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Sunday, October 31, 2004 Happy Halloween - I think Tine and I took TheBoy™ around the neighborhood tonight. I think we left at 5:30 and home an hour later. At this age, he wears out pretty quickly. Half the time he wanted to be back in the carriage for a ride to the next house. Especially, near the end.  He also needs lots of prompting at the door; "Say Trick or Treat. Say thank you." He's very gun-ho to rush off to the next house, pointing up and down the street, directing our route (which is pretty much straight) but he clams right up when strangers arrive at the door. We probably only did about a dozen houses at the most. Even that seems like a stretch to me. The last couple of houses, for some bizarre reason, I started telling TheBoy™ to "Say Merry Christmas." At one house, I was completely flummoxed as to what to actually say. I stood there completely dumbfounded for about 10 seconds, which is an eternity when we're all just looking for some social niceties. At least the neighbors didn't appear to recognize me. posted by Evil Wayne | 10:20 PM 0 comments Saturday, October 30, 2004 It's My Birthday Send money. posted by Evil Wayne | 10:37 AM 1 comments Friday, October 29, 2004 Biting Off More Than I Can Chew Well, in the fine tradition of completely going out of my mind, I've signed up at the National Novel Writing Month to churn out a novel in 30 days. Yes, it's laughworthy. Yes, I think it seriously unlikely that I can pound out 50,000 words in 30 days (that translates into 1667 words a day). And it adds an insane amount of work to my daily schedule as it is. At the same time, I have work, kids, family and I'm still working on all the post-game stuff for the Brikington Manor DVD. I'll see if I can't squeeze in updates here as well. I'm sure it'll break around 5k words instead of 50k. :( But maybe it'll kick-start something. I still don't know what the hell I'm going to write about, but I've been thinking about it since I found the NaNoWriMo site and leaped without looking. I've think I've narrowed it down to three of the bazillion unwritten stories I've got floating around in my brain. At least the laptop will see some more use. I added their little icon to the sidebar. While one could look at it as some cutsie-pukie fluffy forest creature, I think the slighty human face adds an element of creepitude that has me wondering if he's writing a little "manifesto" to the papers after carving up some hikers and boiling thier remains for his WinterStew. I'm so screwed. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:30 PM 0 comments Dream Sequence I had this dream last night were I was living at a marina. It was someplace tropical, or at least very warm. There were tons of boats and docks and it reminded me of the opening to Gilligan's Island, where they show you were the boat left from. Strangely, I was also a woman, but it didn't seem to have any bearing on the story. At first, I was living with some strangers and it was a big house. There was a dog, I can't recall if it was any specific dog, just that it was brown and black. I would leave the slide-door open and the dog would run outside. I'd have to go after it and try to haul it back home. When I did, the house was much smaller now. Like an apartment, two small rooms and a kitchette. There were mattresses on the living room floor and now it belonged to two aunts - then it switched to an aunt and an uncle. The "owners" seemed to bounce between those two sets throughout the dream. At the house, the lights were off. And that's what it was at first, no power. Or the power had run out. It started to take on this run-down feel; the world had run down. And then some things just stopped, because time had now run out. Water coming out of the faucet, just sat there frozen in time. I was at the sink trying to get something to drink and it was like a still image of a stream of water coming out of the long neck of the tap. I reached down and touched it, and it was like jelly. I could interact with it, but it wasn't moving anymore. Everything had stopped like that. My aunt-aunt/aunt-uncle were also stopped. They lay on the mattresses in the living room as if they were dead, but they weren't. I played with some salt and poured it out watching it slow to a stop in mid-air. Eventually I was outside again. There were other people coming from the other side of town. They, like me, were able to move outside of the stopped time. They were very angry and seemed to blame me for what was happening, but it's a bit fuzzy. They came onto the lawn and were shouting and ranting, but I can't make it out. Dr Silverberg shows up. This is the guy from the Terminator movies (Earl Boen) - I just looked it up and his name was Silberman in the movies, but in my dream he was Silverberg. He makes the crowd go away. Like they should just go home and wait, because it will be over soon. He comes into my house, with my frozen relatives and tells me that we're caught in a bubble of time and we need to get out before it's too late. The only way out is to take the monorail over a few blocks. So, we walk down to the monorail station. It's sunny and hot, there's no breeze, but the palm trees are swaying anyway. Silverberg looks up at the monorail, it's shiny white with a blue stripe. The whole station is sea-blue and made of cement and crushed rock, giving it that by-the-ocean feel. The Doctor stops me from going up the stairs. I look up and Koko the gorilla is in the driver's compartment. She's wicked pissed off. Throwing a tantrum and roaring from the window. I think she's holding a doll or a kitten or something small and fuzzy. Silverberg decides we can't leave if Koko is still in the driver's seat. I agree. So we go to the zoo or the office and there's a tranquilizer gun. This happens quickly, and we're back at the station. Koko is still raving from the monorail window. The doctor hands me the rifle and as I start to take aim, everything begins to appear like it's outlined in pencil. I put the gun down and I look at it. Immediately, it starts to outline itself in pencil. The colors start getting flat and fade. Silverberg says something like time is about to run out. I run to a mirror, I'm still female -I don't look like anyone I know- and I have 70's Fara Fawcett hair, blonde and wingy. Each of the wings starts to outline in thick, pencil strokes. And it starts to become something from that Ah-Ha video, the doctor is frantic about time coming to an end. I start away from the mirror, very afraid... Then I wake up. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:18 AM 0 comments Sunday, October 24, 2004 I'm Wiped We played The Brikington Manor Horrors last night and it was as a huge success. While I've got pics and stories to tell, the game went right to the horrible conclusion, which wasn't until 1:30 in the morning (this morning!). And being at Shaun's house, meant a 2+ hour ride home. I didn't walk thru the door until about 4:15 and I'm totally wrecked. It's like I'm hung over, without the booze. My whole day is screwed up and i just can't wait to go to bed later. About the only thing I did was to post a RealPlayer version of the opening video on the site. There will be more to come as soon as I get myself all collected and whatnot... *sigh* posted by Evil Wayne | 5:50 PM 0 comments Tuesday, October 19, 2004 Millyard Phase I Spent this past Saturday helping (with NELUG) Lego recreate a section of an industrial completx in Manchester, N.H.; a 1:55 scale recreation of the historic Amoskeag Millyard. There were other fans were there to help. You can see pictures of the build and get a grasp of the size. This is going to be the biggest Lego installation to date for the company. We built a single building and it took all day. Actually, I took a long time to build one section, because there was some confusion on whether or not there were windows. I kept tearing it down and building it up. It kind of got to me after awhile. ;) There's easily a dozen or so more buildings that need to go in. It's going to take a year and a half before it's done. I had one of the best times. It was a total blast and I certainly hope any future building weekends are just as groovy. We even got to ride a Segway which was groovy. (As Dave said, "Cool. Not five-thousand dollar, cool, but cool.") Evil Wayne Pics AlLUG Pics After the event, I jaunted over to Sullivans to get pictures for the intro video. I think I left his house around 10 - 10:30 and didn't get home until almost 1 AM. :P A very long day. I'm trying to get it done and also churn out a few other things for the game this weekend. I've uploaded the Harrison and Meredith document, so that's done. Even if I wished it could have been some kind of pseudo-documentary. For the intro I've got most of the dialog recorded and I think the images are okay. Stitching it together is a whole different animal. I think it can't help but be 10 minutes at this point. Which is a good thing in my opinion. We're into the final stretch here. posted by Evil Wayne | 1:18 PM 0 comments Sunday, October 17, 2004 Monkey vs. Robot This one is for the members of AlLUG. I think it should be AlLUG's theme song. Not for any cosmic reason really, but mostly because of the look on Al and Dave's face when I started singing (which does normally send people looking for sharp sticks to slam into their ears in an effort to relieve the pain). Possibly Dan as well. Download a little truth, boyz: Monkey vs. Robot posted by Evil Wayne | 11:17 PM 0 comments Thursday, October 14, 2004 Kneel! Thanks to Steve for passing along General Zod! featuring one of his favorite actor Terence Stamp in the role he immortalized from Superman and Superman II (mostly II). I'm still working on that Harry and Meredith script, inputting the corrections so it agrees with the timeline. I'm actually starting to like the story. Which has now morphed into a document because there's no way I could hope to pull off a video at this point. There's way too much information to put on tape and find images for. Not in a week anyway. At this point it will be a downloadable PDF file on the game page when I'm done. I do have to start work on the actual intro film, which we really do need. I think I'll probably try to record some of the narration tonight and tomorrow night. Nothing breeds motivation like the cold, stark horror of a deadline. posted by Evil Wayne | 1:48 PM 0 comments Wednesday, October 13, 2004 Freaky Holiday Image Contest Jeesh, I've been so busy with other stuff I completely forgot that I started this. It's time for another photo contest! Yeah, all 2 of you who care, get your camera's ready. I'm looking for are images from the holiday seasons (October thru December) that are strange, weird, out-of-place, or just plain wrong. You know, when you see something that just doesn't seem right. Like a Christmas display that somehow features creepy elves. A holiday sign that passes on an unusual greeting. Or someone wearing the wrong thing to a holiday party. Ideally, it should look and feel spontaneous and/or serendipitous. Take the pic and send me a link to this address: freakycontest@evilwayne.com For full frontal details, Click Here Here's hoping we actually get double the entries from the fridge contest! (So that would be 6). posted by Evil Wayne | 1:40 PM 0 comments Tuesday, October 12, 2004 You Say Zombies!!! I Say Zombie! I was checking to see if Munchkin Bites! had shipped yet via The Daily Illuminator. Alas no, but there as a link for an expansion to a game called Zombies!!! Almost a year ago, I came up with a BrikWars scenario I called Zombies! (I also put it up here on my site). It basically involved two teams: Town and Zombie. Each player would start with a single Town Crier or Zombie at the edges of a town chock full of unsuspecting townsfolk. The goal was to convert as many to your side and destory the other. Although it appears to use cards and minis to escape a zombie ridden town, I thought it was pretty close. There appear to be special buildings too. Then again, there's not a ton of variety to a living dead scenario. I mean, they almost write themselves. And then they almost write themselves the same. Zombies attack humans. Humans have to outwit/outrun/destroy zombies. Just the change the setting. Even the name with an exclamation point is cliche. Which is why I added one (should have added three, but there's the English Major in me). If Zombies!!! weren't backordered to December, I would probably buy a copy of some Halloween fun. Lord knows when Munchkin Bites! is going to ship. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:29 PM 0 comments Friday, October 08, 2004 Quote I'd like God a whole lot better if he'd just bother to show up once and awhile instead of being such a deadbeat dad... —J. Spencer Rezkalla posted by Evil Wayne | 4:50 PM 0 comments Procrastination I should be finishing up the Harry Met Meredith script. I shouldn't be writing here; I can't believe I've let it go this long. I'm going to be so screwed if I can't get it done and soon. Yah, I know that makes no sense to you, but that doesn't change the fact I should be doing it. I've had forever to work on it, and now I'm down to the last two weeks. I really wanted it finished—the whole film -by this weekend. Now I'll be luck if the script is done. It's not even long. I'm thinking the film (which is a generous name to be calling a glorified slideshow) should be under 5 minutes. I mean, why is this so freakin' difficult? This is all for the Halloween BrikWar game. We need this intro film to give some perspective to the players. I wish I could elaborate more, but you never know who's tuning in. Basically, we have a horror game that we've been planning. We is another generous term because this has really all been Sully's game. He's done all the work and I'm involved just enough to keep my name somewhere in the credits. Regardless, this game is intense. There's been an insane amount of planning, scripting and sheer grunt work for one evening of entertainment. If we manage to pull this off, we will have set the BrikWars bar very high. But that's not going to happen as long as I keep finding dumbass ways to avoid finishing the script. I'm not sure why, but I've always had this problem. I never did anything in college that wasn't last-minute-edge-of-panic and stressed-filled. I'm not kidding, I did entire projects that had 6 weeks of lead time in 48 hours. On the plus side, I generally got good grades. Only once did it backfire because there was just too much to do. I think that's what I feel about this; There's so much to squeeze in. Then I have to find and/or mock images, record dialog and then start editing. Fuck, I'm screwed. I'm here, writing this instead of working on it. What's wrong with me?!? posted by Evil Wayne | 1:33 PM 0 comments Thursday, October 07, 2004 Slip of the Tounge According to NPR, the VP's mistake during the debate on Tuesday of citing factcheck.com, instead of factcheck.org to help defend against Edward's critisims of his connections with Halliburton, brought the .com site so much traffic (and I was one of them) that they redirected everything to this site, an anti-Bush message. And to quote an online friend, tebees: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! I feel like I should know this guy Soros, but his name doesn't sound familar. He's saying the things I've been saying all along. But I never put it into the same context as he does. And it never occured to me like this. Granted, he's trying to sell a book at the same time, but that really doesn't change the core message. "If we re-elect him now, we endorse the Bush doctrine of preemptive action and the invasion of Iraq, and we will have to live with the consequences." posted by Evil Wayne | 4:11 PM 0 comments Wednesday, October 06, 2004 A Little Perspective Sarah McLachlan has a video for World On Fire. It's worth watching when you start to feel like there should be more to life than that $3.00 cup of coffee. If you have iTunes, you can view a higher quality version of it. posted by Evil Wayne | 11:34 PM 0 comments Monday, October 04, 2004 RenWedding Pic Because some people can't keep their panties from getting into a bunch, I'll post the only pic I have at the moment. I had no camera of my own (the outfit has no pockets of any kinds) so I got my mom to email me a couple of images for here.  This is the best one so far. I'll write up the weekend in a bit. posted by Evil Wayne | 10:37 AM 0 comments Friday, October 01, 2004 Bush, The Angry Little Puppet At least that's how he looked up there on the podium last night. Like a angry little caricature of himself; muppet like–probably with Dick Cheney's hand up his ass. That'd make me angry too, I guess. Bush always seem to have a grimace or a puss on his face. He looked like a child who can't get what he wants, but knows to keep his mouth shut. Well, almost. There was that amusing moment when he prompted the moderator for an extra 30 seconds and he just stood there for 2 or 3 seconds without a clue. There were a couple of times he appeared to loose track of what he was saying. I did think Kerry missed a moment to slam the President. At the end, they were talking about North Korea and in Bush's response, he immediately started talking about Iraq. It was a giant disconnect of the subject and Tine and I looked at each other in real confusion. What the hell is he talking about? But in his rebuttal, he made the inference that Kerry would be soft, so instead of slamming him, Kerry responded to the allegation, even if he did sort of call him on the misdirect. It should have been a bigger slam. In my eyes, it's clear that Kerry won the debate. He was more on-target for the questions, even when they drifted. I was worried going into this- The topic of Foreign policy clearly meant the War on Terror where Bush, for some unfathomable reason, leads in the polls. But it was poised to make him look better. I sat on the couch and chewed my fingernails, tapped my foot and got up a lot. Tine commented that I was as nervous as one of his staff must be. I didn't really realize I feel that invested in it, but I am. Bush needs to be ousted. Why there's no independent commission investigating this guy is beyond me. Worst. President. Ever. But Kerry pulled it out. Finally, someone's publicly divested Iraq from the War on Terror. Finally, he's taken the position that was way wrong to go after Iraq when we hadn't even finished with Bin Laden. It's been driving me mad that nobody seems to see it. I'm hoping that if Bush can't pull the War on Terror debate out, he won't fair much better in the next two. But they'll analyze this one to death. The next time, it won't be the same Bush up there. He'll laugh, smile and, probably speak less out of turn. The machine will really start to kick in now. And what the hell were they writing all the time? I like to think that Kerry was making quick shorthand notes about subjects he wanted to respond too. Or a phrase to use or some other strategic marks to help him get a clear message across. Bush's got a couple of stick figures attacking a third he's written Kerry over.  I think it's noteworthy that on The Daily Show, which was live at 11 last night, Steward spoke with one person from each party after the event. From the Dems he had General Clark. Clark was laid back, clearly happy with Kerry's performance and joked with Steward from the get-go. From the Republicans, Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was clearly eager to start the spin. Despite any jokes Steward made, Giuliani force his message that Bush did well, Kerry's a flip-flopper and couldn't explain anything. His mock surprise when Steward suggested that Kerry did, in fact, make sense. It boggles the mind. I mean, do these guys really believe the crap they sling? I have to think that they know Bush is a dolt and have to mindlessly stand up for the party. I mean, if not, then he's a retard too... I'm feeling good this morning. I think Kerry did a great job, showed some real fire. There may yet be a chance to get that monkey out of office. Well, that and I got a quickie in this morning. :D posted by Evil Wayne | 10:26 AM 0 comments |
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