This is me rambling about me, mostly. Current stuff: home, family, my head’s on fire… that kind of thing. This also includes everything imported from LiveJournal.
I meant to write this yesterday, but I was too sick to.
I’ve pretty much lost two days of work to being sick. I’m only feeling a little bit better today, but I’m going to get some work done regardless.
The problem with being self-employed is that nobody picks up the slack for you when you’re sick. The nice thing about having a buffer of comics is that at least my readers don’t read me the riot act every time I forget to take my Vitamin C.
–Howard
I’m headed into the mountains for a bit. Friends of ours have invited us to their cabin for an “eve-of-Christmas-eve evening,” and I’ve been led to understand that the closest tie with civilization will be an FM radio reciever (no transmitter.) I’m betting my cellphone will be useless except as a clock, and that the wireless card in my laptop will visibly shiver from loneliness.
I’m bringing the laptop anyway. Who knows when inspiration might strike? I’m not about to hand-write my notes.
I’m also bringing Star Munchkin, Grave Robbers from Outer Space, Falling, UNO, and Phase 10. Oh, and a proper boom-box, my iPod, and my iPod FM transmitter. I can’t use it to call for help, but I can broadcast christmas music to any reciever within about 5 meters.
I’ll be back by Christmas Eve. If I don’t post anything before then, Merry Christmas everybody. Be safe, be kind, be joyous, be well.
–Howard
Next time you’re in a video store, have a gander at the back of the 1976 remake of King Kong (DVD). There’s a photo of Jessica Lange kneeling in the palm of Kong’s hand, topless-but-covering-herself, and Kong is poking her with his finger.
Poking her in the crotch.
I should have scanned the picture from the back of the box before returning the video to Blockbuster, but this way y’all can have a chuckle the next time you’re out renting something else. And I do recommend you rent something ELSE. I have fond memories of the 1976 film, but that’s because I was eight years old and didn’t know that gorillas are supposed to knuckle-walk, not stride-and-stomp. Baker’s monkey-suit Kong looked like Sasquatch on a sound stage. (Jessica Lange was totally hot, though. I didn’t notice THAT when I was eight.)
–Howard
Having driven in San Francisco before, I find today’s Real Life hilarious. Nice work, Greg.