Allow me to endorse, for a moment, the game "Mad Scientist University" which I played last night and enjoy thoroughly. In it, every member of the group gets an Unstable Element cart (penguins, tongs, ninjas, hairnets, divas, etc) and the judge lays out the assignment card (take over the world, raise a billion dollars, write your name on […]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Okay. Whew. As of Monday, supposedly I’m done with the second run of interior illos for Dragonbreath. There’s still a crapload I have to do on other work, some of which is way overdue, but I couldn’t take it any more, and had to do a quick painting for myself before I went crawling out of my […]
Kevin’s Utilikilt* arrived last night. I approve. A great deal. It may not be possible to overstate my approval. It’s getting cold out here–we’re about to start getting frost–so his one complaint is that he may need some kind of knit cozy for certain cold-sensitive parts under the kilt.** (I volunteered to sacrifice one of my Fuzzy […]
It’s either a commentary on the sad state of the music industry today, or on my total and complete nerdity, that my favorite song of the past year is "Still Alive" from the end credits of Portal. Also, I keep trying to figure out how I’d make a Weighted Companion Cube my little pony mod. I may […]
Wow, I just got recognized! I was at the art supply store, buying gessboard and indanthrene blue–which I keep pronouncing in my head as "indanthere," which sounds like some kind of giant prehistoric herbivore*–and as the young woman behind the counter checked to see if I was on the mailing list, she paused. "Ursula Vernon?" "Yup." "Do you–are you […]
Paper Heroes Con has ended. I had a lot of fun. Sales were…well, I had a lot of fun, anyway. Jennie Breedan of the Devil’s Panties and I hung around a bit, she’s great company, and we explored the abandoned Belks.* The back rooms of a semi-trashed department store look like a zombie movie waiting to […]
Life is a seesaw between fantastic and frazzlement. Kevin scored some seriously great tickets for next month, I got to see Carlota and have lunch with buddy Linda whom I haven’t seen in a dog’s age, I found a very reasonably priced carving of a Balinese guard frog…that’s all pure awesome. But I’ve got a con […]
Just a heads up, gang–this weekend, I’ll be at Paper Heroes Con in Burlington, NC. It’s a little start up con, but they’ve got a great guest list (and I don’t say that just ‘cos I’m on it) so it’d be awesome if people came out this weekend to support it in its early days! I will be […]
D’awwwww… Lost Penguins Rescued
So Kevin and I are hanging out on the deck while he has a cigarette, and we’re discussing breast reductions, because a buddy of mine is planning to get one, and somehow we got around to nipples, and nipple piercings (Kevin has both of his pierced, which makes his church’s pool parties a source of endless […]