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I’ve up and redesigned my portfolio site. It’s in a style that I like, but other people might hate. Eh. My business cards are now obsolete, but really the stylings I had before are, like, a precursor to the style there now, y’know—art historically (faintly, I’m sure, but I don’t mind). Anyway, if you see something broken or stupid, let me know.

Below is a screenshot of the opening page. I likes it.

There’s more tinkering to be done (the “Shop” button does nothing), but pretty much there it is.

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First time I see a Batman film and don't feel disrespected or sleepy.

Going again for sure.

For some reason, there is now “Street View” of the Forest Grove/Cornelius area on Google maps. Here is a view of our “Downtown”.  It is a block square, pretty much.  If you look behind you, you may find one of our three (or four) bars and a lotto place. We also have two wine shops where people with these mythical things called “A Living Wage” go to booze it up. 

Here is a screen grab:

San Diego Schedule: UPDATED!

ARTISTS ALLEY-- TABLE GG-15
Thursday 1:00-4:00
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday NOON-4:00
I'll have books, prints, buttons, and be available for signing and commission sketches!

AGE OF THE SENTRY SIGNING--Booth #2207
Thursday 11:00 am – Noon
Cover artist Dave Bullock, writers Jeff Parker, Paul Tobin, artists Nick Dragotta & Colleen Coover, with EXCLUSIVE SENTRY give-away!

PRISM COMICS QUEER PRESS GRANT PORTFOLIO REVIEW-- Booth # 2146-48
Friday 4-5
Rather than a general critique, this review will provide suggestions on how to make a comics project more eligible for Prism Comics' Queer Press Grant. Stop by the booth in advance to see if you need to sign up!

MARVEL: WOMEN IN MARVEL--Room 6A
Sunday 10:30-11:30
She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel are powerhouses in the Marvel U, now meet the real women powerhouses who work in Marvel Comics today! Writers Robin Furth (Dark Tower), Marjorie Liu (NYX), Sherrilyn Kenyon (Lords of Avalon), Jen Grunwald (editor), colorist Christina Strain (Runaways), and Occasional Superheroine's Valerie D'Orazio  [AND ME, COLLEEN COOVER] are here to answer your question about their titles, announce new projects, and explain how more women are breaking into comics every day! 

Have to be at work in about half an hour, as it is new comic book day (and thus, I go in early today-- Uncanny X-Men #500 ships this week) and of course, now our online store is hiccuping. We're getting a mysql error which means I have to call the guy who runs the servers it's on... which will be fun, since he works a 9-5 job as well. And I have to dig out his number, since it's probably in a rolodex that's still in a box.

On top of that, I need to do a bunch of other Radio stuff that needs to get done pronto, but has to wait until I am off work.

Because I want an Earthship, I eat organic and I dig granola.

Plus, I was raised pagan and I still celebrate all the sabbats.

Come on, I was totally born for this shit.

I am one of those horrible people who leaves hair on the shower wall.  Lately, I sort of started arranging it, like in a wreath or frame shape.  My idea was that there were some interesting arabesque shapes happening there and maybe I’d take a picture of it and extract the patterns.  So today I finally got around to doing that.  Below is a mirrored image, colour-altered, of a month’s worth of hair on my shower wall.

Then, since it’s my day off and I’ve nothing better to do with my morning besides swear at a sewing project, I started digitally painting on the image, and just fucking around.

Jesus, what a waste of time. But hey! Hair was the texture and that is kind of rad.

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omg omg omg.

http://www.holytaco.com/2008/06/27/the-douchiest-phone-message-in-history/

Mindblowing. People like this actually EXIST.


Oh yeah and i walked out to go do errands and one of the neighbor kids was outside on the public sidewalk.....taking a piss. It wasn't even the creepy upstairs people's kids. The downstairs kid. He's only about 5 years old so maybe little boys just do that? His mom wasnt' around and im sure she would have been horrified...i hope anyway. It was bizarre.

Random peeing kids, oh my...better than old peeing men i guess.

Great film!

Just be sure to watch it in broad daylight and next to someone you can hug.

You know. Not like I did. At 2AM, in the dark, alone in my room.

SOMEONE'S SLEEPING WITH THE LIGHTS ON TONIGHT!

I'm such a pussy. :D

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Fuck this shit

Previously.
And before that.

Ok... I think I'm packed. I know I packed too much, like always, and I'm sure I've forgotten something, like always.

I'm going to leave in the morning. Just going to take a nice, long, leisurely drive down to San Diego since I don't have to be there by a set time. No deadlines. Though, I do plan to get there before my roommates are asleep. Should get in around, I dunno, 7-ish?

I did have an experience that I'm going to consider positive today. I logged in to Warcraft today only to check my mail. No desire to play, haven't played in about a month. So, that's cool. I don't know that I've quit the game but, eh, for now I'm not feeling it.

Sadly, it turns out that I might as well have taken a plane. I mean, I knew gas was going to be expensive. But, I totally didn't consider parking. I mean, I knew it was going to cost something but, holy crap, $20 a night! $120 just for parking. I guess I should be thankful. We just got bumped to a different hotel. Same distance to the Con but $2 a day cheaper for parking. Still, weepings!

Next year, I'll have to go ahead and take a chance of a long, flaming fall to my demise and take a plane. I don't like flying. Then again, maybe next year I'll have money and insane gas and parking prices won't hurt as bad. Or, make I can take the train. Trains are neat.

Anyway, probably my last post before I hit the road in the morning. I hope everyone who's going has a safe trip.

In my day, we watched anime in the snow and it was uphill both ways.

They are 1" wide.


( More buttons and paintings! Almost ready for San Diego....whew... )

As far as the buttons go , they are available for $1 each button. I have the eye ones available too. I charge .50 cents to ship within the U.S. If you want anything please email me at missmonstermel @ gmail.com with " NEW BUTTONS" in the title. I might not get to everyone this week since im really busy prepping but be patient and ye shall receive buttons! :D

Now that Avatar is over, help me out. What is the best show on TV now, Chowder or The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack?

Just about ready for the trip to Comic Con. If you're interested, I'll be at an ever-moving somewhere-point between one end of the convention center and the other. Stop by and say hi.

Good news! I found my Ralph's card.

After 5 days of art classes with Roger Cruz, I've noticed a lot of changes in my work. That, I suppose, is somewhat obvious. Suddenly, it REALLY MATTERS where the biceps and triceps go, how the shoulders are shaped and placed on the body, etc. I'd had anatomy classes before, of course, but for some reason, it was Roger who made it seem REALLY IMPORTANT OH GOD. I feel as if I'm going to hurt his feelings if I don't pay more attention to it now. It's kinda funny, but true.

But something else happened, too. Something snapped, like... uuh... lik asnapping thing. In my head. Argh. Hooray for Nina's English at 3:35AM!

Anyway.

Aside from Batman and Hellboy, super hero stuff had been really blah to me for a while now. I used to read X-Men compulsively when I was 13 or so (and I wanted to marry Wolverine for some reason -- Cyclops was RIGHT THERE, but no, it was Wolverine I wanted, because Christ, I'm fucked up) and I also read some Superman, but as I grew older, Batman became the only one I cared for (and wanted to marry) until I discovered Hellboy (never wanted to marry him though).

Now, Roger draws X-Men: First Class, and a few covers for other series sometimes, and he would bring along whatever he'd been working on for us to see. On the last day he brought a really cool Doctor Strange cover that he was finishing up. It was just awesome to hear him talk about how he works. I had always imagined that a certain amount of skill was required to draw super hero comics, but I had never thought of just how much work it is to actually do it. My fucking Christ, there is a LOT of careful planning and sleepless nights that go into it -- it all looked the same to me, so I always thought there was some easy formula or something to make them, but there's not -- and if there is, no one told poor Roger!

As a result of the classes, I am now paying a lot more attention to super heroes than I used to. My collection, which used to consist of nothing but Batman and Hellboy, is now starting to grow with some X-Men and a couple Superman comics.  I think I like Batman and Hellboy because they're both somewhat dark, but then, why am I not reading Spawn? Blargh, I don't know why I like some and don't like others. But anyway I am just so amazed at how much time I spent looking away from these. There is some really good stuff in these comics, good writing and good art and good shit all around. Of course, in the end, it's still super heroes so there's still a lot of cheesy stuff too. But it's really not so bad once you get past that and just enjoy it for what it is.

I may want to draw this stuff someday. I mean, in like 50 years when I'm good enough. They pay good money.

I really should sleep.

Just for reference, these days I want to marry Cassidy. Fuck, he can bite me anywhere he wants. Rawr.

Hey! I totally forgot about this guy but he could still use some votes. More shirts, more shirts! :D

http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/9206

My twitter is not dumping into my LJ, which is a bummer, because you are missing out on absolutely nothing interesting.  Here are highlights though!

• A customer I emailed at work recognised me from the Internet
• It has been confirmed that I have stupidly long arms, longer than co-workers who are taller than me.
  
• Chase's thought: The better our Batman movies, the worse our state of politics.
• Robots happen.
  

I just slept for 13 hours.

THIRTEEN.

Kickass.

We are finally back online. The scheduled appointment of Wednesday was thrown out the window by the cable company for frivolous reasons (on my day off, of course), and they rescheduled us for Friday. Of course, we had no time to finish the setup until last night. But now, internet again! Hooray!

The move and subsequent cleaning took a full week, as I predicted and scheduled for. Now comes the exhaustive hell of unpacking. It's like playing Tetris in real life with large boxes. The new place is smaller, but somehow laid out better than the old place. It's also upstairs, so it's really quiet a lot of the time.

I'm getting 30-hour weeks at the day job, which is good financially, but exhausting with everything else going on. I am bone-tired. Also, I'm either suffering severe allergies, or coming down with a cold. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

It will probably take me a full week/week and a half to catch up with email, LJ, forums, etc. I've been out of the loop for a good ten days, which is an eternity in internet time. I also have a ton of Radio stuff to deal with (in between day job shifts), so I will likely still be fairly quiet online for a while.

I will NOT be at San Diego Comic Con this year. This is the first time in 15 years that I am not attending at all. Have fun for me, and don't drink at the Hyatt unless you want to support homophobia.

Last night, as our reward for finishing the Hell Move, we went to see Mamma Mia! with theuberbob. We enjoyed it very much! Afterwards, Bob treated us to ice cream at Brindle's. Mmmmm, black raspberry sorbet and sweet cream ice cream. Ice cream ended up being dinner, oops. Healthy!

Now to unpack more things and to get things sorted. There's a lot to do.