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Greetings all.
I think you’ll all be interested to know that the forums are now up and running.
Unfortunately, if we signed up before, you’ll have to sign up again. Oh, and I lost all the previous threads. Sorry.
I’m still trying to figure out where I screwed up, but it looks like they’re lost of good.
But hey. All the special features I included like the Quick Reply box and the Statistics mod are still there – so I guess there’s a silver lining!
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If you read Friday’s blog, you know that Cami was actually out of town all this weekend. You think it would have afforded me the time to watch all the crazy movies I would otherwise have to wait and see.
Unfortunately, I spent the weekend cleaning out my sock drawers.
FORTUNATELY, when Cami came back on Sunday, we were able to make it to an evening showing of Kill Bill. Thank goodness, because if there is any movie out there right now that serves as water cooler fodder, this has got to be it.
I don’t know how I depth I can go in my review because I think everyone needs to see it. Don’t let what you’ve heard about the gore stop you. Yeah, there’s a lot of blood – but it’s much less disturbing than you think. It’s more comic and over the top.
Uma Thurman was bad-ass. I’ve always admired her detached cool and it’s played to brilliant effect here. I think Uma Thurman is to Quentin Tarantino as Grace Kelly was to Alfred Hitchcock. Props to QT for giving Sonny Chiba a cameo!
The cinematography in this film is breathtaking and it makes Kill Bill easily one of the most stylish films of the year. I was particularly impressed with the work with miniatures (the jumbo jet and downtown Tokyo cityscapes). Why is no one talking about this? Detail, I suppose.
What surprised me the most is how much Cami enjoyed the film. We would look at each other during some of the more abrupt instances of violence (beheadings, and whatnot) and she would cringe most distastefully – an expression I’m sure I mirrored. But it led me to believe she didn
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As long as we’re pointing out milestones, I want to call everyone’s attention to Life of Convenience. Our good friend J Clark is celebrating his 50th strip with a FULL WEEK of “Convenient” action. LIVE action as it were. These strips are all being made with photographs featuring the real-life stars of the strip. It’s a really cool idea and you need to check it out!
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Just thought I would mention that fellow Dayfree Press member White Ninja Comics are celebrating their one year anniversary today.
If you haven’t seen their particular brand of surreal comedy, now’s a great time to investigate. Their latest strip – “White Ninja gets a kiwi” – is a shining example of their inspired, bizarre, but ultimately charming sense of humor.
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I’ll be back later in the morning with a more thought-out blog. Right now, after having finished the comic and watching the Chicago Cubs botch their World Series clincher, I’ve just… I’ve just gotta sleep…
More soon. I promise.
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Sorry, guys. But I just couldn’t wait to break out the new site design on ya!
Yep, so you may have noticed that some things have been shifted around. Really I was doing more pixel pushing than a flat-out redesign. But I felt there was so much space on the site going unused, I needed to rectify the situation.
Hopefully the site should load a little faster for everyone. I parsed down the background image and removed a lot of the includes that may have been slowing down some of the pages. The largest download you’re going to have is the most recent comic. Beyond that, things should be running much more smoothly. I think I’m already detecting a difference. Let me know if you guys encounter otherwise.
And while I mention it, if any of you notice something odd – a link that should or shouldn’t be, broken images, whatever – please contact me.
You’ll notice at the moment that two of the navigation links aren’t connected to anything – the store and the forum. Expect the store to be up later today. The forum will be down for the foreseeable future until I completely eliminate the bugs and can present to you a community hub that has all the bells and whistles I want on it.
Until then, wander around and check out the place. I feel like I did some major house cleaning – even if I didn’t go so far as to give the old war horse a new coat of paint…
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Well, they may not be much to look at, but the forums are up and running again.
I pretty much had to start from scratch since we moved servers, so if you had registered in the past – I’m sorry – you’ll have to register again. For those of you who never got around to it… Well, now’s a great opportunity!
I can’t tell you everything I tried to make this work out better the first time around, but it just didn’t happen that way. In the meantime, you can expect more features and styles to be added to the forum in the coming weeks and months. Get in on the ground floor and your suggestions could help to shape how things develop!
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Some of you may have noticed the handy, new graphic underneath the comic navigation. This is a link to buzzComix – a top 100 webcomic resource list not unlike Top Web Comics.
Since it appears that the TWC is no longer functioning and is without aim to bring its service back to those who rely on it as a source of free advertising, I’ve turned to buzzComix to help spread the word about Theater Hopper.
The way it works is disarmingly simple – Just click on the graphic every day and watch as our vote totals rocket us toward the top. I know many of you have fallen out of the habit of doing it, so when you remember, just give us a little clicky-click. To help things along, you might see this graphic in the news post from time to time:
Thanks to all of you in your continued support of Theater Hopper!
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Just for fun, I thought I would mention that Ryan Sias, author and creator of a jounral comic called Urban Transmission Project was the character designer for the animated sequence in the middle of Bowling For Columbine. It’s a fun fact and I wanted to throw a little traffic Ryan’s way since I’m a fan of his comic. Check it out! He has a whole page decided to his experience with the production of the film!
And for those of you who are critics of Michael Moore, I thought I would post this link so you can read his response to those who claim contextual and historical inaccuracies in his documentary. Best to let the man defend himself than for me to do it for him.
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Since I’ve been working on reorganizing the site, I wanted to take a minute or two to outline some of the new features and general changes that are going on around the site.
The first thing I want to mention is the forum. It’s up and running again and charging at full steam. It’s got a ton of great new features and new ones are being added all the time. We’ve got some great conversation going on in there right now, so please join!
I also want to talk about the newly created store. I never really took the time to chat this up, so I’m going to correct that now.
** THE REST OF THIS BLOG POST WAS LOST WHEN THEATER HOPPER MOVED TO WORDPRESS IN JANUARY 2009 **
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