Countless Possibilities

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Try not to kill your family, okay?

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Faith is one word for it

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Define Irony

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While not quite a true story, it certainly comes close.

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The spirit in the air

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I'm starting to suspect that my brain sees the world a little differently than most other people.

Although the snow is pretty.

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Something new for everyone

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Network television cracks me up. Maybe someday good writing will be more important that big epic "must see tv" and gimmicks. But I'm certainly not holding my breath.

On another note, I saw Tegan & Sara and Northern State this week. Probably one of the best shows I've seen in a while. Definitely worth seeing both of these bands live. And if you've never heard either of them, well you really should.

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The true meaning of things

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Sunday Drives

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God, you suck. You've been missing updates and not eating all your vegetables.

Absolutely disgraceful.


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A Thoughtful Discussion

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Who says that the state of modern debate is dead?


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That's not how the rules work

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Once again, this strip is based on an all too real conversation.

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Because Marketing Execs Wouldn't Lie

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The funniest part about making this strip, is that every time I would think up some ridiculous drug name, I would do a quick google search and they would all be real prescription drugs.

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A Serious Condition

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Jessica complains that I never put her in any of the strips. Well, there you go.


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A Glorious New World

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Nariko

A Heavenly Sword pic done with Photoshop. I Kind of wish that I had drawn it less cartoony, but it was a bit of an experimental piece.

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Expanding the Market Sucks

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So Bri says that she doesn't want to get a Wii because of how trendy it is to have one right now. And I"m inclined to agree with her, but for one exception.

Nintendo obviously has a new audience in mind, and it's not really me. It's soccer/alpha moms, their families, and so-called casual gamer. And then there's all of the people that have to have the latest "it" thing", regardless of what "it" really is. The kind of people who bought one, just because it's fashionable, but haven't turned the damn thing on in three months.


Hmmm, maybe I'm just bitter because I couldn't find one to purchase if I wanted too, regardless of the fact that there's only one game for the system that I'd be even remotely interested in playing.


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Surly Girl

So according to Esquire magazine, one of our local haunts, The Surly Girl Saloon, is one of the best bars in America.

What Esquire fails to mention is the fact that you get Fritos with almost every meal.

To say that it's a unique bar, would be a bit of an understatement.


Oh, and Andyman's was on the list too.

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Tasty Taco

I think sometimes I have the most fun creating the world in which these characters live. This logo barely even makes an appearance in the next strip, yet it was by far the most enjoyable creative part of it.


I'm thinking about having shirts made.

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Return from the land of the PCH, KROQ and Del Taco

So a week in southern California turned out to be slightly less hazardous to my health than I would have thought. But only slightly.

The weather was perfect and Ventura was gorgeous. We spent the week driving all over southern California seeing the sites and spending time with Brianne's family. This also included her slightly crazy twin sister. (Hi, Jessica.)

And then there was the matter of the food. The food was absolutely wonderful. I didn't have a meal during my entire trip that I didn't love.



But Special mention has to be made of La Capirucha in Port Hueneme. For $.75 you get the best God damn tacos that I've ever had in my life. Seriously, if you're ever even near there, you should check it out.

Upon returning to Columbus, our first thoughts were:
1. Jesus, it's hot here.
2. When are we going back?

Not that we don't both like it here. We actually love it. And I doubt that either of us could really imagine moving to California. It just makes a really nice break, especially now that we're going to try and make it a habit to get out there at least twice a year from now on.

Being home is good.


Upon my return I downloaded the demos for Folklore and Bioshock, on the PS3 and PC, respectively. Folklore is incredibly pretty, with a very European fantasy feel to it. Which is slightly unusual, given the fact that it's a Japanese designed game. The sound design is surprisingly impressive, if not a little too much a times. I doubt this game will have very much long term value to it, but it's certainly something that will capture your entrainment for a little while.

Bioshock is something else all together. Read any review or message board and I'm sure they'll all tell you the same thing: Bioshock is amazing. I don't think I've ever seen a game so flawlessly weave together design, sound, music, art direction and gameplay to create something with so much mood and atmosphere. I almost wish it were a movie, just so everyone, not just gamers, could experience and enjoy this piece of art. (Eat it, Ebert.)


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Michael Jackson lives there too

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Yes, as the strip implies, I am off to the Golden state for a not very much deserved vacation. Specifically, our destination is Ventura and it's surrounding areas. Hooray for upper-middle class white people!

The purpose of the trip, ostensibly, is to visit Brianne's family (with a detour to Anaheim, so Bri can visit her one true mecca).

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These Trying Times

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So..ummm...how's it going?


I know, I know. I haven't updated in a few weeks. Pathetic. Disgraceful. Downright un-American.


What can I say? It's been a very busy month. For starters, I moved. That was a massive ordeal in itself. Next up we have family members visiting from out of state. Follow that up with my e-mail and Flickr account getting apparently hacked (or at least glitched), preventing me from updating the strip this week. And then lastly Brianne and I are getting ready to go on vacation in a couple of weeks. So I apologize and I concede that this comic strip has been less than my primary focus this month.

But now I'm back, and in full geektacular glory, no less.

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Addictive Properties

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Even though the events of this strip are fictitious, I have had some interesting adventures at unnamed zoos withing these 48 continental states. Unfortunately they may very well have to remain undocumented in the interest of avoiding self incrimination.


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Arbitrary Deadlines

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Yikes. No strip last week. And a late strip this week.

I sill feel pained by missing my arbitrary deadlines. Drawing one of these strips takes a good chunk of my day, and usually, in a given week, I can find/make the time.

I suppose the only excuse I can offer is that I was on vacation last week, and unfortunately, this week proved slightly hectic and uncondusive to artistic production.

Or maybe I'm just lazy.



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Indistinguishable Differences

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Endless Circles

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I recently had the unfortunate experience of witnessing a few minutes of Nascar. And by a "few minutes", I mean probably about ten. Now contained within those ten minutes was a virtually uninterrupted stream of live footage of cars screaming around the track and no one saying anything.

It was positively mind numbing. There were way too many cars and shifting camera angles to possibly keep track of anything. And honestly, you didn't really need to. In my brief introductory period with the so-called sport, I discovered that nothing, save for the occasional crash, really changes. Cars will keep their relative position for literally hundreds of laps.

Do we, as a civilization, really define this as a "sport"? And how, in Gods name, does one find this entertaining?

Having grown up in Indiana, one would imagine that I would possess a little more insight into the culture of stock car racing. But the fervent devotion of it's fans continues to mystify me.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to sit in front of the tv and play some morally and socially debilitating video games.


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The Best Part of Waking Up

To say that Brianne is not a morning person is a bit of an understatement.




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Endless Possibilities

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For the uninitiated, Home is the new Playstation 3 online service structure. A 3D world, where an avatar representation of you interacts with other gamers online. You have an apartment, your Home as it were, that you can endlessly customize and decorate. Shrewed (read: juvenile) gamers were quick to point out that if you could view any video file from your computer on your virtual tv, in your virtual apartment, couldn't you then watch porn, if you had it?

Phil Harrison, President of SCEA, seemed almost embarrassed when someone actually asked him that question in an interview. I don't blame him.

It is embarrassing.

It's embarrassing for gamers when you are presented with something like Home, something that replicates a MySpace like environment for people to come together, socialize, and form a community, for free I might add, and watching porn in your virtual apartment is one of the first things that someone asks about.


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Assassin's Creed trailer

I'm not really sure what to say, other than "wow".

Any one who says that video games aren't art needs to just shut the hell up.





For the interested, the song in the video is "Lonely Soul" by U.N.K.L.E.


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Fascinating

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Today's strip is, unfortunately, based on all too real events.



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A Sound Investment

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Since this was such a geeky/niche strip, I decided to do two strips this week. So Happy Wednesday Bonus Strip!


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The Internet vs. Real Life Vol. 1

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Hmm...a new strip on Friday. Well, it looks like this is going to be the schedule for the time being.


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Shawn Elliott rocks

More strips are coming, I try to work on them when I have time.

In the meanwhile, I'll leave you with Shawn Elliott's "The Whiskey Nerd Manifesto" from the GFW podcast:




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JOLSWP

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So part of this blog is revealed. A comic strip of the same name. I'm going to make an attempt to update this once a week. As time goes on, hopefully it will increase.

As for the content, well, it's pretty much my life. So, caveats all around.


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Strange Gods are go

Hmmm...blogs. I've always been more than a little skeptical about them. I ran one for the basic purpose of my sketches and design work, but I've yet to ever really indulge into a personal one for myself. We'll see how long and how often I can actually update this one.

I have a feeling that it'll probably include a bit of all my random incoherent ramblings: politics, tech, geekdom, art and personal. All up for public display across the interwebs.

I actually just got back from a road trip to the small Midwestern town that spawned my humble beginnings. I was taking "the girlfriend" home to meet "the mother". Things went well, but I was surprised at just how small it seemed. I suppose that living in a city of almost 2 million people for the past few years will make a town of 65 k seem downright quaint. And to think that this small unassuming collage town birthed such bizarre oddities as my friends and I. But it's also not that surprising that almost none of us live there anymore.

We were constantly straining at it's edges, testing it's limits (and police force) to see just what it, and we, were capable of.

And cue the sepia toned flashback scenes, the Hunter Thompson-esque monologues and diatribes, and period appropriate soundtracks.

Fucking stupid kids.