February 2012
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andrewhimes asked: did you graduate from Horlick High School?
August 2011
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Blog it up, blog it in, let me begin
Holy cats, I have a blog? When did that happen?
Whatever, ass-butt. I tweet like a golden god, so I don’t need any guilt trips about how i never blog. You got that, “Frank Beaton”? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
ANYWAYZ! I wrote a short retrospective about the Planet of the Apes franchise to accompany Erik Henriksen’s excellent review of Rise of the Planet of...
June 2011
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Here's what happened today
I deployed a major new redesign of CBR. It could not have gone worse.
I failed miserably at making pad thai for the first time, and may have given myself food poisoning in the process.
I split a toenail on my right food. Very painful.
My check didn’t arrive. Again.
I got nothing written, except a few work emails and this blog.
My daughter walked.
Today fucking ruled.
May 2011
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February 2011
3 posts
Bernie Wrightson's original creature designs from... →
“Can you name any country that became a democracy after a violent revolution?...”
– U.S. Citizen Sean Hannity, on Egypt
January 2011
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On PORTLANDIA
It’s been more than 24 hours since the west coast premiere of Portlandia, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s PDX-centric sketch comedy show, and, like all Portlanders, I am compelled (required?) to voice my opinion on it.
In short, I loved it. I’m a big fan of Christopher Guest’s scary-accurate satires like Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, and—in its best...
Review: 99 Ways to Fuck a Swan →
My first article for the Portland Mercury.
(SPOILER: The play is very funny.)
And I just can't help believing
Wrote this on a friend’s Facebook feed about Johnny Boy’s 2004 single “You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve,” which remains one of my absolute favorite songs of all time.
(I wanted to be fancy and embed the song into this post, but I couldn’t figure out how. So I’ll just link you to JB’s MySpace page, instead:...
December 2010
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November 2010
9 posts
“No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & No pages”
– Sign hung above television in Hunter S. Thompson’s house
me: Please tell your mom not to bring over her new Tea Partier boyfriend.
Jill: Does he not have his own Thanksgiving to go to?
me: Of course not. Because of the Mexicans.
“Patel? Ravadam Patel? Fucking Shiva came down, handed this guy a million...”
– David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
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FYI
That Warren Ellis quote was taken from Antony Johnston’s excellent GDC talk “Comics to Consoles.” I encourage anyone interested in writing for either comics or video games to watch it.
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“Look for the least amount of words that convey the most amount of information...”
– Warren Ellis
August 2010
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Minimalist movie posters
By artist Ibraheem Youssef (via SlashFilm)
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Google kills Wave, makes me sad →
Unfortunate. I’ve been using Wave daily for the last six months or so and I’ve really come to rely on it for project management and collaboration stuff. I was actually gearing up to write a Wave primer for all the folks involved in my next comics project when I heard the news.
Personally, I think Wave failed because of a combination of unclear messaging (“What does it do?”...
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Blow it up, start again
Why not, right?
The old blog died of starvation, so I’m moving everything to Tumblr (including my domain) in the hope that the social aspect and microblog format might force me to actually update the damn thing once in a while. Plus, I just really like the setup and interface. Tumblr seems to be the Mac to WordPress’s PC, and that alone makes me want to try it.
Fingers crossed.
