July 03, 2008
Quantum of Solace Trailer
Yes.
Posted by Schamberger at 05:37 AM
July 02, 2008
State of the Rob 07022008
* The announcement that it's Platinum acquiring Wowio leaves me...well, you know. I don't think anyone would be excited to find out that one of their good sources of income, passive or not, has been taken over by a company known for not paying. I'll mark this as 'Wait and See' until the new contract shows up in the mail. My fingers were crossed for Google or Amazon, y'know?
* Think about Google running a product like Wowio for a second. Yeah, that's a better world.
* Due to popular demand, my show at Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities has been extended for another month. Unfortunately I won't be able to be there for the July opening, but for those of you who missed the June opening, be sure to make it out for this on Friday the eleventh.
* Thanks to Mom, Roger and Katy for a perfectly lovely birthday dinner.
* The day itself, though, was utterly rotten. I really need to continue to focus on getting out of the need for a day job and move more into doing something I actually want to be doing.
Posted by Schamberger at 07:06 PM
July 01, 2008
Batesville Installment Eight
Wednesday, May 26, 2008
THIS JOB IS SUCH A DRAG!
Hey, what’s up, my peeps? Same ol’ shit goin’ on here in the ‘Ville. I’m on break from the restaurant and decided to stop back home and see what’s goin on around the internets. Jack and shit! I also wanted to take a look at my new neighbor, gawd, she is FINE. Can’t wait for her to come into the restaurant so’s I can slide her some meat knowumsayin, show her why they calls me the king o’ the jungle! Any ways, I’ll check back in with yalls latur. Hopefully tonight the rents won’t be all up in each others faces fighting again. We’ll see!
Listening To: Ozzy!
Mood: Horny
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And why do they call you the king of the jungle, Chuckles?
Posted by Jodie on Wednesday, May 26, 2008 at 1:28 PM
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Sheeit, girl. A male lion has sex on average over sixty times a day!
Posted by Chuckles on Wednesday, May 26, 2008 at 1:29 PM
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LOL! So you’re a masturbating lion!
Posted by KCAndrew on Wednesday, May 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM
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Posted by Schamberger at 05:59 AM
June 30, 2008
Page 7 Rough
Posted by Schamberger at 05:58 AM
June 29, 2008
State of the Rob 06292008
* I don't know if I've ever been more unexcited for a birthday. I guess it's just from getting old. There's not a lot about being 28 to be excited about.
* Other than making it through 27.
* This past year was very hard-earned. I really went through the wringer and came through stronger for it. Hopefully 28 will be less rocky than 27 has been.
* Wowio is down right now while they're going through the process of being able to distribute globally, which is fine for me. I'd like to have my work available for the majority of the world's population. And to get paid for them to read it for free. More on this when the information is available.
* Otherwise things are progressing apace. I'm about a month ahead on Too Soon, and I think the quality of the art increases quite a bit from here forward. I've been trying out some different approaches and some have frankly fallen flat. But that's art, man. Even the failures are wonderful in their own ways.
Posted by Schamberger at 09:51 AM
June 28, 2008
Page 6 Rough
Posted by Schamberger at 09:15 PM
June 26, 2008
Drive-In Saturday
One of my very favorite Bowie tracks. The Aladdin Sane 30th Anniversary 2 CD Edition has a very beautiful live version on it that just...haunts me. Anyway, yeah, the robber's shirt is the cover to Aladdin Sane, for you two or three people that didn't catch that.
Posted by Schamberger at 08:21 PM
June 25, 2008
Page 5 Rough
Posted by Schamberger at 08:17 PM
June 24, 2008
Batesville Installment Seven
Jimmy can’t remember how long he’s been living on the streets. The old man has no time to be worried about things like that anyway, what with the dead people following him everywhere he goes. They’re not zombies or anything like that. No, that would be crazy. These are just dead people. They’re everywhere, always asking for help, but Jimmy knows that it’s not his place to step in and assist them. No, someone else has to do that. Jimmy’s camped out just north of downtown Kansas City, right by the River Market area. There seems to be a lot of dead folks wandering around the district, but Jimmy’s not quite sure why. Maybe there’s a Yamagot working the area and they came to get help that way. Jimmy hopes that’s not the case, as he’s hiding out from Yama, has been for a good long while now. He just can’t bring himself to face Yama yet, not after everything that happened.
So Jimmy just stands there at the corner, holding his sign, hoping that the people exiting off of I-35 onto Broadway will help him get enough money to get some food today. He tries to talk with them about what he sees, but they just don’t want to listen. Maybe today someone will know if there’s a Yamagot in the River Market. Maybe today someone will be able to help all of these dead people.
Posted by Schamberger at 08:07 PM
June 23, 2008
Coming Soon to Wowio
EDIT: Okay, now it's available!
Posted by Schamberger at 08:04 PM
Sad Day
RIP George Carlin
Man, where do I even start with what an impact Carlin had on my life?
Bill and Ted, probably, was my first memory of him, or maybe Thomas the Tank Engine.
But I really Came To Know Him in 1998, driving around Lees Summit, smoking pot with my buddy Brennan and he put in the tape of 'Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics' and I just died. It was like, this guy GETS IT. And jesus fuck, he's funny!
I got to see him live in concert in 2003 with my buddy Gary, which I feel very, very lucky about. It came off as very personal, like he was just that guy at the party who had all of the entertaining shit to say and everybody was laughing at what he said.
I'll miss him. But, in his honor, I'd like to say a few more words in his memory. Seven words, in fact.
Shit.
Piss.
Fuck.
Cunt.
Cocksucker.
Motherfucker.
Tits.
We'll miss ya, ya dirty bastard.
Posted by Schamberger at 06:46 PM
June 20, 2008
State of the Rob 02202008
A Normal Workday
* Alarm goes off at 5:30AM
* Stumble down the hall to my office, turn on the computer
* Pee while the computer boots. Hopefully in the toilet
* Check email
* Process daily Wowio numbers in Spreadsheet
* Update daily Too Soon installment
* Update Too Soon archive
* Post new blog entry (Secret: I write all of these on Sundays and then just post them)
* Take shower at 5:45 to 6:00AM
* Put on clothes (hopefully)
* Kiss Katy on the cheek and tell her I love her
* Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch
* Let the cats know they're in charge and to hold down the fort
* Depart the apartment at 6:10AM
* Arrive at the day job at 6:50AM
* Get tea and water
* Clock in at 7AM
* On top of the normal job, I also run reports, correct appropriate policies, and work on writing up new initiatives for senior management to review
* Lunch at 11AM to 12PM, pencilling Too Soon pages
* Except on Friday I read
* Depart work at 4PM
* Arrive home at 4:45PM - yes, it takes five minutes longer to get home
* Pet the cats and give them treats
* Pet Katy and give her treats
* Cook dinner - normally shells and cheese with salsa
* Although I'm getting tired of that and have been trying out different things of late
* Do my best zombie impersonation for an hour or so
* 6ish PM I go to the office and work on Too Soon pages
* Between 9PM and 10PM I turn in for the night
* Except on Mondays I go to watch RAW at 8PM
* Or Friday nights, those are for the girlfriend
* Wash
* Lather
* Rinse
* Repeat
* Katy's thinking about doing an article for The Comics Journal called 'I'm a Comic Book Widow'. There might be something to that.
Posted by Schamberger at 02:42 PM
June 19, 2008
Page 4 Rough
Posted by Schamberger at 09:14 PM
June 18, 2008
The Mushroom One with the White Sauce
Courtesy of The Barefoot Contessa.
Katy made this once and I just absolutely loved it. Good eats!
Posted by Schamberger at 05:09 AM
June 17, 2008
Batesville Installment Six
Frank decides that it needs a little more blue. The mixture’s close, but it needs to darken up a little, so he squirts a little primary blue onto his palette and mixes it into the rest of the paint with his knife. Then he adds a little white to it, but not much. A little bit goes a long way with white. Perfect. He daubs the blade into the paint and begins to apply it to the surface of the painting.
“I asked you a question, Frank.”
“You ask a lot of questions, honey. Do I really need to answer all of them?”
“This one you do, yeah,” she replies adamantly and with a little too much emotion.
Frank and Marilyn Saffo have been married for about eighteen years. If you were to get either of them alone they’d tell you that they hadn’t been truly happy together since before they got hitched. Back then Frank did ‘the right thing’ after Marilyn got pregnant and took her hand in marriage, but they’ve both wondered since what their lives would be like if they hadn’t got pregnant, or if they hadn’t married and just went their separate ways.
“I don’t know, Marilyn,” he says into the phone nuzzled between his ear and shoulder.
“What do you mean, you don’t know?” her voice implores over the line.
“It’s ten in the morning. I don’t know what I fucking want for fucking dinner, alright?”
“Don’t take that tone with me,” she whispers back. Good ol’ Marilyn, never wanting to make a scene. Never wanting to do anything that might get her noticed.
“Call me on your way home, maybe I’ll have an idea then. You know, when I’m hungry and it’s time for dinner.” The painting’s starting to come out the way he wants it. It’s got that right energy going on that makes Frank feel truly alive.
“You should go help that new lady move in. I saw Jaquie Folsom out there helping. You should too, since you’re home all day.”
“I’m home all day working, Marilyn. I’m not just sitting around with my thumb up my ass. If the lady needed help she should have hired some.”
“Yeah, who was I kidding, thinking you’d be help.”
“Fuck you.” Frank hangs up the phone and gets back to something he actually cares about.
Posted by Schamberger at 06:03 AM
June 16, 2008
Too Soon Catch-Up
Want to get caught up on Too Soon? Check out the archive! While you're at it, check out the two books that led up to this story!
Posted by Schamberger at 08:56 AM
