- Sun, 14:20: When I got to the laundromat all six dryers in the bank of those I like were empty. While my wash was in they filled one by one.
- Sun, 14:53: So did The Muppets not get renewed?
- Sun, 14:59: .@daibhidc Igues
- Sun, 15:00: .@daibhidc I guess Piggy and Kermit are stuck in a holding pattern till the next tv show.
- Sun, 19:56: Hero of Three Faces update: hard sell. https://t.co/3oLsL60OvV #aftermash #doctorwho
twitter highlights
Dec. 7th, 2015 07:38 pm- The root of trollery is to mistake smugness for joy, and to fail to realize there's better.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda may be my new favorite alliteration
- Scooter has more'n one shirt.
- The only way we'd be unable to tell which timeline the new Star Trek series is on is if it has an entirely new stardate system.
- Tue, 19:00: Anonymous said: i want some advice but this ask might be a trigger to read. rot13ed for self-injury: v srry... http://t.co/ZSz3RANjJ8
- Tue, 19:05: "The point is, the Muppets have always had bits of adult humor sprinkled in among the kid-friendly..." http://t.co/svqKd7kduN
- Tue, 20:24: My dinner may be getting cold while I script what will probably be Thursday evening's Three Faces.
- Tue, 21:35: Photo: nikoanesti: raekeiko: here is a completely ordinary picture of mario and luigi I was scrolling by... http://t.co/gHJWgTG4aJ
- Tue, 21:56: just-shower-thoughts: The Mars announcement and the release ‘The Martian’ in the same week are huge pieces... http://t.co/Ur7ZdoP7FH
- Tue, 22:14: Women In History - ranged-weaponry: friendlycloud: craftykryptonitealpaca: craftykryptonitealpaca:... http://t.co/VnIpM0SxWm
- Tue, 22:26: Hero of Three Faces update: that deescalated quickly. http://t.co/iSjJhfp0zj #wonderwoman
- Wed, 09:50: @VainPageantry Character death humor is a closed book to me. #firefly
- Wed, 16:32: tried to favorite the new Muppet show on Hulu but it didn't have its own page yet
- Wed, 20:27: Hero of Three Faces update: Davis' First Amendment violation. http://t.co/2BWWTQ5bDK #AKOTAS #kimdavis
- Wed, 21:43: Photoset: commongayboy: George Takei educating the ignorant The First Amendment violation in this case is... http://t.co/IutpgsWl1K
- Wed, 22:16: Photo: blanddcheadcanons: Damian owns two animal preserves-a tropical island his mother gave him for his... http://t.co/WekzQEP82y
This entry backdated after the Twitter mirror function on LJ posted it a day late.
- Tue, 04:23: Maybe the reason the Doctor can't handle that Danny is a soldier turned maths teacher is because he already knew one.
- Tue, 04:37: Woke up after three hours for no apparent reason at all. Time to try shutting the cats out of the bedroom at night.
- Tue, 06:19: Having trouble getting enough sleep a lot of nights lately. More as time goes on, maybe. Maybe that's why I can't draw more often.
- Tue, 06:35: If shutting the cats out doesn't fix it, it might be time for a call to the doctor. Or the Visiting Nurse Association bereavement counselor.
- Tue, 10:30: If the wife's kidnapped instead of killed, is that lardered instead of fridged? Both my Monday favorites' premieres did that last week.
- Tue, 11:06: I've found Obama disappointing in many things; but his opponents could only have disappointed me in all things cuz that was their platform.
- Tue, 11:47: My wetware backup for half my life's memories is gone.
- Tue, 19:47: Are people still complaining, “the Doctor didn’t know Danny had been a soldier before he started calling... http://t.co/HKICumNobf
- Tue, 20:12: Saw there’s a call for protestors in #Ferguson for weekend after next. Haven’t decided not to go.
- Tue, 22:28: Life’s like a movie Write your own ending Keep believing Keep pretending http://t.co/qCLecp6GtJ
Fanfiction 5/9/14
May. 9th, 2014 07:43 amHere are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website. Journal cartoons in a separate post. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers.
Thanks for reading.
- Thu, 20:19: Well, Monday I drew three AKOTAS. That means tonight I still have to think of Friday's AKOTAS >and< Creative Process.
- Thu, 21:12: #AKOTAS update: look, a webcomics site with NO ADS. http://t.co/AA7YQH0A94 #webcomics #kingarthur
- Thu, 22:24: roving bands of racoons
- Fri, 04:19: Creative Process update: consultant. http://t.co/qkeWbpBUA5 #webcomics #CreativeProcess
- Fri, 04:20: Last night I walked out to take my stepson home from work and a tree branch had fallen across the drive. missed the car yay
- Fri, 09:11: According to the 1972 Sesame Street calendar, and the @SesameStreet twitter today, today is Bert's birthday.
- Fri, 10:01: #xkcd1190 must be what it's like to have Sims or tamaguchis.
- Wed, 12:17: RT @iamjohnoliver: Just so you know, from June 10th I'm going to be hosting the Daily Show for a couple of months, while Jon Stewart directs a movie.
- Wed, 12:17: RT @iamjohnoliver: Don't worry, it'll still be everything you love about the Daily Show - just without the thing you love the most about it.
- Wed, 21:06: User interface for AKOTAS' host won't load for updating the HTML files. But the cartoon's already there: http://t.co/2dghvYp0v7
- Wed, 21:11: Had to delete and retweet that three times for typoes in the URL. If the link didn't work for you before please try again.
- Wed, 21:46: Oh good, the host interface is back up.
- Wed, 21:49: #AKOTAS update: not a literal translation. http://t.co/Qkn8OOrVI0 #webcomics #kingarthur
- Thu, 05:35: #worthrepeating Hugh Laurie's CD makes me realize how much of my taste in music came from Jim Henson.
- Thu, 11:21: RT @ToolPackinMama: The recent vote that reduced air travel delays proves that our government works when legislators are motivated. #p2 #tc…
- Mon, 13:10: I wonder whether I should draw Duncan McLeod with Connor's sword for recognition factor. And who that doesn't see this tweet will know.
- Mon, 13:29: Decided to give Duncan his own sword. Readers who know who he is at all would probably gripe.
- Mon, 14:42: I hear #TBBT is about laughing at, not with, geeks. Same as gays in sitcoms in the 70s. 'Course, eventually, Will And Grace.
- Mon, 16:54: the realization that they are no unimportant people, only stories you haven’t been told. Ever counted apartme… http://t.co/YnuWs9nL
- Mon, 18:03: ““The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Ta…” http://t.co/mMAlCy98
- Mon, 19:30: So, 19:30 is when they turn the lights out on my floor at work.
- Mon, 19:34: Oh. I guess they just flash'em at 19:30.
- Mon, 20:43: #AKOTAS update: not as special as they thought. http://t.co/YsiWMbNF #webcomics #kingarthur
- Mon, 21:04: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: Alma Cox receives a chain letter.
- Mon, 22:06: Hero of Three Faces update: steal from the best. http://t.co/6hMoA9jf #startrek #btvs #matrix #highlander
- Tue, 04:59: RT @thenicolabryant: Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength., Thomas A Kempis Here's t ...
- Tue, 05:01: BA DUM BUM BUM
- Tue, 06:45: Today's earworm: Williams, Lou Grant theme
- Tue, 08:40: Dammit. Forgot the celery.
- Tue, 10:01: RT @Optimysticals: We're thanking some of our favorite Lady Comics Commentators today with the tag #thankyoucomicsladies because @GailSi ...
- Tue, 10:02: @dcwomenkicknass Thank you. #thankyoucomicsladies
Fanfiction 11/30/12
Nov. 30th, 2012 09:53 amHere are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website. Arthur, King of Time and Space and journal cartoons in separate posts. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers.
Thanks for reading.
- Tue, 12:55: GOP social policy: "Don't give a man a fish because then he won't learn to fish. Then close all the fishing schools."
- Tue, 13:18: I just figured out how the last scene between the Doctor and Brian Williams goes. Now I have to draw it. #doctorwho
- Tue, 16:37: lol #Castle palying with the green screen
- Tue, 17:26: @TheOnlyTrout I saw your name at Websnark all the time, but didn't start reading you till LitBrick. #fwiw
- Tue, 17:38: I scripted the Brian WIlliams 3Faces at work and forgot to email it to myself. 3Faces sketch this evening.
- Tue, 20:25: Never twitted yesterday's #AKOTAS update: kinda glad to have missed this part. http://t.co/4uM6gUqa #webcomics #kingarthur
- Tue, 20:26: #AKOTAS update: rather filler than that. http://t.co/Hb7JXHrk #webcomics #kingarthur
- Tue, 20:52: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: In a fit of nostalgia for the MASH, Hawkeye, Trapper John, B.J., Charles and Spearchucker play poker all night.
- Tue, 21:50: #starwars http://t.co/lukmEuMV
- Tue, 22:06: Hero of Three Faces sketches: spies, cute, news. http://t.co/JOPRdEGu
- Wed, 06:20: @hijinksensue For future reference, Bert's hands are operated by wand, not glove. #fwiw
- Wed, 07:36: There's nothing like preferring Coke to coffee for reminding yourself that you did brush your teeth this morning.
- Wed, 07:39: After almost a year, have just transcribed my first IVR recording of a customer complaining that they -don't- need to speak to an agent.
- Wed, 08:44: The days when it was useful to keep my LJ flist in an open browser tab all the time appear to be over.
- Mon, 12:42: @spastasmagoria Say, I asked you about wine dregs the other day? http://t.co/rabc0NCA
- Mon, 13:17: spastasmagoria: beeleebay: scarletqueen: I refuse to watch Elementary on the basis that you CAN’T make Watso… http://t.co/BBNT0JkW
- Mon, 13:40: #Elementary has its flaws as a modern adaptation of Holmes but it has this over #Sherlock: in 7 more weeks it'll have more air hours.
- Mon, 21:11: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: Soon Lee walks in on the Potters in bed.
- Tue, 09:57: "Oh my god, we don't have feet!" #thedailyshow
- Tue, 10:35: RT @SesameWorkshop: Here's our response to recent campaign ads: http://t.co/UnbDoXb7
Fanfiction 10/5/12
Oct. 5th, 2012 04:45 amHere are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website. Arthur, King of Time and Space and journal cartoons in separate posts. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers.
Thanks for reading.
- Wed, 15:33: Why do people reflexively deny they were asleep when they're startled awake?
- Wed, 19:48: No idea yet for a second 3Faces for this week. No idea for a first AKOTAS for tomorrow.
- Wed, 21:45: RT @RealNichelle: Vote @BarackObama ! Save #BigBird !
- Wed, 21:49: #AKOTAS update: in which political awareness might've paid off. http://t.co/jkG274lH #webcomics #kingarthur
- Thu, 07:15: @spastasmagoria Remind me please the name of the one with three wine glasses and only one has dregs.
- Thu, 09:08: Reblog if you're a girl who likes girls, a boy who likes boys, or a person who believes it shouldn't matter. … http://t.co/x3FOd8m7
- Thu, 10:31: When the most conservative states always prove to have the highest teen pregnancy rates, how do we not see that that's what they want?
- Tue, 13:19: RT @TheRealNimoy: Mariah Carey got the "American Idol" job replacing Jennifer Lopez. I was hoping to get the call. I would have been less expensive. LLAP
- Tue, 13:49: RT @BarnabyEdwards: Just when you think you can't possibly love the Muppets any more, they do this. #LGBT #MarriageEquality pic.twitter.com/04XYffzu/ ...
- Tue, 14:12: RT @daibhidc: Ooh, a voluntary code of conduct. Well, it worked for the banks and the newspapers... http://t.co/A16GeSGJ
- Tue, 14:13: It's too hot for headphones.
- Tue, 14:31: RT @kristenschaaled: Amelia Earhart is 115 today. We've got to look for her harder! She may be too frail to wave a plane down.
- Tue, 15:48: RT @AndrewGatto: Here's how .@ChickfilA is lying about the Muppets ending their relationship because of anti-gay bigotry. http://t.co/De ...
- Tue, 20:45: #AKOTAS update: problematic lyrics. http://t.co/8Vq7PI0I #webcomics #kingarthur
- Tue, 21:52: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: In a flashforward to 1967 Klinger tells his kids the story of how he met their mother.
- Wed, 08:08: Hero of Three Faces summer rerun: remember the brewery chairman election episode? http://t.co/KdfRbYn2 #wolflake
significant tweets
Jan. 30th, 2012 01:32 pm- RT@TheOnlyTrout Original US copyright law was FUN. You got it for seven years after it was written. It was intended to force authors to make MORE.
- If the first thing Smaug says to Bilbo is, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive," I'm walkin out.
- @TheOnlyTrout You don't understand. The purpose of a new MicroSoft product version is to remove features the users liked.
- The proper response to conservative complaints about Muppets liberal propaganda is, "Duhhh." http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2012/01/why-the-muppets-are-propaganda/
- Coming up with tomorrow's script improves the whole day
- I learned to write with fanfiction. I don't do background. RT@blambot For chrissakes, webcomickers, draw the backgrounds. JEEEEzus.
- .@TheOnlyTrout Re backgrounds: I was influenced at an early age by Bill Mauldin's discussion of Johnny Hart, and "rivet men". (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout Mauldin said a "rivet man" draws every rivet on a pot. "So what if the hero is offcenter in the panel? (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "Put in a computer with lots of dials, or a tree with every leaf. Nothing wows the reader like a tree with every leaf. (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "But you place two unwashed cavemen against a line that might be the top of a horizon or the bottom of an ovecast, (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "And you'd better place them RIGHT."
- Newly waxing moon low on the western horizon. That's a big rock.
- @TheOnlyTrout When I've done that, I've drawn the notes but not the staff. No one's ever come out and said they recognized the tune.
- @TheOnlyTrout Unless I actually copied out a few bars from an actual score, because that was the joke.
- @TheOnlyTrout I once drew two guys whistling Rhapsody In Blue for three panels.
- @scifichat #scifichat A2 The epitome of the machines-don't-belong-in-charge-of-people trope is the STAR TREK episode The Apple, ...
- @scifichat #scifichat ...which was deconstructed in my fanfiction story Half A Worm, ...
- @scifichat #scifichat ...which was adapted and serialized in my webcomic Arthur, King of Time and Space. (Links available on request.)
- I wonder if many The Big Bang Theory viewers see the salute to sitcom history in the protoganists' names.
- It's too bad that there's only one Peter Bishop. We could call the second one Repete. #fringe
- @heldaction He thinks he's not home because no one here knows him. But in the season finale everyone at home forgot him. #fringe
- My god. Hutton is so good. Nate Ford is drunk off his ass.
- @choochoobear I know how you feel. No one but me seems to have noticed that humans raised by Moties suffer from jump shock like Moties.
- MSPaintVista has some advantages but I think it's MSPaintXP most of the time for me from now on. (7 is right out.)
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Also, I like to track here when I get a tic in my eyelid but I don't like to make an entry just for that. This week, upper right.
Manual tweets 12/16
Dec. 17th, 2011 10:11 am- RT @TheEconomist What did the makers of America believe about God and religion? econ.st/tnHJ8g
- Jefferson excised all the mysticism from the Gospels to extract the philosophy. Washington referred to God obliquely and Jesus never.
- The founding fathers were "free-thinkers". After 1776 Jefferson and Madison broke the Anglican power base that existed in Virginia.
- The last thing the founding fathers believed in (besides a common theism) was doing things because some authority did it that way.
- Barton says Jefferson's "wall of separation" between state and church is one-way. Yeah, because that's the default state of a wall.
- @jephjacques The difference is, "failed" web comics still get read and can still make a name for the artist. BOOM
- #scifichat Intro: Paul Gadzikowski, writer/cartoonist http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com
- #scifichat A1 I think, if I have a favorite ice world, it must be Delta Vega from the most recent #StarTrek movie
- #scifichat The name of the Klingon prison planet is Rura Penthe
- #scifichat I know I've read or watched story(ies) on a planet with seasons that are centuries long, and winter's coming. Don't recall what.
- #scifichat @JLichtenberg I think Pern must be what I was thinking of. Been decades since I read some of those.
- #scifichat A3: I assume air, food and shelter are a given?
- #scifichat A3. I'd bring my laptop, a portable internet hotspot, and I'd let my wife bring eight things.
- #scifichat A4. How do we know the earth didn't create us because it WANTS styrofoam and global warming? #georgecarlin
- #scifichat @DavidRozansky arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/aajq.htm #firefly
- #scifichat Must dash. Back next week - same scifi time, same scifi channel
- #scifichat @JLichtenberg The #TerraNova time travel is to a different timeline.
- #scifichat Avatar isn't a great movie, but it's an important movie
- Every time I build a buffer, eventually it dwindles away and I start to panic. Notwithstanding that I don't usually keep one.
- @feretthimself There's Prairie Dawn on Sesame Street.
- Вт, 19:19: @TheOnlyTrout @danthshive I chose Comic Sans for the same reason I chose to work in MSPaint: my priority was to never miss a daily (cont)
- Вт, 19:20: (cont) update and I confined myself to resources I could find on any Windows machine I might be constrained to use on a given day. (cont)
- Вт, 19:20: (cont) I also genuinely don't see what's wrong with them. If they lose me readers, so be it.
- Вт, 19:28: @dcorsetto It's spelled "Bert". Take it from the man who still has the 1970s commercially available puppet.
- Вт, 19:49: @TheOnlyTrout I've also been told that the lack of anti-aliasing is part of the charm. I dunno why this'd be, but I won't complain.