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Hello.
Before I start:
@Ninewhilenine83 I just thought you should know that when you said you had no face to show, I imagined you as a faceless demon, human all except the front of your head which was black and empty and dripping with blood from your latest kill as you sat down to a computer to type. Much cooler.
Anyway, this week, I did more than usual, but still not as much as I want. I got sick on Wednesday, which was actually kind of nice in a way because it meant not being at work. I watched 8 1/2 for the first time on Thursday, and it is my new favorite movie. Yesterday and today I worked on that sketchbook/journal thing I posted in the Artist's thread, along with the other thing I posted there. I only have to glue in the end sheets, then I'm done with the book. It's very stormy outside. On Wednesday there was a thunderstorm that started a few fires, but I was too sick and tired to enjoy that spectacle. All the rest of the days this week were boring.
The next great plan is to sell some crap on etsy soon, because I need the moneys. Apparently, the few weeks that I didn't work and the lack of overtime this year at my summer job made the difference of actually being able to afford to buy some food. With what I made this time around, I can pay my rent. That's it. I need more.
My sister's offering to sell me her old car so she and her husband can get one with 4 doors that they can get a car seat in and out of more easily. So I need money for a car. (Yay for new nephew/niece and all that, but I think I'm really probably more excited about me getting a car than them having their first child. I'm a terrible person.) Food would be nice. I've gone without previously because of money. Enough church folks decided to give out food or gallery openings happened for me to survive. But it would be pretty fantastic. The big thing though, is I have to go to New York this spring. Every spring, my school goes on a gallery tour in a different city, so I have the chance. There is a slight possibility that maybe I will be able see the Mormon boy I was complaining about last time I was here if I go. I would only see him briefly, long enough to shake hands and say hi and that's it. But it's enough. So I need to pay for that.
I'm going to try and get an actual job this school year, but it will be tough. The town I'm at is empty in the summer, then suddenly everyone swarms in, and all of them are looking for work. Luckily, if all else fails, my uncle owns a chain of plumbing supply stores, with a location where I will be. Yay for nepotism!
You may take the nurses. I am feeling better. And I can't afford them anyway. -
Hello !
Weeks are hell lately (hmmm i have the feeling i'm saying that pretty often...) between the deadlines (dusted two magazines including one around 100 pages in two single days, go me - send a new brain please) and the ambiance going a bit downward at work (dramadramadrama). So far I manage to keep away as for a start I don't really understand all the fuss, and second, I tend to act like a sponge when people pour their negative thoughts into my ears, which leads me to feel down and drained. Relationships aren't so good lately either (is it an idea or people are really into drama?).
So let's say my next big projects will include a lot of rest, books, films, series and a bunch of positivity from anything I can find. Also working on my website, and planning on learning geeky stuff (Html5 made me curious, new toys!).
I would post a picture if I wasn't so afraid of my zombie look at the moment. Will do next time.
Sending nurses ! -
Oldie but good one, myself as a blood nurse.
I'll get the gloves.
In the most exciting news of the week, I found an insect leg under my fingernail and I'm not sure how it got there.
Oh yea, and I released some website after months of hard, coding labor.
Now I get to sit back and do a bit of maintenance here and there on it while working on my own projects, like a 2 page comic I promised to someone last week and the book I'm hand making myself to sell at SPX and seeing all those people I kept blowing off. Annoyingly, everyone is doing so much stuff at the same time that tonight's requirements for a visit is "how many times have I disappointed you in the past three months?" and taking my outstanding affronts against acquaintances as the reason to give a visit.
I need a teleporter or a temporary car. This city's public transportation is too much crap on Saturdays.
But... I'm free from the shackles of the internets tonight! Cover your orifices, the gloves are snapped on and looking to get filthy. -
- CommentAuthorNinewhilenine83
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
@ Fishelle
It's sad but true. Mine is a dying race. -
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CommentAuthortrini_naenae
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
@Val A Lindsay II: Thanks!
@Fishelle: I hope you get some money soon. -
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- CommentAuthorian holloway
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010 edited
my trusty little camera finally coughed it's last digital lung out before turning it's toes to the sky and I can't work out how to link to photos on the new look flickr- sorry
This week has seen me glued to my desk. I'm putting the finishing touches to the new issue of Wonderful Wooden Reasons which should be online tomorrow night but mostly I've been writing lessons.
I've been asked to teach three new courses (5 weekly classes) as of September so I'm currently frantically writing as many of the 105 lectures as i can before term starts. It's a frankly ridiculous new workload - on top of the one I already have - but the classes are ones I was made to teach. I've spent the last 3 weeks writing the Music in Society course and so far I've put together lessons on such subjects as the music of the Civil Rights movement, Protest songs, The history of LSD and the rise of psychedelia & the influence of the Space Race on the music of the 1970s and 1980s. It's great fun but tiring.
My next big plan is start writing one of the other (less fun) courses - i officially have no life of my own this summer.
how about a horny nurse...
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CommentAuthorCameron C.
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
Today was a fantastic week on almost every front. Especially wednesday. I spent all day with this girl I met at school last semester, and some friends drove down to visit and they got to meet her and we all had dinner.
Three weeks until I move.
Here is me, in my Harvey Head shirt.
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Hello all!
My face, and things more important than my face:
This week I was paid to drink the worst beers I could find, succeeded in pitching the next article (getting drunk on poitÃn while playing Manic Miner), saw my Kink Engineering friends' Necronomicox (available to buy), helped them build a Kitten Accelerator, enjoyed Ignition City and cleaned enough cat hair out of my megaputer's cooling fans to build a spare pet.
My next great plan is the lulu book, the super-scientific funtext which completed the rewiring of my pleasure centers - when I research or write for it I feel great. When I don't I don't.
Nurse? I don't have any, but the Kink Engineers did help Droidsy become one:
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Hello, beloved Cosmic Poseidon. Hope you have plenty of Red Bull in your IV drip and continue to outlive us all.
I did a new SPACE SHARK this week. I was going to make it a strip like the other but decided "fuck that I'll do what I want" and turned it into 3 pages that plant the idea of a micro-world where a "Science Shark" exists and does his own thing. It was kinda emotionally draining but that is a good thing because I felt what I had to feel to say what I wanted to say. Now I can evolve.
I don't like the updated FlickR. Specially since the computers at work still run on Win98 so now it's just plain slow and pointless. This primitive-ass system is hindering my ability to dick around on the job while everything around me gets moar advanced. urgh!
Anyway, I am trying my best to avoid the drinky. My drunk puffy face in Ix's picture kinda gave me a complex. I have only myself to blame since I didn't eat that day and decided to have 4 beers for dinner instead. So I have been working out furiously and avoiding eating nasty shit. Basically I'm training to be Batman.
Also bracing myself for this coming Thursday; going to see Queens of the Stone Age WITH Eagles of Death Metal. It's a one night only show so it's going to be damn special. I already saw NIN, Them Crooked Vultures and The Dead Weather. So after this show I have pretty much seen all my favorite [active (but in NIN's case now inactive)] bands in under a year. yay, big fuckin whoop.
Squid Bless You & Long Live the Batman -
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CommentAuthorkrakatoakatie
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
This is my sleep deprived and sick and tired face. Been crafting overtime to be ready for a con, nannying a lot more than usual (but getting paid to go look at dino bones, so that's nice) and then I got sick. I've this coughing plague that makes it impossible for me to breathe if I lie down.
This week I've taken pictures of dead things.
My next big plan is to finish all the steampunk costumes I'm working on and start painting again. I miss it. Oh and become a world famous artist so I can quit my day job and catch up on sleep. -
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Today I went to an engagement party/BBQ. I think that's the only thing of importance that happened to me this week. Such is the life of an unemployed.
Here's me, a friend and some late disco taken with a crappy cam.
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Hello, this is the most recent picture of me. I was with a bunch of friends looking for dinosaurs at the St. Louis Botanical Garden, it was awesome.
This week has been very fun and productive. The big project of the week has been getting the third issue of my magazine Make Something up and running, have gotten a cover (lovely watercolor piece by Whiechapler, Katie Cowden), and tons of other cool content from various people (a lot of them also from Whitechapel). I've also been working on collaborating on a comic project with an artist friend of mine, we did some more world building and I've started the first script, and also started working on a story for the upcoming magazine PUNKPUNK.
The other fun stuff has featured seeing Gogol Bordello live last night, they are a phenomenal band to see live. They played for nearly two hours straight with little to no talk but still kept the audience involved the whole time. I also just found out one of my friends who I haven't seen in several years is now in town, and will get to hang out with him later this weekend.
Next great plan is to get this script and story finished, along with finishing up third issue of Make Something. I may mess around with a science fiction idea I've had in my head for a while too if I can find time, though I will likely just jump to working out the rest of the story for the comic project, as well as settle on how we are going to release the comic. We are thinking about web comic and PODing the individual stories until we are finished (it should be 5-6 'issues' when completed) and try to self-publish a collection when all is said and done. Not 100% sure yet.
Three of my friends are RNs, sadly all of them are working all night, I will make sure to send them tomorrow night though. -
Hello.
I'm the one on the right.
This week, I posted a significant new entry to my website for the first time in over a year, including the first five pages of a new comics project, done with Gabriel Andrade:
I'm quite pleased with it.
My next great plan involves finding someone to publish the thing. Also, finding a professional and/or experienced logo designer to give the cover a once-over. I designed what you see above, and it's not really my strong suit. -
@Ninewhilenine83
I'm sorry to hear that. It seems like your kind would be able to simply terrify us humans enough that you would be able to take over and be the most powerful race of all, but I guess sometimes the world just doesn't make sense.
@trini_naenae
Thank you. On the bright side, I'm training to be aartisthobo anyway, so it's good practice for the rest of my life. -
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CommentAuthorLeandro Damasceno
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
Hello! I've missed you guys.
Went back to school and that's awesome. Have to write 3 articles by the end of the month and that's awesome too. It's the first time I'm excited about something in a loooooong time. Feels like I've benn living in a bubble for the longest time and now I'm begining to experience the world again. It tastes funny outside of the bubble, but it's good funny, not disgusting funny.
Spent yesterday just thinking about stuff. Amazing how a day of thinking, just thinking, solve a lot of problems. So tonight and tomorrow will be mostly writing those articles. I have to finish at least one of them by monday, so I can have more time to think about this one that is really bugging me and that I can't figure it out what I'm gonna talk about.
And that's it for now. Hope all you guys have a nice saturday night. -
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CommentAuthorcity creed
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
well hello
this week:
On thursday, I was at a friend's house for a little gathering after a night out. There was about seven of us sitting in a circle. The hipster on my left starts saying to people, "are you Jewish? - a little bit maybe? you look like you could be..." He goes clockwise round the whole circle, asking everyone if they have any Jewish heritage. I wait expectantly, but the question never comes. I say, "Aren't you going to ask if I'm Jewish?" He looks at me for a long second from behind his hipster glasses with the masking tape over the nosebridge bit. "No." He says.
This is what I have to deal with.
I'm witty, cerebral, urbane (very urbane) - I could be Jewish goddamit.
But just because I look like this:
people assume I'm some sort of Aryan stormtrooper.
Perhaps I shouldn't have shaved my head again.
Feel my pain Whitechapel. Love you a lot.
oh: plans and nurses have no place in my understanding of the universe, sorry. -
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CommentAuthorRussell Lissau
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
Hello, Warren and everyone.
Got back moments ago from a barbecue at Challengers Comics in Chicago that was, in fact, the release party for READING WITH PICTURES. It was a well-attended event at a fantastic store.
I also now have two cases of said comic sitting in my office, a sight that always makes me weak in the knees. God, I love looking at boxes of my own comics. They're REAL, you know? Now I have to sell them, of course.
Tonight I'll be doing some writing, on a new project called L'ange de Bastogne that I'm positively giddy about. The artist is frequent collaborator and pal mpMann, for a publisher to be named later.
First I need some whiskey. Not in an artsy-fartsy writer way, but for medication. My lower back is killing me and Scotch helps. So does vicodin, but that's a bad mix. -
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- CommentAuthorSigridEllis
- CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
Hello.
Flickr has re-done their interface, dammit. I hope this actually works.
This week I crammed about a semester's worth of reading on the Victorian era. Mostly just because it's fascinating. But also as research for a GURPS rpg campaign, and also for possible writing projects. I also did the usual care and feeding of my kids, with summer day camps and school and whatnot.
My next great plan is to print runs of these comics I have sitting on my computer. But I have to wait to get paid, first. As long as I have material to sell when Fallcon comes around, I'll be set. -
*Hello Whitechapel.
*This week I worked my two jobs, practiced with my two bands (one of which has a show with Northampton's own David J in November); tried in vain to be the sensible one & manage a major drama/breakup/conflict that was threatening to destroy one of the bands. Burroughs' admonition to "never get involved in a boy and girl fight" was definitely ringing in my ears. Ho-hum.
*My next great plan is to continue not murdering stupid people and have more than a dollar to my name.
*I don't think this is what you meant:
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Good evening, Moon President.
This week I've mostly been up to my elbows in work of the pays-the-bills type, which is nice, since rent (last month's, to be more precise) wants to be paid. Fortunately my employer has agreed (in fact, suggested) to rent the next residence to me as a job benefit, which a) means I don't have to worry about the landlord's views regarding my credit rating and/or poly relationship and b) might even have some tax benefits for me. So that's a checkmark in the plus column.
Right now GF-the-science-journo (no longer in the astronomy business) is on a retreat at her folks' cabin and I'm having a girls' night with GF-the-rat-basketball-coach (the GF is not the rat, to clarify) and binging on The Gilmore Girls. I think I'm going to have to check if we have any ice cream, on general priciple.
Next plan! Tomorrow, more copies of 800MPS shall be made, and people will buy them on next week's gigs by the truckload and I shall make millions of units of currency. Failing that, more patent translations and frantic mailing of the Fabulous Taphead Bio to venues and promoters. The 2010 Manifest demands four countries to play in, dammit. Also looks like I'll be releasing another album this year, mostly because WHY NOT. Upcoming skillset: silkscreening.
This is me. You can't tell, but I'm totally not wearing any pants. Also, there's a bug on that wall there that I'm looking at (ending in a preposition).
The only nurses I know are of the burly closed-ward psychiatric kind, I don't think you'll want those.
