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Now before anyone gets their knickers in a twist over today’s strip, keep in mind that I ran this joke by my wife first and she thought it was hilarious. Just goes to show how awesome she is. If you’ve got a problem, write Dear Abby.
I’m exhausted right now from spending several hours in the car. I was in Kansas City over the weekend for a wedding. That was fine. Just the drive down and back sucked. Cold and cloudy both ways. I had trouble staying awake. It makes a long drive that much more insufferable no matter how many games of I Spy you play.
I’m sad to say I haven’t been to many movies recently. August is always a dumping ground to me. Don’t believe me? Look in the paper? Does anyone want to see Pluto Nash? I didn’t think so.
So I sat and thought about some of the movies I’m looking forward to seeing this year. I just got my Entertainment Weekly with the Fall preview inside. Thumbing through it, I can see there is hope.
For some reason, Moonlight Mile has captured my attention. I don’t know if it’s because I hold great faith for Jake Gyllenhaal after Donnie Darko, or if it’s because of the trailer. Granted, it’s not shy about it’s ambitions to yank your heartstrings right out of your chest, but any role that will corers an earnest performance from Dustin Hoffman (instead of the loudmouth wankers he’s been playing lately) is a plus in my book.
Red Dragon has piqued my interest as well. From what I’ve heard, Anthony Hopkin’s Lecter isn’t in the movie much, so it might not be an greedy attempt to cash in on the brand. Plus, it’s written by Ted Tally (who won an Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs) and his script stays closer to the book than Manhunter did. Throw in Ed Norton and Ralph Fiennes for good measure and I think it will work. My only reservation? Brett Ratner from the Rush Hour franchise is in the directors seat.
Other films I’m interested in:
The Ring, Bowling for Columbine, Die Another Day, Solaris, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Catch Me if You Can, About Schmidt, Star Trek: Nemesis, Punch-Drunk Love, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Those are the films I HAVE to see. There are a few others that I’m kinda interested in seeing, but those are more likely peer-pressure movies — movies you see so you can have something to talk about with everyone else who saw them. Harry Potter?… I’m looking in your direction.
Last thing I’ll mention, I’m having trouble logging into the forums. I don’t know if any of you are having the same problem, but when I enter my username and password, this is the information I get:
Ikonboard CGI Error
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Ikonboard has exited with the following error:
Undefined subroutine &BoardsView::birthday called
This error was reported at: Sources/Boards.pm line 153.
Please note that your ‘real’ paths have been removed to protect your information.
If any of you are having the same problem, please let me know. If not, and this phenomenon is completely unique to me, please point me in the right direction toward getting it fixed. I’d really like to get back into the fray. We’ve had a lot of new people register and things are starting to pick up in there.
Thanks and see you Wednesday!
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I was trying to think of a rant to coincide with today’s strip, but it all boils down to one simple issue.
For years, several Hollywood actresses have complained that to be commercially viable, there is a need to make them into sex objects and disavow their development as actual characters. Susan Sarandon in particular has been vocal about this.
It strikes me that sending both Sarandon and Goldie Hawn out into multiplexes all tarted up and recounting their days as loose, 60’s era groupies is not the way to combat these perceptions.
The Banger Sisters has “in it for the money” written all over it. A damn shame because I respect Sarandon as an actress. Maybe Moonlight Mile will do something to restore my faith.
Goldie Hawn, on the other hand, I’ll give a pass because, really, what else does she have on her plate? Not much. Better trot out those over-inflated lips to movie audience before they outweigh the rest of her face.
I guess that was more of a rant than I expected. Whew. Cleansed.
For those not in the loop, Carrington over a Movie Punks has put together a great forum for his website. If you’ve already been to Mitch’s Nothing Nice to Say, then you already know that it’s become quite the hangout for several other web comic creators, including myself.
Why I’m pumping up someone else’s forum, I don’t know. I guess it’s just what happens when you’ve got an audience as large as Carringtons. More power to him cause he’s a great guy and I’m sure as hell having a lot of fun over there!
If you’d like to humor me, you can always post in our forums. I promise I’ll try to get more conversations started in there.
I’m starting to put together a Bonus Material section for the site. Some of the features I plan on including are character bio’s and uploads of some of my old battle comics from junior high with commentary. They’ll make more sense once you see them.
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The indifference Tom displays toward The House Bunny is not actually true-to-life. In fact, in real life, I am very excited to see this film. I personally believe that Anna Farris is hilarious, fearless and a great comedian. It’ll be a treat to see her starring in a feature like this.
Both Cami and I are big Faris fans. I think it was her turn in the woefully underrated Just Friends that sealed the deal. He character is at once both annoying and abrasive, but the screen is a little dimmer when she’s not there to grace it. Even though it’s kinda of supposed to be a holiday movie, we’ll watch it almost anytime we’re bored. It’s a lot of fun.
To that end, I don’t know that there is anything particularly revolutionary about The House Bunny from a plot standpoint. Faris’s character is thrown out of The Playboy Mansion and takes up residence in a sorority house full of losers. She teaches them life lessons and everyone feels good about themselves in the end. Beverly D’Angelo shows up as the uptight house mother of another sorority out to spoil their fun. It’s pretty much paint by numbers. But Farris has a knack for making patently unwatchable films interesting. So it’s not completely hopeless.
It’s kind of disingenuous to stock the sorority house with actresses like Emma Stone and Kat Dennings as "the ugly girls." You can see their "removing the glasses and let down your hair scene" a million miles away. Rumor Willis, on the other hand… genius casting for that role.
That’s mean. Sorry, Rumor. It’s just that… well, your jawline freaks me out.
Anyway, Cami and I are hoping to see this sometime this weekend. I’m down for it, but I have to find time to go out and see Tropic Thunder as well. I’m falling behind!
Things are probably going to get a little more difficult for me from an availability standpoint. Today is the day that I start pursuing my Master’s Degree in Communication Leadership offered by Drake University here in Des Moines. There’s a social gathering for all of the people in the program this evening – kind of a meet and greet – before a full-blown introduction to the program itself, class load and expectations for the semester that lasts all day Saturday. After that, it’s one class a week every Wednesday for the rest of the semester. I’m kicking things off with Mass Communications 101, natch.
It’s hard to say how much impact the pursuit of my Master’s will have on the comic. Between my 9 to 5 job, being a husband, being a father and finding time to work out — attending classes and finding time to study is just another thing to add to the pile. But I wouldn’t have bothered applying if I didn’t think I could handle it. Plus, you know what they say about busy people – they get more done.
Speaking of getting more done, I’m starting to fold in some of the custom art requests I’ve received through the donation drive into my regular drawing schedule. I have one in the can and I wanted to share it with you.
This was drawn for a donator who sent $25 and who asked for a simple cast portrait. I wanted to show it to you guys because I wanted to demonstrate how I’m serious about giving you what you pay for. I’m not just slapping something onto a piece of scratch paper and mailing it to you. These drawings are on professionally printed 4 x 6″; cardstock, inked and signed. In addition to the good feeling you get for helping out a brother in need, I want you to feel like you got something for your money.
So there it is. Do with it what you will.
Please keep in mind that in order for me to maintain a level of consistent quality for ALL of the people who donated, it may take me a little longer to get back to you with the finished product. In fact, right now, I haven’t been able to get in touch with all of the people who send donations the week of the 11th.
I have a lot of e-mails to sift through and I’m trying to keep them organized. The system I’m using right now is to contact a small batch of donators at a time and learn what it is they would like in their custom art. Once the art is completely and mailed away, I take on another batch of e-mails. So if I haven’t gotten to you yet, I’m not blowing you off. I’m just trying to keep the influx of e-mail manageable. I WILL get to you eventually!
I also wanted to give everyone an update in regard to the actual data recovery.
The wizards at Ontrack managed to pull together nearly EVERYTHING from the damaged drive. I’m talking, like 99.9% of it. The only thing they weren’t able to recover is a temporary Photoshop file and an MP3 that I’m not going to miss. All of the family photos, video, and, most importantly the archived original Theater Hopper artwork has been rescued.
They had to take the failed drive into a clean room and rebuild it from the ground up to do it… but they did it!
Ontrack delivered the content back to me on Wednesday and I am glad to report it’s home safe and sound. Oh, yeah… and I already backed up copies of it just in case!
Just to be clear, this doesn’t mean the donation drive is over. I paid Ontrack with a credit card so I could get the data back as soon as possible. The goal now is to pay off the card equally fast so I’m not carrying debt and getting tagged with finance charges!
I’m optimistic, though. I mean, you guys helped me raise over half of our goal in less than two weeks. That’s amazing. It really makes me feel good to know that there are people so sympathetic to my problems and willing to help. I already knew I had a great group of readers, but to see it in my e-mail inbox everyday in black and white has been a staggering and humbling validation.
Thanks again, you guys. I’ll talk to you soon. Have a great weekend!
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