I seriously want to thank everyone who helped out with my donation box. There were so many of you I can't thank you all individually, so this is my one big "I LOVE YOU ALL!" to everyone. You all helped me out so much.

And now I flee to San Diego for Comic-Con! I have NO idea what my schedule is, I haven't even looked at the program guide. The only things I do know for sure are that I'm attending the Freakazoid panel Thursday morning, the MST3K panel, and I'll be dressed in my Alice in Wonderland costume on Saturday. I'd like to wear it one other day but I dunno if that'll work out yet. I'll also probably be going back and forth to the Slave Labor Graphics booth every now and then.

So while I'm there I'll be completely without internet. See you all after the weekend! EEEE!

Tags: bye-bye!, comic-con
Current Mood: excited

Off to Comicon! Oddly, we will be jetpooling on the same flight with qcjeph and Cristi. I only think it's odd because I assumed those two owned a jetcopter.

Dumbrella plus Wil Wheaton plus Scott McCloud plus MC Frontalot plus Chris Yates will be at booth #1335. Same location as ever, right across from the sex machines men call Penny-Arcade.

I've got tote bags, Red Robots, Chewie shirts, Musical Elitism shirts, Planet Lunch shirts, stickers and about a thousand pair of Pixel Socks.

My friend Joey from A Softer World Dot Com did an interview with me, and I think it turned out really cool! He asked questions that I don't normally get asked. Since we've been friends for years, we ended up with a back-and-forth turned out well and very honest, I think. It's the first interview I ever did where I asked the interviewer some questions too!

check it out

Here's my favourite part of it. I'm trying to answer a question from Joey about where I see myself in five years, about whether or not I choose adventure over stability. I end up here:


You know as well as I do that, as cartoonists who do our work online, who pay someone else to handle t-shirt shipping, all we need to make our comic is a laptop and some internet access. We can work from anywhere and there's literally no business reason to stay in any city for any reason of time. I think it's one of the few jobs where you can do that. But I've lived in Toronto for the past four years and I only traveled to Spain to present a paper for my grad work. So I look back at that and I say, wow, there's not much adventure there. Even with no reason to stay in place, I haven't moved.

There's a reason for that, of course: I have friends here, it's easier to work in a single place, I've been trying to get to a place where I don't have to worry about money. It is the trap of saying "I'll travel when I can afford it" and then doing it when you're old and can't enjoy it as much, but for now it seems reasonable. Plus I really like it here?

To answer your question as honestly as I can, I've wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about money. I've never been poverty-level poor (I mean, there's been years where I've been officially beneath the poverty line, but that wasn't poverty: that was being a student and living the Student Lifestyle), but I've been in a place where you know you can't afford a better-quality food, where you can't do certain things because of money, and I'd prefer not to have those problems if I can. I sort of have troubles with money in general, with how it determines so much of our lives but with how we all try to ignore it, but I would like to be (and stay) in a place where I can pick up some new comics and games and not worry about how much they cost.

This is terrible; you're asking me where I want to be in the future, what I want my life to be like, and the only thing I can tell you is "Man, all I know is I don't want to be POOR."

So listen, you choose adventure over stability more often than I do. When you get an advance on a book, you tend to live it up for a few days, be really generous to your friends, and then it's back to same old Joey. You've slept in way more dumpsters than I have. How come you always make rent?



Read on to find out the answer!

Current Music: Christopher Tin - Baba Yetu

Because the old one was out of date (and this one actually looks like me):

This is a small request.

If you own a Wii and have a Facebook account, you should grab the Wii Friend Number application and input your friend code along with your individual game codes.

I want to trade Mii's and play games with people I know!

http://apps.facebook.com/wiifriendnumber/

tell me, have you ever seen an adult with this much pure glee?

Current Music: Pink Victim (Album) - Combustible Edison

It's been a very productive weekend so far. I've actually gotten the jump on a handful of "staycation" projects.

Most of our projects involve organization. Moving things out of one room into another, selling some items and tossing some items completely.

A few of our more "high-profile" projects involve actually making cosmetic changes to our house. Those I was able to tackle this weekend were mostly electrical projects.

I converted two of the recessed can lights in our kitchen to fixtures that I was able to install two pendant lights from. The glass is an amber funnel and they go directly over our kitchen island.

The next projects as adding a light kit to the ceiling fan in our front room - which was long overdue because the thermostat is also in there and you can't see what you're doing if you need to adjust it past sundown.

The last project was installing a ceiling fan WITH a light kit into the front upstairs bedroom - which will eventually become Henry's "big boy room." It's really cool. The fan is chrome with four blue oval light fixtures underneath. Also cool, the fan blades are blue as well. Looks perfect for a kids room.

So those are some of the more complicated projects. Like I said, the rest pretty much involve shuffling things around.

For example, our elliptical machine is currently in Henry's soon-to-be "big boy room." We need to get it out of there and are trying to sell it.

From the basement, we're bringing up a chair and a desk for the room and we're also framing out a twin sized bed that used to belong to Cami for him to use.

The basement storage is the big obstacle. Basically, we need to add storage by buying, constructing and arranging shelving. That won't take too long. But taking down and moving the shelving we have in there will. We'll have to move things OUT of the room, just to move them back in and get them all on shelves.

Also, Cami wants me to move my comic book collection out of the aformentioned front bedroom and into the basement and that's going to be a backbreaking chore.

I think we got a good start, though. There should certainly be enough time for some fun during the week as well. So long as we get a couple of things done each day, we'll have more than enough time to relax.

I was psyched out too much by the crowds to try and see The Dark Knight this weekend. So we're going to try and see a matinee on Monday (so I have something to talk about on The Triple Feature that night).

Here's my question - should we see it in IMAX or in a regular theater? Because the last time I saw a movie in IMAX, I had a bad experience. We went to see Superman Returns and I had a sore neck by the time it was over.

I tell myself that maybe if we sit in the back of the theater, it won't be a problem. But I'm not sure.

What do you guys think?

Siiigh.

When I took my car in to have the alternator fixed, they found another problem with my radiator. I need to have it fixed before Comic-Con, so my car is going to end up costing $800 to repair. Since commissions and lulu sales aren't quite cutting it, I'm setting up a donation box.

I'm not asking for the full $800, but just any help at all would be awesome! Anything at all! Five dollars! Three dollars! (Buckwheat voice) How 'bout two cents? =3

Tags: donations
Current Mood: hopeful

so much for that alien invasion i imagined briefly.

Current Music: Of course, this way madam - I want to show you the bathroom first - Forbidden Ensemble

As long as I can remember, I have identified with Jolly Jonah Jameson.

You?

Current Music: Feed the Animals - Girl Talk