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The really funny thing is that I have never written anything about Burning Man – but I did once use the phrase “hunka hunka burning man rage” in an angry misogyny related post…I guess I’ll have to be more careful with my phrasing…

  

Hello all…a little warning here, this comic and several this week are possibly NSFW…so scroll with caution…

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I’m doing a series of these this week, and I have to say, they’re some of my favorite comics yet, so I hope you’ll enjoy them, even if they are slightly NSFW…in a cartoony way.  Also, big news, Friday will be the long awaited premiere of Adam’s guest strip for Rabid Lamb Comics…I’m so excited, as it’s just really really beautiful.  He did a great job…it will debut Friday as Rabid Lamb Comic #97.

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Despite the fact that sitting in my house, in front of my computer, in my comfy aeron chair, with a coffee or tea is one of my favorite places on earth to be, it seems to be almost impossible to go home and do this after spending nine or ten hours doing it at the office.  I guess this is why I so often end up on the couch watching Law & Order reruns or bad reality tv. 

I’ve made some really serious goals for myself though for the next couple months.  It will mean a lot of hard work and a very tiny amount of fun and “relaxation” but I hope to have some real progress and close out some projects.  Wish me luck.

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It’s true.  Two crazy and semi-awesome things happened to Adam and I when we were out and about in the city a couple months ago, and I want to do a comic about it, but it’s just not condusive to a little four page cartoony strip (well, not with my mediocre skills).  I am considering doing and epic-ish “comic page” about it, but still, my skills are so weak, it will be hella difficult to draw.  (Yeah, I’m bringing “hella” back – you gonna start trouble?!).  Anyway, I’ll think about it…

Heads Up:  I’m going out of town this afternoon for work and probably won’t have access to a computer tomorrow while I’m away, but dedicated that I am, I still have a comic for Friday, but it’s just going to post later this afternoon…

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This is a great little new show.  You may have seen an ad for it in an actual theater – which is where Adam and I first heard about it, and marks maybe the first time ever that I wasn’t pissed to be watching an ad in a theater.  It is a good show, but there are some problems, it can get a little repetitive and neither Adam or I like the opening.  

Eugene Cussons, the “host” I guess is what you’d call him, is charming, without being overly nice and sweet and “perform-y” for the camera, and sometimes you can see that other than saving chimps for a living he might kind of be a dick…which oddly, makes me like him more, if only because he seems more real.  He’s got a great foreign accent (South African? I’m not sure) but that also makes me like him more…I’m a sucker for a British-like accents.  The real stars of course are the chimps which are insanely cute and human-like, especially the young ones, which tend to be less scarred and traumatized and more interested in just hanging out with Eugene and being adorable and climbing trees. 

The show consists of three primary elements – Eugene finding and rescuing chimps that are being mistreated, or that have been stolen, or are scheduled for termination (etc.); dealing with the frustrating details of the respective governments and travel and the myriad of other obstacles that get put in his way; and Chimp Eden itself, which is primarily a beautiful fenced in reserve where he can rehabilitate the chimps.  My favorite bits are of course at Chimp Eden, if only because it seems less sad and more sweet and optimistic than seeing how badly many of these animals are treated, however the show can turn on a dime.  Last week as Jao, a big “grandfather chimp” in “The Kindergarden” (he’s in with the young chimps because he is too aggressive to be in with the adults) all of a sudden tried to yank off Eugene’s boot – pulling him out of a tree – and almost taking his foot off.  They constantly remind you on the show that the chimps are ten times stronger than a human, but man is it easy to forget.  Eugene kept his foot (and his boot) in the end, but it was really intense.   

Escape To Chimp Eden is on Friday’s at 9pm on Animal Planet, although you can catch repeats all the time as well. 

You can learn more about the show here and can also check out a clip on youtube here, it’s not the greatest clip, not the one I would choose, but the best one I could find today. 

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This movie had plotholes big enough to drive mack trucks through them, but it was really the lights issue that bothered me most.  They’re hiding out in an attic for a long time (like weeks – though we get no sense that it has been that long) and the entire freaking time they have the lights on…if you are hiding from vampires – vampires that have been portrayed as the ultimate hunters and badasses no less – would you really keep the attic lights on for two plus weeks, and keep peeking out of a pulled back piece of kraft paper taped over a window?  No, you would not.  Also, these vampires are so smart…why did they not cut off the back-up/generator power to the town after the cut the regular power.  And does back-up/generator power really power an entire town for 30 days?  It was very frustating for me. 

Even though the movie was chock full of holes in logic, it was quite pretty, from Josh Hartnett right on down to the images of bloody massacre on snow (I know that doesn’t really sound beautiful – but from an artistic perspective it was kind of stunning).  Overall it was a very pretty movie, and since I’m a scaredy cat there were times that I was into it and scared, but it was pretty disappointing – mostly because it could have been SO awesome – and it just fell really really short.  It’s probably 2 1/2 stars for me, which means I have to pick between 2 stars and 3 stars on netflix.  Ah, the half star conundrum continues…

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Does this happen to anyone else?  This weekend was a perfect example.  I had cleared a lot of time for writing (and drawing) but I wanted to focus mostly on writing and specifically on some short stories that are on the brink of being ready for submission, yet I really only managed to write for a couple hours on Sunday night.  Why oh why does this happen?  It is SO frustrating.  I literally fantisize about how awesome it is going to be to be home and writing when I am at work or doing anything else, but when the time comes things always get in my way, and sometimes I even seem to put things there.  Very frustrating.

Panel #4’s text is a shout out to Adam. I think we all hate it when cop shows have some crappy grainy footage which they are magically able to “enhance” to see someone’s face, or on this specific show I was watching, it was a cop’s badge number, but Adam hates it more than anyone.  A show I was watching recently got a cop’s badge number off some grainy two seconds of footage.  Literally the line as the actor left the “lab tech techy” was “Increase the resolution, do whatever you have to do, but get me that badge number!”  Seriously?  When will this stop?  Are the writers the ones that are so stupid?  Producers?  How does this happen when most of the semi-tech savy world knows shit like this is impossible?

Anyone watch the Oscars?  My man Jon Stewart was great as always, and some well deserved wins with some nice surprises mixed in there.  Here’s a list of the nominees and winners in case you missed out and are curious.

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Yeah. Questions? Comments? Knock yourselves out…I’ll just be lying over here dead…

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If any of you reading here recommended it you should die.  Just kidding, the film was recommended to me by a pretty wide swath of people and general reviews, so I’m not blaming anyone.  I should have just trusted my instincts, but y’know, sometimes you lose faith in yourself in a little bit and you waver.  This was a nice reminder that I know what I like and I can spot what I’m probably not gonna like with fairly good accuracy.  It didn’t help of course that by the time we watched it, Adam and I were both pretty convinced it was going to be great.  Raised expectations can ruin even a good movie.  Not this one since it’s not a good film, but it didn’t help matters.

As for Gone Baby Gone, that was a good movie.  I really liked Casey Affleck.  I’ve liked him ever since I saw him in Gerry, a film that made many people – including my roommate Kyle that I dragged with me to see it on Valentine’s day years and years ago- want to kill themselves – but I liked it – and I particularly liked Casey Affleck and Matt Damon’s performances in it.  Affleck has a nice very real quality about him that appeals to me and even when he’s doing accents the performance is nice and subtle.  Gone Baby Gone was a pretty tight film and the direction was surprisingly well handed by Ben Affleck.  He’s less distracting behind the camera I have to say, than in front of it.  I had a couple minor problems with the end, but overall it was good. I gave it three netflix stars, but I wanted to give it three and a half.  Damn you Netflix and your inability to let me use half stars…!

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I know, it doesn’t really make sense, but I guess I thought when I got my head together, the rest would follow.  Now, arguably my head is not together just because I’ve been in therapy for a year, but it’s better.  Actually, I’m not really sure it’s better…no fault of the therapist, or me really, 2007 was just a really hard year, and you can’t expect to get better or “together” when all you’re doing is surviving.  Regardless, I continue to hold on to the possibly erroneous belief that getting my head together will be the first step to making the body come along in the direction I want it to.  It would be great if it could start coming along before I go to Hawaii in July…how about that body?  C’mon! 

Sidenote: I think I’m getting sick (again).  Adam has been sick since Saturday night and I’ve been taking care of him.  I thought I dodged it with clever handwashing and taking vitamins and such, but my throat hurts this morning, so all that damn hand washing may have been for naught.  Anyway, I’ve already got a comic scanned and ready for tomorrow, but I haven’t done Friday’s yet, so we may have the first ever Rabid Lamb Comic interruption if I get hit with this thing.  Maybe it would be best if you all mentally prepare yourselves now…I know your day just won’t be right without a morning comic from Rabid Lamb…  :)

Shoutout:  A special shoutout/thank you to Josh, who has been helping both Adam and I whore out our blogs.  The line of widgets you see on the bottom of some of these posts is my blatant attempt to get more traffic…and it’s all thanks to Josh.  Thanks Josh!

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