Remi's Bloglet - Wednesday 28 November 2007

All peeps in New York and Boston and such East Coast Areas, I'm going to be at Dreamation, and hopefully running some games. Come out and play! _
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10:22:47 PM, Wednesday 28 November 2007

I'm looking to start doing comics again, and I'm looking for people who wouldn't mind advising/stone souping with me while I find my inspiration. As part of that, I've collected my three longest pieces (Too Fat to be a Rockstar, Secretland, The Mule) and put them in a single Zip file. I'm planning on updating too-fat.com, as well with a well-ordered archive, but that may be a few weeks off. If you'd like to read these stories, fire up an image viewer and please enjoy. I found remarkably little to be embarassed about (Okay, the art is shaky throughout, but I ain't apologizing for it).

I also forgot to mention that this package contains about 25 Too Fat strips that I thought were lost forever due to hard drive and server crashes. Turns out technology does sometime work better in the future and I was able to recover them. _
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06:31:17 PM, Wednesday 21 November 2007

I just picked up Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together and . . . man. All comics should be this good. If a pop-culturally-aware character-driven ninja-action indie-rock-slacker comic sounds even vaguely interesting, run out and buy the entire run of Scott Pilgrim. While mired in video games, music, romantic melodrama, and manga, Scott Pilgrim transcends its influences to fuse into some new creature that is far better and more powerful than anything that has come before.

Even though it takes heavily from the past, I hope Scott Pilgrim is the future. _
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11:46:55 AM, Wednesday 21 November 2007

So Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, and Daniel Clowes all appeared on the Simpsons. The weirdest thing (other than Dan Clowes on The Simpsons), is that there's a big poster for Alan Moore's pornographic graphic novel Lost Girls in the background for most of the scene.

Check it. _
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12:52:40 AM, Tuesday 20 November 2007

I just cleared 15 gigs of podcasts off my hard drive. I love listening to them, but it was time to admit that the space they were taking up was more valuable than the podcasts themselves (which I can re-retrieve at any time).

I kept all the Mark Kermode film reviews, though. Those are only up for a week, and I'd like the archive. For whatever reason.

Also, I just found this podcast randomly, it's a Canadian radio show called The Ongoing History of New Music. I read a transcript and it seems nice and in-depth about rock and pop music. If Sound Opinions isn't enough (or isn't your bag), check out the RAW podcast, it's the full podcast, sans the music clips. UPDATE: Ahhh, crap, it stopped being updated back in July. _
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02:45:12 AM, Thursday 15 November 2007

Veronica Mars Season 4 'Pilot'
Part 1 | Part 2

A 4-year jump into the future, Veronica's first day at the FBI. This would have been so damn good. _
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01:44:28 AM, Thursday 15 November 2007

I've always liked the Futurama theme, and didn't know it was based on an earlier tune by a crazy French guy who was a musique concrete pioneer. I am the sort of person who said, "Gee, I wish the Futurama theme was longer," and now my wish has been gratned.

Thank you 1-4-5. _
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10:13:13 AM, Monday 12 November 2007

This may be the greatest comic panel of all time.

From Bob Burden and Rick Geary's Gumby. _
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11:00:28 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2007

Ever wanted to hear Kristin Chenoweth sing 'Birdhouse in Your Soul'? Well, Pushing Daisies delivers. _
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01:32:46 PM, Wednesday 7 November 2007

Last week, my CageMatch team Gladiator fell to the comic might of Panthro. However, we looked damned good while doing so. The show was fun, too. _
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07:45:21 PM, Wednesday 31 October 2007

Well, that was an odd episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. An uncomfortable mix of Beach-Party-via-John Hughes teenage hijinx and the weird, complex, and violent court life the show has spent two seasons developing. Not that it was bad, just very strange, tonally. The monstrous Azula was an especially awkward fit. Perhaps they've drawn her too cartoonishly? _
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11:54:36 PM, Sunday 21 October 2007

Submitted Without Comment
Kirk: Gael Garcia Bernal
Spock: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Bones: Jake Gyllenhaal
Uhura: Djimon Hounsou
Scotty: Kristen Bell
Sulu: Sonja Sohn
Chekov: Paul Rudd
Khan: Katee Sackhoff _
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04:17:18 PM, Friday 19 October 2007

So I've embarked on a new adventure. I'm going to be directing my first improv group, a two-man show called Extraordinary Rendition. My interest in theater has always laid evenly across the onstage and offstage aspects, and I'm excited to get back in the director's role again. _
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06:25:18 PM, Tuesday 9 October 2007

Life is good!
1. DSI Comedy Theater is good! We just did the 24Live charity event. 24 hours of comedy over three days. I was in 4 shows, twice hosting Cage Match as Troy Sterling, the debut of Proletariat Princess the new Harold team I'm on, and a really fast punchy set with Caligula at 2am. I really love the community of people at DSI, and I've made some deep friendships there, as well as finding a safe haven for creativity.

2. My gaming is good! The Durham 3 just finished up the second season of Deep in the Blue, a hard-edged cop game. We've just brought in a new member, Joe Stanton (one of the aforementioned friends from improv), and we're almost at podcast #50! In our new game we're playing people in a sort of pan-galactic peace corps. Our house looks like a pile of nipples! We found the door but couldn't turn on the lights! We couldn't use the toilet! We were licked by polyamorous rhinoceros! It was awesome. Again, my game group is a safe haven for creativity. I did not know I could have friends like I had at St. John's again, and then I started gaming with Jason and Clinton.

3. I'm going back to school to get an AAS in design. I think not having a degree has hindered my progress in the profession which I want to be a part of, and that's dumb. I'm not a savant, but I have some skills, and spending a year or two really working on them would take me to the next level. I'm ready. Finally.

4. I'm drawing again. It feels SO GOOD.

5. I have the most intelligent, supportive, wonderful girl in the world by my side. I am lucky beyond measure. I love you, Liz. _
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11:36:41 PM, Monday 1 October 2007

And here's what I was working on that elicited the previous post. I got a feel for what was appropriate, detail-wise, as I went along, so the head is sort of insanely fiddly. I'm happy with the design, overall, though. Very weird, but hopefully fun weird. I also did seven spot illustrations for the interior, which I will post later. In all, this is the largest single project that I've completed in a long time. Fred was really patient with me, and I hope the wait was worth it.

Kaleidotrope's really great, so please support the work of all of the contributors by buying a copy or subscribing! _
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02:25:07 PM, Thursday 27 September 2007

Huh, so that's how you get really fine lines with a Wacom tablet. _
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05:08:19 AM, Thursday 27 September 2007

Man, I gotta say that Zuda is pretty tempting for a goof like me.

Not that I really think I'd win a popularity contest of this sort, or get selected by them, but it might be worth a shot, y'know?

(Note: Zuda is a webcomics site being developed by DC. You're either immediately selected OR you go through a popularity-voting-contest to win a contract. There is actually money involved, which is what makes it attractive. It's also what makes Zuda periolous. However, it's nice to see an alternative-entry for webcomic development, and creators do seem to ultimately retain the rights to their creation.) _
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12:59:47 AM, Saturday 22 September 2007

The video for They Might Be Giants' 'I'm Impressed' is good. _
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12:27:57 AM, Wednesday 19 September 2007

Sound Opinions have an astounding interview/oral history/performance with the Flaming Lips this week. If you have ANY interest in the Lips or outstanding music journalism, you owe it to yourself to listen to it. _
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11:21:58 PM, Tuesday 18 September 2007

Man, I've been out of the loop so long, I didn't even realize there WAS a Battlestar Galactica TV Movie coming out. But there is! Awesome. Battlestar Galactica: Razor will follow the travails of the Pegasus before, during, and after the Cylon attack that wiped out the 12 Colonies. Should be good stuff.

Man, I miss BSG. I want the final season, already. _
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10:55:52 AM, Monday 17 September 2007

Russian Kettlebells, the entire site is like staring into the mouth of madness. Really macho madness that maybe punched a bear once.

[via Nate] _
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03:37:52 PM, Wednesday 12 September 2007

I'm really enjoying Breakfast of the Gods, a look at the grim world the cartoon cereal pitchmen of our youth now inhabit. Well-written, attractively drawn, and totally bonkers. _
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03:25:25 PM, Tuesday 11 September 2007

Can someone explain Chumby to me? _
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09:29:28 AM, Tuesday 11 September 2007

I will be hosting the Dual Duel as Troy Sterling the next three Thursdays. Twelve two-person teams compete for a performance slot during 24Live. It's going to be a ton of fun.
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10:22:41 AM, Monday 10 September 2007

Steve Jobs just announced an iPhone-style iPod (with WiFi). Shiny. _
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01:38:46 PM, Wednesday 5 September 2007

So I've never been able to play Survival Horror games. The control scheme never felt natural, and I died way too easily. It wasn't suspenseful, it was dumb.

The Wii has changed that completely. Resident Evil 4 is fantastic, and I'm totally absorbed. I killed a lake monster and defended a house against a crush of zombies, among other things. It's a good game, regardless, but the control scheme (walk with the nunchuk joystick, aim with the remote) is much more natural and intuitive than the two-joystick style most games of the type use. I still wish I could strafe/walk side-to-side instead of having to turn all the time, but that has become a minor complaint instead of a source of rage. _
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04:25:08 AM, Sunday 2 September 2007

Imagine if one of the lines of 'Octopus's Garden' was 'Has a sphincter for an eye.' _
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01:26:24 AM, Saturday 1 September 2007

Did I mention I bought a Wii? It's fun. _
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03:14:21 PM, Thursday 30 August 2007

I've mentioned Rami Shapiro a few times in the past. He was, is, my rabbi. His story about his experience in sesshin, a Zen retreat, is hilarious, holy, and utterly wonderful. I urge everyone to read all three parts.

First Koan, Last Koan [1 | 2 | 3] _
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11:21:55 PM, Sunday 26 August 2007

In further celebrity news:
Kristen Bell is not only in Judd Apatow's upcoming movie, but she's been cast in the next season of Heroes. Yay! A reason to watch the show. I'm glad to see that the end of Veronica Mars isn't the last hurrah for her. She's among my favorite actors at the moment. Funny, vulnerable, and believable. _
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01:23:53 PM, Monday 20 August 2007

Superbad was Supergood. That is all. _
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08:16:06 AM, Saturday 18 August 2007

Warren Ellis on Britney Spears, a rare moment of humanity:
I find myself feeling sorry for her. She should have been able to exist as a perfectly made-up and perfectly lit pop confection, a virtual creature, and then allowed to fade away into a real life when her time was done. Instead, we get presented with her daily, almost retching with pain and fear, her weak chin pulled back into her neck as her mouth twists with the agony of trying to hold back hot tears in the face of a bunch of people with cameras. Puffy eyes behind huge ugly sunglasses. It's no wonder they all go mad. _
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10:38:29 AM, Friday 17 August 2007

Mira: The Star With a Comet's Tail.

[via boing boing] _
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11:57:11 AM, Thursday 16 August 2007

So this online acquaintance was running a LARP and needed video characters for it, and my good friend Jason Morningstar asked if I'd be interested in doing the Dictator character. I jumped up and said, "YES!"

Here's the result. I think it's interesting and funny and scary, but at its core the video is just me doing a semi-improvised rant. I knew what the questions were going to be beforehand, and had some idea where I was going, but nothing was scripted. Jason also did an agricultural report, which is hilarious, in a screamingly dull way.

I like that we have the same mustache.

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11:08:31 PM, Wednesday 15 August 2007

So Edge.org, an intellectual webzine I hadn't heard of until today, published two 'opposing' views on climate change. However, both seem to be saying that we shouldn't really worry about climate change at all. Freeman Dyson argues climate change isn't real, and if it is, it's nothing to make a fuss about. Alun Anderson says that it will open up new streams of wealth and oil, with social fallout being the thing we really have to deal with.

Is this the new face of the denial circuit? "Don't worry about climate change, it'll all shake out in the end?" Or am I missing something? _
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02:54:26 PM, Wednesday 15 August 2007

80 Best Photoshop Text Effects on the Web. Some real cheese in there, but also a good storehouse of various text-manipulation techniques.

via Drawn! _
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07:26:02 AM, Wednesday 8 August 2007

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