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July 18th, 2008

07:13 pm - Hey! Lookit! Lookit me! I was going to load the pictures onto LJ and do the whole thing in here, under a cut, but man, that seems like a lot of work right now. And I have to go make myself something to eat. 's been a long day. Current Mood: hee Current Music: Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes Tags: doodle, ts

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July 17th, 2008

09:42 pm - You know when I said I only read comics with good art? My mind has been changed! I am loving A Girl and Her Fed where (don't let the last few pages fool you) for the most part, the art is... abstractions of the human form? I don't quite know how to describe it. But if you're looking for a comic about the patriot act, I recommend this one. Current Mood: amused Current Music: 8mm - Save Yourself Tags: comics

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July 16th, 2008

08:49 pm - What My Comic Needs: More Characters! I just realized recently that I have painted myself into a tiny, tiny corner, when I killed off the only two people who can actually talk to madman Danny Relston*. So now I'm combing through my notes for someone old enough to be his contemporary, villianous enough to keep up with him, and who doesn't have a serious conflict of interest working for him. And doesn't have a compelling reason to kill him. Sigh. Or, you know, I'll just make someone up.** *I can't count Tess, because she will do whatever she's told. And Troy can talk to him, but she'd never work for him. **I do have an idea for who to use for one, er, vacancy. The other one, well... Current Mood: silly Current Music: The Judybats - In this Maroon Tags: silliness, ts

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July 4th, 2008

03:16 pm - What have I been doing with my day off? ( ads! ) Now I can get back to working on my comic! Current Mood: busy Current Music: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me Tags: pw, ts

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July 1st, 2008

08:12 pm - RE: Goat Monkey Princess Alright, so I am shoring up the transcriptions in my bid to start advertising my site again (this weekend? next weekend? I guess?) when I ran into a little problem called 'big tiger' Here is the transcript for 609: Raven Girl: (speaking another language) I can't believe you! I could have lost an eye! Cybil Lattimer: (speaking another language) Then go be a... a carrion crow somewhere else! That man isn't dead! Goat Monkey Princess: (speaking another language) [[standing over John Rask with a knife]] Ah, but that's easy enough to fix. Raven Girl: (speaking another language) I'm bleeding. I am actually bleeding! The thing is, the Goat Monkey Princess and the Raven Girl, they both have names. But I'm not sure I want to use them- the descriptives are more, well, descriptive. And Cybil's not talking to Loosha and Cera, she's talking to a Princess and a, um, raven representative(?). I guess I could be all, "Loosha the Goat Monkey Princess" and "Cera, (Possible) Raven Demi-Goddess (Maybe) (unless she's just delusional)" but that also seems a little heavy handed. Not that anyone cares about the transcriptions, which I only do because I like the random comic feature! Also, it would probably help to have a name for goat monkey people, but... that's not happening tonight. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Ivy - I guess I'm just a little too sensitive Tags: ohno, ts

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June 28th, 2008

12:59 pm - More comic babbling So I am thinking about going back to advertising my site. (I know when I want to start too, what comic will be up when I do. In two weeks, I think.) And, talking about this with someone, he said that I might consider putting up a story guide. Which is a good idea, but I'm not sure I can do it. One of the best guides that I've seen is the one over at goats also, with an rider that Rosenberg doesn't even like guides- and didn't write his own. But I feel that my comic is so massive and so messy that maybe I ought to- and so massive and messy that maybe I can't. Grr. Although, this has forced me to actually read through the archives, and surprise myself, once again, to find that I really like my comic. A lot. Current Mood: lazy Current Music: Sparklehorse - Mountains Tags: ts

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June 6th, 2008

09:25 am - Hey! ZOMG! It's my comic's five year anniversary today! This is actually something I'm going to ignore until July, if I do anything about it at all, but still, there it is. Yay! Current Mood: surprised Current Music: Friends Like You, Who Needs Friends? Tags: ts

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June 3rd, 2008

07:12 pm - "So do you think this is supposed to read 'unlikable' or 'unkillable'?" I could go back to work on my novel. Seriously, I could. I don't understand why, of all the novels I've written, this one is the hardest for me to set aside. The others I've finished - or just reached a point, really, where I couldn't go on, which isn't like 'finishing' at all- The others I could set aside, no matter how happy or unhappy I was with them... but this one, this hateful, appalling, sadistic little book, has its hooks in me and I keep measuring it, thinking... I could try again. I could maybe at least get through the second act. Actually, what I'm really thinking about is the difference between novels and screenplays. Because if I start over and write this thing again as a novel, I'd have to lose my prologue, which works in horror movies, but I don't think would work in the novel. Also, as I keep telling people, there's a point at the second act (the point where my screenplay collapsed on itself) where I have to make that choice- if I was going to write a script I would do things differently than if I was writing it as a novel. Of course, what's easier about writing scripts is that I don't have to care that much about the cannon fodder, don't have to give them motivations or bother to flesh them out, which is going to be difficult in writing this mess as a novel, because I don't really like writing characters that are just going to be killed off immediately. Current Mood: But not today! Current Music: Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet Tags: write

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May 24th, 2008

09:46 pm - since it's picture day: Current Mood: Caffinated! Oh Noes! Current Music: The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 & 2 Tags: cats

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May 21st, 2008

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April 28th, 2008

08:48 pm - Actually I *have* been working on this script... And I'm closing in on 60 pages. I mean, no way am I going to finish, but considering everything, I am pretty impressed with my progress. and he may be the evil overlord of these parts, but he's really kind of a dumbass And now, to bed. Toronto in... uh... thirty six hours? siiiigh I'm not ready to go! Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Sigur Ros Tags: nano

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April 25th, 2008

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April 10th, 2008

09:03 pm - Head in the clouds, feet underground Actually, not feeling quite as exhausted as I have been, and (fingers crossed) I'll probably be able to stay out of the office this weekend. Though I've got a lot of stuff to buy before Toronto - the thing is, I love my job, it's totally casual, jeans and sneakers, but this means that I suddenly don't have the sorts of nice things I need to wear at this conference. But this is besides the point- the point being Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Which is a fantastic book. An awesome, impressive, enjoyable book. But, for me at least, it lacked something. It's right up my alley, it's smart, funny, biting, chilling, brilliant, AMAZING... and then, it gets EVEN MORE AMAZING, and then, IMPOSSIBLY AMAZING and yet... It took me forever to read. I mean, it's a long book, over 800 pages, but I've read long books quickly before, and, this one, I was completely content to read only thirty pages a day during lunch. I was content to leave it at work over the weekends. I ended up giving myself quotas of pages to read so that I would actually finish the book before May. Meanwhile, I picked up a (400 page) Orson Scott Card novel this morning and already I'm a third of the way through it. I spent time between lunch and leaving work wondering if I could sneak it into the bathroom and read some more of it. I read it while I was walking home. I read it despite having things I was totally planning on doing this evening. I read it and thought, this is what reading used to be like. Compulsive. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Kristin Hersh - Rock Candy Brains Tags: books

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April 8th, 2008

02:39 pm - (sigh) So according to my datebook, the next time I'm going to be home is Friday evening. I guess I'm going to be eating take out for the next couple days. AND I'm not going to be able to work on the comic (even though it's already almost done) until Friday, either. AND I'm going to spend the weekend running errands and, probably, hanging out at the laundromat again. But I've got ten pages of my script written, which means I'm, um, only about halfway to where I should be right now. Whee! Current Mood: blank Current Music: Grant Lee Buffalo - Jupiter & Teardrop Tags: busy, ts

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March 22nd, 2008

05:46 pm - considering the options I've spent the day setting up computer stuff - a new keyboard for starters - and fixing the index page on my website but now I'm thinking about redesigning the site again - which is always a more horrible task each time I do it, as the site only gets bigger. Of course, not now, this would be in May, when I'm going to be shoring up the site anyway for my usual yearly whatever-it-is. The anniversary. When I act like I care about promoting my site. Although, I do kinda feel like I'd be redesigning the site solely so that my stupid oversized twitter badge will fit somewhere up top. But I could do a couple other things too- I was thinking of putting a row of storyline badges down the left hand side, or something like that. And make the index page even busier! Is the index page too busy already? Or, you know, anything I should do to it, if I'm going to do something to it? Now I just need to set up the wireless on my alphasmart... and... you know, actually do something productive today? Current Mood: calm Current Music: Goldfrapp - Black Cherry Tags: ts

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March 16th, 2008

11:11 am - I could be dreaming... Last night I had a dream where I'd just seen a movie so scary I was afraid to go to sleep. I had a dream about being afraid to have dreams? It's so postmodern! In other news: I'm done with the transcribing! Maybe I'll get some real work done today? Current Mood: confused Current Music: The Judybats - The Lake Tags: dream

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March 14th, 2008

09:12 pm - We don't talk about the novel But, whatever! It seems that my MC might be gay. Which isn't a problem, since I don't have a plot to derail, but it would have been nice to know this 20K ago! And, thank you, transcribers! It looks like I'll probably be able to wrap this OhNo thing up this weekend. Good, because next week at work looks like hell. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Tom Petty - Echo

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March 12th, 2008

07:27 pm - more busywork So, after three months of an intense "rename all the mp3 files on the harddrive" project (yes, I am both that boring and that obsessive) something has just attracted my attention: OhNoRobot seems to be up and running again! And I have a ton of work to do! I haven't done any transcribing in, um, well, a while, anyway, leaving me with 50+ comics to do. Some of which are ridiculously wordy. Anyway, if any wonderful person wants to help me out, the transcripts end at 577 or you could start with this page. Anyway, if you can help, it's great, if not, it's cool. I'm hoping to get that caught up by May or during May so I can put my energy (such as it is) into getting back into advertising the site in June, by which time (fingers crossed) I'll be back to doing regular updates. For now, though, I should be working on that novel- which is going pretty well, actually. Except I don't even have a title for it! Not even one of the idiotic provisional titles I just stick onto things (which, often as not, stay stuck, *cough*big tiger*cough*) Current Mood: fine Current Music: Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy Tags: ts

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March 3rd, 2008

08:50 pm - status report (with excessive punctuation!!) I got my Alphasmart! It's so cool. I loaded a bunch of my ridiculous novels on it, but I lost my footnotes. And you know I rely on footnotes, so I might have to do all that again, but not right away. (I lost them not because of the alphasmart, but because I transferred my files from word to notepad so I could get rid of the really heavy stuff (i.e., illustrations) before loading them on the alphasmart) Also, since I already have a computer set up, I'm not going to be using it right now, but Thursday I have a thing to go to! that's totally Alphasmartable! Stickers have been ordered! :O The comic will probably be updated tomorrow evening! I have no idea at all about any updates after that!! I am working on a novel! I am, right now, 2K behind schedule! And it totally makes no sense, since I couldn't decide between two ideas, one that was crazy bad and one that was boring, so I decided to do both of them? Even though they only have the barest of things in common? And take place about fifteen years apart? I don't even know sometimes. Also, apparently I'm less of a crazy person when I'm hung over? So I should drink more? What kind of a life lesson is that? Current Mood: busy Current Music: Bedroom Walls - Do the Buildings and Cops Make You Smile? Tags: nano, ts

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March 2nd, 2008

02:21 pm - the new new card I think there's something wrong with her nose, but I also think that I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing this. Also, isn't lime green and purple the colors of... The Joker? Tags: cards, ts

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