Just wondering. I need to talk to some people familiar with HSH and wanted to know if anyone wanted to help out an old Pyromancy who's down on his luck.

If interested hit me with a reply here or note me or both. If you have some other means of contacting me like full vaporous apparitions who are willing to carry messages for you or whatever, that's cool, too. Djinni and ifreeti users need not apply. I don't need that crazy old magic in my house.

That is all. Breckenridge.

Anyone out there know anything about photoshopping iridescence effects?

I'm working on colouring a piece and I am having a hell of a time with it.

"Two journals in a day? You must be insane."

No. I'm not any more insane than I was before.

I have need of advice from any dog owners out there.

My dog is a rug muncher. Let that sink in.

I don't mean she prefers the fairer sex. I mean she eats my carpets. My apartment had new carpet laid just before I moved in around the beginning of June. There are still loose bits of carpet around that I can't seem to find or pick up with a vacuum but my puppy is always eating them. It tends to result in her yelping around poop time and frantically running in circles until she gets reined in or gets assistance ridding herself of the fibrous material in question. (It's disgusting. Don't ask.)

How do I get my dog to stop munching the rug?

(Inspired by this journal)

I do furry art, sometimes. Am I a furry artist? Possibly. Have I ever had the urge to pretend to be a seven foot, hermaphroditic, S&M lion? No. Do I think putting on a fursuit is sexy? Not in the least.

If it comes down to RP and subject matter, if you do something for the personal sexual gratification of another for money, it's prostitution. If someone offers you $500 for a drawing of something you identify as yourself pleasuring something they identify as themselves, that's prostitution. As it is if they only offered you $100 or $20 or $5. As long as you know that and are cool with what it says about you, cool. If you have an idea and it's graphic and erotic and you draw it and then sell it to people, it's pornography. There's nothing wrong with either of those things, as long as you don't lie to yourself about what you're doing.

There are lines and such that differ from person to person, but in essence...

I can make soft porn. I have no problem with that. I do not prostitute myself or my characters. In the age of the internet, just about anything you do or say will come back to haunt you at some point. If you're worried about that, you shouldn't be posting to the net.

You have to have the conviction to stand by what you do and the brains to not do something you feel wrong about. Life has no undo key.

I am currently unable to draw anything that pleases me in any way.

That's right, the gamma radiation and radioactive spider-bite have worn off and I have lost all my powers.

I have no idea how much longer this will last, but I can't make any promises about when there will be any new artings from me.

Sorry folks.

Some thing the loss and subsequent return of FA has made me notice:

One: I missed having a regular flow of a lot of art, regardless of quality.
Two: I do not enjoy internet drama or Sonic porn. I am not a furry.
Three: Stop making Sonic porn. Just... Stop.
Four: Most of my favorite artists don't post on DeviantArt.
Five: I get more traffic on DA, but fewer comments.


I also realized I dislike most people I encounter online, particularly in FA forums. For the last month all the posts have been in one of three camps: FA apologists ("We know it's been down for a month but they're doing the best they can," without having any more information than the rest of us.), FA persecutors ("We gave you money. We demand the really important things like badly drawn giant tits and girls with eight penises, right now!" They didn't really contribute.) and my favorite, the drive by furry haters ("Look at all you furfags who don't have a clue about technology. We pwn everything because we are the mainstream and have girlfriends who give us blowjobs," They don't have girlfriends and think hacking a PC involved the use of yahoo messenger.). Anyway, I'd have to say, I've learned by watching the microcosm of the forums, I feel absolutely justified in barricading myself in my apartment and shunning all human contact. Oh and by the way, furries are actually human, for those of you who have forgotten.

Any photoshop users out there, I have a question for you. If I were to make some specialty custom brushes available, would you be willing to pay for them? If so, how much? I can also do brushes made to specifications set by you.

Just an idea. I figure, I know how to make something that could help you, art-wise, and am willing to let it go for a reasonable price, why not make it available?

I saw Wall-E today and I have to say: see it. It's Pixar. Come on. Good writing, characterization and gorgeous animation. Voice acting was well done and the whole production was dead on entertainment-wise. See it.

Iron-Man. See that. Best comic movie yet, until I saw the Incredible Hulk. See that, too.

 hammy pointed out that a bunch of stuff just got released about Diablo 3. While you're seeing things, go see that, too.

I am in need of advice. What are the best Wii games? Which are good rentals and which are good for purchase?

My Spore Creatures.

...I'd like to nominate this image as the offical banner of furries everywhere.

How's by you?

THE END IS NIGH!!!

The big move is here and I won't be able to post, reply or even browse you until at LEAST Friday of this week.

I'll see you all when I get back, though I won't have a lot of time for the first week or so.


See you soon!

"Turd Preserves"

You read it and can't unsee it now.

Well, I found a place, as I said. They called me on Friday afternoon and said we have the place. It's the only application I put in. I'm pretty certain that they wanted us because I'm a sexy, brutally underpaid artist. Rental places dig that.

I woulda posted it but didn't want anyone to know until my wife had the good news and then we spent almost the whole weekend celebrating. The place rocks pretty damn hard.

After having done a solid and hard (albeit short) week of (literally) walking around the Toronto area looking for apartments, I am relatively certain that I have found a good place. We won't have the final word on whether or not we can actually have it until next week, but I'm relatively confident.

Thanks for all the well-wishing, guys. Keep those fingers crossed for me.

Now I need to go sleep until the republican party makes sense.

I'm going to be incommunicado (that's near Toronto) for most of the week from April 28 to May 2. I'm apartment hunting and far from my usual comfort zone of kindly, old, internet curmudgeon.

Keep cool and I'll see you all when I get back.

The original gangsta-folk version:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbxA8a_M_s


The full on hip-hop version:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk

Some things I'm curious about as I've not lived that many places and I'd like to know about other necks of the woods.

1. From where do you hail (Where you at)?

2. What is the biggest grocery store in your area? Your favorite grocery store?

3. What do you call your public transit system?

4. Who do you hear from more often, telemarketers or missionaries (Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, anybody who randomly wants to talk to you about "the Lord" as opposed to "the Batman")?

5. Is there a lot of crime in your area? What's the most common type?

6. What's the legal drinking age?

7. Are your police helpful and friendly or angry and hard-assed?

8. Do you have to travel far to get to work? Is that a normal thing for people in your area?

9. Which of the following is true? "My town (city, whatever) is a nice place to live," or, "My town (city, whatever) is a total crap-hole and I can't wait to leave it."

Just curious.

To anyone who obeys the link below and visits my brother's fake news blog:

I am now the chief contributor of photoshopped images. Keep an eye on http://monkey-breath.blogspot.com for more.

This one's my favorite, so far: http://monkey-breath.blogspot.com/2.....t-zombies.html

Please, read this well considered and anti-panic-inducing statement that isn't a giant bowl of hyperbole and conjecture about "The Man" and how he's trying to "screw us artists."

I can't believe that one guy with a hard-on to get noticed created a panic of the magnitude that I have seen stirring across the face of every art community to which I belong. Smarten up people. The U.S. government may not have your best interests at heart, being artists or constituents in general (See RIAA and MPAA), but that hardly qualifies for them campaigning to screw people arbitrarily. Anything like this would cause a panic and panicked people do stupid things.

Before you believe the sky is falling, please consult more than one source. At least go outside and have a look.

I'd like to announce a word a day service from me, your beloved waster of time and professional curmudgeon.

I'd like to but, frankly, I just lack the mental focus to bring you a new word every day. Failing in the greater ambition, I'll give you a word whenever one pops out of my hideously malformed head.

Word for the moment:

fnart: [fn-ahrt] (n) an agglomeration of the words "fan" and "art". Fan art being art created due, largely, to inspiration from the art of another. Ex: "Some guy I never met before just sent me some fnart."
(v) to create fan art or "fnart". Ex: "This pic is great. It makes me want to fnart!" +ing, +ed

Well, it's that time again. I have something stuck in my craw and it seems to be something that I should "lighten up" over or "sit back and enjoy."

April Fool's day is a tradition begun in the dark ages by Christians when they changed the calendar, arbitrarily, and made the Vernal Equinox no longer the new year. They then took advantage of the fact that they had more current knowledge to play jokes on the pagan folk who gave two damns and a shit about what the Christians did to the calendar. Haha. Religious discrimination is funny, no?

Anyway, so here we are around a millennium later and April Fool's day has become something of an internet holiday. This is the one day a year where people who aren't funny or clever decide that they can perpetrate jokes and tricks that aren't even funny to those pulling them. I'm all for tricking people. It's one of my basic life rules. Trick people frequently and their wits will be kept sharp. Sharp wits mean that everyone is a little more interesting.

The sort of tricks that go on on the internet, okay, some of them are pretty funny, but for the most part none of them are. DeviantArt replaced all the avatars for the whole site (how many million people? some of them using the place for business) with a picture of a freaking pokemon with animated letters saying "so I herd you liek mudkips??" That's not funny. It doesn't allow for retaliation and no good laugh is really had by anyone. An April Fool's gag without the possibility for retaliation is NOT FUNNY. It's like being the biggest, strongest kid in the class and smearing mud on the smallest one's head. You may laugh but you don't really think it's funny. What you think is funny is that nobody has the sack or even ability to do something back to you. Haha. Being able to hassle the masses without fear of reprisal is funny, no?

Anyway, I'm all for a little trickery and a good laugh, but I think I'll take my cue from Joss Whedon's vampires' refusal to do harm on Halloween. I'll sit out April Fool's day and let the unfunny, non-clever bastards battle it out for the "Who can do the least funny thing to the most people," crown. I bet the republicans win again.

anybody who remembers THIS should see the fanart I got for it.


I'm still offering $5 2x2 inch avatar/icon commissions.