Kate is easily my least favorite character on Lost, even more so than Walt, Shannon or Claire. I really like her cool, escaping-from-the-cops-adventures, but the millisecond those stop, she immediately becomes incredibly annoying. Almost nothing she says or does has any logical causality, and I’ve no idea why Jackface or Sawyer are remotely interested in her, ever, besides the fact that she is basically the only tail on the island.
Very excited for the new season though. I’m so curious about the endings that a bunch of characters are going to get, like what is going to be Ben’s ultimate fate, hero or villain? Is Jack going to become the bad-assed leader I love so dearly again? Is Sawyer going to survive the season? SO MANY QUESTIONS.
LET’S TALK ABOUT CITIES IN TEXAS:
I don’t know that I have anything interesting to say about my trip to Dallas. I didn’t get to see too much of the city, being there on work, but I’ll do my best to lay some facts on you (for those that have never been I guess. Otherwise, you have your own facts to lay):
- People actually wear cowboy hats and those big, goofy belt buckles. Not everyone, just here and there you’ll see someone standin’ tall in his/her Texas finery.
- The Texas accent is sloooooooooowwwww. “How-dee pard-ner, how a-bout you and I talk a-bout belt buck-els for a whi-ile? Would that be all-right?” I mean, I know being from Jersey, I talk a mile a minute and infix “fuck” into every other word, so I’m no conversational peach, but jesus christ people, let’s speed things up.
- The buildings are huge and spaced out a smidge farther than what I’m used to, and they are like no people walking around in the city (I heard this is because Dallas is a big commuter city?), so the city has this weird, empty cavernous feel.
- There is meat everywhere. In everything. Not the most awesome place to be a vegetarian unless you’re fine with your hotel pillows being giant sides of ribs and all TV channels being 24/7 MeatDonalds* commercials.
MUH-MUH-MUH-MUSIC TIME
On the road this week, so not a lot of time to dig up too much that’s cool, so why don’t we try a theme this week. Um, how about, “Dudes dealing with Ladies?”
- “Holiday Parade”–Samiam. A rocking little tune about a man that is unhappy with how his lady treats him. High energy with some drum parts that I am particularly fond.
- “Don Juan”–Suburban Legends. Ska song with a dude explaining the origins of his success with the ladies. Catchy with cute lyrics.
- “Fell in Love Without You (acoustic)”–Motion City Soundtrack. A good one, provided you’re not afraid to let your emoflag fly once and a while.
Don’t forget to come back on Weds. to see Dana’s next blog post.
<3 Mike
*MeatDonalds is the Texas equivelent of McDonalds. It is more or less the same, except its food is served without bread, cheese or any of the other salmonela-infested roughage typically available at the national chains. Their mascot, Ronald MeatDonald, is made entirely of raw, unfrozen hamburger meat, and only communicates in screams and wet burbles of barbecue sauce.
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Well hey everybody! Welcome to our second Wednesday blog post! I can already tell you that Dana’s was a lot better, but I’ve been writing about health care marketing all day, so cut me some slack!
Since still rocking a pretty brand new site infrastructure, why don’t we see if we can rock a little video embedding? Let’s start with something I found from my favorite rapper, P.O.S.:
Pretty rad right? I know I’ve said it before on the site, but P.O.S. is basically the best rapper (and one of the best live acts) I’ve ever scene. If you haven’t done it, I really recommend buying all three of his albums. Right. Now.
Here is another video for you: P.O.S. playing “P.O.S. is Ruining my Life” acoustically (song actually starts at 2:25)
Boy, I sure love P.O.S. This is it for the sneaky live Youtube videos of P.O.S. that I know of, but here is a fun game: You can find all of his music videos online right here.
See you all on Sunday!
Oh hey everyone,
Welcome to our Wednesday blog post. I thought I’d start off by showing some of the sketches for this week’s comic and talk a little about what goes on in my head as I work (besides my usual rage and blood lust).
Obviously, I’m pretty sloppy with the first pass. At this point, I’m just trying to work out the basic action and overall layout, so I don’t feel the need to draw very coherently. If it’s a simpler comic (like the one last week) then I usually skip this step altogether.
Next I do a second pass where I attempt to make sense of my earlier scribbles. In this particular comic, I changed the second to last panel before inking it. The perspective was not nearly as effective as I wanted it to be, so I went back and fiddled with it until it was right.
After that, it’s inking and coloring, which are pretty straightforward. I use Flash for drawing and Photoshop for coloring, although most of the earlier comics are done entirely in Flash. I’m toying with other software, but as I’m currently both lazy and poor, I don’t know if I’ll end up changing my methods at the moment.
AND, in case you don’t give a shit about any of that, here are some of my music picks this week:
“Heavy Metal Drummer” –Wilco. My taste in music has gotten significantly wimpier since college.
“Massive Nights” –The Hold Steady. One of my favorite bands. Apparently Craig Finn is working on a screenplay based on a Chuck Klosterman book.
“Animal Minds” –Radio Lab. So it’s a podcast, not music. But if you consider yourself the least bit nerdy, then you’ll probably like it. “Animal Minds” is the latest episode, there are a ton of others and they’re all free. Click here to download them.
I also wanted to thank everyone for their continued support. Mike and I have lots of plans for the comic this year, we’re very excited about them and you should be too. Oh, and if there’s anything specific you’d like me to write about, please let me know. See you guys Sunday!
xoxo,
Dana
Sorry RSS followers, testing out our posting system, adding author images to the blog post, etc. Just remember, when I’m totally annoying like this, I’m doing it all for you!
Okay, the updates are moving along as planned, with a few notable errors, like the archives being broken. Thank you everyone for your patience, and I’ll be fixing things as fast as possible.
<3 Mike
Getting ready to update the site. If things go blooey, I’m very sorry for the inconvenience and I will have things fixed as fast as possible.
-Mike
