I celebrated Christmas the way most people do-- drinking various alcohols, eating inordinate amounts of potatoes, playing ping-pong (with an automatic game-win clause if you manage to hit the ball into the fish tank), and watching videos of turtle sex.

(Also, the New Year has yet to come, but I have already resolved to stop posting about animal genitalia and/or sex, or at least to not mention it for the next couple entries. I think I've crossed some sort of line.)

Also! I was going to bed, and I said, "My God, Thorne, you didn't make a lol-Pope for this year, go back to your computer and do so immediately." To which I replied to myself, "Fuck off, I'm tired and I ate too many potatoes." To which I immediately countered with, "You can't not do a lol-Pope when some crazy chick took down the pope like a professional rugby player, Thorne. It would go against all your principles."

What really impressed me, (and which also seems to have impressed all the news outlets relating this story) is that this isn't even the first time this woman has tried to tackle the pope. Apparently she had a go at it last year, failed, refined her strategy, and then executed it with better success. That takes effort! In the face of such dedication, I decided I had to at least make a half-assed attempt.

( Also, just in case I do have to say it, that was totally not me who tackled the pope. )

At any rate, I hope everyone had a wonderful day regardless of religious belief or celebratory habit, and that you all are now sleeping off your food-comas and hangovers, or having a good time with loved ones, or reading your Yuletide stories, and are not currently on fire or in jail. That's really all we can ask for in a holiday, and I hope it holds true for y'all.

Head Trip - Christmas Fan Service

I'm in Memphis visiting family! Flew in this morning to surprise them. I'll be back Saturday but due to... a surprise emergency involving my apartment Monday's comic might be a bit delayed. But I've already got it sketched up so even on Christmas I'm not slackin' off. ;)

Have a good holiday, you guys.

~Shinga

I was really looking forward to that, too.

Pictures beneath cut. velithya's long-overdue wedding present, the coolest earrings ever, one more picture of Aramis in kaitou1412's beautiful knitted scarf, a pillow I made for my mother in a pattern I am never, ever, ever stitching again, and two bizarre cross-stitch patterns.

( I really need to learn how to use my new camera )

Head Trip - Meanwhile, Back in Memphis... pt 3

This about wraps up the 'catching up' comics for now.

2009 has not been an entirely kind year to me and my family. ;)

(How the hell did I manage to post this twice... but the first post only being half done...)

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

Since I got the permission to post it...

(  This is my way to say  )

Enjoy these days with your family, and let's happily wait for the next news for the new year. LOVES

The Great Czech Invasion has commenced, after an initial delay of them being rerouted to Detroit after we had two feet of snow dumped on our area. Of the three of them (and their two cats), there's one and a half English speakers, and of the six of my family, there's... well, half a Czech speaker, with maybe an extra fourth thrown in if you want to be really generous and include profanity and various beer brands in with the basic vocabulary knowledge.

No-one has been accidentally called a goatsucker yet. Give it time.

I am glad to see all of them, but guests do stress me out, because then I have to pretend to be a normal person who works and sleeps normal hours, and eats normal meals, and has normal habits, and in general does not give the impression of being raised by wolves. Like I do. A scene from this morning, for your pleasure.

( Heart-warming holiday traditions-- now with 40% more weird animal dongs! )

I must go. The Czechs have broken out the Becherovka.

French knots? In metallic thread?

ROFLcopter with LMAOsauce.

Tomorrow walk to bead store, get gold micro seed beads. >.>

A winner is me. I knew getting the assorted micro bead pack was the right move.

It's me the only one who can't believe that actually, 358/2 days was nominated for A LOT of awards this year?
Honestly? BEST STORY/WRITING? wtf


In other hand, thanks for your report, maiki .  Can't wait to see Braig (And I don't know why he's calling my attention xD) a-and chibi!Riku ~ ♥ ♥
I really have faith on this new game (KH: BbS)


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Nerdiness turns women off to computer science

*sigh* If anyone needs me, I'll be stacking up piles of archers in Assassin's Creed 2.

Game: "Did you want mission to go kill archers?!"
Me: I need a mission?

Head Trip - Meanwhile, Back in Memphis... pt 1

If it's a 404 when you click on that, give it a bit. Eventually it will work. Have patience, grasshopper.

OMG. Happy Holidays People!

Terra, Ventus & Aqua - The new happy family of the KH world. LOL, Terra's face was scary ~

Vacations started a few days ago. So, now I'm focused on doing my own things, and hoping to find a job. But, more than anything, I'm waiting for the next Kingdom Hearts game (and I'm pretty sure this one will be good), Christmas and friends.

I have a question for you all.
Does anybody of you know something about CSS? I recently changed my layout, and I don't know why the entries seems... non-aligned? Can I ask for some help?

Thank you : D

I really didn't care much about the new Alice in Wonderland movie.

Until the new trailer here, exactly 1:15 in.

I am a sucker for a girl in a suit of armor.

I will probably not play your game if the cover looks like this. I will seriously consider playing your game if the cover looks like this. (Neither of those are certain final concept, but you get the idea.)

I am increasingly leery of any game that shows up without any kind of concept art or some simplified teaser imagery that captures the mood and tone of the game. Give me none of this, and I can only assume nobody thought about the mood or tone of the game. Or that the visual lack of cohesion mirrors a narrative lack of cohesion.

It's not like Katamari Damacy is a great game because of the wicked cool concept art, but there's a good chance that if there is thought going into it there, that will translate into a decent gaming experience.

Basically, it's the video game version of this:

Today is eramundo's birthday! Huzzah! Lunar continues to be pretty much my shining beacon of Adult Maturity and Competence I Hope To Someday Attain. She is a wonderful hostess, and I was terribly grateful for her presence in Boston, not the least of which was she kept flidgetjerome and twigcollins mostly in check, and did not allow them to parade about with bags of doll eyes and other terrifying things. Also, she was generous enough to give me webspace, which I should really do something with, as I'm not sure my old Geocities site is still even up.

I hope you have a wonderful year, Lunar. You deserve glories untold.

There's a bunch of memes I've collected and half-filled out, but right now I am mostly panicking over the fact we're going to be invaded by Czech relatives in less than a week, in a sort of inverse of my previous experience with wacky Czech hijinks. So, I'm going to dump a bunch of links and save the real journaling for later.

( It's a link post, Charlie Brown. )

Also, why hasn't anyone invented a Wookie-shaped cookie jar that does the Chewbacca roar when you open it to take a cookie out? A quick google does not seem to produce such a product. I would buy one of those. I would buy five.

The current cover of Newsweek: "Why We Can't Look Away" Giant picture of Tiger Woods.

Because manufacturing news is easier than reporting it?

The Doom Song.

I'm posting the Star Wars v. Hamlet bits of the paper o' doom. The rest of it is a bit of a repeat of stuff I've written about before, plus I don't think LJ can handle that much horrible wank at once.

Two points I want to mention about that I didn't put in the paper because I didn't think they'd particularly fit but are important when acknowledging the pure craptacular beauty of George Lucas' 'vision.'

1. Which character was the first one to suggest giving Palpatine more unilateral power, eventually leading to the disbanding of the Senate, the creation of the Death Star and the destruction of Alderaan? Who said the words? Oh yes, that's right. Jar Jar. Jar Jar is not only the single worst character ever created, he is responsible for the deaths of billions.

2. A starship is carrying a man at 20,000 parsecs per hour. This man says he has the secret to stopping death. He has nine apples. You are in an X-wing traveling at 5,000 parsecs per hour. You have four oranges. If you discover that this man is a SITH LORD, what are the odds he is lying to you entirely for his own gain?

I'd be a little more ashamed of the amount of seething rage I still have for this entire business, but writers are still gleefully making all the horrible mistakes I saw in those movies, and more importantly, they took in some combined total of about a billion trillion dollars, while Firefly lasted a single season.

So, the rage. It is soothing.

( Alas, poor Anakin )