This one sold before I had a chance to post about it here, but whatever, I'm going to post it on here anyway because I have nothing else to show off and I can't take it:



Also, if I deleted you as a friend on myspace, it was (possibly) an accident. For some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to clean house and get rid of all the people I approved for some reason despite never having spoken to them online or off. Then after clicking on what I thought was just two or three people and unheard of bands , I was down about 30 or 40 friends. I either hit the "select all" button on accident or MySpace fucking blows. It's really a coin toss.

This better not cause one ounce of drama in my life. And I swear to god if it does, I will delete every last person and just be friends with myself and Tom. Suck on that.

And now for a survey:

1.You have $5 and need to buy snacks at a gas station. What do you buy?
$5 worth of Mounds. I used to hate them as a kid, but I can eat them all day now. So based on this, I've theorized that it's a candy bar for grown ups.

2. If you were reincarnated as a sea creature, what would you want to be?
Cymothoa exigua. I'd let you look it up on Wiki yourself, but I'm in a Cliff Clavin kind of mood. It's a parasite that drains all the blood out of a fish's tongue until the tongue atrophies and disappears. That's pretty awesome in itself. But to make it cooler, the parasite actually replaces the tongue. The fish can continue to use the parasite as a tongue without any harm coming to it, but it now has to share the food with the parasite. It's like a marine version of a pain in the ass roommate.



3. Who's your favorite redhead?
I couldn't think of anyone so I went to a "Famous Redheads" website. I managed to get through the Ds without finding anyone I give a fuck about. I'll just go with the girl on Newsradio since I can't think of anyone.

4. What do you order when you're at IHOP?
A potato product of some sort. Perhaps a chicken product of some sort as well, if I have gotten a paycheck recently.

6. Describe your favorite pair of underwear.
I've got some Magilla Gorilla boxers.

7. Describe the last time you were injured:
I had to get 3 stitches when I cut myself opening up a can of cat food. I really wish I had a more interesting story than that. I'm going to drive recklessly tomorrow.

8. Of all your friends, who would you want to be stuck in a well with?
Sting. I don't own any of his albums, but he's a good digger.

10. What is the wallpaper of your mobile phone?
Whatever the default is.

11. Fizzy drink?
Coke. Glass bottle > Can > Plastic Bottle

12. What type of top/teeshirt are you wearing?
I put on my Psych Ward Sirens shirt when I got home from Roller Derby.

13. If you could only use one form of transportation for the rest of your life what would it be?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

14. Most recent movie you've watched at the cinema?
Probably Spiderman 3. I have been too busy with poker and video game

15. Name actors/actresses you've had the hots for?
I never dig actors. I'm too aware that they're just playing parts and that I have no idea what they're really like and that they're probably tools in real life. I'm so deep.

16. What's your favorite kind of cake?
White cake with sugar icing I guess. I've kind of gone off cake in the past few years. When I moved out and got my own apartment, I realized I could buy cake whenever I wanted so I'd buy one pretty much every time I went grocery shopping and just eat it myself. But the gorging has taken its toll - I now no longer associate cake with special occasions and therefore don't think of it as much of a treat. I instead associate it with a nauseous, bloated feeling.

17. What did you have for dinner last night?
What was yesterday? Saturday? I think I had McDonald's.

18. Look to your left, what do you see?
A Charles Addams calender and this big thing of drawers I use (sort of) to sort those beads I use for my fan art crap.

19. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Only if I have to.

20. Favorite toy as a child?
Construx

21. Do you buy your own food?
Not usually. I live with my parents now so they do most of that, even though I have my own kitchen and fridge. Whenever I do demonstrate a hint of independence and go grocery shopping myself, my food goes rotten because I either eat out or eat whatever my parents bought instead.

By the way, did you know when potatoes rot, it's really fucking terrible?

22. Do you think people talk about you behind your back?
I swing between the opinions that I'm not interesting enough to talk about ever and that everyone has it out for me and I will have my revenge one of these days, when I get 'round to it.

23. When's the last time you had a sour gummy worm?
Never. I don't touch sour shit.

24. What's your favorite fruit?
Apples

25. Do you have a picture of yourself doing a cartwheel?
No. I've only one pose, and that's deer-in-headlight.

26. Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
I am single for life. Till death do me and just me part.

27. Have you ever eaten snow?
I've opened my mouth while it was snowing, so I guess that counts.

28. What color are your bedsheets?
Black

29. What's your mom's favorite flower?
How the fuck would I know?

30. Have you ever done ballet?
Of course not, but I went to the ballet once (not counting all the times I've seen the Nutcracker) to give it a shot. I wasn't really feeling it. But after going, they wouldn't stop calling me trying to get me to come back like some date from hell.

31. Do you listen to classical music?
Yes

32. Do you have a "wacky noodle"?
I don't understand the question and I will not respond to it.

33. Do you watch Spongebob?
I do!

34. Last food you ate?
I had chicken strips and fries at the Roller Derby.

35. Do people consider you intelligent?
I consider myself smartest person in the universe, ever.

36. What time is it??
'bout that time

37. Is your away messager on?
No, I never use messengers anymore precisely because I'm always away.

38. Have you ever tried gluing your fingers together?
No. I'm not retarded.

39. What curse word do you use the most?
I prefer the kinder, gentler curse words like "hell" and "damn"

41. What time is your alarm clock set for?
one's set for 6:30, another is set for 7:00, and my cell phone is set for 7:00, 7:05, 7:10, 7:15, 7:20, 7:25, 7:30, 7:35, 7:40, 11:00, 11:05, 11:10. Also my DS is set for 6 am, but I never really use it as an alarm anymore.

42. What CD is currently in your CD player?
I always just play these terrible mixes I make myself. And they're terrible because I don't try to make a mix, but I just glance through my mp3s and pile on stuff that looks interesting at the moment before I go on a drive. I wind up having stuff from the Labyrinth soundtrack next to Joy Division next to the Dickies next to Kelly Clarkson.

43. What movie do you know every line to?
Girl on the Bridge

44. What is your favorite salad dressing?
I don't eat salads. I eat fried foods mostly.

45. Would you ever date someone covered in tattoos?
I wouldn't date anyone, ever.

46. How old will you be turning on ur next birthday?
26.

47. Do you enjoy giving hugs?
Don't touch me.

48. Last time you had butterflies in your stomach?
My panic attacks are usually random. I can lose my job or get yelled at or have to give a speech or whatever and not feel a thing. But I can run an errand like going to the post office or grocery shopping and be all "oh god. I don't know if I should be doing this."

49. What's the way people most often mispronounce any part of your name?
"J" is pretty easy to get right

50. If you were to become famous, would you drop your last name?
I'd probably just change it. I'd either be a tool and get some kind of punk rock name (I've never come up with something that goes well with J. - and I have thought about it, because I'm a tool) or I'd be an even bigger tool and name myself after dead royalty or a god or something.

Well, it looks like my internet is back up for the time being. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, rub a buddha belly or whatever you're supposed to do.


Now for sale on etsy:

First things first, check out what was on my porch last night:

I'm not sure where this thing came from, but I'm guessing Brazil. I'm also pretty sure its name is Shelob.

And I realize there's no frame of reference in this shot, but I wasn't about to risk my arm getting eaten just to stick a quarter, or a Mack truck, next to it. Suffice it to say, it was big. There are astronauts looking down on us from the moon and wondering "What's that big black spot?"

Also, a side note: Can you believe I've had a couple of hundred dollars worth of photography lessons?

And now business as usual - now for sale on etsy:

1. While driving down the road, and looking for an address, do you turn the radio down?
Yeah. I also inadvertently run red lights and stop signs because I'm too busy looking for the street name or the address number. I once ran a red light downtown and then immediately ran another one while looking in my rear view and wondering "Did I just run a red light?"


2. What TV family would you move in with?
Maybe Full House? I really like their house.Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video onto your personal or team blog. I'd have to gas them all while they slept, of course, but damn, I'd love a house like that.

Does the Cheers ensemble count as a family?

3. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your closet?
Day glo stilletos

4. If you could quit your job right now, and be anything you wanted, what would it be?
I'd be a drifter.

5. What do you think of when you look at the stars?
Revenge

6. When you add someone into your cell phone, do you use their real name or their nickname?
I just assign them a random series of 10 numbers. It makes incoming calls confusing, but I've just gotta be true to myself.

7. If you use their real name, do you add their last name?
I even put their middle name.


8. How much information do you ask for before you sleep with someone?
Two copies of their bank statement and I'm good to go.

9. How long do you date someone before you sleep with them?
Date?

10. If you could say ONE THING to the president, what would it be?
My cousin used to put his hand on my head and massage my scalp and explain "This is a brain sucker, do you know what it's doing?" to which I'd answer "Sucking my brain?" to which he'd retort "No. Nothing" to imply I had no brain to suck.

11. If you could meet ANY president, dead or not, who would it be?
Millard Fillmore. I'd beat him up for admitting New Mexico as a state.

12.. If you could get rid of the holiday season, would you?
I might change them around a little, but I wouldn't get rid of them entirely. I think I'd make Halloween a week long and require kids to dress up as something scary. No Power Rangers or anything lame like that, kids.

13. If you could go to any state, which one would you go to?
Massachusetts

14. Would you ever get a personalized license plate?
No, it would just make it easier for eye witnesses to remember.

15. If yes, what would it say?
DONTFUCKWITHMEWITNESSES

16. If you could go back to college, what would you major in?
Film studies or animation

17. Before you go to sleep at night, what do you think of?
Revenge

18. What is your favorite kind of weather?
Gray and foggy. Cold enough that you ought to wear a jacket but warm enough that you won't go apeshit if you don't. Raining slightly - not enough for there to be puddles that will soak through your shoes so you're sitting around at school or work with wrinkled wet toes, absolutely miserable and homicidal. I also like the weather right before a giant storm.

19. Do you find it a bit unnerving doctors call what they do practice?
No.

20. If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
No.

21. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
No.

Now for sale on etsy:


These are the original Dragon Warrior slimes in fridge magnet form. For those who don't remember or just never played the game (blasphemy, by the way), you usually encounter the blue slime first. He's the easiest of the easy. He's also pretty much the mascot for the entire Dragon Warrior/Quest series. You'd think the mascot would be a dragon. But it's not. It's a slime.

Then you encounter the red slime right after the blue slime, and he's only slightly harder than the blue slime. Much later on in the game you will eventually encounter a metal slime, and he is near impossible to kill because he is near impossible to hit.

The Dragon Quest series isn't terribly big here, but they are fanatics about it in Japan (go figure). I read somewhere that they're not allowed to release new DQ games during the week in Japan because too many people call in sick to work or skip school to go buy the game.

This is the Sea Slug from Dragon Warrior 2. It's also a magnet. I don't know whether or not he'll sell. He's a minor (forgotten) enemy from a minor (forgotten) game in a series that never made it big in America. But still....it's a slug sitting in its own drool. If no one else wants it, I wouldn't mind having it on my fridge.

These are Excite Bike coasters. It was a bike racing game, but the tracks had all kinds of obstacles from ramps to oil slicks and such. If memory serves, no one played the actual game very much, but instead focused on making their own ridiculously hard tracks.

Now for sale in my etsy shop:

1. What is your favorite street sign and why?
Well, I can tell you that I hate "Megan Street", because I have to listen to my little sister say (either in person or in my head) "You know, one day I'm going to steal that sign" every time I pass it. I don't know why, because her name is Dorothy.

No, I'm kidding. Her name is Megan.

2. Who is one person you go out of your way to avoid?
The cast of Everybody Loves Raymond


3. Quick- tell me three things about your number one friend!
He is the coolest guy in the world
He is married to or living with or something the coolest girl in the world
I have never met nor seen either one of them


4. What celebrity would you most like to join on a train ride through eastern Europe?
Scott Walker

5. Referring to the celebrity you selected in question 4, what would you get them as a souvenir of your trip together?
A slab of Eastern bloc bacon

6. Think of all the education that you received. What class (not just a subject- a specific class) did you hate the most and why?
Probably this Shakespeare class at Macalester. The professor was 200 years old and super conservative academically speaking. There was an urban legend about him being a chemistry professor once, then being invovled in some classrom explosion. And while he recuperated in the hospital, he started reading Shakespeare and became a fanatic. The point of the urban legend was to explain the way he graded our papers, which was with the surgical precision of a scientist. I've always been considered by my professors to be a decent paper writer (let's face it: some people have a way with words and others....uhh, errr....not have a way? - Steve Martin), but he always tore the shit out of mine.

One of my other professors saw me looking over one of my papers, which was so marked up in red that you couldn't even read the original black ink, and expressed sympathy that I had to take a class "with that asshole", who according to her, was always just an asshole and never a chemist.

That said, I grew to like him by the end of the semester (as did the only other 4 - down from about 30 - remaining students in the class). That said, he's probably dead now.

7. Recommend a TV show I should see. If you're one of those self-important hipsters whose knee jerk response is "I don't watch TV," then tell me where you get off thinking the sun rises and sets out of your ass.
Veronica Mars is my currently airing pet and I've started what I think is a fairly successful crusade to get other people to watch it (I'm pretty sure I'm the only reason it wasn't cancelled after season 2), but it has been spotty this season so I might have to be on the lookout for a new flavor of the month.

As for shows long gone, Twin Peaks.

Or you could give up on tv for now and play Dragon Quest 8, now available for the PS2 at a reasonable price. Very reasonable considering the 100+ hours of gameplay.

8. If you had to spend $100 on the person who posted this bulletin before you, what would you buy for them?
A robot toy for Owen


9. What is your biggest complaint about MySpace?
That a multi-billion dollar site never actually works properly. It has more errors than I had on all those Shakespeare papers put together.

10. What time is it right now?
1:56 in the a.m., Wednesday, May 02, 2007 A.D.

11. Write a three sentence story about a Ford Taurus.
How about a limerick instead?
There once was a blue Ford Taurus
Owned by a slut named Dolores
She ran into a pole
Death took its toll
They could only find her head

12. Grade the story you just wrote (be objective!)
The Shakespeare professor would have given it a D because of my lousy meter and tasteless rhyming scheme.

13. What is one thing that you should have done that you have yet to do?
I should have had my tonsils removed in elementary school. I am a procrastinator.

14. Tell me something I probably don't know.
What I don't know could fill a dictionary

15. What is your favorite t-shirt?
The razorblade one I got at a Buzzcocks show. It is all faded and cracked now, sadly.

16. Describe something you might do to get attention in a large crowd.
I keep to the shadows.

17. How are you doing with your New Year's Resolutions?
Resolutions?

18. Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Caddyshack?
Fast Times

19. Tell me about a silly purchase you've made in the last year.
I bought a sword at the Renaissance Festival, even though I was all "What's there to buy at the Renaissance Festival? A sword? What the fuck do I need a sword for?" before going. I didn't even really buy a sword. I bought a sword in a box that I was not allowed to open (and therefore see the sword I had bought) until I was off the fairgrounds - and that's what killed me. I had to know what was in that box. I paid $20 to find out what kind of sword was in a box. I am the biggest sucker for the easter egg surprise ever.

But it is a pretty cool sword. It just sits around my room in its sheath totally useless, but looking kind of cool.

20. What do you have on your refrigerator door?
Some bad drawings that I did myself.

21. If you had to give up baseball or beer, which would you give up?
I could give up both in a heartbeat and never look back.

22. Do you believe our cell phones are wiping out the bee population? And how easy would it be for you to give yours up?
I haven't heard this story. I'd be open to giving mine up, but not to save the bees.


23. Scientists discovered a new mineral, which has the same properties as Kryptonite. If you were given this mineral, and it would foil your arch nemesis, HOW would you make sure they got it, and WHAT would you do, once they were out of your way?
I'm not a doctor or anything, but if something has the same exact properties as Kryptonite, wouldn't it actually be Kryptonite? I mean I'm pretty sure if a = b, then b = a. That said, I'd probably A) throw it at them B) cackle.

24. If you were told that you had to go back in your life and change one thing...and no copping out with the "I wouldn't change a thing" answer....what would it be?
I wouldn't have eaten that M+M.


25. Answer quickly: chicken or egg?
chicken

26. (In memoriam of my Subway days....)
White or Wheat? White
Footlong or 6"? Footlong. When I worked at MRC, I used to get the largest size at Quizno's at lunchtime, challenge myself to eat it all by the end of the day, and then email everyone in the office (well, my friends in the office anyway, of which there were 3) announcing when I had finished it off.
American or Provolone? Swiss
Oil or Vinegar? Lather it up with oil
Salt or Pepper? Salt
Here or to Go? to go

27. What is your favorite professional sport and why?
Jai-Alai. I don't see any need to explain.

28. So, over all, how retarded was the original writer of this survey? Do you think they were born that way or is it self inflicted?
We're none of us perfect.

29. What’s your favorite quote (And I’m talking like a *real* quote, not your own personal motto. Meaning, cite who said it—it’s not hard to Google quotes, so Google away if you need to.)
There was a little Spanish Flea. A record star he thought he'd be. He'd heard of singers like Beatles and The Chipmunks he'd seen on TV. Why not a little Spanish flea? - Homer Simpson

30. would you rather watch Growing Pains or Full House?
Full House by a longshot.

31.If you could have anything to eat right now ( regardless of calories, availability, allergies etc. )what would it be?
The heart of an unborn child. Or doritoes.

32. If your life were made into a movie and you could pick ANY actor/actress in the world to play YOU, who would you pick and why?
Gisele Budchen. Because why not?

33. What is the silliest thing you have set to record on your TIVO?
I don't have TIVO, but I'd record the kids version of Trading Spaces. I used to have my tv set to search for any and all episodes of Top Cat and alert me as to when they'd be on.

I have been sick and have been feeling too sorry for myself to get much of anything done. My store hasn't sold anything in a while which I'm actually kind of glad about for now because I can't be bothered to make trips back and forth from the post office in my current emo state.

But I do have some stuff in the works as well as some ideas, and once I conquer this uber cold or flu or whatever it is, I will take the video game fanart world by storm. Or something.

In the meantime, to make it feel like I've gotten stuff done when I haven't actually accomplished a goddamn thing, I'm going to post pictures of things I finished ages ago but for some reason (embarrassment) never posted here or on my myspace, complete with explanations:



This is my dishwasher. Taped to it is a perler bead rendering of the hellvine from one of the Dragon Quest games. To date, this is one of the biggest pain in the ass pieces I have ever finished. The megaman might give it a run for its money though, should I ever acquire enough blue beads to finish it.











This is Oddler, aka Odd Eye, after he goes apeshit in Shining Force 2. For the time being, you'll have to take my word for it that this thing looks a lot (well, a little) better from far away. Perler Beads only come in so many colors, and sometimes its hard to get all the variable colors in, say, a fleshtone, to blend smoothly.

Maybe one day I'll get around to taking a picture of this thing from the far corner of the room. Or maybe I won't. Also, I just noticed I hung this up backwards.

This is Peter from Shining Force 2. This is after he morphs into the phoenix from a big nerd. I wish I had come across his 'before' picture before I made his 'after' picture into a cabinet decoration, because I'd really have Peter the Nerd hanging in my kitchen. But the 14 year old's website I found at the time only had his promotion picture.















And this would be King Galam after he goes apeshit (or does he start off apeshit and you return him to sanity? it's been too long since I've played) from Shining Force 2. I even made the frame for this one, and I think it looks nice but I decided it was a waste of time and beads for Peter and Oddler. Also, it's very boring to do.



I thought I gave this to my little sister, by the way. In other words, I thought it was hanging in an apartment populated by a stinky dog in Austin. But I happened to come across it recently lying around the guest bedroom in my parents house in Houston. Some one's got some 'splaining to do.









And just to show that I do have range beyond video game fanart but not beyond geek fanart, here is a comics fanart thing that I did. This is using a process called rasterbation (notice how I will classily not make any puns).



It's basically a DIY way to make a dorm room poster - it allows you to take a small image (and you can use any image you want) and turn it into a tiled poster you can print off your own printer. If you want to make one yourself (it's free, excluding the printer ink and the paper) or just see what the fuck I'm talking about, go to The Rasterbator.


I didn't want all that ink and paper to go to waste so I tried to make it a bit more permanent (that is, I can take it with me whenever I finally move out of my parents' house) by decoupaging it to foam board and then wrapping electrical tape around the edges. I don't recommend using foam board because it's hard to cut and it comes out all jagged (hence the electrical tape border). Whenever I come up with a better method, I'd like to do a series of vintage magician posters, but that'll have to be for another time and another garage apartment (my walls are out of room here).



* Also I apologize for the crazy spacing or lack thereof (and I mean that: it is either giving me no spaces or crazy wide open ones) in this post. I'm pretty sure it's blogger that's retarded and not me. Maybe it's me. I had it laid out quite elegantly in my little editing box, only the actual thing never looks like the preview or the editing box. After an hour of messing with the format and the HTML to very little avail, I am just going to let you deal with it.

Fucking finally:




So the final counts:

Number of times I bled for Godzilla: 8 times

Number of fingernails I ground down to nothing by accidentally slipping my finger into the grinder: 3

Number of burns from touching hot lead: 2

Number of tumors developed from breathing in lead without adequate ventilation: Only time will tell!

Lessons learned: I really need to work on my soldering. I really should learn how to make letters properly instead of winging it. I really need to check myself before I wreck myself.

The godzilla saga continues: I ran out of copper foil and cancer causing lead so he's been put on hold for a few days.

Now for sale in my etsy shop:

1. Ever kissed a blonde haired, blue eyed person?
No. And what's with this question, nazi?


2. Can you see a phone right now?
I can see my cell phone, sure.

3. What are you listening to?
Gnac. Is that suitably obscure enough?

4. Where is it coming from?
Speakers

5. Last thing you ate?
I just shoved a chocolate chip cookie into my mouth. I don't even really like chocolate chip cookies.

6. What was the last thing you saw on TV?
I rewatched a few early Veronica Mars episodes last night while working on the Moogle. It was back when Logan was just a psychotic jackass.

7. Who was the last person other than family you saw?
I passed a jogger (yes, people jog at 3 in the morning where I live) on my way home from Denny's.

8. Song stuck in your head?
Well, I'm listening to Gnac, but I'm thinking about Sweet Child O Mine.

9. Last movie you went to?
Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I forget the actual name of the actual movie. It has colon in it.

10. Do you have a tan right now?
I am a bit darker than usual, but I'm still paler than the average person's ass.

11. Do you dance while getting ready for... whatever?
The can can


12. What are you wearing?
A thong

Not really.


13. What is the most people you've been in front of?
I've had to make "The projector is broken. You will not be seeing this movie tonight" type announcements before. So maybe a couple of hundred?

14. Have you ever watched the show RockStar?
Lukas Rossi 4eva

15. Have you ever taken a bath/shower while you were drunk or high?
Sounds like something I would do.

16. Do you like techno?
Only in two minute increments. It's like pixie stix in the form of music. And, I mean, I like pixie stix, but I wouldn't want to eat an entire meal's worth of them.

17. Have you ever been to a night club?
Sounds like something I would do.

18. What is one country you want to go to?
Singapore. They rate their bathrooms there like we rate our restaurants.

19. Have you ever made out on a plane?
Sounds like something I would not do.

20. Have you ever jumped up on a stage that a band was playing on?
No, and in most cases, it kind of pisses me off when people do.


21. Do you have leadership skills?
Well, I'm no Jack. But I'm possibly a Ben or a Sawyer.

22. Are you musically inclined?
Not really. When I'm learning an instrument, I progress really fast early on, but I plateau extremely quickly. Like it'll be amazing that I'm ALREADY playing Michael Row the Boat Ashore, but it will soon dawn on you that I'm never going to get past the Michael Row the Boat Ashore level.

23. Have you ever sat on a roof and looked at stars?
Yes, but not in a dreamy, "I'm just a speck of dust" emo way. It was in a highly scientific way.

24. Ever done that while talking on the phone to a boyfriend/girlfriend?
Fuck that.

25. Does the song "Stairway To Heaven" make you sad?
No. Why would it?


26. Do you have alcohol in your room?
Sounds like something I would have.

THE THREES:

1. Name 3 schools you went to:
North Harris, Macalester, U Houston

And that's just the colleges. And that's not even all of the colleges.

2. Name 3 things in your purse/wallet:
movie ticket stub, finished sudoku puzzle (5 star difficulty, put that in your pipe and smoke it), Itzik the clown magician business card

3. Name 3 things you do when you're really stressed.
nothing to calm me down, I like to feed the ball of rage that wells up inside of me.

4. Name 3 places you go on a daily basis:
downstairs, bathroom, maybe the front yard if I'm feeling adventurous

5. Name 3 favorite fruits:
I really only like apples. I sometimes eat bananas.

6. Name 3 of your favorite foods:
baked potato, french fries, baked potato soup

THE WHERES:

1. Where do you live?
a suburb of Houston

2. Where is your phone?
right in front of me

3. Where is/are your parent(s) right now?
asleep

4. Where is the last place you took a ride to?
Denny's?

THE WHATS:

1. What did you just eat?
Well not Denny's food. I mean, I'm already sick.

2. What color bra/boxers are you wearing?
Black

3. What is the closest item near you that is blue?
Blue yarn for a slime plushie I'm trying to make

4. What is your favorite color?
Black

5. What is your favorite website?
I suppose I read television without pity more than any other, but again, I like to feed that ball of rage in my stomach.

6. What kind of surgery have you had?
I've had a colonoscopy. I wish I were kidding.

7. What do you wear more jeans or shorts?
Shorts, obviously. *

THE WHENS:

1. When did you start school?
Mid 80s

2. When is your birthday?
September 1st, but I am, in fact, a scorpio.

3. When did you last go to the mall?
Probably more recently than I care to admit. I am very uncreative when it comes to shopping.

4. When was the last time you bought a pair of pants?
Probably longer ago than I care to admit. I've been wearing the same pair for 3 days now.

5. When did you last ponder your existence?
When I noticed earlier today that we were out of Doritoes.

6. When were you last at school?
Not so recently

7. When did you last see your dad?
Recently


* I forget that now that I do these embarrassing surveys outside of my private myspace page, people who don't know me might actually read them. I know what you're thinking: "yeah, right. you wish". And you're probably (definitely) right. But just in case: that "obviously" was meant to be snotty. I don't think I've voluntarily worn a pair of shorts since I was 7 years old.

Well, that 1-up mushroom sold within hours of me putting it up so I thought I'd follow up on its popularity by making a needlework moogle, which is a cat or a bat or something from the Final Fantasy games. And if you're wondering why I don't have a picture of my progress on the needlework moogle, it's because I apparently left it at a Denny's. That or it got buried underneath the crap in my car. Either way, it's never going to be seen again.

I'd start another one, but I don't have the stomach to make the exact same thing over and over again so it's going to be a few weeks at the very least before another moogle is born.

The godzilla stained glass is coming along at a slug's pace:



I decided instead of making each little tooth and black space between the tooth individually, I'd instead just make one big white line of teeth and use lead to draw the lines between them. Of course, I decided that after spending a few hours grinding down a dozen teeth.

And you can't tell by the above picture, but the lettering at the top is red glass, not black, and it can be very hard to distinguish between tiny red glass shards and blood sometimes. That said, the following count may not be accurate:

Number of times I have bled for Godzilla: 5 and counting

Now for sale in my shop:

It's the 1 Up Mushroom (my mom didn't know). This thing took me forever. I figure some one could probably use it as a gift. Maybe a get well soon gift, since these things give you a second shot at life. You probably shouldn't give it to some one terminal though. That's just poor taste.

Works in progress:

Megaman Pixel Art - I need to order a lot of blue. And in case you can't tell (I forgot to put in the standard quarter for comparison purposes), this is a large project. He's already nearly a foot and a half long and I've yet to get past his crotch.

He is very likely to be ruined during the ironing process.











Godzilla stained glass - this is more of an experiment than anything. It's my second stained glass project (Selma the Fish being my first), and my first attempt at my own design.

Number of times I have bled for Godzilla: 2 and counting

So I'm now selling those silly beaded video game characters on etsy.com. And in case you want to buy or just browse any of those silly beaded video game characters, my shop's url is onechordwonder.etsy.com

I'm going to use this blog to update what's going up for sale in my shop, show whatever I'm working on now (which may or may not be for sale when finished), and do dumbass surveys usually reserved for 12 year olds.