Remi's Bloglet - Friday 14 June 2002

I'm gonna go see Cake. In a park in Atlanta. For Free. Yay! _
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05:18:11 PM, Friday 14 June 2002

The Comics Journal interviews Ralph Steadman. These .mp3's are Comics Journal editor and hothead Gary Groth speaking with artist/cartoonist Steadman, know for his work with Hunter S. Thompson among others. (I can't comment on the quality, but I'm downloading the first segment now). _
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02:23:24 PM, Friday 14 June 2002

"Dude, you're some kind of gastronomic Hell's Angel." Mark Leyner talks about his grandmother. _
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05:52:41 PM, Wednesday 12 June 2002

I know most of y'all don't care for them, but with a Lemony Snicket-penned screenplay A Series of Unfortunate Events is heading to the big screen. _
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04:06:56 PM, Wednesday 12 June 2002

James Kochalka! Talentless hack? Mad Genius? Sick-o Prophet? I dunno, but there's an interesting discussion of his Frog-With-A-Boner epic, Fancy Froglin over at the Modern Tales Message Boards. Also, his more-accessible, daily, Sketchbook Diaries are over at americanelf.com. I'm firmly in the 'Mad Genius' camp, but your mileage may vary. _
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06:39:45 PM, Tuesday 11 June 2002

A little bandwagon jumping for South Park me. _
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10:16:05 AM, Tuesday 11 June 2002

"Rumors of an ultimate confrontation with ancient evil remain uncorroborated." _
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04:40:23 PM, Monday 10 June 2002

Viz Communications is going to startselling Shonen Jump, the most popular manga anthology in Japan, in the US! The bad news is that it will all be old comic serials like Dragonball Z and Yugi-Oh. Dang, I was hoping for some unknown series as well. Still, five bucks for 250 pages is an interesting gamble. _
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03:00:08 PM, Monday 10 June 2002

Do you like High Fantasy? Are you a writer wannabe? Perhaps you would like a crack at creating the new Dungeons and Dragons Campaign Setting.

[from Uncle Bear] _
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12:31:32 AM, Monday 10 June 2002

My SJ Games experience. _
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03:08:43 PM, Sunday 9 June 2002

Rockstar Game is a fun little game that will have you spending a couple minutes on it every day. You get more points every 3 hours, and they accrue over time. If you sign up, please paste this in the 'referrer' section (yes, I know, if you find it morally repugnant, don't do it):
http://www.rockstargame.com/?Referer=73194 _
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02:00:56 AM, Saturday 8 June 2002

I congratulated him on AIM, but nothing is better than a blog-birthday-hello. Happy Birthday, Martin! _
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02:07:18 AM, Friday 7 June 2002

I've run into two beautiful pieces of art this week. The first was reading The Demolished Man, which Andrew recommended a long time back and I just got around to reading. Tense, taught, completely insane, with a vicious energy that dares you to continue reading. It's a 'look inside the mind of the killer' book, but so well written, with such absorbing characters that even in a genre-genre piece (SF mystery) it works.

The other was watching Donnie Darko tonight. This is the sort of exploration of schizophrenia that I was expecting from A Beautiful Mind. Was it real? Was it made up in a dying mind? It doesn't matter! And the great thing is that the movie isn't just about madness and/or time travel, but family, growing up, love, and society. It does it all beautifully. A film that moves and breathes. Exhausting to watch, but incredibly rewarding.

I feel better now. _
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12:28:30 AM, Thursday 6 June 2002

Who am I fooling? Myself, apparently. _
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06:22:05 AM, Wednesday 5 June 2002

Even comic geeks make fun of Fantastic Four Fans. _
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02:35:11 AM, Wednesday 5 June 2002

Yeah! Fried Twinkies! _
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03:22:52 PM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

The not-safe-for-work cartoon stuffed animal antics of Achewood. _
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02:57:03 AM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

By the way, this is where I practice. I've got the home set, but Roy works there, so we can practice during the off hours for free. I'm also 'teaching' Dave Wisdom to play, but that's another thing entirely. _
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02:31:16 AM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

Can you tell where my concern recently has been? I haven't even mentioned that in the last week I've gone to two band practices with this dude Roy. It's been fun. I've been learning just how limited a drummer I am, but it ain't no big thing. I mean, there are plenty of great bands out there with drummers that could only be described as 'adequate'. right? Right? ::crickets:: _
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02:21:33 AM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

The Keenspace maitenance people sent out an e-mail to the effect of 'our server's hardrive is going to die any second now, be sure to FTP anything you don't want to lose off of it in the near future.'

Of course, Keenspace has been down pretty much all day. They might as well just send a little .wav file with someone shouting 'You're Fucked!' along with their helpful little note. _
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02:19:54 AM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

Once again, Too Fat is updating late. Comicollage, too. Keenspace . . . yarrrr. _
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03:41:25 PM, Monday 3 June 2002

Want to know if you'll be able to see Too Fat (or any of the other comics on Keenspace?) check this tracking site. _
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01:34:12 AM, Monday 3 June 2002

Soul Calibur . . . so addictive. Hydro Thunder is fun, but the true crack-like sheen is reserved for the king of fighters on Dreamcast. (It was really damn hot out, so we went to the Mall and picked through the used DC games, of which there were many thanks to the ridiculous trade-in programs at EB) _
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09:23:34 PM, Sunday 2 June 2002

New Too Fat (link is up at the top left of the page, clicky the link, clicky the liiiiiiiink), but Keenspace will be down intermittently until they figure out this bug that causes the server to crash, breaks accounts, and makes babies into Burt Bacharach fans. _
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01:32:37 PM, Saturday 1 June 2002

Long String of Profanity (keenspace)_
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03:45:00 AM, Saturday 1 June 2002

I seem to have forgotten how to draw again. _
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01:28:56 AM, Saturday 1 June 2002

I think it's time for Martin to write some Hate Mail. _
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03:06:12 PM, Friday 31 May 2002

My pal Dave (Wisdom) got free passes to Enon tonight! Yay! Free music! _
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09:38:51 PM, Thursday 30 May 2002

Cool modular robot demos.

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06:09:00 PM, Thursday 30 May 2002

The Onion interviews Tom Waits. Tom Waits does not want to answer The Onion's questions, he wants to talk about ancient honey and waiting at traffic lights. _
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01:25:46 PM, Thursday 30 May 2002

Sometimes bad comicbook art is due to laziness, stress, or simple lack of talent, and sometimes you're fleeing a country because of political unrest . _
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01:06:11 AM, Thursday 30 May 2002

Tenacious D's gloriously profane video for 'Fuck Her Gently'. _
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03:23:31 AM, Wednesday 29 May 2002

Okay, for the true End of the Age experience, complete with navigation, go here. _
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08:52:42 AM, Monday 27 May 2002

Okay, let's try these:
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08:35:10 AM, Monday 27 May 2002

I worked like a demon through the night, and I have the opening salvo of End of the Age ready to go. There will be additional tweaks when I am more awake, but this is pretty much what it will look like. Keenspace is, of course, being a bitch, so for now I've just got the raw images in my geocities thing. Here are the pages (Page 3 is real big, but I think it's pretty cool):
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08:05:52 AM, Monday 27 May 2002

This person is in all of Wes Anderson's movies, and that's it. Might this be Wes Anderson's stage name? _
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08:21:42 PM, Wednesday 22 May 2002

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