Anyway, have loads of jokes and perspectives I should have been cartooning over the past few weeks, and I will just have to figure out how many I want to do and when.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
EOS 59: Return to Yourself
Anyway, have loads of jokes and perspectives I should have been cartooning over the past few weeks, and I will just have to figure out how many I want to do and when.
Monday, January 20, 2014
30 years - 30 songs
If you know me, then you know two things about me. 1) I really love rock 'n' Roll and 2) I am turning 30 today at 2:32 PM CST. So, to commemorate this momentous event, I will give you a playlist of 30 songs, each one has meant something important to me and as I will post it along with a year of my life in which it was meaningful.
Because I was born in January, the year roughly lines up with my age. How convenient.
1984: age 0: "Time After Time"-Cyndi Lauper.
Obviously, I don't remember much about this year. I just looked up a list of the top songs of the year, and this is the one that has stuck with me the longest, appropriate.
1985: age 1: "Superbowl Shuffle" -The Chicago Bears
That is right. The '85 Chicago Bears (one of the greatest football teams of all time) put out a charity hip-hop record. It was both terrible and amazing, but what wasn't terrible was their season with all but one game happening when I was 1.
1986: age 2: "You're So Vain" - Carly Simon
I don't how old I was when I first understood anything about this song, but for some reason, this was the first song I can remember coming over the radio and wanting to hear it. I know it seems tied to a decade for most people, but for me it was that first awareness of good music not just in my dad's CD collection (he was an early adopter) but out in the world. Also, I always associate it with riding in my mother's blue Escort, running errands.
1987: age 3: "Andrew" - Kevin Crow
My dad wrote a songs for both my brother and me when we were young. I don't remember what year, and he seems to have stopped writing since then. However, having your Dad sing a song just for you as a kid is just amazing because there is no-one a young boy looks up to more than his father, and no-one can replace that.
1988: age 4: "Your Birthday" -The Beatles
This is another memory of my dad. He would take me to the daycare center affiliated with his work. On the way over it was usually the time that the local radio station would announce birthdays with the song playing in the background. I don't know if it was a local people or celebrities. It didn't matter, I loved the song, and it was part of my morning ritual. These things are important when you are 4.
1989: age 5: "Ghost Busters" -Ray Parker Jr.
1989 was the year of Ghostbuster's 2, the completely awesome cartoon was in full swing (I have raved about this in a previous post) and my brother and I had some promotional record from the back of the Ghostbuster's cereal. It was something that had Herold Ramis asking us trivia questions about the movie we had yet to see. I think it was for some contest. So, really the record was kind of lame, but it did have the theme in the background, and that has got to make it one of the coolest things ever. Also, it was square. I mean, a square record. How crazy was that to a 5-year-old?
1990: age 6: "Let Go" - Cheap Trick
1990 was about as devastating a year a 6-year-old can have without anyone dying. I mean marriage ment people were together for the rest of thier lives. You couldn't get un-married. Parent's fought, but that was just kind of the joke of loving someone, right? Daddy always came home at a certain time. Well, needless to say, early in 1990, a year that was started with one of the coolest birthdays ever, my worldview was shattered. I'm still a little bitter about all of that, but what can I do? What does this have to do with the song? My dad listened to the song quite a bit that year. It was the first time I'd really been introduced to a breakup song, and this particular one was awesome. It gave me permission to be angry, not just sad and confused, a novel concept for one so young. In the end, that both helped and hurt, but that is another story.
1991: age 7: "Don Quixote" -Gordon Lightfoot
This is one of those song my dad would play on a wistful summer afternoon. The imagery of the horseman riding and shouting across the ocean took me away. Now that I am older and listen to it on my own, I finally appreciate the layers of meaning that Lightfoot weaves throughout the song. Still, it is so beautiful. Unfortunately, he didn't play it in concert.
1992: age 8: "Coming to America" -Neil Diamond
At some point in my youth, my mother went through a Neil Diamond phase. She bought a ton of albums. This was always the one that stood out as the most awesome. It was the pinnacle of Neil Diamond at that age: so hopeful, so catchy, so patriotic (isn't he Canadian?). I later went through my own phase that included late night thesis-writing wind-down rock-outs, but they don't change my memory of what it was to be eight and subject to my mother's taste in music. She has good taste.
1993: age 9: "Blackbird" The Beatles
This song always got to me. It was sad, but so hopeful. I remember listening to it mainly in my dad's living room and having such a mixed love for it. It has been with my my whole life and taken on different meanings at different times. It is easily my favorite Beatles song and one of two songs I know on the guitar.
1994: age 10: "Come as You Are" -Nirvana
I was a little too young to appreciate Nirvana, but my brother, who was just coming into his own musical tastes, was the perfect age. This was his favorite Nirvana song, and he played it all of the time. Thankfully, the rest of the family liked it as well. This song symbolizes to me, my brother coming into his own, and also my Dad remarrying, in many ways symbolizing that things were rebuilding and a new chapter had begun. Also, it is possibly the only Nirvana Song I actually like.
1995: age 11: "Don't Know Much" Aaron Neville
1995 is mainly associated with two things, actually being able to get Bulls tickets, and my mom listening to lot's of Neville Brothers. (She was also the one who bought the Bull's Tickets.) Driving into Chicago with this blasting was probably the best thing ever, because it meant we got to climb to the nosebleeds and actually see the Bulls in person. We even saw Jordan in his return season.
1996: age 12: "Phoney Calls" Weird Al Yankovic
I know. Of all of the Weird Al song's, why this one? Part of it was that my brother got the associated album and played it a lot, and part of it because it is strangely iconic. While, you could argue that "Amish Paradise" was a bigger hit off the same album, and "Gangster's Paradise" is better source material, the two songs have stood the test of time a little too well. Phoney Calls, is more tied to it's source material, "Waterfalls," which in itself is very much tied to an era. You can't listen to a parody (about landlines no less) of a depressing TLC song in any decade but the 90's. If you want to listen, then I will lend you my time machine.
1997: age 13: "Don't Stop Me Now" -Queen
At some point, my brother got a Queen's greatest hits album. This was the beginning of my love of Queen, and the beginning of me taking over my own musical decisions. Whereas he played it, I eventually had to get it as well. That album was one of the first albums I bought for myself. "Don't Stop me Now" was something incredible I discovered in middle school. It brings out the pure fun in Rock 'n' roll and nobody gave me permission to love it. I just did.
1998: Age 14: "One Week" -BareNaked Ladies
This was the year I truly discovered the radio, and I played it continuously. Actually, 1998 was a good year for the top 40s, and this song was tops in my book. Fast, fun and clever, it blew open the door of possibilities. I was hooked to the airwaves. Strangely, I didn't really become a big BNL fan until college.
1999: age 15: "Bycicle" -Queen
Ryan Brown and I used to sing this before first period gym class every day. I don't know why, but that is an awesome enough reason to include it.
2000: age 16: " All Star" -Smashmouth
Smashmouth was awesome, and "All Star" had the kick that "Walking on the Sun" lacked. What this signified was me finally coming into my own in high school. I stopped slacking. So, my grades dramatically improved. I resisted the urge to jump on the top of my desk and sing this after I aced my geometry final. (Take that, Jessie Spano). Also, I was finally making friends, good friends, the kind that 14 years later you send their mothers Chirstmas presents.
2001: age 17: "American Pie" -Don McLean
The summer of 2001 saw me go through a rather common developmental phase in which I listened to American Pie on repeat about 600,000 times. What is most impressive about cramming that number of plays into one summer is that, at 8'36" long, it would have taken about 9 years and 9 months go through it all. (Yes, I knew that off the top of my head) Once again, time machine. Actually, American Pie is a time machine. It takes you back to the 60s, which is why you listen to it for about a decade.
2002: age 18: "Hallelujah" -Rufus Wainwright
2002 saw several important events: me going to college, me teaching myself piano over break to impress a girl, her being thoroughly impressed with my rendition of Hallelujah, and, finally, her dumping me. There is lot more to the year than that, but that is how I like to tell it to people.
2003: age 19: "For You" -BareNaked Ladies
It wasn't until college that I discovered BNL in a big way. Sam Castree and I even drove up to Madison just to catch the show. It was one of the best I have ever been to. A little later I bought their album "Everything to Everyone," and I wouldn't say that it changed my life, but it is one of my favorites of all time. Of all of the songs on the album, this one is the most heartfelt and longest lasting in my life, and the lyrics are brilliant. We try to give what we can, but it may not be enough because we are all limited. It worked well in the mixed bag that was 2003.
2004: age 20: "Us" -Regina Spektor
I didn't really get Regina the first time I heard her in a record shop. Then, a little later, my friend sent me a link to her website, and it had the video for "Us." I was floored by her powerful and playful style. The next day I was in Chicago trying to get into a sold-out concert. We ended up went square-dancing instead. Don't worry, I've since been to two concerts and an signing (I had to take off work for the latter.) Regina is special to me. She makes music that is quirky and fun, and I give myself total freedom to shamelessly geek out about her. I also catch her every time she is in town.
2005: age 21: "Ding Dong Song" -Gunther
Watch the video for this if you dare. It's nothing horrible, but you can understand why my suite-mates and I would watch it on repeat and in a stunned state of hyperactivity. Ahh, the wasted days of college. We all really wanted to punch him in his lips.
2006: age 22: "Bui Doi" - Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr.
I bet you didn't expect a showtune to be in here, but I did run spotlights for a local production of Miss Saigon one summer, and if this wasn't just the catchiest tune. It was an odd summer of stress, unemployment, boredom, and adjustment, and we all ended up the better for it. This song reminds me of it.
2007: age 23: "Caledonia" -Dougie McClean
I love Dougie, he is so endearing, and he can get an audience laughing about anything. He had us rolling in the isle with a story about looking for his rental car in the mall parking lot earlier that day. If a man like that decides to sing about his homeland, it will touch you. This song will make you want to go somewhere special and reflect on how you got there. It always does it for me.
2008: age 24: "The Victors" -University of Michigan Fight Song
In 2008 two important things happened, I enrolled in the University of Michigan, and I discovered college football. I remember our first game. We were surprisingly terrible, but the atmosphere was infective. I was hooked. Years later, win or loose and through so many other sports, I still sing this song with pride. This song has seen me through the highest highs and the lowest lows of college sports. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Besides, it is the best darn fight song out there, (with the possible exception of Georgia Tech's.)
2009: age 25: "Take me Back to the Cross" -Mark Bassen
This is definitely the most important song on the list. It's a gospel song my pastor wrote, and it is everything you need to know about faith. I was going through a transition with my faith that summer ( I still am) and this simple message kept me going the right way. I will not detail here, but I will always discuss my faith privately.
2010: age 26: "Things you Know" -The Wailin' Jenny's
In 2010 I discovered Pandora, and through it I discovered I really love good folk music, especially the Waillin' Jenny's. "Things You Know," is an amazingly clever song with lyrics that really encouraged me. You don't have to have an overwhelming amount of experience, but what you know still counts. That is also my life through and through.
2011: age 27: "Someday" -Seventh Season
This song comes hot off the PhDMovie Soundtrack. If you are unfamiliar, then click on the Phd Comic's link on the sidebar. Phd comics is part of the lifeblood of a graduate student. The concept of a movie was incredible, and the very appropriate soundtrack got me though a lot of long days. "Someday" is incredible because it is that longing waiting, but it is with energy and hope just trying to figure it out. That is graduate school. Here is the link since I have no clue where else you would find it. http://music.phdmovie.com/track/someday
2012: age 28: "Call Me Maybe" -Carley Rae Jepsen
This song was a breath of fresh air. Pop music, with some exceptions, was getting non-melodic and little unpalatable in subject. Then, this simple song came along. It is sweet, upbeat, and fun. It's finally worth turning on the radio again, and nothing else quite got a car full of grown men to stop what they were doing in dance like maniacs. Actually, her full album, Kiss, has a number of good songs. I recommend it.
2013: age 29: "Fearless" -Taylor Swift
Was there any question in your mind that Taylor would get the year of '13? This was a tough choice, but I had to pick this one. It's more timeless than most of her other teenage works. So, why "Fearless?" It's really simple. With 30 years behind me, how do I want to approach the next 30? I don't know what they entail. My dreams have gotten much bigger. The reality of potential failure is a lot more apparent. There is not much I can bank on for the future except for friends, faith, family, and way too many years in school. 2013 has been a tumultuous year, and I don't know what will happen next, but I will be making something out of it. "I don't know if it get's better than this. You take my hand and drag me headfirst, fearless."
Thank you everyone for making the first 30 years of my life so wonderful. I love you all. Let's see what the next 30 have in store.
-Andrew
Because I was born in January, the year roughly lines up with my age. How convenient.
1984: age 0: "Time After Time"-Cyndi Lauper.
Obviously, I don't remember much about this year. I just looked up a list of the top songs of the year, and this is the one that has stuck with me the longest, appropriate.
1985: age 1: "Superbowl Shuffle" -The Chicago Bears
That is right. The '85 Chicago Bears (one of the greatest football teams of all time) put out a charity hip-hop record. It was both terrible and amazing, but what wasn't terrible was their season with all but one game happening when I was 1.
1986: age 2: "You're So Vain" - Carly Simon
I don't how old I was when I first understood anything about this song, but for some reason, this was the first song I can remember coming over the radio and wanting to hear it. I know it seems tied to a decade for most people, but for me it was that first awareness of good music not just in my dad's CD collection (he was an early adopter) but out in the world. Also, I always associate it with riding in my mother's blue Escort, running errands.
1987: age 3: "Andrew" - Kevin Crow
My dad wrote a songs for both my brother and me when we were young. I don't remember what year, and he seems to have stopped writing since then. However, having your Dad sing a song just for you as a kid is just amazing because there is no-one a young boy looks up to more than his father, and no-one can replace that.
1988: age 4: "Your Birthday" -The Beatles
This is another memory of my dad. He would take me to the daycare center affiliated with his work. On the way over it was usually the time that the local radio station would announce birthdays with the song playing in the background. I don't know if it was a local people or celebrities. It didn't matter, I loved the song, and it was part of my morning ritual. These things are important when you are 4.
1989: age 5: "Ghost Busters" -Ray Parker Jr.
1989 was the year of Ghostbuster's 2, the completely awesome cartoon was in full swing (I have raved about this in a previous post) and my brother and I had some promotional record from the back of the Ghostbuster's cereal. It was something that had Herold Ramis asking us trivia questions about the movie we had yet to see. I think it was for some contest. So, really the record was kind of lame, but it did have the theme in the background, and that has got to make it one of the coolest things ever. Also, it was square. I mean, a square record. How crazy was that to a 5-year-old?
1990: age 6: "Let Go" - Cheap Trick
1990 was about as devastating a year a 6-year-old can have without anyone dying. I mean marriage ment people were together for the rest of thier lives. You couldn't get un-married. Parent's fought, but that was just kind of the joke of loving someone, right? Daddy always came home at a certain time. Well, needless to say, early in 1990, a year that was started with one of the coolest birthdays ever, my worldview was shattered. I'm still a little bitter about all of that, but what can I do? What does this have to do with the song? My dad listened to the song quite a bit that year. It was the first time I'd really been introduced to a breakup song, and this particular one was awesome. It gave me permission to be angry, not just sad and confused, a novel concept for one so young. In the end, that both helped and hurt, but that is another story.
1991: age 7: "Don Quixote" -Gordon Lightfoot
This is one of those song my dad would play on a wistful summer afternoon. The imagery of the horseman riding and shouting across the ocean took me away. Now that I am older and listen to it on my own, I finally appreciate the layers of meaning that Lightfoot weaves throughout the song. Still, it is so beautiful. Unfortunately, he didn't play it in concert.
1992: age 8: "Coming to America" -Neil Diamond
At some point in my youth, my mother went through a Neil Diamond phase. She bought a ton of albums. This was always the one that stood out as the most awesome. It was the pinnacle of Neil Diamond at that age: so hopeful, so catchy, so patriotic (isn't he Canadian?). I later went through my own phase that included late night thesis-writing wind-down rock-outs, but they don't change my memory of what it was to be eight and subject to my mother's taste in music. She has good taste.
1993: age 9: "Blackbird" The Beatles
This song always got to me. It was sad, but so hopeful. I remember listening to it mainly in my dad's living room and having such a mixed love for it. It has been with my my whole life and taken on different meanings at different times. It is easily my favorite Beatles song and one of two songs I know on the guitar.
1994: age 10: "Come as You Are" -Nirvana
I was a little too young to appreciate Nirvana, but my brother, who was just coming into his own musical tastes, was the perfect age. This was his favorite Nirvana song, and he played it all of the time. Thankfully, the rest of the family liked it as well. This song symbolizes to me, my brother coming into his own, and also my Dad remarrying, in many ways symbolizing that things were rebuilding and a new chapter had begun. Also, it is possibly the only Nirvana Song I actually like.
1995: age 11: "Don't Know Much" Aaron Neville
1995 is mainly associated with two things, actually being able to get Bulls tickets, and my mom listening to lot's of Neville Brothers. (She was also the one who bought the Bull's Tickets.) Driving into Chicago with this blasting was probably the best thing ever, because it meant we got to climb to the nosebleeds and actually see the Bulls in person. We even saw Jordan in his return season.
1996: age 12: "Phoney Calls" Weird Al Yankovic
I know. Of all of the Weird Al song's, why this one? Part of it was that my brother got the associated album and played it a lot, and part of it because it is strangely iconic. While, you could argue that "Amish Paradise" was a bigger hit off the same album, and "Gangster's Paradise" is better source material, the two songs have stood the test of time a little too well. Phoney Calls, is more tied to it's source material, "Waterfalls," which in itself is very much tied to an era. You can't listen to a parody (about landlines no less) of a depressing TLC song in any decade but the 90's. If you want to listen, then I will lend you my time machine.
1997: age 13: "Don't Stop Me Now" -Queen
At some point, my brother got a Queen's greatest hits album. This was the beginning of my love of Queen, and the beginning of me taking over my own musical decisions. Whereas he played it, I eventually had to get it as well. That album was one of the first albums I bought for myself. "Don't Stop me Now" was something incredible I discovered in middle school. It brings out the pure fun in Rock 'n' roll and nobody gave me permission to love it. I just did.
1998: Age 14: "One Week" -BareNaked Ladies
This was the year I truly discovered the radio, and I played it continuously. Actually, 1998 was a good year for the top 40s, and this song was tops in my book. Fast, fun and clever, it blew open the door of possibilities. I was hooked to the airwaves. Strangely, I didn't really become a big BNL fan until college.
1999: age 15: "Bycicle" -Queen
Ryan Brown and I used to sing this before first period gym class every day. I don't know why, but that is an awesome enough reason to include it.
2000: age 16: " All Star" -Smashmouth
Smashmouth was awesome, and "All Star" had the kick that "Walking on the Sun" lacked. What this signified was me finally coming into my own in high school. I stopped slacking. So, my grades dramatically improved. I resisted the urge to jump on the top of my desk and sing this after I aced my geometry final. (Take that, Jessie Spano). Also, I was finally making friends, good friends, the kind that 14 years later you send their mothers Chirstmas presents.
2001: age 17: "American Pie" -Don McLean
The summer of 2001 saw me go through a rather common developmental phase in which I listened to American Pie on repeat about 600,000 times. What is most impressive about cramming that number of plays into one summer is that, at 8'36" long, it would have taken about 9 years and 9 months go through it all. (Yes, I knew that off the top of my head) Once again, time machine. Actually, American Pie is a time machine. It takes you back to the 60s, which is why you listen to it for about a decade.
2002: age 18: "Hallelujah" -Rufus Wainwright
2002 saw several important events: me going to college, me teaching myself piano over break to impress a girl, her being thoroughly impressed with my rendition of Hallelujah, and, finally, her dumping me. There is lot more to the year than that, but that is how I like to tell it to people.
2003: age 19: "For You" -BareNaked Ladies
It wasn't until college that I discovered BNL in a big way. Sam Castree and I even drove up to Madison just to catch the show. It was one of the best I have ever been to. A little later I bought their album "Everything to Everyone," and I wouldn't say that it changed my life, but it is one of my favorites of all time. Of all of the songs on the album, this one is the most heartfelt and longest lasting in my life, and the lyrics are brilliant. We try to give what we can, but it may not be enough because we are all limited. It worked well in the mixed bag that was 2003.
2004: age 20: "Us" -Regina Spektor
I didn't really get Regina the first time I heard her in a record shop. Then, a little later, my friend sent me a link to her website, and it had the video for "Us." I was floored by her powerful and playful style. The next day I was in Chicago trying to get into a sold-out concert. We ended up went square-dancing instead. Don't worry, I've since been to two concerts and an signing (I had to take off work for the latter.) Regina is special to me. She makes music that is quirky and fun, and I give myself total freedom to shamelessly geek out about her. I also catch her every time she is in town.
2005: age 21: "Ding Dong Song" -Gunther
Watch the video for this if you dare. It's nothing horrible, but you can understand why my suite-mates and I would watch it on repeat and in a stunned state of hyperactivity. Ahh, the wasted days of college. We all really wanted to punch him in his lips.
2006: age 22: "Bui Doi" - Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby, Jr.
I bet you didn't expect a showtune to be in here, but I did run spotlights for a local production of Miss Saigon one summer, and if this wasn't just the catchiest tune. It was an odd summer of stress, unemployment, boredom, and adjustment, and we all ended up the better for it. This song reminds me of it.
2007: age 23: "Caledonia" -Dougie McClean
I love Dougie, he is so endearing, and he can get an audience laughing about anything. He had us rolling in the isle with a story about looking for his rental car in the mall parking lot earlier that day. If a man like that decides to sing about his homeland, it will touch you. This song will make you want to go somewhere special and reflect on how you got there. It always does it for me.
2008: age 24: "The Victors" -University of Michigan Fight Song
In 2008 two important things happened, I enrolled in the University of Michigan, and I discovered college football. I remember our first game. We were surprisingly terrible, but the atmosphere was infective. I was hooked. Years later, win or loose and through so many other sports, I still sing this song with pride. This song has seen me through the highest highs and the lowest lows of college sports. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Besides, it is the best darn fight song out there, (with the possible exception of Georgia Tech's.)
2009: age 25: "Take me Back to the Cross" -Mark Bassen
This is definitely the most important song on the list. It's a gospel song my pastor wrote, and it is everything you need to know about faith. I was going through a transition with my faith that summer ( I still am) and this simple message kept me going the right way. I will not detail here, but I will always discuss my faith privately.
2010: age 26: "Things you Know" -The Wailin' Jenny's
In 2010 I discovered Pandora, and through it I discovered I really love good folk music, especially the Waillin' Jenny's. "Things You Know," is an amazingly clever song with lyrics that really encouraged me. You don't have to have an overwhelming amount of experience, but what you know still counts. That is also my life through and through.
2011: age 27: "Someday" -Seventh Season
This song comes hot off the PhDMovie Soundtrack. If you are unfamiliar, then click on the Phd Comic's link on the sidebar. Phd comics is part of the lifeblood of a graduate student. The concept of a movie was incredible, and the very appropriate soundtrack got me though a lot of long days. "Someday" is incredible because it is that longing waiting, but it is with energy and hope just trying to figure it out. That is graduate school. Here is the link since I have no clue where else you would find it. http://music.phdmovie.com/track/someday
2012: age 28: "Call Me Maybe" -Carley Rae Jepsen
This song was a breath of fresh air. Pop music, with some exceptions, was getting non-melodic and little unpalatable in subject. Then, this simple song came along. It is sweet, upbeat, and fun. It's finally worth turning on the radio again, and nothing else quite got a car full of grown men to stop what they were doing in dance like maniacs. Actually, her full album, Kiss, has a number of good songs. I recommend it.
2013: age 29: "Fearless" -Taylor Swift
Was there any question in your mind that Taylor would get the year of '13? This was a tough choice, but I had to pick this one. It's more timeless than most of her other teenage works. So, why "Fearless?" It's really simple. With 30 years behind me, how do I want to approach the next 30? I don't know what they entail. My dreams have gotten much bigger. The reality of potential failure is a lot more apparent. There is not much I can bank on for the future except for friends, faith, family, and way too many years in school. 2013 has been a tumultuous year, and I don't know what will happen next, but I will be making something out of it. "I don't know if it get's better than this. You take my hand and drag me headfirst, fearless."
Thank you everyone for making the first 30 years of my life so wonderful. I love you all. Let's see what the next 30 have in store.
-Andrew
Sunday, January 19, 2014
EOS 58 Under Review
I had a number of comic ideas lined up, but then something happened, and this sort of jumped tot eh top of the list. I will let you figure out what happened. I would be mad if the criticism wasn't so ludicrously misguided.
Friday, January 3, 2014
EOS 57: Reboot
If you don't get these jokes, then you aren't a true nerd.
Also, have you noticed something different about my avatar? That's right, I got a haircut today.
Other news I will be checking out B'more into Comics tomorrow (www.bmoreintocomics.com/) If you can make it to Baltimore tomorrow, then I strongly suggest you check it out. It was awesome last time.
I might even go as far as meeting up with friends at Magfest.
In other news, I drew this entire comic while wearing a guitar stand on my shoulders. No, I have no idea why I did that.
Also, have you noticed something different about my avatar? That's right, I got a haircut today.
Other news I will be checking out B'more into Comics tomorrow (www.bmoreintocomics.com/) If you can make it to Baltimore tomorrow, then I strongly suggest you check it out. It was awesome last time.
I might even go as far as meeting up with friends at Magfest.
In other news, I drew this entire comic while wearing a guitar stand on my shoulders. No, I have no idea why I did that.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
EOS 56: A Little More than Mildly Miffed
I think I am trying to do something with this week.
I am not certain, though. I am going to bed. I will, hopefully, have something interesting for you by tomorrow night to wrap up this week of ranting and neurosis.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
EOS 55: Social Anxiety
Here is my second comic in 24 hours. I like how 2014 is turning out. That being said, you will probably not like this. These are just my raw neuroses when encountering people. I guess I am a very touchy and judgmental person and I assume that other people are the same way.
Still, this comic is my apology to every person I ever tried to get to know, and every girl I have ever asked out. I really didn't have an ulterior motive when I freaked you out. I just thought you were cool, and I might not have fully understood your boundaries. Please accept it.
I wasn't always like this. I used to make friends by the cartload, but for some reason, ever since I moved out here I have been behaving like this. I will make one or two more neurotic comics this week, then I will try to get back to being in awe of the world.
Still, this comic is my apology to every person I ever tried to get to know, and every girl I have ever asked out. I really didn't have an ulterior motive when I freaked you out. I just thought you were cool, and I might not have fully understood your boundaries. Please accept it.
I wasn't always like this. I used to make friends by the cartload, but for some reason, ever since I moved out here I have been behaving like this. I will make one or two more neurotic comics this week, then I will try to get back to being in awe of the world.
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