Category: General

I watched a lot of lovely ladies try on clothes tonight, as Anghold threw a clothes-trading party. I took a few items there but brought back a telephone, a Superman comic on tape, and some other nifty stuff, including a little case that will replace my old Country Crock margarine container as my long-time* dice domicile. It was a lot of fun. Highlights include Marlo trying on a Budweiser swimsuit, Chold burying himself in the pile of clothes and Miikey seeing him as a pile of trash and then being unable to resist humping him, and then MST3K-ing some terrible pornography. Yes, a night to remember.

*since 1990 or so, I’d wager. Truly the end of an era.

I cleaned out the fridge today, and earlier in the week I cleaned out a closet.

So, I’m just saying…watch out. Fair warning, and all that.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2941259a7693,00.html

Answer at your peril. Again – Janet’s fault.

1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me?
5. Would you kiss me?
6. Describe me in one word.
7. What was your first impression?
8. Do you still think that way about me now?
9. What reminds you of me?
10. If you could give me anything what would it be?
11. How well do you know me?
12. When’s the last time you saw me?
13. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn’t?
14. Are you going to put this on your blog to see what I say about you?

Subject: James Bond Exhibition.
Last night Erin and I went to Science World for the James Bond exhibition. Highly recommended. Lots of props, vehicles, costumes, storyboards and Q’s gadgets from probably every movie. I won’t spoil anything because part of the fun is turning the corner and seeing one of your favourite Bond props right in front of you, but to give you an example: They have Jaws’ teeth. Yep. Whoa cool.It runs until September. $8.00 will get you in, but if you go on a Sunday or Wednesday, you can pay $11.00 and see a Bond film too. We stayed for Goldfinger last night. The movie changes weekly. Doors open at 6:30 and the movie starts at 8:00, and it’s recommended you get there right at 6:30 because there’s certainly an hour and a half of Bond stuff to see before the movie.
More info here (including movie listings): http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca/whats_on/exhibitions/featured_exh/bond.htm
Enjoy, Phil

Yes, this sounds like fun, and yes, we’ve got a 2 for 1 coupon for Science World and yes, I do have some free time week after next.

* Things to do in Denny’s when you’re fed
Things to do in the library when you’re read
Things to do in Springfield when you’re Ned
Things to do in the Ozarks when you’re Jed
Things to do in the pantry when you’re bread
Things to do in the future of the UK when you’re Dredd
Things to do in winter when you’re sled
keep ’em comin’

What a packed day of fun and frivolity. I went to be at 5am last night after drawing and playing Snood, and I woke up at 8:45 thanks to Kodos trying to get into my garbage, and I decided to be on hand to record Woodsy’s interview on Studio 4 – a local cable program. I was going to just tape it with the timer but since I was up I thought I would see it through and cut out all the crap. The first half of the show was supposed to be young people into politics debating and the second half was supposed to be Chris. Naturally the politicians went over by 15 minutes so Chris only got a like amount of time. After that, I tried to go back to bread but to no avail, so I got up and started pricing the comic books I’m selling and waited for Anghold to call. She did at about 11 and we went to Falafel Magic for some falafel magic, if you know what I mean. Actually it was more like tabouli magic. It was a lovely day and I wished I was playing tennis but no time for that – because then Woodsy came over and we went out to see Army of One, which was pretty interesting but not amazing. We came back, we went to Rogers for snacks and possible movie-renting/buying but we ended up in the blEocVkbustIerL where he purchased season 2 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. We watched a couple episodes and it was pretty funny. At that time James & Marlo came over and James didn’t protest loudly enough when we decided to go for karaoke. I sang Elton John’s “Daniel” and Tears for Fears “Shout” and Chris sang some Frank Sinatra. Marlo sang some songs and I’ve already forgotten what they were but maybe she’ll enlighten us. Then we went for donuts at Decadent Donuts and we watched them put lard in a big fat fryer, among other things. Oh and we watched some hilariously gross and grossly hilarious shorts on the 2nd disc of the Tenacious D DVD. I laughed and laughed until I stopped laughing! It was the most fun I’ve had for days and days!

I watched an hour of the election debate today. The constant likenings of the debate to a boxing match is at best spurious and at worst annoying. In a normal debate – is somebody declared the winner? I guess in this case that will be decided on the deay of the election. Hey, that reminds me of that movie with Reese Witherspoon…American Psycho.

Now I am drawing and learning Japanese. Mata ashita!

Ok let me try this out…
There’s a mob…maybe the mob. Yes, the mob. And they’ve stop heisting trucks full of cigarettes (“what if your family didn’t like bread, they liked cigarettes?”) they heisted a truck full of barley. Yeah, that’s right. And they tried to unload the barley but the only people that were interested were some Scandinavian sailors who just arrived in port from a whaling expedition.

What would be a good title for this story?

In ’95 or ’96 we made a Thickets shirt with a design using my “Where the Great Old Ones Are” Maurice Sendak homage drawing. They were pretty successful but, true to form, we didn’t make very many. Since I get a request every once in a while from fans who want this Thickets shirt or that Thickets shirt, and all we’ve got left is one or two SpaceCorp shirts, I thought it would be a good idea to make some new shirts in concert with Stewie’s Spastic Fantastic Home Silk Screening Setup. I have been trying to think of some designs but then I thought – I’ve got the Sendak art lying around, why don’t we just do another run? There were a few concerns that the lines might be too fine, but we did some tweaking and decided to try it. We printed them last night and they turned out great! Chris printed one for me on the shirt I got earlier in the day from a garage sale – it’s a beaut. I’m quite pleased and I’ve already sent out emails to all the regular Thickets fans to tell them they’re available. Now we play the waiting game.

Oh, I hate the waiting game. Let’s play Hungry Hungry Hippos!

Jonny Quest DVD

Dungeons & Dragons DVDs (and just when I was making a trade for VHS copies) – unfortunately only in the UK.