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Sunday, February 27, 2005
WELL WE'RE TWO FOR TWO.
If there is a God above then Vincent Price is about to rise from his grave and exact vengence on Hollywood. I again read some disturbing entertainment news. They are remaking Vincent's 1953 horror flick "House of Wax". Ugh. And to make matters worse, who is in it? Only the least talented person most underserving of a career ever; Paris Hilton. What's next, the New Three Stooges reality show?
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
OH DEAR GOD!
Someone please tell me what is wrong with people. I have just finished reading several news stories about the new and "improved" Bugs Bunny. Just give me a break. Warners needs to revamp a classic* character and his sidekicks in order to stay popular with the kids. It's money. I can understand that. But to take a so great character and to obviously make him so less great is a crime in my book.
Even to say "oh this is the great great grandkid of Bugs" is dumb, but look at the art. I know that animation styles nowadays run to the streamline. But these guys look like somebody tried to make cookie cutter shurikens.
This is just another case of my natural curmudgeonry I know. I don't even like it when I see people wearing those stupid t-shirts with the standard characters all ghettoed out on them. The old bugs cartoons from the beginning until about the mid sixties still hold up. They are fun for both the kids and adults. This new look is so scrounging for anything to plug the hole in the boat that I can't wait until it flops and they actually apologize for even thinking we would like it.
*serving as a standard of excellence.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
RATS OR BUREAUCRATS
Oh Man! I still haven't been able to get to this thing. But I am heading out to the Wondercon this weekend so there is a report forthcoming. And next month has Wizard World LA and the GAMA show. But still, I guess I will mention one thing that has been bugging me.
My mom received an official notice from the city saying that they had an anonymous complaint about the rats at her house. When I saw it I was like "Rats? What the hell?" Now my mom may not be a neat freak but there have never been rats in her house. Or around her house. Or in the yard. My mom was as puzzled by this as I was. So she called the concerned agency to see if there was some sort of mistake. Nope, they had an actual complaint that there were rats in my mom's wood pile. And the person at the agency was none too polite about it. It was the "we are the city and you are just a resident and if you don't do what we want when we want it you will go to jail" type of city employee. In the winter my mom actually starts a fire in the fireplace and thusly my brother or I will come over and stack wood in the backyard usually out of the way somewhere. The complaint was about the wood pile in the corner of the backyard specifically. This particular corner of her backyard borders three other backyards like the intersection of a cross. This will be important later.
Still convinced that there must be some sort of mistake my mom went around to the other block and asked her neighbors if anyone had seen a rat let alone complained. No one had any idea what she was talking about.
I went back there and looked. I am no ratologist but I was still in disbelief that there could be a rat's nest any where near my mom's house.
So we had to remove all of the firewood to another part of the backyard. At no time during the migration was there any evidence of rats. So my mom paid a fee and had an official inspector come out to make sure there were no more rodents about.
Now the truth comes out. It turns out that my mom's property sits just a little higher than the other lots adjacent to the corner. The gas meter reader used to go into my mom's backyard read her meter and then stand in that corner and use binoculars to read the other three contiguous neighbors' meters. He couldn't do that with a woodpile there so he complained to the city about nonexistent rats.
"Oh no! you mean I will actually have to do my job?!? aarggh!"
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Friday, February 11, 2005
Man I haven't been able to put squat on this thing lately but you see...
MY GIRLFRIEND PUT A CURSE ON ME!
Late last year my lovely girlfriend Sally kept saying that '05 was going to be my year. Like I am Al Franken or something. Turns out she was right. I have had more gigs come my way since the start of the year that it is tough to find time to put anything up on the blog, even fluff.
In comics I had two books that I worked on come out last year if you don't count being in the 24 hour comic anthology. I am working on two more books simultaneously right now. Not to mention some logos, ads, and commercial stuff, and teaching gigs; I am afraid to answer the phone because it is going to be more work.
And I am still in that walking the freelance beat that I don't know how to turn down work mode.
But I intend to do better and post some stuff soon. I have been doing a little writing in my wee free time. And I will be attending several shows in the next month so look for con reports.
and in case you were wondering this entry is not a complaint.
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