The Criminal Element

When I got home last night there were a lot of police cars on my street.

I found out that some car-thievin’ douchebag was on the lam in our neighborhood last night. He ran through the Westerly neighbor’s yard, inciting a scream from the wife. Then he tried to open the front door to the upstairs suite of the house in which we live. Failing that he saw the Easterly neighbor and said “dude can you hide me?” to which the neighbor declined.

He was hiding in the bushes in the next house down when the cops came flooding into the street and yelled at all the gawpers to get back in their homes.

I heard it through the grapevine.

I Will Be At Word on the Street Again This Year!

Oh, hello blog! Did you think I forgot about you? No, despite the fact that they’re saying Facebook Notes are the new blogs.

So, yeah…KhanCon. Lost some money, but enjoyed by all. Choice quotes:

“I thought you did a fantastic job organizing and hosting the event. Really an amazing day from start to finish. I’m very excited to see what other events you and the Second Level Wizards put on.” – Racan S

“Easily one of the greatest single day events i’ve been too in quite some time.” – Chris M

Come to our Ghostbusters con on the 20th!

So I’ve been working on a super secret project for Flying Lab Software and also pre-production illustrations for the feature film Legacy by Enderby Entertainment. So that was fun, and both of those jobs are done.

Now I’m working on a comic book story written by my former “Outnumbered” pals from Critical Hit Comics, which will go in an anthology published by Ed Brisson’s New Reliable Press.

Second project is working on a pitch for an interesting take on a superhero world with a fellow who was referred to me by Steve Rolston.

Third project is a pinup for Jesus Hates Zombies.

Fourth project is a story about a monkey mascot for a twisted superhero group for an anthology to be announced.

Fifth project is sleep. Although I did have a meeting with a book publisher here in town about their move into the world of graphic novels which sounds very interesting. Thanks again to Steve Rolston.

Oh yeah, and I’ll be sharing a table with Steve “Much the Miller’s Son” Lecoulliard on September 27th at Word on the Street – it’s at the Vancouver Public Library, bottom floor (Word UNDER the Street). I’ll be selling all my crap there so if you want my crap then you should come and give me money and I’ll give you crap.  And that way I can make more better crap in the future.

In very recent news today I rode my bike through the graveyard and it was quite nice. I went to two garage sales and all I bought was blank paper. Dogles will be so proud, especially considering there was a box of Star Trek stuff including actual photographs of Leonard Nimoy at a convention, patterns for TNG suits (kids only otherwise I would have bought) and action figures including Ilia the bald alien lady from the first film. Yeah I dig bald women, what about it?

Boring Update to Make The Blog Seem Fuller Than It Is

Oh the poor empty blog! This is what happens when you take on more work than you can handle. And by ‘you’ I mean ‘me.’

Today I had a callback for a commercial which I don’t think I’ll get. But the best part was the other half of the studio was doing auditions for Listerine. The call was obviously for ladies in their jimjams, so I got to see a lot of young in-shape well-endowed actresses parading around. But the very best part was that for every three or so actresses that auditioned they’d come out with the spit-bucket to get fresh water. Yes! Glamorous!

It’s My Blog & I Can Be As Gauche As I Want

UPDATE BY SPECIAL REQUEST! (now with sizes)

By request of Stewie I think I’m going to pre-order the Ghostbusters game through GameStop for the special party he’s throwing – see here:

Also, this official Star Trek spork comes under USEFUL toy so it’s not on my ‘no useless toys’ list:

My birthday is June 28, one month from today. Things I want for my birthday:

  1. Miniature cases for my D&D figures.
  2. Fallout 3 for XBox 360
  3. A raincoat that works (for biking) SIZE LARGE
  4. Rain pants (for biking!) SIZE LARGE-XL? (waist 38)

Maybe I should throw a party as a veiled pretense for the facilitation of me getting the material goods I want. I will contemplate that on the tree of woe.

I’ll Be There for My Free Comics!

After you get out of the Saturday Morning Cartoon Party IV, be sure to go to your local comic shop for Free Comic Day.

Here’s Elfsar’s bulletin:

MAY 2ND (NEXT SATURDAY) IS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!
This truly is the best day of the year. If you have never been to one at Elfsar, this is not to be missed.
Check out the event here: http://www.elfsar.com/FCBD/FCBD_2009.htm

SUMMARY:
1. May 2nd FCBD (Get 5 Free Comics at Elfsar)
(Donate to the food bank and get 5 more free comics,
plus a photo with costumed Heroes and Villains and an entry into a raffle of your choice.) The more you donate the better the free comics get and the more chances to win the raffles.
Celebrate our annual geek holiday and help us raise food and money for the Vancouver Food Bank!
Free Comic Book Day starts at 11am and going until 7:00pm.

We have 4 special guests who will be at Elfsar at various times (they will all be at Elfsar between 1-4pm)
1.) Artist, writer, film maker KAARY ANDREWS (Spider-man Reign)
2.) Artist, designer CAMILLA D’ERRICO (Nightmares & Fairy Tales)
3.) Writer, publisher SEAN O’REILLY (Kade from ARCANA STUDIOS)
4.) Digital Artist DARYL MANDRYK (Star Wars and one of the FCBD books from RADICAL PUBLISHING)

We will have our popular store-wide sale on as well.
BUY 2 GET 1 FREE on all reading material!
SAVE 20% OFF All non reading material!

NOW WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP.
Please help promote FCBD at ELFSAR at any relevant forums or groups you belong to, let people know that this is going on and help raise food and money for a charity that is suffering a lot this year due to the economy. Please suggest any ideas you have to us on how we can reach more people. Join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=174148&id=753250202#/group.php?gid=5515647817
and count yourself among the attendees for our upcoming event and more importantly invite your friends and tell them to invite theirs.
Bring, drag and force those who don’t read to the store and get them some FREE COMICS!

Links:
OUR WEBSITE: http://www.elfsar.com
FCBD: http://www.freecomicbookday.com/
FCBD at ELFSAR: http://www.elfsar.com/FCBD/FCBD_2009.htm
EVENT on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=174148&id=753250202#/event.php?eid=33661639968
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The next few weeks are going to be fun, I hope you can make it,
-The Big Elf

p.s. And hey, if you are not in Vancouver, then seek out your local comic book store on May 2nd and get your FREE COMIC.

Selling Stuff on Craigslist

Yes I know the links don’t work.

1141094273 Apr 26 09 11:34:33 AM van bicycles GT Arrette ready to ride
1140895217 Apr 26 09 09:18:41 AM van electronics Panasonic Fax Machine with Cordless Phone & Answering System
1140877428 Apr 26 09 09:05:53 AM van bicycles Signal Light Vest
1140864587 Apr 26 09 08:56:26 AM van cds / dvds / vhs DVDs cheap!

DVDS:

Bottle Rocket
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Best in Show
Justice League the New Frontier
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Battle of the Planets vol 1
Battle of the Planets vol 4
Wet Hot American Summer
Alligator People
Abbott & Costello Show Vol 2
Fong Sai Yuk
Open Water
The Best of Peabody & Sherman Vol 1
Greatest Fighting Heroes (Superman/Popeye)
Superman: The Arctic Giant