Shaping reason from chaotic, Lovecraftian horror?

A picture from last year's Supanova convention room floor.

A picture from last year's Supanova convention room floor.

Hi, kids!

Well, enough small talk.  As some of you may know, I’ll be, with a bit of luck and proper flying, shambling into Australia for two appearances at their Supanova conventions.

They are as follows:

• Melbourne (March 28 & 29)

• Brisbane (April 4 & 5)

According to the website info I’m there each day for 8 hours a day, but considering I’ve never been any particular place for 8 hours nonstop in my entire life I’m hoping that’s just a horrible misprint.  If it’s not, I’m bringing molotov cocktails to fling into the crowd as I flee for the occasional break from whatever the hell a person does for 8 hours at a convention.

Anyhow, I’m as excited about visiting Australia-land about as much as I am equally terrified of the insane amount of time it will take rocketing through the sky in an explosive can to get there.  Beyond that, short of being devoured by crocodiles in my hotel room or realizing I’ve been suckered into a furry convention instead, there’s only one thing that might put a damper on my grand adventure down under:  QUESTION AND ANSWER PANELS.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-27

  • Saw a sign claiming a bakery’s goods were all made “with love”. I have no love, so I cleaned out the store, a brilliant plan forming. #
  • One last look back and I saw the baker-lady, her face hanging slack and haunted from looking directly into my terrible, empty eyes. #
  • Eager, I collapse in the street,, devouring muffins and banana breads and all manner of love-cakes. This time it WILL work. #
  • @3liza ‘The Lovecakes Application’ is my band’s name. in reply to 3liza #
  • Ever suffered like G did? I have, and it’s not cool, kids. Not cool at all. #
  • The little flying demon warned me, but it’s advice seemed to have no effect, thus my suffering in G-like ways. #
  • Concerned with how often a “mature” label in gaming or animation simply means giant tits and saying “FUCK” beyond reason. Howzat mature? #
  • HotD: Overkill, while fun to play, is not nearly as funny with it’s constant fucks as the squeaky clean bizarre dialogue of part 2. #
  • It’s tough enough trying pitch animation that ISN’T for kids without justifying it as being obsessed with fucking and cussing. #
  • And then, when you tell them it’s about cussing at children while fucking them, they’re even less receptive. What do these people want?! #
  • @warrenellis I hope you’re not saying that sarcastically. I really feel I’ve got a hit on my hands with this. in reply to warrenellis #
  • Behold, lil’ nukies, @cunch has an etsy store. You probably don’t deserve it, but there it is. Wipe your feet, you slobs http://is.gd/kuWe #
  • @zoetica I can be a filthy namedropper as well, lady. I was once at a KFC in line behind a guy I recognized from a Fritos commercial. in reply to zoetica #
  • No day ever hits rock bottom when you have the Ghosts n’ Goblins theme running through your head. You do go a bit mad though. #
  • Inexplicably, however, the Bubsy 3D theme pretty much guarantees you a terrifying and interminable attack from a rapacious sea lion. #
  • @3liza Yeah, I’m a veritable mountain of thrown panties after I squeak out my heavy metal rendition ‘One Winged Angel’. in reply to 3liza #
  • @rikkisimons It’s why I don’t hang out near you when you’re eating. I lose so much stuff when I’m on the event horizon of your meals. in reply to rikkisimons #
  • House of the Dead: Overkill makes me wish, like I always do, that the Wii was a peripheral for a more capable system. Fun, but so jerky. #
  • A particularly favorite touch is the lil American flag that waves when you execute a ‘goregasm’ killing spree. #
  • Rest easy, guys. GIRL has reached the moon thank to your diligent stretching. Next stop: MARS. #
  • These horrible days, every place I walk into has a piano player that suddenly stops playing with a discordant sting. Even my bathroom. #
  • To stay warm during a blizzard recently, I cut open an ox and crawled into his corpse, and yes…piano player in there stopped playing. #
  • I still think my idea for a marshmallow peeps cereal could be huge. It’s not cereal shaped peeps, either. Just actual peeps in milk. #
  • Getting past the obvious slogan “Turns your milk Peepy” might be tricky, but it might actually be in aid of the grotesque charm. #
  • Should Peeps Cereal take off it’d make it easier to get my ‘Bacon Wrapped Weenie’ Cereal on store shelves as well. Packed with vitamin W! #
  • Vitamin WEE, that is. #
  • I’m not kidding at all when I say that this song is just begging for a Tom Waits cover or at least a duet. http://tinyurl.com/zz5cz #
  • Something along the lines of ‘Filipino Box Spring Hog’, but with some hideous beats dropped on. #
  • Hopefully you guys tag the Mindspill RSS as I don’t always link to posts from this Twitter. Mostly out of shame. http://tinyurl.com/ac5cun #
  • @rstevens Following him, yeah, but envying your doing so from anywhere but here. in reply to rstevens #
  • Failed utterly at going to bed. Quite literally. Aimed for the mattress and flew hard into the ceiling instead. Gonna just stay up now. #
  • I’m at that stage of staying up where you think you’re speaking at a normal volume but are, in fact, defecating on every one in the room. #
  • Now at that stage of staying up where, regardless of the type of cereal you pour into the bowl, there are always booberries in it. #
  • @3liza He Truly has captured your floating, and the fiery belch that so distinctly whispers “Eliza”. in reply to 3liza #
  • To master the last trick in the video do you NEED a lounging vagrant handy? It just seems so specific. http://tinyurl.com/d52fbe #
  • Spoke to a development guy at THQ and actually ENJOYED it. Didn’t even exit dramatically through the window like I often do at these things #
  • Don’t get excited, guys. I was just re-stocking their snack machines. This goddamn economy… #
  • Not sure if I should weirded out or immensely thankful that only around six people out of thousands reply when I write things here. #
  • Suckers. This tweet/tracer app will now allow me to sniff out your minds and bump you all off. 6 corpses just wasn’t going to be enough. #
  • Most of you deserve it for being heatheny enough to think my icon is Adolf Hitler. #
  • Clearly there is a hard split between the older, grizzled folks in the Chapliny know and the wee ones still in their pre-Chaplin-aware stage #
  • An arena shall be rented, weapons distributed amongst the tribes, and cameras set up that I may sell the footage. This damn economy, man… #
  • @enicolle now you know how Wolverine or Freddy Kreuger feel. Also Vega…and Predator, too. You see where I’m going with this. in reply to enicolle #
  • @meathelix Hey, thanks, maaan. Most game company dealings I have end in mysterious, dead silences, so stocking snack machines is progress. in reply to meathelix #
  • Gravity on the Helghast homeworl adversely affects the motor skills of the human attackers to where they control like prize game claw-arms. #

Eliza Gauger: Wee sketch. Huge painting.

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Catching up with E. Gauger’s sketch a day posts over at her blog I came across that tiny guy up there and instantly knew the face of awesome.  Seriously, that’s a guy I want answering my door when people are stupid enough to knock on it.  I don’t even think this anvil-faced manservant’d have to lift a finger to turn away any ill-willed visitors after my ass in retaliation for the Bad Art Collection or for having a co-worker that won’t stop trying to sound like GIR, or for just being too neato despite those things.  

That charming man is one of several other original works Gauger’s got available over at her Etsy store, and I’m starting to have button envy, man.  Seems everyone’s got button makers around me and I’m starting to feel a little left out.

And then there’s the enormous Vacuum Traffic Controller painting that’s finally up.  Definitely not something you can pin to your jacket like the buttons, unless you’re a goddamn cave troll , but you’re not gonna want to be toting this one around so much as putting it up on that wall of yours that’s just in dire need of something badass instead of the crap you have up there currently.  I mean, come on, man….

E. Gauger’s Etsy Shop

 

Pff…I can make buttons too, ya know…

J.R. Goldberg’s Buttontopia

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Seriously loving these one of a kind buttons J.R. Goldberg’s selling over at her recently opened Etsy shop.  The loony’s actually making these things herself, painting each one individually before encasing it in carbonite (quite safe).

I actually have a few and the thing’s are just lovely, but I got in before she started doing the awesome zombie series, so I’m just a bit jealous of the jerks that grab these I am.  

Also quite fond of the squid here:

J.R. Goldberg’s Den of Buttoniquity

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-20

  • @cunch Not the taxi, no. It’s that box guy with the eyeballs blasting from out of his head. in reply to cunch #
  • @cunch I’ll likely show the world the results, but I’ll take none of the responsibility for the effects of doing such a thing. It’s bad. in reply to cunch #
  • I’m a romantic at heart, so despite it just being a machine, for Valentine’s Day, I’m making dinner for the fuckbot I made out of scrap. #
  • @enicolle I assuage the Fuckbot’s fears about being made a whore simply by pointing over to Whorebot. Whorebot’s just filthy. in reply to enicolle #
  • New post? I got yer new post right heah!: http://tinyurl.com/c5f3nz #
  • Being reminded why I normally keep comments closed on my various posts. Ignorance is bliss, folks. #
  • Because I’m a masochist, I read over other artist friends’ comment sections, marveling at how few uses of the word “doom” there are. #
  • I dig people liking my work and all, but you go around talking like you “think” I or my characters do and someone’s bound to smack you. #
  • Sometimes, looking over the response I get, I feel like King Theoden in that suiting up scene asking “How did it come to this?” #
  • I, at least, don’t get crushed by a silly monster only to have my daughter avenge me only to deliver a shitty one-liner. #
  • The sheer amount of responses that are using the word “doom” in an ironic sense is staggering. Well done, people. The exit is over there! #
  • Ah, well. Comments are now closed on the ol House of Pies post. I really did like that last Lord of the Rings, though. #
  • @3liza But…I like apes. You, however, have read my emails. I never should have done that to you. Changed you forever. in reply to 3liza #
  • Favorite two words from an earlier conversation: “Black lactation”. Would be a fine metal band name #
  • Watching non-gamers play Flower, gyrating their arms, stress levels skyrocketing as they struggle to fly relaxedly through dream-fields. #
  • @psychomar I left only your post as a sort of head on a stick to ward off possible enemies, man. in reply to psychomar #
  • @warrenellis Feelin’ a bit ‘Father Jack-y” this day, eh? Careful you don’t get the hairy hands. in reply to warrenellis #
  • @cunch Flower’s relaxing enough, until you get to the downed power line areas and you’re suddenly on fire from contacting hot, live steel. in reply to cunch #
  • @cunch Weird. I had just gotten through that episode again yesterday as well! Stop trying to BE me, man. I’m up to DNA now. in reply to cunch #
  • @cunch Nope. You were in the level before it. Before the pain. Before the dream dies. in reply to cunch #
  • @deadzebra Oh, god. All the hand-shaking that goes on at those things. People should be happy enough with a polite bow or a nose wrinkle. in reply to deadzebra #
  • Time to find another sketch to finalize. Taking the elevator down to the archives, suited up for any run-ins with sketchbook goblins. #
  • @3liza I’m a terrible teacher, or so I’ve been told. Still, I firmly believe screaming lessons one inch away from a person’s face is cool. in reply to 3liza #
  • Hammering people slavish enough to need twitter updates on their mobiles is one of the wee perks of using this thing. Wake up, sleepies! #
  • Why complain about something you’ve added to your own list of extraneous needs. Isn’t having to eat, sleep, shit and fuck enough? BEEP! #
  • @KarlChristian Be prepared to go through a shit-ton of banjos, man. in reply to KarlChristian #
  • @KarlChristian Probably easier to down shots of whiskey or something rather than choke down banjo after banjo. in reply to KarlChristian #
  • @cunch Excellent. Doing a bit of that m’self. We can battle. in reply to cunch #
  • @NaomiSummers It’d be more laptops with Wacom tablets or Modbooks in hand, and banjo music, today anyhow. in reply to NaomiSummers #
  • Nice to see Galactica get back to some fun science fiction instead of the pre-ordained, vaguely defined spiritualism nonsense. Robots, man. #
  • @NaomiSummers Your use of complete sentences and speaking on topic is bringing a tear to my eye. Bless you, you wonderful tea-Brit. in reply to NaomiSummers #
  • I miss the days of the show having characters celebrating small victories with more than tears, a punch to the face, and moping. #
  • @NaomiSummers talking about Galactica. What’s this Tom and Jerry business? in reply to NaomiSummers #
  • @Wicabeth It’s fine tea, but it’s easily purchased at the nearest grocery! Thanks for turning me onto it, though. in reply to Wicabeth #
  • Though Valetine’s Day has passed, it’s never too late for romance: http://tinyurl.com/cmh4ba #
  • Valetine Day, yeah. Totally different from Valentine’s Day. #
  • Working on a post about next month’s Australian adventure and my appearances at the Melbourne and Brisbane Supanovas. #
  • Could a couple of Australian followers pipe up so I can get a read on whether or not I should hate you or expect some decency? #
  • @starsnostars You’re actually volunteering as an asshole? Why would you do that? in reply to starsnostars #
  • Of the tiny cross-section that’ve replied, it sounds like a decent lot so far. Still, I’m setting up the auto-turret grid defense. #
  • The turrets will be programmed to detect certain types of behavior, acting upon their presence with terrifying speed. Gonna be cool. #
  • Any ideas for what to program the turrets to watch out for? I’m familiar with the American horror feature set, but what about out there? #
  • Wait. There are Hot Topics in Australia, too? Why the hell did nobody warn me? Does it also have…”ANIME”? Fucking hell. #
  • By the sound of it now, I’ll be doubling up on turrets. Been practicing my technique with Savage Moon, Field Runners and Defense Grid. #
  • Just days after charging me $100 bucks to repair my suddenly broken 360 one week out of warranty, MS announces: http://tinyurl.com/bxj4vb #
  • Now I see what I’m doing wrong: http://tinyurl.com/acz7p4 #
  • The mere existence of such a game is awesome and absurd enough: http://is.gd/jWOF #
  • @emmastory Grow, probably, but it’s definitely not as immediately memorable as the last couple of releases. in reply to emmastory #
  • Sketching out costume redesigns for characters I’ve not touched in a good couple of years. Needs more screws. #
  • In answer to the kind and the viciously eager: No, it’s not for new comics. But don’t worry, even if you don’t see it, I’m working, kids. #
  • I guess it’s flattery of sorts to have slobbering crazies curse you for not doing comics as often as they’d like. Means they care! D’aww. #
  • There’s this idea where if you’re not doing it for all the world to watch, then you’re not really doing anything at all. S’funny, that. #
  • @katarr Me in particular? Damn…I’ve always had a solipsistic streak in me but to have it confirmed adds some pressure. in reply to katarr #
  • Can’t feel my fingers. Must be done drawing for the night/morning. Time to celebrate by screaming at the top of my lungs. #
  • As per usual, my screaming has awakened the congratulatory drawing-elves that wait for me to finish up my masterpieces. Lookit’ em dance! #
  • The dance…it grows uglier, more lascivious. I feel I’ve made a terrible mistake in awakening this ancient evil with my incredible work. #
  • You know, your suggestions about the very real elf problem are just ridiculous and, I have to say, fuckin’ STUPID. This is real life, kids. #