My entire extended family is nuts for this video. Basically, some guy, during an acid trip, locked himself in the closet and rambled on and on. His friends made an audio recording, and then animated a talking lizard for the visuals.

All the cool kids are doing it!

Just popped into my head:

Aries Badger.

He even drives a mint condition first generation 1981 Dodge Aries 2 door coupe with the white vinyl top and sunroof, 2.2L Chrysler carburated! Dark blue for body color though.

Not much unlike this one here:


VIVA LA K-CAR

Good morning, friends and enemies.



There's a new page of the "Beautiful Monster" story running on my website. But what the hey, just enjoy it here:





I received an email informing me that my tablet has just been shipped to me.

I can't be sure, but I believe that the tablet will greatly speed up the coloring process. To date, I've been coloring these on my laptop with the little fingerpad cursor. I have a mouse, but I can't get the precision with it that I need for this work. With the fingerpad, the work is strenuous and slow, but it's reasonably under my control. Here's to more colorful pages starting next week!



T A K E I T E A S Y



-darrylayo2009.

That's what my room is right now :<

It's like being trapped in an anus. And not the good way :<

I know I always say this, and usually pretty fruitlessly, but who wants to hang out tomorrow :D

I'm boooored, and don't have shit to do until Sunday. And by that I mean I'll be working D:

Wolfgang "Ugh warm" Wolfe

Since he's gotten his gift, I can show this now: Our own Adam Watson is having his birthday this Saturday, so I bought him a copy of the Taschen volume of Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, which weighs in at about a bazillion pounds and is awesome. Since that also describes me, I provided the above illustration for the wrapper ...

Originally published at neiljam.com. You can comment here or there.

THE RULES SAID I HAD TO POST THIS

 

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?

2) What was your dream growing up?

3) What talent do you wish you had?

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?

5) Favorite vegetable?

6) What was the last book you read?

7) What zodiac sign are you?

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.

9) Worst Habit?

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?

11) What is your favorite sport?

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.

16) Do you have any pets?

17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?

22) What color eyes do you have?

23) Ever been arrested?

24) Bottle or can soda?

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?

28) Do you believe in ghosts?

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?

30) Do you swear a lot?

31) Biggest pet peeve?

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?

34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?

35) Do you believe in God?

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

You clasp this hand
In a way that communicates
you are trying to Reclaim
when Renaming is what I wanted.

Partner-less, ironically I seek
outside advice to make sense
of the cartwheels I
endure to stay alight,
alone.

Healthy is free!
Independent is honest!

Take leave of this written
set of Priorities and
maybe then we can
Relate, but until then
I'll stay healthy in my Critical
Reflective
Isolated
Lunatic
Reality

and I'll see you around.

Why does the goal seem to be
licking, lascivious behavior
and clever innuendo?
As I grow into
the adult herd,
I lose interest
In adult instances.

Make love to me,
Ovid, my mind a spreading
flower. Cling
to my dripping, imperfect
intellect.

When it's
no longer about grades,
Sonnets and formulas
are love and light,
Alighting my nerves;
And while I Have been
Addicted to assignments,
I understand they can
liquify the mind
as well as any
Ecstasy.

Have new geocache, will travel. So this evening, I went to seek "Now Leaving....." It is at a small memorial park next to the Passaic River in Rutherford. The coordinates were roughly 70 feet off but the hint narrowed it to just 3 locations in the park, so it was still doable.

After that, I went to the new Sonic Drive-in in Hasbrouck Heights. That place is crazy busy. There was a line of cars. Police were directing traffic. However, it probably wasn't as bad this evening as it was yesterday when a police officer got struck down. I didn't get one of the parking stalls, which was a disappointment because I could've had someone rollerskate the food out to my car. Instead, I used a regular parking space and walked to the front of the store to place my order.

Or tried to place my order, rather. The police came up and asked me several times if I was a reporter. Huh? Do I give off a reporter vibe? Where's my fedora, notebook, and chewed-up pencil? Then again, I'm writing about the absurdity of it now so maybe they have something there. :) Anyway, I had BLT on Toast and tater tots.

I realize I've been avoiding keeping up with my friends' art postings because I feel so bleh about not keeping up with my own art. I don't want to make excuses, but I haven't felt in the right place to make art. I'm not sure when I will be. I have all these ideas, and I doodle faces *all* the time. But it never becomes something.

Thinking about this, I realize I have the same problem with a few things in my life. They are important to me, but are not a large part of my life because of some holding pattern I have myself in.

I'm not actually depressed, but I am thoughtful about what my "block" is, and how to clamber over it without having a heart attack or falling on my head. My inner self is only slightly more athletic than I am, and I'm not sure she even knows how to attack the identify the block, any more than the outer me could identify my target heart rate.

Something's got to change...

Read the rest here:
http://jessfink.com/Chester5000XYV/





( ...UNDER THE CUT for naughtiness... )

Also, when needing to be in bed by 11PM, one should never, ever, download the Dismount games at 11:30PM, especially the stair and truck dismount games.

Damn you beating the hell out of a polygon rag doll with physics games >:|

My favorite part of Bruno is watching people walk out of the theater in disgust <3

yaaay!

EXTENDED VERSION: http://tinyurl.com/NeilHETV


Also, we went and saw the Half Blood Prince movie at Midnight and it was good! Totally reminded me of how I visualized the book and thats a good thing.

Two things I'd love:

1. Michael Bay to stop making movies. Just feels like an Uwe Boll film full of explosions and gaping plot holes. I couldn't follow the new Transformers to save my own life let alone those who were trying to on the movie. NOTE: It was a bootleg copy, not mine, was being watched at work.

2: Time Warner Cable of Columbus to stop making annoying jingle ads. Every single one of them have been the most brutally annoying stab-in-the-ear-drum, instant headache of annoying ass jingles. They're bad enough to want me to switch AT&T so my money doesn't help them make those ads anymore. As for nationwide Time Warner Cable ads? That that little electronic jingle back to the 7th layer of hell from which it came.

Went out to Renton, to attend some Worksource seminars. There are some big people in big cars out there. My bus let me off in front of an abandoned auto dealership, and as I walked toward my destination the guy crossing the street with his son and wife threatened to hit one of them, I didn't look back to see which one.

The Golden Triangle of Fast Food is what I found myself standing in the middle of -- to the one side: a combined KFC / A&W. To the other: Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits. Up ahead: a chinese food buffet. I should explain that neither A&W and Popeye's field franchises in the Seattle city limits, for some reason. I have long dreamed of eating again at either. So why did I go to the chinese food buffet?

Which wasn't so bad; I loaded up on broccoli chicken and foo young and cheese puffs. Then walked to the Worksource, where a garrulous nerdboy wasted ten minutes of our class time telling us what we already all knew, and the instructor didn't stop him. I would have shut him down at least two minutes into his ramble.

Walking back to my bus stop, I saw a dachshund running in traffic. His owner screamed at him from the car wash: "ROWDY! Damn you, get over here!" Rowdy, for that seemed to be his name, ran back to the owner, who picked him up by the collar and hoicked him into the back seat of the van. And I caught my bus and went home.

I would like to eventually go to Dragoncon, it seems like it would be fun. I would also like to go to the Anime Con in Atlanta again. Last and only time I went I was sick for most of the time so I didn't get to enjoy it hardly at all. Now if money was no object there are lots of places I would love to take a couple of weeks vacation. England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Malyasia, Austrailia, Vennice, just all over the place. But realistically that's not likely going to happen, so I will have to be content with short stays and close to home vacations.

Work was crazy busy, and to make matters worse, and I knew it would happen, the copier was acting up, but I did get the big major job that needed to be done done. So no worries there. After work I was able to breifly rest before going to my glass fusing class. I made five peices. Rozz also got in five peices. I can't wait to see the finished product next Wednesday. I am definitely going to have to invest in some running pliers.

... the topic just doesn't die :P

So somehow the fact that I left my office at almost seven tonight turned out to be the perfect time to watch the actor from Twilight exit his trailer and swiftly walk to another trailer.

I was leaving the office and I saw there were still a few tween girls standing around by the curb. I turn to look at the trailer closest to me just as the door opens and three men step out and start walking towards another trailer a little further away. The one in the lead had the right hair color but... I thought it was supposed to be poofier and is his skin supposed to be that flesh colored? As he was getting close to the other trailer I turned back to the girls and heard one of them say with glee and accomplishment "I got a picture of the back of his head!" and then a girl just off to my side looked at me with sad eyes and stated "You blocked my shot." I said sorry then added that she could have stepped around me. I mean I was standing, not moving. But anyways, I probably got a better view of the actor than any of them... and I ruined the dreams of one young teenager from plastering the picture of the back of a vampire's head in her scrapbook. Oh well.



Today feels like a friday, damn I wish I didn't have to go to work tomorrow.

MMMMMM you know you want my samosa and aloo tika chaat! :9 Indian food is for the win.

 

I was digging through some old convention photos of mine, and I discovered what had to be the very first fursuiter I'd ever met. It was in 2004, at a one-time anime convention called Kunicon. I was only a burgeoning furry then (it was there, just not fully realized), so when I saw this guy, I naturally squealed and nabbed him for a photo.

( Photo here! )

Which, of course, leads me to the title of my post - who was the first fursuiter (or fursuiters, if your first con was a furry one) you ever met? Post stories and pictures, I'm curious!

Going through some old books and stuff yesterday, I came across this gem: ( Real Ghostbusters fan-art from a young Chris Pearce )

Caution: Page in progress

"Hurt"


( large: Hurt )

"Now I'm Nothing"


( large: Now I'm Nothing )

off to the movies with my dad ... going to see public enemies ... hope its good ... all he said was no bruno and no harry potter ... so that leaves is public enemies and whatever works and thats not in syracuse ...

but what am i really excited about today?



MUST KNOW THE OTHER LANTERNS OATHS!!!! AGH SO EXCITED!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooozQrgRDzA&feature=channel_page

enjoy! 

I was wondering if anyone intended or interested in seeing G-force when it comes out? Not sure when or where, that could always be hashed out latter on. Also on another note anybody up for a bar crawl? Just throwin em out there.

Was looking over some things earlier and now I feel the urge to replay Legacy of Kain. Better yet, I'd like to film a Let's Play for it. Does anyone know how it's done who can show me the way?

I put together this display case for the softcover Jeremy strip collection (Available at Lulu.com) for the Snowmonkey's House of Monsters, a recently-opened monster-themed toy shop and gallery (right upstairs from the equally new Bluebird Homemade Ice Cream shop) on Capitol Hill at 1205 E.Pike.

I learned a lot about cutting foamcore by hand, largely that I'm not very good at it and that I probably shouldn't do it again, or at least as poorly as this. I was getting better as I went along, but the first few cuts are kind of gory.

Anyway, this also gave me a chance to use one of my thousands upon thousands of cigar boxes I'd set aside for crafts (I have three more boxes just like this one, so I can make more display boxes as needed). Ta-daa!


PS - Today's weekly comic will be late because, um, I kind of haven't really drawn anything all week. I dunno why, just kind of burned out...

I'm spiritual and agnostic at the same time. I've seen and encountered otherworldly things that can't be explained away easily. I believe that we all have the ability to connect.

But…I become agnostic when I encounter the damage the monotheistic religions have done to the world and the sheer insanity of some evangelicals. And I don't like middlemen in general. They remind me of the RIAA. They take your money and you do all the praying. How's that supposed to be a benefit to you?

A Great example of that sort of evangelical huckstering Robert Tilton, Mr. "make a thousand dollar vow." He was discredited in 1991 when it was exposed that he threw away the prayer cards without reading them. Plus there was that pesky spoon up his nose. You can actually see him sweat on camera!

h

He was mentioned in Religulous, a DVD I rented by comedian turned to investigative reporter Bill Maher, and let me tell you, if you are sitting on the fence about religion, this will push you over to the sceptic's side too.

John Wescott is interviewed, a guy who believes in curing homosexuality, which was a funny bit.
And Maher actually gets inside the Vatican only to be kicked out.
He's not easy on the Scientologists either.

Beware of that evil lord Xenu.

Thanks for the great response on Yendie! She's going to appear as a webcomic on this blog to start. I'm still scripting.

"Grant Morrison, Trent Reznor, Kristan Morrison"

So a lot of people in the office have been saying that they're filming something in front of our building with the main actor from the movie Twilight. I went down to check for myself, there are a few parked trailers, a lot of people with cellphones and cameras at the ready, and... that's about it. I guess he's not ready to come out of his trailer... maybe it's too bright and he doesn't want to hurt people's eyes with his sparkling.

EDIT:
Apparenly Pierce Brosnan is down there also, they're not shooting in front of our building but at a nearby diner. So... not any of the Twilight movies, somebody thinks the name of the movie is something like Remember Me?

My father is an excellent gardener, and could grow enough vegetables to keep up fed all through the winter. Turnips are amazing because they are root vegetables and so if you pick them and put them in soil in the cellar they last for ages and ages. For more information about turnips, see every day of my childhood.


(store!)

I am supposed to leave work early today cuz I have an appointment to go the hospital and have a CT scan. As it happens, I'm also feeling unusually rough today [combo of fibromyalgia flare-up and migraine]. So: if I'm gonna be stuck at work feeling this rough, well hey, at least I get to leave early and I don't have to put in the full day.

On days like this, even humble little morsels/scraps of gratitude are welcome...

I has a tia...and I cannot hear this tia.

I woke up today with TWO clogged ears...if only I had more than two ears...

But yeah, I made a doc appointment tommorrow as much as I'm all aaaaaugh about the doctor, I'm actually pretty okay with it if I'll be able to hear again. Its like hearing through a wall, not pleasant.

I'm always so afraid of the doctor being all "you have 2 days to live" or something equally ridiculous. This is why I'm serious afraid of the doctor.

I hope they don't tell me I'm deaf forever.

(Long Island related based purely on the fact that I live on Long Island.)  I never thought I'd become "that" person, but I have.  My husband and I are new homeowners and we love kids.  Our neighbors have two and they're often hosting a slew of other children.  They have one of those inflatable water slides and everyone has a great time.  I love having the kids around during the day, but lately they've been out past 9 pm.  My bedroom window (which is on the first floor) is right next to the inflatable slide and last night these kids were still making noise at 10pm.  If it were a Friday or Saturday it wouldn't bother me, but I go to bed at 9 pm on weeknights and I'm thinking this is slightly rude of our neighbors.  Am I wrong?  Am I becoming that cranky old lady (at 29) who complains about everything?