Interesting

I know, I know...I promised to update regularly. Sue me. Been busy. LOL Not much to blog about on the writing front, except for the Art House Co-op "Fiction Project" I became part of. For all of you artist writers out there, you ought to check out their site and become involved.

And finally, here is a dead interesting video for all you television fans. Did you realize how many of your TV shows involve green screen work? I didn't either.

Laters

Why I don't draw...

Well, it's not as if I do stick figures...but I have all these great ideas on what I want things to look like and I have all the tools to draw them (illustrator, photoshop, etc) I simply don't have the skill.

But anyway...here is a draw I did for Frost on account we hate VD day :)



Also hate the shade I did on the heart....

Valentine fail (rant)

Never been a big fan of Valentine's Day (or any other Hallmark Holiday for that matter) which is created to make single people feel as though they have done something really terrible in their life or are truly frakked up people just because they don't HAVE someone. The peeps in my life are probably as special as the ones who receive cards and boxes of chocolate, but I know my friends will be around a lot longer than the ones who are rewarded on February 14th.

Sure dating and relationships are cool but what's with the societal pressure? I remember a passage in one of my fave books, where the main character is lamenting being alone and having to deal with all the couples around him. He says something like, "All these 'we' people who are always saying things like, 'We did this,' or 'we are going to do that', have to reinforce the relationship because they remember how frightened they were being an 'I'."

My protege at school is like this: he feels his life will never be complete or happy unless he has a girl by his side. WTF?

Watch the first part of the video below to see what happens to people with this sort of thinking.



So hey, if you are in a relationship or marriage, that is great and I am very happy for you, but if you are one of those insecure people in a relationship or a tortuous marriage just for the sake of not being alone, then I pity you. We definitely need more self reliance (not ego!) on this planet and less Hallmark Holidays.

Snow day

So Frost is snowbound (IIIIRONY!) and his xbox bwoke....truly a sad day. Now all I have to do, sitting around for the second day in a row on a snow day home from school is surf the net (UPS can't deliver my new BIOSHOCK 2 because of the frakking snow!). A kid at school let me borrow BORDERLANDS...I found it oddly compelling and couldn't stop playing it. It is a basic mission-shoot-shoot-shoot-new mission kind of game (very simple), but the humor is what made it great (I love the dancing bots). Here is the intro to the DLC to give you an idea of the humor.



Fun stuff..."You're adopted!"

too much time

I love seeing short vids like the one below...because I wonder at times if I have too much time on my hands or if the things I do are a complete waste of time. Apparently others never have that thought....

oh yeah!

I think Frost found his Halloween costume this year,,,grey thermal shirt, some shoulder pads thingies and ghost activated lightsabers (apparently Frost's lightsabres having been turning themselves on and off in his closet...spoooky!)

This game is going to be AHSUM!!!!!

ARGH! Snow (and pain)

So it's Sunday and I am back at the Pub; the place is dead. Literally (bodies and everything, nah I jest, just a grammar nazi joke). Snow hit early Saturday morning everywhere except Newport. Frost said he had 8-10 inches (snow, you pervs!). On top of his snow, his Xbox died so he is fit to be tied.

I used yesterday to go to the gym and ended up pulling the muscle just below the calf (above the Achilles tendon) essentially making walking a pain. Sucky weekend all around. So here's a smiling dog to make you happy:


So here I am at the pub and whatever motivation thrust me out of the front door into the cold (and minimal snow in Newport, dammit) has fled. So Nothing is happening in the noggin. Liesel's husband produced a drawing of September for me. She is a teacher aide/English teacher at school and he is an out of work illustrator whom I really want to work on the book. Last night Justin finally mentioned an actress as a photo-model for September: actress Amanda Crew (pic right). Frost said he facial expressions in the film "Sex Drive" is what sold him (I loved the film and her: she can do a whole range, especially the goofy and sarcastic which the character needs). Frost said his only change on her would be a more Native American Nose, and I suppose he meant bit wider and straight not slope-y or at least a wider bridge. Here is the picture frost drew 2 years ago of the character, so compare and see....

So this is about it for this Sunday. I leave you with a trailer for the show "Skins" which is the BBC show Frost and I fell in love with.

Laters.

short and sweet: ZOMBIES RULE

Here is a short animated thingie I found (courtesy of Topless Robot). Apparently they didn't read the Zombie Survival Guide (you don't stand in the middle of a road just waiting to be seen...)



...cute...fun...

Star trek pwns Star Wars

Great premise on this short film...whatever happened to the STAR WARS space scrawl?