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Long time readers may recall that I observe the Birthday Fortnight (working my way up year by year to the Month of Birthday). My actual birthday falls somewhere in the first two weeks of May. In the interests of amoniminty, that is all I shall say. As a first of the birthday tributes, Uncle B bought me a drawing program called Manga Studio 3.

Not to worry, I’m not about to start drawing weasels in teeny tiny sailor suits with eyes the size of dinner plates. It’s just a drawing program that is specially designed for black and white line work, à la comix. It does things like calculate vanishing points and make speed lines and comic panels.

It’s kick-ass fun to play with. If any of you still harbor that old, old desire to be a comic book artist, there’s a 30-day free trial. I can’t work out the difference between the $50 version (which I got) and the $300 version, BUT IF THE MANUFACTURER SENT ME A COPY I’D BE HAPPY TO TEST DRIVE IT AND THEN FLOG THE SHIT OUT OF IT RIGHT HERE ON THIS BLOG.

That’s going to work one of these days. I just know it.

Comments


Comment from porknbean
Time: May 5, 2008, 11:40 am

Happiest of birthdays to you weasel, whichever day it is.
May is one of the bestest months of the year.


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: May 5, 2008, 12:02 pm

Happy Birthfortnight Weasel! I love this drawing. I’m intrigued by the idea of a comic with weasels in tiny sailor suits with eyes the size of dinner plates. You should do that. You just know there’s a big untapped market for that in Japan.


Comment from Gibby Haynes
Time: May 5, 2008, 12:04 pm

So what you’re saying is that there’s not going to be any adolescent boys piloting giant biomechanical robots or hentai any time soon?

Happy Birthday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1nA4SdMus&eurl


Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: May 5, 2008, 12:38 pm

¡Felíz Cumpleanños!

/Oh, over the wrong sea. Sorry. Dunno what they say in Britland.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: May 5, 2008, 1:28 pm

Happy Birthday from somewhere in S MO, Weasel! …And I’d give that saucer-eyed Weasel a shot.

God, I hate mouse touch-pads. The mouse I brought won’t work. But there’s a Wallyworld and Best buy not too far away.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: May 5, 2008, 1:33 pm

Happy birthday, whenever it is!

And that’s a very nice drawing.


Comment from Conservative Belle
Time: May 5, 2008, 1:37 pm

Happy Shared Birthday with you! Like you, I have my birthday in the first 2 weeks of May. Here’s hoping weasels enjoy cupcakes! http://www.popgadget.net/images/cupcake-pan2.png

Hope it is a great one.


Comment from Lemur King
Time: May 5, 2008, 1:39 pm

Weasels just look right wielding a katana. Don’t know why. Very “I’m here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubble gum”-ish.

(points go to whoever can tell what movie that came from)

Happy whatever-it-is-ish Birthday Weas!


Comment from Allen
Time: May 5, 2008, 1:43 pm

Cool, it’s Samurai Weasel to the rescue.


Comment from Steve Skubinna
Time: May 5, 2008, 1:46 pm

“I’m not about to start drawing weasels in teeny tiny sailor suits with eyes the size of dinner plates.”

And why the hell not?


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: May 5, 2008, 1:49 pm

That sounded like a Buffy the Vampire Slayer quote LK. But no – They Live. A movie I’ve never seen but probably should have.

***Adds to Netflix queue***


Comment from porknbean
Time: May 5, 2008, 2:11 pm

Oooo…that is a nice looking cupcake Conservative Belle. I think I will have to make one like that for my daughter’s sweet sixteen this year.


Comment from Lemur King
Time: May 5, 2008, 2:33 pm

Pretty bad movie but only Rowdy Roddy Piper could have done it and made it come off as horribly as it did. It was a stinker. But for all that, it’s a must-see B movie if you are serious about that sort of thing. Dark Star was better.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 5, 2008, 4:35 pm

Was that the one where all the Yuppies had skull faces if you wore the magic glasses, LK?

I just got back from Iron Man. One word, no-spoiler review: meh.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: May 5, 2008, 5:15 pm

Saw Iron Man Last week. I second your accurate – but rather verbose – review! Oh, well, they’ll no-doubt do a sequel in five, four, three, …


Comment from kishnevi
Time: May 5, 2008, 5:16 pm

But teeny tiny sailorsuited dinnerplate eyed weasels are just made to be drawn!

As long as they have great big swords to kiss ass with, at least.

Happy Birthfortnight.


Comment from Lemur King
Time: May 5, 2008, 5:19 pm

Yep. Sure was. Quite the moving experience, wasn’t it? It was a real-life paranoid fruitcake’s nightmare… all those beasties and no glasses to be found.


Comment from Lemur King
Time: May 5, 2008, 5:26 pm

Really? Iron Man rated a “Meh”? Ouchie. They’re gushing over it like Barack Obama at a prep school on RottenTomaters and IMDB. Now I really gotta go see it. I’m conflicted. Better to know than to not know, I always say. Unless knowing would ruin the rest of my life. In which case I know I want to not know.

Anybody know a good therapist?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 5, 2008, 5:33 pm

I don’t think any of this is spoiler material.

I loved the casting; the effects were great. The script just didn’t gel somehow. It was ninety seconds of delightful warporn followed by fifteen minutes of talky-talky. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Politically, it wasn’t lefty enough to piss me off or righty enough to make me stand up and cheer.

But the worst part — brace yourself — Black Sabbath’s Iron Man is not the theme song! Can you FUCKING beLIEVE that? Oh, they paid for the rights…they ran it behind the closing credits. But even there, they didn’t run the awesomeness at the beginning.

I sat through the whole movie waiting for him to bust through something while I AM I-RON MAN came grinding out of that giant movietheater speaker system and it never happened.

<sob>


Comment from Gnus
Time: May 5, 2008, 5:38 pm

So the “S” in Sweasel stands for Samurai. Kewl.

And happy birthday, whenever.


Comment from geoff
Time: May 5, 2008, 6:13 pm

Pretty bad movie but only Rowdy Roddy Piper could have done it and made it come off as horribly as it did. It was a stinker. But for all that, it’s a must-see B movie if you are serious about that sort of thing. Dark Star was better.

I concur: They Live is a pretty funny movie, and Meg Foster’s eyes are amazing – they don’t look human. And Dark Star has aged very well.


Comment from BTM
Time: May 5, 2008, 8:23 pm

Speaking of Rowdy Roddy Piper, did anyone ever see “Hell Comes to Frog Town”? Quite possibly the worst movie ever envisioned. It used to be on USA Up All Night with Gilbert Godfrey . . . you know, softcore porn with all the good shit blurred out. Like anyone would ever sit through those horrible shit movies if it wasn’t for the guarentee of boobage.


Comment from jwpaine
Time: May 5, 2008, 9:15 pm

I dunno, I loved the scene where the hero’s trying to make his buddy (played by one of my favorite actors, Keith David) put the damn glasses on. The fight goes on forever, and redeems the rest of the flick.


Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: May 5, 2008, 9:16 pm

Happy drawn-out birthday celebration, Stoaty. I am just hitting the point at which I spend my birthday (it’s in November) moaning about how insufferably old I am. (Look, a quarter of a century is a long time, ok?) Which is, of course, insufferable to everyone around me, since they are generally much older.

I did a presentation last week to introduce my hardware to the higher-ups (we recently shuffled our projects around, so now I’m in a new group), and announced that our hardware was certified about ten years ago, “while I was in high school.” They laughed. A lot.


Comment from jwpaine
Time: May 5, 2008, 9:19 pm

…And I believe the “I’m here to kick ass or chew bubble-gum–and I’m fresh outta bubble-gum” was ripped off from Duke Nukem.

Of course, the phrase itself predates the PC; I recall hearing it in the Navy back in the early 70s. That and “You’d just as soon sandpaper a lion’s ass in a phone booth’n fuck with me.”

And my personal fave “Well, I’ll be dipped in shit and rolled in cornflakes!”


Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: May 5, 2008, 9:51 pm

And my personal fave “Well, I’ll be dipped in shit and rolled in cornflakes!”

Weird. I just posted this link for Muslihoon in another thread: A British response to “I’ll be dipped…”


Comment from LemurKing
Time: May 5, 2008, 11:02 pm

Nah, never saw Hell Comes to Frog Town… was it worse than the MST 3000 showing of “Puma Man”?

Thank you, EW1 for linking that beautiful piece of… whatever it was. It makes me tear up every time I read it. I need a hanky.


Comment from Daniel Ruwe
Time: May 5, 2008, 11:22 pm

Happy Birthday (whenever it is), and I love the pic.


Comment from iamfelix
Time: May 6, 2008, 12:48 am

Excellent weasel-pic, Stoaty! I’m in awe. I love “Doan Go!” as well. And Happy Birthday!!


Comment from iamfelix
Time: May 6, 2008, 1:10 am

And, apropos of absolutely nothing, there’s this.


Comment from iamfelix
Time: May 6, 2008, 1:19 am

Also this — Possibly Damien’s relative?


Comment from iamfelix
Time: May 6, 2008, 1:28 am

Oh, and this, which at least relates to Stoaty’s “original spam” post (always a day late & a dollar short, that Felix ….)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 6, 2008, 5:06 am

Okay, that Rushmore thing is one of the strangest Flashes ever.

Regret to inform Damien is missing, Felix. Has been for about five days. I hated to mention it. I’ve called around the shelters and put an ad on Craig’s list. Little shitbag.

Kinda casts a pall on the birthday fortnight.


Comment from LemurKing
Time: May 6, 2008, 11:23 am

[moved post to Damien’s thread, sorry]


Comment from lizardbrain
Time: May 6, 2008, 9:33 pm

Happy Birthday, Stoaty!

That’s the second birthday greeting I’ve sent out today. It’s a great time of year for birthdays (or most anything else). Well, further South it is, where I usually spend May 6, at about the same latitude as where you are. Here, not so much.

Whatever day it is, I hope it’s a good one for you.

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