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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?
Just to reiterate
Congressionally orderd study confirms "Sex Abstinence Programs A Waste Of Time And Money". Bush puts hands over ears and goes "la-la-la-la-la-la-I-Can't-Hear-You!" Again.
New podcast for comics nerds
The first Pulp Faction/Pulp Factory podcast is in the proverbial can!
If you're into that sort of thing, go to: http://pulpfactory.net/
Interviews and more panelists are in the future.
We'll be doing another the weekend after Supanova and then once a month.
If you're into that sort of thing, go to: http://pulpfactory.net/
Interviews and more panelists are in the future.
We'll be doing another the weekend after Supanova and then once a month.
It works on so many levels...
Let's play Funny, Not Funny!
Funny: Pirate Bay April Fools joke "We're movin' to S. Korea!"
Not Funny: Comments on Pirate Bay wherein mouthbreathers show their complete ignorance of what Communism is and illustrate how they've been brain-washed "Me not commie! Me only want to freely shared access for all outside control of corporations!"
hehehee
Bless teh innarnets. Each and every tube of it. And bless all its little pretards.
Funny: Pirate Bay April Fools joke "We're movin' to S. Korea!"
Not Funny: Comments on Pirate Bay wherein mouthbreathers show their complete ignorance of what Communism is and illustrate how they've been brain-washed "Me not commie! Me only want to freely shared access for all outside control of corporations!"
hehehee
Bless teh innarnets. Each and every tube of it. And bless all its little pretards.
Thank you jeebus
Update on the girl sent to prison for pushing a teacher's aide. She's out. And the prosecution is doing the back-pedal dance.
Just who the hell is Maggie McFee?
Current Netflix Movies
| Shipped: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
 Shipped on 10/15/08. This offbeat romantic comedy (which won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay) stars Jim Carrey as Joel, who opts for a procedure in which memories of his girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet), are erased after he learns she's already had the surgery done. But as his doctor begins to wipe out traces of Clementine, Joel decides he doesn't want to lose what's left of their relationship, so he squirrels away the memories somewhere else in his brain. |
| Shipped: Junebug |
 Shipped on 10/15/08. When Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a big-city art dealer from Chicago, makes a trip to North Carolina with her new husband, George (Alessandro Nivola), he finally allows her to meet his small-town Southern family -- including his bristly mother, Peg (Celia Weston), reticent father Eugene (Scott Wilson), crabby brother Johnny (Ben McKenzie) and immature sister-in-law Ashley (Amy Adams). Looks like a family with more problems than meet the eye! |
| Shipped: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day |
 Shipped on 09/23/08. After losing yet another nanny position because of her gruff demeanor, Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) mistakenly lands an assignment as the assistant of an American starlet (Amy Adams) and finds herself swept up in a dizzying world of glamour and high society. Based on the novel by Winifred Watson, this charming 1940s-era tale also stars Ciarán Hinds, Lee Pace, Shirley Henderson and Mark Strong. |
| Received: Son of Rambow |
 Received on 10/15/08. Go to http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Son_of_Rambow/70062727 to rate it. |
| Received: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day |
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Received on 10/15/08. Go to http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Miss_Pettigrew_Lives_for_a_Day/70084778 to rate it. |
| Received: There Will Be Blood |
 Received on 09/23/08. Go to http://www.netflix.com/Movie/There_Will_Be_Blood/70075473 to rate it. |
