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Pamphlet in the Mail Sep. 22nd, 2008 @ 12:13 am
Where [info]saint_ama's true beliefs lay is for anyone to speculate, despite his claims. No matter your opinion on his past actions/statements/antics, he's onto something.

Sin-Eater Productions sent me a pair of brochures. Both touch very controversial & newsworthy topics: suicide & paedophilia.

The suicide pamphlet reads like it has a tongue in its cheek. And that's fine.

But the paedo brochure has done something quite remarkable, IMO. I can't claim any expertise in organized religion other than my experiences growing up that turned me off the whole concept.

But we've all seen the major religions claiming ALL pre-marital & extra-marital relations are bad, including masturbation, but next to nothing regarding rape (rape crisis centres seem to be run by private organizations & the state, rather than religious organizations, don't they?) & seemingly nothing at all on the rape of children.

How strange that a religion like Christianity, which cherishes virginity & purity and the denial of the apple of knowledge doesn't have an especially loud voice with regards to perversions OUTSIDE those decreed by the psycho- & social-sciences as normal.

All normal sexualities other than marital relations are worthy of death, slow painful deaths in many cases, but child rape doesn't seem to be on the minds of our religious authoritarians.

I wonder why that is.
Tunes: Lady Sovereign - Fiddle With the Volume

As Another Diversion From Actually Doing Art Jun. 23rd, 2008 @ 06:23 am
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 [info]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?

My First Honest-to-Gosh Review Jun. 5th, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
St. Äma compliments & criticises in this review of my A Free Comic Book Day Comic.

You can have your very own free copy mailed (or hand-delivered if you're in Barrie or the surrounding area) by visiting this order page. <--- go me on the blatant whoring! But, is it whoring if the work is free, or am I just putting out to put out?

Even if you're not a fan of Äma's, I had a SERIOUS laugh over his version of the Kindergarten For Grown-Ups colouring book page, included with the review. Great fucking stuff.

And, with it, I am going to add another page to wbmaclean.com dedicated not only to submitted versions of the colouring book page, but any & all manipulations of my art, no matter what subjects are broached. That is a promise.

RoosterTree - Acknowledgements & Near Future Plans Jun. 3rd, 2008 @ 03:13 pm
I've received some great advice not only for what's going on currently but for things to do soon, some general encouragement & a financial donation toward whatever is needed.

Mad Props (chronologically)
  • [info]saint_ama - It was during a discussion with him about both of our desires to get our work out into the world that St. Äma mentioned how cool it'd be if our old f-list could band together & do something, noting that our informal community had a lot of talent. On top of that he has pledged his portion of profit-share to the project, which I'm thinking could be most effectively used to pay for advertising, but could be used for comic con table space.

  • [info]spiffystuff - She has comic con & graphic novel promotion experience & has been an invaluable suggester of possibilities. This current f-locked series of posts was her idea, as well as the future plan to put together a private LJ community dedicated to the evolution of our creativities prior to submission. I'm sure there's something else she suggested that I've forgotten...

  • [info]esmeralda_m - On top of breaking the submissions cherry, she's been a great moral support. She was also very gracious during the editing process, wisely taking some of my advice & equally wisely keeping some style forms that put her signature on her work.

  • [info]ysabetwordsmith - Her wealth of professional experience has been a great aid to both the project plans & the absorption of the size of this project into my mindspace. Suggestions & advice have come from her that do nothing but increase my understanding of publishing, setting guidelines, making people feel comfortable & being as helpful as possible.

  • And finally to everyone plotting a contribution - this is the best compliment you can give me right now, with your willingness to take part. I am honoured.
Many emails have flown back & forth between myself & these four ultra-cool peeps. All I can say is it's been an amazing experience.

These acknowledgements aren't meant to overshadow my appreciation of everyone's general enthusiasm, even the well-wishes of people who are too busy to submit or are otherwise engaged by life.

...I hope I didn't suck too much dick there... lol

Plans
  • A private LJ community for all contributors to bounce ideas & connect to more collaborators, then a 2nd public community to act as a forum for fans & willing creators to interact. Or perhaps the private community could open up to the public so fans can look back through the evolution of the project & see how we all connected & view works-in-progress, in those cases where a story was put up for critique.

  • Working out a way to provide, or at least subsidize, comp copies for each contributor. This could be done as a rebate for each contributor's first purchase of the book minus printing/shipping costs. It could also be helped with a general PayPal Donate button.

  • Deciding which POD printer to use.

  • NEW - make up a Terms of Use agreement, outlining the protections & responsibilities of both the creators (us) & publisher (me) in the most fair terms possible, in non-legalese.
Have I forgotten anything?

Yes, It's Das May. 16th, 2008 @ 09:53 pm
Heh - whoops - I'm dyslexic, too, cuz that title was supposed to say Sad, meaning it's truly sad to be at home on a Friday night of a long weekend fucking BLOGGING. Am I wrong? Yes? No? Yes?

But I must share my new fave line.
I might have regretted & yet instead of fixatin'
My consequence is I spun records backward & found Satan
Then he & Christ fought, & guess what? The hippie lost

~ Shaffer the Darklord
StD's lyric for My Band is everything every serious indie musician who actually ventures beyond their Postal Code has run into at least once. At LEAST once. Shaf's my hero for that song alone.

So I have a bottle of wine breathing, Waking Life waiting to be bkgd noise to my inking pen, the shower waiting to wash my ass & some pix waiting to be posted.

St Äma's The Eye #1-3 compilation issue came yesterday morn.





Cool shit; porn, cum, vigilantism - even a cliffhanger ending! As for the teaser ish, I guarantee K will get halfway through the first page & say something like This is fucking gross, Daddy, but without the F word. But I will pass it on.
Tunes: Shaffer the Darklord - Meet My Maker

Procrastinators Unite... Tomorrow May. 14th, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
Among my procrastinations is my reluctance to draw. Why the fuck? This has been going on for weeks.


I gotted some mail today! This is what it looked like, laying on my couch as luscious to-be-disenveloped foreplay - artwork from [info]saint_ama, my hydro bill & one of the four upcoming issues of Broken Pencil that I placed an ad in.



The contents, spread lovingly. You can see how Äma's Cocoa transparency has taken over my hydro bill.



Äma's thoughtful inclusion of an 11x17" of my fave Cocoa strip, Hummingbirds. It is now on my wall.



And a close-up of my Marketplace ad. Top, centre. Nice, even though my art is shite compared to the art on display throughout the ish.



TIME TO FUCKING DRAW!!! Goddammit. I need someone to kick my ass over it.
Tunes: Lady Sovereign - Public Warning

My Heart is Broken... <3 ≠ :D May. 3rd, 2008 @ 02:28 pm
My Free Comic Book Day comic was rejected, with apologies.

No problem with subject matter, I'm assuming, cuz it wasn't mentioned & I didn't ask.

It was the nudity. My *Mature Readers* disclaimer meant nothing because, I was told, there's a store in Alabama (in a different country) who is currently fighting an obscenity charge because a 13yo ended up fondling a collection of stapled-together papers containing a titty or a set of balls or something. That and FCBD is supposed to be kid-friendly. So much for the theory of re-attracting those who had long abandoned comics as *kid stuff*.

On the net I have yet to run across anything in Alabama besides a case in 1996, but in my search I found this page to be very informative, not on comics per se, but on the history of what has been considered obscene in the United States. The subject of the history of & stats on abortion are both included & not surprising.

What's also not surprising, but particularly troubling, is the lack of acknowledgement for history shown by modern prohibitors/censors.

The bright side in all this is that Shelley, owner of The Blue Beetle (who said she wished she'd seen it before I'd had them all printed) did hold some copies back for her regular customers that she knew would be interested. Seven copies. A comfort, but a small one.

I am suitably embarrassed & feeling rather naïve. I have a LOT of leftovers.

LJ friends [info]skeptizodes,[info]esmeralda_m,[info]klaproth_1,[info]saint_ama & [info]deadkittystudio all can expect to receive free copies in the mail (Amanda & Kaltrop are the only peeps thus far for whom I have an IRL addy). When I send these off, I will know what postage costs & will then advertise my free comic to anyone who sends postage. (I know my asking for postage goes against the way everyone around here acts, & I wish I could be as generous, but I did expect my expenditure to end with printing costs, & I simply cannot afford to spend any more on them, despite their sitting around here doing nothing.)

I think. I'm not really sure what to do with these. Any suggestions?

I could order a custom rubber stamp saying something like rejected due to nudity, stamp the books then hold onto them to use as promotional material for when I have a graphic novel ready to go.

*sigh* What to do, what to do...

Do I Talk Too Much About Guitar? Apr. 12th, 2008 @ 07:18 pm
Richard came over for an evening acoustic rehearsal Thursday night. The change of location from his basement was nice.

After he left I was inspired. In Mister By Inches, we've been playing Billie Jean. It sounds really good rocked up the way we do it. So I thought I'd try to adapt it to acoustic guitar.

It's now my favourite song to sing. No one but me has heard it yet, but I've been getting some really positive feedback from some of my other acoustic renditions.

I'm starting to wonder if I should try recording them.

I'll need a new soundcard for my WinXP machine to do so, though, if my Win98 machine decides to stay dead.

Note to [info]saint_ama: I'm still waiting for my brother to come through with an extra keyboard & mouse (he has extras, but it's a matter of getting them into my hands). Fucking around with my old PC isn't worth the trouble if I don't have dedicated accessories for it. I will be able to mix music on my XP machine, I just won't be able to record new audio sources without a new card.

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Now I'm off the phone with Ashley & I'm really really really bored again. And I have no right to complain - I have a massive backlog of drawing to do. But all I really want to do is either hang out & drink & tell jokes or sit here & learn Van Halen's Jump & I'll Wait. Not that I love Jump or anything, but it was their big pop hit, so we should be playing it. I do love I'll Wait, though; I've thought of doing it acoustically for many years now.

I think I just need to get into Drawing Mode, & spend a solid week there.

The Power of Images Mar. 30th, 2008 @ 01:25 am
The power of images indeed.

That link is a small part of a lengthy discourse on censorship & taste. Some of it intelligent, some of it less so. I don't necessarily think my words on the subject were the best on the page, either, but they're reproduced below (I'm thinking of the posterity of the LJ Book).

I don't defend [info]saint_ama because he's a v-friend, but because he's right. Tactless, sure - he's as tactless as I am a get-along-with-everyone pussy (as I've been not-inaccurately described by a few of you) - but censorship, even self-censorship after being asked politely, is fundamentally wrong. I feel the asking to please not express yourself in a way that upsets me is worse than Ama's use of a hot pink swastika as a userpic.

[info]joshdahl: ...as an artist, I do hope that you are deeply aware of the power of images...

Me: I'm still shaking my head over the thought of you questioning St Ama's awareness of the power of images. We're all comics creators here. We all use images.

When I did my one-pager about urination, did I NEED to draw four panels of penis? Nope.

But I, like you, like St Ama, understand, appreciate & USE the power of images. That power is how we tell the stories we feel the need to tell. St Ama obviously tells different stories than you do.
And, once & for all, please please do not express yourself in a way that upsets me.

Did you notice the shameless self-promotion? *wink-wink*

Recording Guitar, for [info]d_klein & whomever Mar. 29th, 2008 @ 02:38 pm
Everyone is obsessed with close-miking. I don't get it. Onstage it's a necessity, but when was the last time you heard a live overdriven miked guitar that sounded really good?

The only live guitar I've ever heard that I loved was when I went to see Grady at the Foundation, a local club, & that's cuz his amp wasn't miked - he had his stage volume so loud that Gordie was almost overpowering the PA. But whatever.

There is a trick. I'd read about distance-miking, but it wasn't explained with the same thoroughness that it was when I attended the MECA conference in Chicago a few years ago & asked a member of a panel.

And holy fuck does it work. When I get my Win98 PC up & running (if it up & runs) to mix some tracks for [info]saint_ama I will grab a copy of the last test mixes for [info]the_divine's three-years-in-the-making-&-never-released CD. The guitar on the song Solve Myself in You, if memory serves, is incredible.

You must be super-anal about the following. Discover & embrace your inner OCD. You need three people & two mic stands, preferably with a mic on each. I've had questions about why you need two mic stands. The 2nd stand is a logical necessity - even though you could use anything as a *placer*, a mic stand is the easiest. And here we go.

The Technique

Find a room that you like your guitar sound in. I recommend putting your amp in a livingroom. Carpeted floors & furniture for some absorption, walls for some reflection. You don't need to get super-anal about amp placement though, or at least I didn't.

What I was anal about: you put your guitar in the hands of another guitar player & get him/her to play. Put your volume near rehearsal level. Kneeling 6 to 8 feet away from your amp, take your finger & plug one ear, then turn your head & aim your clear ear straight at the amp. Move your head around a lot. As you zero in on the sweet spot you will notice the sound changes dramatically with even a 1/2" of movement. At first you might think This is what my amp sounds like? Ick!, but, like I said, you've got to find that sweet spot, & when you do you will think Yeeeeaaaah. This is where the 2nd mic stand comes in.

When the sweet spot is found, stay as still as you possibly can & have the third person adjust that spare mic stand so the head of it's mic is nuzzled in the centre of the opening of your ear. That mic, of course, is facing exactly away from your amp. When it's firmly in place, meaning the base is squarely on the ground & the joints are tight & the mic is still nuzzled in your ear without either leaning on your ear or you ear pressing on it in even the smallest of ways, you can move. Go get your primary mic & stand.

Adjust the stand until it's mic is directly facing & touching that placer mic. This primary mic is now *hearing* exactly what your single ear was hearing & your recorder, theoretically being a completely impartial observer, will record that sweet tone. I recommend removing the placer mic so your recording mic has an unobstructed *view* of your amp.

The Reasoning

People hear in stereo. Your two ears listen in a completely different way than a single ear does. Two hears hear from two points in the room which the brain then mixes together. A mic is a single ear. This is why you need a single ear to be your guide. For more about your *two-ears* hearing & how to record to that advantage, check out binaural recording.

Most seasoned musicians have learned about nodes, how sound waves vibrate the air & create loud & quiet spots throughout an area. As your ear searches for the sweet spot, your amp will kinda sound like it's flanging as it passes in & out of these nodes. You aren't looking for either a loud or quiet node, but that perfect place where the vibration is just plain incredible. They exist, but you've got to find them, & there will be more than one.

The Disclaimer

Something I didn't learn was how to avoid phase complications when it comes to recording more than one amp. Sorry.

If anything could be clearer, please ask & I will amend. I want to be as helpful as I can with the limited-but-somewhat-experienced knowledge I have.

I Thought [info]thekamisama Blew My Mind Mar. 16th, 2008 @ 09:38 pm
But then I poke around the electronic superhighway & find out that, yeah, there are some theories bouncing about that call the story of Christ a lift from Egyptian mythology, but any serious debate about it gets shut down by people of capital-F Faith because they *know the truth*.

*sigh*

What's that line from Kid's Story?

There's some truth in your fiction & some fiction in your truth?



I'd really enjoy a world where all this was true. I think that fucking someone & having an orgasm in a world where this was true would be the best EVAR.

I'm not joking.

Good thing they don't kill heretics anymore.

Um... I mean, not on this side of the Atlantic.

Um... I mean, not non-queer ones.

Um... I'm going to change the subject to...


Ama killed Gobo. *round of applause*

Some Face Nov. 14th, 2007 @ 11:20 pm
 I am now facebook friends with Ama. 

What's the world coming to?
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Lost a Friend, Gained a T-Shirt; QotD Oct. 11th, 2007 @ 11:59 pm
I don't know what movie this is from, but my Quote of the Day is
You must remember that scientifically speaking the only difference between life and death is that death lasts a lot longer.
Also, Ama finally sent my Cocoa shirt. Fuck yeah.

Also, a friend is undergoing a serious emotional break from reality, thinking that everyone around her is lying to her. Like she's in any position to lecture anyone about honesty. All I know is I'm thirty-fucking-seven years old & I left highschool drama behind many many moons ago. She doesn't read my journal, but I hope she reads this. And I hope she calls when she gets back on her rocker, cuz she fell off it hard. Guess time will tell. (Hey - paranoia in my life that isn't due to me. Wonders will never cease.) I'm glad to be on an antidepressant, though; I go back & forth between a little bit sad to a little bit angry, rather than very sad to very angry. We were nearly inseparable for a couple of months & now I'm apparently *a traitor*. I don't even know HOW to trait. But enough whining.

I finally own some Three Stooges. Three hours of the boys for five bucks - I figured I couldn't go wrong there.

Also, I wonder when the comic/general book publishing industries are going to adjust the prices on their book covers, now that we have a more powerful dollar. There is no way in Hell I'm paying CAD$40 for a USD$25 graphic novel when it should cost me CAD$25.50. Fuck that noise. Guess I'll be catching up on my backlog of reading/DVD viewing rather than purchasing.

Speaking of purchasing, I was originally too guilty to buy Alan Moore's Lost Girls from amazon.ca for the $46 & change when the local comic shop is charging $100. Then the dollar went kablooey. It arrived in the mail today.

To Refriend or Not to Refriend Jun. 24th, 2007 @ 08:40 pm
Unfriendings happen. It's part of the virtual world, and it's a personal choice.

Most of y'all know there's a certain someone I unfriended under bad terms. Not that he was a bad guy. I actually kinda liked him. The sarcastic banter we engaged in brightened my day on more than a few occasions.

Then he got mean. So, what can I say? I didn't need that kind of negativity in my life.

So there I was in the shower, not ten minutes ago, thinking about the group of RL friends that has gone to Hamilton to see Tool at Copps Coliseum, & how I'm missing out cuz I was offered a ticket but declined cuz I don't have the cash.

Then a memory hits me, a memory of last spring (was it last spring? cannae remember) when a package came to me from Amazon.com. I had been gifted a copy of Tool's 10000 Days.

I thought hey, a guy who bought me a copy of the new Tool album can't be that bad a guy, can he? Cuz I've been kinda missing the little fucker, y'know?

Then I see in my inbox an LJ comment email notification that mentions a recent unfriending on my f-list. And it makes me reconsider. My own unfriending was for what I thought (& still do) to be a good reason.

Do I give a former virtual friend another chance?

Nope. I checked out a couple of his recent posts, & the deflating negativity is much more toxic to my mindspace that the self-appointed Saint could ever be.

Saying all this in no way reflects any kind of judgement call on what other's do with their f-lists. If you're happy, I'm happy for ya. It's all good.

And that's all I have to say aboot that.

By [info]dragon_spirit's Request Jun. 14th, 2007 @ 02:52 am
Make a comment in this entry, if you like. I'll go to your profile, pick 3 user pics and interests, and then you explain them in your journal. Include this text or not.


Here are the interests she picked for me:
hesperus is phosphorus - Hesperus is Phosphorus is the name I took for my latest electronic musical forays (some found here). It's a phrase I bastardized from the philosophy of language that originates from the Greek. Long story short, Hesperus is the Evening Star & Phosphorus is the Morning Star. They were thought to be unique celestial objects, but have since been realised to be Venus seen at dusk & dawn. When I think of Lucifer being called the Morning Star, it makes me think of the duality of human existence. It's... uh... admittedly a little pretentious.

potato chip barf - This is a party story. Once upon a time my former band The Divine went to play our opening set at The Dungeon in Oshawa. When we arrived we were told we weren't on the roster to play. Enter: large quantities of alcohol (I wasn't playing, I wasn't driving, hence I didn't need to stay sober). Fast-forward to the drive home & I got the munchies. I devoured an entire large bag of Miss Vickies Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar chips. Blade was driving. He's a crazy driver. My stomach decided that it didn't want to keep the chips. We pulled over, I leaned out & *woof*. There was next-to-no liquid in my stomach. I was throwing up gummy, half-chewed chips that felt like little triangles & still tasted like chips. It was so gooey that the last chuck stuck to the back of my throat. It wouldn't even spit - I had to re-swallow. Then there was the time when I had bright green barf...

disintelligent design - This is part bad pun, part dig on 'the new creationism'. I mean, I'd be kinda for the theory of Intelligent Design if it weren't for the fundamentalist fucking idiots trying to shove it down everyone's throats as a way to backdoor the teaching of religion in school. I believe in a god & I love It as It loves me, but church & state should be separate, goddammit.

And here are the user pics:


An animated .gif I made of my band's logo. I will take a bow here for both coming up with the name & designing the logo.


This is a screencap/animated scene from waaay back, when [info]gobo_5 was holding that LJ f-list fighting tournament. That's my digital self pummelling my combatant foe (was it [info]fry1138? cannae remember). I use it when I'm bitching about something that pisses me off.


The art for this .gif was taken from one of my favourite Cocoa the Clown strips, the Series I Humming Birds by [info]saint_ama. I found it random & surreal & grotesque & moving - so I sampled, coloured & animated it. Ama says he hates his Series I art, but I think the simplicity of this panel is beautiful.

Sry - No Pix Apr. 29th, 2007 @ 04:20 pm
K dropped by yesterday with my Mom to pick up some remaining former-home artefacts.

At the same time she picked up her recently arrived (as in Friday) Cocoa the Clown Colouring Contest Prize Pack. Yups - Ama was cool enough to send my daughter, the so-far youngest Cocoa the Clown fan, a free T-shirt just for participating. She's jazzed about it.

Unfortunately, she didn't have her digicam with her, so there is no documentation for the hand-off.

She seems well, for those who are concerned.

BTW, Ama, I did allow her to open it unattended. You were respectful (<---ruined rep?).

All is good.

Also, on Ama's prompting, I posted some self-drawn Cocoa to [info]warren_ellis. HEE!

Creativities Apr. 16th, 2007 @ 02:51 am
I may have mentioned this around the time of the Huronia area's Images Tour, but I am damned tired of seeing wonderful, dark, murky visual expressions being accompanied my a blues or r&b or classic rock soundtrack, when my dark, murky, unpop aural expressions would make a much better soundtrack for said works. Ego & humility both set aside.

After beginning to review my 2007 professional horoscope, I, with the help of Clonazepam, will endeavour to make my creativities matter to more people than just me.

There is no reason I cannot multi-task my limited guitar responsibilities, my drawing, my writing, possible education opportunities & properly mixing the music I made last year, especially since my mild attention deficit requires me to move back & forth between many things.

[info]skeptizodes, young as she is, is partial inspiration after reading about her goals, as is [info]novemberbug's recent novel, [info]saint_ama's & [info]mikew2r's actively taking their art into the public eye & [info]klaproth_1's pursuit of education.

My f-list fuckin' rocks.
Tunes: Jello Biafra, ranting about many many things

Productive, a Fryesque Post Mar. 25th, 2007 @ 12:18 am
Today was a good day. I kicked it off with Panic Room, a movie I'd put off for quite a while because it had not reviewed very well among my circle of friends. A pro review called it a 'Home Alone' film that is staged like 'Rosemary's Baby', but I gotta say I was riveted. I bought the clichés, swallowed the unlikelihoods, & generally had a great time watching it.

I had such a good time, in fact, that I knew I couldn't follow it with anything & be impressed, so I started drawing. After labouring for about a week & averaging a panel & a half per day, I tore through nearly two pages of pencils.

Fucking yay me, it's about goddamn time. It lit a fire under my ass better than Steve-O's firecrackers.

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[info]dem's postcard from Cuba finally made it to me through Len, my bassist & former landlord (which reminds me that I should update her with my new addy).

"Viva Cuba!
Sun, beach, open bar, topless beach, dolphins, palm trees, not minus Celsius, oh & the open bar :)
Dream come true.
~D"
Fuck, man, I'm not much of a traveller, but Cuba sounds like the place to go.

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Seems K's made a new friend.

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Cuzzin Abe & I drove a friend to the airport yesterday. She's running a marathon in Texas. Getting to & from Pearson was a bit of an adventure that I may feel like making a health-related post about sometime.

Relatedly, deep-fried clam is good.

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Speaking of food, I'm the proud daddy to a large ziplock bag full of chocolate, courtesy singer Richard's wife Sandra, who has recently abandoned her specialty chocolate trifles business & was going to throw her stock away if we didn't take it.

Score.

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I've got Innocence stuck in my bloody head. Somebody shoot me now.

The Amaimon Challenge Mar. 20th, 2007 @ 10:47 pm
K & I had some fun tonight. Some of you may be aware that there was a surprise this weekend, namely a brand-spankin' new Saturday Morning Cocoa Show.

[info]deadkittystudio's Cocoa was featured. :D

Anyhoo... Ama put forth a challenge - colourize Cocoa. He did it before, not long before I discovered the Cocoalove. I missed the contest then & I almost missed it again (THERE ARE PRIZES!!!). And there are some great entries, lemme tell ya.

Here are three.

K's first colourization - while it's my fave of hers, she wasn't yet using her preferred colours (we had yet to find my fancy-pants Prismacolour sharpener - & nothing else touches my wood...

...pencil crayons... har-har...). It's the hair that does it for me, the illusion of two-tone hair with a single colour. Also, the blood is particularly dark & gory-looking.



K's 2nd colourification. Pink & Cocoa go together like trash & stink... in K's mind, at least. This hair is her fave. Yeah, she's 14 & hair is her thang. I dig the day-glo eyes.



All the while I was at it with some pens. I love my pens. Did I post that I got offered that inking job? Did I post that I turned it down?

Well, I did & I did.

[info]esmeralda_m sez this makes her all headache-y. I think Cocoa's trying to bend her to his will. It's a little bigger, but I kinda want to show off all the pretty little lines...

...bending... you... to... his... will...



I dig Ama's art.
Tunes: Innocent Blood - Enter Sandman (easily the funkiest little ditty I've heard in a long time)

Blog Wars: Goboitis of the Nads Mar. 5th, 2007 @ 01:29 am
Here I am again, catching up on nearly a week of LJ.

[info]saint_ama has a new tat. [info]fry1138 drank something other than whiskey. [info]klaproth_1 demands his education. [info]skeptizodes' as poetic as ever.

[info]novemberbug still thinks of me as being part of the *gobohorde*.


pout


Just kidding. But does that mean I have to add him again?
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