Shannon Wheeler ([info]tmcm) wrote,
@ 2004-01-12 23:48:00
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thank god that's over
Didn't go too bad. I did get bored because everyone in publishing bitches about how the big publishers just care about the bottom line - then we, the small publishers bitch about how expensive it is to publish and how you really have to watch your bottom line. Ach.

I read the Klingon interview where we interviewed a klingon. The joke is that the answers are in Klingon. I made a baby cry as soon as I started talking klingon. Ooops. Sorry.

Here's an enormous image with drawings of the audience. I did it while everyone did their readings. I promise I'll bother to figure out how to do a cut soon. It's only 150 k anyway so it shouldn't be too bad.

Zoe showed up which was nice of her. She even stayed for the boring Q&A.


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[info]zoe_trope
2004-01-13 01:26 am UTC (link)
sell that mag on ebay! you'll make tons of money.

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homage
[info]jdallman
2004-01-13 01:54 am UTC (link)
Good point about ebay. Why is there no original art up on there? The most expensive non-sculputre item is like $8. I bet you could easily sell autographed art for $30+ and without pissing off any of your book publishers by selling autographed copies of the books themselves. You might not sell many, but hey, 3 = $100 (give or take), and shipping costs would be nothing.

Anyhow, I was so bummed about missing the Powells thing tonight that I stayed up all night doing a homage strip to you (seeing as how I got plenty of sleep earlier):

http://www.godallman.com/skidmore/comic.php?id=152

A pale shadow of your greater light, my friend, a pale shadow. Hope you like it, though. Like I said, you were one of my influences back in '96 when I created Skidmore.

Maybe the baby had a hidden talent for understanding Klingon, and was the only one in the room who truly understood. Truly understood what a disturbed person you are for reading an interview in Klingon!

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Re: homage
[info]jdallman
2004-01-13 02:14 am UTC (link)
( Just in case the "Hitler" reference in the first panel is confusing, and just so I don't get any skinhead flames ... http://www.godallman.com/skidmore/skid_hhh.php )

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Re: homage
[info]tmcm
2004-01-13 01:48 pm UTC (link)
cool comic. thanks.

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[info]murnkay
2004-01-13 06:56 am UTC (link)
Woo!

Dude you just made my morning.

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[info]tusixoh
2004-01-13 09:52 am UTC (link)
if you don't mind, can you scan a bigger image of that space-time comic in there? i have a few friends that are scientists who would get a kick out of that. thanx.

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[info]tmcm
2004-01-13 01:29 pm UTC (link)
Ha! I won't be fooled by your jedi mind tricks. You must go buy the magazine.

Too Much Coffee Man #19, page 24.

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[info]tusixoh
2004-01-13 03:11 pm UTC (link)
ah, i didn't realize that's what you had scanned there. i shall go pick up a copy from Panic!

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[info]tmcm
2004-01-13 04:08 pm UTC (link)
good deal. I need every sale I can get.

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Subjecting others to your ego, part whatever.
[info]revneongelus
2004-01-13 11:18 am UTC (link)
Next time, maybe try going for the acid-freakout scene. You know, where you stand on the edge of the table and scream "No - you don't understand! I AM Too Much Coffee Guy!" Then when somebody says, "Don't you mean 'man'?" you can just run screaming from the room. Many of my social plans end that way, sometimes with a girl, or a taser.

Or spend the whole night being politely sarcastic. "Oh yeah, that's a great idea. No, I mean it, that's really insightful. Yeah, you're a creative power-house." People won't know if you're an asshole, or just really, really ironic. "Hey," they'll say, "look at that ironic asshole over there." Stuff like that. Wear sunglasses and claim to be "the guy who did Sandman". Spend the whole night talking about The Thing VS The Hulk.

Stan Lee came through Vancouver not too long ago, and I had a couple of plans for his... well, his demise, to be quite honest. One involved one of the three local figures named "Thor" here in town showing up and beating him to death with a hammer for the honor of the Norse faith... In another, a masked gunman would run up to the stage, and I'd almost stop him, but then I'd let him run by, and then he'd kill Stan Lee. Ha! Lets see them deal with that News story, says I.

Anyway, that's just a bit more about what I think about showing up in public. Before much longer I'll head off to my counter-gig and hang my head in semi-polite shame... "Your emotion is out of place in my store," as the cliche said last night...

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Re: Subjecting others to your ego, part whatever.
[info]tmcm
2004-01-13 01:12 pm UTC (link)
Stan beat to death by Jack Kirby creation, Thor. I think that would be the lead in most newspapers.

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Is that Thor or have you just been playing with it?
[info]revneongelus
2004-01-14 10:07 am UTC (link)
Actually Shannon, here in Vancouver we have, to my counting, three Thors, none of them Kirby created. One is a heavy metal dude, one plays a broken keyboard downtown and asks for change, and the other one teaches a Norse Mythology course.

That’s three, unrelated, Thors. I’m covered in Thors downtown, if you know what I mean…

So any way, one of these guys shows up, screaming something about “You’ve stolen as much as you will from the Honor of the Norse Faith, mustachioed spider-demon!” And then they’d plummet him with a hammer. It’d get written up as a religious disagreement.

Personally, I can’t read Thor comics, and I won’t, until somebody does one where he actually talks like where he comes from. I’m tired of all that “thee” and “thou” shit. Norse God for fuck’s sake. It’s as bad as sound effects in outer-space…

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Re: Is that Thor or have you just been playing with it?
[info]tmcm
2004-01-14 10:16 am UTC (link)
I don't know. I've heard that Kirby was pretty amorous....

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Cut instructions
[info]self
2004-01-13 02:02 pm UTC (link)
I think that image is perfectly reasonable to display without a cut, but here's the code:
    <lj-cut text="whatever you want the link to say">

          (material you're cutting goes here)

    </lj-cut>
I threw in some unneccesary white-space to make the example easier to read. You don't need that.

Also worth noting, the text="" part is only displayed on the initial post, not on the expanded version. If that text is relevant to the post at large, you might repeat it inside the cut. Likewise, fun can be had in slightly altering what's said from one iteration to the next.

Anyway, I hope this proves helpful to you.

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Out of curiousity, if a fan were to whip out their Klingon/English dictionary and spend the time translating, are there additional jokes to be found within the interview? Or are those answers completely serious? Or nonsense?

One of the less popular themes in TV's "Firefly" (now cancelled, but collected on DVD) was that occasional lines would be spoken in Chinese, with no subtitles provided. Apparently, those lines are authentic, and very funny if translated, but most of us will never be let in on the joke. I still haven't decided how I feel about that, but your Klingon interview reminded me of it.

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Re: Cut instructions
[info]tmcm
2004-01-13 02:35 pm UTC (link)
Too cool. Thank you. Perfectly understandable.





Additional jokes... sort of. Those are real answers. It's funny how reasonable and smart the guy was. He was very mature. They're sort of funny - but not over the top jokes. It's all real klingon. When I did the reading I read the first one accurately - then I started faking it because the timing was weird when I read it real. I figured people could look at the print version for the text.

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Ah!
[info]self
2004-01-14 02:17 am UTC (link)
Took a while for it to sink in why that image was there. You were trying a cut in your reply, and it didn't work. Here's why:

The "cut" itself only happens on the front page of your journal, when your entry shows up on someone's friends list, or (and this one's unusual) if you happen to be using an embedded style to display each new entry on an outside website, the cut'll be there too.

The "comments" page does not hide anything. It's actually more or less where the cuts link to when you click to see what's within. So, what you see is the expanded version, only.

(which means, if you want to hyperlink to a specific entry and have the user get the whole "lj-cut experience" as it were, your best bet might be to pull up that whole day in your calendar view, like so. Which probably isn't worth the extra work of making your "Day View" look like your "Most Current Entries" anyway. The point is, this feature was designed so people wouldn't complain so much when your larger entries make them scroll on their friends list. It wasn't actually meant to be played with like a pop-up book...)

So, don't be discouraged. I'm sure you did it right, and that this would have worked in the body of an actual journal entry.

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Re: Ah!
[info]tmcm
2004-01-14 09:09 am UTC (link)
Good deal. That's one thing I love about computer people - something doesn't work right and they'll think about it and figure out why. I've known so many people that can't get things to work and just think 'eh, doesn't work.' Course - I was leaning towards that mode... crap.

Love the 3-d art you're doing.

Have you created emotion icons? I want to do a set of TMCMs. Admittedly, I'm being lazy, I should look this stuff up.

s

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[info]miss_chance
2004-01-14 09:00 pm UTC (link)
I would have enjoyed being there, but am way to right-coast-ish.

nah, you don't know me, I'm just some random woman who reads your comic syndicated through me LJ.



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[info]tmcm
2004-01-15 12:46 am UTC (link)
It was fun. Maybe someday I'll make it to an East Coast event.

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[info]miss_chance
2004-01-15 01:14 am UTC (link)
Well, when you do, be sure to mention it here.

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[info]pagmatic
2004-01-15 01:22 pm UTC (link)
That would be cool! come to South Carolina.

And if you'd like, I'll make some emoticons for ya. Drop me an email with the info.

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[info]tmcm
2004-01-15 01:31 pm UTC (link)
I mostly am curious how to upload and use the emoticons. I'd also like to make them available for other people.

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[info]pagmatic
2004-01-15 01:45 pm UTC (link)
that I don't know how to do, myself; but I'm sure there's an LJer that does.

I've noticed a couple new "avatars", such as the default one you have. What mag is it from? I have all of em-- or so I thought. Is it from one of the Color Comics.

Gad, I sound like a total Geek:( TMCM's awesome, so I won't deny it.

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[info]tmcm
2004-01-15 01:52 pm UTC (link)
It is from the color comic. And I reprinted part of the strip on the back of one of the mags.

It's the 'pit of despair, free floating anxiety, wave of depression'

I've made a shirt of it recently - but I haven't really pushed it.

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[info]pagmatic
2004-01-15 02:20 pm UTC (link)
how many issues were made? I had 1; but I still have issue 2. Was there a third?

One of these days, I'll get a TMCM shirt.

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[info]tmcm
2004-01-17 03:41 pm UTC (link)
We've done 8 magazines. Whew.

check out www.tmcm.com for all but the recent. I need to update the damn site....

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Yes you do.
(Anonymous)
2004-01-18 11:46 am UTC (link)
And I keep emailing you about it too. But do you listen to me? noo....
( this is Chris from www.lingocomic.com )

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Re: Yes you do.
[info]tmcm
2004-01-18 01:43 pm UTC (link)
I've started the wheels turning. I will do an update. I will.

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[info]tusixoh
2004-01-15 06:37 pm UTC (link)
I know you're in Portland, but I thought you might be interested in seeing Henry Rollins do a spoken-word show on March 18, 2004 at McDonald Theatre in Eugene, OR.

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http://www.struat.com/justin/tmcm.html
(Anonymous)
2004-01-18 05:36 pm UTC (link)
That might be me, underneath the "Q" in "Qunchuy". Or it might not. I don't know.

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Re: http://www.struat.com/justin/tmcm.html
[info]tmcm
2004-01-18 06:13 pm UTC (link)
I couldn't say if that's you or not.

I did like the transcription - pretty good memory. I still owe you that .25¢

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