I hope ye talked like a pirate today, 'cause it be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

So, first, I want to say, I really am working on doing something special, to fill up all these days of nothing, instead of a post every 2-3 weeks. But it's going to take some more time, to make sure it actually is going to work. So bear with me a little while longer (again -_-) .

Gurren Lagann. I just watched episode 25, and if you aren't watching this thing yet, you should have already watched it (thats how much you need to watch it). Along with episodes 24 and 25 being extremely excellent, and very Gainax, 25 has what could possibly be the most epic song in anime ever EVER. Think orchestral, but with their "fight the power" rap song they have going on, PLUS choir singing. It's amazing.

Anyways,  Tokyo Game Show is this week, so here's to an announcement that actually surprises me!

Well, it's been a while, as usual, I feel bad that whoever's left is used to this kind of behavior by now...

Anyways I'm already kinda done with Pokemon for now, I was on it for a while since I had gotten my National Dex and the other 80% of the pokemon were available for me to catch...and then Luminous Arc and Rune Factory came out. Rune Factory is like Harvest Moon, which if you don't know is basically a farming sim, except now you can fight monsters too, and better yet tame them and make you do your farmwork. The prospect of making mutated ox-men pull my weeds is thrilling, to say the least. Luminous Arc is a tactical rpg, but it's interesting so far due to the large amounts of voice acting in the cutscense, and generally being fun, and all this fitting on the DS (oh and trpg's being my favorite genre of game, pretty much).

World's Strongest Disciple Kenichi is an anime about Kenichi, who's training at this dojo full of the strongest martial arts masters. At first this show was actually pretty bad, not so great animation, pretty cheesy, that sort of thing. But now, Kenichi is one of the better action shows on tv. This was especially true when Naruto Shippuden was bad, but since the last two weeks have been very good for Naruto (no doubt due to end of season episodes) things are evening out some.

The last thing is, I added another drawing into works. It's an older one, but I figured it was interesting as it's a picture of what I'll call "Young Pel". How young? Now now, it's not polite to ask a lady.

Sketches is getting a little neglected there huh? I'm going to have to do something about that.

Next time: The greatest anime that you've never seen, Gurren Lagann.

-But for good reason. Getting active again here is proving to be tough, the least of reasons being the aftermath of moving everything from having that carpet redone. I got a job very recently, so adjusting to that has been a bit tougher than I thought, time-wise. I've also attached myself to a couple of projects, none of which I can mention just yet.

I'm trying to get myself back in the swing of things, comic-wise, but it's tough. I have a ton of pages just sitting on my hard drive waiting to be processed, it's quite daunting. Eventually though, once I get a rhythm going.

I did put up a new image though, it's the least I could do ;) . What it is and what it's for though, that'll have to wait a good while. Now that I'm back, expect updates to happen every week or so for now, at the very least a post.

Next time: Pokemon madness grips me, kenichi, and whatever else I can think up.

...theres been ALOT of things going on these past two weeks, preventing me from doing pretty much anything. I went to AX for the full 4 days. I enjoyed myself, but last year was better I think. Most of the merchandise in the dealer's hall was from last year, what's with that!? Also, the SOS brigade concert was sadly a failure. It wasn't the ladies fault, there was just too many technical problems and screw ups, and they tried to do things and force banter that really didn't go well.

On the other hand I went to the Oreskaband concert (they did a Naruto and a Bleach ending song, in case you're not sure who they are). THAT was crazy awesome, I'm so glad I went. BTW if anyone knows where I can get that shirt the staff for them was wearing, I'd be SO happy. (It's black with their giant skull logo on front, and it's a long long shirt with their name in japanese on the bottom-back in white letters)

So that was 4 days, what about the rest of the time? Well, one week I was with family I don't get to see very often (ie every few years). The other week, well, we decided to redo the carpet upstairs, so I have to empty the room, and since it's empty, we decided to repaint it as well. So that's what I've been up to. Fun stuff, huh. The good news is in about a week I'll be free again to draw stuff. The bad news is you have to wait that week. It also set my schedule for getting things done about 3 weeks back. But stay strong, hang in there, stuff will come eventually.

Remeber Portals is still on hiatus. And remember that thing about new site stuff in the meantime? It's still coming too. I do however have a new color piece for you over in works. I'm actually looking into some page designs right now for kadart, seeing what I can do. I especially want to redo the ugly "other art" page, and pretty up the comics page a bit. I'll keep you all updated as I progress on what I'm doing.

I'm not quite dead yet.

No, I haven't actually been typing anything here for like what, two months?  No, really, I haven't been.  I've been busy, working on my ability to do other things than work.

It's almost been a year since we really started working on this site, and it's been a year since I really thought I'd try.  How do I know this?  Because today is actually my birthday.

That's right, I'm now an year older, and soon enough, so will this website.  I'm almost honestly surprised that the venture actually lasted more than a year and became somewhat fruitful for the great diety on my left, Kris.

This website however never went up until after October, which is why you guys missed out on some great times long ago, with the first comic I ever made...and it might explain a few things in the other comics too.

Since they are already printed, and they are still relevant, I put one of the birthday comics up just now. So enjoy.  There are a few major points that are different this year compared to the comic: 1) the year is 2007, 2) I now sit in front of my computer at work instead of home, 3) I now get messages from GTalk instead of AIM.
Other than that, this year is pretty much exactly the same.  Even where I only got 2 messages (except for  grand-exahaulted Kuumalin, Kris, who pretty much found out it was my birthday from posting here.) and watched anime with lots of Ojeosina.

Anyway, I'm off to "celebrate" my birthday, as always.
This post isn't long.  Oh well.
I should totally

This site has now reached the end of Portals book 1.
It's pretty amazing I think.  Even though this is not the end of anything, it still feels like the exhaulted leader reached the end of something.  And I haven't seen too many things through to the end in a while, so I think it's pretty cool that he got something that he wanted done.

Meanwhile I have my own set of concerning concernment.  And as such I haven't been around to comment too much on things which randomly occur to me and make me believe I have something to comment upon.  And you will probably not see me again for a while...maybe a comic or so in the next century?
What? That's too long?

I admit I haven't exactly been an explosion of activity lately and it's not like I have been working on something awesome behind the scenes in some crazy nefarious plan to take over the world which involves a giant gun the size of Texas in New Mexico capable of shooting down satellites from Major League Baseball.
I haven't.  Honest.

I could tell what I have been doing for the last couple weeks, but in a way, it's a secret that's not yet ready to be sprung anywhere or at anytime soon.  It hasn't even gotten my full attention yet, but I guess I'm working up to it soon, along with other things that require my parallel attention. And hopefully another milestone shall be crossed and I can have this happy feeling of accomplishment again.

Or maybe I should go level my char.
Well, I look forward to the fruits of work again.

Bear is driving site! How can that be?

Today, and by today, I mean yesterday, and by yesterday I mean yesterday at midnight, the site went down and anyone trying to read or access the site was greeted with an application error.

That, as you might be able to see by using your non-super human powers of non x-ray vision, I have solved the fit, and everything should now be in perfect working order.

As opposed to the man on my left side, I really am pretty much dead.  Don't worry; Phoenix Warrior Rika will revive to defeat the evil bad dude...that has no name I can think of.  Even Rika is kind of a "Oh, that sounds good" kind of name, so I don't think that will stick.  And no, this has nothing to do with the infinite infinities definitely being infinite, unless later I just 'accidentally' merge the two, a stage that gets closer and closer in my mind every night.
Mind you, I haven't written anything down in a while. Rika might be some other name completely by the time i get home.

A major holiday going by without a comic from me? This is madness.  It isn't sparta though.  If you'll noticed, there hasn't been a comic from me since april, and that's completely the fault of me and the lack of other people.  I've thought of a few comic ideas I can put up (if I actually drew them of course), but instead I have been using my time doing things that either I shouldn't be doing, aren't productive, or things that other people should at least help with.  I don't have any real obligation to do most of the things I have been doing, except maybe to get my hard drive to back to floating above 20GB just because.  I wish my commitment to a goal was always as strong as it has been for the last couple of goals; despite the lack of help, I've been making process in my own way, and producing results past my own reasonable limits.
Just imagine, if I could dedicate myself to drawing some comics like that or if I wrote a story like that.  It wouldn't be really high quality stuff, but I mean, you would see pages and pages of stuff every couple of days instead of one or two things every month or so.  Imagine that.   It's craziness in my own mind, but if I could do that consistently, I would feel pretty good.  But, then again, I'd probably burn out in a few weeks.

Well, in the end, I don't really have that much to say.  I'd like to tell you about a conversation I had with someone I know...Maybe later once I get it all down.

The title does mean something, and I am at liberty to tell you about what it means, but I don't think it will mean anything to anyone else except for me, so I think I will refrain from speaking about it for now.
Just know that the number of infinities is now definitely infinity.  Or more.  It's just that way.

I will tell you something new did happen this week though: There is now more music in my life.  I have been telling his Eminence, Kris, about something I received this weekend (from my mom, which is odd, since it was Mother's Day, and I'm supposed to give more than I receive -- sad how that works out) which provided much entertainment to me for a few hours just looking at it.
I have in my possession what seems to be the most desperate fake of an iPod I have ever seen in my life.  That is, it looks like an iPod Shuffle, in size, shape and color, like many copycats do.  However, this one comes in a box designed to look like an iPod Shuffle box.  I mean, if you took a look at it from about 50 feet away, you might not be able to tell the difference except that there are noticeably less words on this box than the iPod.
Just looking at it makes me smile.
But, perhaps the best part is that it is a, albeit really low Memory version, MP3 player; not something that I've had the pleasure of enjoying before.
So, today, and probably it will be today only, I walked home to the background music of Metal Gear Solid 3's main theme.  I think it was the most awesome walking home I've ever had.  I almost thought I was sneaking around, just by listening to that music.  It was pretty cool when the music changed to mimic what I was doing...and then I started changing what I was doing to the music changes.

Life + Music is awesome.

Anyway, I'll see you later.  Enjoy Portals 17