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    Saturday Night Open Mic: for those newcomers who don't know the drill, Saturday Night Open Mic is when I, in my role as Wise Man Of The Internet Forest, create a space for you to vent at the world. Saturday Night Open Mic is for getting things off your chest, reporting on your place in the world, talking about what's next, dancing, drooling uncontrollably from all the fucking drugs in your system and explaining to me why exactly I should marry you so you can emigrate out of the USA.

    That last bit is, of course, a lie.

    Tell me what and who is pissing you off this week. Tell me your plans. Tell me something filthy, strange and wonderful. Tell me where you're going.

    Pictures of your face are good, for I am senile and don't always remember all 4600-odd of you. The internet works best when we can see each other.
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    Marry me. I just received word that I sold Weird Tales a collaborative steampunk novelette.

    *will be celebrating over yonder*
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    Nice.
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      CommentAuthorAlastair
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008
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    congrats Lisa!


    i just bought a house, fuck the world and the economy falling down the tubes i need a place to live and its gonna be MINE. its not huge but its got a perfect kitchen that i will spend 90% of my time in cooking and listening to music. i cannot wait.

    there is nothing wrong this week. two of my friends had fairly major illnesses and are both fine. my friend is building me a custom media stand to house all the tech in my living room. i have had a seriously bastard good week.
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      CommentAuthorFractal
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008 edited
     (3786.5)
    Doing homework, listening to Bartok. Just early-voted (Green) in the Canadian election, and was annoyed at all the hoops I had to jump though. Curse you, chains of democracy.

    I'm halfway done my album. I have too too much to read. I have too much school to do. Life stumbles on.

    Here's my and my nascent DS band:

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      CommentAuthornoblelion
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008
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    Keeping my fingers crossed for a new job that I interviewed for on Thursday. I'm hoping for that pay bump... and it helps that it'll mean no more dealing with the drug-addled parents of tiny mentally unstable children.

    Now, off to see a psychedelic time- and gender-bending musical farce after pounding down a few bottles of wine. It's a good Saturday.

    ACL

    That's from the Austin City Limits music festival last weekend. Spent the whole time sweating profusely, filthy, and listening to fantastic music. The Raconteurs were particularly enjoyable.
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    I'm willing to work and maintain your garden in exchange for asylum in the coming months.
    I was raised on a farm, so I'm familiar with cultivating good eats from dirt.

    This week the weather here has turned finally, from a scorching Southern summer into a balmy autumn.
    Work has been pissing me off. My boss is getting much too concerned with his new "side" business that he's dropping the ball on our actual work.
    I'm going downstairs tonight, to the pub (I live in a downtown loft).
    A friend of 20+ years is playing with his band and an ex-girlfriend has come into town to see me.
    We'll see how I fare through this.

    Here I am a few nights ago in our loft when we'd all had a few too many bottles of wine:
    Far too drunk
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    New job... Working with Citi's Loss Mit team to help people stay in their homes trying to "find the best alternative to forclosure..." bullshit. It's nice change of pace. I used to collect mortagage payments now I am saving them. Nothing new. Same girl issue. Trying to get into digital music. Oh read The Little Vein, awesome book hope for sequel. Going to a party tonight, ran into a old friend at a dinner and she is having a house warming party. Friends from high school i haven't seen in over 3 years. Hope everyone has a save night. Good night my internet Jesus.
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    Picture 004[1]

    Hiya.

    I'm at work at my job -- air traffic controller -- after spending the morning at Fallcon, the big comic con here in Minneapolis-St. Paul. I met a couple really nice artists and picked up about fifty business cards. I'm winnowing the cards right now, picking artists to contact later for work.

    See, I sent the script for the second original graphic novel to the artist yesterday. This one's 48 pages, not 88. So now it's on to project number three, and while I am writing out the panels and plotting the structure from the beat notes I have, I am going to be contacting artists and asking them if the want to work for free so we can try to get published or self-publish . . . I'm also going to start pitching the first one to the small publishers. I went to Fallcon with packets ready to hand to publishers, but Fallcon didn't have any publishers other than the self- kind. And those folks are not interested in taking on new projects, mostly.

    I learned a great deal about How I Will Run a Table When I Am At A Con As A Creator. Oh yes.

    I don't have anything to yell about. Greg Rucka read an essay I wrote about Renee Montoya and my family, and he liked it. Between that and chatting with Shawn von Briesen this morning at Fallcon, I'm really damn cheerful.
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      CommentAuthorpunkstara
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008
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    The world is wonderous and terrible strange at present, Mr. Ellis. While I would much enjoy an emigration from these Untied States of Failed Economy, I am afraid much of my time and energy has been focused on more esoteric endeavors than winning your heart. For reasons that seem to escape me now, I have availed myself to both perform at and be the Mistress of Props, Set design, fog machines and random lights and blinky things for a shadow cast production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Seeing as the Halloween season approaches, my work is quite cut out for me. Oh build a set in a week? Hooray. Can you please make this both light up and fog at the same time? awesome. Is it possible to have this light up, shoot fog, shoot laser beams and also kill wolves from the comfort of a helicopter? Fine. Whatever you want, baby. So wielding tools no greater than plywood and duct tape, I manage to create giant creatures, brilliant vistas, and even the dreaded "item that which shoots fake blood at the audience." And all this while working a slavish retail job all day, and trying to foist myself into the writerly realm under the cover of darkness (I hear that's where poets do best, we tend to burst into flames during the day--- or was that vampires? eh), as well as many many failed attempts at finding modeling jobs (Last I checked, posing in high heels, nude, while holding a guitar did not classify as "high art").

    Should you, fair Mr. Ellis, or any of you, find yourselves in Cambridge, MA this Halloweenietime, please feel free to check out the fruits of my loins labors at Full Body Cast's Rocky Horror. But don't blame me for our horrid site design, or if you manage to find photos of my callipygian form.

    Ah yes, a photo.
    I believe at one point I was a rather attractive bear
    Hello internet masses.
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    <a href="http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w88/nightwing157/?action=view&current=PhoenixComicCon2008-24.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w88/nightwing157/PhoenixComicCon2008-24.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
    Sorry forgot to leave a pic of myself.
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      CommentAuthorConojito
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008 edited
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    I'm spending far too much time locked in a dark room, remastering BBC film archive onto HD. Highlights: a particularly surreal version of The Tempest from 1954. Ariel had a lisp. Lowlights: Tomorrow's World from 1973. I'm sure I don't need to tell the members of the board that there's nothing so dated as yesterday's future.
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      CommentAuthorglukkake
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008 edited
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    The boy, for the first time ever in our 3-year long relationship, just had to write a check covering my share of rent. I also had to ask my mother to send me money because I was $.06 short in my bank account to buy a single fare subway card so I could get home from job interviewing in Manhattan.

    Suffice to say, things have not been going well with the whole freelance lifestyle.

    I accepted a contract graphic design job for what might be too little money for the stress, but at least will fill my coffers over the next month. It's full time, one hour away, starting at 9am. And it'll help my portfolio reach a level where I can get better jobs when the illustration isn't giving me steady work.

    Looking forward to when I have enough saved up for round 2 of freelance illustration attempts. I feel like I learned a lot from my mistakes over the past two months. Next time, I'll be better prepared. And hopefully more disciplined.

    Here's an old photo I uploaded recently:



    Prizes to whoever knows what my side tattoo represents.
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    Is it possible to have this light up, shoot fog, shoot laser beams and also kill wolves from the comfort of a helicopter?

    I NEED ONE OF THOSE
    • CommentAuthorlehall
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008 edited
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    My weekend plan consists solely of working my ass off to get ready for the multi-player, future forecasting game Superstruct (that qualifies for "what's next," right? It is set in 2019...), which launches next Monday.

    I have signed up here specifically to request that you nudge people in the direction of the site - full disclosure: I'm a community leader/game master for Superstruct - and to ask that everyone else reading this blog and post and otherwise pimp it out to their friends.

    And also to gloat because I'm already marrying a British citizen. Seeya later, suckers!
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    After two years of being in a great relationship, I got the courage to do this:



    The notation at the bottom was hers.
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      CommentAuthorFauxhammer
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008
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    Silent Hill: Homecoming--a game for the XBox 360--is so scary it may have made a little poop come out of me.
    • CommentAuthormunin218
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008
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    Woe.

    I am stuck at work on a Saturday. It alternates from being annoyingly dead, to having those weird little problems pop up that make little frown lines between your eyes.....

    Even were I not here, there is nothing to do in this shitty little town.

    Meh.

    I miss my friends....
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      CommentAuthorElana
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008 edited
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    Remember when I posted here a while back, announcing that I was promoted to manager of the comic book shop where I work? And I was really excited?

    I had one day off in the past two weeks because, as it turns out, you can't have your cake (good customer service) and eat it too (have a manager fulfill all her monthly responsibilities) and have a finger up your ass (only pay one person to work in the shop at a time).

    Oh god I have so much I want to complain about but I don't use an alias.

    I accepted this job because I was too scared to apply to graduate school.

    I really don't think grad school can be more miserable than this.

    But in positive news, NO HERO t-shirts are selling like hotcakes.
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    Thats me... Awaiting death.

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