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| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 |
beatonna
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1:09p |
A Magical Day
 My father is an excellent gardener, and could grow enough vegetables to keep up fed all through the winter. Turnips are amazing because they are root vegetables and so if you pick them and put them in soil in the cellar they last for ages and ages. For more information about turnips, see every day of my childhood. ( store!) |
ursulav
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11:38a |
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ozarque
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10:22a |
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ozarque
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8:59a |
Making science fiction art...
We've had two days in a row of on-and-off thunderstorms, and I don't like to risk working at my computer when it's storming. I have a good backup power supply, but my computer is an antique, and my preference is to coddle it -- which means that I was gifted with two days I could spend working on the science fiction collage book I'd like to be able to put in the Conestoga 2009 Art Show. I always do the rough draft texts for those books in longhand anyway, and pen and paper face no risk from thunderstorms. [There's a post explaining how I make the sf collage books at http://ozarque.livejournal.com/175632.html , and there are three texts from this book at http://ozarque.livejournal.com/580704.html .] I got a lot done, I'm pleased to report. Progress Was Made. There are only eleven pages left to do texts for. But I also did some cheating. There were two collages in the book that had me completely stumped; I couldn't see any way to make them fit into the Thousands Of Hours Going By narrative, no matter how hard I tried, and the book is already more than long enough ... so I gave up and just tore them out. [They're not wasted work, by the way; George will back them with cardboard and shrink wrap them for me so that I can show them separately.] I've never done that with a collage book before -- my first inclination is to phrase that as "I've never stooped to that with a collage book before" -- and I wasn't comfortable doing it this time. The collage books, for me, are puzzles to be solved. Every time I look at a collage and I feel its text flowing into my mind I am so pleased. Tearing those pages out of the book felt to me like being in the middle of a crossword puzzle and sneaking a look at the completed puzzle instead of finishing it on my own. And it may be that if I'd been willing to spend another few days -- or weeks -- letting those two collages percolate around in my brain I would have been able to find a way to fit them in. I wasn't willing, but I wasn't proud of myself for giving up, either. I'm hoping that I'll be able to do the other eleven pages without having to delete any more of them, but I don't plan to torment myself about it if I can't. There is, for example, one collage involving a camel and a waterfall -- no Rainbow Egg, no angleterry, no sky portal -- that may have to go. I'm braced for it. |
shaenon
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12:14a |
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n_runningcreek
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4:34a |
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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 | |
n_runningcreek
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11:45p |
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beatonna
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7:22p |
Sarah Louise
You all remember Michael Jackson died? There has been a lot of media crap around since then about that guy. You want to see something really good and really poignant about it instead? My friend Sarah Louise (Sally Bloodbath on livejournal) made a really wonderful comic about her memories of MJ, and it is a refreshing, good thing. I am just telling her as I write this that she needs a website, because that is the truth, the lady is talented. You should tell her so, because I am hounding her to get on it. Check out her recent interview on Everything is Wonderful. |
mjlayman
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6:47p |
Nice Day for a Hair Cut
I was still in pretty good shape after the thrift shop and getting labs done, and since there's a Supercuts near Kaiser, I headed there. They were closed for good. I drove back toward home and decided to chance the Hair Cuttery near the Giant. The reason I stopped going there a long time ago is because they had a stylist who kept trying to lead me to Jeeeesus. She wasn't there today (or maybe any longer), so I had my hair cut an inch long. She asked if the curl was natural or a perm and I explained how it turned up when my hair came back in after the second renal failure, so I wasn't born with it, but it wasn't a perm, either. We got our monthly notice of bookgroup and were asked to wear Aloha shirts and sandals in memory of Charlie Brown. I don't have an Aloha shirt, but I have something close. The Lifetime show that I taped on Sunday and watched last night, Drop Dead Diva, had a really excellent premiere. A vapid wanna-be model is putting on makeup while driving and has an accident. Simultaneously, a chubby brilliant lawyer who wears only black jumps in front of a bullet to save a colleague and dies. We see the model up at the Gateway where she learns that she can't go to Heaven or Hell because she's a 0/0 -- never done anything good, nor anything bad. She sees a button that says "Don't Push Return Button" and pushes it, putting her in the lawyer's body. Her gatekeeper has been demoted to guardian angel and tries to explain to her how things work: She's still her vapid self, but she has the lawyer's brain and body. She doesn't handle this well and goes off to see her best friend. They have enough memories that only they have that the friend believes what happened, and says "This is so unfair! Bad things shouldn't happen to skinny people!" and all I could do is laugh. There were excellent setups and visual cues. I'm definitely going to watch this one for a while. |
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twitter_othar
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6:31p |
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rosalarian
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3:34p |
Got a few things done lately
- Finish YU+ME Pt. 2 Issue 8- Finish piece for LGBT art auction-Work on "End of the World" comic for anthology -Work on Art Prize entry/entries. -Digital vector/vexel piece -Ink and watercolor piece - Get art together for "Emerging Michigan Artists" anthology (just submit old work, I have to figure out which 5 pieces are the best to sum up who I am and what I do.-Work on Lesbian Pirates Pt. 2 Issue 4 (10% done) |
shaenon
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1:05a |
More Old Doodles
A million years ago, back when I first got this LiveJournal account, I posted tons of pictures of Wolverine. What I didn't mention at the time was that I drew a bunch of other X-Men at the same time but never scanned them. So here they are. Rogue:  Storm (I always liked her in the mohawk and fatigues):  ( Read more... ) |
| Monday, July 13th, 2009 |
qcjeph
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10:55p |
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rosalarian
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10:18p |
Lesbian Book Report: Convent of the Pure
 I first caught wind of this book in December. It was billed to me a bit inaccurately. I was expecting lesbian demon-hunting nuns. It was mostly right, except that they weren't nuns. That was actually the part I was anticipating most. So, let down right there. (Made better by the fact that a few weeks after hearing about this book, I discovered Sister Claire, which has the nuns hunting demons, with a fair amount of lesbian subtext.) The book is short. There is a hasty exposition before it gets right into the action. The action was fine, but with no context to it, I didn't really care about the characters, nor was I surprised when "good" guys did bad things. I hadn't come to expect anything from them either way, and characters were introduced and killed off before I knew what was going on. It had great potential, but didn't live up to it. Still, it was a great mindless, bedtime read. |
rosalarian
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10:08p |
Now with 50% less rage
I've been going through the archives of this journal today. And I've come to realize a few things. -Time does not go at the same pace all the time; it speeds up and slows down and my memory puts things out of order. -I have been trying to buy a house for a lot longer than I thought. My journal is a "little black book" of houses I have courted. -I have become more and more attached to writing every single thing that pops into my head. And last, but not least: - I have gotten angrier lately. My rants have gotten longer and more plentiful since around November. I'd really like this journal to be dedicated to fun, happy stuff. At the very least, not scary, angry stuff. I want it to be about art and comics and jokes and cat macros. And so, I created a second livejournal, specifically for posting rants to. From now on, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rantalarian is where I shall be posting my long, rambling rants and essays. I took down the old rants from this journal, and re-posted them in the new one. I wish I could have brought the comments with it, but I couldn't. It is fresh and new. This journal will continue to be about my life, my art, and various announcements for the comics and publishing stuff. If you like reading my rants and essays (which aren't always angry, mind you. Some are actually funny), feel free to friend me at rantalarian. If you'd rather just see art and stuff, then don't. I worry that I'm going to develop a split personality from this. rosalarian will become nice and sweet and funny, and her dark personality, rantalarian, will be a ravenous baby murderer. I did post a new rant in honor of this occasion. Homophone Marriage. (This is one of the funny ones.) |
rosalarian
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6:41p |
Days 4&5 sans gluten (giving up) / camping
I have been dutifully eating gluten-free for five days, and I wasn't getting better. I felt better for a day, then felt bad again. Today, I gave up and ate a sandwich. I actually felt better after eating the white bread than I've felt in weeks. So I'm pretty sure Celiac is crossed off the list. Ulcers, Crohn's, stones, and various other digestive diseases remain on the list. It could possibly be stress-related. I had no idea how stressed I've actually been these past couple weeks until I took a mini-vacation yesterday. I didn't realize how hard I was working myself. So it very well could be old ulcers flaring up (a large percentage of my graduating class had ulcers by the end of high school, though I have never been tested for them). Camping was fun. By "camping", I mean we stayed in a trailer outside of a casino. Not quite what I signed on for originally, but whatever. It was only for sleeping. We spent most of our time playing slots and going to the beach. We played 1 cent slot machines. The thing about the penny slots is, it has all the fun of gambling away money, without the pesky hassle of ever winning anything over $6. I only had $10, so Dad gave me a few random dollars here and there to keep me going. He mostly likes the company. The trailer shook all night long. I don't know why. But I couldn't sleep. I got maybe 1 hour of sleep last night. I feel exhausted. But somehow, more relaxed. Craziness. |
mjlayman
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6:33p |
A Longer Week
I got money at the ATM today and dropped off a DVD at the post office and then got groceries. I came home breathless and completely wet, even though it wasn't that humid out. After getting the perishable groceries into the fridge & freezer, I called the seamstress to tell her I was home and ready to trade money for pants. While I was waiting for her in the recliner, I got a call from the nephrologist covering for mine while she's away, and he wants me to have another Vitamin D level tomorrow. The thrift charity shop is sort of in that direction, so I moved stuff out to the back of the van with the collapsible crate and hope to be up to delivering it tomorrow after the lab. I brought the crate back in so I can use it to take trash & recycling out on Wednesday before the pulmonary function test. Then Thursday is the CT of the chest. I was hoping to get my hair cut this week, but I think I really need Friday at home because Saturday is bookgroup. Time keeps expanding for things I didn't anticipate. |
ursulav
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5:20p |
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shaenon
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12:26p |
More Old Doodles
I think this was a concept for a children's book. I like that I fit Jesse Hamm's HappyGoth in there.  |
shaenon
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12:23p |
SH on Fleen
I missed this awesome Skin Horse writeup on Fleen last week because I've been so busy putting the book together. Thanks, Gary! |
ursulav
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1:53p |
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ursulav
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11:41a |
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ozarque
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10:44a |
Personal note; weather...
I'm here, and I'm not ignoring your comments, but I'm having trouble posting today -- we're in the middle of a batch of thunderstorms. |
| Sunday, July 12th, 2009 | |
gibsonfeed
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3:06p |
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mjlayman
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5:46p |
Recent TV Show Premieres and Finales
I watched Warehouse 13 last week and where the Librarian movies are clearly spoofs of action-adventures where they retrieve things, and I think are funny, I thought Warehouse 13 was like a bad spoof. I don't plan to watch it again. I watched the first episode for the season of Eureka and while I knew who-did-it early on, I still liked it and plan to watch the season. The last episode of Eli Stone was last night and even if it was just meant to be a season finale, it was sufficient for the series finale. The TV columnist for the WashPost wrote when it was announced to be cancelled that it had better numbers than some other ABC shows, so you never know what the motivation is. |
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