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!
Dungeons & Dragons DVDs (and just when I was making a trade for VHS copies) – unfortunately only in the UK.
I completely forgot about garage sailing yesterday, but I made up for it today. I got 1 t-shirt, 1 long sleeve, and 1 hoodie for a total of $5; Pay It Forward and Star Trek: First Contact on vhs for $1 each; 8 blank (or soon to be) vhs tapes for 0.25 each; and a book on horses that has a couple choice photos in it for $1. Considering that I’m using up a lot of my good horse photos for the 4 bloody different steeds I’m drawing for the Cavalier’s Handbook at the moment, that’s good.
I don’t get death as big news. I mean, when a guy dies in Iraq or falling from a building or something – that’s news, and it’s reported, we absorb it and then we look to other stories. That works for me. When Ronald Reagan dies, or Ray Charles dies, why the fanfare? When Edward Gorey died, that was sad, but I didn’t expect the story to eclipse any other real news (and it didn’t). Reagan and Charles accomplished things – and absolutely we can list them off and remember them, but don’t go overboard. Keep it in perspective, for Yog’s sake. It was their time, they were old. If it’s tragic, it’s tragic in a perfectly natural way, not a young-artist-shockingly-commits-suicide way. It’s not big news. It’s the end of a story, not a beginning. Don’t drown my paper sailboats of information with this tsunami of reflections. I can reflect on my own time. Shoving it down my throat doesn’t emphasize the profound meaning their lives had, it just triggers my gag reflex.
In all the blog confusion I’ve had lately, I want to make sure everyone knows that the date for my Birthday Auction has been changed to June 25 – if anyone has a problem with that date they should speak up now!
The concept: Right here at nerd central, once a week, we show an episode of Buffy (starting with episode one and going chronologically), as a chaser to a couple other shows (also shown in chron0lorder). And while that happens? KNITTING! (Or in my case, drawing). That means you–Anghold, Yvonne, Michelle, Sheri…uh Kate – do you knit? I forget. Anyway, you’re invited, all we have to do is pick a date. But you don’t have to knit to come (Marlo, James, Theo) because I think the appetizers before Buffy will be X-Men:Evolution and Reboot*. Subject to change – and to suggestion. With those 3 shows that’s only 1:30, the length of a short movie. All we have to do is pick a day of the week!
*I watched 13 episodes of Reboot last night while I drew and while the series starts out novel enough – the 3rd season is quite engaging.
There’s a slew of new movies playing at Tinseltown this week. Too bad my week is so tightly packed with activities, much of which is trying to make my Tuesday deadline.
If you’re like me, you haven’t been following the news lately. These are some links provided by Frank that, if I were to read them all, would get me where I should be. I did take the quiz on policies from the first link that calculates which candidate best suits my requirements. Answer: Jack Layton. Only problem is there’s no Green Party candidate listed. To quote directly the email I received: The other two provide info on all the candidates, parties and platforms, as well as stats from past elections.
http://politicswatch.com/VoteSelectorQuiz2004.html
http://www.nodice.ca/election2004/
http://canadaonline.about.com/od/federalelections/a/election2004.htm
This was really choppy on my computer, but if you want to see Soundwave breakdancing, the link is http://triadfrog.home.comcast.net/
