Whitechapel - Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:52:12 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70444#Comment_70444 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70444#Comment_70444 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:07:50 -0700 warrenellis Saturday Night Open Mic: tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like... ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70446#Comment_70446 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70446#Comment_70446 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:14:43 -0700 Fauxhammer
I canceled my trip out of worry, and that was stupid. I guess I'm still scabby and raw over the missus getting sick.

So much for the restorative power of travel, booze, and bright, blinky lights. At least I'm not back to my shithole job until Thusday. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70447#Comment_70447 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70447#Comment_70447 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:22:44 -0700 foxtongue Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70448#Comment_70448 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70448#Comment_70448 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:22:58 -0700 buzzorhowl
The only other thing on my mind is this: I've become very enamored of posting on twitter. At first, I was incredibly skeptical of the entire thing, but I've come to learn that my mind actually spits out twitter-appropriate thoughts on a very frequent basis. So yeah, I've been on there a week or so and posted about 200 times. But this is making me worry--does everyone following me secretly hate me? I mean, I'm doing what I want to be doing with the service, and it really shouldn't matter if no one follows me on there, right? But I still worry.

Course, after Matt Fraction posted something like 50 times in an hour last night, I felt a bit better. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70449#Comment_70449 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70449#Comment_70449 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:24:51 -0700 sterlingspider
Actually that's not entirely true, I'm frantically sewing the last few things I need to sew, praying that my hedgehogs and tarantulas don't spontaneously combust or have a gang fight set to the West Side Story soundtrack while in other peoples care, and obsessively going over the list of stuff that needs to be packed to make sure I didn't miss anything.

I am hungry, tired, and frazzled; but in 36 hours I expect to be wearing funny clothing, stinking of campfire, and oozing with metabolized home-brewed mead from every pore so I think it'll be OK.

I fully expect to be doing the same exact thing one year from today and I wouldn't have it any other way.

If anyone wants to see my arse they'll just have to come to Pennsic too I guess. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70450#Comment_70450 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70450#Comment_70450 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:27:55 -0700 MithrasAngel
I want to find a different job (working for the government is starting to suck).
I want to move to Phoenix.
I want to get much better at playing electric guitar (on this latter, the tutorial programs I've tried to use haven't been very effective... I'm considering paying for lessons).


More immediately, I'm trying to decide what, if anything, I want to eat. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70452#Comment_70452 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70452#Comment_70452 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:28:34 -0700 FireThief
I know someone who writes for a review site, and this person is pretty annoying now as they think they're the hottest pot of shit around. Constantly talking about what "Joe Comic Writer/Illustrator" said. Also, this person will not hesitate to step in front of you in a conversation if someone prominent in comics steps up. Shit like that pisses me off.

Went to an art show last night. Want my friend to stop fucking around and illustrate a script. Sometimes I want to break light bulbs just to hear the pop-tinkle. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70456#Comment_70456 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70456#Comment_70456 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:34:39 -0700 El3mo Way to many people. Didn't get to see any panels.
Got to buy a book from Wil Weaton, who is a good guy.
Missed seeing Kim Evey and the Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show people.

Lots of Light & Sculpture ideas came together for me this week.
Started new project and very excited with it.

Tonight is good people, good food and pool/hotub.

I think, yes, definitely: WINNING!

Elmo Martin - Artist & Poet - 2008
See, I'm almost smiling. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70458#Comment_70458 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70458#Comment_70458 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:40:05 -0700 Andre Navarro Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70459#Comment_70459 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70459#Comment_70459 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:40:24 -0700 struthersneil
It's a frightening idea that in one year's time I'll be in much the same place I am now, doing much the same thing. Maybe with some savings--having some money in the bank would be nice. This month-to-month survival feels like stagnation, sometimes. But fuck that; you have to get on with it and get as much as possible out of it. When it comes to enjoying life, getting as much as I can out of it, I do alright. I could do better but I do alright. I share this life with a beautiful and tolerant girl and things are slowly coming together for us.

I will hold back on the arse picture for now as I fear it might be a bit of a turn-off. Nobody needs to see that. I haven't seen it in years. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70460#Comment_70460 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70460#Comment_70460 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:48:29 -0700 gdwessel
I am in the midst of my big plan to be at Chicago 2009 tho with items to peddle, pitch, shill and sell. Oh, yes.

Too much else going on since last I checked in, including the apparent suicide of someone here in town known to a few other Whitechapellers. Which is kinda weird.

Next week, FIVE DAY VACATION (with the kids).

I gotta go smoke before Shift #2 of the day kicks in. Have fun everyone, I'll check in later. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70461#Comment_70461 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70461#Comment_70461 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:54:39 -0700 waniyetuwi Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70464#Comment_70464 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70464#Comment_70464 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:56:45 -0700 warrenellis Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70465#Comment_70465 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70465#Comment_70465 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:58:50 -0700 zanegraves
Also, either get a BF or learn enough yoga to go down on myself, I'm not picky as to which.

And I'll have a pony. But that's just to spite all those kids who want ponies: I, myself, do not actually want one. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70466#Comment_70466 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70466#Comment_70466 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:00:30 -0700 tedcroland
I'm worried about a friend. This friend tends to be very hard on them self, and recent events have made them sink. I really want to help this person--but I'm running out of ways how. I'm not about to walk away...I really just want them to feel better. I'm at a point where I'm not sure how.

Where I want to be...by this time next year, my ideal place would be living on my own in San Francisco, mostly done with my BA, looking for graduate programs. I'd have a steady job and able to support myself. Fucking pipe dream, maybe...I don't know how much I believe in it right now. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70468#Comment_70468 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70468#Comment_70468 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:05:15 -0700 FireThief Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70470#Comment_70470 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70470#Comment_70470 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:08:46 -0700 BrianMowrey
That's appropriate coincidence, Mr. Warren, for I just finally the first time ever watched Network last night; and when it was over, stunned, transformed, my overriding thought was, "Shit This is the perfect science fiction movie".

Which is brilliant, since there's no science fiction in it. Which just reveals how peripheral the idea of fictional science is to science fiction. Network lifts away all the artifacts and living manifestations of universal human meaning so subtly over its course -- lures us along with the promise of clarity and reaffirmation, but leaves us staring down the faceless blank blaring madness of The New Society with absolutely no words of protest left in our throats -- brings us, finally, teetering on the brink of philosophical apocalypse, casually shoves us over -- And! -- We fall limply back into the real word, instantly comforted by the familiar signpost of a children's cereal commercial, shaking off the infinite black fear of a moment prior like an already-forgotten dream, and yet left aware, somewhere underneath, that the dark and cold horrible place we just returned from was Reality, and the world we're so grateful to find back under our feet is the illusion.

The best science fiction isn't about science. The best science fiction isn't fiction.

Anyways, my thoughts turned to you, Warren, because that basically summed up for me the monumental gravitational attraction of Doktor Sleepless, which is my favorite thing you're producing right now. Is Network an American anomaly amongst your strange quaint British artistic influences? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70473#Comment_70473 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70473#Comment_70473 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:10:41 -0700 mr_josephus
Best case scenario? In a couple of years I and my friends will be tycoons!

Worst case scenario? Once we gather all the data and look at what we've got, we discover we ain't got shit. But hey, you never really know unless you try, right? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70475#Comment_70475 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70475#Comment_70475 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:13:25 -0700 diello Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70476#Comment_70476 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70476#Comment_70476 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:17:09 -0700 FireThief Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70477#Comment_70477 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70477#Comment_70477 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:19:56 -0700 warrenellis I wanted to be Warren Ellis when I grew up, but I heard someone already has that job.

I wanted to be Warren Ellis when I grew up. You need to want to be you when you grow up. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70478#Comment_70478 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70478#Comment_70478 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:21:56 -0700 ulysses_mcghee
My name is G0RY MUL3WH1P

cocks ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70481#Comment_70481 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70481#Comment_70481 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:25:56 -0700 Fractal
(Also continuing THE WEEKEND OF EATING: Deli sammiches, dim sum, on to BBQ, possibly greek tonight...) ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70482#Comment_70482 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70482#Comment_70482 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:30:24 -0700 Errol
how on fuck-earth do people keep this up their whole lives?

im starving. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70483#Comment_70483 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70483#Comment_70483 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:31:05 -0700 ulysses_mcghee Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70484#Comment_70484 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70484#Comment_70484 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:36:07 -0700 FireThief Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70485#Comment_70485 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70485#Comment_70485 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:36:35 -0700 V I'm living in the city I want to live in, and I'm involved with the research group I want to be involved with.
I'm not rich, but I'm not poor, and I get to do exactly the work I want.

I guess in a year's time I'd like to still be alive, living in this city, doing this work, and taking photos.
I'd like to have made enough progress to be putting early prototypes into the hands of musicians, but I don't want to be done my PhD project because I'm making enough changes that such early completion does not seem a good sign to me.

I'm a little intimidated by some of the other work coming out of my lab, but I'm also very delighted that that is the case. Lots to learn, and lots of interesting people to learn from.

I want to not only grow my ideas, but actually learn how to prepare and feed them to people outside my area.
(Ideas are not so powerful when you don't know how to tell anyone about them, and the pool of people doing obscure weirdo music performance research with neural networks is awfully small.) ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70486#Comment_70486 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70486#Comment_70486 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:37:04 -0700 JP Carpenter
1) it's hard to type, read or do anything useful with a week old baby.
2) I am british and my natural habitat is cold and wet. heat turns my brain bad.
3) Dust on a DSLR sensor makes baby jesus cry
4) There's a website with Southampton shipping movements on it so I now know how to stalk ocean liners. Even though they all now look like poncy floating hotels, not elegant like the QE2.

This time next year I want to be richer, thinner, prettier, cleverer and for my eldest daughter to stop behaving like a schizophrenic doberman with its tail set on fire every time I ask her to do something reasonable like 'tidy up please'. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70488#Comment_70488 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70488#Comment_70488 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:39:59 -0700 Greg SBB! Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70489#Comment_70489 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70489#Comment_70489 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:41:34 -0700 syringavulgaris
I'm going down now to talk ways'n'means with Best Friend who is now New Roommate, where we shall consume a nice dry Reisling and a jerk-marinated pork loin I just made, and sit out on her porch on this beautiful evening and watch the drug dealers go by. UPWARDLY MOBILE I AM NOT. But it's all grist to the life mill, no?

I'm not going to post ANOTHER picture. I just SENT you one. Sheesh. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70490#Comment_70490 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70490#Comment_70490 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:42:45 -0700 Digitalyn

And I need winter back. Seriously, summer is so overrated.


Ooops, edited for the pic of the week :

]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70493#Comment_70493 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70493#Comment_70493 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:49:44 -0700 chris g
This time next year? hmm, fuck. Well I still want to have a dayjob so I can have money, and hopefully take comicking more seriously by then and have some out for the world to see.

Question: I really think this one girl is AWESOME, but she might be a hardcore Jehovas Witness. Not that I'm against that, but i don't really believe in anything, maybe she could teach me a thing or two. Should I still ask her for coffee? CAN'T HURT!

Vent: Fuuuck, I hate the loser I work with. It's sooo sad, he's like 37 or something, and he just burps all day since there's no ladies around. It must make him feel soooo macho. Obviously no one played with him when he was little...or as a grown up.

I try to put a little fear in him by flashing the lead pipe under my desk.

Oh, and some internet stranger said "i'd like to see you draw Green Arrow fighting Hawkeye"....so I fucking did. I don't regret it. HA!

GA_VS_HAWKEYE

me on bed. sometimes I get to sleep on it!!
the inspiration station

Also: i'm just bored and I wanna get Dr0Nkxorzz!!! ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70494#Comment_70494 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70494#Comment_70494 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:50:06 -0700 Sara 013
Tonight, I am going to maliciously defile a perfectly good gold pocket watch case. Ha. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70498#Comment_70498 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70498#Comment_70498 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:01:23 -0700 oR.hal What I want to have right now? A massage. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70499#Comment_70499 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70499#Comment_70499 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:03:14 -0700 treylane
an anonymous improv group
+ improvisational dance
+ a noise guy in a monkey suit
+ "bass ninja"
+ thrash-surf hellspawn, The Necronomikids
+ the worst comedian ever
= the kind of event i book solely to amuse myself.

the night has become an ersatz tribute to our close friend and co-conspirator, artist and musician Pak Nichols, who was supposed to be joining us tonight, but was found dead in his gallery last week.

and finally, i just finished another shortfilm. shot and cut and finished in 48 hours.
best review yet : "sid and marty krofft's Satyricon!" ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70500#Comment_70500 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70500#Comment_70500 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:14:21 -0700 nick3pointone4
although, where'd i'd really like to be this time next year, is in tokyo getting shit-faced on cheap sake eating horse meat sashimi. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70501#Comment_70501 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70501#Comment_70501 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:20:11 -0700 Colonel Finn But I suppose faux-Maturity is better than none.

It's too hot here, far too hot, which is an odd thing to say in Scotland. I'm off to drink more Rose. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70502#Comment_70502 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70502#Comment_70502 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:23:01 -0700 outlawpoet
If we go back to basic research, I will get even more isolated and drowned in my work. It will be fun.

Today is new computer day at work. Every 18 months or so I get another one to keep my work fast and productive. God, this new one cuts the batch tests from 50 to 30 minutes. I'm in love.

I guess I should publish some of my non-AI work in the next year, like people have been telling me to. I joined the lifeboat foundation out of duty, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Still holding off deleting the work on the comic with Emily, it looks really good, another 5 pages this week.

Somalians fed me goats today. Restaurants have always struck me as something of a reverse religious experience. You sit on your high chair, and grumble your almighty wishes, "sacrifice unto me your finest calf, drowned in honey and milk" you might say, and the waitstaff sashay around in supplication, asking if you are happy, are you pleased with their service, what can they do for you. You devour their offerings, and pronounce your feelings on their performance. And then you pay the bill, cash or credit, at that point things are a bit domestic, I admit. But it's quite odd, for most of it. If you think about it too much. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70504#Comment_70504 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70504#Comment_70504 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:26:38 -0700 hank
Today, I carried a lot of underflooring and laid a floor in our new lodge space. I exceeded my usual abilities as a carpenter. Go me. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70506#Comment_70506 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70506#Comment_70506 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:29:21 -0700 Jon Wake
Right now I'm in triage life mode. Must keep the power on, get a job, and find a new place to live all in ten days.

The next Open Mic Entry from me may be from a stolen computer behind a dumpster. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70507#Comment_70507 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70507#Comment_70507 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:30:30 -0700 Asphyxiautomaton
i would like, in a year, to have poetry published, to have the novel written, and to be able to keep a coherent thought.

in a year, to be her husband.

z ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70508#Comment_70508 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70508#Comment_70508 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:31:08 -0700 Dmitri Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70511#Comment_70511 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70511#Comment_70511 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:34:37 -0700 KPatrickGlover
Still haven't seen the Dark Knight yet, weirdly unmotivated to do so. I was much more excited about Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. X-Files hit theaters yesterday, may go see a Dark Knight / X-Files double feature on Tuesday, if I don't find something better to do.

Shakespeare in the Park tomorrow, with a couple of friends. That should be fun, especially since I haven't seen these friends in quite awhile.

All in all, not a bad Saturday. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70512#Comment_70512 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70512#Comment_70512 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:38:55 -0700 waniyetuwi Watching candles burn down to the appropriate size to build an altar for one of my art pieces.
Cleaning my house while drinking.
Looking up plane tickets to London for the end of Sept.
Reworking layouts for the magazine. ( Script and size glitches)
Making a list of comics for my mom to include in the young adult and adult section of the library.
Later on I'll be doing some editing.
Photobucket ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70513#Comment_70513 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70513#Comment_70513 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:40:43 -0700 razrangel
This week instead of feeling evasive about doing more job hunting I hit a point where I feel utterly numb. Which is much worse. I'm not applying, I'm not following up. Were it not for a friend wanting to visit me in NYC I wouldn't have started the prep that I have to do for next month (will include finding a new place to live). My gut is not the organ I can go with right now. Which is frustrating as well as becalming.

I really wish there was some good whiskey around. If I manage to deposit my tax refund check (not a done deal by a long shot) I may spend a chunk on a bottle of Knappogue or Tullamore Dew or some other sort that I find.

My flight out is in less than three weeks. I have to decide if I'm going to be on that plane and then, whether or not I am, what happens after. I desperately want to stay in NEw York, but for that I need a job. So I continue to chase my tail.

The stress and numbness is killing any creative instinct. Also, I finally saw an ophthalmologist. In the last three months my eyesight went from 20/25 to 20/30. And that's after having been 20/20 for 30 years. Now I'm on a drop that dilates one eye while the other stays normal, and I don't know how long this will last. It's frustrating as hell. The instinct, right in the moment, is to curse New York. But then I hear kids playing out on the street, shouting in English, Spanish and Hindi. I recall that a half a mile from here I can get shepherd's pie, sushi, heavily loaded pizzas, tamales con mole, Thai, halal and Americanized Chinese food. Thunderstorms are common. It's fucking awesome here.

i just wish I could enjoy it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70514#Comment_70514 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70514#Comment_70514 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:42:07 -0700 JSandman7 Photobucket
I think I need to drink with different people (I'm the one on the left) ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70515#Comment_70515 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70515#Comment_70515 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:44:38 -0700 JamesMoore
Right now I'm writing a review of the second Casanova album while listening to Burial.

Later I'm either going out with a friend or watching The Seven Samurai for the first time. Either way a good night.
I'm also reading news from the Nerd Prom and finding little of interests. I still wish I was in SD though, not just for the con but to live.

In a year? I'd like to be out of Ohio, preferably in San Diego but really any other decent city. I want to have finished my first novel, and to have reclaimed some of the spark I've lodt from the day to day grind of life in the Real World. I was kind of awesome once and I will make myself so once again. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70516#Comment_70516 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70516#Comment_70516 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:45:09 -0700 oldhat
Ugh...the boyfriend wanted to go for a walk. Four and a half hours later I went home and he decided to walk to his house on the other side of the city. My legs are killing me.

AND I got my eyebrows threaded today. It felt like some horrible kind of torture. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70517#Comment_70517 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70517#Comment_70517 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:47:59 -0700 krushdbug I think I need to drink with different people (I'm the one on the left)

No way. From the looks of that picture, you have already found the very best people to get drunk with. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70518#Comment_70518 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70518#Comment_70518 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:52:56 -0700 tim12s
Waiting on the missus to get up off her arse to go cycling in Golden Gate Park before they open the roads at 6pm. I doubt we'll cycle today. There's only an hour left.

Watching a rip of The Mighty Boosh Live at the Brixton Academy. (NOT the fucking Carling Academy. It's not IN Carling.) "That's S-T-U-M-P Stump Fucking!"

Pencilling a story about the Chartists Rally in Kennington Park. SO much research done, SO many grainy, black and white photos from 1848.

At least drawing horses is easy. I used to draw horses at Belfairs Park when I was little. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70519#Comment_70519 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70519#Comment_70519 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:53:52 -0700 V
Oh! A picture. I forgot a picture.

]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70520#Comment_70520 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70520#Comment_70520 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:55:58 -0700 renerodr Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70521#Comment_70521 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70521#Comment_70521 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:56:31 -0700 helloMuller
tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year.
I'd like to have made some headway in comics/graphic novels (as in: finally find the proper time to work on something).

Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...
I REALLY REALLY LIKED THE DARK KNIGHT!
(Yeah, Ledger is indeed good in it... Nice to see that for once, the hype is somewhat grounded in reality) ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70522#Comment_70522 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70522#Comment_70522 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:59:36 -0700 chucksax
My 11-month old has kidney cancer. All prognosis are good, but it still sucks ass.

Good thing he's cute. Studies have shown that cute kids get better care than ugly ones. When my baby enters the hospital outpatient center, the nurses come running to him like he's a lit crack pipe in the projects.

He'll be in chemo for 21 more weeks - Thursday was week three. Argh. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70527#Comment_70527 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70527#Comment_70527 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:18:50 -0700 Kostika
short ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70528#Comment_70528 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70528#Comment_70528 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:20:17 -0700 Danielle Ni Dhighe
I finally got a new tech support job, which is a good thing, but while I was at work on Thursday, my apartment was burglarized. They stole a DVD player and most of my DVDs, including my entire Doctor Who collection that I'd been building for years and some rare foreign DVDs. They also stole a digital voice recorder and some valuable jewelry.

There's probably few worse feelings than coming home from a hard day's work to discover that someone burglarized your apartment. It's such a sense of violation, and you wish you could do something violent to the criminals who victimized you. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70530#Comment_70530 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70530#Comment_70530 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:23:40 -0700 StefanJ Galactic Civilizations II.

I should be writing.

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@checksax: Hang in there. Not there's ever a good time for cancer, but little kids seem to bounce back from this kind of thing better than adults.

BrianMowrey: Ballard or Aldiss or someone came up with the label "slipstream" for fiction that isn't ray gun and rocket stuff but is sure as hell science fiction because it has the attitude.

It isn't as well recognized, but there's stuff about space ships and genetically engineered things and computers that isn't science fiction. It's usually pretty tedious stuff. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70531#Comment_70531 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70531#Comment_70531 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:25:59 -0700 Jake Montefu After waking around nine a.m. I had an appointment with a woman at a coffee shop in town.
I was meeting her there to deliver six prints she purchased from me!
It's not like I sell a bunch of prints. Obviously I was quite happy to actually be getting paid for my personal work, which was an almost entirely new sensation for me.
It's hard to make a living if you want to do it through art.
Here's the product, they were all printed on 11x14 paper with a cool, slight metallic finish:

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As usual all comments, positive or negative are welcomed. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70534#Comment_70534 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70534#Comment_70534 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:34:25 -0700 Mason
Been talking to a lot of editors lately at cons. They seem nice enough and then I send them my stuff via email and all they can do is criticize the art. I try to explain that I'm the writer, and that I'd really like it if they read the scripts to the art that they see... And then they email me back as if I'm the artist again. I'm a positive guy, but this is no world for a writer who can't draw. Unless your name is Warren Ellis I guess...

I helped my girlfriend out at work today. Got back and noticed a stain that looks (but isn't) semen on my shirt. I wonder what her coworkers think of me now. They probably say, "That Mason, he's a guy who gets things done..." Pause, "All over his shirt..." or something lame like that.

http://www.geekocracy.org/comix/

What follows is hopefully a picture of me looking like a douche bag... I can never seem to post pictures right anywhere... It's all the crack.

Me looking like a douche bag ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70539#Comment_70539 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70539#Comment_70539 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:40:37 -0700 buzzorhowl
@Mason--Maybe you oughta just send the scripts with no art? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70540#Comment_70540 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70540#Comment_70540 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:40:38 -0700 Direwolf Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. I really enjoyed the first two books of his Mistborn Trilogy, and thought I'd give his first publication a shot. Impression so far: it's decent fantasy.

This week in Boston has seen some truly wicked stormage (spending my week's allottment of destroying English). Beautiful thunderheads have come rolling across the city, scattering tree limbs and tossing the homeless every which way.

@Danielle Ni Dhihe: Sorry to hear about your place getting burgled. Thankfully no one was hurt. Chances are slim they'll catch the asshats, but karma's got a much better prosecution rate. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70542#Comment_70542 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70542#Comment_70542 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:45:26 -0700 Trotsky
and of course I have no idea how to ride it properly. am looking forward to hours of humiliation trying to figure the damn thing out.
guy at the shop staired in disbeleif as I barley made it around the parking lot, then suggested training wheels.

I said, "no thank you, if i don't know how to do it by now, then i deserve to fall"

Where in the world did my parents go wrong with me? I really wonder sometimes. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70543#Comment_70543 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70543#Comment_70543 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:45:41 -0700 alphatrope SaNta
SataN
There was a Satan Claus when I signed my deal with the devil.

I understands the difference between vivid and lucid. Youth is not truth when age is all the rage. Show no disdain for the dull and plain, when it's within your powers to put the range in strange. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70544#Comment_70544 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70544#Comment_70544 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:47:01 -0700 krushdbug Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70545#Comment_70545 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70545#Comment_70545 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:49:07 -0700 keighter Tonight is a kegger and my aunt's 30 year high school reunion, for which she and her husband are in town.

and the family is back... fuck. time to be social and lie about my big plans for my life... ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70546#Comment_70546 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70546#Comment_70546 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:50:43 -0700 Mason Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70547#Comment_70547 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70547#Comment_70547 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:51:59 -0700 krushdbug Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70548#Comment_70548 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70548#Comment_70548 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:55:21 -0700 Mason Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70549#Comment_70549 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70549#Comment_70549 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:00:00 -0700 CamyLuna
It's a desire that I've had for the past 5 years, and it's not right to let a desire fester for so long. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70550#Comment_70550 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70550#Comment_70550 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:04:35 -0700 burntcopper
Tomorrow i have to make a sundress or two and then adjust a leather skirt.

The day after that? Going to see Zorro the musical. Because I need mad swashbuckling in my life. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70551#Comment_70551 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70551#Comment_70551 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:04:51 -0700 Kibblesmith
Full of coffee, sushi, optimism. Bruce Lee tonight at my place, byob.

If you have trouble finding me, I was this one:

Exactly What it Looks Like (?)
]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70552#Comment_70552 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70552#Comment_70552 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:05:59 -0700 krushdbug Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70553#Comment_70553 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70553#Comment_70553 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:06:56 -0700 Mason Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70554#Comment_70554 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70554#Comment_70554 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:07:13 -0700 AtomicSloth sanpaku eyes 2
There are things in the room that want my blood. They move through dimensions, I can only catch them in the corner of my eye. I have two huge bites already. I never saw a mosquito til I visited the fucking midlands.

I has a college. In nottinghams. All I need now is a flat. Also thinking about getting a scooter. I can't actually ride a bike but I do have the goggles...
I went out tonight, had a meal, drank a respectable ammount of alcohol, but it's now 2am, my party are all asleep, Im pretty sober and incredibly untired. Do I start drinking again? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70555#Comment_70555 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70555#Comment_70555 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:08:52 -0700 cjstevens I've started reading 52. Never been a fan of DC Universe (cept Batman and a few others) but it is actually a whole lotta fun.
London is being crushed by thick humidity and making me extra lethargic..I think a storm is coming.
Why So Serious? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70556#Comment_70556 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70556#Comment_70556 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:12:25 -0700 krushdbug Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70561#Comment_70561 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70561#Comment_70561 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:25:10 -0700 arcaner
/me hops on his hobby horse

My biggest pet peeve is lazy speculative fiction writers. Biggest sin in this area is mono-climate planets. "We're going to crash into the jungle planet of Jureika!" No, you're not. And it would just take changing a few words and things would be fine. "We're going to crash into the jungles of Jureika!" Problem solved.

Recently another line made me want to start stabbing. "The planet didn't have any animals, but there were plenty of fruit trees." Do you see what's wrong there? AURGH.

Since I don't have an image of my face out on the intrawebz here's my sygil. Plz do not steal.
Personal Sygil ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70562#Comment_70562 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70562#Comment_70562 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:25:58 -0700 mybrainhurts
This time next year I hope to have finished writing a book, be in a shitty punk band, be in America and have a girlfriend, I'd settle for one of those four.

This week I've been watching Freaks & Geeks which is great but sometimes is physically painful to watch as I'm not far enough removed from the unpleasantness and awkwardness that was school to laugh at it just yet.

It's too hot right now. I'm not built for the heat, yesterday I went down to London to see the World/Inferno Friendship Society (amazing cabaret-punk band) and I walked from Marble Arch to Camden. The cold pint I had when I got there was better than anything else that's going on in my life right now. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70564#Comment_70564 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70564#Comment_70564 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:29:00 -0700 Polinees Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70565#Comment_70565 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70565#Comment_70565 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:29:59 -0700 mkhall
Other than that, I'm open to suggestions. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70568#Comment_70568 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70568#Comment_70568 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:36:25 -0700 Laura
I've been at my new job for about 3 months now. I feel like it's time that I should quit using that as an excuse to not write anything. Yeah, the hours are a little crazy, but it's really not that hard to find half an hour to write here and there. Hell, I could be doing it now instead of being here. But here I am. Hello, world. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70569#Comment_70569 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70569#Comment_70569 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:47:29 -0700 trini_naenae
As for right now - I had a decently good creative week. I made myself a sketchbook and I've already filled 20 pages of it with unimportant scribbles and whatnot. I'm going to be working this Monday, which is good as I need more hours anyhow. I'm probably going to get my hair trimmed/cut in the near future and I'm considering getting bangs.

I've already posted a fair amount of photos in the self portrait thread. Perhaps I don't need a photo of me here? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70570#Comment_70570 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70570#Comment_70570 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:03:26 -0700 meghan
Damn.

Damn. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70572#Comment_70572 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70572#Comment_70572 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:08:05 -0700 DavidBrown
I would also like to see Americans wake up a bit by next year (although I fear it may be too late by then). At this rate, nearly all of our 'rights' will have vanished by next year at this time! But I really doubt my countrymen are actually capable of this feat.

Wow, I guess that is sort of a rant and a 'next year at this time...' thing. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70573#Comment_70573 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70573#Comment_70573 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:08:51 -0700 outlawpoet Sometimes I wish my base level wasn't rational and calm. 'Cause this week needed to be beat to death with a baseball bat. But I'm already feeling better, so the moment had passed.

I have that exact feeling all the time. Like, here's a perfect moment for me to lose my shit, but I'm already thinking about it coldly and rationally, so I can't very well go back and make my first reaction to get spectacularly angry. It would be lying, it would be emotional self-deception, and I couldn't do it without being self-conscious anyway. But I totally would have been in the right if I had. But here I am, dealing with it like I'm a politeness zombie. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70574#Comment_70574 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70574#Comment_70574 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:21:05 -0700 alphatrope Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70576#Comment_70576 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70576#Comment_70576 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:33:37 -0700 alphatrope
I hope that made no sense as it would be far more interesting than what I meant to say. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70577#Comment_70577 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70577#Comment_70577 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:34:37 -0700 notsurewho
I don't believe in waxing, so you'd rather not see it...
I'm surounded by people getting married or having babies... 25 feels middle aged.....
and if I could talk dirty I doubt I'd be single...

If I wasn't filled with so many lies... I think I'd want friends.... ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70578#Comment_70578 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70578#Comment_70578 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:35:52 -0700 Sara 013 Vanessa! - Is that an invitation?? ^^

Malicious defiling complete...

Pocket Watch Thing #10 - Locket of Timeless DOOM

Now what...? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70581#Comment_70581 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70581#Comment_70581 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:48:10 -0700 tedcroland
That's beautiful. Have you ever thought about taking pictures in progress? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70583#Comment_70583 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70583#Comment_70583 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:51:45 -0700 notwolf Shiner Bock ice cream. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70584#Comment_70584 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70584#Comment_70584 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:54:12 -0700 Rachæl Tyrell
Big Head me.


My right hand aches and doesn't work right , so I'm typing mostly left handed. Trying to use my notebook computer wrong-handed is difficult and cumbersome. It makes the meager living I make out of doing design work from home rather impossible to handle for the time being.

My right foot feels similar to the hand, but it doesn't have to grab or be particularly dextrous, so it doesn't suffer the brunt of my frustration and tears. I walk a little funny, but I already did that before from the left ankle being perpetually fucked, so it doesn't so much matter.

I've only been able to sleep for two hours this morning, so I can't focus to read pages of text for long periods because my eyes will cross and my vision will go double and it will end too soon. Drawing is slightly less strain on the eyes, but there's that right hand problem... Typing is a painful frustration, so computer can't whittle away my time. Can't go for a long walk, because my right foot aches, and it's hot out, which makes everything (numbness, weakness, stabby pains) worse.

Left handed drawing once again, then. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70586#Comment_70586 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70586#Comment_70586 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:57:02 -0700 V Sara - Decidedly so. Any time. ^.^
And that watch appears much improved in a lovely direction. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70587#Comment_70587 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70587#Comment_70587 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:01:26 -0700 fmiller
Right now: I'm sitting in my room, watching south park. I'm kinda hungry and i'm craving beer. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70588#Comment_70588 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70588#Comment_70588 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:20:03 -0700 allana Saturday Night Open Mic: tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...

this time next year i don't want to be:
having such a hard time finding writers who want to submit articles frequently, having such a hard time writing my own articles (gah! editor stop yelling at me i'll submit when it's damn well good enough to submit and not a moment before), putting off necessary renovations, quite so stupid about things i do in fact know, poor, dirty, inebriated, or achey, trying desperately to find a way to crack Max/MSP 5.

i do want to be:
rich as a thief, pretty as a hooker, at least slightly less in debt (or with the prospects to see myself getting out of debt), the free time and motivation to make that fun to-do list happen, and maybe all the words to The Philadelphia Story memorized, instead of only half-memorized. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70589#Comment_70589 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70589#Comment_70589 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:28:13 -0700 IsenMike really hit the town tonight.

Nope. Had to leave our booth an hour early because I felt like crap. Picked up a thermometer on the way back to the hotel. I have a 101.7 degree fever. Fucking hell.

I guess next year I'd like to be back at San Diego and NOT FUCKING SICK. (Also maybe working a different booth, having moved on to a better position at another company?)

Sick In San Diego 7/26/08 ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70591#Comment_70591 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70591#Comment_70591 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:29:06 -0700 Ariana Malicious defiling complete...I recognize those guts... ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70592#Comment_70592 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70592#Comment_70592 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:29:48 -0700 Leandro Damasceno But I do it anyway because I'm tough like that, I'm powerful and I let go of my social live to make what I love". Oh, go fuck yourself, would you?

If it's such a sacrifice, go explore the amazing world of telemarketing. I don't need to know that your are better then the rest of humanity because you spent your weekend doing comics. If you weren't doing them, chances are you would be doing nothing at all. But that is not the point.

Listen, Math is my kryptonite. I can't understand it and fuck it, I don't work with it anyway. So, accounting is not one of my carrer choices. And I think accounters do a terribly difficult job. Impossible for me to do in a million years. The same thing with engineers, boat pilots and a million other jobs. But I don't see an accounter saying "oh, my job is so hard! Yes, I can add and multiply, but my job is a soul killing job and I do it so you can deliver your tax papers on time." What I do is translate ideas and concepts into images and I can create a story that starts with an image. That's what I do. And fuck all the difficults of my job. I do what I do and that's it. If it doesn't fulfill me, I change, as I did before, and go do something else. Answer a phone all day long, perhaps. If it's so hard and you do it anyway, you're either a masoquist or stupid. Possible both.

Go do your job and stop complaing. You're not the last good samaritan on Earth because you spent hours drawing comics. You were doing your job. The job you choose to do in the first place. So, please, you can stop the complaing now. If nothing else, because you have an Eisner award to make me shut the fuck up. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70593#Comment_70593 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70593#Comment_70593 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:32:58 -0700 Val A Lindsay II
So here's something sickening for everyone else...

]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70595#Comment_70595 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70595#Comment_70595 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:49:03 -0700 sjc
And waiting for the last issue of Planetary. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70596#Comment_70596 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70596#Comment_70596 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:52:44 -0700 agentarsenic Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70597#Comment_70597 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70597#Comment_70597 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:55:09 -0700 allana

not an arse, but whatever. long work week, and i'm proud of it:
]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70599#Comment_70599 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70599#Comment_70599 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:01:47 -0700 Spiraltwist
I think the camera got scared, which is why it's blurry. The smile has the "power".

Edited to fix picture. And nicely done, Sara. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70600#Comment_70600 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70600#Comment_70600 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:12:52 -0700 cavalaxis
Only one thing to think about. When the day comes and you find yourself on the business end of grief? Please don't be surprised when people treat you like a plague victim. It's only what you would have done.

(WE~ Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. ~L.) ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70601#Comment_70601 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70601#Comment_70601 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:17:17 -0700 Eridan
Tonight I've already talked to a guy who wanted to be put under orders to wear panties to church tomorrow morning, under his suit, a father who is desperately in lust with his eldest daughter's dorm-mate, and a guy who wanted tips on how to better perform cunnilingus on his wife. But at 2.99 a minute, it's the best money I can make and still be a full-time mom. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70603#Comment_70603 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70603#Comment_70603 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:28:33 -0700 smibbo
@ Eridan: lots of men lie about their sexual relationship with their wives. It allows them to pretend that it's "okay" to get off on a stranger doing stuff. I salute you for doing that job though, being a full-time mom isn't easy and it sure ain't cheap. So you go girl.

Me? Next year this time I expect to be engaged in self-employment. Sewing luxury cloth diapers. Hopefully I will then have enough time/money to be able to have babysitting so that I can spend at least one hour every day finishing up ONE writing project of the hundreds that went into hibernation when I moved here: illness, hospitalization, trauma, hospitalization again, pregnancy, hospitalization again, oh gawd its been one thing after another for TWO YEARS but seems like it's finally slowing down. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70605#Comment_70605 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70605#Comment_70605 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:37:58 -0700 brittanica it would also be boring, and most of the people i invite would most likely not show up.
that, and i don't think i could have it in a church. makes me uncomfortable.
saw the dark knight for the second time afterward. made me feel better.

where do i want to be this time next year?

i want to be in a studio, using my fucking $2500 community college education. maybe not in nashville, but i want to record people. in class, nobody else would volunteer to sit behind the mixing console when we had people in our little studio. god, i've never felt more important than when i got to talk to these musicians in the booth. i felt like i was helping create something special.
i miss it. sure, i mix my boyfriend's ep that he may never finish. not the same.
i need that feeling again. i don't feel like much of a person without it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70608#Comment_70608 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70608#Comment_70608 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:42:35 -0700 Gillian
Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?

Note: My appearance seems to be well into the androgynous zone. In the past two days I've been ma'amed twice (and they didn't correct themselves) and looked at funny several times. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70609#Comment_70609 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70609#Comment_70609 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:45:16 -0700 chris g Got NIN - The Slip in cd/dvd form this week. Guhhhhh, it fucking infuses me with energy, GOD DAMN!
Oh, and payday is tomorrow. Yay, i guess. What's the point if I ain't got drinking pals.
I'm fully recovered from opening night of TDK, time for round 2 soon!
@James Moore - she works in my favorite bookstore, hope I don't fuck this up or I won't ever be able to go back! HAHA!
@Sara 013 - Amazing work!
@Spiraltwist - That is so awesome. I don't know how I would act if i met cranky sea captain, but I would probly breakdown. but he's got a no-crying policy...followed by the eels
@Mason - nice shorts ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70610#Comment_70610 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70610#Comment_70610 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:56:42 -0700 gdwessel
On the other hand, a friend of mine brought me a bag of Oreos at work. For no discernable good reason. And that's awesome.

Have to work again tomorrow, of course, but maybe I can knock out a flashfic before then. Maybe not. Feeling pretty creative the last week. Maybe because I've finally got an actionable plan in place to get myself NOTICED HA HA HA HA ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70611#Comment_70611 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70611#Comment_70611 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:00:06 -0700 mercurialblonde
I have the crazy look in my eye now. People can see it. They can feel it. I won't be denied for anything. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70614#Comment_70614 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70614#Comment_70614 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:06:13 -0700 buzzorhowl here. You guys came up with different ones, but yours will work too, I'd assume. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70615#Comment_70615 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70615#Comment_70615 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:07:38 -0700 Lani
Grand Canyon

Earlier this week, I saw pictures, video, and listened to a short bit of audio of a woman who was killed on April 16th, 2007 in the shooting at Virginia Tech. She was my boyfriend's sometime girlfriend at the time - I say sometime because they had dated, broken up, and then were in the process of getting back together when she was killed. He was devastated to hear that she was sitting in that German class, as well as to hear that several of his other friends and acquaintances were among the 32 killed that day.

Since I met and started dating him 4 months ago, I've heard a lot about these people and seen some of their pictures. I feel like I almost know this girl because of everything that I have heard. I'll only ever know her in grand strokes, and know none of the small quirky details that really make a person. Everything that I have heard, though, paints an image of a really beautiful and kind soul. Many of them were, actually. As my boyfriend pointed out, often when a person's life is taken, there is much hyperbole in remembrance - but with many of the victims of that shooting, it's no hyperbole. They were truly wonderful people.

It's gotten me thinking about how I would want to be remembered if my life were suddenly cut short, what actions would really reflect my values and ideals in a concrete way...what kind of a person do I want to be. It's easy for inertia to take over and to keep putting off those great plans you have for yourself, and inertia took hold of my life for several years after I graduated with my bachelor's degree. But I started fighting it last year when I went back to school to get a master's degree. I was floundering a bit, though, on what to do afterwards - but I've finally figured it out.

And so in a year's time, I plan to be graduated with my master's degree in Health Psychology and a new member of the Peace Corps preparing to go to Africa, on my way to start a career in Global Health issues. I may not be able to save the world, but I can make a real difference for people in need. I'm lucky to have been born in a rich country and a good family, but it was simply luck. I want to help the people who weren't so lucky in where they were born. That's at least my dream, and certainly how I'd like to be remembered.

(By the way, if I can make a request, you guys should go read about the victims of the shooting on VT's memorial page. So many of them were truly truly wonderful people.) ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70616#Comment_70616 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70616#Comment_70616 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:12:02 -0700 Sara 013 tedcroland
"Have you ever thought about taking pictures in progress?"

Nnnnnah. Pictures in-progress would be incredibly uninteresting, really.
(Step 1: watch, not working. Step 2: watch, never going to work again.)

SpiralTwist - great photo. ^__^ ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70617#Comment_70617 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70617#Comment_70617 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:13:13 -0700 buzzorhowl
Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?


I don't know if he was trying to ask you out or if he was just interested but unwilling to make himself vulnerable by coming out and saying what he had in mind, but I think he definitely was trying to coax you into hanging out later. Whether you passed is another question entirely, though--who knows if he clocked you and just didn't care? Either way, though, I'd say he was definitely interested. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70620#Comment_70620 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70620#Comment_70620 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:23:31 -0700 Robson
10:20pm here in San Francisco - had one of my laziest-boy-in-town Saturdays since I've been sleepless throughout the week. Spent much of the day in bed, dozing and reading comics. Went out to eat, and am now watching David Hasselhoff and some no-name soldiers hunting a giant snake on the SciFi channel.

Work on the new play, MOMMY, continues. It looks like I can open it on Valentines Day weekend, which pleases me.

Tomorrow I may be trekking to an outdoor barbecue joint to hear the Kronos Quartet play. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70621#Comment_70621 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70621#Comment_70621 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:24:44 -0700 stsparky
What's happening here and now:

I go sleep now. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70622#Comment_70622 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70622#Comment_70622 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:25:26 -0700 CaitlinK
Don't drink it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70623#Comment_70623 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70623#Comment_70623 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:29:55 -0700 V Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70624#Comment_70624 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70624#Comment_70624 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:33:03 -0700 rickiep00h
You take the very best sort of pictures. I won't qualify that with anything else.

@warrenellis:

If by "talk dirty" you mean "make thinly-veiled sexual advances" toward you, sorry. Not me. If you mean "assault me with undeserved vulgarity" you're in luck. Fuck off, buddy. I've got vulgarity for days. Of course, you'll always win the "who's got a more disgusting mind" contest. Always.

My week was actually rather uneventful. Caught up on a couple of hobby things, ditched Microsoft Office for OpenOffice, installed Opera 9.5 on my phone, and have been slowly considering Linux. Adobe and Protools are the things keeping me from it right now. And various driver things. Today I went to a minor league baseball game to watch the hometown team get fucked up the asses by the visiting team. The Joliet Jackhammers. How appropriate. Next week will actually determine what happens to where I'll be next year. Wife's got an interview with Sweetwater Sound. All goes well, we'll be moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Which is less jarring than a move to California, I bet.

So there. No ranting this week. I've saved that for other threads. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70629#Comment_70629 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70629#Comment_70629 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:42:30 -0700 Gekko I had an epiphany a fortnight ago. I was back in Ireland 20 years after living there. Strolling around places I used to be so fond of (Sandycove, the Gravediggers...) and I came to the conclusion that growing old is all right, growing old is not a waste of time, growing old is a good craic as long as you've been true to yourself (and you know deep inside if you've been true or not, you can't just decide you've been so)
Next year same time? I'll be in a plane, learning a few words of the natives I'll be visiting. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70632#Comment_70632 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70632#Comment_70632 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:48:39 -0700 mercurialblonde
Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?


Who really knows? I'd try not to get too caught up in the pronoun game as a gauge for anything. There's so many things that could happen, it will make you crazy if you judge your progress on that. At the end of the day it's about how you feel and your own confidence.

I'm in a situation where I'm working at a job I used to work before I transitioned, and the manager who never knew me in my previous gender, decided to make it really weird and awkward, and inform all of the new staff of my previous gender situation, and make it this big tadoo(I almost didn't get hired because of it, and was told this outright(which is legal for them to do in this state)). It is the first job I've ever had where the word transgender ever has come up. And the first time people have started stumbling around on pronouns. I could take that and make it this negative thing, but I'm secure enough in who I am that I just kind of laugh at the silliness of it. It's not a big deal. The customers don't know and don't care, the only reason the staff know or care is because they are bored and have been made to care. Things are already settling down though as people actually get to meet me as opposed to theorize about me. Just remember, you're not a pronoun.

At the end of the day, you are who you are, and little pronouns slips or non-slips by strangers really don't have much bearing on it. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70633#Comment_70633 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70633#Comment_70633 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:49:01 -0700 Dragone Drinking to just be able to kill the rage from the job that is killing my social life.
Drinking makes me happy.
Working on a story about my job that kills the soul.
In a years time I fucking hope that I finish my ``work story`` and I`m not at my shity job and I`m participating more in the wonderful board. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70634#Comment_70634 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70634#Comment_70634 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:50:47 -0700 Rootfireember tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...


Last night it rained like hell, thundered like the voice of an Angry God that was ready to smite some unbelievers...tonight, it's just a quiet sprinkling. This time, next year... I want to have created something. Not a painting here or there when I find a few hours to myself, or the occasional sketch. I want to do something that will make people stop and stare. Not for a 6-second burst, but for LONGER. I want to write something worth while, something that makes people stop thinking about their work day, sucks'em in and makes them ache when it's over because, damn, it's fuckin' over and they have to WAIT until I write something again for more...

The problem isn't a lack of ability. I damn well know I can do these things, to some degree or other. It's finding time. I have so many ideas... but enough whinging- something will happen, or it won't, and however way it'll go, I'll have no one to blame but myself. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70637#Comment_70637 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70637#Comment_70637 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:10:34 -0700 Gillian
At the end of the day, you are who you are, and little pronouns slips or non-slips by strangers really don't have much bearing on it.


I know this but it's good sometimes to hear it from someone other than myself.
Thank you. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70639#Comment_70639 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70639#Comment_70639 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:15:33 -0700 tim12s
Woke up, had bacon sandwiches for dinner, watched 'Be Kind, Rewind'. Lovely movie.

Off out to The Bridge to see RuPaul @ Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass.

Tix for El Vez this Wednesday. My birthday treat! ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70644#Comment_70644 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70644#Comment_70644 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:29:28 -0700 Jake Montefu
Awesome, totally cool watch mutation and photo! ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70645#Comment_70645 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70645#Comment_70645 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:47:29 -0700 stonedeph
I wish... the second law of thermodynamics... was a law I could break.... I take solace though.... in knowing.. that there is no wrong for which I can commit... just harms. that I try very.. hard... to avoid.......... ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70646#Comment_70646 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70646#Comment_70646 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:53:38 -0700 allana Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70647#Comment_70647 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70647#Comment_70647 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:25 -0700 Gekko Well isn't that the future of our species anyway, once the sexist bits and habits will have ceased to comfort some of us, once being a man or a woman will not interfere on our personnal, social and working life. Once being a woman won't mean being paid less for the same job. Once being a man won't mean testosterone shite. Once manhood and womanhood won't mean pizza, gross jokes and male bonding vs small talk, windowshopping and bitching. I'm talking about a very far future I'm afraid.
Anyway, Gilian, whatever that guy meant, he was trying to be nice with you.


Oh, that, and I've started to learn Irish. Stop the press. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70648#Comment_70648 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70648#Comment_70648 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:14:45 -0700 WaxPoetic
the leaves on one of the trees outside cast a shadow on the door to the strange garage in the backyard that looks like Bast.

i'm most of the way through a bottle of cheap chenin blanc and sharing space with a cat. next year i fully anticipate a variation on the same theme.

one of my best friends is going to Poland with her husband. i will be in Tuscon when they get back. i am nervous about being away from them for four weeks, and aware that it will pass. i will miss her. my mother's MS is making her speech more slurred. there is nothing in the world that would make it okay with her if i put anything off on her account, but i'm getting scared and want to be near her.

now that i've surprised myself, i'm gonna go finish that bottle and sleep.

good days, whitechapel... ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70650#Comment_70650 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70650#Comment_70650 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:24:08 -0700 kozmund
Our last night there, a good friend and I decided to stay up late, turn off the generator, consume some of the leftovers and sit outside. To the north, a thunder storm was rolling across the horizon. Directly above, the sky was clear with no light pollution at all. We're talking about something like not a single light in a 30 mile radius. We sat out, smoking someone else's Cuban Cohibas, drinking someone else's aged single malt, shooting the shit, and enjoying the show. At some point, my friend mentioned that seeing so many stars so clearly made him wish more than ever that he had a space ship.

About 15 minutes later, while he was peeing in the bushes, I hollered to him. He came back and asked what I was going on about. I pointed out to him that the brightest object in the sky was currently working its way from horizon to horizon. A long pause. Finally, when it started getting low, he asked, awed and confused, "What the hell is that?"

I had the honor of telling him that it was The International Space Station.
]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70652#Comment_70652 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70652#Comment_70652 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:28:08 -0700 JP Stargazer I used to be one of those guys who thought that meeting people thru the internet was for losers, oddly, me not being a sports guy or some shit like that! I've always been a rather shy guy, but nevertheless prefered direct human contact.
And for a month, I've been having this kind of "relationship" with this incredible woman, via Messenger, who actually lives like 2000 miles away from me!!
And now I want by all means to kill myself! I mean, I, myself, want to catch this skinny guy and punch him to unconciousness!! This skinny guy who is ME!!! How ridiculous this situation can be??! How absurd???
But then again, I've been watching and enjoying this interactive community, like many others, and, well, I'm actually clueless!

So, fuck me sideways!

Love you all!!!!!!!! ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70654#Comment_70654 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70654#Comment_70654 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:40:49 -0700 willreaves
Vent: I'm piss arse drunk at the moment, the result of some finely distilled spirits and a whole load of low-quality swill. The girl I've pined after (fruitlessly) for years is passed out in my living room, underneath a blanket and with pillow. We had a birthday part for my roommate's fiance tonight, which was a rousing success. It's only in these hours when there's no one else in the loft that I curse myself and spit spiteful words at what might have been.

Otherwise, at the moment I'm on a truce with the universe. I can take or leave things as they stand. Give me something to love or something to hate; I cannot stand this equilibrium. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70655#Comment_70655 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70655#Comment_70655 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:42:05 -0700 Gillian
Anyway, Gilian, whatever that guy meant, he was trying to be nice with you.


He was nice and I have no bad feelings against him. It's just I wish I knew what was going on from his point of view. Did he 'clock' me? Or not? Was he asking about later for a reason? Or was he just talking? None of this really matters but part of me can't help but wonder. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70656#Comment_70656 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70656#Comment_70656 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:54:55 -0700 Skeevins
Tin Woodsman

There's a lot of things about that character that I just don't get. He was originally a regular guy whose axe got cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East and accidentally chopped off all of his body parts in turn, thereby creating the need for an obscene amount of tin prosthetics. So basically, he's this lumbering parody of humanity, forced to live as an immortal golem the rest of his days...and yet, when given the opportunity to ask the most powerful person in the land for a single favor, he asks for a heart. At no point does he stop to think "Hey, maybe it would be a good idea if I asked to not be tin anymore. Because there are a good many organs that will improve my odds at a relationship in addition to a heart. And being human again will give me access to the full catalogue." Nope, all he wants is a heart. To me, even the sweet embrace of death would seem like a better plan. What's he going to do if he meets a nice lady? There's only so much metal fingers can do with out rusting.

Which brings me to point #2: tin doesn't rust. So either he has iron joints, or that fucker is one hell of a lubrication freak. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70660#Comment_70660 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70660#Comment_70660 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:55 -0700 whiskeyduck
Whether or not he "clocked" you, he obviously found you attractive enough to make a clumsy pass at you. Are you worried that he might have been a 'chaser? ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70664#Comment_70664 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70664#Comment_70664 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:40:56 -0700 Don Kelly
Haven't done a "where will I be in a year" estimation in a while. As I'm thinking about it I'll give you something to hold me to. In a year I will stop bartending. I'll be 38 and that seems like a fine time to get out. Of course, so did 35 and 36. Never really thought about it here at the dawn of 37.

I have no screams. A mouth, but no screams. I've implemented lots of changes over the last few weeks, so there's been no time for maddening things. A contentedness helps to leaden my eyelids. Wanted to end on some profound thought about coworkers, small, mutual affects, and leaving a mark, but can't muster it at 20 to 4. Sorry to leave everyone drooling for my wisdom. Maybe after a nap.

Best regards. ]]> Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70683#Comment_70683 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70683#Comment_70683 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:40:51 -0700 leech What is wrong with these scum fucks? is it so hard to just come up and say "hey, what you drawing?" or what ever, sure I'll still think you're a douche for interupting, but slightly less of one that needs to throw a ball at someone to start a conversation...people don't apreciate it, I know I've tried it.....Ok maybe it wasn't exactly in a park and instead of a ball it was a glass bottle....and I was heroically drunk, but the concept is similar.


One year from now? I'll probably be preparing for the exhibition at the end of tafe(If I don't fail this year), hopefully I'll be better skilled, a little more confident and much less paranoid. ]]>