OVERDUE!: Day 6 (This Is Just Killin’ Me!)
Okay, now I’m tearing my hair out. I want this monkey off my back!!!
Page two is now fully laid out with stick figures and block shapes. Proportion and perspective have been worked out, and I’m happy with the page composition. By the end of today I want to have the figures and backgrounds roughed in so that all I’ll have to do tomorrow will be to add the finishing details.
But I have to go Christmas shopping today.
I guess I have to do both. This is not going to be easy.
Okay, I’m off! I hope my next blog entry will be an announcement that page two is penciled and posted. If not… well, crap, I don’t even want to contemplate that.
December 16th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
I’m gonna come up there and follow you through the mall alternately playing Wreck the Malls and the Jeopardy! theme behind you until you get this thing posted, Bill. As I said to one of my friends here at work this morning, you DON’T want ME following you.
And I’ll show Rodney where you are.
December 18th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Hear that sound? So quiet. So gentle. That’s the sands of time as they shift slowly over your life. Three hours and thirty five minutes to go before it’s Monday.
Relax. There’s plenty of time. Just stay focu…. Hey, isn’t the cat just so much fun to watch? Look at her go. Oh, yeah. Must stay fo… Wow. TNT is running all three Rings films today? That’s so cool. Turn it on a tune out for a bit. Damn. Lost it again. Work. Most f… I wonder what they’re saying over on PAD’s blog right now?
Three hours and thirty minutes to Monday.
Tick, tock…
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:26 pm
I was going to pop back in and be sarky as hell. Not gonna do it.
You have a five day grace period coming up. There’s no such thing as “free time” or “spare time” in the next four days that are about to slam us all.
But after those five days….. All I’ll say is, “jumper cables.”
That, and Merry Christmas, guys and gals.
December 26th, 2006 at 5:18 am
Oh, Christmas Tree,
Oh, Christmas Tree,
Jerry’s coming with jumper cables,
Oh Christmas Tree,
Oh, Christmas Tree,
How lovely–GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, SQUIRREL!
January 5th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Well, it’s well passed the holiday grace period and a man has gotta do what a man has gotta do.
Sean, saddle the sheep. I’ll be with you as soon as I collect the branding iron, salad tongs and Abba’s Greatest Hits CD. We ride at dawn. Our destination is…. wait…. check the bio page again… He lives how far away? Damn.
Well, we’ll mail him photos of the devices of torture and a really stern letter.
January 5th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
The damn sheep won’t stay still for the picture, Jerry. Or maybe they sense my Scottish blood.
All right, I’ve got the Bay City Rollers, a never ending play of Saturday Night is enough to get ANYTHING accomplished.
Bill, you HAVE been warned….
January 8th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Jerry, Sean… you two are really messed up. Just so you know.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
The voices in my head agree. And they also wanna see page two.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
That was baaaaaaad.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:12 am
“Jerry, Sean… you two are really messed up. Just so you know.”
Raising a sick mind 101:
At age two, allow frequent viewings of Ernest Kovacs.
At age five, allow frequent viewings of the local TV Station’s weekend horror/sci-fi block.
By age ten, throw in (amongst others) Alas, Smith and Jones, Benny Hill, Rising Damp, Monty Python, The Stunt Man and The Jerk.
In the teenage years, create a fanatic love of (amongst others) Hammer Horror films, Team Troma, horror comedies and develop sarcastic humor loves like Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister and Shelley.
Refine in the twenties.
Do all that and more and you get me!
You may now tremble.
January 13th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Jeez, Jerry, you got here the hard way. All I had was multiple head injuries on top of way too much time to play in my own imagination. Along with more action figures than the law allows and enough time to tell myself(and a girlfriend or two) stories.
BTW–ever see Satanic Rites of Dracula? It’s so rare that I run into someone that appreciates Hammer.
So, Bill, how are you? Good, glad to hear it. How’s Jeannie? How’re the kitties? Good, good. Now, last question. Where’s page two?
January 15th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
No, I did all that stuff as well. I just did it inbetween the points I listed.
I’ve got Satanic Rites of Dracula and about 20 or so other Hammer films on DVD and VHS. Anchor Bay was putting out some nice Hammer stuff a few years ago, but they lost the contract it seems. Bummed me out because they went poof from the shelves before I could upgrade all my Quatermass films to DVD. At least I made sure to snag Quatermass and the Pit on DVD the second I saw.
“Now, last question. Where’s page two?”
Have you seen the weather news, Sean? Bill has a good excuse. He got clunked by a frozen squirrel.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/squirrel.asp