and much has changed. For the better, though. Going to work on bringing this blog back up to date.

Anyone planning a vacation to my basement needs to read this life-saving announcement.

This is apparently one of those countries in which you actually have to make money in order to pay taxes. Guess I'm off the hook this time!

 

 

Here's a blooper for y'all... the non-bloop version will probably be posted at Palidor media within the next day or two. Any more than that and my partner in crime might beat me with a foam noodle.

 

There's also a comic- What's in a name? Depends on the name, really.

I promised zaniness, and... here it comes!

Admittedly, it's a low-key zany. Still, that's better than none at all.

Anyhow, here's a little comic featuring me and the BND doing what we do best- sitting around and snacking on various food-like products. There's also a botched version of a piece  for TCW called 'Into the River'.

I will do some real work for the Palidor Media update. Eventually! I swear. Gimme a break, eh? Got to get my taxes done today...

There will be pictures here.  And comics. And works in progress. And.. zany things.

But right now I'm just full of hashbrown quiche and sleepy.

 

I'm working on several pictures of Lorelei and the fake Lorelei(s) from TCW right now. Several of my favorite copic markers, like Fruit pink and Tahitian Blue, have given up their ghosts- right as I was using them too, so I had to start both pieces over again to get the color schemes to look right. I chose to make the fake Lorelei(s) look goldfishy because, well, I rather like goldfish. My grandfather used to keep some in a little pond at the house in Germany, and I would help take care of them sometimes. I always thought they were beautiful, and I wondered where they got to when the pond froze over. Do fish hibernate? That's the burning question of the day!

 

The Sims 2 Seasons has ensnared me in it's wondrous clutches. I have a desert island where it is always summer and rich folk live beside the ocean and take in the wonderful view from their pools. I also have a tiny village in the mountains where it is always winter, and people cannot leave thier houses without coats. The mountains are full of ruined castles, haunted and filled with werewolves, and vampires, and the occassional zombie or mad scientist. I've given up trying to recreate TCW on the Sims 2. There are simply too many things I'd have to download to make it look right. I can't have Kell zipping around in a sports car. Those things are very compact! I don't think his wings would fit well at all.

Oh, the simmy chaos.

Amber's sim has a LOT of 'tude....

As you know if you've been keeping up with Mom's blog, things at the old homestead have been hectic, heated, and harried. The only way I keep from going nutso is by continous video gaming.

Here are some more pics from my Sim-World- this time I tried to recreate my fantasy book using the Sims 2 and many of the mods out there.  There's also some pics from my "real-life' neihgborhood I just thought were darn funny...(vote for yor fave!)

I have turned my hair a very, very strange color. This is what you get for trying to cut costs and skip the salon. The pictures don't even do it justice.

A whiny sixteen-year old amnesiac opens his own private detective agency in New York. As he is walking down Times Square he is accosted by two flamingly gay bikers who proceed to proposition him, try to molest him, and offer him gifts.  Which he accepts. “Wear this on your body and pretend it’s me,” the butch-biker says as his  skinny consort giggles and waggles his mustache. (Stereotypes, anyone? Even the gay acupuncturist in SH1 had more character.)

 

About fifteen minutes later, as the whiny amnesiac ends his manhunt and confronts the first boss in the game, he is saved in the nick of time by the game’s heroine- who looks like a transvestite hooker dressed in kinky native-american themed  lingerie, complete with spray-tanned jugs and KFC blond hair.  In order to shift to her powerful fusion monster shape, she must do a slow striptease and generally bounce her boobs around quite a lot.

 

I was expecting great things from this game. The first two Shadow Hearts games had me hooked.  I was instantly crushing on Yuri, who never had to remove his clothing to perform a shift and always had plenty of snappy dialogue. The dialogue in this game is just-- stilted.

 

  I have never been so completely alienated from a game within the first couple of minutes. I pressed onward, hoping things would get better. I was also promised by the game booklet that eventually I would get to play a large drunken cat who did a special kind of cat martial arts. I just couldn’t hold on long enough.

 

Did the original writers and character designers of the game take drugs and lose some of their brain functions? Or were they just replaced by a bunch of perverse sexist idiots?  

 

If you’re the kind of person who hardly gets enough huge, fake, spray-tanned breasts  inflicted on you by the  tv then this is the game for you.  It seems my dreams of playing a large drunken cat are destined to remain unfulfilled. It’s a shame I can’t set this disc on fire.

 

So that would be a negative review. Two thumbs down. And ten toes, too.

I know I'm an addict. But damnit... Sims do the craziest things!