My full time job as parent and employee has had an increased work load with my son taken ill, so I’ve been kept away from my normal routine of updating. Let me give you a quick update:
‘Precious’ was great. ’2012′ I lost interest shortly after I started to watch and I returned it without viewing the full feature. ‘Wolverine’ on Xbox 360… not nearly as great as Arkham Asylum, but it’s a time eater. PGR4… ‘meh’, Weeds Seasons 1-4 are a must see (I’ve been cramming the episodes thanks to Netflix over the past two weeks) and ‘Halo 3′ is usually a good time (yes I’m catching up on all the 360 games since I had been behind the times in upgrading to the newer generation console.
I plan on remaining away until my son is feeling better and the coughing subsides… in the meantime:
I hopefully can write a full review after I’m finished going back and getting all of the Riddles Solved.
I realize this game came out over half a year ago and the majority of gamers out there got the chance to play and beat it eons ago. Some of us took a little longer to jump on the new generation console, but praise for this game is still deserved.
I have to say though that the last 25% of the game began to go downhill [only slightly]. The game play that made this a phenomenal game were replaced by repetitive fighting scenes. Give me puzzles! Give me chances to be stealth and use my intellect to figure out how to get the bad guys while hiding in the shadows and using my awesome toys!
I posted a gripe about Monday and a friend chimed in putting a spin on perspective [by introducing fear]
The Facebook status update:
Dawn Masuoka Dear Monday, thank you for not spoiling me by making today slow and easy. I eternally hate you (with the exception of holiday Mondays- I love you then) ~Dawn
Responses:
MONDAY: Dear Dawn, Monday here.
We here at Days of the Week appreciate your input.
We are sorry you are not happy with the great service we provide. As Monday I try to make the rest of your week feel carefree and inspirational by making today bleak. I will forward your note to the board of directors where I’m sure they will give it ample consideration.
In the future may I suggest a flask of your favorite beverage to help you deal with my harsh realities.
I thank you for your quick response. You needn’t make your namesake quite so harsh as I appreciate all days regardless of the hell you wish to inflict up me. Please do speak to your board because as it stands, in anticipation of you- I no longer enjoy my Sundays and the angst you put me… us through, tends to spill over onto Tuesday. Surely you don’t wish for such a negative association with your surrounding kindred.
I would like our relationship to flourish again like it does on the holidays. Please ease up a little and spread some of pain evenly across the week [if you insist on doing so] so that the burden doesn’t feel quite so heavy after a weekend away from the grindstone.
Thank you again,
Dawn M Masuoka
3 hours ago
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TUESDAY: Dear Dawn, This is Tuesday here.
I thought you should know that Monday was just named CEO of The Days of the Week. As such, Monday has handed down an edict that every day shall be a Monday for you. He kept saying something about all the hate e-mail and Facebook postings. I thought I heard him say that he will show you no mercy for your crimes. I better go before Monday catches me wri……………
So I thought it over and I realized what a spoiled brat I’ve been. You’ve been given such a hard rap because you represent responsibility and you’ve become a symbol for hard work and effort- the two things that are needed in order to make this a functional society. For you are the backbone of America and if the days were constant Saturdays we would not be the great country we are today. [strike up National Anthem]
From hence forth I shall appreciate you and give you the respect and praise that you deserve. From hence forth when someone complains about it being ‘Monday’ I will stand up for you honor and brow beat the jerk who tries to strike you down. I was born on a Monday! If it were not for you I would not be fair of face- I would instead be full of grace. And although grace is… graceful, it’s not fair. And what is fair? Fair is just….See More
about an hour ago
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MONDAY: This is Mr. Monday.
So glad to hear you’ve had a change of heart. I will make every effort to recall the tactical team I dispatched to your home. It would appear that “re-education” is no longer needed.
Now say it with me….. -The streets will flow with the blood of the unbelievers.-
Yes, that is the slogan of RTC23 who has come together with Marvel Comics and created a line of LCD and LED HDfreakingTV’s that pay homage to the our beloved badass superheroes.
There are three categories: Marvel Comic Books, Marvel Heroes and Marvel Universe found here.
The prices range from $650-$2,000 for 32″-42″ but isn’t that a good deal for what your getting… which is sheer delicious geeky awesomeness that continues to give and give even when the set is off?
Billing the line as the “Ultimate Comic Fan’s Television,” each TV features a Marvel-themed frame and a special graphic that appears onscreen while the unit powers on. Most every Marvel icon is present and accounted for including the Avengers’ “big three” plus Wolverine and the FF. Spider-Man’s missing, however, which I’ll foolishly assume has something to do with Sony holding his movie rights or something.
The designs stem from three categories: Retro, Heroes and Universe. Retro frames come in flat colors and sport classic comic book designs from the “Stan and Jack” era while the Universe and Heroes lines feature more contemporary artwork and flashier frames.
By Andy Borowitz: [posted on Huffington Post... where I Borroweditz]
Ya think it took them long enough? -Me
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – One week after their first national convention, the self-styled Teabaggers are facing an identity crisis after one of their members finally Googled the slang term “teabag.”
“I was wondering why every time I told people I was a Teabagger they kind of started giggling in an embarrassed way,” said Tracy Klugian, a Teabagger from Elyria, Ohio. “I was like, what the heck? Maybe I should use the Google and see what this is all about.”
After Mr. Klugian Googled the word “teabag,” he was shocked by what he discovered and shared his information with the Teabaggers’ leadership, who are now actively looking for a new name for the group.
“We want a name that suggests we’re out to give the Democrats a good fight,” he said. “So far what we’ve come up with is the Donkey Punchers.” More here.
Donkey Punchers? Really? Maybe they should google a little more… When I read that I can’t help but think about Clerks 2.
I hate writing my reviews on films because each time I do, I feel like I’m giving away spoilers in which the viewer should approach the film with as much as a blank slate as I had.
From the opening with Metallica churning out “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and ending it with Jack White in the Raconteurs with “Solute Your Solution”, this was a complete gore fest thrill ride!
It starts out with Columbus Ohio (you don’t give your real name so that you can avoid getting attached to the person). Columbus [played by Jesse Eisenberg] found himself during the virus outbreak at college in Texas. A loner, social recluse and geek– he wants to return to the only family he has, his parents who live in Ohio. Romantically doomed from the beginning, his first experience with a girl wound up being his first time coming into contact with a ‘zombie’. He only wishes to meet a girl who’s hair he can brush over her ear and introduce to his folks– or her folks, whichever are less dysfunctional. You note I put a ‘ in front and behind zombie… that’s because they aren’t the typical undead zombies that we’re accustomed to. The people, like most of the modern zombie type films, are infected with a maddening virus that winds up turning them into a walking, hungry corpse instead of the rising undead [which the latter are what the zombies in my progressing graphic novel are- true and pure zombies created by-- well, you'll just have to stay tuned].
On his way back “home” he runs into Tallahassee [Woody Harrelson] who is a rough and zombie smashing survivor en route to… Tallahassee. Only one thing keeps Tallahassee motivated, other than killing any zombie that gets in his way, is his second true love- Twinkies. The world seems to be out of the spongy golden goodness and he bent on getting to that creamy center.
Once Tallahassee picks up Columbus alongside the highway he agrees to take him as far as Texarkana, which is about as far as he feels he can stand him without wanting to bash his head in.
Columbus, from his survival success, has compiled a list for Zombie Survival– which we are taught along the way, and yes I took notes. We learn from him and we learn with him, especially when they run into a pair of sisters [played by Emma Stone and my favorite- Abigail Breslin] who are not what they appear.
From there the fun only begins. It was everything I thought it would be [that can be good or bad] with a few extra surprises thrown in.
This movie is nothing but campy fun and you shouldn’t expect any thing more. It’s a ‘B’ film on Code Red Mountain Dew; so put in the film, pop the popcorn and sit back for some gory fun.
The AXE COP saga began on a Christmas visit to see my family. My Father, a man with very healthy loins, has managed to produce a variety of children, ranging from me, a 29 year old comic book artist, to my 5 year old brother Malachai, a 5 year old boy genius, with four other siblings in between. During the visit Malchai was running around with his toy fireman axe and he said he was playing “Axe Cop.” He asked me to play with him, and I asked what my weapon was… so he brought me a toy flute (actually a recorder). I told him I would rather be Axe Cop then Flute Cop, and he seemed just fine with being Flute Cop. The story that followed became more and more brilliant, until I couldn’t contain myself and I had to draw the whole thing into a one page comic.
From there the saga continued, and over the course of my week-long visit we cranked out the first four episodes of AXE COP. I posted the comics to my blog and on Facebook and they got great responses. I decided to give AXE COP a home on the internet here and attempt to continue the saga as often as I have time to draw them, and I can get Malachai to write them.
The writing process is basically just me quizzing Malachai as he develops the saga. I’ll just try to pry all the details out of him and write them all down until something like a complete little story has been formed. Everything in AXE COP started in Malachai’s head, all I do is sort it out and draw it. Here is avideo of the writing process.
So enjoy these comics, they are a fun slice of the mind of a 5 year old boy processed through the pen of a 30 year old comic artist. Please send us your comments and questions, but keep in mind a child is present, so watch your frickin’ language.
I'll Chop Your Head Off!
Go to the site, nay… run RUN to the site to read more or he’ll CHOP YOUR HEAD OFF!
1. I’m not a math expert, but I do believe the number of starving children in the world is close to the number of stray cats– Am I the only one who sees the obvious solution to feeding the stray cats so they don’t keep pestering me?
2. I just had an hour long conversation/drawing the words session with Jonathon when trying to describe what video game he wanted to play.
[our conversation after him trying to spell it on a reader board and drawing it out]
“Philety”
“Philety?”
“Yes.”
“Huh?”
“It’s on the shelf…”
[I read the name of games from A - Z, all 120 of them-- nada]
“Did I name it?”
“I don’t know, maybe.”
[I read the names from Z-A, all 120 of them]
“You didn’t say anything…”
“It’s there.”
“Can you please tell me Yes or No when I read the names…”
[I read the names and after being bored he says yes to Salt Lake City Skiing.]
“Seriously? Salt Lake City? The skiing game you hate?”
“No… I’m just tired.”
“Okay… let’s try something else- [I turn the pc on the tv and hand him the keyboard"
"Chase-- cops-- NYPD-- you go after bad guys-- you get chased by cops"
"Grand Theft Auto?"
"Noooo"
"You're making this up, there is no game.."
"You beat it before."
"I beat all the games before."
"Run from NYPD"
[another 15 minutes of going in circles and him repeating everything he said previously] All of a sudden it hits me and I go to the other side of the room and pull off the shelf “Indigo Prophecy”
“YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!”
“Philety? Really?”
[he shrugs]“I forgot the name. It was close.”
So here I am. :-\
And here’s a comic that reminds me of my latest string of conversations with people when I was slaving my drive, adding a new graphics card and trying to talk shop with people to get ideas on how to make improvements without getting a new machine considering all my memory slots are full as well as most of my ports. Yes– I still run XP in a world of people who now have Windows 7 or Macs.
This is just plain weird and I <3 just plain weird– sometimes, and depending on the weirdness.
Here are a few samples of fattening up the celebs. From Brianna to Victoria, whether or not it’s ‘insulting’ to the overweight culture is undecided by me. Would it be wrong if we skeleton-ized them? A few of the people seriously needed the weight gain and here’s a glimpse of what it’d look like if they weren’t so body obsessed… and sat on the sofa for a few months.
Regardless of whether or not you found it poor taste– I feel hella hot now and bikini ready!
Sick
Giddy
