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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
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10:07 am - Four months missing and this is all you get.
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| Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
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11:55 am - Watership Deadly
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You know, I'm really starting to warm up to the idea that we as a race have a deathwish. No, I'm not talking about nukes, war, or any of that, I'm talking about GIANT RABBITS!
Am I the only damn person who has seen Night of the Lepus?!? We'll be destroyed by these things when they finish breeding an army of deadly giant rabbit stormtroopers.
And yes, I am that uninterested in doing any kind of work right now.
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| Thursday, February 1st, 2007
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9:34 am - Is it really a crime to have a sense of humor?
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So the furor over the Aqua Teen lite-brite promotion objects out in Boston is reaching fever pitched levels, with the artist who made them being arrested, the mayor and the police chief talking about suing Turner for millions to pay for their over-reaction, and the media, as usual having a field day. All in all in makes me fairly sick, but instead of ranting about it, I'll point you over to Joker's LJ where he pretty much hits the nail on the head. What the hell happened to our sense of humor? Can the common American really not see and take a fucking joke for what it is anymore?
And seriously, are we really REALLY arresting this guy? He's obviously NOT a terrorist, he's obviously some poor schmuck artist, and yet the GODDAMN ATTORNEY GENERAL is holding press releases about his arrest and every public official in Boston screaming bloody murder. I smell a railroading.
Of course on the funny side, someone already made a shirt design, which says "ATHF is the Bomb!", which I must now have in protest, although the shirt makers should donate a portion of the proceeds to the artists defense or something, he's gonna need it:
Link is on the image.
In other news, oh wait, I don't have any other news. How sad.
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| Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
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10:11 am - ...and a flaming chicken...
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| Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
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1:18 pm - Eraticus Updatius
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A few blips of interest in the otherwise flat-lined landscape of existence lately, some of which are actually worth commenting on, so here I sit again.
This weekend, Peter, Dave, and I made the pilgrimage out to Hollywood for the final day of the Hunter S. Thompson exhibit, a collection of photos he took throughout his life. The twenty or so photos they had were awesome, showing off Hell's Angel's doing their thang, shots of life on Big Sur, and life on the road, campaign trail, and so forth. My only complaint was that they didn't have enough pieces up, of course they were mostly just using the ones that were up to promote the (outstanding, BTW) new book of photos taken by Thompson, called "Gonzo". After that we just sort of shuffled around Hollywood, people watching, shop browsing, and generally lamenting the lack of funding required to get any of the cool stuff we saw. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday I must say.
Spent quite a few days playing the new WoW expansion and doing a shitty job of cleaning up the office in between battling monsters and players alike. It's sad to lose so much time to a game, but godamnitt, it's like digital crack, and with new content it's so much more so than even normal.
And in other video game news, the second Guitar Hero Monday night at The Vault was a good time again, although my lack of skills is starting to bleed through, so I must make a mental note to step it up or step down, heh.
Peter informed me this morning that the new Shin's album had come out yesterday, somehow slipping through my notice, and inspiring much silly-bouncy-giddiness, so I had to download that, and haven't regretted it yet.
So who's completely pissed that Coachella dares to have a lineup that great, and yet charge so goddamn much that no one is completely sure how they are going to manage to see any of? I know I am. Kind of depressing really, it's like an awesome golden carrot dangling from the string in front of you, it would be great to catch it, but you know there's really little chance. Of course we did get Muse tickets, so at least that was a shiny bit of news.
Well there was more, but the boss has returned and I should probably make myself useful. Perhaps there will be more later, but with my track record, I wouldn't hold my breath.
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| Thursday, January 11th, 2007
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3:13 pm - RIP: RAW
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While I'm wary of doing another "hey this sucks that this person died" post, I'm gonna, because, well, this is an important one to *me*. I mean really really important. You see, it seems that Robert Anton Wilson died early this morning. He hasn't been doing very well for a very long time, his health deteriorating due to complications from the polio he had when he was very young. For those unfamiliar with Bob Wilson's work, among many others, he co-wrote a book(s) called the "Illuminatus Trilogy", which, and I am not doing ANY of my usual exaggeration here, literally changed how I view the world. Whether that was for better or worse is probably a matter of opinion, but I say much much better. It challenged (and helped teach) me to question everything, to take nothing at face value. It stands as my second favorite book I've ever had the pleasure of picking up. In addition to that book, he entertained the hell out of me with the "Schroedinger's Cat" trilogy, the Cosmic Trigger line, Prometheus Rising, and any random time I happened to catch an interview with the guy.
I could go on and on about him being one of the first and best psychonauts, a prankster and (founding) discordian, a philosopher, psychologist, conspiracy theorist, mystic, historian, and probably the world's greatest skeptic (while still coming up with some EXTREME claims of his own), and also a really funny and incredibly smart guy, but that's what wikipedia's for, right? Anyways, this is a sad but not really unexpected day. He rocked, and changed me as a person, so for that, you get a crappy journal post. Rock on Bob.
Hail Eris!
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| Thursday, November 16th, 2006
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2:56 pm
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On a serious note, does anyone know anyone (or even just of anyone) who works at a web design company up in the Pacific Northwest, preferably not Seattle or Portland?
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| Monday, November 13th, 2006
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5:21 pm - Something's afoot at the Circle K....
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I just had to steal this from BoingBoing, as it rules on so many levels. Seems some crazy Australlian scientists have created a long sleeve t-shirt that allows you to play air guitar and actually create sound and music with it, fufilling the life-long dreams of those of us who've always want to rock like Bill and Ted. In fact here's a link to a movie of one of the scientists playing with one of the shirts:
http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps2gl,,.html
Christmas is coming. Rock accordingly.
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| Friday, October 13th, 2006
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11:24 am - I wonder what day today is?!
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Oh yeah, it's the single biggest cause of me posting to this forlorn thing, what you ask, why it's:
Even he can't believe what he's seeing...
Happy Voorhees Day!
Meh.
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| Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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10:28 am - Oh camera phone....
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So I'm scanning through my phone trying to find the picture of the flying pig that I remembered I had taken (see yesterday), and I'm looking at all these random shots from various events and it occurs to me, that I cant tell ANY of them from the others. I mean, the picture of the moaning guy with hooks in his face looks EXACTLY like a giant flying pig, which looks EXACTLY like Rob Zombie, and they all really end up looking like I took a picture of my hand about three feet in front of me. I mean seriously, what's the point of putting a camera in a phone if everything ends up looking like an amorphous blob? So I figure from now on, instead of being sad about none of my pictures looking right, I will just take pictures of my hand a head of time and send it to all my friends saying things like "look here's me spray painting the backs of old ladies at the Eiffel Tower" and "Look, here's where I secretly joined a siberian prostitution ring, and we're all sitting naked in the snow eating microwaveable popcorn!", and really no one will be able to dispute my claims. Why take any real fuggin' pictures at all?!
Substandard technology is crap.
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| Monday, October 9th, 2006
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1:24 pm
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While the weather outside may be a wonderful shade of misty grey, mother nature can't hide the fact that it's still a monday. I'm following my witch doctor's strict orders of plugging an I.V. of strong black coffee directly into my veins in an attempt to fend off exhaustion, although I suspect that my co-worker has mischieviously watered it down in an attempt to sabotage my constant battle with the insides of my eyelids. This is not paranoia mind you, I can tell he enjoys watching me suddenly wake from minidreams filled with swarming clouds of actionscript and terrible music on constant repeat, panicing and screaming. I signed on to this chicken-shit gig to kill aliens, not play entertainment monkey to others godamnit.
Took the male parental unit to see Roger Water's 'Dark Side' show down at the Hollywood Bowl as a very belated father's day thing last night, and once you got passed the worst traffic situation I have ever seen at the bowl, or even downtown Hollywood in general, it was fucking brilliant. Sure we missed the first 40 minutes or so which had me ready to tear out some traffic cop/event flunky's throat with my bare teeth (not the capped ones mind you), but we got to our seats eventually, and just in time for the floating pig to be released, so you know, I decided to be generous and forgive the unfortunate fucks of the world who weren't even given brains enough to wave a glowing baton properly a small break. I mean seriously, I've seen cracked out ravers with glow sticks show more profficiency at that job than traffic schmucks. But I digress.
Even with getting there late, we saw all of the 'Dark Side of the Moon' performance, which it should be said was mind blowing and perfect, and then to top it off, the old guy breaks out a 4 song mini 'The Wall' sampling for an encore, complete with the exact sound effects and samples between songs that those of us who, in our mispent youth had memorized instead of our history homework, go nuts about. Hell, he even had cannon explosions on stage. Good shit I tell you.
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| Thursday, August 17th, 2006
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9:55 am - It's my journal and I'll update if I want to, update if I want to...
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What a morning.
Lesse, first and foremost, we posted up 5 new pages plus a new pinup to the site last night.
For those who are interested, the address is at it's usual www.atomicdetective.com location.
I'm particulary happy with the pinup, seeing as how it just sort of came to me while I was struggling
with some of the other pages. In fact I'll put a shrunk down version as a link to it directly here,
cuz that's how I roll or something.
My brain is horribly clouded this morning and I find it extremely hard to maintain any train of
thought, which considering that last night, I actually got MORE sleep than I have in weeks,
seems to indicate that my body wants me to know that it in fact hates sleep, and it's natural
state is exhaustion. At least when I am exhausted my brain is mostly sharp.
Today at work they got me trying to teach one of my co-workers how to program. This is painful
n the extreme. Don't get me wrong, I learned while I was working at AMS that I actually enjoy
teaching other people how to program. If they are willing to learn, which unfortunately is not the
case here. This is more like grating someone else's fingernails on a chalkboard. He just doesnt
get simple concepts, so things that would normally take 5 minutes take like an hour and a half.
So umm yeah, this on top of my brain functioning at like 30 percent means I just want to run for
the hills Iron Maiden-style, or at least just get out of here and on to something remotely useful.
Anyways, onward and upward. Tonights gonna be filled with drawing, coffee, pizza, and I believe
Iggy Pop. So let's just get this fucking day over with and no one will get hurt.
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| Friday, May 26th, 2006
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6:39 pm - Big pimping
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No, its still not a personal update, and yes, it's just more nonsense about my comic, but hey, sue me, it's my page, right?
So today, Mr. Sparks and friends is featured in the "Intro to Webcomics" feature over at The Pulse, one of the largest and most visited sites about comics on the net. This could mean big hits, or another near miss, but either way, as a long time reader of the site, it's one of those fun little moments. Yay.
Now back to work.
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| Friday, March 10th, 2006
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12:42 pm - Tom Sparks/Second Life Event
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Hey, those of you out there who do the Second life thing should check out the _Blacklibrary tomorrow at Noon PST. The folks there have tons of artwork and regulary spotlight a particluar creation and this week, it's none other than Tom Sparks, Atomic Detective! I'm not even sure yet what they are going to have, but judging from their past events it should be cool! So check it out! Series writer and my co-creator Sean will be there to talk to folks and even though I will be out of town on family business, I am gonna try my damndest to be there too! So bring your virtual self on over and say hi!
Thanks!
*Forgive the cross posting all over, but I am a lazy bastard.
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| Friday, February 3rd, 2006
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11:40 am - Life updates
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Well hurray for me. I just notified my current "employer" and now I am spreading the good word. I am officially employed again, a nice little (seemingly stable and normal) web design company has been kind enough to meet my demands and open the doors for me. So, yeah, yay for me.
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| Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
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10:21 am - Tom Sparks Comic Update!!!
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What's this?!
This morning Sean and I updated the Tom Sparks site with not one, not two, but SIX new pages of atomic robot madness!! So if you were jonesing for your fix and wondered if we dropped off the planet, wonder no further, just click on this handy link or the preview image above and check it out!
www.atomicdetective.com
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| Friday, January 13th, 2006
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12:14 pm
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Ahhh underused and rarely spooken to LJ, I just popped in to ask what day it was?
Why, you don't remember?
Well it's....
Happy Voorhees Day!
Sit back relax and enjoy, like that guy is!
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| Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
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11:11 am - Doom says dance.
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Ok, I really really had to repost this.
...DOCTOR DOOM'S TOP TEN EUPHEMISMS FOR SEX:
10. "Unleashing the Doombots"
9. "Ruling the kingdom with an iron fist"
8. "Extending the power of Doom"
7. "Mastering the diabolical"
6. "Allying with the Sub-Mariner"
5. "Demanding total, blind obedience"
4. "Incurring the wrath of Doom"
3. "Penetrating the invisible force field"
2. "Paying for this effrontery a thousandfold"
And Doctor Doom's number one euphemism for sex:
1. "Besting the accursed Richards"
Thanks to the Beat
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10:50 am - Comics are good food too.
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Still not in a real updating mood, but following the lead of my co-creator, I'm urging everyone to go check out my comic! Flying car chases. hypno-eyes. What more to life is there?!
Page 27
Thanks again.
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| Friday, August 5th, 2005
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11:10 am - Future Wear
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BB and Wired have links to amazing articles about a show this week called "The Cyber Fashion Show", where all kinds of awesome clothing with embedded gadgets were shown. A trenchcoat with 10 cameras, situated 360 degrees around it, along with audio equuipment to pickup sound for future guerilla journalists. Mini music stations so you can share and mix your music with your friends where ever. Jackets with editable LED messages along the back. Exo-skeletons. And a whole lot more. And godamn are some of the photos just mind blowlingly cool.
This is what I'm fucking talking about.
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