| That ball was on the line! Come on! |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|10:30 am] |
Some recent drawrngh:
Whiteboard Dragon
Not Far From The Truth: Side Effects
(of engineering!)
While I was gone last week my sister moved in and replaced King Douchebag. We've just about finished cleaning up and rearranging everything. I have a proper living room now. All the bills and loose ends were tied up yesterday (the DWP visit was a quick and painless process, surprisingly) and I am now soundly in control of my expenses.
And what better way to mark a new era than OLD SCHOOL DOUBLES
(We lost 2-6, 0-6, then forfeit)
Driving mom to the airport today. The very last bit of work on the kitchen post-inspection remodeling was finished a half hour ago so I can finally GET MY MOP ON. And if a floor was EVER overdue for a severe mopping, it's mine.
( The Douchebag is gone, huzzah! )
A NEW ERA OF HAIRLESS COUNTERTOPS AND CLEAN FLOORS! TIL ALL ARE ONE! |
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| Six hour drive, a hundred bees dead. |
[Mar. 22nd, 2008|09:09 pm] |
So I was away in the bay for five days. Didn't check the internet at ALL. Wasn't even curious. Well, I get back and it appears that practically nothing has happened on yon interwebs. I should take these net-less breaks more often. It was easier than I suspected to just get away from the useless cycle of reflexively checking the same sites every hour. Talk about an unhealthy routine.
I preferred reading John McEnroe's "You Cannot Be Serious"
( Five day review: solitude, handstands, and a tremendous medical disaster )
More on rehearsals and the new kitchen in a few days. Mom's visiting for a bit and helping us settle in to the new cleaned-up domicile. I've still got some heavy mopping to do but we're almost done. |
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| Wiiegh |
[Oct. 1st, 2007|07:45 pm] |
Tony's moving back to the bay and stopped by Sam's house Saturday night. Only about five people made it and I was the only other ZG-er, everyone else was working or busy. It was basically looking at weird photos and playing the Wii for four hours.
PARTY HERD
We got our tennis on like nobody's business. I think because Nintendo's a family system it rigs the game so each player gets at LEAST one match point in best-of-five. If someone was getting dominated, the AI partner managed to screw up just enough or the ball would get knocked into the stands repeatedly to even things out. I swear.
Boxing was ridiculous. I KO'd Sam in the first round, and lost the rematch in the second. I was trying to throw liver shots for all I was worth but ultimately it was for naught. It was about as accurate as those ridiculous Super Monkey Ball mini-games I couldn't figure out for the life of me (EFF YOU RING TOSS)
Tony was hell-bent on beating the Bowling challenges and got respectably far on the obstacles. I was sucking pretty hard at it until I adopted my sister's inexplicably accurate granny/freeze technique.
Screw golf.
Baseball got its hooks in me hard. Baseball was my favorite sport as a kid until I tried Little League and competitive culture beat all the fun out of it. But after playing the simple 3-inning game I liked how it felt and played the home run challenge a half-dozen times in a row. I was swinging the bejeezus out of that tiny stick. My best was 7 or 8 out of 10. My upper back felt really tired on Sunday, I didn't know why, and it wasn't until today when I started using my arm more that my right rotator cuff was barking at me. Boy was I was swinging that bat a lot harder than I needed to (wouldn't have been anywhere near as fun just flicking the wrist). My shoulder was all "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING YOU HAVEN'T SWUNG A BAT IN 13 YEARS YOU 'TARD." I would still totally get the baseball bat handle for the controller.
Well I have a stronger case for getting a Wii now, but not unless I have people over more often. Ought to get the #awesome crew together for a Super Bomberman tournament. I've spent a lot of money recently so maybe around/after Christmas.
It reminded me that I should get the ZerGs together for a Sega Superstars VF session eventually. Maybe if someone has a get-together who lives more around the Glendale/Burbank area and has a big living room.
P.S. THIS MAN GOT HIS RIB ON. CAN YOU DO ANY LESS? |
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| Tife and Limes: Jump They Say |
[Aug. 14th, 2007|01:05 am] |
Haven't blooged for ages. Nothing eventful happened until the weekend anyway.
( Vegan Plate, Dusty Carpets, El Guapo )
Mailing stickers is fun. It's going over pretty well. I've been including fortunes with them too. Ho ho ho. GET YOU SOME STICKERS. |
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| The Black People Showwww The Black Black People Showwww |
[Jun. 16th, 2007|01:31 am] |
Fortunately, I was completely wrong about this week being absolutely disastrous. Things started out fairly busy on monday and tuesday, then slowed to a trot by wednesday. On thursday and friday I had time to do backflips in-between tasks and idle about quite a bit. We only had one day of pure hell which was last last Thursday, everything's cool now, next monday-wednesday will probably be fine. Now that we know my boss being gone is no big deal, it's smooooooth sailing. Hoo-ray.
I've had David Alan Grier singing the theme to The Black People Show stuck in my head for about a day and a half. (edit: while you're at it watch the damn Juice Weasel sketch. CLASSIC)
Nothing of note happened this week. It's getting HOT. August is going to SUCK. Well, not so much for me unless I'm home in the middle of the day and the power goes out.
I fed my sister's mice while she's away. Their names are Cinnamon and Butterscotch. Personally I would've named them Bernard and Murray, gender aside.
Cute little buggers. I just watched them eat for like fifteen minutes. Cinnamon was a complete bitch though, she'd like steal a whole peanut from Butter and eat it in the corner, then run around the tank if Butter was all "Hey YOU DIDN'T GET IN ON THIS, you WHORE" Also boy have I not experienced that animal-urine smell in a while. Had to throw out the bedding I replaced asap.
I watched Breakin'. HEL-LOOOO JHERI CURL. We used to rent this and Breakin' 2 a lot back in the day (remember video stores with nintendo games and shit? Good times). Lots of stuff in that movie I don't remember. If I was in the panel of judges at the end I would've thrown those fools out so fast. Also, Jean-Claude Van Damme in a singlet.
It's somebody's birthday this weekend.
[17:55] Esco> you need anything for your birthday gene
[17:55] Esco> new mop, broom, swiffer
[17:55] purple_dips> not really
[17:55] purple_dips> AWW
[17:55] Internet> LOL!!
[17:55] Esco> dishrags
[17:55] purple_dips> you faggot
[17:55] Internet> Damn Larry
[17:55] cka> hahahahahahaha
[17:55] Esco> mr clean
[17:55] purple_dips> although a new swiffer would
[17:55] Internet> Save some for tomorrow if you go
[17:55] purple_dips> wat
[17:55] purple_dips> no
[17:55] purple_dips> ;_;
We're such great friends! :DDD |
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| Hyphennnnn combooooo |
[May. 9th, 2007|06:58 pm] |
Dang Dad why don't you just buy me Street Signs and a t-shirt while you're at it ;D
Also, you best be getting/watching the Live @ the Fillmore DVD and not your usual press-play-and-do-something-else movie watching ritual.
Then again this could very well be one of those cases where my Dad already knew about Ozomatli and just didn't say anything- and here I come up all Hyper CE Ver.B Enthused about it as if I'm some kind of Magellan basking in my personal discovery before my eventual skewering by a cheesed-off Lapu-Lapu. This situation has been known to happen (i.e. Getz/Byrd, Mendes & Brasil '66)
Hmm. In other news, it looks like my Aunt is intent on joining a Frisco Biker Gang called the Intensity-Built Flowers. The ink is kind of smeared on the back of this card but I'm fairly positive that's what it says. Nothing comparatively mundane like identifying wildflowers.
My dumb ass finally figured out how to get the PS3 running off my wireless DSL, which was a stupidly easy process. I just never considered it prior because I barely used the wireless at all until I got the notebook. Threw in Call of Duty 3 and tried out the multiplayer.
Holy BALLS. If I had this kind of instant entertainment when I was in school, I would've flunked out SO hard. This generation has so much convenience at their hands it's mind-boggling. Anyway it's like Battlefield only more... grounded, I guess. I played the Poisson map a mess of times, just tanks ALL OVER the landscape. Best thing is that people really do spread out over the different classes, never all Snipers or MGs or AAs. The spawning also shifts around the map so teams never get trapped in a particular corner for too long. I'm not particularly good at killing in these games but I'm really good at assists so I most frequently play as a medic. If I find some guys on my team camping someplace (usually snipers or an MG laid out at a corner) I'll just hang out and revive them. Respawning only takes five seconds but reviving adds to the team score. One game I was in a barn roof with two Axis snipers and I just went back and forth healing them about a dozen times before the Allies finally stormed the barn with four guys just to get me. Great stuff! In Battlefield it was really easy in Team Battle for all your idiot mates to spread out on all corners of the map so it might as well would've been a deathmatch. In CoD you spawn within a good proximity to your team and have better reason to stay together and double-up on vehicles.
I was briefly considering selling CoD3 but holy heck no way now. And I keep hearing all sorts of jubilance over CoD4, which I cannot wait to try. HOT TIME
Got home from work and ANOTHER call from a miscellaneous talent agency. I've mentioned this before. This time the lady actually said "Congratulations!" as if I fucking WON an interview from a new-ass talent agency that's just farming for a database. OH I SO RUCKY. Same pitch and bullshit, "One of our scouts referred you to us and said you have a great look for blah blah dick" and when I ask for specifics they freeze up and lose their space on the prewritten speech. Well that part is kind of fun actually.
Anyway I want to dole out hella hugs and kisses on short-haired brunettes with pouty lips :(((
I guess I'll just call Sam and ask if I can come over and watch Tokyo Raiders. |
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| It's all right to make noise! |
[May. 7th, 2007|11:50 pm] |
Saturday gym kinda sucked because half the floor was taken up by a hip-hop dance crew with one guy who kept complaining about not understanding the "vision". Shooting later that afternoon however turned out to be more hilarious than usual, even though all we were doing was literally running about the same area and gasping for breath. Shot a couple great in-jokes too. Nay, the BEST in-jokes. "What was that noise??"
What is it with these Chinese places and putting the drinks in jars
YES JARS ANDREW SHUT IT
Unfortunately we didn't get to watch Tokyo Raiders (lol) at Sam's despite building up the hype for so long before dropping him off. Andrew also promised to narrate Silver Hawk scene-by-scene over the phone but that didn't happen either.
Sunday: Brad ranked to Conqueror in VF5 (FINALLY) and Puzzle Quest beaten (DOUBLE FINALLY). Tried some drawings on the backlist, didn't turn out the way I wanted.
My sister's birthday not being far from mine, I took her present as inspiration and did some digging on el interweb. I found the block was one of two new Banpresto sound plushes, the other was surprisingly not difficult to find. Thus she ended up with the handsome fellow on the lower right plus Every Extend Extra for the PSP.
OH THE MEMORIES
When I bought the Goomba I knew I had to get one for myself later. This thing is just about the absolute ridiculous must-haveness. I wish I had those extremely pronounced angry eyebrows. It makes the stomped sound when you hit it and after a few it'll make the GLACK sound of Mario touching it and the accompanying fall-off-the-screen jingle. HOLY RAD MAN. Next to come out this year are a yellow block from NSMB, think the sound might be the same as the original block (hope it's different) and a green Koopa shell which is mine the second it drops. ( Click for Banpresto label )
Didn't get any drawing finished today, so... girl in panda suit.
Good Night! |
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| 4/29 |
[Apr. 30th, 2007|12:56 am] |
It was a very good birthday. I've long since run out of substantial reasons to party or make a big deal about it and I don't expect anything, so if anything good happens then it's an awesome surprise. :D
( Details. )
The latter half of my twenties has been LEAGUES better than the first half, so I just feel that the best is yet to come. Ain't nothing like getting better with age. Rock! |
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| "Drinking is bad for your bone density!" "Wait I have to write that one down" |
[Mar. 25th, 2007|11:54 pm] |
I am climbing beyond the week-long-depression-a-thon(g) slowly but surely. The drawing helped. I'm currently doing a daily theme on the whiteboard at work, be assembling those on the devart this weekend.
It's very difficult for me to get out of the house when I'm in a deep funk but Saturday night I wrenched myself away to D&B in Arcadia. Truth be told, I don't really like it there. It's small for a D&B, has an extremely crappy game selection (90% shooting or driving, no Pod Racer, no fighters at all), games are all overpriced, the dining service is consistently plodding (food quality's a gamble too), and I don't drink so the bar is useless. My friends made it worth going though. A lot of people "called in sick", many at the last minute. It was a lot of fun though with the folks we had. I was more deranged than usual considering I was tired and depressed (funny how that works out once I get into a group of people) and there were hella laughs.
I was listening to Aaron and Sam's work stories and I do not envy them. They've been working on a string of really big movies but they still carry constant concern over lack of job security and the ever-present (and absolutely retarded) backstage politics. I hate to be reminded of that backbiting nonsense. Maybe I could handle that kind of thing in a few years but it's no way for me to climb any ladders. Last year really was the right time to leave the industry and make a living the old-fashioned way.
Aaron says hanging out with me reminds him of an episode of FLCL. "It's got action, it's got comedy, and it's got a guy that can grow a robot out of his forehead." Yep, pretty close.
Fortunately for me the few games I like there were running. I burned through 3 stages of L.A. Machineguns on one credit (just like in college!) and beat Star Wars Trilogy.
( Uninteresting and repeated babble about two arcade shooters, blurry pics ) |
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| Death, deletion, stasis lock |
[Dec. 12th, 2006|12:10 am] |
Sunday I got a bunch of voice messages and texts from people regarding my grandfather's death. Although I really appreciated the sentiment, most of them were contrary to my feelings about it. "You're gonna make it through this" and "everything's gonna be okay" and "this terrible tragedy" etc. Made me wonder if anyone actually read what I wrote about him. It's not tragic. It's not traumatizing or emotionally crippling. It would have been sad or terrible had he died at a younger age with lots left to accomplish in his life, but he had settled into his old age long ago and passed on as a late octogenarian. His health was deteriorating and he could no longer communicate very well. His death was natural. There's nothing tragic or unfair about him dying under those circumstances.
Death shouldn't always be associated with anguish and sadness. It does happen to those that aren't ready, but sometimes it's a natural end to a long journey and/or a release from pain and suffering. I just thought it strange that everyone jumped to the assumption it was a worst-case scenario.
To reiterate, I really didn't know my grandfather well. He came to the states, worked his ass off, raised five kids, and established a strong Chinese-American family. One hell of an accomplishment, and that's what I'll remember him for.
Locution-complaint of the week: Condolences. It's the expected response after any tragedy and eventually becomes pretty empty since it's used so much. Condolences sounds like a cheap card bought at Walgreens or a momentary pout in lieu of actual emotion.
Fancy match/plans patch is jumping off like whoa. Sunday we got one of longest and most difficult shots ever. It took about 12-15 tries (plus 10 rehearsals) but we got it down solid eventually. We made almost twice as much progress over the day as I thought we would. It started out sunny and brisk but soon turned to cloudy and WIND-CHILL FREEZING AS THE DICKENS. After I got home not only did I discover I somehow lightly strained my left quadricep (just enough to be irritating), I also had an S-level muscle cramp in my left leg for a good thirty seconds. I remember Mestre telling me the worst pain he ever had in his life was both of his legs cramping up after fishing in a river for a few hours (prolonged cold or overexertion can cause inadequate oxygenation of muscles thus causing painful contractions later on). The pain was seriously intense but it disappeared with no aftereffects like it was never there, which was odd. Anyway. We're having some time off after Christmas so the crew's in high gear to get one more fight done beforehand. Progress!
I've had Guitar Hero 2 for about five days now and I still haven't opened it. Shit to DO. Man. I also want to get more hours in this week so my last paycheck before Christmas is pretty hefty. Plans man plans. |
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| I hate the word condolences. It's sterile and overused. |
[Dec. 9th, 2006|11:00 pm] |
1918-2006
Last night at 10 pm, Grandpa Leong passed. Considering the difficulty he was having trying to breathe the past few years, it's a relief to know he's moved on. I don't know much about him and we rarely spoke, but his presence was important. There's no question that he was one resilient and hard-working dude. |
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| Done I'm Done And I'm On To The Next |
[Dec. 7th, 2006|11:11 pm] |
The hands of a working man.
-Set my alarm to NPR. Been listening to it all morning and other news all day for the past week or so on my MP3 player (good ol' FM radio, screw you iPod). Yesterday I listened to a Senate hearing all afternoon which was actually pretty interesting. Unfortunately today was a press conference with Bush, and I SWEAR to GOD, listening to the man for any longer than a minute decreases your intelligence. He is bar none one of the worst public speakers in authority today. All he does is repeat the same damn phrases and buzzwords while occasionally getting irate when called on his shit. Just add "Stay The Course" to the beginning or end of every other sentence and you have an accurate Bush impression. I was half expecting him to start going on about A Thousand Points of Light. Apparently We Will No Quit, We Will Not Run, We'll Stay Until The Job Is Done. Times twelve. U.S.A.! WHOO! Fucking jets, man!
-Good week at work. We're slowly but surely moving everything into a new place FIVE TIMES as big. My boss is smart, keeping it within the same city close to his house and restaurant. It's only a mile away from the current shop. There's about fifteen years worth of accumulated crap in the store so it's definitely going to take up til new year's to be ready. Going to be a wild 2007.
-Looks like my grandfather's on the edge. His lungs are full of fluid after a lifetime of smoking and he can't eat. Although his health has been deteriorating for a few years, it did seem on several occasions that he would outlive us all. He may pass before Christmas. My aunts have been watching him around the clock so if he's ready to go, at least he'll go in comfort. I don't know that much about my grandfather but it makes me glad knowing I've inherited such perennial genes.
Everything is as it is. And what is, is everything. Circle of life, etc.
-Already making plans for Xmas. I have GOT to go to a New Year's party when I get back. Hopefully there will be something nice and low-key going on. With snacks! HELLA snacks! Snacky snacks! Board games! Toasts! Make-outs! Pixelated shenanigans!
Trundling on. I have got to go to sleep early for once. |
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| Post-Thanks shenanicas lka fas hsf gkl |
[Nov. 28th, 2006|07:20 pm] |
I gave my personal site a new frontpage with a picture I took at Thanksgiving. A footnote at the bottom was necessary.
Friday afternoon my sister and I met up with Tony because he wanted to take some pictures. Even though I KNEW he'd make me do something with goddamned FOOD (SERIOUSLY THOUGH MAN WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE FOOD AND NEON COLORS IN EVERYTHING) I went along with it for the sake of art or whatever.
( Photography, Nintendo DS'n, superfied nerdery, collage dismantling ) |
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| Thanksgiving Not-As-Mega-As-Last-Time Pictoral Thanksgivingish what what |
[Nov. 26th, 2006|11:58 pm] |
After that bleedin' long-as-the-nine-hells drive I didn't have the strumgth to get out of bed until about four. Late-night pasta in the works right now. Also macula-deep in my old In Living Color/Sifl & Olly tapes. I have like eight of the damn things. MAN they did a lot of Ike Turner sketches.
Thanksgiving was laid-back and coooooool. It was one of the smallest gatherings since there were some uncles absent. Things carried on in true Leong fashion, which is constant munching lathered with a fine coat of dry wit.
( Pictures, hoo-ha, whatnot, so-on and so-forth. Hyphen bonanza. ) |
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| YOU GOT ME SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DO-INNNNN |
[Oct. 21st, 2006|12:36 am] |
Queen Super-Nerd Champion Edition Raindance sent me the Guitar Hero II demo. The game is SO hot. It's on the latest OPM demo disc, which I hear is getting stolen left and right all over this great nation. Rightly so! The demo has Strutter, Shout At The Devil, You Really Got Me, and YYZ on all difficulties. After great exclamations, PD had no choice but to run out and nab a copy for himself. The first FIVE places he went to had all the discs stolen from the magazine. Ho ho ho. TRIPLE CHORDS LIKE WHOA.
[19:37] pd> oh MAN
[19:37] pd> when you break that streak
[19:37] pd> it hurts your soul
[19:37] pd> fret board all shadowy
[19:37] pd> and you hear this GROOOAAAN
[19:37] pd> and it's in synch with your heart breaking
[19:38] Esco> it hurts man you feel it in your chest
[19:41] pd> WHAT THE FUCK
[19:41] pd> i jsut got hit with a triple chord on "you really got me"
[19:41] pd> Red, Yellow, and Orange
[19:41] pd> and this is on hard mode only
[19:41] Esco> I'm saying
[19:42] Esco> I got through about half of yyz on hard before I blew up
[19:42] pd> time for strutter
[19:42] pd> i still can't get over that losing a streak effect
[19:43] Esco> I know man the pain
[19:43] pd> YES
[19:43] pd> ;__;
[19:43] * Esco changes topic to '#THE_PAIN'
Left: Eddie Van Halen solo fustigating my sister's fingers
My sister and Diana came over and we watched Thank You For Smoking, which was one of the smartest films I've seen this year. Really glad I finally got the chance to see it. The only thing we didn't like was Katie Holmes, but how her character ends up was damn funny.
I got a tiger scroll, gum, and a penguin magnet from China.
I am naming the penguin Pedro.
There's an eagle my mom sent me that has some kind of strange Canadian foot disease. |
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| HOLD YOUR HORSES: Weekend of Champions |
[Jun. 12th, 2006|11:20 pm] |
My weeks have been busy but my weekends even busier. Picking up where I left off:
( Guitar Hero, Chinese Food, Tekken, Hateolympics )
It was the best of times.
Phil, Gene, Masai, some darkie |
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| "Francois." "Yes, commissioner?" "I've just cut off my thumb. Hmm-hm. Hmm-hm. Hm." |
[Jun. 10th, 2006|03:38 pm] |
I'm over at my sister's right now because my mom is visiting from Canada. At the moment she is all up ons the GUITAR HERO and not doing bad at all. If it's a video game that my mom can pick up and play and succeed at quickly, then it's GAME OF THE YEAR. I swear. Anyone who rags on GH has NEVER PLAYED IT.
And now she's making me play Karaoke Revolution. :| (not a bad game at all but I'm a fairly peculiar baritone phenomenon) I'm not tone-deaf though, thank Zeus for that. This game would be seriously insane with a room full of drunk people though. Drunk Guitar Hero I'm not so sure about- I think the risk of drool/fluids on guitars and people getting brained with controllers is not a fun possibility.
The only interesting thing that happened on 6/6/06 (there's still a 20 in there you dumb fundies) was during lunch I saw a husky woman in a white dress launch into a ten-minute tirade over CHEESE at this diner. It was amazing. Of all the priorities in her life, she had to get outraged and yell at a cashier who had nothing to do with her damn cheese for ten minutes and make a complete idiotic spectacle of herself in front of everyone. Apparently the principle of cheese was worth that. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER WORLD
Thursday the elusive internet came over and we went seventy straight matches in T5. Some of the best competition in ages. I very narrowly snuck ahead at 37-33 by the night's end. I learned the awesome fury of his Ganryu (d/b+2, d/f+1,2,1 WALL PRESSURE WALL PRESSURE >:|) but my Jack-5 and Feng had a few surprises as well. It was also an epic night of jokes and zings and there were some stomach-cramping moments indeed. Conversation keywords: IT'S CRACK, neckbeard/stomach flu, HATEOLYMPICS, sick fish/porno 'stache/beanbag man, INFINITY GAUNTLET NIGGA, check out my FLIGHTY ride, too many people on the planet, HAVE A GOOD ONE BYE. Hilarium certified.
Friday I spent all day driving all over the damn place, which was great. Went from Canoga Park to Burbank to Santa Monica to West L.A. way the hell out to ROSEMEAD then back to Canoga Park. These driving days aren't that often but I don't have to pay for a damn thing while GETTING PAID it's so rad. How I love ye, Butter Stick Inc.
Peter Sellers was such a friggin' genius.
I got some half-finished drawings and a list of crap to work on (Genghis Khan Supertrain logo, Gezora playing Guitar Hero, Red Afro Action Squad, Jazz and Rolph, etc)
Gonna be a great year. The GREATEST of years. On my way up, GOTENGO STYLE |
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