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Post by badluckshadow13 on Aug 17, 2009 23:22:47 GMT -5
Something I've been meaning to start down here for some time, an incident tonight finally justified it.
So here I am, nice and cozy, finally ready to settle in to a nice night at the beach and.... weeeaaaoooowwwww! Holy shit! Fire alarm!
Well you can bet, I was up the stairs to the third level in no time, smoke pooouring down the steps. Now, I am not a courageous person, but fire is one of those few things that does not frighten me. It makes no sense, on a primal level tht torrential terror that mantains it's evolutionary use persists in all sane people. Alas, I am far from sane.
What awaits me on the top floor is one of the most amazing scenes I have ever layed my eyes upon. Andy G. 6'9" upong the shoulders of Mike and Mel desperately waving at a fire alarm, Matt shirtless with a sunburnt panda belly on the ground shaking a broom at them. Smoke billows from the sink.
(Naturally I stopped to take pictures which will be posted at a later date in time)
When things had calmed down a bit the first question from my mouth way of course, "what the fuck were you idiots doing?" I assumed, rationally I think, that they'd been cooking something, which wouldn't have explained that much smoke really, but I was half asleep.
Turns out someone had tried to heat a towel, by microwaving it, for 20 minutes.
The microwave caught on fire.
I managed to borrow a laptop, because I don't have enough time to say all this via iPhone, there's a good possibilitiy that fancy smoke detector was rigged up to call the fire station... I'm going to go tend to this... god those idiots...
all this only came about because of drunken poker... christ, programmers evidently can't hold their liquor.
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Aug 17, 2009 23:40:28 GMT -5
Christ! I got up there and they've set it off again, thought it'd be clever to lift mike up there and let him poke around...
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Post by Zer0 on Aug 18, 2009 6:37:11 GMT -5
Please. I can't tell you the number of times I was woken up from my college dorm because some drunk/stoned college kids tried to put pizza in the oven.... still on the cardboard. Those fire alarms are the worst.
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Sept 27, 2009 16:15:02 GMT -5
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Post by Der Metzgermeister on Oct 3, 2009 22:48:11 GMT -5
That might be one of the most stupid things to do with a microwave that I've ever heard.
But it looks like that was a good show, though.
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 3, 2009 23:06:12 GMT -5
it was a hell of a show. I love your Fountain of Miracles icon.
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Post by Der Metzgermeister on Oct 3, 2009 23:33:02 GMT -5
Thanks.
Speaking about that... I'm really trying to figure out what is Ray's hat made of. It looks like a henhouse in his head.
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 3, 2009 23:42:09 GMT -5
greatest mental image all week
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 9, 2009 15:54:24 GMT -5
Obama won the Nobel Prize, Nasa bombed the moon, Marge Simpson is on the cover of Playboy, and Anna Wildsmith's gonna to send me her autograph... it's the fucking apocalypse I tell you.
But a lottery ticket and tell your loved ones you care.
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 13, 2009 16:13:03 GMT -5
I feel like a horrible person for laughing, but my girlfriend totally has Swine-flu.
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Oct 13, 2009 18:47:53 GMT -5
Also, I'd like to address the recent style change in the comics.
When my life gets little busy I get used to not drawing for awhile. This time, when I finished up my little hiatus, I found I'd lost all my huge-ass coins. I can't draw circles very well... so yeah, I'm working on assembling a collection of new circular objects. So far I've got a roll of masking tape... I'm considering starting to carry a soda can all the time...
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Post by badluckshadow13 on Dec 30, 2009 3:06:04 GMT -5
As the last days of 09 peter out slowly, I feel almost compelled to reflect on the passing year. Cutting out all the less than enjoyable personal details and leaving it to matters of artistic growth, I have to admit I'm rather satisfied. 4 times out of 10 I like what I'm drawing now, and that's a big improvement for me. Even where matters of photography are concerned, I've gotten better, though admittedly, I've not posted any good pictures in months. Unfortunately, I'm also forced to face my own limitations. Even when I'm capable of capturing the inspiration for a new comic or clever idea, I can never seem to make myself bring it to reality. It's transcended the borders of laziness, I'm just honestly not motivated anymore. And that bothers me, a lot. Art burn-out is nothing new to me, I seem to go through it bi-monthly almost, but it's a little different now... you see, here's where the photography comes in. Usually when I get like this, I just pull back from drawing for awhile and vent my pent up creative tensions through photography. But as the years carry on, my poor old camera has become more than irritatingly obsolete... it's also starting to take wear and tear. Beyond the simple scratches to paint and screen, the photos I'm taking with it are becoming increasingly bad. It's almost infuriating to me really. I'm seeing amazing things and I finally have enough rudimentary skill to capture them well, but my camera is reducing them to shit. Do you have any clue how heartbreaking it is to spent a cold day exploring obscure, less-than-safe locations, snapping the perfect picture, staring at it the entire way home on your worn little camera's screen, reveling in how dazzling it seems to be, only to upload it and discover all the flaws unnoticeable on the much smaller camera scale? All the blurs and grainy edges, the crisp detail that your own failing eyesight could manage but the damned camera couldn't? But now I'm just ranting... so I digress.
The ebb and flow of time has rarely been more than an inconvenience for me, but this year I have to admit, I feel a little different (if only because I'm actually thinking about it). I'm not sure exactly where to go from here, I've hit a standstill in life and I'm not sure whether it's the cause or effect to this, but it's beginning to get me a bit down. I've flirted with apathy before and it was less than pleasant, so rest assured I'm taking steps this time.
For the past few weeks I've spent most of my time sleeping, but a couple days ago, just to kill some time, I picked up my guitar again. I was naturally talented as a kid, something I now hate myself for wasting, but I'm pretty terrible now. Still, it was fun. I found myself capable of wasting a few hours messing around with it, not because I felt compelled to create or something, but just to bide my time, and it was fun. I think maybe this is sort of like working out, I've started to get out of shape, and I just need to force myself to get back into the swing of things. So that's what I'm doing. I'm going to go see a movie tomorrow, because I don't socialize nearly often enough and I need to be reminded that continuous disdain for my own species isn't necessarily a healthy outlook on life, then when I get home, I think I might make myself draw something, just to see where it goes. No promisses of breaking this little involuntary hiatus, but I will give it a shot and, who knows? Maybe I'll remember why it was so much fun the first time around and get some momentum going here.
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Post by Zer0 on Dec 30, 2009 8:06:19 GMT -5
Well, good luck no matter what you decide to do!
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