...written by me when I writing.
I am once again stucked on a writing project. Well, not quite stuck, but making the oh-so-wonderful progress of a few words a day. This lead me to this.....
Does anyone want to write tennis style with me? I send you what I have so far, you write the next bit, then you send it to me and I write the next bit, etc.
Open request to the one person who half reads this and any restless spirits out there on the interblag.
Speaking of writing, I dreamt a scene this morning while I was still asleep. Not like it was happening in my dream, but I was writing it in my dream. I knew it was morning because I then woke up with it still in my head, managed to run through it in my mind, then fell asleep again. I the forgot it. I remember it was really good and also what it was vaguely about, but that's it. I'm pretty cross.
Speaking of dreams, when I woke up for the final time this morning I was worried that there really were subterranean cave dwellers who had re-written the bible so as to have Jesus as a fellow cave dweller. In my dream I went and visited the cave complex, where they had a small town in a cave underneath this big house, and I remember lots of blue water....
ANYWAY
GOODBYE
From,
a SamfiSh
P.S./Edit - my twitter feed isn't showing all my tweets. Never mind!
Friday, 20 August 2010
Saturday, 14 August 2010
3 for luck
I forgot: I am now pretty much definitely moving to Brumingham, home of Brum the car and the Bullring and Bromwich and Birmingham New Street Station, and many other things that begin with B.
I'm moving in 19 days! Hells Bells and buckets of blood that's close...
S-aaaaaahi'mgoingtohavetogrowupoutofneceSSity-mfiSh
I'm moving in 19 days! Hells Bells and buckets of blood that's close...
S-aaaaaahi'mgoingtohavetogrowupoutofneceSSity-mfiSh
Webcomics and thoughts thereupon
Webcomics: I read many.
Overcompensating, Rice Boy, Dresden Codak, Nedroid, Dead Winter, Bad Machinery, Questionable Content, Something Positive, Wondermark, Hark! a Vagrant, Dr. Mcninja, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Cyanide & Happiness, and xkcd.
That seems like a lot, but it only takes up 15 minutes a day, three times a week. Which is less than soap opera or Britain's got Star Idol Factor viewers would spend on their nonsense, and is (mostly) done intelligently and tastefully, and with real talent.
Anyhoo, enough of me getting defensive.
What I wanted to say is this: of the comics I read, some have passed their respective heyday. This is not to say that I don't enjoy them, or that the output of these writers and artists is sub par (in fact many of what these individuals produce is excellent)
The most prominent examples are xkcd, A Softer World, Dr. Mcninja, Something Positive and Questionable content.
These webcomics just used to be better! For example, Dr Mcninja peaked at Punch Dracula. Why? Look at the title. Punch. Dracula. I rest my case? No, but it is very good. read it and find out!
Something Positive peaked when 3 of the characters were trapped by crazed catgirls on a cannibalistic orgy of death and fangirlism at a comicon, and where assisted by Wil Wheton. One of the funniest storylines ever. One of the reasons I'd state this as the peak is that [SPOILERS - text now in white] one of my favourite characters in the strip, a midget called Pepito, is killed and mostly eaten by the catgirls.
I used to find ASW hilarious. From clever wordplay to black humour, the strip, as I read through the back catalogues, never disappointed. Even now when I hit the "Random" button, the older strips make me laugh in a way the new ones never do.
XKCD: the 1337, The Race and Journal storylines. Check them out.
I'd recommend all the comics I've listed - as I said, just because I'd say they'd peaked, this doesn't mean I don't think that they are, in most cases brilliant.
If you're after great art, I'd recommend Rice Boy or Dresden Codak.
If you would be more interested in a quick laugh, that may often be thought provoking, read any of the following: Overcompensating, Nedroid, Wondermark, Hark! a Vagrant, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Cyanide & Happiness, or xkcd.
SP and QC are slice of life comics, following the cast as they go about their lives. The former I'd place well below the latter in terms of writing, art, and content quality.
Dead Winter, Bad Machinery, Doctor Mcninja are serialised webcomics, though this is about as far as the similarities go - though DW and DM have both featured Zombies (the former almost exclusively), as did BM's predecessor, Scary Go Round. WARNING: BM contains children...
SF
Overcompensating, Rice Boy, Dresden Codak, Nedroid, Dead Winter, Bad Machinery, Questionable Content, Something Positive, Wondermark, Hark! a Vagrant, Dr. Mcninja, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Cyanide & Happiness, and xkcd.
That seems like a lot, but it only takes up 15 minutes a day, three times a week. Which is less than soap opera or Britain's got Star Idol Factor viewers would spend on their nonsense, and is (mostly) done intelligently and tastefully, and with real talent.
Anyhoo, enough of me getting defensive.
What I wanted to say is this: of the comics I read, some have passed their respective heyday. This is not to say that I don't enjoy them, or that the output of these writers and artists is sub par (in fact many of what these individuals produce is excellent)
The most prominent examples are xkcd, A Softer World, Dr. Mcninja, Something Positive and Questionable content.
These webcomics just used to be better! For example, Dr Mcninja peaked at Punch Dracula. Why? Look at the title. Punch. Dracula. I rest my case? No, but it is very good. read it and find out!
Something Positive peaked when 3 of the characters were trapped by crazed catgirls on a cannibalistic orgy of death and fangirlism at a comicon, and where assisted by Wil Wheton. One of the funniest storylines ever. One of the reasons I'd state this as the peak is that [SPOILERS - text now in white] one of my favourite characters in the strip, a midget called Pepito, is killed and mostly eaten by the catgirls.
I used to find ASW hilarious. From clever wordplay to black humour, the strip, as I read through the back catalogues, never disappointed. Even now when I hit the "Random" button, the older strips make me laugh in a way the new ones never do.
XKCD: the 1337, The Race and Journal storylines. Check them out.
I'd recommend all the comics I've listed - as I said, just because I'd say they'd peaked, this doesn't mean I don't think that they are, in most cases brilliant.
If you're after great art, I'd recommend Rice Boy or Dresden Codak.
If you would be more interested in a quick laugh, that may often be thought provoking, read any of the following: Overcompensating, Nedroid, Wondermark, Hark! a Vagrant, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Cyanide & Happiness, or xkcd.
SP and QC are slice of life comics, following the cast as they go about their lives. The former I'd place well below the latter in terms of writing, art, and content quality.
Dead Winter, Bad Machinery, Doctor Mcninja are serialised webcomics, though this is about as far as the similarities go - though DW and DM have both featured Zombies (the former almost exclusively), as did BM's predecessor, Scary Go Round. WARNING: BM contains children...
SF
Friday, 13 August 2010
Um, hi.
Yeah, ok, 2 apologies: that last post was pretentiously written. it started ok, then it went on as though i knew what i was talking about; and I haven't blogged in aaaages.
I had a mixed day:
Got up at 8 (bad thing)
Successfully made marbled toast for the second time out of 3 attempts (good thing)
Had to wait for ages for flooring to be delivered (bad thing)
Had to transfer 240kilos worth of flooring up the stairs in front of my house into my front hall (bad thing)
Made home-made chicken soup from scratch (good thing)
Ate said soup (good thing)
Went shopping, came back, knocked on door, knocked on back door, threw stones at brother's window. assumed everyone was out, so went on a short walk. then stood around for ages. then went on another short walk in the rain. came back, brother was in all along. (bad thing, but the walk in the rain was fun)
Made home-made ketchup from scratch (good thing)
This took at least 4 hours (bad thing)
Wahey, I have sufficiently bored you to death!
Samf-iSh
I had a mixed day:
Got up at 8 (bad thing)
Successfully made marbled toast for the second time out of 3 attempts (good thing)
Had to wait for ages for flooring to be delivered (bad thing)
Had to transfer 240kilos worth of flooring up the stairs in front of my house into my front hall (bad thing)
Made home-made chicken soup from scratch (good thing)
Ate said soup (good thing)
Went shopping, came back, knocked on door, knocked on back door, threw stones at brother's window. assumed everyone was out, so went on a short walk. then stood around for ages. then went on another short walk in the rain. came back, brother was in all along. (bad thing, but the walk in the rain was fun)
Made home-made ketchup from scratch (good thing)
This took at least 4 hours (bad thing)
Wahey, I have sufficiently bored you to death!
Samf-iSh
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