(This week's Thought of the Week comes to you via rb's Twitter)

“Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.”

– Dr Wayne Dyer

Are you looking for the perfect Christmas gift for someone you want to confuse with about 300 mixed signals?

The second Softer World book is here. It is called Second Best isn't so Bad and you can buy it right now if you like! 244 full colour pages (even the black and white images are printed in glorious full colour, for no reason at all! We are all about excess.) and at the end of the book there's a collection of the original black and white photocopy versions of A Softer World that we made in an all night copy shop with a stack of photos and an old typewriter. This section is called "Not bad for a first try."

Also, the first Softer World book, Truth and Beauty Bombs is up for sale on the Topatoco site as well! Buy them separate, or together for a discount! What kind of crazy world is this!?

(also, we included all the alt texts. How? IT IS A MYSTERY!)

I WILL BE COMPLETELY DISHONEST FOR 24 HOURS... You can ask one question; Any question, no matter how crazy, sinister, lewd or wrong it is. I WILL answer with a lie no matter what and you will have FULL duplicity; So don't ask if you can't handle the deceit.

If you ask, then you must put this in your LJ, lie your pants off, and see what questions you get...

there's a new comic and it's here:

asofterworld.com

AND AND AND !!



Our second collection, A Softer World: Second Best isn't so Bad, is available for purchase! You can also now buy the first collection, or go nuts and get both.

Second Best isn't so Bad is pretty great you guys. We've included all of the alt texts, and there's a special section with some of the first comics Joey and I made, back at the Kinkos in Halifax! It's like a journey into history. Gosh.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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HA HA HA
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OMG
*ack*
*wheez*
HA HA HA HA HA HA
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OMG. OMG.

LOL
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HEE HEE HEE
HEE HOO
OOP

Four pages today; more than usual! Had to bring it to the end of this ominious little scene. As usual I'm struggling to get way way ahead in OoT, so I can tell you that I'm very excited and pleased with the coming section, and the next place we see!

The second short story is nearly paid for! We're at 159 USD as I write this. Thanks everyone! I'm very excited about this -- making more comics and defining more of the area of Overside. At this rate I will hopefully be able to put up the story with Sunday's update. See you!

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Music is a simple joy capable of altering the mood of any who hear it and few songs are more well know in any language that those played around the winter holidays.

In previous years, I've posted YouTube videos and lyrics. This year you get to hear me. I've never had any voice training, to include that I have never been part of a choir or been asked to sing as part of anything other than a group in school plays in first and fourth grade. That being said, here's today's carol: Winter Wonderland - A Capella.

What do you call a baby dragon?

Music is a simple joy capable of altering the mood of any who hear it and few songs are more well know in any language that those played around the winter holidays.

In previous years, I've posted YouTube videos and lyrics. This year you get to hear me. I've never had any voice training, to include that I have never been part of a choir or been asked to sing as part of anything other than a group in school plays in first and fourth grade. That being said, here's today's carol: Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer - A Capella.

Well... this is certainly a strip that may or may not be a surprise. If you've seen some of the strips in the Jack side-arcs, part of this isn't a surprise.

If not... just imagine where on Vinci a tattoo would be quite... embarrassing for your mom to find it.

Then look for an even -more- "WTF" place. Yeah. His mom is looking there.

I love this strip, perhaps Vinci's Dad at the end makes it perfect...

dudes I have Riker'd it up, perhaps you should too:

Riker Town

My fave episode still is the one where everyone is falling on the bridge. I think I have only seen like four episodes of TNG, perhaps I should nerd up and watch more. They're pretty amazing.

Hello! I have added some new items like Minicomics and Buttons to my shop! Supplies are limited. In addition, there is a sale on 8" x 10" prints (buy 3, get one free).

If you are thinking of buying prints or buttons or anything as gifts, please order as early as possible. It takes me time to package and ship everything, so the sooner you order the more likely it is that it will reach you in time. Thanks!

Educational comics for youngsters. Put your children in front of this comic and don't let them leave until they learn it.

waiting for a truck full of books to arrive today

eat skull - dog religion

Today I packed my trail camera and went to the top of the mountain to the big dirt road entrance into the National Forest. I've been feeling a bit paranoid since a college student in Ferrum was shot and killed by a hunter just a week back while doing a science project - he heard a rustle and turned and fired his high-powered rifle, and it went through her chest and through her friend's hand as he had it on her back. She died instantly.

So with that in mind, I wore a bright orange shirt and a bracelet with a few bells on it. I guess I spend a good few hours out there. Good and sore from it now, anyway.

I took one of the narrow paths off of the dirt road and into the thicker part of the forest near the ridge, where there's an amazing view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It wasn't far along here that I noticed a deer carcass up ahead in the middle of the path. Getting closer, I suddenly realized it was two deer, healthy young bucks, almost laying across each other. Their bellies were split, the legs had been cut off of one of them and were laying nearby, and their antlers were sawed off. Their eyes were wide open.

Now, hunting for food is one thing, but this I find inexcusable. Killing healthy animals in their prime just to take part of their skulls and leave the body to waste is callous and wasteful, not only of the lives of animals that can feel pain, but of meat that could feed an entire family.

A little ways down the hill was another one, just a head with staring eyes, with the antlers gouged out.

If I pretend for a moment that the waste of life and potential food isn't disgusting enough, dumping mutilated carcasses on a trail that people hike for recreation is pretty inconsiderate. Do people do that sort of thing just to spite hikers?

Less than a hundred yards ahead, I found a crumbling burlap sack with a skeletal headless, legless torso hanging out of it.

Have I ever mentioned how much I HATE deer season around here? The empty beer bottles scattered around don't do much to elevate my opinion about these people. I picked up a bit of trash. I'll have to bring a bag for it next time.

After a while of hiking I came back to the two carcasses and strapped the camera to a nearby tree, aimed at them. They're only a couple days old at most, so they might at least attract some interesting hungry critters. Am I worried about the camera being taken? Well, there is a lock on it, and I also have to figure that the smell will act as a deterrent to any would-be camera thieves.

Even if I try to, I'll never understand trophy hunters.

If you've got a minute to spare, could you do me a favor? Check out my website and let me know if it works for you, and if there are any missing images on the front page. Then check it out without the www and let me if know if that one works too? Is it showing a different URL in the address bar?

Website maintenance causes me no end of headaches. I am kind of proud of myself in that I can usually find the answers I need after hours and hours of searching and trial-and-error, but there's always another problem popping up. I will be glad when we move to Holonet and I can and I can build my website just by thinking it with my brain.

EDIT: Judging by the fact that various people are having different problems, and the fact that it now works for me despite changing nothing, I think this was an issue with just waiting for the DNS to propagate properly (whatever that means!). Of course there are still problems, but I think I will leave them for tomorrow because I am super stressed! Thanks everyone for taking the time to give me your input. When I get this all up and working maybe I'll draw you a comic or something.

A brief scene, here, featuring the second person of Æthirus' kind. Neat!

New things! Last night I finished and put up the first published Overside comic shorter than 400 pages in length! It is 14 pages long and in full color. It is a GIFT for YOU. I have a bunch of ideas that I'm not willing to commit years of time to, so I hope to expand the short stories section in future.

My plan (it is not really my plan; I stole it from Spike) is to have future stories will posted when donation goals are met; a 10-page comic called The Tethered Isle that I finished a few months ago will go online when 200 USD is reached (a total of 70 has been paid as I write this, already!).

Order of Tales Book 2 is up for preorder for a scant couple more days. Proof looks super nice; working out small issues now.