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Sometimes, we have ideas that are so wrong they just have to be done. O say can you see / By R'lyeh's early lightThis is one such idea.</p>

Will it become a product? We don't know. Right now, it's a one-off prototype. But it's awfully cute, isn't it?</p>

If you just can't wait to buy a cuddly other-dimensional fuzzball, we have quite a few available, in three different sizes and several colors -- go take a look!</p>

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28 November 2009 @ 10:01 pm
Tweets from a feathered dragon

  • 16:55 Pthalo Turquoise, I banish you from my paint set! My hands are blue! Crazy car paint watercolor #
  • 20:08 found out after the fact the canvas sheets glued together ): #
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28 November 2009 @ 10:56 pm
Late birthday present.

NSFW )
 
 
I hear: Holger Czukay's Movies : Persian Love
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 09:52 pm
What's the latest word on the band? When are they going back into the studio?
 
 
After having my fill of shopping, I managed to work in a little time to check out the newly established (as in, service started just shy of two weeks ago) Northstar Commuter Rail line. And so I did, right around sunset... )

Also, while I was there, a number of large aircraft passed overhead- 747s in particular. Leaving contrails at high altitude, these were not bound for MSP, but rather came in on vectors from the northwest and turned slightly to the east over the western suburbs- I suspect they were bound for east-coast destinations, or maybe Chicago after further course corrections. Of course, I grabbed a few photos of those too... )
 
 
I feel: calm
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 05:37 pm
Lots of pictures underneath the cut! )
 
 
I feel: creative
 
 
 
 
29 November 2009 @ 10:13 am
Have a rolling ball clock, owned by Bumble's carers.

Rolling Ball Clock

The time is 11:36, with 11:37 about to roll in. It makes a hell of a noise when 1 o'clcok rolls around.
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 06:02 pm
Well I think I'm going to go with this look. Thanks for the recommendations from my earlier questions.

I think I'll leave the bouncy hat off of him and go with the scarf. That's seen in the Youtube video.

Big pictures )
 
 
I feel: accomplished
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 10:22 pm

What are the three best books you have ever read and what are the three worst? What made them so good or bad?

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This is a difficult question.... it's like asking a cross (or even a pleasantly disposed) section of the public what films or records they like. It depends on the most recent films/records/books experienced.
I can say that "Three Men In A Boat(to say nothing of the dog) made me laugh out loud - it did. I will also say that I no longer read Anne McCaffreys later Pern books because although the early ones are original and well written the later ones seen to tell the same tale over and over again with different names. Also the whole "forgotten science" and the rediscovery of Avis.... indeed the fact that one can travel time by dragon... deus ex machina of the worst kind. With one dragon they were free.....
I generally enjoy a new Pratchett althoughColour of Magic and Light Fantastic are NOTHING like the later ones.... also Equal Rites and Sourcery are not nearly as enjoyable to me (my opinion YMMV) as, say, Mort or Pyramids.
Douglas Adams? The H2GttG books don't do it for me the way the original radio series (yes, you can buy the scripts! a Pan original they are) did.
The Art Of Coarse Acting by Michael Green is good, How To Enjoy Your Operation by Vivian Ellis had me giggling as well....

I disliked Pinocchio so much I dropped it behind a cupboard when a boy..."give me the bitter water sister" indeed.

Have I given you all a clue? Have you ever read Sven Hassel ever? I read Charles Curran's autobiography and was bored immensely although other BBC people tend to intrigue me....

Anyway, that's yer lot.
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 04:19 pm
Hey, I'm looking for images of finished suits for examples for an upcoming fursuit, but for the life of me I cannot find any 'suits of Tasmanian Devils. Anybody own a devil suit? Or have pictures? I'm just curious to see how others have adapted the Devil's head shape to the human head shape. Any help would be excellent, thanks!
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 10:09 pm
2 burgers and a pork chop 4 bits of dry toast and a bowl of tomato soup. HEINZ tomato soup.
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 03:19 pm

I'm losing patience with Smallville. On the one hand, there is no reason to keep Welling out of the tights and out of the sky except that the creating producers who quit a year and a half ago said they wouldn't. On the other hand, there's every reason to do it, mainly this "Red-Blue Blur" who now only wears black ... For Clark to have gone about two years like this without presenting a public face rubs me the wrong way. There would be consequences to the way he was perceived once he did go public that I don't see reflected in the existing gestalt of the legend. It seems to me a major deviation, which wouldn't bother me per se except I don't believe it's what they mean to do.

The gripping hand is, I'm two one and a half episodes behind on the DVR and it looks like maybe they're going that way, even have got there while I wasn't looking. Edit Okay, maybe not.

 
 
28 November 2009 @ 01:13 pm
On the subject of H1N1, or anywhere else people are trying to tell me (or the general public) They Know Best and What I Should Do: step off. I've always been really annoyed with people who think they know best, and that everything is always about the safest and lowest-risk course. Bullshit. Life is about risk, and managing that risk intelligently. I see these people on security staffs for conventions, and in amateur radio amongst the people involved in emergency preparedness. My theory is really, they are just getting off on the power-trip more than an honest concert for others.

The line not to cross is where someone tries to substitute their judgment for my own. My favorite example of this was at Further Confusion a few years ago, in the Doubletree hotel. Along the main walkway there was a staircase that led up to a landing that overlooked the space below. A couple of enterprising individuals fashioned a simple fishing rod, with a piece of card in a clothespin at the end, and they were "fishing for furries." And if you managed to jump up and grab the card, you got a prize. Cute.

Well, some jerkoff from FC's security staff (security staffs often being where these types are found) asked them top stop, because he was "worried about someone getting hurt." I suppose that was a remote possibility, but not a realistic one. And anyone who's about to reply to this with, "Well, if someone got hurt, legal liability blah blah blah.." save it. Sometimes fun entails risk. Just living entails risk, and you can't live your life in fear of the worst possible outcome. And unless you never get into a car, which is one of the riskier things you can do, you don't actually subscribe to this notion.

I'm an adult, and I'll make my own choices, thanks.
 
 
 
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 11:27 pm
Переулок
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 03:07 pm


Just a little warm-up, and an experiment with something different from my usual look. Based fairly closely on what I see in some frames of this blurry, decaying copy of Dr. John performing his song of the same name.

I've been listening to a lot of Dr. John these past few weeks; I'm not sure why. I just snagged a few of his early psychedelic albums off of the net. Really, this stuff was just sort of... the background of my youth, in a way that I never really noticed it. That particular New Orleans variety of funk was all around me growing up, in local commercials and tv shows.

I do not know enough hoodoo to know how inappropriate the title of the song is for this image I plucked from that decrepid video. All Wikipedia tells me is that there's a town way the hell out in the sticks of LA called Mamou, currently billing itself as "The Cajun Music Capital Of The World"; Dr. John is many things but he sure ain't "cajun" - that's a different mix; he's distinctly a New Orleans brew.
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I hear: Dr. John's The Sun, Moon & Herbs : Familiar Reality - Opening
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 03:01 pm

  • 10:40 Two day curry, two eggs over easy, dry toast and some cheese. Nice breakfast. twitpic.com/rbamm #

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28 November 2009 @ 11:43 am
This is the backup site for the webcomic, The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! by Jim Cleaveland. The main site (which is much nicer to look at) is located at http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com. This backup site was started some time ago when ComicGenesis was having server difficulties, which have since then been fixed. Please send all comments to jimcleave@aol.com

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28 November 2009 @ 01:31 pm
Didn't get up early. Got up late instead. Well, about 07:30, which for some people on Black Friday is sleeping in.

Went to Fleet Farm. Found a few things I couldn't live without, one or two of which I could even afford.

Then went to Toys 'Я' Us and did not find what I was looking for. May have to import one. Meh.

Later on, took some photos- I may get those up later today depending on time.

Later on still, went to Mystic Lake casino with mom. She didn't win anything. I put down far less (a whopping $25) and managed to win $100. I quit while I was ahead.

Slept in today, even later.
 
 
I feel: busy
 
 
28 November 2009 @ 01:27 pm
I'm almost done with my second ever fursuit head. I didn't use a frame for it, just made it out of foam. Right now it's covered in duct tape, awaiting furring. Though I'm not about to do anything too drastic to change it, I was hoping for some advice for the future on how to make heads look more fox-like. My mom says this one looks like a coyote!Now more visible )
 
 
I feel: curious