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Came across this photo yesterday. It is a picture of my mother when she was a little girl, her father, and Robert Wadlow, who is generally considered the tallest man who ever lived. And who apparently also lived near my mother when she was a little girl.

My mother is on the right. Wadlow is in glasses.

Stills swiped from here.

Yesterday we left Indy and his father midway through Act II, at the crossroads of their relationship, and the crossroads of the narrative. Indy's got his father, but he still hasn't achieved his goal -- communication with his father. The chase to the crossroads, while light by Indiana Jones standards, has some lovely character beats as Indy grins about the bad guy's he's foiled and his father looks bored and winds his watch. (Indy "jousts" with one of the bad guys, underscoring the "Indy as modern-day knight" metaphor that will become important later.) And honestly, if you can't engage with your sons during a motorcycle chase with a gaggle of Nazi stooges, it's probably never going to happen. They argue at the crossroads, with Indy's father going so far as to slap him for "blasphemy" when he uses the lord's name in vain.

( Overrun with BLONDES... )

I didn't plan for the blonde thing, but maybe that can be a future theme...hmmm. In other news, I bought myself some Photoplays:

January 1931

February 1936 & November 1936

Yes, I call all old movie magazines "Photoplays." Don't ask why. Joe told me he would buy me some more when he gets back from TN. Is my man the best, or what????

Current Mood:

cheerful

So, in prepping some promotion ideas my buddy moshdaddy suggested I start up blogs on other blog sites and then post a new comic every day to each of those sites (obviously including LJ). He says there are applications that can feed into all those other sites. I'm open to other ideas.
• typepad
• blogger
• movable type
• pownce
• tumblr
• twitter
• vox
• wordpress
• facebook
• myspace

He also suggested that I ask people to start reviewing/listmania/discussion stuff on Amazon. So... if you're inclined... I'd be appreciative.

I'm going to give it a shot. I'm really proud of the Postage Stamp book set. I want it to sell.

Since the opera has finished up I've lacked motivation. A friend once said "a rut is just a deep groove." I hope he was right. I also hope I can get my sorry ass in gear. I'm frustrated with myself and I feel overwhelmed for no good reason.

Was moving around my flower pots to sweep out the dogwood blossoms from this week's storm, and found this Big Brown Bat hiding behind them. He seems to have an injured wing, but I've left him alone for the time being, as he's holed up in an elevated crevice between the house and a fence post. I'll keep an eye on him to see if he requires an intervention. He started to make his way towards the front of the house where the neighbor's cat would surely see him, so I tried to shoo him back the way he came with my gloved hand. He did not take kindly to my advice, and opened his little red maw and let out a piercing screech, which actually startled me (I'd forgotten how vocal they can be). I was reminded of this later in the evening when my friend Bill took me out to an old Quaker meeting hall to identify a plant, and discovered a large pile of bat guano under two noisy bat houses above me in the eaves.

Hope the little fellow can pull through. Bat populations have taken an awful hit recently, you know.

~W

21:41 just made spaguetti carbonara without bacon. um, started crying while cooking wtf. #

22:36 realizes that tomorrow is a new day. decides to enjoy the evening thanks to a talk from her big brother. #

22:37 orders sandals and her school backpack while she is at it. #

00:03 yay. got to say hi to j for a second before he starts the day. :) #

00:38 lol ! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013FCYGE/ref=s9alfla_c3_img7?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1KDZMDZJRVYMNAH4HVY0&pf #

10:56 no. when I said i was done with this weather, I meant it. #

11:00 green machine. and a lot of chix email. *sigh* should have signed up with a different email address. #

11:08 better get a lot done before friday because the weekend is one big social event ! fun ! #

11:10 started reading radical acceptance last night. soooo good. #

11:32 cold. rainy. sniffly. dark. #

13:12 okay, all i want to do is knit and i am not doing it because i have lots of other things to do but i keep obsessing about it ! #

14:37 lunch ! #

14:37 I need my internet to break . :) #

14:46 toxic paint (?) fumes coming from neighbour again. when will it end. headache. #

15:27 I think J packed my favorite pair of jeans as his. He needs to stop getting in my pants, lol. #

16:51 it's yoga time people, yoga time ! #

16:52 and then there is this weirdness: tinyurl.com/6c3fv5 #

17:50 i have to go to the grocery store but oh it's so yucky out there. #

 It turns out there was an outage in my part of Brooklyn that Time Warner claimed to know nothing about.  How reassuring...I did get them to credit my account for $8--I'll try not to spend it in one place.

I called my landlady from work a few hours ago to see if she would be home tomorrow night because I had a Technician scheduled for a visit.  I'm a relic, when it comes to TV--I still use rabbit ears--I won't get cable until I absolutely have to in 2009--that's also when I'll treat myself to a sleek state-of-the-art flat-screen TV--mine is a gigantic relic with, **gasp** a picture tube!

I must go now.  I have lots of Web sites to update and stories to send to Editors.  I just wanted to let you know I'm not dead...

Current Mood:

relieved

21:41 just made spaguetti carbonara without bacon. um, started crying while cooking wtf. #

22:36 realizes that tomorrow is a new day. decides to enjoy the evening thanks to a talk from her big brother. #

22:37 orders sandals and her school backpack while she is at it. #

00:03 yay. got to say hi to j for a second before he starts the day. :) #

00:38 lol ! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013FCYGE/ref=s9alfla_c3_img7?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1KDZMDZJRVYMNAH4HVY0&pf #

10:56 no. when I said i was done with this weather, I meant it. #

11:00 green machine. and a lot of chix email. *sigh* should have signed up with a different email address. #

11:08 better get a lot done before friday because the weekend is one big social event ! fun ! #

11:10 started reading radical acceptance last night. soooo good. #

11:32 cold. rainy. sniffly. dark. #

13:12 okay, all i want to do is knit and i am not doing it because i have lots of other things to do but i keep obsessing about it ! #

14:37 lunch ! #

14:37 I need my internet to break . :) #

14:46 toxic paint (?) fumes coming from neighbour again. when will it end. headache. #

15:27 I think J packed my favorite pair of jeans as his. He needs to stop getting in my pants, lol. #

Meanwhile, concerning the loan request mentioned earlier, if there are people interested in investing smaller amounts (technically, this is a note of hand, not an investment in the business, as it is unsecured), say 3-10k, let us know at the email addresses mentioned in the earlier post.

In other news, I’m working on chapter 10 of Iorich, and I think it’s going pretty well.

(Originally posted at Words Words Words by skzb. Please leave any comments there.)

'Twas a good cycling day today.

In reverse chronological order:

Limo line.

St. Lawrence.

Deadly machines.

Tunnel & mural.

Chinatown mural.

I'm starting my promotion campaign
• I'm designing several banners (feel free to use 'em)
• I'm going to start up new blogs on the other various blogging sites and use a blog ap to put a new Postage Stamp cartoon every day
• Create a PDF of the adult postage book and give it out to anyone who pre-orders the book set
• send out PDFs of the books to bloggers and reviewers
• start up a webpage specifically for the PSF (wordpress? is it good?)

Any other ideas? I'm open.

Here's the link for Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Postage-Stamp-Funnies-Shannon-Wheeler/dp/1593079834/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207687179&sr=1-1

I am fairly new at this knitting thing ( well, I learned like 2 years ago but I pick it up sporadically) and Ive endeavoured to make yet another scarf. This one is striped and uses three colors but I don't understand the beginning instructions.

It says :
Row 1:
Knit first stitch through back loop ( knit 2 purl 2) across row until 3 stitches remain, knit 2, bring yarn to front of work and slip last stitch purlwise.
Row 2 : same thing.
Repeat rows 1 and 2 for pattern and at the same time keep this color sequence:
row 1-20:color a
row 21-22:color
etc...

So... What does knit first stitch through back loop mean and I don't understand. Am I knitting with both colors. Which color do I cast on with ?

If someone could direct me to a video guide on this that would rock. I am much better at learning by watching. Something with pictures would work too.
I just doesn't seem that complicated when I look at the scarf so I think there is something I am not understanding in the wording here.

Thanks so much ~!

And look how much I love it!

Incidentally, Roger sells his original art at absurdly cheap prices, if you'd like Doctor Who comics of your very own--or any of his other work, including his wonderful strip Fred the Clown. He's also drawn Fin Fang Foom and stuff.

WHAT DOES THE PROTAGONIST WANT? Indiana Jones, although still interested in historic artifacts, is here interested in a goal less tangible and harder to gain than a Peruvian idol or Sankara Stone -- communication with his father.

The structure of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is quite a bit more conventional than the structures of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom -- those movies had four acts of roughly equal length, with three chapters in each act, for a total of twelve chapters. I find Last Crusade to be more conventionally structured, a straight-ahead three-act narrative with a prelude.

( My soul is prepared -- how's yours? )