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I know I said I would have the my last contribution to the Theater Hopper/Movie Punks Crossover ready by this afternoon, but it took a little longer to get it right. I’m happy with the results and the extra care it took to get there. Please check it out.
Once again, major props to Carrington for helping me celebrate the big 5-oh. I had a lot of fun trying to get my characters out of the sticky situations he put them in. Drawing Dexter and Seethe was a real treat.
Everyone be sure to check out the conclusion of the crossover Saturday over a Movie Punks. I can’t wait to see what solution Carrington cooks up since we hadn’t really talked about specific plot points during our collaboration.
In the meantime, I’ll see you all back in this spot Monday. Have a great weekend!
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I took a second glance at the blog post I made this morning and decided that it was a really sucky way to cap off the week. I wanted to come back and let everyone know things are all better at Camp Brazelton.
After thumbing through the forums at Triton Labs, the solution became immediately clear. When installing the Afterburner, there are four protective plastic strips that prevent contamination to the components before installation. While assembling the mod, I only removed three and that’s why the colors looked all assy.
I would have had time to make the repair last night, but I didn’t want to wake up our beagle puppy Truman. How ironic that the little bastard woke me up at 6 o’clock this morning – a full hour before I regularly get up. I decided to take the extra time to make the repairs to my Game Boy and everything turned out fine. Yay!
I have to say, in retrospect the installation was fairly uncomplicated. But I think when you crack open the shell of this rather expensive piece of equipment, you’re nerves get a little jittery and you don’t follow directions as well as you should. Just goes to show I would make a horrible bomb squad technician…
Something else I wanted to cover in this blog is another Wynnsong story. I figured it was the least I could do since I gave everyone the shaft this morning. I wanted to use it as a plot for one of today’s strip, but it had to deal with concession workers in a different aspect, and I was looking to follow the thread of continuity a little further down the line. Hence, the “lunging through the projectionist booth window” gag we get today.
Anyway, the story. And I swear on the grave of Jack Lemmon it’s the truth.
I went to see Gangs of New York about a week ago. I was having a particularly crappy day and wasn’t much in the mood for any crap. I had hoped going to a movie would take my mind off things. No such luck.
We get to the theater and there is only one guy selling tickets. It’s a Monday night, but it’s understandable, but it’s also right before Christmas when a lot of people have time off. Bad management strikes again.
After purchasing tickets and going inside, there are about 16 people working behind the concession counters and there is NO ONE in line. In fact, there are kids standing behind the counter while the line for tickets is trailing outside. You can’t pull a couple of kids out from behind the candy counter to help thin out the ticket line? Morons!
Realizing that Gangs of New York is like, 12 hours long, I decided to get some popcorn and a soda (BUT NOT A COMBO!) I hadn’t eaten yet and I didn’t want hunger getting in the way of my grasping the movie in all it’s Scorsese glory.
I ask the kid behind the counter, “Can I have a large popcorn and a medium Coke?”
To which he replies, “Sure you can. It’s a free country.”
To which I wanted to reply “ARE YOU GOING TO GET ME MY DAMN COKE, OR NOT?!” But Miss Manners wouldn’t approve.
The kid then starts scooping up the corn and looks over his shoulder with a cock-sure grin and asks “Do you want oil on your popcorn?” And his tone inferred that this was not his cute name for butter, but meant to be taken sarcastically.
“Nooooo… I don’t want OIL on my popcorn,” I scoffed.
Once he was finished putting everything together he rang up the total and I paid with a twenty. “Ooo! Big spender!” he cooed.
So close I was to gripping his skull and slamming it into the register.
I get my change back and he says to me “Enjoy your movie, people!”
I WAS THE ONLY ONE AT THE COUNTER! THERE WERE NO OTHER “PEOPLE”
I met up with Cami who was looking at preview posters and I was nearly shaking with anger. “I think they must be giving these kids lessons on how to be a jackass, or something,” I muttered. We went to watch our film.
Now look, before this erupts into some kind of class warfare thing or whatever, know that I used to work for a movie theater just like this kid. So I KNOW what’s it’s like to be bombarded by idiots all day long. But I was nothing but cool to this kid and he’s firing back with both barrels.
I may have never liked any of the people I served when, but I never went out of my way to make anyone feel like crap. I swear to God if I ever see that kid again, I’m gonna punch him in the back of the head.
Oh, look. Now I’m all angry again! Dammit!
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I had a pretty strong feeling that at some point today I would get an e-mail dogging me on the whole “May/December” theme of today’s strip. After all, in a modern world, 10 years really isn’t that big of a gap. So hats off to Pete for making that call.
Of course, my excuse was that A Guy Thing is like the only movie barely worth talking about this week. And, after frying my neural receptors on consecutive hours of Super Smash Bros. Melee, I couldn’t come up with a more topical gag.
Pete offered a better suggestion in the “May/December” category citing the near glacial age difference between Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment. For the record, there are about 40 years between the two. That’s two generations for those keeping score at home.
If you’ve got an even MORE drastic age difference for romances in film (and I’m talking the age of the actors, not the characters – so no funny time travel stuff) send it in, and you’ll also… be mentioned casually..
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I’ve been WAY to lazy lately in regard to hooking up sites with link exchanges. I’ve had some e-mails I’ve been sitting on since December and I feel bad because normally I get right on that kind of stuff.
So, in an effort to calm the waters, I wanted to draw everyone’s attention to the following comics: It’s All Been Done, Kule Incorporated, Pathetisad and Destined For Nothing. They’re all really cool and need your support. Check them out right now.
In other web comic news, it looks like Zeek v2.0 has closed it’s doors. The announcement was pretty abrupt. Most people didn’t know it was coming.
From the looks of things, there won’t be any access to the archives, which is a shame. Issac made a damn fine comic. I’ll miss it.
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I need to get this out of the way before I forget about it for the weekend and look like a total ass.
Dave over at Snafu Comics was nice enough to stick one of my characters in a cameo in Friday’s strip. It’s pretty funny and accurately reflects some opinions I had about Final Fantasy X. I remember vividly thinking “Okay, now when is the game going to start?” after, oh, about 2 hours into the game. All things equal, I still think it’s pretty fun. It goes even faster the second time through.
At some point, I need to make some space on the Bonus Materials page for strips where my characters have made cameos. It’s really a pretty awesome compliment that another artist would think highly enough of your work to sit down and tryin their hand at a rendition of your characters. Gotta get on that…
While we’re speaking of jaw-dropping compliments, I totally forgot to give a shout-out to Aric over at Fish Strips for making it to the big five-oh – 50 strips. Aric included some very nice messages to artists in the community to commemorate the event. Our humble operation was one he gave the nod to.
You can check out his comments, here and here. Thanks, Aric! And keep rockin’ the booty smooth!
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I guess after 100 strips, I can’t get away with stupid errors anymore!
When I went to check my e-mail this morning, there were notes from eight people informing me that I mis-named Best Documentary filmmaker MICHAEL Moore as the post-Connery Bond ROGER Moore.
Despite my better efforts, this is something I do quite often. As you may recall, Michael Moore directed a documentary about GM CEO Roger Smith
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Okay, so I’m trolling about the Internet reading reviews of The Core and I find something spooky.
Follow this link to The Core’s page at the Internet Movie Database. Read the credited cast listing and look for Delroy Lindo. Notice the name of the character he’s playing? “DR. EDWARD BRAZELTON”?!?! THERE’S A CHARACTER IN THE STEAMING TURD OF A MOVIE THAT SHARES MY NAMESAKE?!?!
I am officially freaked out right now. I need to go to bed, like, immediately.
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Things might look a little odd around here for a week or two. I just recently converted the site from .shtml to .php using a handy script I picked up from Comrade F over at The Misc.
The changes shouldn’t affect how you, the reader encounter the site as a whole. But it does WONDERS in terms of organizing things for me on the back end.
With this script in place, there will be less likelihood of broken links and MORE blog updates since now I can input commentary into the site from any terminal with internet access. This goes the same for my friends Jared and Nick as well as my wife Cami – who should have more ease uploading content versus the old “send me a Word document” system we had going before. So in that respect, it’s good for you because you’ll be getting more diversified content.
The bad news is that all of the old blogs have been erased and need to be replaced through the .php script. That’s going to take some time, but I plan on starting at the beginning and steadily working my way toward the present.
Also on the fritz is the archive section. but it’s not a big loss because if you want to skip around to a specific strip, there is now a little menu bar underneath the blog. Actually, it’s more efficient than what we had before.
The last down side is for anyone who may have linked directly to a strip. Those links are gone now, but this doesn’t screw up those of you don’t have web sites.
Regardless, this is the new system and it’ll be a little bumpy putting it into place. If you see an errors or broken links, please contact me so I can fix them and thank you for your patience.
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Something I wanted to mention earlier, but forgot: Both Nothing Nice To Say and No Pants Tuesday are back in full swing.
Anyone who already checks this site, probably already checks theirs – so this information may not come as a surprise. But both of these guys are buddies of mine and I wanted to give them a shout-out. It’s great to see them back on the horse.
…and nooooo, I’m not talking about heroin!
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Hi! Well, I’m really happy to be posting to the site. For my first blog, I’d like to address my disappointment in a movie I saw over the weekend…well, I actually slept through it with Truman balancing on my head on the couch.
Master of Disguise starring Dana Carvey is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. What’s with his Italian accent? He was obviously born in the U.S., so I don’t get it…and even I can’t stretch my imagination that far and imagine that 52-year old Carvey is the son of James Brolin.
Ok, OK, so I know I’m making a lot of Dana Carvey fans angry…I guess I’m just out of sorts today. I think it’s the 4.5 inches of snow we received last night. Or, maybe I’m not adjusted to Daylight Savings Time…or it could be that I have a case of the Mondays. And, we all know what remedies that… A TALL GLASS OF PAIN GO BYE-BYE JUICE. (Tom, you’re buying tonight!)
Anyway, I’m excited that I got to write a blog!
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