Sketchanoodle

Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving! This long weekend has consisted of so many things I don't even know where to start. I got to draw and chat with a live Bryony/paperlilies stickam stream. It was awesome and so much fun. And somehow I resisted leaving my apartment and spending money in overcrowded stores among the other zombsumers. Instead I clicked through pages of stuff I still managed not to buy. But I want 1) a graphic tablet(I'm considering the bamboo touch or the genius i609 or the adesso z12) 2) a bluetooth transmitter (probably jay-bird) 3)inexpensive bluetooth earbuds (again probably jay-bird) that don't hurt my ears.

I also fulfilled 2 childhood impossible yearnings. I can now play just about any Turbo Graf-X game I want to, and read just about any Uncanny X-Men comic. I know, geektastic.

I like short stories, and the AV Club, and Neil Gaiman; and he tweeted that he was on this list: http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-10-best-shortstory-collections-of-the-00s,35747/

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Wilderness by Tannojoko

Ace has a tumblr: http://technophiliac.tumblr.com/

Man, this is so late, and so scattered. I'm sorry. I've been subsumed with work, random sleep patterns, reruns of Criminal Minds, shopping for graphic tablets & wireless headphones, reading Hokuto Shinken/Jojo Manga, and trying to catch up on an endless list of things I've been curious about. I'm not even sure when my library rentals are due back. I do know I missed my chance to pick up the first volume of Scott Pilgrim. Whaaaaaat? You've never read Scott Pilgrim?!? What kind of Bryan O' Malley fan are you?

The kind that goes to San Diego Comic Con to get him to draw this:



You may not know this, but I draw stuff from time to time.



Maybe I'll get around to scanning the stuff I sketched during Bryony's stickam session. Oh yeah, btw this is the 51st post since I started blogging, and soon my first year online will be a reality. Who knows what I might accomplish in this coming year? Yay me for not smoking! I am definitely a more creative person because of it! You hear that nicodemons! I am better off without you! Okay, time for laziness. Have a great week my noodly appendages!

Ontology Next One

Happy Birthday Terry Gilliam, Roy Thomas, Marjane Satrapi, and mmmmmmmm Scarlett Johansson!!!

I love shouting out birthdays, especially for people I admire. In honor of these four people I will be listening to Scarlett Johansson's debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, watching Brazil, and hunting down: 1) an english scanlation of Persepolis 2) all four parts of Roy Thomas & Gil Kane's Ring of the Nibelung. I have a feeling these last two tasks will be something of a biting off more than chewing--which I have been doing a lot of lately.

Hyacinth and Pompeii are on the backburner now while I try to reinvest some time in the pen and paper arts. Not to mention the "dead tree" books I have in my grasp: Where I'm Calling From and The Comedians. Also not to mention the three other audio books I picked up: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, History of the Millenium by Dave Barry, and Animal Farm by George Orwell. In addition, not to mention Gary Spencer Millidge's Comic Book Design, and movies: The Strangers, Time Bandits, Vengeance is Mine, etc.

I have, however, recently found the time to watch The Fourth Kind (BLECHHH), and simultaneously read Jojo's Bizarre Adventures and Fist of the Northstar manga scanlations alternately with watching JBA prequel OVA's and Fist of the Northstar TV anime. Its quite an enlightening juxtaposition. Comparatively the Northstar manga is drawn so much more conservatively, with beautiful execution of figure rendering, narrative form, and layout, while the Jojo manga struggles for consistency while occasionally hitting a definitively shocking turn of brilliance. By large, however, the Jojo manga is uintentionally hilarious, probably in part to the translations. It is ironic to me that the Northstar tv anime and movie ended up so ridiculously overexaggerated, while the Jojo ova's ended up tightening up the imagery and plot. I have yet to reach the 3rd generation arc, so I'm not really sure if the manga improves.

Man, and I usually avoid manga like I avoid kids with glow sticks in ther mouths.

I am scaling back my twitter obsession. The tangents I come upon following everybody's links is dizzying. I'm feeling way past my center here, if you hadn't noticed. So what's your Sunday looking like? Me? I'm going to steal some sleep, get up and have some coffee, and possibly take a long walk full of meditation and ontological discovery. That's the plan at least. Take it easy y'all.

Comin' Atchoo

Good Afternoon my pajama-wearing, disheveled hair, eye-crusty public. It's Sunday Afternoon, and this is your Noodle!



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Were your parents awesome?

The Mashable 500 open web award nominees are up.

I've been reading Jojo's Bizarre Adventure online. Something I've wanted to read for quite a while. Its intriguing and at the same time uintentionally hilarious. Now I am looking for what is supposed to be a terrible movie adaption of the Phantom Blood Arc.

J. Dilla was one of the unsung heroes of hip hop. It is now my mission to listen to everything he had a hand in.

I am also looking for Catnapped! or Totsuzen! Neko no Kuni Banipal Witt and work by Takashi Nakamura. OH wait, I just found it! Mwaahahahahaa.

The Annotated Weekender is fun stuff.

Todd Alcott writes profound analyses of Venture Bros. Episodes.

I've haven't been so acutely aware of losing daylight in so long, that I must sadly depart with this entry looking more like the sneezy remains of several microblogs. Well color me twittered. Sorry everybody, I hope you'll still love me next weekend. Ciao.

The Stability of a Bubble

Good Afternoon my friends, neighbors, and potential lovers. It's past 5am here and I am promising you a Sunday Afternoon Noodle for your sunday afternoon. Here's hoping you get a chance to sit down with me for a few laughs and smiles before you get your Sunday on.

I peeked in on the significance of November 8 on wikipedia, but man was it full of heavy handed political stuff. The rise of communism and nazism, assassination attempts, the election of FDR during the great depression, the new deal, the election of JFK after Watergate. I'm not really one for discussing politics on Sunday, so I'll leave you to check the link yourself. I did also learn about the Roman observance Mundus Patet involving the Lapis Manalis. It reminded me of Jesus' resurrection and the moving of the stone. November 8 would be the third day of its opening. Wow, Del. Religion and politics. On a Sunday?

How about science? The Marangoni-Gibbs effect explains both why tears of wine pool inside on the sides of your glass and why soap bubbles float a while before suddenly bursting. Surface tension is neat.

Radiolab is now my favorite/only podcast I listen to! Because of radiolab I became reacquainted with the work of Dr. V.S. Ramachandran Thanks Kate Beaton! Ms. Beaton also informed me of Claude Lévi-Strauss' passing.

And Now This:


collegehumor - vanishing batman

I'm going to try to watch The Strangers, Good Night and Good Luck, and Time Bandits today. Next up for movies I have Vengeance is Mine, Willard, and Brazil. Somewhere I will squeeze in time for Pompeii and the Girl in Hyacinth Blue, then read a few stories from Where I'm Calling from, and a chapter of The Comedians. That is the plan. To your left you will notice proof that occasionally I actually finish an illustration. This one started out as an ink sketch (using an old set of staedtlers I keep around). It could use some fine tuning, but for now I'm just glad there's color in all the places where there should be color.

Okay. Man, I need to take a nap. I've got a full day of being lazy to rest up for. I'll see you guys around brunch time.

Comin' up off the weekend funk

Did you know that 2009 is designated the international year of astronomy and international year of natural fibers? WTF?

Today, November 1, 2009, we celebrate All Saints Day, Day of the Dead in Mexico, World Vegan Day, Day of the leaders in Bulgaria, and the last day of the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae, oh those crazy Ludi Romani!

My plans for this weekend went awry. Saturday being Halloween I figured I'd get a jump-start on SAN, finishing up two previously previewed illos I had cooking, and then join the Halloween festivities. But rising early after a night-shift and some aimless web surfing proved too powerful over my waning will power and I gravitated back toward bed before noon, only to wake up in the eerie silence of 6pm on Halloween night. I ended up watching Apocalypto (a long overdue viewing) while trying to get my desk organized. I also read a chapter of The Comedians listened to the first disc of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and the first chapter of Pompeii by Robert Harris. What a night of gravitas! For some reason the theme from Heroes hung in the back of my consciousness. Curious.



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These Lord of the Flies illos by Sam Weber are, well, fly.

I so rarely remember to check back in with the A.V. Club, but it's gems like this Eddie Campbell interview that bring me back.

Man it's late, and I've just run out of interesting things to share. Doesn't that bum you out when that happens? Like mid-conversation you just trail off and everybody goes into awkward self-reflexive silence. huh. Laterz mah peeplz.