On Monday I lost one of the oldest and dearest friends I had, suddenly and unexpectedly. Wayne went into the hospital last week for hip surgery, was in recovery, and was doing well ( Read more... )

Fulfilling yet another promise I made last month to my housemates (as well as to my dear friend amusingmuse), I have started drawing by hand again. No computer, no mouse, no photo references, no models, no light table, no bells and whistles...just plain, ordinary, right out of my head line drawings ( Read more... )

And I'm not talking anything to do with Paris Hilton, either ( Read more... )

Well, it is if you live on the Gulf Coast, anyway ( Read more... )

After many many years of waffling, I have joined the Firefox Nation.

I've only had this browser for ten minutes and I'm already loving it.

Thanks, amusingmuse.

Mobi-con was this weekend and I managed to hook up with my very very longtime friend amusingmuse. One of the first things she did was read me the riot act about not posting for over a year or so, and I have to own that I haven't been very communicative of late. I could trot out all kinds of lame excuses for going all hikikomori, but none of them can justify ( Read more... )

Okay, so at the laundromat where I work there are a LOT of people who come in to drop their clothes off, including several local newscasters and such. One of them caught a random comment of mine about business having increased since the oil spill because we're doing a lot of laundry for the clean-up workers who do 12-hour shifts and have no time to ( Read more... )

So I got a call last week from amusingmuse, saying she and hubby were attending Mobicon this year. Since I had been planning to go anyway (and saving $$$ like madness), we arranged to meet up ( Read more... )

I've been making a lot of comics on Gaia Online (which has eaten my brain of late). Thought I'd share them here.

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Dead woman found in freezerPolice executing a search warrant tonight at a north Mobile house discovered the body of a woman in the freezer, authorities said ( Read more... )