Site Redesign – 05/14/2015

Hey gang, I played with the design of my initial site (which admittedly sucked) a whole lot, and have landed on a new layout. Hopefully this one is more appealing to the eye, makes all the articles pop better, and has some menu and widget upgrades. I’m still working on the mobile version, so bear with me. What do you think, better? Worse? Give me some feedback.

Adventures in Staffing: a Day at the Office – Memoirs

Adventures in Staffing: a Day at the Office – Memoirs Woke up at 6:10 AM. Correction, hit snooze at 6:10 AM, and proceeded to snooze until 6:36 AM. Reluctantly, I slithered out of my bed, away from the covers and the loving wife that I could still be comfortably spooning. I slapped my hand against the switch panel on the wall in the bathroom, accidentally turning the exhaust on instead of the light, then nearly crapped my boxer shorts because it sounded like a 747 taking off just above me.…

#saveforever – the Effort by the Internet to Save the Freshman Televison Series: Forever

It’s that time of year again, when the Grim Reaper gets paid overtime by the television networks to claim the souls of TV shows that have not made the ratings to justify being renewed. Freshly cut by the dealer of death is the freshman ABC drama, Forever. Forever is an American TV show, a drama with fantasy elements, produced by Warner Brothers TV and created by Matt Miller. The series follows the ongoing adventures of Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd), a medical examiner in New York City who has a…

BAMF! – the Dead Stacys original song – lyrics

I promised the world a song this week, or at least the lyrics for a song, and I aim to keep my promises. This is actually part of a long term goal/passion project I have been cooking up for years now. It’s a total comic book nerd concept album, which will mix my love for comics with my favorite music types, namely rock, punk, new wave, big band, and pop. It’s like the best of comics meets the best of rock n roll for the Marvel Team Up of the…

Road to Nerfed Llamas 1 concept art #nerfedllamas

As I try to get back in the swing of drawing regularly, I have been taking a walk down memory lane, and in doing so I have come across a few pieces of concept art from my first attempt to get Nerfed Llamas off the ground. Here is the first piece that I would like to share with. It is a classic from 2012, featuring renditions of the main cast. You have the Biwwie Goat, a subtle yet bombastic little scamp. Rodger Dodger, gamer cat extraordinaire. And Dr. Love Groove,…

Professional Goals

On top of attempting this whole “blog” thing, I do have goals and aspirations that transcend the confines of a dot com website. Some of these are pipe dreams, some of these are attainable enough with the proper planning, motivation and luck. Without further ado, I present to you my professional goals (i.e. things I want to do over the course of my adult life to fulfill my dreams and make some dead presidents) in no particular order: Self publish a novel for sale. This one shouldn’t be too tough,…

Sticky Notes 3 – #dylanforspiderman

Welp, I tried to get this one out before midnight, but failed miserably. Better late than never!  My friends, we find ourselves at a very exciting time, of course I’m talking about the casting of the new Spider-Man. There’s a lot of names being thrown out there as potential Peter Parkers, and frankly… most of them suck. One name rises above the rest: Dylan O’Brien, the main actor from the Maze Runner. He’s fun, charming, nerdy, and seems to be able to act. Even better still, he looks like Peter.…

The Cataloguers of Time: Fort Phantom Hill – Original Fiction

The Cataloguers of Time: Fort Phantom Hill – A Short Story By: Packy Smith Jarrod flipped a switch on the console in front of him, and a parade of lights and images danced across the machinery and monitors of his workspace. He checked the readings on various devices and made a few input entries into his computer before giving the “thumbs up” to the man on the platform to his left. That man, Mr. Simon, having been given the all clear from downstairs, clapped his hands together and shouted, “hot…

Nerfed Llamas Movie Review – Hot Tub Time Machine 2

I feel that I should preface this review with a dirty secret: Hot Tub Time Machine (heretofore to be abbreviated as HTTM) is my favorite guilty pleasure film of all time. HTTM is not a great movie, I’m not even sure that it’s a good movie, but it is a retardedly fun time travel romp. Part of the charm is the nostalgia (John Cusack making another 80s flick), part of it is how far they take the comedy bits (which is needless to say, they take them to the most…