• Just as a little protip, if anybody ever sends you a link with, like, "roflcopterd00d" or "halflife2.zoy" involved, do not click it. You'll hate it, 'cause it sucks. Skritch has gotten me with this delightful little prank like a thousand times by this point.
• Whose Tusken Raider do you prefer? E. Lamar's? Or Paul Pope's?
• Castle Magazine is all about illustration and design and is available for free download at their site. Definitely worth checking out.
• I figured I would update the old CFY,K today, since tomorrow I am going on the Friendship Tour 2007, with stops in Orlando, Los Angeles, and Denver, so I won't be posting for a little while. (I'm not sure if that matters, really, though, since I'm visiting like nine tenths of my readers on this trip.)
Monday, August 13, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Music Is My Hawt Hawt Secks
• The Border Disaster Episode Two - at long last - is now extant! Enjoy it. (Either here or on Happy's site.)
Friday, August 10, 2007
It's Too Hot To Think Straight
• I always forget that magazines are sold by the celebrities on their covers. I'm weirdly loyal to several publications, based on various reasons, so I generally don't care who's on the cover at all. But then the other day I bought a Paste Magazine - which I typically hate because it reminds me of an old dude at a rock show with like a meticulously maintained haircut - solely because the White Stripes were on the cover. I've talked about this before, like how White Stripes interviews are so off-putting because of how normal Jack White seems. But also, you spend the whole interview waiting on Meg White to drop some essential truth like she's Silent Bob or some shit. And sometimes she does. But she usually keeps quiet, which makes for great tension.
• Lately all I've been doing is drawing pictures and thinking about drawing pictures. So I think that the rest of this post is going to be about comics and illustration and drawing and crap.
• Are you guys reading the weekly Yikes that Fantagraphics puts up? You ought to be. Weissman rules.
• This is the best three seconds you'll have all day.
• My favorite Hernandez bro, Gilbert - Thee Famous Person's favorite is Jaime, who also rules, but I only mention it because FP's mad that she doesn't get mentioned more often on this blog - has a new comic out on Dark Horse that I'd like to read. But I can't because the comic book store in my town closed. Dark Horse is also involved with this web comic called "Sugarshock," but I'm not linking to it on GP, but it's worth reading, so you should find it and do so.
• Paul Pope has a new book out. (Someone out to be it for me since I'm about to officially be old as all hell, ha ha.) Paul Pope is my hero. You can tell he uses a brush in a lot of his work, and I wonder how he does that. I am scared of the brush.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Phenomenal Get-Up Game
• So. It's been a minute. This is true. But let's be fair. I have two more days of college left. Shit is real right now.
• Also, me and HappyThawts decided that, since The Border Disaster Episode Two is indeed taking forever due to unforseen cirumstances, we'd drop The Border Disaster Episode 1.5 to keep things moving.
• More (quite) soon.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
The American Classic
• I remember during high school, I think I ate a Twix and drank a Dr. Pepper - I know what you're thinking. Shut up. - every single day, and I thought it was the single greatest soft drink / candy bar combination ever conceived by man. But then the other day I hit upon some new shit, which is actually some old shit, but has, regardless, supplanted the old situation. "The American Classic," the best snack ever (I used to have a roommate that would laugh hysterically every time anybody said "snack" or "snacks"), consists of one eight ounce Coca-Cola in the glass bottle and one regular milk chocolate Hershey Bar. But then, to top it all off, you chase it with one Marlboro cigarette, because otherwise you feel like you're a little kid in the 1950's and you want to dress up like a cowboy and sit only inches in front of a black and white television.
• I figured I should put up something for you to listen to while you wait, with baited breath, for the new Border Disaster episode, which should really be happening any day now. It's this Rolling Stones demo / outtake thing where they play a Rice Krispies jingle or something, and invent punk rock in the process.
• Also, you guys need a new NSFW blog to read?
• So I was talking to S. Higginbotham the other day, while she was en route to her new home. I told her this story about how I saw this thing happen a little while ago that was so, like, obviously and directly symbolic that I could never really use that experience for the basis of, say, a piece of fiction, because it would come across as forced and dumb. Luckily, "forced and dumb" is pretty much the order of the day here in the blogosphere, so. Anyway.
You might haver heard of this tragedy the of involving the deaths of nine firefighters. It was pretty horrible. In the aftermath of this, somebody started putting up these billboards around town that said "Not Forgotten," and I thought they did a really decent job on them. I was, no kidding, touched and impressed when I first saw one.
About a a month after, I was sitting in the driv-thru at Wendy's, and the person in front of me was taking forever, and the whole time I was watching a guy cover up the "Not Forgotten" billboard with a real estate advertisement. I guess it was only ever a matter of time, but watching it happen was kind of a powerful thing. It was like the kind of sentimentality that Norman Rockwell leaves out.
