posted
You should both write a book that flips over. One side is Black Mask Vs Comics and the other, when you flip it around is The Mentalists Take Over The Asylum: a foray into the com-e-tragedy of the mental health system.
posted
I should point out that rather than telling me to get fucked, kovacs did in fact give me a bunch of other leads to follow up.
Posts: 13759
| IP: Logged
posted
I should probably apologise for all the abuse I gave him on TMT then for that. He did seem a bit surprised with the message asking him "How fucking dare you just tell someone to get fucked who has been supportive of your work for years and years, you could at least have been polite about it"....
Posts: 4934
| IP: Logged
posted
Jesus, I just googled my name on The Mock Turtle and found several pages - written in January - on a message board I barely know where people - some of whom I've never met - discuss what I wore on a date half a decade ago. Worse, other posters weighing in saying "maybe she would rather forget about it" as though the whole thing were some epic tragedy that had taken years of therapy to get over.
posted
I'm so bored. I'll be on holiday for sixteen days starting in about three hours. My boss is off today, as is his boss, but my screens are still too overlooked for Gemcraft.
There must be some of the Internet left for me to read. Can someone kindly point me towards the good bit?
Misc ponders what would happen if he filled the office kettle with Perrier and switched it on...
posted
A fun task could be to shut down internet explorer and then try to imagine how excruciating it must have been back in the olden days, when people had to get past that 'Friday afternoon before holiday' feeling wihtout email or internet. I'd give it 20 minutes before every molecule in your body started to explode from sheer boredom/ anticipation.
Or, you could just post her and let us know about your holiday plans.
Posts: 13759
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Did you read that Sims thing I linked to?
Yes, and it was very great. Made me want to recreate A Child Called It in Sims 3. Might need some mods. AFAIK you can't made a kid eat the contents of its sibling's nappy with the default install. Bit of an oversight by the developers there...
Posts: 14016
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Or, you could just post her and let us know about your holiday plans.
I don't know really. I had 24 days left to use, and found a gap between catalogue deadlines, so decided to use a couple of weeks up. I wanted to maintain my 100% record of not having to buy everyone cakes - I guess that was my main motivation.
Not sure what will happen though. Bit of decorating. Maybe a trip to Longleat to get up close and personal with some big cats, Kate Humble and a snake or two. Stay up late playing Gemcraft. Write some new tunes. Record some video clips of the bassonator in action. Might have a trip to Bath. Might have a bath, too. Probably should, really.
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: What else is there to do?
I found a good thing to do on my paternity leave was to redeem one of those free Lovefilm offers and spam it for all it's worth by watching two films in a row and catching the last post on the same day the films arrived.
Posts: 13759
| IP: Logged
posted
I was looking forward to paterntiy as I get a massive three days paternity leave and still have 23 days of holiday left so was going to take the bulk of that and have a month off, but I've been informed that newborns don't sleep for 20 hours a day leaving you basically free to play video games and apparently some people don't even have time to shower for a couple of weeks after the baby is born!
This sounds unreasonable so I'm considering not taking any time off until a few months after the baby is born and just letting Kate sort out that unpleasant bit.
Posts: 4934
| IP: Logged
posted
Good point. I'll watch all those films that I really ought to have watched by this stage in my life. And books - I'll read them, too.
I'm on the last chapter of stupid Jules stupid Verne's stupid book about all the different types of fish in the sea. There's some lame side story about a submarine-hermit, but it's pretty forgettable. Don't know why I bothered.
Posts: 14016
| IP: Logged
posted
Actually, you could help me out by telling me which films I should watch. So far, I've only seen: Star Wars, Alien, 2001, Terminator, Amélie, The Godfather and Transporters 1-3.
posted
Probably not. If you've seen that, there is little point in watching any other films as nothing will live up to the hilarity and fantastic acting of Ashton Kutcher.
Posts: 4934
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Probably not. If you've seen that, there is little point in watching any other films as nothing will live up to the hilarity and fantastic acting of Ashton Kutcher.
You might be right there.
I read something about *Ashton Kutcher on McSweeney's recently:
quote:ASHTON KUTCHER FAN FICTION: "THE MIDDLE SCHOOL DANCE" BY MELISSA BELL, AGE 13.
"Whutz going on in there, Geeves?" Ashton asked.
"It appears to be a middle school dance, sir," responded his trusty showfer. "Would you care to attend?"
"Yes," the gorgeous skater-type replied. "I am a little lonely tonight, and I have a feeling I might meet someone special there."
Ashton went into the dance. Everyone made a big deal about him and asked for his autographs. They knew him mostly as Kelso and had not seen him in everything else he had done, especially not "The Butterfly Effect" fourteen times.
.... .... ....
"Would you care to be my date for my movie pre-mere in Hollywood that I am driving to now?"
Marisa nodded because they did not need words. The age difference would not matter as he was used to it on account of his ex.
posted
Yeah, I can get three days full pay then seven days statuatory, but as I have 4 1/2 weeks of holiday left, I thought I may as well use that and save getting paid stauatory.
Posts: 4934
| IP: Logged
Octavia
I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
posted
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I've been informed that newborns don't sleep for 20 hours a day leaving you basically free to play video games and apparently some people don't even have time to shower for a couple of weeks after the baby is born!
The first 24 hours they're immensely quiet, which is a cunning ruse to insinuate themselves into your good graces and fool you into thinking you've got a sweet, placid little thing. By the time the truth kicks in it's too late to put it back in until it reaches an age of rationality. Though to be strictly fair to ours she did spend the two weeks of Thorn's leave sleeping peacefully on his chest while he played games and watched films.
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Actually... demonstrating my total and utter altruism, here... I know a great guy for your project. Andrew, the manager of Gosh! comics. He knows it all, he's passionate, and he wants to have a crack at writing.
On a different forum recently someone posted a comment about how amazing the Simpsons character "Comic Book Guy" is because, get this, they know someone exactly like that. It seems that the Simpsons creators had somehow recreated that real person as a cartoon character by pure coincidence.
I mentioned that this was indeed an amazing coincidence as you never recognise any of the other Simpsons characters at all in real life.
This was followed by a number of posts which disputed my statement and provided anecdotal evidence relating to a number of flesh and blood humans in whom people had been able to somehow discern similarities with Simpsons characters.
I again expressed my astonishment.
All I'm saying is, if you're going to write anything about comic books and characters then you might want to consider dumbing down like fuck.
Posts: 8467
| IP: Logged
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Hey - he would be great. If he wanted to do a BG for us that would be ace. Either of you are interested, I could send over a couple of other titles from the series, to give an idea of what's involved.
Thorn. I've talked to Andrew and he'd like to know a little more. Can you email me at...
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic