This past week, beloved young adult author Brian Jacques suffered a heart attack and passed away. I was deeply saddened by the news. Growing up I was a huge fan of his books, most notably his "Redwall" series. I remember reading those books when I was little; I got so into reading them that sometimes I'd miss my bus stop. Good times, those were.

One of my goals when I started studying to be an illustrator was to one day have my work grace the cover of a Brian Jacques Redwall novel, but sadly I won't have that opportunity unless there is a special edition reprint of one of his existing books.

Anyway, I just wanted to share that. Just so you don't think all I do on my Journals is make fun of dineegla and radrab for their sports teams' incompetence.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Saddler's bullshit 3s, Carter's bullshit no-call tackle, an 11 point 2nd half lead and where did that get you? Back in the L column, that's where! 4 players fouled out for that?! Pitiful!

Oh, and have fun watching us on TV this upcoming week.

... one of them, anyway.

I can't decide whether to taunt Radrab about his team losing yesterday or poke fun at Lostcat461 about his team losing yesterday.

Ahhhhh why not...

Hey Radrab, how's the weather down there in 7th place?

Yeah, so I'm going to AnthroCon.

Problem is, I'm flat broke. Being an art student has a nasty habit of eating up all your money. OM NOM NOM.

Originally I was thinking of mooching sharing a room with musclewolf and dineegla, but since they're not going because they don't want to listen to me make fun of the Chicago Cubs for three days, I don't really have a place to stay that I can afford.

So if anyone has a room I can share or a place I can crash for the weekend, please let me know. Otherwise I might have to sell my kidneys. Both of them.

(Yeah I know it's a few months early but I want to make sure I have my lodging covered before anything else.)

You know why I don't say "hon" on here, right? Because me and my Maryland accent do enough of that as it is.

By the way, all of what you hear about our Maryland accent is true. "T"s become "d"s, long "a"s become short "u"s or long "e"s. "Baltimore, Maryland" becomes "Bald'mur, Merlin".

What sort of accent do you have? TELL ME OR I CRUSH YOU ಠ_ಠ

http://www.weather.com/weather/today/23220:4:US

Oh man, it's so nice outside, I can't decide what to do! I could go frolic in the park, or fly a kite, or jog, or go get some barbecue...

Help me out, man! Decisions, decisions!









(Yeah, that's for calling me "Derwood". ಠ_ಠ )

Ole Miss? UK is losing to a veritable who's who of SEC bottom-feeders. Auburn next?!

VCU got 24 votes in the AP Poll, and 9 votes in the Coaches' Poll.

How many votes did Delaware get? Zero?

Yeah, I thought so.

HERP DERP

Perception is a funny thing. Everyone comes with a different one. And often times disagreements come as a result of skewed perceptions. I'll admit my perceptions are skewed quite a bit. I come with a lot of baggage because of prior things in the furry fandom that were never fully rectified. Usually I can keep a handle on myself but occasionally I'll find something that forces me beyond the scope of my better judgment. It's not to say that what I do is "alright", by any means, but it is what it is.

It's just interesting to see where a lot of these things begin, and where they end up.

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Now with all of that said, I want to turn my attention to radrab, whose perception is most certainly skewed. He believes his Delaware Blue Hens basketball team is actually a good team. He believes their win over Old Dominion makes them "legitimate". He then uses that perception to come after me and my VCU basketball team.

His perception makes it so that he can ignore the fact that Delaware hasn't had a winning season since 2003 and hasn't made the NCAA Tournament or won 20 games in a season since joining the CAA in 2001. His team is the very definition of "mediocre". Yet somehow he feels like he can come into my Journal and talk shit about my basketball team.

While I respect the guy, radrab is being absolutely delusional if he thinks Delaware will make it further in the CAA Tournament than VCU.

TL,DR? Hey Radrab, your team is WHACK! Just give up and join the VCU Bandwagon already. You can say you were rooting for us before we made our deep NCAA Tournament run, so you don't look like a poser when we knock off another all-time great school in the dance like we did to Duke in 2007.

As much as I respect admins on any site where I frequent (from my time spent as a DA admin), I can't say the same about FA's admins. My view of them has been tarnished.

You all know what was said. I don't need to repeat it. But apparently that warrants a suspension without any sort of prior warning. And the note I got (while I was suspended, which I couldn't read, which I couldn't respond to) was just icing on the cake. I love having admins "preach" to me. It makes me laugh.

I recall other popu-fur artists saying things just as bad, if not worse, than what I said and didn't have any action taken against them. You probably know who they are. But I think it is hilarious that somehow they didn't have any administrative action taken against them. And I think it's hilarious that the people who incited the flame-fest get off scot-free in this whole incident.

Tell me that isn't selective enforcement.

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Moving on.

I've debated about starting a webcomic. With sports. And funny-ness.

Stay tuned.

My table at AnthroCon will be...

F-10.

Chyeah. ಠ_ಠ

Alabama?

ALABAMA?!

Real Name: Shamus Farnsworth Zellwinkel
Birthday: November 16th
Age: 40
Height/Weight: 6'8", 350 lbs.
Occupation: Meat packer, snow shoveler, trumpeter, professional wrestler

The economy is tough, and he takes whatever work he can get. As much as he loves wrestling, being an "old man" results in a lack of endorsement deals and sponsorships. As such, he finds it difficult to support his family with just the wrestling alone.

Avocations: Root beer connoisseur, taking naps, crossword puzzles

He enjoys life's simpler pleasures.

Fun Facts:

- Shamus was somewhat of a juvenile delinquent growing up. He'd get into fights nearly every day, even if he was outnumbered or matched against a much larger kid. His bull-headed determination caught the attention of a local gym owner who agreed to take him in and teach him how to wrestle.
- He has a wife and two children - a son (age 10) and a daughter (age 7). They are only allowed to stay up late on nights when he wrestles so they can watch him on TV.
- His wife picks out his wrestling outfit for every match. Usually it's the standard umber-tone trunks but he does have other outfits for special occasions (pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, for example).
- He dresses up as Santa Claus for the local childrens' hospital during the holiday season. His friends like to call him "Sforz-Santa".

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Yep, that's it.

Why the hell not?

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dc-s-.....cken-scratches

sucks. I'm tired of trying. You hypocrites who preach "acceptance" when all you want is another porn fix can go die in a fire. You know who you are.

That's what's wrong with the furry fandom. People who speak one thing but do another. People whose tolerance only extends to whatever they find sexually arousing. You all can go fuck yourselves.

I've been on FA for five years, where the fuck have you all been? Talking about me on LiveStream chat sessions and spreading rumors, calling me a "prude" and a "furry hater" and whatever else. The minute I post something you find fap-able, you +watch me and suddenly we're bosom buddies? Fuck that.

Try that shit here and you'll get blocked. I'm not kidding.

BAG

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FULL COMBO

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 meddlerinc

Just because.

He is awesome.

GO TELL HIM HOW AWESOME HE IS. ಠ_ಠ

Also 20 new watchers = popuFURity ಠ_ಠ

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Go Seahawks. ಠ_ಠ

are irritating as hell. They don't even look like bouncing pecs.

Could you cool it with the emote replies, please? I enjoy reading your responses to my submissions, but a reply consisting of nothing but emotes tells me nothing.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah, let's do this.

Contrary to popular belief, I do hold back on what I say. A lot. So fuck it. Before 2011 I have things I want to get off my chest.

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1) [REDACTED] - Thank you for tolerating my nightly pestering, blabbering, and bitching. And the scarf, too.

2) [REDACTED] - I'll be the first to admit I had the wrong idea about you before we cleared things up. Now that I've been able to "meet" you (online) and converse, I kind of wish we had more opportunities to talk to each other. The time zone difference doesn't do us any favors, but still I'd be willing to make the adjustment for that.

3) [REDACTED] - Another person I had the wrong idea of. I fucked up badly with those two commissions I did for you. I'll admit the first wasn't my best effort, and the second I didn't even finish. But yeah, you're one of the very few in this entire fandom who I can say has "a pair", and I mean that with the utmost respect.

Still, :| for outing my alternate account.

4) [REDACTED] - You say you wish you could spend more time talking to me, yet I never see you online. I can't talk to you if you're never online (or you "ghost" and you don't let me know).

5) [REDACTED] - Draw from life. You'll learn a lot more than if you just keep drawing the same subject matter over and over again. And once you learn how to draw from life (and reference!), you won't have to keep coming to me to find out what you have to "fix" in your drawings.

(now it gets a bit more... um... yeah)

6) [REDACTED] - You're a bitch. A whiny spineless bitch. You think blocking anyone who disagrees with you and hiding their comments makes you "right"? That's a bitch move. And here's the truth: you hang onto every +fav like it's a mark of validation when you know full well that your work hasn't improved a lick since 2002. You've been drawing the same trite bullshit with the same muddy convoluted colors and the same shitty compositions for the past eight years. People +fav it because, as I alluded to in number 3, almost no one in this fandom has the balls to call you out on it. Well I am. Get the fuck over yourself, grow a pair, and actually work towards something.

7) [REDACTED] - You're a bitch too. And it's not just me saying that, it's other folks who have commissioned you in the past. Yeah, those folks. You remember them, right? People who paid you up front and got nothing in return - except a big waste of time. Why? You only do commissions you feel interested in. As in, you only complete the ones you can fap to (I presume). The others? You take the money, stall for as long as you can, then return the money after incessant prodding and barbing. Oh, and the best part? You have the nerve to act like the person who paid you is being unreasonable when he or she is upset that you waited five fucking months to even take their questions seriously. "I'm busy"? Bullshit. You're not busy enough to host livestreams every other night. Or beg people for money. It's bullshit, and the more people know the kind of shit you pull on people who commission you, the more they'll realize you're nothing more than a bitch.

8) [REDACTED] - You're not that good. Learn to fucking draw.

9) [REDACTED] - I blocked you for a reason. Stop +faving my work. Find someone else to fap to.

10) [REDACTED] - I also blocked you for a reason. That reason is you being an asshole and posting lewd comments on work that is clearly not intended for that interpretation. If you want to express your lewd fantasies on someone's artwork, there are 30,000 other profiles on here to do it. I asked you to stop, you couldn't, and I blocked you. Now you're done. Shut up about it.

11) [REDACTED] - You sold out. And I know you're a cool guy and everything and I mean that in the most respectful way I can say it... but, you sold out.

12) [REDACTED] - I can't stand people who make judgments of others based on baseless speculation. I thought you had some dignity. Clearly you don't.

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... and that's it. Phew. Liberating.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS!