Untitled Blog Post

Sometimes I get so wrapped up in making a title for these blog posts that I don't even feel like writing the damn thing so today that's the best I can do. I've had a throbbing headache all day that has put me in kind of a weird mood so excuse the mess of words that's about to spew forth.

Been really busy both with work and non-work related things. I lost about a week and a half of my life to two very addictive video games. The first of which is called Dragon Age: Origins, a RPG (Role Playing Game) that's sort of a Lord of The Rings type deal but far more interesting,  in my opinion. Then I played Mass Effect 2, another sort of RPG but set in space and with a high focus on 3rd person shooting. That game was amazing and I HIGHLY recommend getting the first one playing it to completion and then playing the second. What makes the game so cool is that every little decision you make effects the future installments of the game. The ending of this most recent endeavor set up some huge potential plot points for the third, and final, game.

I've also been lettering a lot lately, which is always a good thing. First I worked on my graphic novel (currently undergoing a possible title change) which has 45 penciled pages, another 43 pencils on the way and is hopefully going to be colored soon. I've been lettering the pencil pages as they come in, to provide myself with plenty of time to make any changes to dialogue or story elements. In fact, here are some pages from that:

Next my good friend Charles Soule (who you can find on http://charlessoule.wordpress.com/) sent me a batch of pages for his next graphic novel a book called, 27. This is one of the best books I've ever worked on, the art is amazing and the story is so brilliant that I'll be shocked if this isn't picked up and turned into a film almost immediately. Can't wait to be able to share some pages from that book with you, maybe later in the week Charles will let me post some of those pages.

I also lettered the first issue of  "Neverland" this week for Zenescope. This is a particularly exciting project for two reasons: 1) I've long been a fan of Zenescope's "Grimm Fairy Tales" series, in which they tale classic fairy tales a put a dark, sometimes sexual spin on them. The series is very dark and usually has a cool Tales From The Crypt-like twist at the end of each story arc. 2) I am a HUGE Peter Pan fan. Other than "Alice in Wonderland”, J.M. Barrie’s tale of never growing up is my all time favorite classic. So to work on a book that plays within that mythology is a huge geek moment for me. I believe Zenescope has a preview issue already available somewhere (although I didn’t letter that I am on board to letter the series), you should try and find a copy before issue one debuts.

My other obsession this week is, of course, LOST. We’re in the final season of this amazing show and I have a million and one theories running around my head, unfortunately (or fortunately) for you I’m NOT going to be sharing them here. The internet is full of amazing places to read about LOST (in fact, my favorite blog is Brian’s Lost and Gone Forever which I DEMAND you visit right away!!!) and I don’t think it’s where I should be focusing my time. I could literally write all day about LOST and I fear once I start I won’t stop. So in an effort to keep this blog about ALL things Shawn and not just Shawn Loves Lost, I’ll be keeping my insane Lost rant to myself until the final episode has aired. I imagine then I’ll have a lot to say and I’ll take up a full post dedicated solely to that.

What else?

Oh, a few plugs:

1. A good friend of my, Brian Hoffman, has started a website called Eat This New York where he started out blogging about food he had eaten around the city but recently introduced, what I assume is an ongoing, video-blog. The video is hilarious and entertaining and will make you really hungry for pizza. I would post the video here but I want you to see his site and maybe click on some ads and help the guy out so please visit the link for the video.

2. Another friend, this is a guy I’ve know for a much shorter period of time but I respect his work a whole hell of a lot, Victor Quinaz, is very busy. He’s writing  what i believe will be the one of the most fun graphic novels you’ve ever read and also directing and producing a series of parody videos that I am LOVING. The whole premise is MTV’s the Hills but set during the time of the Pilgrims. Great stuff.  The first video, “Pilgrims” you can see below. The second video titled, “Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome” is already getting buzz from places like NY magazine’s Vulture and can be seen either on the Vulture site or on Victor’s Youtube: HERE

 

Okay that’s all for now. My headache has actually gone away a bit and I wonder if i just needed to write for a while. Sometimes i think too many thoughts get back up in my brain and even though I do talk a lot, sometimes some shit just needs to be written out.

I guess that’s why I’m a writer. Weeeeeee!

48 Random Questions

Found originally via http://jrsblahg.blogspot.com/

I saw this on the site listed above and since I spent most of today away from my computer I figured I’d answer these questions and post this bad-boy as today’s blog post. So without further ado I present:

48 Random Questions

1) Who is your favorite television celebrity from the days of Black and White?
               Lucille Ball. That’s a no-brainer.
2) What is your favorite volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica?
              M because it was the thickest.
3) If your life was a reality show, what would it be titled?
              Hollywood is Sad
4) What Biblical character would you be? 
              John The baptist because that’s the part I played in Godspell at Frenchwoods Summer
5) What is your favorite minority holiday?
               Passover
6) If you were a totem pole what animal would you be and where would you be positioned?
               Monkey in the middle.
7) Curtains or blinds? 
               Curtains, black-out curtains
8) What comes to mind when you smell dirty socks? 
                 That it’s well past time to do my laundry.
9) If you could choose any celebrity to be your roommate who would you choose? 
                Kevin Smith because we both like comics and movies and are kinda lazy
10) You invent a smoothie. What is in it? 
                Peanut Butter, banana, and chocolate. (you didn’t say it had to be healthy) 
11) If you were part of a balcony would you be the railing or the lounge chair? 
                This question is retarded. The railing cause who wants a bunch of ass on you all day?
12) If you could only use one cooking utensil for the rest of your life which utensil would it be? 
                Tongs.
13) What is the most ridiculous dance craze you've ever been a part of? 
                The Electric Slide or the “Shark-Dance” 
14) If you could name a hockey team what would you name it? 
                 The Texas Melters.
15) What's one invention you can't believe we didn't have until after landing a man on the moon?
                The internet.
16) What is the funniest pattern for a button up tourist shirt? 
                Dead babies.
17) If the world were backwards and animals owned humans, what kind of animal would you want to be your master? 
             Monkey.
18) If teleportation was possible to where would you most often teleport? 
              Megan Fox’s Shower.
19) What five items are a necessity in your hurricane survival kit?
              Water, a bong, weed, tissue (I blow my nose a lot) machete.
20) If your finger could dispense one condiment what condiment would you dispense? 
              Honey Mustard 
21) What is your ideal cracker flavor? 
               is Ritz a flavor? 
22) If you suddenly had wheels for feet what is the first thing you would do?
               scream, “What the fuck happened to my feet??”
23) One celebrity who is famous for a reason I still haven't discovered is Everyone on the Hills.
24) What is your favorite 1980's cartoon? 
                Super Friends 
25) What was your favorite after school show? 
                Tiny Tunes and Animaniacs.
26) What do you believe a training bra is training for? 
                This is stupid. Next question. 
27) If you could put a zipper on any article of clothing what article would you choose?
                 NEXT!
28) If you could scream anything at a bad driver what would it be? 
                 What do you mean “if”? (the answer is Fuck-Nozzle) 
29) What's your favorite animal that often appears in Native American folklore? 
                   Coyote.
30) If you could only use floor lamps for lighting your home for the rest of your life, how tall would you like the lamp to be? 
                   Six foot.
31) If you owned a cereal company what current cereal would you purchase to sell as your own?
                   Cheerios.
32) Money is no longer an object for you. What country do you buy? 
                   Jamaica.
33) If you could shrink any person and carry them in your pocket who would you shrink?
                   A hooker.
34) If people's knees bent the other direction what design would you give to chairs? 
               Who came up with these questions and how can I punch them?
35) You've been assigned to clean up an abandoned landfill. What's the first thing you do? 
                  Fill it in with concrete 
36) If you could make a pillow out of any material what would you choose? 
                   Boobs.
37) If you started your own airline what would you name it?
                   Sedation Air
38) To what one city would your airline refuse to fly? 
                   Miami 
39) If flowers weren't the norm for romanticism what item would you choose to symbolize love? 
                   Tacos.
40) How much midriff is too much? 
                   I’m keeping the answer answer the last guy wrote: “Depends on the midriff”
41) If money didn't exist what would you use for currency? 
                    Body Hair because I’d always have some.
42) If you were stuck on a bus with the Brady Bunch and they insisted on singing and taking requests what song would you request in hopes that it would be so good they couldn't follow their own act and would stop singing. 
                Come On Get Happy 
43) If male and female weren't the only two sexes what would you call the third and what would make them different?
                    Michael Jackson. (Oooooh BURN!)
44) You invent a new shape. What do you call it? 
                     Pee-poo Jim-Jam.
45) If your life mirrored that of "Friends" which recurring character would you want to show up for sweeps week? 
                      The hanukkah armadillo.
46) If you could eat at any television eatery which one would it be? 
                     Monk’s Cafe (cue Seinfeld music) 
47) If you could change your name to anything, to what would you change it?
                       Cletus.
48) If you could change any past decision in your life would you? 
                         Nah, that’s how paradox’s start…

Merry Christmas To All...Unless You Don't Celebrate Christmas.

The holidays are kind of boring, especially the ones you do not celebrate. Sure, if you get to open present then Christmas morning is the tits but if Christmas is just another day then it's the pits. The same can be said of Easter, another boring day for anyone not searching for eggs, but to a lesser degree.
Christmas is the worst because EVERYTHING is closed. It's not just the Postal Workers and Bank Tellers that inconvenience the rest of us by taking the day off, it's every-fucking-body. I mean, even WAL-MART is closed today. WAL-MART?!
The only places, that I can think of, that are open on Christmas Day are: gas stations, Asian cuisine restaurants and movie theaters. That doesn't leave a lot of options for the non-Christians that are excluded from a day of unwrapping and playing with new toys and gadgets.
Everyone likes to go to the movies, that's part of the problem for me. I live in a Jew-heavy town, which means the movie theater is fucking crowded on Christmas Day. This is made even worse by the Christian families, with nothing left to say to each other (even though this is probably the one time of year they're ALL together), that show up in large parties for a Christmas Day matinee. Honestly I don't think you should be allowed to go to the movies if you're not a Jew or non-practicing Christian, it's the one day of the year where the theaters are crowded enough with people that have, literally, NOTHING ELSE TO DO. Christians should stay home and play with their new toys or stare at the their Tree, or drink eggnog and sing song or whatever. Fuck, there's enough Christmas themed programming on TV and radio that any TRUE Christ-Worshiping person SHOULD have a full schedule on the BIG DAY.
I forgot, there are a few Jewish Deli's in my area that were opened today as well but as you can imagine they were crowded by 9am and stayed that way throughout the day. I got lucky this morning and made it to breakfast before the crowd arrived but as I was paying my bill I could see a line of SUV's pulling into the parking lot.
Needless to say, today was pretty boring for me. I ate breakfast, as I mentioned and then a few hours later (after killing some time visiting my Grandma in the hospital) I ordered Chinese with my sisters and then sat down to watch some movies (Pineapple Express and Kung-Fu Panda). It was a boring day that has now settled into a boring night (I've decided, barring some unforeseen cool event to attend, that I will spend the rest of the evening in bed writing and watching DVR'd TV shows that I've had sitting on my machine for some time now).

In other news, Eartha Kitt (one of three Catwomen in the cheesy 60's BATMAN series) died today. Other than playing Catwoman for a short stint she's the singer of one of my favorite Christmas songs, "Santa Baby". She was also in one of my favorite films by another dead superstar, "Ernest Scared Stupid", starring Jim Varney. RIP guys.


This blog was really more of a test than anything else. I've recently linked my facebook and blogger accounts to auto-sync. I'm hoping when I publish this post it'll automatically show up on my Facebook notes. We'll see. Keep you fingers crossed for me.