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Pretty Little Homes...

The imagery in this video sticks in my brain like peanut butter on the roof of your mouth.

Matt Fraction (Writer of Image's Casanova) and his company MK12 cooked up this little gem for the Faint's song Agenda Suicide.

Brother Troy saw the Faint in concert and they played this video in the background during their performance.

Evidently MTV banned it.

Not enough big booties shaking.

Great song, even cooler video.

Can't... Speak... Too... Good...

Holy Jumping Alligators.

Check out Mike Mignola's new animation project.

Indescribably great. I hope this takes off.

The Amazing Screw-On Head

More, please.

Content Police Episode 2 is coming, I swear.

We made another podcast. I swear, I'll get the editing done soon.

Honest.

In other news, my kids cry at everything. Like when I stand up. Or sit down. Or breathe.

It's a little unnerving.

Okay, this was much funnier than I thought it was going to be.

Ken Jennings offers suggestions on how to spice up Jeopardy

Bust.

Content Police Episode 2 was rescheduled due to inclement weather and jacked up personal schedules.

To make up for the lack of content, I compensated by working all weekend and not sleeping. My brain feels like one of those old operator switchboards where you plug in both ends of the cable to make a connection.

One.
Wire.
At A Time.

Ep 2 recording tomorrow, weather permitting.

Raking together stuff for tomorrow's podcast. The first episode served as a good proof-of-concept, a baseline to improve on (a lot).

We still don't have a USP (Unique Selling Point) yet.

I think our hook should be a podcast where everyone talks like monsters. Kind of like Gwar, only no makeup, lousy music, or special effects.

I get to start work tomorrow morning at 5am, lucky me.

...

Just typing those words spun me into a coma. I'm awake now.

Badgercasting.

Well, Donkeljohn and I made a subpar amateur podcast THE BEST PODCAST IN THE WORLD, just to prove we could.

Content Police - Episode 1

One hour of us rambling about games and comics.

My favorite parts are where I'm not talking.

You don't have to love it, but any feedback is greatly appreciated. If we get more positive responses than negative, we may even do another one.

(Update: Nice. Blogger won't let me post directly to a MP3 file. We'll work out the RSS feed and an actual site for the cast in the future, depending on a lot of ifs.)

Wasteland

There are too many reasons why I'm excited about this:

Wasteland by Oni Press

Check out the preview pages. Very cool stuff.

Bullet points!
- The art looks great. (I love greyscale comics, always have since Mark Nelson's art in Aliens #1)
- I love gritty post-apocalyptic dark future stories. Mad Max/A Boy And His Dog/Fallout/Fallout 2. Love'em. As long as they're Kevin-Costner-free.
- The dialogue looks like it won't offend my sensibilities.
- The cover by Ben Templesmith pwns.

This kind of brings up a line of thought that came up when I was talking with Runnerguy a few weeks ago. I need my comics to seriously jump out at me and make the hair on my arms stand up. I've gotta take a look at it, and utter shamelessly, "Oh, man, that's cool." The Tony Moore issues of Walking Dead did that for me. Global Frequency did that for me. That's the fix I'm looking for when I browse through every single comic cover on the rack. Flawless presentation, and I'm not only talking about art. I do read a couple of pages to get a feel for the dialogue. If it's dialogue I've read before, it's a no-sale, even if the art is terrific. If the writing is amazing, but the art doesn't grab me, tough luck. It's gotta be a complete package, or else you don't get my three dollars (which is why I'm not reading Exterminators).

I might be shallow. Maybe.

I really, really want this to be awesome, and it looks like it's got a solid chance.

I still exist, sorta.

Yeah, so the blog's been dry.

I've been working a lot. With not much interesting stuff going on.

Business as usual.

Nothing to see here.

Today's Accomplishment

I, along with Kate, have mastered the numbers One through Ten.

It was a long haul, but we finally made it.