User:	softerworldfeed
Date:	2009-07-10 07:07
Subject:	A Softer World: 459
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	User:	qwantz
	Date:	2009-07-09 20:56
	Subject:	RIP CRT
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When I moved to Toronto I took a computer monitor with me, and it was an CRT that I'd already had for a few years already. This was this was the monitor I used when I applied to grad school and the monitor I used when starting Dinosaur Comics.

This monitor had served me well, but the past year or so it was clearly dying. The display would get fuzzy, and then snap back. Now I use three monitors and this was on the screen I used mainly for status stuff, so it was okay. I could still read the text when I needed to!

It was getting old though, and this morning I actually thought I was watching it finally die: the screen slowly faded to black, over the course of about 30 seconds, like a movie would fade to black over a particularly dramatic coda. These were my thoughts as I watched my windows fade away. Even the little green power light on the front of the monitor faded with everything else. My old monitor faded to black I watched it die. Goodbye, faithful hardware!

BUT THEN it faded back! You guys, it faded back just as it had faded out. It was a death-bed deke, and I was totally taken in. The monitor did this cycle a few more times, but I was wise to it now. I wasn't going to be taken in again. Eventually the monitor stopped fading out entirely, and we both got back to what we were working on before.

That was this morning. Just now, it faded to black and hasn't recovered. The power light has died with the screen too, but its switch is still in the "on" position. Okay, so just now I turned the power off and on again and the monitor recovered perfectly fine. MAN I GOT DEKED AGAIN.

Okay, so clearly this monitor is sick but doesn't want to die; it wants a peek at its obituary before it goes. Well here you go, monitor, I've moved this window over to you and I'm writing this on you and this is your obituary. If you do anything awesome after I post this I'll update it appropriately, but I think this is where our two paths diverge. You have been a good and faithful monitor and I will probably not forgot many of the things I saw through you.

You were a good monitor!

User:	softerworldfeed
Date:	2009-07-09 16:10
Subject:	A Softer World: i blame the sea eats her heart out
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Sometimes one finds a thing such as this and is driven to find it. This donut supposedly came from Tim Hortons, but none of the local ones had anything to compare. So I got the ingredients and made one. Once it was finished, it had to be eaten. I've done a few gluttonous photobooth sessions, so that seemed like the best solution here. You can see the full strip (complete with Jeremy helping me out and a fine view of my bike accident scars) here!

	User:	marlo
	Date:	2009-07-08 11:07
	Subject:	Firechicken: a retrospective
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I got my bike almost exactly two years ago. ( picspam and sentimentality follow )

User:	softerworldfeed
Date:	2009-07-08 10:59
Subject:	A Softer World: 458
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	User:	marlo
	Date:	2009-07-08 08:56
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Both my bikes were stolen from my apartment building. Just discovered it this morning. Am currently on hold with Vancouver Police Department.

Am still kind of in shock/denial. Don't know how the fuck I'm gonna get another bike.

	User:	ioerror
	Date:	2009-07-08 01:11
	Subject:	Fisheye photo in China
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Fisheye photos in China
Originally uploaded by ioerror

User:	rubychard
Date:	2009-07-07 19:56
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how come the best time of day to hang out outside is the time when mosquitos start to feast greedily upon me? this is my eternal summer question.

my tomatoes are progressing nicely, though! and my patio is a lot neater than it was.

	User:	kozyndan
	Date:	2009-07-07 14:36
	Subject:	Computer Arts Projects Cover
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	Mood:	moody
	Music:	not Michael Jackson

A massive Computer Arts Projects cover collaboration for an issue on character design that is due out in stores in the coming weeks. Besides us the list of contributing artists includes Peskimo, Mark Verhaagen, Tado, Niark 1, Mijn Schatje, Jon Burgerman, 123 Klan, Triclops studio, Jeremyville, Lunartik, Alexis West, Loworks, Sourbones, Skaffs, Aaron Miller, Eboy, Superdeux, Misu2020, Motomochi, Meomi, 64 Colors, Supakitch, and Gavin Strange.

We don't really think of ourselves as character designers in any sense, but it was still nice to be chosen and i had fun messing about in Illustrator again after so many years away from the program. I was also feeling pretty moody at the time, which i think really guided the design for this guy. I call my character "Emptyheaded" for lack of a more clever name.

	User:	fareldal
	Date:	2009-07-06 18:32
	Subject:	Death, when you come to me
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Hey, I finally put my Kitty Pryde piece together from the scans and here it is. I messed with the background in Photoshop. So it didn’t look exactly like this, the background color was sort off-white or something originally. Thanks to whoever out there bought the original art.

I meant to post this a while ago, so if you didn’t see it yet, Douglas Wolk did a terrific article for pw on the stumptown comics fest And there is also some Photomania by Laura Hudson.

I also completely spaced and forgot to put up this. Shaun Manning over at Comic Book Resources did a really swell piece on my DHP story, Magic Spell. Thanks Shaun.
And that Magic Spell story is coming out in print In Dark Horse Presents 4, this December.
Here is the cover by the talented Kristian Donaldson.


I’m a fan of Kristian’s work. It’s badass to see him draw Emily.

New pages are being posted for one of my favorite webcomics, Adventures Of The Floating Elephant by Tim Hamilton over at ACT-I-VATE . Go read them all.

Here is a drawing I did recently.

This was for BARK as part of a fund raising art show to benefit MT. Hood in, "My Hood is Your Hood," on October 3rd, at the downtown Stumptown Coffee here in Portland.

I want to do more commissions. email me at fareldalrymple@yahoo.com about rates.

An old friend recently contacted me about drawing a couple t-shirts for zoo york. Thanks Steve. Here is the drawing and some samples of the t-shirts. I will let you all know when they are hitting the streets.

User:	softerworldfeed
Date:	2009-07-06 15:26
Subject:	A Softer World: 457
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	User:	marlo
	Date:	2009-07-06 15:06
	Subject:	I'm on a boat
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I was on a boat, at any rate. On Friday after beers on Third Beach (for Adam's b-day) with Josh, Mo, Trent and friends, we were riding along the seawall somewhere east of Yaletown when Trent spotted what he was pretty sure was Drew's boat. "Drew!" he called, and Drew called back, "Hello!" So we went and hung out on Drew's boat for a while. People were eating ginormous freshly-trapped crabs, drinking beer, listening to music inside the boat and listening to Drew and his friend play guitar and muted trumpet, respectively, on deck. The view was beautiful and it was just generally a really fantastic fun time.

This weekend I played several more hours of Final Fantasy II (IV for the purists), and read a couple hundred more pages of Quicksilver. In other words, I was fairly sedentary. Quicksilver is pretty awesome so far, although people's (I think specifically trochee?) descriptions of his sex scenes are pretty accurate. They're all mechanical and physiological and overall extremely un-sexy. Sorry Neal, you win at a lot of things, including awkward nerd-sex.

My uncle is on the cover of the Vancouver Sun today, playing trombone.

User:	rubychard
Date:	2009-07-06 02:05
Subject:	exciting late-night snack:
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homemade yogurt and chopped cilantro and scallion, on corn tortillas fried with butter and a smashed clove of garlic. drinking homemade jamaica, which is iced sweetened hibiscus tea, which is the same thing that's called sorrel in caribbean restaurants, only they put ginger and sometimes cinnamon in it. now, homemade papaya popsicles; kinda icy, but not bad. EDIT (cause i forgot): also sliced radishes from my garden, only somewhat woody, with salt and vinegar.

this is not to toot my own horn, but rather to say that you all should hang out with me and make fun snacks late at night: it is something i really enjoy.

now, to read the fun sections of the sunday paper before bed. can someone explain why the "the city" section is now "metropolitan"?

(also, yay weekend yay brooklyn yay hanging out and then there was gay weekend last weekend, with short shorts and mustaches and the beach. it was good.)

User:	softerworldfeed
Date:	2009-07-03 06:32
Subject:	A Softer World: 456
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User:	softerworldfeed
Date:	2009-07-02 17:11
Subject:	A Softer World: i blame the sea gets its feet wet
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Ontario cottage country seems almost archetypal to me. I guess I've probably internalised every Ontario-shot Canadian Tire ad, but there was something about the lake, the loons, the canoe, the sunset. It all added up to be almost suspiciously picture-perfect. This lake was amazing, cool and deep and lake-beast free. If you live in a city, I'd recommend getting out of it on a hot day and going somewhere like this. It'll be worth it.

	User:	destroyerzooey
	Date:	2009-07-02 17:25
	Subject:	survey says
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Poll #1424339 one person's opinion
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What do you think?

User:	softerworldfeed
Date:	2009-07-01 11:00
Subject:	A Softer World: 455
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	User:	hopelarson
	Date:	2009-07-01 10:53
	Subject:	Galleys @ SDCC
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If you are a professional reviewer of comics and/or young adult literature,
AND you're attending SDCC,
AND you would like a galley of my upcoming book, Mercury, please comment here–or tweet at me, or drop me an e-mail.

I'm trying to figure out how many books to set aside for you guys.

	User:	marlo
	Date:	2009-06-30 22:05
	Subject:	Star Trek Fanfiction.
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Anony(nony)mous wrote an amazingly epic HOT six-part Dr. McCoy/Nurse Chapel fic which is so amazingly perfect that it has consumed my brain. I admit that Karl Urban picspams at ontd_startrek may have contributed to my seeking out het fic containing Bones, but honestly I also just kind of stumbled over this one while trawling the kink meme and then spent several hours reading it and falling madly in love with it. The first three parts (one self-contained fic), "Jim Kirk's Limp Dick and Other Obstacles on the Path to Love" are from Chapel's POV, and its sequel, "Jim Kirk Is An Insufferable Idiot and Other Lessons Learned Along the Way," the other three parts, are from Bones's POV. The yin and yang interplay of the two is gorgeous. The author's characterization (read: invention) of Chapel's personality is genius, and Bones and Jim (nu-Trek versions, mind you) are spot-on. READ IT, DAMMIT.

Adam is in Victoria tonight and tomorrow and so I have a date with myself for the night. It's nice to have those once in a while. Tomorrow I have birthday-present shopping to do for a couple people. And then I'm just going to read (maybe at the beach?) alllll day, and it's going to be glorious.

Catch-22 is like a cross between a Marx Brothers movie and M.A.S.H. (the latter of which I assume drew a lot of inspiration from it). Hilarious.

The sky is still a little bit light, tinged greenish. I love that. Time to read Quicksilver till I pass out.

EDIT: OH SWEET MY 1500th ENTRY WAS ABOUT STAR TREK FANFICTION. THAT'S PERFECT ACTUALLY.

	User:	cftpaforever
	Date:	2009-06-30 11:11
	Subject:	Philadelphia show sold out!!! But there's good news, too!?!
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A SECOND Philadelphia show as been added! It will happen immediately after the first one! Maybe at 9:30?

Here's the info!

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone & Cryptacize
At The First Unitarian Church's Chapel
Small Intimate Seated Space That Only Holds 50 People !!??!?!?!??
2125 Chestnut Street (22nd and Chestnut Sts)
Philadelphia, PA
$12 / All Ages

By the way I'm going to play some different songs at the early show & the late show so if you feel like coming to both, it won't be the exact same thing all over again I promise.

OK!!!!!!!!!