| Comic-Con 2008 |
[19 Jul 2008|07:08pm] |
(Yeah I know, I never post in this thing anymore...thing is if I have something to say I just post it on my Foster's forum.)
So, Jim and I will be at Comic-Con again this year. I will be dressing up as three different characters this year: Mac from Foster's (just with a wig instead of that big head I had last time), Sybil Pandemik from the new Sam & Max computer games, and Pearl Forrester from MST3K - although for that last one it'll probably just be the jacket over regular clothes. Jim will wear his Dr. Forrester lab coat that night too, at the MST3K reunion panel. The Sybil costume goes with my lifesize Max plush that I had at Wondercon, and the Mac costume is because Cartoon Network wants to do a fan interview with me and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mrbuu, who will have his Bloo costume. Still don't know if that's going to be on TV or online or anything, or if it will have film or still photos. I'll try to remember to post here when I know.
Anyways, see you there if you're coming too! I can be found at the Telltale Games booth, the Cartoon Network booth, the My Firefly, Inc booth when I feel like bugging Lauren, and the Full Moon booth.
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| San Fancisco WonderCon 2008 |
[07 Feb 2008|04:49pm] |
The San Francisco WonderCon is a sister convention to the San Diego ComicCon. http://www.comic-con.org/wc/ This year its from February 22-24, and my brother and and I are going for the first time despite the fact we have lived in the bay area for most of our lives. ;) (Of course, I didn't start hitting ComicCon until after I left Los Angeles.)
So...shout out if you'll be there. Since we don't have a hotel and the drive is almost 2 hours each way we're more likely than not only going for a single day, either Saturday or Sunday. We didn't see any panels we're interested in, we're just going for the exhibit hall, so I don't think it especially matters which day we go on.
Unfortunately it appears that Steve Purcell won't be at this WC. :P Oh well.
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| What D&D Character Are You? |
[18 Jan 2008|09:03pm] |
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I tried to answer the questions as honestly as possible and I got:
I Am A: Neutral Good Human Druid (3rd Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-10
Dexterity-9
Constitution-11
Intelligence-12
Wisdom-10
Charisma-12
Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.
Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.
Class:
Druids gain power not by ruling nature but by being at one with it. They hate the unnatural, including aberrations or undead, and destroy them where possible. Druids receive divine spells from nature, not the gods, and can gain an array of powers as they gain experience, including the ability to take the shapes of animals. The weapons and armor of a druid are restricted by their traditional oaths, not simply training. A druid's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that they can cast.
Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)
One, Neutral Good rules, two, humans are my favorite D&D race, and three, I actually played a Druid in D&D (the only time I really played D&D proper) for many years, so that amuses me. So, yay.
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| Hairspray |
[20 Jul 2007|07:55pm] |
I caught the first showing of this at a local theatre today, and it was AWESOME. I never saw the stage production nor did I ever hear the soundtrack, but I've loved the original film forever. I don't feel like writing anything long, so this will be short...Wow the only thing I have a complaint about is, in this version there's no explanation whatsoever as to why Tracy shows up at the competition with straightened hair (that I caught). Oh well. I bought the soundtrack and am listening to it now. It's fantastic. That Nikki Blonski, she could do the singing voice of a Disney princess. ;)
Oh and I'm in love with Christopher Walken now. The End.
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| Oh Look, a Blog I Never Use |
[01 Jul 2007|10:47pm] |
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...I shall post random things now.
Well, as all the people who I keep in close contact know, I'm gearing up for yet another fun-filled San Diego Comic-Con, at the end of July. I will be meeting up with all but one of the staff of my Foster's Home forum as well as seeing some folks from he-man.org. I'm looking forward to Jerry Beck's latest installment of the Worst Animation Ever as well as his panel focusing on the at-long-last Popeye DVD set hitting shelves on July 31. I have finally finished my cosplay for the Con and am working on some gifts for a few members of the Foster's Home crew.
Pemmican brand beef jerky is a million times better than Oberto brand.
I am currently working on a DVD set of the Fox Casper cartoon, of which I have managed to collect most, though not quite all, of the episodes. Oh well, better than nothing. I also need to finish up my Casper and the Angels 19-episode set. Then I'm going to rehaul my Beetlejuice set at a higher quality.
I make really good potato salad.
I'm thinking of getting a luggage rack installed on my car.
Tarantulas drink a lot more water than you might think.
I can't think of anything else. No wonder I never use this thing. :P
~Sparky
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[15 Oct 2006|05:08am] |
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The Vallejo newspaper (online) wants 80 bucks to keep my friend's obituary/guestbook/thingie online forever.
Why don't *I* just make a page for her? It can have a guestbook (which I can moderate to keep spam out, like the one on my Beetlejuice page) and I can set up a photo gallery if people email me pictures. It can have anything else people email to me as well. It can have the original obituary. It can have a March of Dimes section, with info on where to make donations. It can have whatever.
Is that too presumptuous of me? :P It's just that I already HAVE lots of space online, that belongs to me, and surely will for a very long time. Why pay 80 bucks and not have control over anything but adding to the guestbook and photo gallery? People would be able to find it with Google or whatever. And they could at least have an individual to email (or individuals, if anyone else wanted their email addresses posted) so they can talk to someone personally about her if they need to. The Vallejo paper didn't know her.
And no, I didn't make a memorial page for my mother; that doesn't mean I think my friend is more important than than my mom. It's just that my mom didn't know many people who use the Internet, if you know what I mean.
The whole thing really wouldn't take much effort to make or maintain. Anyone know if her mom or dad use the Internet (if anyone reading this knew her)? I actually have no idea.
(Yeah, I know I never mention my friend by name on here. I'm paranoid of someone figuring out her LJ username and spamming her journal because they think its cool to spam a deceased person's journal.)
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[15 Sep 2006|11:53am] |
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I just found out that one of my best friends, in my whole life, passed away on Wednesday. Her mother is trying to be optimistic that it wasn't suicide but I'm afraid I can't so easily do the same. I can't talk about it right now; maybe I'll write more later.
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| Meme (idea from mrbuu) |
[13 Jul 2006|09:10pm] |
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
| ✓ I miss somebody right now. (Pets count, right?) |
× I don't watch much TV these days. |
✓ I own lots of books. (I collect children's books. :)) |
| ✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. |
✓ I love to play video games. |
× I've tried marijuana. |
| ✓ I've watched porn movies. (Well, clips off of the Internet...and no one was fully nude...but I believe it still does count as porn.) |
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. |
✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. |
× I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. |
× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. |
( it goes on... )
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| San Diego Comic-Con |
[05 Jun 2006|08:27pm] |
Yay, I get to go. :) It's kind of last-minute, but we got a hotel okay, and we signed up online tonight for the four days at the Con.
So last Friday, my brother gets home from work and says, I guess it's too late this year, but do you want to go to the San Diego Comic-Con next year? And I like, looked at him, and said, I wanted to go *this* year. I want to go *every* year. I've always wanted to go and have never been able to, even when I lived an hour or so from San Diego. So he says, okay, and gets online and finds us a hotel for a week. Oh and today he actually asked for the time off, lol. ;)
So we're going to San Diego, from July 16 to the 23rd. We're going to drive down. We'll poot around San Diego for the first few days, go to the zoo and aquarium and whatnot, since the only times I've set foot in San Diego was to visit my friends and we never went anywhere. Then we'll do the Con from the preview night through Saturday - we need to start driving home on Sunday morning so Jim can go to work Monday, so hopefully nothing spectacular will happen on Sunday...
I'm pondering a costume. I have to get our Rennaissance Faire costumes together for the Faire at the end of June, but that shouldn't be too time-consuming as we are going to be going as filthy peasants (oh yes). If I don't do a costume you know what would be cool, to finally completely remake my Mr. Banana Brain doll, maybe as a puppet this time. That'd be spiffeh. :)
So for anyone on here who reads this and you're going, maybe you'll see me. I'll be the fat chick with the really long brown hair wearing red-framed glasses and a nametag that says SPARKY - and either carrying a Mr Banana Brain doll or, on one day anyways, dressed up as...I'm not sure yet. I'm still thinking about it.
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| Just some...stuff |
[09 Apr 2006|04:35pm] |
Some random unrelated stuff from my life recently.
Remember how our tent flooded a couple of weekends ago? Well, my $500+ digital camcorder that Jimlaaad gave me for Christmas two years ago got wet and was destroyed. I had no idea it had even gotten wet. I'm trying to find a used one without accessories to replace it. I've seen a couple for under $200, but need to wait until I have a bit more money.
Yesterday morning I noticed that the bike rack on my SUV's spare tire was bent on one side, and the knob on that side missing (I have this rack). I was hoping if I could straighten it out then I could order a new knob from that website (I had to order a new mounting plate from them after the mechanics lost mine when rotating my tires) but that measly little knob isn't offered as a replacement part. :P Anyways I'm not even sure I *can* straighten it, it's *really* bent up. At first I thought some hooligans were trying to see how tough they were by tugging on it but now I guess maybe a car sideswiped me when I was parked somewhere, and got caught on the rack. Anyways its unusable right now.
I'm starting a new temp job tomorrow, doing data entry at a construction site. Something about weighing trucks and entering the figures into the database and then logging some other stuff. I dunno. Maybe it won't suck too much.
This morning I gave my rats Jake and Elwood away. I found someone local who would take them but they didn't want any of my stuff so I still have the cage and everything. Not sure yet if I want to try rats again. Call me hard-hearted but I never did get attached to Jake and Elwood - they certainly never got attached to me. They took up about a third of the living room, smelled, needed more maintenece than any other pet I've ever had, ate more than any other pet I've ever had (and I made half their food at home and special ordered the rest), I had to buy them accessories and hammocks weekly, and their cage cost more than the *parrot's* cage. I could have dealt with all of that if they were actually friendly, but they weren't, and I was frankly tired of it. I guess I should have rehomed them a long time ago, because with me they never got to come out or anything. Really, all three of us are better off now.
Oh and um...I'm getting a tax refund. :) Better than Jimlaaad did.
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| NPC Commercial |
[31 Mar 2006|10:25pm] |
I just found this lurking on my harddrive. It's an ad I posted once years ago on PIMUX.
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It's late. You and your friends are RPing as best you can, staving off exhaustion with gallons of Mountain Dew, when you run into a problem: no one wants to pose for the NPCs. An argument breaks out. Someone calls you a peon. You call someone a feeb. You vow to never rp together again and log off to stare at the bizarrest webpage you can find until your eyes bleed.
It doesn't have to be this way!
Let me handle your one-shot NPCs for you. Specialising in idiot cops, nosy reporters, critical waiters, and violent crowds. If I'm loitering in the Snackbar, give me a page! My alts are Spleen/Blake, Haywire, Mona Mayhem, and Inspector Gadget. This public service announcement was brought to you by the letter F, the number 5 3/8, and the planet Floog.
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Ah, good times. ;)
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| My Kingdom For a Boat |
[26 Mar 2006|09:49pm] |
Well some of you knew that I was going to be gone on a medieval-themed camping trip with the SCA from Friday through Sunday. The event is called March Crown and it was in Woodland, CA. It's pretty much the wettest weekend event in the West Kingdom, so it is affectionately nicknamed "March Drown." A few years ago I went with the Shire of Champclair (a Solano County-based group) and our dragonwing (which is a long rectangle of cloth supported by poles, really better suited for a sunshade) leaked very badly and we spent the weekend singing our new anthem "We All Live In a Leaky Drangonwing," to the tune of "Yellow Submarine." Oh yes, that was a very wet weekend.
But this March Drown was wetter.
( Read more... )
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| You Meet So Many Interesting People... |
[20 Mar 2006|04:48pm] |
...when you make a new website!
(Okay this was originally posted on my Deviantart blog on March 4, and NOBODY CARED. :P So whatever, *I* thought it was cool. So I'm reposting it here because I've wanted to use this blog again anyways. Ahem.)
So I decided to make a fansite for The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, simply because there weren't any already, and there is already so much misinformation on that show all over the Internet. In fact, my brother has a book, "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons," which is a great resource, it really is, only their entry on TCMMoEG has the character names all wrong and stuff, and this is all the same stuff that everyone else has wrong (including sctv.ca, the best resource for SCTV out there) and we think that it might be that book's fault for spreading misinformation. Anyways I found a broken link to a website in the TCMMoEG guide on TV.com that supposedly pointed to some publicity photos taken of the set of Count Floyd's Scary Stories, the liveaction segment of the cartoon, of the kid who was on in one ep dressed like a kid version of Ed. So I looked up the kid's name in Google and found his new website and found the photos on there and I emailed him letting him know I was going to link to his page on my site and he was so cute in that epsiode blah blah. *Then* after I had sent off the email I poked around his site and figured out who he is. His name is Jarrett Lennon and he's still acting, he's been in tons of stuff, and done lots of voicework like Eugene in Hey Arnold! and Randall on Recess and even Kenny Fouler in 2 Stupid Dogs (one of my favorites). He returned my email a few minutes later to thank me and stuff, and of course ask the standard "Do you know when/if that cartoon is coming to DVD" because everyone thinks that just because I have a fansite for something that I'm the head of the studio or something, lol. So I emailed him back to say I didn't, and that I had looked around his site and saw his other credits and told him how awesome he was.
And...that was it. Lol. Anyways. ;) That was my Big Adventure this week.
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| Not around... |
[30 Aug 2005|11:02am] |
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I decided to just make a general announcement, as I'd just like all my friended people to know...I've not been active on LJ for weeks now. I just don't have enough time for it now that I'm so busy over on tv.com. I've made the decision to only be logged into one site while at work, and right now that site is tv.com - I worry that I am not getting as much work done as I should by trying to keep up with multiple sites. And I haven't the time *outside* of work to keep up with everyone's LJs which is why I haven't commented in anyone's in weeks. If you want me you'd better either email me or if you're a member of tv.com, PM me over there (and read my blog there), otherwise you're out of luck. :) No one has to respond to this, I just wanted to make sure people know why I haven't been using LJ lately. I don't know when/if I'm going to be active again.
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| Oh no... |
[21 Jul 2005|12:46pm] |
Okay, I told myself I wouldn't post any more of these but...
So I type insurance policies all day, which means I see a lot of people's names. Sometimes people have weird or just amusing names. I know they can't help it.
So right now I'm typing a policy for Vietnamese lady whose name is "Cat Dung (lastname)".
I hope to God she wasn't *raised* in the U.S. :P I went to high school with a kid named Dung whose family had just moved to the U.S. It wasn't pretty.
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| Freaked! |
[18 Jul 2005|07:53pm] |
(x-posted from the Foster's forum)
Freaked is out on DVD!
"Freaked," about a band of misfit sideshow freaks who need to find a way to escape before Dennis Quaid kills them all for fun and profit! Boy, I don't even recall when it came out, I think I was in college though so I'm going to say early 90's. It was co-written by, co-directed by, and stars Alex Winter...yup, Bill from Bill & Ted, one of my favorite movies of All Time. (It just is. :P ) Anyways, I fell in love with Freaked many years ago, and had been looking for it on dvd for some time - they actually gave away a copy of the VHS tape at the Trash Film Orgy and I waaaaanted it! And then yesterday after Jimlaaad and I abandoned the movie theatre when it was apparent that the whole of Sacramento had come to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we stopped by Virgin Records and he goes, "Hey! Freaked is out on dvd with bunches of extras," and I squealed right there in the store and like knocked people down to get to the Comedy section.
Anyways, it has sweet extras! There's rehearsal clips of not only scenes that were cut but there's a rehearsal version of the whole movie! I think that's awesome! I also love the segment dedicated to The Troll - I so freakin' love that kid! :D There's also a couple of original short films by Winter and, um, the other guy, and I think they're quite interesting. Very, very good DVD set (its 2-disc). I know, the movie has a...narrow range of appeal, I suppose, but I adore it. Yay for being easily amused. :)
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| Foster's Forum |
[12 Jul 2005|09:43am] |
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I'm still working on my Foster's Home fansite but the forum is here if anyone is interested:
http://nffostershome.proboards52.com/
It's brand-new, and I've never run any boards other than my superquiet Popeye forum, and the co-moderators haven't been appointed yet, so please be gentle. :)
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