Several years behind the rest of the world, I got around to renting “The Chronicles of Riddick.” We will speak not of the plot, nor the characterizations. The less said, the better. But the action scenes had the usual Vin Diesel you-have-got-to-be-shitting-me-I-don’t-buy-that-for-a-minute charm, and the visuals were really really cool. They had this neat Undead […]
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Hokay! We have both the Earth Mouse and the word on print sets! Earth Mouse http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14181521/ And, at the requests of a whole bunch of people, the elemental mice will be available as a print set for the Low Low Price of $25! (plus shipping, which is 3.50 in the U.S. and 7$ international.) The […]
Hey, LJ’s back! Trippy! Surprisingly little of interest has occurred over here in the interim, mind you, but now I can rest assured that the instant the cat does something weird, I can tell the world.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14114134/ Immediately I notice that I made the great cardinal mistake of having things cross at bad points–if you’re gonna have a ring on the mousey tail, don’t put it where the tail crosses a background element. And definitely don’t do it twice. Bugger. I wonder why I didn’t notice that while I was painting?* […]
The Huygens probe touched down, and lived! Go, ESA! http://www.brentrasmussen.com/archives/2005/01/huygens_to_desc.html Stuff like that makes me happy. And also a little choked up, sometimes.
The sound of the coffee grinder pulled me up to consciousness this morning (as it so often does.) I thought “Mmmm….coffeee….” and opened my eyes, only to find myself staring deep into the empty blue ones of my cat. “Ungh,” went Ursula. “CHIRP!” went Athena. “Grrrnngngngrrnurrrrrrrr,” went the coffee grinder. Lick! went Athena, going in […]
It started to head in that direction, and suddenly I was thrust back into my desperate love of Art Nouveau. http://www.deviantart.com/view/14066495/ I’ve been balking at trying real media A.N. just because it’s so…y’know…geometric and crisp and all those things that are great on the computer but get squishified and wobbly in real media. I don’t […]
Woke this morning to a power outage. That was exciting. Got ready to go out and have breakfast. Then the power came back on. That was sort of anticlimatic, really. FutilityQuest IV is underway, as I carefully fill out my submission forms for the Spectrum Annual. Someday! Someday! Continuing to paint cute quick stuff. The […]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek Oh, this is a great idea. Everybody loves a death squad. Sending Kurds and Shiites to kill or kidnap Sunnis? Can’t imagine what would go wrong there. Of course they’ll be impartial, and wouldn’t dream of having an agenda of their own or acting on any old grudges that might be lying around. No. […]
The brown-headed nuthatch is, I think, my favorite visitor at the feeder. He’s fairly small and timid, and his head is large in proportion to his body, which = cute. Something about the position of the stripes and the shape of the head always puts me in mind of a teeny little tree-creeping badger, although […]