Monday, November 16th, 2009
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10:20 pm - On Roddy Piper
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"I fought the best legends in this ring... Lou Albano, Bruno Sammartino, Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, proving that if you face the Hot Rod.. now you are either bald or dead.
I can say it, because they know I love em.. mostly the dead ones.. not so much the bald ones."
I fucking love Roddy Piper
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3:10 pm - On Lily Stitches
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
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12:53 pm - On Joo & Igudesmanandjoo
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These guys just made a fan - this is fantastically fun stuff...
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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12:48 pm - On Blake's 7
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I don't think I'd ever heard of this series.. yet a random list of great sci-fi shows had it listed in the top 20. Apparently it's a Brit Scifi show where you are following a ship of freedom fighters in a totalitarian universe/government.
Anyone seen it? As great as this list touted it? Gojiraeight, I'm looking at you.
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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12:08 am - On Which Mountain?
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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4:49 pm - On Button Stigmata...
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Someone just bought a professional button maker.
Out: Slamming my hand into metal circles for hours on end.
In : Using a sleek lever.
Out: Wounds on the base of my palm.
In : Carpal Tunnel
Out: Dreading the times I have to make buttons.
In : Getting ready for button 'sessions'
Out: 3 dead buttons a sheet due to frilly backings not catching right.
In : .5 dead buttons a sheet, etc.
Anyone have a band or something that needs buttons. I'M YOUR BITCH!
And on another note:
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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4:17 pm - On Home...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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1:56 am - On Sugoi...
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Tomorrow morning I head off to SugoiCon.
I have:
- Not enough books.
- Not enough pins.
- No new t-shirts.
- No new... etc.
If it wasn't for the fact that I'll be doing panels, improv, mst3k, and hanging with fans all weekend, fairly nonstop... I would say that I'm disrespecting the show itself.
They don't care if I sell things. They hope I do. It means I'm doing well enough to want to keep doing their show. The courtesies they've given me in the past means I would never NOT do their show. I could wake up tomorrow and be the next Perry Bible Fellowship, and I would never be too big to skip Sugoi.
...anyway... to the real meat of the matter...
I've spent a year languishing. It was a bout a year ago I got my ass in gear and moved in with Jimmy, Val, and Debbie. Since then I've been working at *bux and a year later, Debbie and I are in our own apartment.. sadly the work situation hasn't gotten much better, but my standing on my own two feet has gotten tons fucking stronger.
I set myself a goal two months ago - 30 days to find a job better than the one I have now. Failed. For as much as I despise aspects of the Big Coffee Monster I work for, my pay, plus tips, plus benefits... and I'm making more than I would at most offered jobs I've found.
So if jobworld isn't getting better... IHL world is going to have to.
I am going to be putting together another 30 day goal. I'm not entirely sure what it is. Maybe it will be a strip a day. Maybe it will be a simple hour of IHL work. I don't know.. but it's a damn shame that I don't have any new work to show at Sugoi this year, and I can't let that happen again.
So to Sugoi. Kentucky bound. See you on Tuesday.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
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9:17 pm - On Saw VI
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Look, I know a lot of people aren't into the Saw movies. Whatever your reason, I find them interesting.
I find that compared to the standard slasher motif, zombie motif, and contemporary J-Horror motif (with the exception of the hypergore style of things like Machine Girl or Tokyo Gore Police) - there isn't a lot of interesting things going on in horror these days. Slashers slash, Zombies lurk, and J-Horror tries to be slow and methodical and in many cases ends up slow and tedious.
I enjoyed Paranormal Activity, but it's formula and disgustingly hateful main character (The guy, not the girl) left me kind of shruggy. I respect it for it's cost versus features, and it had a genuine jump or two for me, but probably not at the spots I was supposed to (the attic scene being the best one).
Jigsaw as a villain isn't a good person. Every BAD person he's trying to save involves him ending up victimizing two or three INNOCENT people. The fact that they can give you rational reasons WHY he's chosen to punish these people though is fantastic. The movies are no longer MOVIES. They are 1.75 hour EPISODES at this point. Each filled with interesting Rube Goldberg death traps. There is an overarc'ing PLOT though. Jigsaw set-up a mythology to outlive him. Now by the end of VI he's more or less tied up all those loose ends and we're left with at least one more movie that features a decently set-up final showdown.
Are they PERFECT? Aw fuck no. Are the fun as hell, Aw fuck yea.
It amazes me that at EPISODE VI, it is easily my second favorite of the series next to the original.
I can't wait til next year for Saw VII - If it is the last film.. I'm thinking marathon day.
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
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12:25 pm - On Twittarded
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I think it's official. LJ has been abandoned.
Truth be told - I just don't find Twitter that interesting.
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
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10:10 pm - On Evony...
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I've been addicted to Evony now for a few weeks...
NO YOU DUMB BASTARDS! NO! BAD BAD BAD NO!
Did you really think I meant that like I was playing an MMO.. I'd rather be tarred.
I mean that I've been addicted to reading ABOUT Evony for the last few weeks!
Not sure what I'm talking about - kay... first, you have a Facebook or something similar. I know you do. Anyway, you've probably seen this ad and MANY LIKE IT on your favorite site du jour. The company are a "game" that has taken liberties with various Sid Meier creations and turned into a pay as you play kinda system.
They also supposedly spam comment forums they advert on, use almost lewd advertising for the game itself (with no payoff (which is important to me anyway)), and a whole slew of other black hat internet tactics to gain membership and heist people out of as much cashola as possible.
The guy who started to take notice and inform the universe is Bruce Everiss.
He is now being sued by Evony... they're trying anyway.
I find the entire affair interesting, and by spreading the knowledge to you guys, you in turn can read, be entertained by the CRAZYNESS of this company, but you can in turn spread it further. ...like Aids... but with video games... video game AIDS....
HERE'S THE LINK
I warn you, the first picture you will see are a giant pair of breasts in a bra. It's one of the Evony ads all blimped up... other than that the site is clean.
If Wednesday's IHL has something to do with Evony (which it might) - you'll know why now.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
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7:48 pm - On GSS
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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1:10 pm - On Fun With Banners...
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Does this picture of Carrot Top lend legitimacy to the site that it's linking to? Especially when you go to the site and it in no way endorses Carrot Top?
I actually clicked the link to see if it was a subtle joke.
It's not.
If you are in any way interested in seeing where the site goes.. here:
http://ripped-abs-secret.com/matts-ripped-combo/
Lulz abound.
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
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9:06 pm - On Newness
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
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10:42 pm - On Burlesque!!!
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
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9:16 pm - On Melo-M
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
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2:31 pm - On Off The Grid...
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I've been gone for awhile.
IHL still gets updated. It has to. Why, Jamie? Why have you disappeared from the face of t3h 1nt3rn3tz?
Simply, life has been busy.
Debbie and I are moving into our own place in early October. I've been invited to Sugoicon again. I want to have the 2nd IHL Anthology book done to debut there. Work has been heavy. Looking for better work has been heavier. I've been reading the Lemony Snicket books voraciously. I'm playing Professor Layton on the DS.
These aren't excuses, they are just what has been filling my time. I'm just busy. Twitter only vaguely amuses me, so I only use it when it's on the screen and I notice it.
I don't know whether I talked about it on here.. I think I did, but I fought my way out of depression a few months ago. No drugs, no headshrinkers. I fought out of it, because I tend not to like those other things just because of their nature. I don't see them working for me, so thusly, I'm fairly certain they won't. I came out though with something less than a new lease on life, but a certain amount of empowerment over my own situation and world.
Certain uncomfortabilities in the house I live in can go away if I have my own place (with Debbie of course). No cause or blame go on my other roomies.. I think we're just four strong headed people that don't work altogether well living together. They have their way of living and I/we have ours. The fights we have had in the last year can be counted on one hand, so it legitimately is just better for the friendships if we strike out on our own. I have the power to do that, and where it is a certain greater financial burden, I still have the power to do it, so I am.
I want IHL to succeed, but to do so I need new books. I've never formatted my own books before, Dani used to do that since she had the learned skills to do so. So formatting books takes a chunk of time in learning the system and the process, and in the end, hoping it doesn't suck in the end. I have the power to do that, so I am.
Work... work is an entirely different beast. I send out resumes daily. I've sent them to office jobs, driving jobs, writing jobs, inventory clerk jobs, data entry jobs, secretary jobs, receptionist jobs, etc. I'm busting my nut trying to find a new job. I have a job right now working at *Bux, but it obviously is utterly unfulfilling and financially retarding. I actually do NOT have the power to fix this one on my own, as it will take someone to see my resume and like it enough to give me a shot. I am doing everything within my power to fix it though.
It's been a time to fix things lately, and I'm doing my damndest to try. I woke up a month or two ago and was more of an adult than the month before. I just need to allow the processing time for the world to catch up to me. It will. I just need to give it some time and wait it out.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
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2:47 pm - On DisVel
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
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5:44 pm - On Pole Dancing...
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
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9:36 pm - On Black Christmas...
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So Netflix has a HUGE selection of old horror.
Black Christmas was there. I'd heard the movie mentioned in the past though I couldn't remember for the life of me why. Oh, right, it's considered to be one of the first real slasher films.
It has it's flaws, but it is a damn good horror movie. The pacing is strong, the insinuations are there, and it ages fairly well.
All in all I'm glad I got to see it and will be poking around for some more of the obscure cult horror lot in the future.
Cue gojiraeight in 3... 2...
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