You know, just once I’d like to post a painting without someone on DeviantArt saying “Hey, that reminds me of “Labyrinth!” I mean, once or twice, fine, high praise, it was the only fantasy flick a lot of people have seen, that’s cool. But Every Single Painting? Come ON! They can’t ALL look like Labyrinth! […]
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Today’s Sinfest made me chuckle. http://sinfest.net/ Now, people will say this is alarmist. They’re right. I will be assured by terrible reasonable sounding people that this is silly. And they will indeed sound very reasonable. And I will give better than even odds that there will be no draft, certainly. Don’t feel a need to […]
At some point in the night, in between the dreams of being attacked by the flying razor-clawed doll from the Dreamcast version of Genma Onimusha,* I appear to have gotten up, found my sketchbook, and scrawled “king–thugwhumps–“Ooodlegoiter”–Baby dragon w/stuffed knight–“Mr Higgins.” Whether this was a painting idea or a menu suggestion, I’m not entirely certain, […]
Slaved over a painting for days, and at the end…meh. Not impressed. I learned some stuff, so it wasn’t a loss, but it just wasn’t…whatever. This, on the other hand, I whipped out in about two hours, and was pleased with. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/11008149/ Why is it always the simple, silly, fast stuff that I wind up […]
The male goldfinches appear to be molting, or else I have been beset by the rare Mottled Calico Finch. Rather more surely than the leaves (mostly still green) in this climate, it would seem that this indicates the end of summer. This has been a fabulous summer. I’ve done nothing but work, but I’ve made […]
Woot! Finally got my Anthrocon check. Not bad at all. Everything went for minimum bid, (everything almost always goes for minimum bid, it seems) except for “The Grape” which went for three times the minimum bid, cracked a hundred bucks and blew my tiny little mind. It’s always the ones that you toss off in […]
http://yerf.com/vernursu/smallrus.jpg This is so James’s fault. He was wandering around singing “I am the smallrus!” “How big is a smallrus?” I asked. “Very, very tiny.” “Awww.” “They’re bred as sock warmers. You can put your socks on the smallri to keep warm.” “AWWWWW!” “They purr.” “AWWWWWWWWWWW!” And just when I was thinking that I had […]
Hmm. Saw a bird. Not sure what the heck it was–possibly a slightly weird House Finch. It was a Little Brown Nondescript Thingy, had black feathers with some striping, but not a full out bar, just some paler edges, but it had a bright, flamingly pink butt (or at least lower back, a distinct bright […]
http://yerf.com/vernursu/littleredgulo.jpg Once upon a time, there was a fetching young wolverine who, wearing her favorite red hood, went skipping through the fields, on the way to her grandmother’s house, carrying a basket of tasty goodies.* A wolf, who was lurking at the edge of the woods, descended upon the young wolverine and said “Hello, little […]
Gaming day! Session two, and I’m settling into being a paladin. The function of a paladin, in virtually all RPG combat, is to function as a wall (as evidenced by the dialogue in various on-line RPGs, i.e. “I’m going to fight trolls!” “Need a wall?”) The paladin stands in front, takes the headlong charge from […]