Below are the most recent 10 friends' journal entries.

Monday, January 4th, 2010
tmcm	2:26a	new cartoon I'm starting to post new cartoons on ACT-I-VATE.com... some of the better New Yorker cartoons. The New Yorker has one of my comics in this week's issue. It's another animal cartoon. I wonder if I'm being pegged as an animal guy.... could be worse. I am going to start submitting more animal cartoons. I wonder if it'll be one of those self fulfilling prophecy things - except that it isn't a prophecy. So... this week's cartoon is a bit of a cop out. I'm using an unused New Yorker as a weekly spot. I'm tired... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
happinesstogo	7:42a	Best of 2009 December 31 Resolution you wish you'd stuck with. (You know, there's always next year...) I always resolve to be more creative and more physically active, and while I didn't do those things in the way I originally wanted, I was pretty creative with the knitting and I jogged instead of yoga or golf or hiking. The one thing that wasn't a resolution but something that came up later in the year that I wanted to do but didn't was listen to and work through all of the Italian language instruction tapes I bought a few months ago. Today's a little late for a crash course! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
happinesstogo	3:19p	Best of 2009 December 30 Ad. What advertisement made you think this year? Most advertisements make me think about how gullible people are that they fall for that stuff and that our society is focused way too much on consumerism. This made me think this year. (Comment on this)
tmcm	11:48a	indy comic book week, ACT-I-VATE, new mug from Boom, new collection, new New Yorker Today. Yep. Today. I'll be going to Things From Another World in the Hollywood District in Portland to hang out and sell my comics as part of the Indy Comics Week. 2-7pm. I'll have original art and my dirty comics in addition to my usual crap. http://www.tfaw.com/ http://www.tfaw.com/blog/ Also: this week I'm posting a new comic on the www.act-i-vate.com website. Bookmark it and check it. There might be some overlap with my blog - but mostly it will be original material. http://act-i-vate.com/creators?id=50 Boom Studios is producing a brand new Too Much Coffee Man mug. Should be pretty cool. The plans are to make it change images as you add hot water. I'll have more details on this soon. But it looks like the pre-order is available now. That's about it... working on a collection of the New Yorker rejects. Here is an anemic rough version of the cover: And on a non-rejected note. This next issue of the New Yorker sports one of my cartoons: (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
happinesstogo	1:41p	Best of 2009 (and my movie list for the year) December 26 Insight or aha! moment. What was your epiphany of the year? I don't know what to say about this one. It seems that I'm always having epiphanies ("I can't stay in this town a moment longer!") and then having counter-epiphanies ("Phoenix is the only place I want to live, EVER!") so I don't think any of my a-ha moments really amounted to anything. Although I can probably milk the jogging thing one more time and say that it's been nothing but a series of a-ha moments all along in that I can remember thinking, "Wow - I jogged for twenty minutes today!" and so forth as I progressed. Like, every time I finish a run is kind of an a-ha moment. December 27 Social web moment. Did you meet someone you used to only know from her blog? Did you discover Twitter? Facebook has been the site of many strange and wonderful social web moments this year. I can't possibly begin to list them all, especially since this entry is visible to everyone. I did meet someone new from here in LJ land: horosha, and we've met up many times in person since our first movie meet up back in the spring or summer (I can't remember when exactly). December 28 Stationery. When you touch the paper, your heart melts. The ink flows from the pen. What was your stationery find of the year? Well, I confess I've never been as excited about it as this question implies, but this year at Kat's baby shower I received some Nancy Drew stationery that's pretty cool. Some of you have seen it yourselves since I've been using it for short letters this year. December 29 Laugh. What was your biggest belly laugh of the year? Probably the first time I heard shadowprison do his 'poems that are yet to be written,' which was at the show at Deus Ex Machina back in early November (I think). It was sometime around Halloween, anyway. That was freakin' hilarious and I laughed and laughed and laughed. Although now that I think about it, I remember laughing at Pubfest so much that it hurt when Shoe and I were joking around with Kelly and Mike about Mike building a house. And that joke has continued on and on over on facebook, so that's probably the biggest laugh, with the poems taking a close second. And, just for fun because this is an end-of-year thing, too, here are all the movies I saw in 2009 at the theater. I know this because I save my ticket stubs. I've got movie ticket stubs going back to high school. That's kind of silly. The Invention of Lying Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Ice Age 3 Transformers 2 Night at the Museum (I forget the subtitle) UP Sunshine Cleaning Star Trek Wolverine The Wrestler The Reader And this afternoon I'm going to Sherlock Holmes. That doesn't seem like very many movies this year, but I was kind of trying to save money, I guess. I don't think I left any off the list. I really wish The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was playing somewhere around here. I am wicked excited to see that one. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, December 28th, 2009
tmcm	1:30a	new cartoon Been working hard to finish up my projects. I have a bunch of cartoons that I've been submitting to the New Yorker which I might collect together in a book. The Bible Project is coming along nicely. The kids book is drawn and just needs to be colored. I have a bunch of dirty comics that I did for the Onion that could make a good little book. And if the Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus is finished - just a tiny bit of polish and it'll be printed.... lots of good stuff. In the meantime New cartoon. and my stupid LJ account expired again. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
happinesstogo	8:15p	Pffft You know what I love? My old LJ posts! I was just looking up what all I've written for TWFoPs of years past. I amuse myself a lot. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
happinesstogo	5:10p	Metal and Hopper So I just watched Anvil: The Story of Anvil, and one of the things that really struck me in the film was a scene where they showed a bunch of paintings that the drummer, Robb Reiner, did. It sounds like he's a pretty good drummer (I confess I don't know any of Anvil's music) but he's also a fantastic painter, in my opinion. The film showed a lot of street scene/building paintings, and I was thinking they reminded me of Edward Hopper's work (my most favorite painter) and then Reiner said that he's a big fan of Edward Hopper! And he said something about liking buildings and paintings of buildings, just like me! So I just went online to find a way to track down the band and maybe see if any of Reiner's paintings were for sale somewhere, and I didn't find much, so I figured, well, facebook. I went to Reiner's facebook page and I didn't add him as a friend, but I did send him a message to tell him how much I enjoyed seeing his work and that I'm also an Edward Hopper fan. I said I don't know if he'll personally get the message or if he has people who do his facebook page for him, but I hope he gets the message eventually. I would totally buy one of his paintings but I bet they are out of my price range. ETA: Wow, Reiner totally wrote right back to me over in facebookland! How cool is that! (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
happinesstogo	10:15a	Best of 2009 December 24 Learning experience. What was a lesson you learned this year that changed you? I'm not really very different now than I was a year ago so I'm not sure I learned much of substance in 2009. I did learn that the older we get, the more awkward, painful things we'll have to have to confront: death, divorce, etc. I'm sure I'll learn this more and more as time goes by, but it seems that 2009 has been the worst year thusfar for that type of thing. Of course I learned some good things, too, but I don't feel like there were many "lessons." This reminds me of that old Chris Farley SNL skit where he's interviewing Paul McCartney, awkwardly, and he asks McCartney, "Remember when you wrote that song that said the love you take is equal to the love you make?" [or something like that] and McCartney says yes, and Farley says, "Is that true?" Hee! So, you know, what I'm trying to say is that lessons like that are continually learned. December 25 Gift. What's a gift you gave yourself this year that has kept on giving? Hm, as you know, I spent most of my "mad money" on travel this year. Material things I bought include some CDs, some books (though not many of either), some yarn...2009 wasn't really a year for 'stuff.' I might have to say running shoes: I bought one pair at the beginning of the year and then upgraded to a new pair a while back when I'd put a bunch of miles on the first pair. I still wear the first pair for walking around, and the second pair continues to please me when I'm out pounding the pavement. That phrase sounds naughty. Anyway, my answer is comfortable shoes. And of course all the travelling was very special, too. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
happinesstogo	7:18a	Best of 2009 December 23 Web tool. It came into your work flow this year and now you couldn't live without it. It has simplified or improved your online experience. I got nothin' for this one. My online experience stayed much the same in 2009 since my operating system is so old that nothing new will work on it. I would dearly love to be able to 'watch instantly' from my Netflix queue and use sites like hulu.com and such to catch up on teevee episodes, but my system won't support the latest Flash players and the like. So I just keep typing to you in the boring old print medium and occasionally put photos up for you to see. (Comment on this)