| murder poll |
[May. 14th, 2008|09:52 pm] |
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Raise your hand if anyone has ever tried to murder you. No details.
<<-- Raises hand. (not for years, thankfully) |
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| A Present for Jeph Jacques |
[May. 14th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
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Here Jeph here I went on and designed a shirt for you so you can retire this summer!
( Probably not real safe for work )
Also it can be for Meredith too since Octopus Pie is one year old! It is a comic about an octopus that loves him some pies but pies are allergic to the sea so there are some problems. |
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| Twitter addiction |
[May. 14th, 2008|03:12 pm] |
Okay so when I first heard about Twitter I thought "oh that is a cute idea but it sounds totally useless."
Eventually I got a Twitter account of my own so that I could post status updates for the comic and people would stop hitting F5 over and over again all night.* At this point my opinion was "okay MAYBE Twitter has its uses but it is still pretty dumb to be all 'oh hey guys I just had the most AWESOME sandwich for lunch.'"
Then I started following other people on Twitter. Dudes like RStevens and Paul Southworth who tweet basically ALL DAY. I was expecting to be annoyed by this but somehow it has become COMPELLING READING, even though the majority of people's posts are exactly the kind of "awesome sandwich" Tweets I thought were so "dumb" in the first place.
Now I'm completely addicted. I find myself following more and more people (right now I'm sticking to folks I know personally either via Internet or Real Life). The highlight of getting in to the office is catching up on Twitter while I drink my coffee and responding to people's tweets where appropriate. The other day I think I must have made like twenty posts in an afternoon.
The appeal of Twitter, for me, is the CONTENT: constant streams of new things to read, all day, every day. It's the same reason I've been reading Jerkcity for the last, oh, eight years:† even if not every new bit of content is funny, enough of it is to make the aggregate worthwhile.
So Twitter, I wasn't wrong about you. You are a web application with genuine uses, but 99% of your content is "awesome sandwich" inanity. And I think that is totally awesome and fun. I have become a Twitterer, for better or worse.
PS: My Twitter name is "jephjacques" in case you want to follow me.
*This has not worked.
†Holy shit you guys Jerkcity is TEN YEARS OLD this August. |
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| thoughts (2004) |
[May. 14th, 2008|03:47 pm] |
Early notes as I prepared to write the first Scott Pilgrim. Click to make big.
Note uncertainty about the band name, etc... it was a while before I was fully comfortable with "Sex Bob-omb". Because it's idiotic. But at least it's idiotic in a way that is true to the characters!
I found some earlier notes (from 2002) and see that I had whittled the characters down from a larger number.
Stephen Stills was the last "final" character to appear. Young Neil was named first - although he was originally an actual young kid, for HILARIOUS purposes - and Stills flowed naturally out of that, I guess.
Originally, Scott had a number of friends based on old characters I made up in high school and stuff. Of these, only Kim Pine survived (thank god).
He also had multiple roommates.
I am really happy that I figured out a little thing called "narrative economy" between conceiving this book and executing it.
Anyway, this scrap of notes is from pretty much immediately before I wrote the first book.
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[May. 14th, 2008|02:32 pm] |
Whoa, I just realized Octopus Pie is one year old today! A year of this! Wow~!
HOPPING TIME |
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| posted 5/14/08 - ("5/12/08") - relaxing |
[May. 14th, 2008|07:38 am] |
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[May. 13th, 2008|10:39 pm] |
some shit came up. i had to go get m'kids in idyllwild.
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[May. 13th, 2008|11:19 pm] |
... traffic with a half doZen kmfdm CDs -- could be worse
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[May. 13th, 2008|04:42 pm] |
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10: Fell from the shower curtain this morning. I was naked. What else was I going to do? Swept it into the drain with the force of sheer human ingenuity. |
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| Complete Take-Out |
[May. 13th, 2008|05:28 pm] |
Goodness, thanks, everyone for your kind and enthusiastic responses to my last post!
I don't have a specific publishing plan for Take-Out yet, but I've started compiling the work and organizing it for print. It could be late 2008 or early 2009; when I figure that out I'll let you know. The pricepoint will be about the average for a small graphic novel. It'll probably clock in at about 120 pages!
Wanting something soft and comforting to eat after a visit to the dentist this morning, I tried to replicate my brunch from the Tin Shed in Portland, which was basically mangoes with sticky rice, worded to convince the eater it is a healthy food. I used brown jasmine rice, thinking that would kick the health factor up a little, but after cooking the rice for the directed 50 minutes + 10 minutes steam time, it was still hard as little rocks! It took a full two and a a half hours, with more and more water being added to the pot, before it was even remotely edible. Huh.
In the end, the rice was okay, but the mango was the exciting part. A more perfect, ripe mango has never existed! I could eat another one RIGHT NOW, mmmm. |
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| SPX |
[May. 13th, 2008|03:55 pm] |
I gather that we've secured a table, so yeah, we will be there!
My appearances this summer/fall:
MoCCA* (at our usual table)
Heroes Con*
Spellbound Children's Bookshop (June 28th)
San Diego Comic Con*
Nashville, TN Public Library (probably; date hasn't been confirmed)
Decatur Book Festival (not sure what day yet for this one, either)
SPX*
* = with Bryan Lee O'Malley
It's a little bit horrifying to contemplate all this in my depleted state. Still, all but two of these are within easy driving distance. I'm thrilled that I won't be braving the airport too many times this summer. @_@ |
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| A really neat Mac math/calculator app |
[May. 13th, 2008|11:14 am] |
Soulver. What's cool is that it's essentially as if you opened up a notebook and wrote out math problems, watching them instantly solve themselves in the side column. No equals sign required.
I'm running a demo now, would certainly have to consider buying if it proves useful. I tally a lot of running lists of item. This suits my weak-ass math habits. |
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| Yes we're going to a party party party party |
[May. 13th, 2008|10:03 am] |
Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party
Happy birthday Mike Gravel, you unstoppable sonovabitch! There is nothing like a best-of video with Beatles music to celebrate democracy. You can send him birthday wishes at birthdayboy at gravel2008.us |
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