the perfect storm

Perfect convergence of personal responsibilities, professional responsibilities, and a bit of blog-writers-block.

There's no such thing as blog-writers-block? Well, I'm officially inventing it now. It exists.

Hope to start blogging again next week. Fingers crossed.

The Media Backlog

I've had no free time this week. Even when I have had actual free time, it's been spent doing stuff like taking down Christmas lights, cleaning the garage, home repair. Next up is a trip to Home Depot to get some paint and do some patch up work.

Boring stuff. Useful, for sure, but boring.

So that enormous backlog of television, movies, books, and comics is just getting bigger and bigger.

My Tivo is bursting at the seams with unwatched Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Batman: Brave and the Bold, Ben 10: Alien Force, Star Wars: Clone Wars, the Office, Leverage, Rick Steves' Europe.

And I just got the third season of the IT Crowd - haven't watched it yet.

Then I've got unread books, including the Michaelis biography of Charles Schulz and Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union.

Unread comic books - I've got Justice League, X-Force, Ender's Game, X-Men Kingbreaker, and a bunch of Adam Beechen's stuff.

And I don't even remember what my Netflix DVDs are at the moment. I think it's Persepolis. Oh, and Wall-E.

Sigh. At some point I'm going to install the Netflix software for my X-Box 360 - so I can stream even more unwatched media directly to my house.

Of course, in the time it took me to write this blog post, I could've at least put a dent in some of that backlog. But if I'd done that, I'd have nothing to complain about.

And where's the fun in that?

IM Conversation #921

I once read a theory that posits - for every thing that anyone has ever created, there is someone who has done a p-rn version of it.

My friend created an animated television series - today I stumbled upon the p-rn version...

12:04pm

ME: Visit [[link]]
ME: And prepare to be sick.
ME: Okay - to answer your question before you can ask - I wasn't looking for it. I found it through a spam link when I was googling old Heckle & Jeckle and Scooby Doo cartoons.
D: haha
D: I KNEW IT EXISTED SOMEWHERE!!!!
ME: And wouldn't you know I was the one who found it.
ME: I feel so dirty.
D: i knew it was out there
D: and i thank you
ME: LOL
D: i thought my characters were too hot not to be drawn as p-rn


1:05pm - when I'm away from my computer

D: why is [[noun]] [[verb]]-ing [[noun]]? why not [[noun]]?
D: ...why am i asking myself this?


1:41pm - when I'm back

ME: LOL
D: i kept asking myself.... when is Eugene going to get back to his desk so that line isn't burned into his monitor?



NOTE: Yeah yeah, I know. Go ahead and start with the, "SUUUUUUURE you weren't looking for it!" jokes. I'm ready - heckle away...

The First Post of 2009

Happy 2009 everybody. Just got back in town and now I'm trying to get back into things. A few brief notes-

-My episode of My Friends Tigger & Pooh premiered last Saturday. It turned out really well. Big props to the talented people who made it happen, including Nicole, Brian, Dean, and David.

-Time-Warner Cable just added the NHL Network. In HIGH DEFINITION. So if you're trying to get a hold of me, assume I'm zoning out in front of my television.

-My friend Doug Eboch wrote a couple great pieces on networking that I highly recommend. If you're an aspiring pro, you should definitely check out How to Network, and the companion piece, And How NOT to Network.

I hear a deadline calling - then at some point, I gotta take down these Christmas lights. Stay safe everybody!