A Dark Labyrinth of Silly Putty

[jackshoegazer]

Ta-dah! Everything is back to normal. Mercury quickly retracted all of his evilness and put everything right. How much longer until I can go back to normal thinking?

The only lasting effect is that I was forced to spend six hours sitting in a coffee shop editing the Book. I got 130-something pages done, which puts me at over half done. (Remember, these are double-spaced pages, so it's not as thick as it sounds. We're looking at a 250-275 page book when when published.)

I was playing around on Photoshop last night and designed this Book cover. I've probably done close to twenty different covers. This one is probably close to my favorite. We had the idea of releasing the Book with multiple covers, each gaged for slightly different target audiences, plus the collectors who would buy every version. (Because it's that good, you know.)

As much as I hate to admit it, I'm kind of bored and lonely today. My roommate is at band practice for I-don't-know-how-long. Ethan and Ben (my roommate's son) have a couple friends over today for a sleep-over, so they're all occupied. The house is full of rambunctious boy noises, which seems to amplify my boredom. I can't seem to settle into anything, let alone folding my laundry, reading or even editing.

Did you ever see the episode of South Park where the lesson learned was that marijuana is okay, but it makes it ok to be bored when you could be doing something else or learning a new skill? Yeah, I'm bored and I can't even make it okay to be bored.

Comments

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

come over to my house!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I can't, I have four boys here to watch - and trust me - you don't want four boys at your house :P

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

no, i do not! i retract my invite with great haste!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Yous guys could come out here, but that's quite the haul :P

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

psh, gas is 2.50 a gallon. at least when you come over here it's on your way.....

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. In the meantime, we can take solace in knowing that we might get more cowbell in the White House (http://www.walken2008.com/)...

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

these booths were made for walkin..........

i gotta have more cowbell!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's the best campaign slogan ever!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

stolen from metaquotes, i wish i was that cool : P

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

You're cooler than the average bear. But I'm sure a lot of that has to do with your lack of fur coat.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

you gotta bikini wax, it's not even optional.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of Nair. I hope you get a discount for bulk purchases.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

i get the bear rate. they give it to large gay men and me and my fellow grizzlies. they have to heat the wax with a blowtorch in a bathtub

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm prejudiced, but bears with blow torches just sounds like a really, really bad idea. I thought Smokey the Bear was supposed to PREVENT forest fires?

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

smokey the bear has no stated policy on hot wax bathtub fires.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

and stop stereotyping my proud and noble people.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Whateva! You're all a bunch of salmon-eating, picnic-basket-stealing, bee-harassing, honey-addicted hypocrites!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

that is so specist i am just in awe.

i would watch my back if i were you, we have a strategic alliance with kittycats. they get rid of our problems discreetly and we leave them salmon guts.

watch yourself.

[tecknovore.livejournal.com]

And we can always have him play Russian Roulette with Kim Jong Il for all the marbles. MAO! (I think that's what the vietnamese yelled in Deer Hunter)

ok so Im sitting next to these cops

[anarch-king.livejournal.com]

Im at the fireside cafe in eastside portland, and im sitting here and doing my thing, my computer seems to be working unlike all weekend.. which means that three downtown bars have broken internet routers - or I need to get a new driver for my wireless g - and anyway these THREE COPS come in and sit down at the frickin table right next to me. I have pot in my pocket - I was smoking all but ten minutes before I trucked up to the fireside...
Im thinking about stepping outside to smoke a cig.. and doing something that I would normally do... a little joke, "Hey watch my bag eh?"
If the patron responds I kinda "tell em I see em" by saying something "gauged" for their apparent attitude.
"Somebody grabbs it.. get a description eh?"
"Somebody grabbs it.. I said its ok to beat em up eh?"
"Somebody grabbs it.. just let out a holler heyeah?"
for the cops
"Somebody grabbs it.. cuff em eh?"

What do you think?
BTW - I like the cover concept... but I would switch up the potter-esqu font for something else.. more skidooper... you need pdf? you email me and I get you a pdf man, real quick like, homie discount (free ;)

Re: ok so Im sitting next to these cops

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

You have to go outside to smoke a cig at a coffee shop? That's messed up.

Actually, it's Ringbearer, a Lord of the Rings inspired font :) The first cover I did had a VERY Harry Potter (http://www.geocities.com/jeremy714p/complex.html) feel to it.

Somebody grabs it, put down your doughnuts and nab 'em, will ya?

Bwahahaha!