Moose Head Stew

07/29/2010

Alina — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Comic Coooooooon!!!

Alina — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:20:21 +0000

This year was the first year I’d ever attended San Diego Comic Con, either as an exhibitor or as an attendee. I’d heard stories – wonderful, amazing stories – from other people who had been to the show before. “Geek Mecca”, they called it, or sometimes, jokingly, the “Geek Prom”, but the one thing that remained the same about their tales was the slightly-misty look in their eyes as they spoke of it. Some people had met famous actors and shook their hands. Others had gotten their hands on enough fabulous loot to make pirate envious. And others had met life-long friends in line for Hall H.

So, to say that I was a tad nervous about exhibiting at San Diego is a bit of an understatement. One of my friends tried to reassure me that I’d exhibited at other big cons before, and that I would be an old pro at it. I looked him dead in the eye and replied, “To say that is akin to saying that I’ve walked through a rainstorm, so I should know how to deal with a hurricane.”

So, was it a hurricane? Hells yeah!! More people attended that con this year than live in the city I was born in.

But was it one hell of a fun time?? Oh my god yes!!!!

More later!! There’s tons of San Diego stories to tell, but only a few days before I ship out to Gen Con!!

07/15/2010

Alina — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

07/06/2010

Alina — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

07/01/2010

Alina — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

06/29/2010

Alina — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Sandwich science!!

Alina — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:08:35 +0000

Layne informs me that I got the song completely wrong. It’s bread, mayo, lettuce, CHEESE, tomato, etc, etc, etc… He says that the cheese provides a nice, flat platform for the tomato to sit on so that it doesn’t fall off the sandwich while you’re trying to eat it.

This is a man who had put a LOT of thought into his sandwiches. A LOT.

Which is probably why they taste so good. I used to be of the opinion that anything thrown onto bread in any order was a sandwich, and why should I care what order they go in because it’s all just going to wind up in my belly anyway. But there is a certain logic to his arrangement of ingredients. Lettuce tastes best with a little bit of mayo. The meat tastes best by the mustard. Everything has a reason and a purpose. It’s all very zen.

06/24/2010

Alina — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

06/22/2010

Alina — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Father’s Day

Alina — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:20:40 +0000

Sorry to be a bit of a downer, folks. This was a hard strip to write. I discarded seven other scripts, including a few lighthearted takes on the holiday. None of them seemed to fit. They felt fake. And, loathe though I am to air any of my dirty laundry in front of you lovely folks, I felt like this one needed to be said. Or drawn, rather.

I hope you all enjoy your holiday. I won’t necessarily enjoy Father’s Day, but I will do what I normally do, which is to call my grandpa and my uncle and thank them both for being a part of my life, and then try and ignore the urge to huck a remote at the screen every time I see one of those damned saccharine ads for Father’s Day on tv. Seriously. They all boil down to “Dad’s so funny. Look, he likes golf and napping!”. I do believe that I hate them even more than I hate the usual ream of sexist beer ads.