submitted by dave: (0451 13.12.02)
  The date says the wrong date again.  I don't know how I do that...  It's not like these comics are "from the past" or anything even remotely as spooky as that.  Not even as spooky as Gwen Stefani.  Ooh, she's a spooky one, she is.  What spooks me out the most, I think, is how I can't seem to keep track of whether or not she's hot from one moment to the next.  Some sort of hotness chameleon.... not a bad natural defense when you get right down to it.

Tough Crowd
  Colin Quinn's new show -- on after the uniquely hilarious Daily Show on Comedy Central -- is hit or miss so far.  Miss on Wednesday night, sunken battleship Thursday night.  When that lady comedian mentioned "Remote Control," I completely lost it, rolling around, knocking stuff down, covering my face with a pillow so the jokes wouldn't be drowned out by my hyena-style cackling.  If you have a TV, tune in ASAP, because this thing might not get through the five pilot episodes.  Denis Leary's on tonite, too.

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
  Somehow, the level design in this breakthrough platformer left me a bit less impressed than that of Ratchet & Clank.  There were some really witty cutscenes and ingenious execution in general.  It almost made me want to play through the minigames such as a crappy hot-rod race, a crappy shooter, and a crappy swamp-skiff-flame-thrower-time-trial.  But I didn't.  I actually have never wanted to play a game so badly as I wanted to play Sly Cooper when I was playing the Sly Cooper minigames.  Perhaps there's a ploy here.  If you have a soulless midget-slave to hand the controller to when you get to these sections of the game, and a novel or thick magazine on hand, rent this one.

Bowen "Banky" Cassidy volunteered to ink the comic tonite.  He traced.  Trust me, if I could get someone to do this every time, I would.  It would end up being more work, since my penciling is sort of reference-point stuff for me when I come back through with the pen.  This works okay when I'm doing both, but I would have to refine the pencils so much to make it apparent what I wanted an inker to do, it'd end up being a waste of time.  He did okay.

Charlie Brown Christmas
  Bowen's acting troupe, The Outlaws' live action version of the Chuck Schultz classic was a knee-slapper.  Imagine grown people doing those poorly-transitioned animation phases just like you remember from the movie.  It's such a short show, the gag doesn't have time to get old. If you are on PSU Main Campus, and you are broke, come out tonite for the encore @ 8 in 119 Arts Building.

submitted by dave: (0530 13.12.02)
  Bowen has agreed to do some additional ranting with me here come tomorrow.  It seems the profound utterances down here are a major draw to some people, and we aim to please, live to serve.  So check back this weekend.

  SteelCoat pointed out to me that a story I had written a couple semesters back had made its way around the web and landed on alt.internat.kooks.  Kooks!  Well, that aside, I'm flattered and somewhat perplexed.  I reread that story, a short'un about a gorilla in the DC zoo, and I really like it, if I do say so myself.