking hell.
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Another Blast From the Past
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Jul. 8th, 2008 @ 09:21 pm
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This was Fleet. John, bottom, & Len, far right, are in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) misterbyinches with me. That's Jeff in the middle.
We were named after this...
...cuz Barrie needed a rock'n'roll enema.
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About Two Years Ago
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Jul. 8th, 2008 @ 12:10 am
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I'm trying to clean out my existing HDs. I've run across folders upon folders of pix.
This is K & I at her grade 8 grad.
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Music
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Jul. 5th, 2008 @ 05:52 pm
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Say what you want about Wino, but she has the voice of a goddess. Four live tracks, just her & an acoustic guitar player at the Orange Lounge in Toronto.
Watching her is troubling, especially during Rehab, where she's starts out fidgety, frustrated, brushes by anger & ends up singing from a place of complacent resignation, as her voice enchants throughout.
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I Art Geek, or I *heart* Geek... that is the question
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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 11:31 pm
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Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 08:34 pm
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Writer's Block: Caring
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Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 06:00 am
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Myself. Without a certain amount of selfishness, one is useless to the people around him/her. The better I take care of myself & my concerns, the better able I am to help the people in my life who need it.
Also: computers fucking suck. Currently *upgrading* my OS. Ha.
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Prince Is Pissing Me Off
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Jul. 2nd, 2008 @ 06:50 pm
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What's with him thinking he can record any cover song he likes (Sheryl Crow's Every Day Is a Winding Road, Joan Osborne's One of Us, The Stylistics' Betcha by Golly Wow!) but no one can record his music?
My fave cover of a Prince tune is probably 7 Hurtz featuring Peaches & Bitch Lap Lap's version of Sexy Dancer. That was some cool shizzit. Too bad the rest of that tribute album sucked hard was music I couldn't really get into.
I'm also a fan of mine & Richard's acoustic rendition of I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man. Not that I'm trying to brag, mind you, I just really dig it.
All that said, check this out before Prince's lawyer's disappear it.
The unmarked helicopters are hovering.
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Happy Canada Day
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
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Here I am, just before Canada Day ends, & I'm gonna let fly a diatribe about poor representations of the flag. You will see FAIL!s, points for trying & points for creativity. But I'll begin with our true national flag & it's proportions: square white field flanked on each side with red bars each being half as wide as the white field with a stylized-in-a-particular-way red maple leaf in the centre. Last I checked, that *stylized* phrase doesn't appear in the official rules for the flag, but when it's right it's right & when it's wrong it's disrespectful. IMO.
( successful )
( succussful variations )
( FAIL! #1 - negligent proportions )
( FAIL! #2 - improper border )
( FAIL! #3 - desecration )
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Top 10 Times in History When the Use of the F-Word Was Appropriate
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Jun. 27th, 2008 @ 01:50 pm
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#10 - "Scattered fucking showers, my ass!" Noah, 4314 BCE
#9 - "How the fuck did you work that out?" Pythagoras, 126 BCE
#8 - "You want THAT on the fucking ceiling?" - Michelangelo, 1568
#7 - "Where did all these fucking Indians come from?" - General Custer, 1877
#6 - "It does fucking so look like her!" - Pablo Picasso, 1926
#5 - "Where the fuck are we?" - Amelia Earhart, 1937
#4 - "Any fucking idiot could understand that!" - Albert Einstein, 1938
#3 - "What the fuck was that?" - Mayor of Hiroshima, 1945
#2 - "I need this parade like I need a fucking hole in the head!" - John F. Kennedy, 1963
#1 - "Aw, c'mon, who the fuck's going to find out?" - Bill Clinton, 1997
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Another Holy Shit Moment
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Jun. 27th, 2008 @ 01:14 pm
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I think I just found out what breed of cat Veronika is.
Not that she's a *purebreed without papers* or anything, cuz she does happen to be the product of a wilderness sexual liaison, but the pix of the Maine Coon sure as dippity-does look like her, & the description of her demeanour & abilities match.
Frex:- They also have bushy-plumed tails and broad, angular heads, squared-off muzzles and wide-set ears topped with tufts of fur (known as 'Lynx-tips'). Their tails can be so bushy that the Maine Coon has earned the nickname the 'tail with a cat attached to it'.
- They have a tendency to use their front paws extensively (often curling the paw round to pick objects up)...
- Maine Coons are noted for their ability to trill their meows, which sounds like a combination of a purr and a meow, and they tend to make this sound when happy or startled. (When I answer her in kind, I am often told my emulation sounds like a pigeon.)
- Maine Coons can be very dog-like in their behaviour. Playing fetch is a favourite game. As with dogs, they will bring their ball, drop it at the feet of their intended playmate and wait for the ball to be thrown. They will often accompany their owner on chores like getting the mail, walking the dog, and may also come when beckoned...
Now I know she's not only not a *mutt*, but if the time ever comes when I'm in need of another feline companion I'll know there's a breed to look for.
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Website; a Postcard
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Jun. 27th, 2008 @ 06:38 am
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Well, shit, as if it worked.
I successfully embedded my LJ into my site.
It's much too late in the day... er... the next day *ahem* to do the minor troubleshooting required to make it all, like, purdy & stuff, but I'll be sure to unleash my braggadocio when it's up to my anal-retentive standards.
esmeralda_m sent me an awesome postcard featuring her veterinary vaccine bottle sculpture, the name of which I don't yet know cuz I plan to spend a couple of days next week reading her past month's worth of entries all at once in chronological order, as I've been doing with everyone's LJ lately.
No offence to everyone else in my reverse-alphabetical reading-order (I got through the Ds today, finishing with cyn's LJ, & not many more to go), but Esme's is the one I'm saving for last.
( Ashley, Sean & my script-laden dashboard )
By the by, overnight I chilled out, had a killer time & am currently not sweating it ;)
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Outside & Writing
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Jun. 26th, 2008 @ 07:56 pm
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There I was, sitting at the community picnic table turning a dream of thishollowhill's into a script in which I waxed rhapsodic about how God sang through a Scottish Terrier as the protagonist handled a cadaver, with my cordless phone having just rung, my Israeli neighbour having just said "Hi" out her window & the neighbouring apartment building playing Johnny Cash on full blast (still) as they do something worthy of applause...
...when I just had to laugh, out loud, to myself, over the ridiculousness of that moment of my life.Tunes: Johnny Cash, muted through the treeline & the wall of my building |
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Kermit is Made of 100% FUCK YEAH (ganked from dishapeaches)
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Jun. 26th, 2008 @ 04:44 pm
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Perks to Contributing to the RoosterTree Anthology
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Jun. 25th, 2008 @ 06:07 pm
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Perks for everyone:
Every contributor gets a free ad 5.59cm high by 6.86cm wide (2.2"x2.7") to pimp anything s/he wishes. Doubling your adspace to either 5.59x13.97cm (2.2"x5.5") or 11.51x6.86cm (4.5"x2.7") or including a 2nd ad to promote other goods or services is available for a fee. No adspace is available to anyone not contributing work to the book.
Contributors will be cross-promoted in other LJs because every contributor is required to post ONE dedicated PUBLIC promotional LJ post with an accompanying Publisher-collaborated/-created animated .gif or still .jpg featuring the OP's work plus a random assortment of other contributors' work. All included images & text will have the LJ-names OR real names (contributor's choice) accompanying them.
Freedom to publicly display your work reverts to the Creator(s) when the Anthology is declared out-of-print. Out-of-print means fewer than 50 copies of the combined total of print & electronic versions sell in a year. After that, each Creator/Creative Team can do whatever s/he/they want & keep any applicable remuneration.
Perks for writers:
Comics tradition holds that the writer(s) of a story receive half the original artwork for reasons of collectibility, sale, nostalgia, etc. Either all odd-numbered or even-numbered pages are given. You won't be left with merely a piece of paper with your scribbles or a .doc file on your HD with no collectable value.
These details are all included in the contract.
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I Like Ken Korczak
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Jun. 24th, 2008 @ 07:30 pm
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He's as crazy as I am.
A sample:I once wrote a column on popular web site. The article suggested that people should stop worrying about things simply because none of us have anything to worry about because of the obvious fact that none of us exist. The article spread like a virus across the Internet. In a short time, more than 1,000 posted responses suggesting that I was insane. Some people were insulted by my suggestion that they don’t exist, some called it a “whacked theory” and “mental masturbation” and a lot worse. I even got threatening e-mails. Let me tell you, if you want to get people really upset, just suggest to them that they are not real, but only think they are real. Believe me, they will get extremely irritated with you. But why? It’s because people are heavily invested in the idea that they have an existence -- a real, solid existence. They want that. Even if their lives a miserable, boring and bland, they will feel threatened if you suggest that their miserable lives are not real. What’s interesting is that if people are happy and leading exiting, adventurous lives, they will be less threatened by the idea that their lives are bogus illusions. They won’t care as much. They’re happy anyway, so why should they mind if anything is real or not? Still, even some happy people will get upset if you tell them they don’t exist. Suddenly they are less happy because they are afraid of the idea that they are unreal. They want their happy existence to be real.
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A Little www Fun
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Jun. 24th, 2008 @ 05:22 pm
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I'm Not Even Done Reading It & I Must Pimp It (no pun intended)
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Jun. 23rd, 2008 @ 12:29 pm
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By Alan Moore, for Arthur Magazine, vol 1 no 25 (nov2006)
My latest favourite quote, among favoured lines, phrases, thoughts & points:Just to recap, then, sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Not that I’m trying to load my argument, of course.
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As Another Diversion From Actually Doing Art
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Jun. 23rd, 2008 @ 06:23 am
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I need to do something with the front page of my site. It's just not working for me.
Going into the Free Comic Book Day Comic I knew Cocoa in Death Dog would be pixelated, cuz it helped me cut my teeth in Pshop, & I didn't use a decent dpi. And it's weird, Äma was totally right to mention it in his review, but until I read about it I didn't really care, & ever since it's really been bugging me. And having it as the 1st image someone sees when they venture over there isn't really cooking my noodles.
So it looks like I should get my ass cracking with replacing the image with a B+W that I have slated to colourize. And then think of something, I guess. .jpgs for page titles could spice things up a bit.
I'm losing track of everything Anthologyish that I mention here. There's a new collaborator, working with rosierevolution. Esmeralda brought in an LJ-friend as well, if I didn't mention it before. This isn't news, but details can be found here.
For the record, I was distracted from inking more of Time & Time Again by a short but very sweet visit by my new friend, Amanda. Also for the record, she digs the Sea Monkeys that aren't Sea Monkeys by virtue of them having ears & being anatomically correct.
You read me right. C'mon, it's me! That can't be a surprise, can it?
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