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Am currently in a lovely little island of calm between on-going house-moving logistics (all papers filed, waiting for references to come back, thinking about which days will have be be curtailed from my family visit to make the move once I get the keys) and keeping to the deadlines I have racked up for the "holiday" (which is increasingly becoming a misnomer).

I mean, yes, I'm awake before 8am on a saturday, having had about 4 hours sleep, but importantly, I went to sleep in and woke up to a bedroom containing my wife and my son.

I am big ape in his techno-cave, with his family.

Sleeping sounds and blinking LEDs and plasma screen with illustrated, anthropomorphic, singing animals entertaining the little one.

This makes big ape happy.

Plus, big ape should be getting a shiny new gadget-phone and a pocket-sized HDMI divx player delivered between now and lunchtime. Which also makes big ape quite pleased.

Nothing like fulfilling Maslow's hierarchy of needs from both directions at the same time :)

Later today, a last bit of Christmas shopping, a little work, and another evening with Corben visiting.

I'm cautious not to jinx things - my metaphorical knackers are still sore from the collective kickings delivered over the last week - but a bit of determination and the reassurance of having my wonderful wife and extended social circle there for some back-up is going a long way.

If i can get away with a nap or two without Corben playing the bongos on my head, I shall consider the weekend quite successfully begun.

OH CRAP OH CRAP


By zombichicken at 2009-12-18

We decided to take a harder 4 hour hike on the Great Wall of China. It was exhausting and at parts steep as hell, but so damn worth it. Always avoid the tourist way.

We got to Shanghai yesterday and have booked up 9 nights at a hostel so that we can spend christmas here. The hostel is way to calm for comfort now but hopefully some party people will show up for christmas.

• 07:20 I'm super excited that my coffee tastes like soap Today... Last time i EVER wash my thermous again... #
• 20:57 Its not even 9 oclock and the bar is wall to wall people. This is going to be a Good weekend. #

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If you know me on some social networking site, you've probably already seen this drawing... but if not, here it is. I think it's the first time I've drawn Henry.

This time, from the Paradox Comics Group... Matt T: Bristol Comic Expo legend Ben McCool finally puts his rather twisted imagination to better use than tell insane stories over curry. A noirish tale that sounds like Fell with a late night sci-fi twist sees a disgraced detective with Alien Hand Syndrome (???) have to catch the uncatchable to get his job back. As the first issue is called Pain I'm expecting McCool to churn out something suitably disturbing, and with Ben Templesmith adding his wonderfully gothic style the end product should match up perfectly.

Well, there's an afternoon gone.

Finished up some stuff this week, so I'm back to the painting. I'm having a pretty good time.



(I probably shouldn't post this, it's close enough to done that seeing the finish won't be exciting for anyone. Oh well!)

I woke up in the middle of the night with some ideas for the script for Gina's World. I kinda love those midnight revelations. But you've got to get up and write them down or they'll be gone in the morning, no matter how much you think they're set in stone.

Anyway, there's always been something missing in the last chapter, and I think I've got that straightened out, yet. Still some work to be done, but I've got the foundation and the direction for it.

If you've ever wondered what American-style English sounds like to non-speakers - the actual sound and flow of it, without the content - this Italian "pop song" is probably as close as you're going to get without some sort of terrible brain trauma. Also, the song is pretty great, it wouldn't sound out of place on that "Nuggets" anthology.

Quiet times around here. Eleanor's working hard getting pieces together for a joint Giant Robot art show she's doing in January. I'm plugging away on Set to Sea. We've been drinking lots of hot toddys in these cold and rainy days.

Yeesh, Christmas is sneaking up on me fast. Time to declare war on this here Christmas.

Currently reading: To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Currently listening: Fear and Whiskey (Mekons)/The Age of Faith (Will Durant audiobook)

• 08:26 Putting the final touches on the Savage Suzerain RPG... it goes live later today. #

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GOD dammit, why did THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX have to be so good? Now I have to revise my best of 2009 list (not to mention my best of the decade list) in order to fit it in.

Although the studios made the funniest, most screwball mistake somehow, and put the trailer hype ("Will change the way you watch movies") for the FANTASTIC MR. FOX onto the preview for AVATAR instead. hahaha! What a silly mistake! Between guffaws I mentioned the gaff to one of the ushers at the theatre, and I am told this idiocy will be rectified right away. Thank goodness!

I mean, clearly yet more overblown cliche-ridden technicolor videogame graphics (which appear in every single big budget hollywood FX movie) are not anywhere as original as wicked-ass stopmotion puppetry, the highly skilled use of which is treasured by anyone with any modicum of interest in filmic artistry (as well as awesomeness). AVATAR, with its plot cribbed from FERNGULLY (1992), and said videogame graphics depicting imagery about as fresh as a 1979 issue of Heavy Metal Magazine could never seriously, with a straight face, be considered the catalyst for "changing the way you watch movies".

Oh Hollywood hype-machine! You're just adorable! Haha, one day you'll get it right.

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December 18th, 2009: Here are some dudes playing classic SNES games for charity this weekend! You can watch them play and you can donate if they defeat Andross. You don't have to wait until they defeat Andross though! Okay so it's WINTER and I've still got that fall footer at the bottom of the page. Just like what I did for fall, I'm having a winter footer contest. Send me your best 1000x96 (it can be a bit taller if you want) image that loops, and I'll pick the winner and put it up on the site! Also, if you send in a URL I'll link to your URL with your submission. Here's the fall version and the fall background image I use for looping. When I say "loops" I mean that the left-hand side of the image is the same as the right-hand side of the image, so when they're tiled horizontally they go together nicely. The background image is just repetitive part of the larger image without much detail to it that I can use for tiling. Send them in if you're interested, and thanks! – Ryan

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