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the eighties tarot…

osterday — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:15:51 +0000

when i came across the eighties tarot card deck, i had to post about it.

complete with depeche mode as “the world” card (props for quoting from and then…), morrissey as “the hermit”, robert smith as “death”, and references to ian curtis, bono, ferris bueller and the cocteau twins, it’s quite enlightening… but, then again, i don’t know much about tarot reading…

‘net speak…

osterday — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 22:12:49 +0000

as much as i hate it, more and more i’m using ‘net speak. i’ve always hated typing the word “probably” for some strange reason, so it’s easy to understand my taking to the stortcut “prolly” i’ve seen so prevelant on the ‘net. oh well… guess that’s just as bad as using all lower case and emoticons! i’ll prolly cause my old grammer teacher a heart attack!

lego death?

osterday — Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:07:44 +0000

any fan of legos should check out legodeath. simply hilarious!

online comics and stuff…

osterday — Fri, 10 May 2002 03:11:40 +0000

when i was younger i was only into comics a little bit. i had a few of the usuals… spider-man, x-men, sandman, etc. and some more “unusual”, namely howard the duck. (i’m a bit odd!) and of course i grew up with cartoons on tv – tom and jerry rules! (i’ve got the chuck jones set on laser disc. now if only i had a laser disc player…)

i never felt i fully “grew up” and hope i never do and i still enjoy comics. i’m more in tune with user friendly than say, bugs bunny nowadays, but you get my drift.

i even enjoy some anime on occasion — well, cowboy bebop’s the only one i really watch.

anyway, scott mccloud has some great comics and ideas going on and books such as reinventing comics, as well as links to other outstanding and innovative cartoonists.

doodle flak is a flash-based strip with a really unique navigation system. super cool, though quite on the “wacked” side of things!

also nowhere girl seems rather interesting. i just started with a few frames and it seems cool so far… good dark mood and a smiths poster on the wall.

on a “too-stupid-that-i-shouldn’t-mention-it” note… in the sixth grade (or fifth, maybe) i actually wrote a series of comics of strange characters that came together in the world of “mv” – “music videos”, based roughly on mtv. the really sad part is that i made an audio tape to go along with it – including everything from silly voices and sound effects to bastardized versions of michael jackson songs. that tape – for better or worse – has since been destroyed. i don’t know what happened to the comics…

no credits?

osterday — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 03:15:18 +0000

i just heard on the news that the discovery channel(s) is going to stop showing the credits at the end of shows. hmm… i guess that’s cool – i don’t usually watch the credits, but what about those guys that work on the show? i would think that they’d still want ‘em there even if most people zone them out.

reality tv?

osterday — Tue, 09 Apr 2002 02:59:17 +0000

one more post before i logoff for the night… ok, i can be a bit of a couch potato when i want to and have been know to watch a bit of tv, although not nearly as much as when i did growing up. i haven’t got into many of the “reality tv” shows. (well i was addicted to the real world for the first few seasons.) but mtv’s latest creation – the osbournes – is hilarious!