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This morning as I was walking to work with piles of cherries from the grocery store, I was thinking about how good it felt to say no to the 5 cent plastic bags. I would prolly not take them anyways, but now that they ask you every time, I feel really good after I announce that I will carry them in my napsack.

In a way, this is kinda a cool way to attempt to make everyone that shops feel a little bit more like they're doing something for the environment when they don't buy a bag.

I am the featured illustrator on The 5 Lights Project this month, and will be posting one painting each week in July there.

Will Hindmarch interviews me at Jet Pack about it as well: http://www.jet-pack.net/?p=449

And I will have more news soon!

(stolen from pers)

I ammm soooo excited for Louise Black!! She's on the next Project Runway!!

http://bloggingprojectrunway.blogspot.com/

I am sooo glad that I bought the corsets and dress from her when I did! She's gonna be famous :) Finally the recognition she deserves for her amaaaazing work!

Are these the ugliest pants of all time?

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I know the series has been over in comic form for months, but the final trade paperback of 100 Bullet's is coming out today.



I am so excited!! I've started rereading the previous 12 trades to refresh myself on what's been going on.

Also, I've been watching the new Doctor Who with a few friends. We've made through the Christopher Eccleston season and got as far as some of the David Tennant ones. Tom Baker's always been my favorite Doctor, followed by Peter Davison. Eccleston has bumped Davison down a notch now for me. I lurve him! So batshit insane! I was all sorts of arms-crossed-pouty when Tennant took over but he has grown on me something fierce. The stories are so good! Blink's been one of the best episodes so far!

Is anyone going to the Toronto After Dark movie festival? They listed some of the movies coming today:

http://torontoafterdark.com/2009/the-films

I'm debating getting the Full Access pass but I'm not sure if it's worth it for me! TIFF, that's another story ;)

Well, in three weeks I've got to move from Toronto to Halifax, and I need to get a moving company! I hope I haven't left this too late.

I thought about driving, but was looking up uhaul reviews this morning and I had completely forgotten they were absolutely terrifying and it is something like renting a flaming death conduit, which I am keen to avoid. Has anyone had a very good experience with a moving company in Canada? Do tell!

I will probably do something special to cover the move, like commissions, which I never do. Sound good?

Sometimes I start comics that are supposed to be a whole page, but are only a half page.

On a related note, I have so many David Bowie drawings now, so many Ziggys.

(store!)

I had fun drawing teens for that last comic, and was looking up dangerous teen fashions from the earlier part of the century. I think the Teddy Boys were my favorite.

Too bad I was a teen in the late 90s/early 00's and there was absolutely nothing remarkable about that time! Except regrets and frosted tips (same thing).

Fringe Wrap-Up

My Fringe experience ended on a high note. Audiences voted Oreo Best in Venue. Our award was an extra performance on Sunday evening. Given an ill-timed deluge of rain that started right as the final box office opened, I was pleased that a few dozen bodies made it out for our final show.

Saying good-bye was tough. I shed some tears backstage after the final curtain. More tears during the Closing/Peer Awards Ceremony, when executive producer, Kevin Waghorn announced that the 'Spirit of the Fringe Award' had been renamed 'The Steve Sauve Spirit of the Fringe Award'. bwanageek has very much been on mind during the festival. Speaking with Kevin, he confessed that he too has been keenly aware of Steve's absence these past couple of weeks.

I miss Team Oreo (as we have named ourselves). But we're on for what's shaping up to be a fantabular cast party tomorrow night. And maybe, just maybe there will be more shows in our future...

Canada Day

The Drama Guys and I drove out to the bucolic splendor of Almonte. We enjoyed a nice afternoon visit with tinkerspink, Jono, Bumblebee and rpriske. Drama Prince enjoyed frolicking with Luna the Dog, giving further evidence that a dog will be a welcome addition to our family. The purpose of our visit was to watch TS and RP getting poetic at the local Canada Day celebrations. TS and RP drove over to the site early and the rest of us strolled over in time to catch the performance. Or we thought we'd be on time. We arrived to discover that we'd just missed the poetry set. Boo-urns! We did get to hear the classic rock stylings of a local high school band. They were quite good. Afterward, we took a nice stroll back to the house were we enjoyed backyard popsicles before heading back to Ottawa.

In the evening, we dropped in on a rooftop party hosted by some theatre pals. Thought the afternoon sun was still shining, we could hear the pop of overzealous revelers and their fireworks. Or, as one guest theorized, some people were using the holiday as an excuse to exchange gunfire without arousing suspicion.

Houseguests

Our next door neighbours are away for the rest of the week, so we are taking care of their pets. Our guests include "Kenny" Kensington the Cat and Ruby the chocolate lab. We're hopeful that the dog, in particular will give us some idea of what life will be like when our own puppy arrives. Fortunately, Ruby is very well-trained and VERY good with DP, who couldn't be more delighted to have a real-live dog living in the house. Kenny is a low-maintenance as any cat. All she requires is food, the occasional pat and to look at us with stern judgement.

And the Winner Is . . .

The votes have been tallied, the results are in, and we have a winner (two, actually). Congratulations to the newly elected user representatives to the LJ Advisory Board: from lj_election_en, it's kylecassidy, and from lj_election_ru, it's nekbke! You can see the full breakdown of results for lj_election_en here and for lj_election_ru here. Thanks to everyone for your participation.

Drama Prince said, "I love you".

Today, I am goo.

Last week I went out for a drink with Peter Watts, super awesome science fiction author extraordinaire!

WELL, he ordered this strawberry mango soup! He offered me to try it and I was like "no no i don't want to get you sick by using your spoon!". And he's all like "no no, i've got super constitution! i don't get sick!".

So I'm like "ok,whatever!"

Today I read his blog:
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=553

I hope he at least believes me about the Sambuca shots :D

Man, school is ending for the summer! I am seeing teens everywhere. I'll make one of those YA series, where adults believe what teens tell them. Except instead of fake teens, mine will have real ones because real teens don't give a shit about anything.

Also happy birthday to Jess Fink! The internet told me it was her birthday.

And hey, remember- my book is reprinted and ready to go!

If you live in Canada, you should pick up the National Post today, because I have this giant giant comic inside. It was supposed to be on a cover, but then Michael Jackson died and shoved me off!

Ayyy heads up, I have a guest strip up at Meredith Gran's terrific Octopus Pie!

Octopus Pie is easily one of my top favorite webcomics. Meredith does such a slick job with everything: the writing, the art, the inking, the layout, everything is totally top notch. Man, Seriously.