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06/19/13 Essentially Dead

by Christopher on June 18, 2013 at 9:00 pm
06/19/13 Essentially Dead

That strip a few weeks back, the one with four wide panels? I’d forgotten to finish coloring it, but I just did. Colored/updated!

Been reading more YA (young adult) novels lately. I’ve been trying to figure out why they appeal so much to me. Is it that they are more innocent? That they focus more on character and human emotion than plot? Is it that the characters still have a natural curiosity that gets beaten out of most adults? Not sure.

Last year my favorite book i read was “I Capture the Castle.” It was YA. I just finished reading “The Last Siege” which was quite good, but I feel a little muddled about the ending. And “The Sugar Queen” which had some really interesting magical realism literary devices and was overall fun.

But I have this stack of psychology audiobooks I should plow through for writing research. “Thinking Fast and Slow” and “The Power of Habit” and “The Neurological Origins of Individuality.” But I just can’t get up the muster. Maybe I’ll relisten to the “Abhorsen trilogy” a good story, so enjoyably read by Tim Curry.

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06/17/16 – Gurf’s Long Run

by Christopher on June 16, 2013 at 9:00 pm
06/17/16 – Gurf’s Long Run

Had a great weekend. Planted rhubarb, saw a matinee of “Before Midnight” which was painfully beautiful. Walked around the LARAC art fair. Ate good food. Busy but without agenda, so it was relaxing.

My sweetie is going away on Wednesday for six days, so I plan to work uninterrupted from the moment I wake up til the moment I collapse, on each of those days. Hopefully I can get a little caught up. I’m mentally preparing. Wish me luck.

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04/17/13 Just For Laughs

by Christopher on April 16, 2013 at 9:00 pm
04/17/13 Just For Laughs

My arms are sore from racquetball, and my belly is full of cookies. All is right in the world*. And I went to a drawing studio thing for the first time in ages. Did a fun little sketch:

*except in Boston :(

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04/15/13 Getting Down To It

by Christopher on April 14, 2013 at 9:00 pm
04/15/13 Getting Down To It

That first panel is for all you commenters. Ha! ;-)

Sunday we finally went to the Hyde Museum in Glens Falls. And I have to say, it’s small, but it’s a very nice art collection. The only problem with going to museums is it makes me want to paint, and who has time for that?

I did play racquetball this weekend, so, yay for that. Such fun. If you find something you enjoy that keeps you physically active (all you desk jockeys like me) do it do it do it (everything else I’ve tried, since soccer in High School, has bored me to tears).

Now I’m playing around with 3-D modeling (snort, because I have time for that). I swear, I will never, ever, EVER catch up. More cookies? Sigh. More kale. Mmm. Maybe I’ll make some kale chips.

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04/10/13 Qwahntoo’s Demands Met

by Christopher on April 9, 2013 at 9:00 pm
04/10/13 Qwahntoo’s Demands Met

Another fill-in I did was posted. This time it was a fill-in for James Anderson’s “Ellie On Planet X,” which is sci-fi as well as heartwarming, funny, and delightful.

Read My Fill-In, and then plow through the archive, you will not be disappointed.

Not a lot else new. I joined the YMCA (fortunately they have financial assistance for low income) and so I’ll get to play racquetball again soon. I can’t wait. I also got edits back on my novel, so one more round of writing, then text edits and then shop it around. Such a slow process!

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01/09/13 Negotiations Begin

by Christopher on January 8, 2013 at 9:00 pm
01/09/13 Negotiations Begin

I just ate the remainder of last night’s apple crumble. And forgot to have my late afternoon tea. I am sleepy now. So tragic. ;-)

News? They finally filmed a giant squid. But the video won’t be released til later this month (I’m pretty excited), so for now you can just watch videos of them talking about it with footage of them killing other squids. Such pretty things, they say. Ah well.

Annnnd, If I were a younger man, I just might consider applying to go to Mars. But I’m not. hahahahaha!

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01/07/13 Appealing to Qwahntoo

by Christopher on January 6, 2013 at 9:00 pm
01/07/13 Appealing to Qwahntoo

I remembered her black eye! Finally! :)

Let’s see. Oh, I forgot to mention that a week and a half ago I posted a recipe on Cookrookery. Cinnamon-Raisin Penuche cake. It’s the second recipe down, Dan just posted about bizarre foods from his recent trip to New Zealand and Australia.

In news, there’s an app for reading webcomics on your smart phone, and it’s almost ready to be released, called Comic Chameleon. Spacetrawler will be on it, but it’s not released yet, this is just buzz. And lastly, robots are now playing heavy metal. Now all we have to do is teach them to set fire to the hotel bed and throw the toilet out the window.

And lastly lastly, my Questionable Wisdom Of The Age, filling my “Qwota” of misguided sagacity for the universe.

The desire to become a rock star is the worst hobby imaginable for a youth, on so many levels. Especially if they succeed.

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01/02/13 Potty-Bot’s Report

by Christopher on January 1, 2013 at 9:00 pm
01/02/13 Potty-Bot’s Report

Oh my goodness. We have DSL through [REDACTED evil phone carrier]. On Friday it went down, and they have given us the worst run-around. Several phone calls, hours of phone time (mostly on hold). Still awaiting. And so I’m writing my blog in the warmth of my office before I walk to the library (which is closed on New Year’s Day, along with everything else) and upload it from the doorway. Ah well. Life’s not that hard, really.

We had a quiet little New Years. I was still a bit out under the weather, and we’d had no set plans, so we just had a cozy little celebration at home. But it was warm and sweet.

But it was an odd New Years for me. More than in the past it inspired me to really sit down look back at 2012 and to think about where I am and where I want to be. I feel contemplative and unsure. Hrm.

Anyhow, I hope you all had a fun and safe New Years. Best wishes to you all for 2013 and thank you for the warm wishes given to me.

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12/31/12 Chasing Qwahntoo

by Christopher on December 30, 2012 at 9:00 pm
12/31/12 Chasing Qwahntoo

For those of you who have been asking about the translator, I tossed in the answer there for you. Perhaps a bit late in the game, but why not.

Well, hard to pass by a winter without getting some flu, and I definitely had something, but it was fortunately very mild. Brain fog, snotty, and weak, but I don’t think I had a fever.

Yup. This past several days I’ve mostly sat in the morris chair drinking weak tea and watching a bunch of Anne of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie while sick. Because I’m silly-hearted that way. Ah well.

Fortunately I finished doing most of the work on the strip just as I was going into the sick, and so was able to finish it up. And now I’m pretty much out of the sick, so getting Wednesday’s strip done won’t be a problem.

We had hoped to go up to Montreal for New Years, but the apartment move kinda’ juggled finances and we’ll have to go some other date. Ah well. Maybe we’ll go to Saratoga Springs, they’re having a big celebration there. Or maybe just relax at home with the kitties and brownies and tea.

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12/24/12 – Brawling With Ites

by Christopher on December 23, 2012 at 9:00 pm
12/24/12 – Brawling With Ites

So, not something I usually do, but I’m going to take off the holiday and so there will NOT be a strip on Wednesday. I’ll post something, a blog and perhaps a drawing, but no strip. I’ve been working too hard and I’m going to take the holiday which most people take. I guess that’s fair.

On other “glorious” news, it has been brought to my attention that even though I just did a strip on planet Uranus… that Nogg and Zorilla already passed Uranus in Late September. I’m not sure what I’m going to do about that, but I’m pondering it. Most likely I’ll change it to Neptune and rewrite the dialogue and see if I can pull it off without re-drawing. Add it to my list of things to fix before book #3 goes to printer. I’ll keep you posted when I do.

All is well here. My sweetie and I drove out to visit the family over the weekend, and now we’re just going to sit around and for the first time, just enjoy out new place for a couple days and chill out.

That sounds like a very very VERY good plan.

Happy Holidays to all of you.

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