After days of goading from the rest of my family, I finally gave in and got a Facebook page: [link]

My father's already addicted to it. We went back to Colorado last weekend and he couldn't stop playing with the Facebook app on his iPhone.

Trying to get back into drawing now.

On a rare occasion when movies which aren't considered mainstream are actually screened in a mainstream movie theater within 500 miles of Kansas City (even though there's a perfectly good independent movie theater just downtown, but I digress) I caught the one-night-only screening of the new Eureka Seven movie last Thursday. An okay film, despite the completely remodeled storyline and a kind of bittersweet ending.

My baby cousin Abigail turned one year old this week, and we're going to a party tomorrow to celebrate.

The Jayhawks won against their toughest non-conference opponent this season, beating Southern Miss by seven points. The defensive line can be credited for keeping the Golden Eagles from tying the game for the fourth time. I hope we can improve between now and our conference season opener in two weeks.

Got a new iPhone last week.

More art coming. Ever have one of those days when you feel you can't draw a freaking thing...and actually can't? *groan*

If you have not seen Persepolis yet, then SEE PERSEPOLIS.

It's an animated movie from France from a graphic novel based on the life of its author, Marjane Satrapi.

It is about her life as an Iranian girl growing up during the Islamic Revolution of the late 1970s and its aftermath.

Marjane rebels against the new Islamic fundamentalist regime through punk rock, denim jackets and other outlawed Western cultural icons.

She gets sent to school in Vienna, finds love, falls out of love, makes friends, ends up on the streets, goes back to Iran, goes to art school, gets married, gets divorced and ultimately cannot adjust to a society of repression and control.

Great animation, great story, very humorous at times and overall a very charming film.

SEE PERSEPOLIS.

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...well, what are you waiting for!! GO! SEE IT!! RIGHT NOW!!!

While we were out in Colorado for the Fourth, my folks got me a NEW DIGITAL CAMERA as a long-awaited graduation present.

A black Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS15, 12.1 megapixels with auto-focus tracking, a 5x optical zoom lens and a whole bunch of other features I'm still fooling around with.

I have a few ideas of what to do with it--heck, with a laptop with Photoshop and Flash, the possibilities are endless.

I'm thinking of opening up a Flickr account, perhaps treat it as a more professional portfolio.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that on Monday July 13, 2009 at around 11:00 pm Central daylight time, AC Adapter V, the adapter which came with my current laptop when I bought it last year, passed away.

The cause of death has been identified as one similar to most of the four adapters I went through with my old machine - the area where the cord comes out of the brick and connects to the computer. Hewlett-Packard cannot get it through their heads that the rubber thing connecting the cord to the brick is too rigid and leaves the copper wiring inside the cord to bind and break apart if the cord comes under too much strain.

Sadly this has slowed work on a remake of the NCC Lying in Grass deviation which so direly needs a redo. I've already ordered its successor, AC Adapter VI, and hopefully it should be here by the end of the week.

And I was on an artistic buzz, too...

Luckily during the unprecedented downtime I managed to finish up some NCC and Gwendolyn sketches and I'll get those scanned and posted ASAP.