Still working on setting stuff up.

I’m still in the process of getting things set up to do the strip again.

The good news is that I’ve been jonesing to start writing and drawing again.
I’ve got an idea for an actual serialized strip, to be done in addition to the diary strip, but getting the characters set in my head so they have a voice of their own is tripping me up.

I’m off to hang out with some friends that do cartooning and stuff on Thursday, so we’ll be banging ideas together. Hopefully these fools (I say this because they’re crazy enough to want to hang with me for a weekend! *grin*) will help me get my shit together.

Fingers crossed.

In other news, the St. Regis is going to be setting up in Hamilton. I wonder why the Government is trying to snap up the Corporations…

Damn, what a day!

Farrah Fawcett AND Michael Jackson.

Sucks.

I mean… she was everyone my age’s first crush, the first tightening of the pants of so many of us was from that one perfectly placed nipple. “Charlie’s Angels” was the BOMB when we were kids! She was the Six Million Dollar Man’s wife for chrissakes!
And then the “Battered Wife Series” showed us that she COULD, in fact, act. She kinda freaked out for a while, but, come on… she seemed like good people.

And Michael.

Come on. We grew up with him.
Yeah, he freaked at the end, but “I Want You Back”? “ABC”? “Ben”? What he gave us was so much more.

He was everyone’s little brother (even though he was 10 years older than me.

He was an icon. He changed us.

Oh, and my dad got to meet him, which is kinda cool, no?

I’m a prophet, too…

Be afraid!

Yep. Nothin’s workin’ right, but I’m back.

XP isn’t recognizing the Cintiq, so I did this one in Photoshop and, as a tribute to the old days, I brought back the halftone, just for fun.

I wrote a much, much longer post than this earlier, but it got eaten by the site. Fun.

Thanks for sticking with me through all this, you guys. I appreciate it. I’ll pay you back somehow. Maybe by putting out some well-written, well-drawn comics for a change… *grin*

I got nothing.

I was up last night until about 2:30 listening to one part genius and truth, one part drivel and one part outright lies right to the face of the honorable House.

I’m disgusted, exhausted and saddened, not by the failure of the vote, because I figured it wasn’t going to go through, but by the lows to which people will stoop.

This was ugly, dirty politics and it can all be laid at the feet of Dr. Brown and HIS supporters. (Notice the emphasis).

Yesterday at the protest amble, I was proud to be a Bermudian, expressing myself.

Today, I just feel dirty and used.

Tomorrow. Protest.

I’m feeling a VERY mellow vibe for tomorrow.

Calm. Nonconfrontational. The exact opposite of what the SmearSquad say we are.

Don’t give them ANY ammunition to dismiss us.

I posted this on BIAW, but there was a post from one of the PLP’s more vile supporters that gave me a very bad vibe, predicting violence tomorrow.
We HAVE to remain calm. It is imperative.
If you see someone in a confrontation, go to them and calm them down. If someone says something nasty to you, ignore them, or respond with “We deserve better than this.” and leave. If someone gets physical with you, suck it up and take it. I personally, should someone lay hands on me, will be announcing loudly, “STRANGER DANGER! I need an adult!” and recoiling theatrically, in hopes that the humour of it will defuse the sitch and that it’ll put them on the back foot.
You do what you do. But remember, what we’re doing is more important than your pride, more important than some stupid insult.
Let them call you names. You’re in the right on this.

When your opponent’s only defense is lies, evasions and racial, racist taunting, you got right on your side.

I once went to a bar in New York. Second floor walk-up. As you walk up the stairs, the sign with the rules on them gets exposed, the rules showing up one by one with each step.
The last couple of steps, a big sign comes into sight, at the bottom. All it said was “Be. Nice.”
I asked the waitress about it (after trying to go to the bar to order and getting a resounding fucking-off. You order through the waitstaff there. It’s too small to go to the bar.) and was told that since they had had that sign up, they hadn’t had a single fight there. At that point it was 5 years.
Even when it was so busy that I and several others, including the band, had to climb into the rafters, with people from every walk of life drunk off their ass, there was no fights.

So, I say to you… I beg you… I implore you…

Be
Nice

Whoo, lawdy.

In between fending off horrific personal attacks on certain blogs, from certain folks desperate to defame anyone that dares say anything against the all-holy Dr. Brown and trying not to freak the hell out that these same people might just lie their way to victory in this disgusting situation (seriously. They sound like a bunch of racist southern rednecks from a bad movie about the 50s.), I managed to install Windows on the Macbook.
I need it for my drawing stuff.

So… um…

I’ve been told that I should be able to flick back between windows and OSX. Is this true? I’m guessing Bootcamp isn’t the one that does that. Is it Parallels?
I just wanna be able to draw my stuff in XP, export it to JPG and upload, then come back to the OSX, where the rest of my stuff now is.
Is that too much to ask?

I mean, I know I’m not going to get good governance from people who think lying through their teeth is the way to go… and then get away with it…
Can I at least have my little sliver of Windows on my Mac?

I need comfort.

New protest.

On Friday, 12 o’clock.

I’ll be there.

There’s a bunch of folks from the Bermuda Is Another World forum that are going to meet outside the gallery (Front Street, next to the Emporium), if you’d like to join us as a group.

PLEASE show up.

The way the SmearSquad is spinning this… the outright racism of how they’re trying to twist this and dismiss it as something bad, simply because whites were involved…

well, it’s disgusting.

And it’s not how I want my home to be.

NO ONE should be judged by the colour of their skin.

No one.

That is just plain wrong.

Please join us and everyone else that feels that this sort of thing has gone on long enough.

Please help end this.

It’s gone on long enough.

We deserve better.

About the protest…

Welp, not much to say that hasn’t been said.
I WAS jonesing for my Cintiq today. Didn’t have anything written, but I wanted to doodle SO bad.
One full strip I wanted to do (as opposed to a gag panel, like I usually do), was of Dr. Brown punching me in the balls, with the sound effect of “COCKPUNCH!”… just ‘cuz that may, and I’m only speculating, be the greatest sound effect ever!… causing me to fall to the ground into a fetal ball. As I’m doing this, a bottle flies over my head.
Panel three: “Why? Why would you do that?”
Panel four: “Why are you complaining? I did a good thing! I saved you from getting hit by a bottle!”

There’s tonnes of blogs talking about it. I’ve spent the afternoon and evening bitching about it and talking about it and reading about it. I’m going to wait for the next step.

I HOPE that he doesn’t wriggle out of this, but I’m not holding my breath. I can’t find it in myself to put anything past him.
One of his “supporters” actually compared this to Dr. King.
Sickening.

I WOULD however like to welcome these Uighur gentlemen to my home. If the vetting turns out copacetic and you guys are cool, we’re cool. Welcome, amigos.

Still not a “Mac Person”

So I’ve got the Macbook.
I like it, I really do, but I’m not ready to brand the Apple Logo to my forehead.

And I DO think that the John Hodgeman/Justin Long ads are idiotic, self congratulatory pieces of shit.

I like the touchpad, I like the simplicity of it, LOVE the “Make everything small, so you can see what all’s open” thing, especially in conjunction with the touchpad.

I do NOT like the missing keys on the keyboard (Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, etc.), the fact that I can’t get in and customize stuff how I want. The dock is a little annoying, either taking up precious space or difficult to get to, or worse, overlaying programs, forcing me to move it.

Basically, I like it about as much as I like XP. No more, no less.

I’m about as much of a Mac person as I am a PC person.

In other news, I’m still working on getting all the programs I need to do the strip again, as well as a couple of others, for other stuff.

I’m trying to figure out if I can use the XP installation disks, etc, from my other laptop. I would assume so, but I haven’t wanted to try, in case I fuck something up.

Anyone know?