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You know what?
If you have broadband* and you don't watch the Tiki Bar TV... you're dead to me.
On a lighter note, registration is open for this years Comikaze 24hr comic challenge (formerly known as The 24hrs in Oz Comics Chall... meh, too much typing. You know what I'm talking about...)
* - and, more specifically, the non-ass-raping kind such as Telstra (or anyone using its tubes) serves up where you're metered like a child who watches too much TV...
On a lighter note, registration is open for this years Comikaze 24hr comic challenge (formerly known as The 24hrs in Oz Comics Chall... meh, too much typing. You know what I'm talking about...)
* - and, more specifically, the non-ass-raping kind such as Telstra (or anyone using its tubes) serves up where you're metered like a child who watches too much TV...
Like candy
Anyone interested in Joost?
I have invites if anyone's interested (Mac or Windows - Broadband required... seriously required. Some content is hi-rez.)
If you wanna try it out, email me: maggie at heyniceshoes . com
I have invites if anyone's interested (Mac or Windows - Broadband required... seriously required. Some content is hi-rez.)
If you wanna try it out, email me: maggie at heyniceshoes . com
Free Comics Day
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Free Comics Day was yesterday. We went to Million Year Picnic and New England Comics and both picked up some free booty as well as spent some $ to show we appreciated it. Here's a pic of that haul plus things I've bought lately.
This. Is. Fucked. UP!
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/blog/?p=44
Matt (from MacHall) has apparently been fired from his job by the Freaked-Out-by-Fox-News'-Scrolling-Ticker-of-Doom* people sheeple at his [former] job. I mean... SERIOUSLY... in this gun-crazed weapon-obsessed "shoot first ask questions on the late news" John Fucking Wayne Swagger society we've built up in this country... this guy gets fired for talking about, of all things, a target rifle?
Look you mentally-challenged fucktards! You can have the NRA's Gunirvana or you can have sensible gun control and sleep at night and stop freaking out at work and getting people fired! You can't have both! You. Fucking. Retards! You cow-brained slow-witted dolts make me really angry! You're all for shooting a bunch of people you don't know, but when you make some totally irrational leap of logic out of dim-witted fear and stampede you just end up hurting people. But I'm NOT angry enough to get a gun and thin the herd because _I_ believe in sensible gun control! Even you, the IQ-average decreasers, the lowest common denominator, the pandered-to middle, even you deserve to live -- but you don't deserve to have any control over other people's lives! RARGH!
Anyway... please pass this story on (not my rant, of course). One of our own has been trampled by the mindless herd and we need to pick him up if we can. Anyone got a good electric prod?
* - Seriously... their damned ticker is still just as fear-mongering, strident and histrionic as it was on Sept. 12th. '01.
Matt (from MacHall) has apparently been fired from his job by the Freaked-Out-by-Fox-News'-Scrolling-Ticker-of-Doom* people sheeple at his [former] job. I mean... SERIOUSLY... in this gun-crazed weapon-obsessed "shoot first ask questions on the late news" John Fucking Wayne Swagger society we've built up in this country... this guy gets fired for talking about, of all things, a target rifle?
Look you mentally-challenged fucktards! You can have the NRA's Gunirvana or you can have sensible gun control and sleep at night and stop freaking out at work and getting people fired! You can't have both! You. Fucking. Retards! You cow-brained slow-witted dolts make me really angry! You're all for shooting a bunch of people you don't know, but when you make some totally irrational leap of logic out of dim-witted fear and stampede you just end up hurting people. But I'm NOT angry enough to get a gun and thin the herd because _I_ believe in sensible gun control! Even you, the IQ-average decreasers, the lowest common denominator, the pandered-to middle, even you deserve to live -- but you don't deserve to have any control over other people's lives! RARGH!
Anyway... please pass this story on (not my rant, of course). One of our own has been trampled by the mindless herd and we need to pick him up if we can. Anyone got a good electric prod?
* - Seriously... their damned ticker is still just as fear-mongering, strident and histrionic as it was on Sept. 12th. '01.
A quick post in honour
Farewell, Wally Schirra. You were an exceptional human and a good guy.
We're all Bojangles... who killed Bojangles...
Two things I done did this week.
Mistah Bones (Sharpie and Prismacolors on A3, everything else in Photoshop). What do you think? T-shirt???
mistah_bones.jpg
Leia. Ink on A4, then coloured in Photoshop. (I felt like my nerd cred was suffering. I haven't drawn anything from Star Wars since the 80s.) Inspired by the manga-like toy/bust you may have seen (I can't be assed to find a pic).
leia2.jpg
Mistah Bones (Sharpie and Prismacolors on A3, everything else in Photoshop). What do you think? T-shirt???
mistah_bones.jpg
Leia. Ink on A4, then coloured in Photoshop. (I felt like my nerd cred was suffering. I haven't drawn anything from Star Wars since the 80s.) Inspired by the manga-like toy/bust you may have seen (I can't be assed to find a pic).
leia2.jpg
Tyger
Yanked from kean. I think some of you on my flist might enjoy this:
http://www.guilherme.tv/tyger/
http://www.guilherme.tv/tyger/
I guess I should post this too
I neglected to mention that Episode 2 of the 'Pulp Faction - Comics in Australia' Podcast is out.
It's an hour long (and that's a merciless edit - we had nearly 2 hours in the can) and I so can't wait to do the next one!
It's an hour long (and that's a merciless edit - we had nearly 2 hours in the can) and I so can't wait to do the next one!
Hmmm... what about this?
Did I post this? (some of you may have seen it inside a tutorial video hehe)
It 's a bit older.
link, cuz lj cut doesn't seem to work for some reason and this is NSFW
It 's a bit older.
link, cuz lj cut doesn't seem to work for some reason and this is NSFW
Did I post this? Did I? Post this? I don't think I posted this? Did I?
If I did, sorry for the picspam. If I didn't, sorry to take so long doing it.
Something I did a month or so ago.
India ink on bristol comic board, prismacolor markers
before colouring
Something I did a month or so ago.
India ink on bristol comic board, prismacolor markers
before colouring
Aussie comics nerds
I command thee! Go record a comment on Skype!
Username = pulpfactory
We need fodder!
Username = pulpfactory
We need fodder!
I know how to science!
daleksface
Lookie what I gots.
It and some buttons, The Whole Ive Showbag™, arrived t'other day. (I, uh, don't mean Delksface... I mean the comic)
Well now.
So... apparently Dell is going to start offering Windows XP again as an option because so many customers are asking for it instead of Vista. *
In other news, Microsoft sold 244 copies of Vista in China. (there are no zeroes missing from that number)
As one person put it "244 master discs for pirates". (actually, my guess is that the gov't order 100 and 12 pirates each ordered a case. hehe)
But Xbox is kickin' ass. That reminds me... something I wrote recently at Helium (just to see what the hub-bub was about). In it, I praise the Xbox and downplay OSX's rise in market share**. No. Seriously. See?
* - I saw this happen just last week. The first faculty member to buy a new PC pre-loaded with Vista. He was in my office asking after an XP disk within about 4 days. (and yeah, it was a Dell, funnily enough)
** - Hef probably just had a coronary. Someone please check on him?
In other news, Microsoft sold 244 copies of Vista in China. (there are no zeroes missing from that number)
As one person put it "244 master discs for pirates". (actually, my guess is that the gov't order 100 and 12 pirates each ordered a case. hehe)
But Xbox is kickin' ass. That reminds me... something I wrote recently at Helium (just to see what the hub-bub was about). In it, I praise the Xbox and downplay OSX's rise in market share**. No. Seriously. See?
* - I saw this happen just last week. The first faculty member to buy a new PC pre-loaded with Vista. He was in my office asking after an XP disk within about 4 days. (and yeah, it was a Dell, funnily enough)
** - Hef probably just had a coronary. Someone please check on him?
Hellboy: Sword of Storms
First DVD from the Hellboy Animated series.
Anthology of Graphic Fiction
A nice big anthology with some of the best short subject artists and writers doing indy comics today (and some who are not so indy). Well worth the price and looks good on the coffee table, too.
Hypocrisy hides hate
Old argument: "Gays can't serve because they can be blackmailed by someone who threatens to expose them." New argument: "Gays can't serve openly because it lowers morale... or something." (after "don't ask, don't tell") Well, which is it? If gays in the military, and there have always and will always be gays who serve and serve with distinction(!), are willing to out themselves there's no threat of blackmail. If engaging in any sexual act in...
Digital shoe-horning
Or "why Microsoft's new Xbox video service is stupid". The Xbox is the best thing Microsoft has done in ages. And one of the few things they've consistently done smartly and right. I'm not an Xbox user, but I'm not about to sit here and say that Xbox Live wasn't a total success and that the Xbox user interface isn't a complete win. I may be a Windows basher, but I'll readily admit that I...
Free speech versus pot shots
I was prepared to say "now, that's not right." When I read that WRKO host John DePetro was fired for calling Grace Ross a "fat lesbian" on air, My first thought was "here's where we have to take it on the chin and stand up for a jerk in the interest of fairness." Then I read what he said in context....
Just who the hell is Maggie McFee?
Current Netflix Movies
| Shipped: The Road |
 Shipped on 08/26/10. From the ash-covered, post-apocalyptic remains of Appalachia, the Father (Viggo Mortensen) and Son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) take to the road in search of a better life. But the Father's health is failing, lending urgency to a journey impeded by nomadic bands of cannibals. Charlize Theron co-stars in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in a fictional near future in which the world has been virtually destroyed. |
| Shipped: Stalker |
 Shipped on 08/11/10. Based on the Russian sci-fi novel Roadside Picnic, this science fiction milestone from director Andrei Tarkovsky takes you into the Zone, a mysterious, guarded realm containing a mystical room in which occupants' secret dreams come true. Stalker, a man able to lead others to this holy grail, escorts a writer and a scientist through this foreboding territory and confronts several unexpected challenges along the way. |
| Shipped: The Statement |
 Shipped on 08/24/10. The buried sins of the past almost always find a way to surface in the present, as Frenchman Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) discovers in this drama directed by Norman Jewison. Pierre's quiet life in southern France is disrupted as he's haunted by his betrayals. During World War II, his Nazi sympathizing led to the deaths of 14 Jews. With a Nazi hunter (Tilda Swinton), the police and hired killers on his trail, it's his turn to be the hunted. |
| Received: Stalker |
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Received on 08/26/10. Go to http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Stalker/60024892 to rate it. |
| Received: Hot Tub Time Machine |
 Received on 08/24/10. Go to http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Hot-Tub-Time-Machine/70118951 to rate it. |
| Received: Where the Wild Things Are |
 Received on 08/11/10. Go to http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Where-the-Wild-Things-Are/70108988 to rate it. |
