So I discover from my Twitter feed, much to my own surprise, that I had people specifically wanting me to weigh in on Ghostbusters before they decided whether or not to go see it.[1] Well, the answer to that is an unequivocal: Yes! Go see! Preferably opening weekend because that’s all Hollywood cares about, they consider anything not a blockbuster ( Read more... )

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-H.L. Mencken
I tossed out an off-hand tweet yesterday that I had encountered a "selfie stick" in the wild for the first time. In return I received a few replies of the usual sort of sneer that tends to come up when selfies are mentioned, and my immediate thought was a somewhat ( Read more... )

So @EpicBirdbrain on Twitter did this in response to a silly conversation we were having, and I pretty much love everything about it…


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Gneech Christmas Card 2013 by ~the-gneech on deviantART

Just a fun little thing I did as an excuse to play with Manga Studio 5. Unfortunately, for all its improvements, it STILL can’t make me a better artist.
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Beginning of the fourth full week of my strange new life; things are still strange and new. After an initial flurry of pre-writing on the Michael Macbeth story, I put that aside to wait for NaNoWriMo (I'm finally doing it this year, aww yeah!) and have spent the rest of the time working on commissions when I wasn't taking care of kittens/my mom/ ( Read more... )

While crunching away on everything else, I have managed to do a few bits of art in-between. And here they are! Because I love you.


Gneech Bizcard 2013 by ~the-gneech on deviantART

Finally, after however many years, I’ve got revised business cards on the way, with new avatar, the current websites, and a new funny bullet.
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Thanks for the input on my previous post all! Decision made and new avatar complete. Here it is!


Gneech Am Writing (large) by ~the-gneech on deviantART

Pencils by Spunky, digital "ink" and color by me. :)

-The Gneech

( Decision made! Thanks for the input, all. :) )

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I just got back from my physical exam and apparently I passed it because I'm still here. The doctor's scale, once you account for the fact that "doctor's office scales weigh heavy" (the doc's words, not mine), more or less agrees with the current average from Skippy the Wonder Scale... for whatever that's worth. :D ( Read more... )