Shoo and Kyle team up and do the Hypnosis Diet

...but apparently the hypnotist decided to have some fun at their expense...

Lookin good fellas! (Hope all is well down in the 'Patch!)

Shoo? IZZATCHOO?

Striking resemblance.

Harry Potter Sequels?

Stumbled across these here. There's no way I would take credit for these, but I figured I'd share the laughs!


Harry Potter Films We'd Rather Not See


Harry Potter and the Uneventful Year When No One Tried to Kill Him

Harry Potter and the New Love Interest Who Happens to Have the Same Name as the 15-Year-Old Girl Writing this List

Harry Potter and the New Love Interest Who Happens to Have the Same Name as the 15-Year-Old Boy Writing this List

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sucrets

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Kidney Stone

Harry Potter and the Uncomforatble Oversexualization of Minors

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer are Stoned

Harry Potter and the Burning Sensation

Harry Potter and the Camping Weekend With Ron That Will Never Be Spoken Of Again

Harry Potter and the E Street Band

Harry Potter and the Things You Have to do to Get By in Prison

Harry Potter and the Chamber Pot of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner Detainees of Azerbaijan

Harry Potter and the Wand of Franchise Extension

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood, the Quadroon, and the Octaroon

Harold and His Big Purple Crayon of Adolescent Yearning

Hal Pot and the Intellectuals of Cambodia

Harry Potter and the shameless Tom Clancy Crossover

Harry Potter and the 2000 Election

Harry Potter and the HufflePuff Orgy

Harry Potter and the Weapons of Magic Destruction

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pizza

Harry Potter and the Bizarro Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Street Fighter II Tournament

Harry Potter and the King of Pop

Harry Potter and the Birth of Christ

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stones in His Mouth

Harry Potter and the Jews and Crusaders

Harry Potter the Geopolitical Realities of the Post-Nuclear Age

Harry Potter and Whoever Alan Rickman's Character is are Totally Doing It

Harry Potter and the Cusp of Manhood

Harry Potter and the Gauntlet of Mucous

Harry Potter and the Insidious Compact Disc Root Kit Installation

Harry Potter and the Gargoyle of Reacharounds

Harry Potter and the Sandwich of Crotchmeat

Harry Potter and the Incredibly Long Run-On Sentence That ALmost Makes It Look As If The First Three Paragraphs Of The Story Are Actually More Like The First Three Sentences And Then Hermione Says Harry That Dragon Is Attacking You and Ron Is In Danger So Harry Potter Reaches Into His Magic Bag And Removes A Magic Card That He Says Makeus Enlargitus and The Creature On The Card Which Is A Griffin With The Body Of A Zebra But Claws Of A Lion Comes Out Of It And When It (The Dragon) s Defeated Harry Says It Was Voldemort and Hermione Says How Do You Know And Harry Says I Just Know and Ron Goes Gulp!

Harry Potter and the Hendersons


My faves are in bold...

Lance Bass of NSync has Officially Come Out of the Closet.

No word yet as to when the remaining band members are planning to follow.

Picking Up Babes, with Eagle Eye Edmond.

"And, hey..if she..runs away from you...don't lose confidence. She just..wants to see if you're a good jogging partner"

Renewed Motivation

OK, so aside from the lazy blogging lately (youtube is a lousy substitute for the true dish), I have a little bit to blog about that doesn't consist of lame movie reviews, cynical coworkers, or caustic observations.

Last weekend J and I drove up to Lake Geneva to hang out and get some sun. We stayed at a friend of her family's lakehouse. This guy? Joe Martin, syndicated cartoonist behind several long running comics, like these:

Willy and Ethel:


Mr. Boffo:


And Cats with Hands:


You think I was a little nervous meeting the first guy in a field that I've dreamt of going into all of my life? A lot. Let me start by telling you guys this: Joe and his wife, Marie, are two very kind, laid back people, and I wasn't even unpacked before he heard about my skills and sent me packing to J's car to grab my packet of Sterno comics.

Well, J and I went out on Joe's boat with his son, D, and J's sister, brother-in-law, and niece. We cruised around the lake for a few hours, drank copious amounts of brew, and swam a bit until we were starting to get hungry. Funny thing about Joe's house is this- It's a converted monestary, and it's a HUGE place. 19000sq ft...nice game room, theater room, pool in the backyard, tennis court on the side of the house, and enough bedrooms to keep a 9 year old preoccupied all summer. Well, we arrived back to the house and Joe called me over to give me his straight take on my stuff. I sat there and heard him critique my strips (as did about four other onlookers!!), and when he was over, he gave me some sound advice. I won't bore you with these details, but I can tell you this- I'm completely hyped to get my stuff to the next level, and it was painful to go in to work on Monday when all I wanted to do was draw, draw, draw.

The rest of the weekend was blissfully chill (aside from the 100º weather), and J and I played some tennis, swam in the pool, and poked around Lake Geneva. Marie was a true saint, and I ate so well throughout the weekend that my belt is feeling a little snugger than before. I got to listen to Joe talk about the comics industry, the players, and his experiences all along. I know J was probably bored silly listening to a lot of these conversations, but to me? I was hanging on every word. The guy needs to write an autobiography. I'd be first in line to buy it.

And in conclusion? Joe's just a normal (albeit he posesses a slightly eccentric take on the universe, but that's pretty common for this line of work) guy that busts ass on his craft. He wrote damn near nonstop through the weekend (I think we were giving the guy ideas left and right...ha!), and he draws at a pace that I found remarkably efficient.

Yeah, I know now what I have to do, and having heard his advice, I plan on going full tilt again.

Thanks for everything, Joe and Marie! See you at the Reuben Awards!

DartH Vader redux

4th of July...Happy Birthday America!

Aw hell, where'd THAT weekend go so suddenly? A nice four day break from the office, and it cruised past at the same speed as a normal 2-day'er. Grr.

So, I have some 'splainin' to do, right? What's the deal? I'll tell you. I have been taking some video with my new camera, and although it's pretty funny stuff for the most part, I'm still struggling with learning the video software well enough to splice the clips together into something that would approach a reasonabl;y entertaining level.

So, I guess all I can say is, "Hold on to your horses...the images and video is coming. Sometime."

Ohhhkay. And now to recap-

Friday evening, I cruised into the city to hang with some friends at a BBQ. Good time- Baggo, brew (discovered that Leinies Seasonal Wheat is a killer flavor beer), and met this printer rep that has been trying to hookup with me to persuade me to throw some new business his way. On that note, let me just say that he was a cool guy, but seeing him hooking up with an ex-gf of mine didn't exactly help his cause much. Duh.

Saturday, we all woke up, ate at a popular lil joint called Hot Doug's, and then gathered our stuff together for the following festivities. We cruised down to Mokena, where our pal Dan lives, and we chilled some more, played some more baggo, and prepartied for the Nine Inch Nails show. The show? Awesome. Peaches (skank) and Bauhaus opened for NIN, and all in all, they put on a pretty solid show (even if the mosh pit was extremely weak). I always love going to these shows just for the people watching. Oh, and Barley's little cousin was so wrecked, he accidentally stepped on some girl's head. Then offered to buy her a beer out of sympathy. Ahhh...to be 23 again.

Sunday, I arrived home, napped, and grabbed my pens to get a few new comics going again. It's going. I swear. Two done and a few more in pencils.

Monday I did more of the same , and in the evening, J and I hooked up. We grabbed some more of the aforementioned Leinies, drove to her sister's home, and I met the fam. Yes. I. Met. the. Family. They were really nice, actually. Her brother in law asked me about on of my old employers (the royal ass that runs that magazine I worked at for three months). I declined to comment, but told him, "If you know the name, I probably don't have to tell you anything you don't already know".

I was right.

Tuesday was nice and chill, again. Laundry, downtime, a bike ride, and then met up with J and her friend Lisa before we grabbed dinner and went to watch the fireworks.

Anyway...

I'll try to get you guys some recent pics as soon as I can. Until then, I hope you enjoy this old video of yours truly:

I hope it works...