If you shit your pants and someone is there, you have to kill them immediately
Hot fuck it’s a nice day outside. Great day, even. Sunny, bright, beautiful, and just, wow…here’s mud in your eye, Winter.
I mean, I spent the whole day inside, but still. You get to see it, and that’s the nice thing. Rode my bike to work today for the first time this year. I missed it, not to mention how fast I get there. Mmmm, pedals.
Of course, my work day was all kinds of fucked, given that the comics were put on the wrong truck and we had to wait around for UPS to find them and get them to us, and it just made the whole day completely unbalanced. It’s funny how you get into predictable routines and when they get thrown off it just fucks everything up.
In a way, I think it’s unbalanced my whole equilibrium for the day. Not because it was irritating and caused me a hassle, because I can deal with that. I was just expecting my day to go a certain way and then it just…didn’t. And I didn’t know what to do with myself. Frankly, I still kind of don’t. Brought home comics to read, including four Star Wars: Clone Wars TPBs. I’ve been weirdly really, really into SW lately. Watched both prequels the other day while I was cleaning the house (did a *lot* of cleaning during Episode 1), watched Jedi on DVD as Kenzie left her box set here with me this weekend, been reading a lot of the Clone Wars comics. I guess I like the interconnectivity of the Clone Wars era stuff. I like seeing a story being told in a pretty decent way across many different media (novels, comics, cartoons) and how they explore the various characters that they’ve created for that time that will not appear at all in Sith, like Asajj Ventress, Durge, Quinlan Vos. That kind of shit is just plain fun.
I’m finally reading Harry Potter for the first time, and yeah, I get it, that is good plain fun, too. I’ve always said that Rowling is a genius, even though I hadn’t read any of her stuff, because anyone who can create something original, unique and with such a great fan base has their shit together. When Kenzie and I were watching the Star Wars documentary that came with the DVD set the other day, I actually began to get a little sad, thinking about how maybe the market and the world haven’t really seen a lot of great new original phenomena in the realm of fiction lately, but I perked up when I remembered Potter. You are a legitimate phenomenon.
You know what’s a really, really great rock song? AC/DC, “Thunderstruck.” I’m not much of an AC/DC fan (although one of my characters is), but man…that’s a good one. Allie even likes it, although we like “TNT” better (just because she likes going “Oi! Oi! Oi!”).
Speaking of her, she was with me all day Monday and Tuesday, since she’s off from school on Spring Break. I was playing Madden on Tuesday and she was sitting on the couch behind me, and I was getting into the game, all mad because I was doing crappy, throwing my hands in the air and going “Oh, come ON!” and stuff like that and then all of the sudden she starts copying me. It’s funny because I always copy her when she’s talking, and she gets all frustrated and goes “Why do you always do that?” and I just smile and tell her it’s because I love her. So there she is, copyign me, and when I ask her what she’s doing, she goes “I’m just mocking you.” “Why?” I ask, and she goes “Because I love you!”
It’s important to raise your kids right. I know I was, plenty of mocking in my household, and look at what it created?
For those that are wondering, some of Allie’s other favorite songs are Franz Ferdinand, “Take me Out,” Beyonce “Baby Boy,” and strangely, Meat Loaf “I Would Do Anything for Love (But I won’t do that).”
Despite all the zaniness at work today, I managed to have a lengthy conversation with one of our regular customers, who’s an artist, and we got talking about making comics, what we both like and think storytelling should be, what comics should be, and we clicked on a lot of levels. He’s going to being in some samples of his work next week, and I think I may polish off a script or two to show him, and maybe we can get some collaboration going. Frankly, after the conversation we had, I don’t really care how well he draws, as long as it’s above stick figure level. From what we were both talking about, we’re on a lot of the same wavelengths, which is the most important thing.
So there we go. I think this put me back on track. Rock on, people.
Stay in milk, don’t do school and drink your drugs, I remain…


