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beatonna

cards!

Nov. 15th, 2009 | 09:07 am
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Dudes, these Santa Cards I made are available at Topatoco! He is in the festive spirit wink wink.

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pyrotech_c3h8

What are your favorite song lyrics?

Nov. 14th, 2009 | 03:32 pm
posted by: [info]pyrotech_c3h8

So we went to the Rob Zombie concert last week thanks to Kevin. He managed to get us free tickets using his car at some radio appearance, and ironically we used our car to meet him!

Rob Zombie is reportedly hard as hell to meet, Desiree tried to meet him once and had no luck, the venue guards even told me that he was infamous for bolting right after the show. Well fuck that!

So as soon the show was out I ran 6 blocks to pick up Alexi and haul ass back to the venue. I whipped into the parking lot and lit up the hood and roof flame throwers and angled Aftermath, the large flamethrower on the roof at the tour bus.

"HEY! That's a fire hazzard!" exclaimed the extremely astute bouncer outside of the bus.

"Yeah, that's the point, Sherlock" I told him.



We caught John 5's attention and he came out to talk to us after a bit. About 15 minutes later Rob Zombie came out and was gracious enough to take some pictures with us. I figured if a hearse that is on fire isn't enough to get his attention then nothing is.




Desiree and Rob.

Also, I was listening to some music today thinking about some of my favorite lyrics -

"Walk through the gate...welcome the creature you've made...embrace your disgrace" -Dr. Steel, Planet X Marks the Spot

"The next thing I say to you will be true, the last thing I said was false" -Devo, Enough Said

"Step two, baby, you're Jean Luc Picard! Captain of the vessel, you're the man that's in charge, step two...ENGAGE! Make it so!" -The Strand, Step One

What are some of your favorite lyrics from songs?

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stereotypist

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Nov. 13th, 2009 | 01:58 pm
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it occurs to me that i have never mentioned this new shirt and hoodie. the design is something i cut out of a big thing of fabric for some reason a few months ago, it is nine feet tall, i have never made anything bigger than me before

silver apples - you and i

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beatonna

fairy tales

Nov. 13th, 2009 | 01:55 am
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Remember, Montreal! I'm going to be at Expozine this weekend! You should come.

I realized today that the comic I was working on was going to take longer than I thought, so I made these up real quick before I take off for Montreal! You go to one of these things, and it's four days gone like a flash. Not that anyone checks the internet on the weekend, but still. In any case, I like the Kiss elves.

Store!

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monshogaku

History and the passing of time

Nov. 12th, 2009 | 09:21 pm
posted by: [info]monshogaku

Earlier this week marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  For someone who was born and spent the first 18 years of their life experiencing the Cold War, this was a significant moment in history.  Having to change my outlook from a us versus them mentality to a more expansive and rational world view. Back then things were so simple on the surface. The United States, with an alliance of West European countries (NATO) against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and alliance of Eastern Bloc countries (Warsaw Pact), and smaller countries sometimes used as proxies in the games that would at times take us to the brink of nuclear war.  While I was at the tail end of a 46 year standoff, it was still something that defined someone of my age.

Now I look at my niece, who is 18 years old and never had a chance to experience the Cold War, but now is living and experiencing the United States against global terrorism. China has become the rival superpower to the United States. Certain parts of the former Eastern Bloc are becoming movers and shakers in the internet world. The one thing I wonder is what will become of the legacy of the Cold War. I say give it another ten years and we may know.

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paidmembers

Additions and improvements for Paid Feature

Nov. 12th, 2009 | 02:11 pm
posted by: [info]marta in [info]paidmembers

We've made some additions and improvements to Notes!

The Notes feature has been added to two action-taking pages:
  • You can now add a Note directly on the Add a friend page - handy if you'd like to mark down where you met them or another name you know them by!
  • On the Ban and unban users page (under Account -> Privacy) you can now add a Note, including to a group of users all banned at the same time (so that next year you won't need to ask yourself "hey, why did I ban these guys?")

Other changes:
  • When you're viewing your existing Notes they're grayed out; click in a field to activate it to change the text (this page can be found from the header by using Profile -> Manage Notes)
  • Changes to editing:
    • When you're going to create a new Note but one already exists, you'll get a warning that you're editing an existing Note
    • You can now delete a note from the "Edit note" pop-up in the hover menu
    • You can now delete notes for multiple selected users on the Manage notes page
    • When you change Notes on "Ban|unban users" page, they can be edited and saved with "Save Changes" button
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beatonna

Dry Matches

Nov. 11th, 2009 | 04:55 pm
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I got a comment about my last comic saying that it condoned smoking, but I don't, that is nonsense! You should also not lasso cats out of trees, if that doesn't go without saying. Historical smoking is another matter, go ahead and have a smoke in the trench, but I advise against lighting three cigarettes at night.

Remembrance Day always makes me ruminative about the place of history in our current consciences, because it is one of the few holidays where we are explicitly told listen you have to remember this thing that happened ok and, one, people pay attention, two, there is nothing jamming the line like bbq's or parties or football games or chocolate eggs or presents. History: You should give a shit, who knew.

Just so we are clear though, I don't really care about Queen Victoria's birthday either so go ahead and slam it back on May 24 weekend, fireworks and the whole bit. Honestly we should all get free corgis on Victoria Day.

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beatonna

Be A Hero

Nov. 9th, 2009 | 09:30 pm
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Requests aren't done, they will be popping up as we go, but honestly I do not need annnyymooreee! I was looking at the Wonder Women that I drew last year and started drawing her again, because she's pretty fun to draw, and surly Wonder Woman here came out. Don't settle for being a tits and tits heroine ladies, be yourself! Poor Nibbles.


Hey Montreal! I'm going to be at Expozine this weekend! You should come.

Store!

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stereotypist

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Nov. 9th, 2009 | 03:35 pm
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monotract - cafu y koka

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monshogaku

Sticking to plans

Nov. 8th, 2009 | 07:29 pm
posted by: [info]monshogaku

Remember the post I had made about posting more often? Yeah, been sticking to that one. Just have to try harder.

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bethofalltrades

... then we take Berlin.

Nov. 7th, 2009 | 11:46 pm
posted by: [info]bethofalltrades

I leave tomorrow at 9AM for tour. I'm spending a few days with my coworker Sean before tour kicks off in his hometown of Burlington, VT.

Eight shows on the east coast. We're driving. In a rental car. It's a very different situation than last year at this time, when we had a tour bus and a full crew. I was on six shows that tour, so I suppose I'm moving up in the world.

I had a very hard time balancing everything last fall. I had an unrequited crush, an inhumane workload, seasonal depression and job insecurity. I felt like I was failing at everything I did. Life presented me a clear choice between pushing through the pain or drowning it and I subsequently had a very bad, drunk night in Washington DC. The next morning Amanda made me go to Bikram yoga and I had to leave class early to vomit profusely and cry into a toilet.

Looking back, I had no way of knowing that one of the lowest moments of my life would come in a yoga studio bathroom in New Haven, Connecticut.

I am approaching tour from a very different perspective this time. A lot has changed in the past year. My nearest and dearest from that time have scattered to the ends of the earth and while I cherish the IM conversations and emails and postcards, it's not the same as sleeping in the bunk above them.

My life has a new cast of characters and I have a new leading lady. More than that, I am a new leading lady. The girl who drank and did drugs and slept around and felt very, very sorry for herself has given way to a woman who is grateful for quiet moments and cooks dinner at home.

I am less drama queen and more crazy cat lady and I am better for it.

I no longer need tour to validate me. I know I am good at my job and the hugs, tips and keys are sweets, not daily dietary requirements. I also have stopped viewing tour as a non-stop party and have started to see it for what it is: hard, exhausting work that can be very rewarding.

... but there is a certain magic that remains, I must admit, and I am blessed to be part of it.

First we take Burlington.

Love,
Beth
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beatonna

Canadian cast of characters

Nov. 7th, 2009 | 05:40 pm
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Well, I used a lot of the suggestions that came my way from that post the other day! I was pretty pleased with the turnout of readers for that question, I must admit. I guess it's because you hear a lot that people don't give a darn about history in this country, if depressing yearly polls from the Dominion Institute mean anything, but it's clearly not the case among my livejournal followers. You guys are great!

I had to do a general sweep that involved a good range of places, professions, backgrounds and time periods, so you know, not everyone's favorite author is going to be in there but I sure did like the range in suggestions. Looking at it now I wish I had someone from the NWT (not one! for shame) and New Brunswick. Stompin Tom is from New Brunswick but he's also sort of from everywhere.  I could have put the Irvings in there, I think they control history in NB as well as anything else.

I was all crazed out with strep throat while I did this, but listening to Radiolab shows and a burning passion for Canada I guess(?) kept me going.  You can find the image in today's National Post, along with an article about the Historica/Dominion merger! Interesting stuff.


picture is under the cut because it's huge )


Here is the legend, the rows are sort of wonky but you'll figure it out:

Row One (bottom):
James Wolfe, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, David Suzuki, Louis-Joseph Papineau, John A. Macdonald, Terry Fox
Row Two
Emily Carr, Joseph Howe, Joey Smallwood, Robert Bartlett, Louis Riel, Joy Kogawa
Row Three
Marshall McLuhan, Samuel de Champlain, Marilyn Bell, Wayne Gretzky, Emily Murphy
Row Four
Rene Levesque, Sam Steele, Farley Mowat, L.M. Montgomery, Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail, John McCrae
Row Five
Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker), Oscar Peterson, Rush, Pierre Berton
Row Six
Les Filles du Roi, Mary Pickford, Skookum Jim Mason
Row Seven
Charles Best, Frederick Banting, Pauline Johnson, Mordecai Richler, Tecumseh, Stompin’ Tom Connors
Row Eight

William Hall, Tommy Douglas, Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, Rosemary Brown, John Diefenbaker
Row Nine
Shanawdithit, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, David Thompson, William Shatner

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beatonna

Fast Comics By Request, One

Nov. 6th, 2009 | 09:34 pm
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More to come, later

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beatonna

Quick comics time

Nov. 5th, 2009 | 08:26 pm
posted by: [info]beatonna

What a week! Strep throat, broken website, a commission that took like eighty days (in one week!) to complete, jeepers.

Well it can only mean one thing.


It's quick comics time again, and done by request as is custom (it's about the only time I formally take requests anymore and only on livejournal, you are my special little guys!), so ante up all yous

edit!

Whoa I should mention, I think some people have the idea that I will do all the requests! There are always way too many, that is impossible, I just do some. But I read them all, and some of them will be turned into bigger comics, you never know.

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stereotypist

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Nov. 5th, 2009 | 04:39 pm
posted by: [info]stereotypist





well

onra - the anthem

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pyrotech_c3h8

Hey Facebook users! Guess what? Fuck you, that's what, now die.

Nov. 5th, 2009 | 02:06 am
posted by: [info]pyrotech_c3h8

Preface - Yes, I do have a Facebook. I got it because I thought it might be worth something. It most certainly isn't worth half inch cock to Nel Carter. This posting is meant to do 2 things - Vent my unfathomable well of hatred about Facebook, and open a dialogue on what the best way to destroy my account there would be. Ok...go!

Hi dildos. I am addressing ALL of you who have Facebook accounts.

Thank you. Thank you for coming to this liquid poo bad site and making it the next big thing. Thanks for dragging me into your shit covered cesspool with you. I thought we already agreed on a half assed, poorly planned, poorly executed, error ridled piece of shit social website for self obsessed assholes, didn't we? A place where people can bog down the internet with thousands of nearly identical photos of themselves in various poses of pensive, self perceived sexiness?


It's called Myspace, now get off this horrid cocksucking site and get back to the one that is no better, but we're all used to and allows open source editing, you fuck tards. We just NOW have all gotten used to Myspace, learned to live with it's constant errors, bullshit spambot profiles and retarded caricature celebrities, now you think it's time to move on? After I have learned to suppress the involuntary spasm of reverse peristalsis that I suffer every time I see Jeffree Star on someone's top friends list?

Well fuck you. You don't get to do that. You picked your god forsaken, bow legged, cockeyed, pants shitting, retard of a horse, you don't get to change it halfway through the race. Ride that fucker, ride it until breaks, until it's legs snap and all you can do is sit around and fester in the first hell you created. You don't get to abandon it and go on to create new layers of real estate at Dante's Inferno. 


I hate you all. Every one of you had better PRAY, and I mean on a regular basis, face on the ground, pointed towards whatever place you call holy fucking Mecca or whatever PRAY that I don't get a million dollars any time soon, because if I do, all you fad following fucks are going to pay. I hate this new site so much that if I do come into money, I am going to use it to fly around the country and beat the shit out of everyone who helped make this happen. Start practicing right now, just hold your mouths open and keep it that way until I get there so that when I bury my foot in your ass so hard that your pelvis snaps upward into your face you can suck your own genitals momentarily before they break your hipster fucking noses.

We did this once already and we're not doing it again. Yes, Myspace is a shit sandwhich, but shut the hell up, eat it because you cooked it, and just rejoice if you find a piece of corn in it.

If you enjoyed this and agree with these sentiments, please feel free to cross post this everywhere, join the Anti-Facebook movement today! You assholes.
 

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monshogaku

Shifting things around a bit

Nov. 3rd, 2009 | 07:22 pm
posted by: [info]monshogaku

   With the optical drive in one of my computers failing horribly, I have decided that once I get some spare parts from a friend, look into building a new computer. Whatever shape this new computer takes, it is going to be running some form of Linux exclusively. Since I am not much of a gamer, and don't do any serious audio/video editing, Linux is more than capable for my day to day computer requirements. This will be fun and interesting.

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pyrotech_c3h8

Paranormal Activity review

Nov. 3rd, 2009 | 01:17 am
posted by: [info]pyrotech_c3h8

Here are the pertinent facts you need to know about this movie if you plan to go see it -

The end sucks and you're just going to sit there wondering if that bitch ass ending was all the payoff for sitting through over an hour of shaky cam/tripod shots. Yes, yes it is. That's it. Don't bother waiting around, the disappointment is genuine.

I won't ruin it for you by telling you that there is NO PAYOFF at all. I love how horror movies can't find the balance AT FUCKING ALL these days, it is either show way too much discomforting gore (here I am thinking of SAW, plus, seriously, how much havoc can one dead guy's VCR really wreck after he has died? Certainly not enough for THIS MANY sequels) or you get the bullshit The Ring/The Others/6th Sense cop out where they try to scare you by NOT showing you anything. Hey, Hollywood, here's a thought - if I want to sit around and get scared shitless by not seeing what is going on, I'll put on a blindfold and stand around in the ghetto, best of all it won't cost me anything, but when I spend gas money, $13 and whatever highway robbery is currently costing at the concessions stand, you sure as tits better conjure up something amazing at some point to justify it.

Also, this movie was made for $15,000 and you WILL spend most of the movie wondering, given the production value, where the other $14,999 went to.

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stereotypist

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Nov. 2nd, 2009 | 03:02 pm
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i finished shipping all the orders i have received so far, i am taking a couple weeks off from shipping to concentrate on making comics, i am looking forward to this i think.

belong - late night

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