tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59247452012-02-16T11:48:05.108-06:00...Confessions of a Jesus Geek...Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.comBlogger3431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-3497329109086196632010-01-23T16:35:00.002-06:002010-01-23T16:43:12.500-06:00

Lately when I turn on the NatGeo channel, I've found one of two varieties of show on:1. We Question Something In The Bible And Conclude You Should Not Believe In Christianity2. APOCALYPTIC DOOM NAO!!!!1!!Their documentaries appear invariably to leap to dramatic conclusions which aren't really borne out by the evidence, while simultaneously entertaining the wildest flights of fantasy because "it's

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(cross-posted on my gaming blog, The Head of Vecna)I learned of this through Fear the Boot, my favorite gaming podcast.DriveThruRPG is offering a huge deal through the rest of January called Gamers Help Haiti. By donating $20 (which will go to Doctors Without Borders), you will receive a free bundle of PDF gaming material worth over $1000, including the Serenity RPG and the Cortex RPG System

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Hey, I'm posting!After Marilyn and I came home from visiting with her family in Des Moines, Michael called me up and suggested that, since the weather was warm and clear through the weekend and his vacation time was running out, we should go camping and hiking.I realized that, under most circumstances, I've developed a tendency to turn down spur-of-the-moment invitations to do social things. I

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-36937485204857494152009-08-29T04:35:00.004-05:002009-08-29T04:45:04.291-05:00

I've been wanting to create more work to put on my DeviantArt page. Since that's where I keep my portfolio (it's on my business cards, no less), I figured I'd best try to keep it current. It certainly doesn't hurt to keep the drawing hand fit, and I need all the practice using my Wacom tablet that I can.I noticed that a lot of people will create "memes" for others to do. These are basically

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Should I get in touch with my Black self? I don't know what I would say, but it's kind of neat to know he's out there.

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I hate WordPress. It is the single worst blog-related entity I've ever had to wrestle with. I want to strike it repeatedly with a bat and leave it half-buried in the desert to be eaten by coyotes and maggots. And then burn its house down.It makes me want to swear really loudly.That is all.

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Some people talk about it, but I'm the only one who had the nerve to actually do it for reals.As I'm fairly certain I mentioned previously, Marilyn and I are currently living in my parents' spare room. I've been freelancing, so I'm at the computer all day. There are two plush chairs in the room and the windows look out onto the forest, so it's pretty nice. This is the room my grandmother was

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It's been quite a while, hasn't it? I blame Facebook.That particular website has taken much of the role in my life that Blogger once did for me: connecting me with my friends and allowing me to express snippets of thought or my current mood while additionally occupying me with insipid polls or bemusing applications. But some time ago, Mr. Skaggs (of The M Blog) lamented the sharp decline of

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A little mash-up, pointed out by Gabriel Tetrault (who went to high school with me):

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It doesn't happen often, but there are days when I want to kiss Stephen Colbert's ruby lips.NOTE: Link does not contain kissing.

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Couldn't resist this. I normally like Tony Blair, but this...Perhaps he's been reading Brian McLaren?On a tangential note, I had to look up the Emergent Movement to remember McLaren's name, and was amused to note that, on the 'Emerging church' Wikipedia page, under 'Definitions and terminology', there's a banner that reads, "This section contains weasel words, vague phrasing that often

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One of the conservative sites I like to read from time to time is Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood. The conceit behind the site is that it's primarily a collection of articles on political and cultural commentary written by conservatives in the entertainment industry, a fairly small crowd of folks, but with a spectrum of convictions (from libertarian to Objectivist to atheist to Christian to

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Prince of Persia by AB Sina My review rating: 4 of 5 starsWhile this graphic novel is based on the video game line of the same name - the original game's creator, Jordan Mechner, was the sponsor behind this creative effort - it is a stand-alone story that doesn't require any previous knowledge of the games. A.B. Sina weaves a uniquely Persian-flavored tale that echoes the storytelling style

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-82221913930168571602009-04-01T00:47:00.001-05:002009-04-01T00:48:35.364-05:00

I thought some of this was surprisingly relevant to current events. This was made in 1948.

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Of the many things I feel like griping about today - most of them to do with our government-sponsored journey to National Socialism (Reagan was right about the most dreaded words in the English language) - I'll instead briefly touch on my dislike of WordPress. Considering how many people are apparently using WordPress with some degree of success, I have to wonder what is wrong with me that I

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So, let's see: Run a campaign based on Hope and Change, but as soon as you get into office, behave in precisely the ways you condemned others for doing; claim that you're going to unify the country with bipartisan decisions, and then lambast anyone who disagrees with your policies; punish people for becoming wealthy, demonize corporations, and give their money to people who make lousy financial

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-14634769008846607742009-02-19T20:55:00.001-06:002009-02-19T20:59:51.490-06:00

Iowahawk's fun read of a not-so-fun situation.

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I don't know if I really need to comment on Nadya Suleman, the recent mother of octuplets. Her story kind of speaks for itself: of her aggravating, willful stupidity and stubborn denials of the fact that she is living her life sponging off of the goodwill and tax dollars of others. And yet at the same time, she is willing to raise special-needs children, and have a large family in a time when

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Dad used to take us shooting all the time. We would drive out into the desert and shoot targets, cans, milk jugs, and so on. It's one of my many fond memories of growing up. I think the last time I went shooting was when we took Marilyn for her first shooting experience. Frankly, I think I'm way overdue for another excursion. Guess it's time to call Dad and make plans.Well, after I get a job

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I read an article on the Washington Times' website this morning on a Tutsi bishop preaching to the Hutu in Rwanda. His message was "Repent and God will forgive you." Given the atrocities that had been committed, I can only imagine how much strength and faith in the Lord it must have taken for Bishop Rucyahana to go and preach Jesus's message to the people responsible for them.In his words, "If

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We bought a Wii recently - well, I say "we" bought it, what I mean is Marilyn got it with a gift certificate she earned at work - and got Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Super Paper Mario and The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess to go with it. It's nice to have a game console that requires us to stand up and move around a bit when we play. I usually work up a little sweat whenever I play, which can

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And Mary said,"My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.He has shown strength with his arm; he has

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-69462780251882001122008-11-21T12:31:00.003-06:002008-11-21T12:35:50.371-06:00

Well, I don't have much shame, but if only I had none at all, I could finally find some lucrative work. It seems like every few days, Craigslist will include a job posting for the pornography industry. $160 a day for basic Photoshop work, for example.Man.

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Hey, folks. Thanks to those who checked in with us to make sure we were all right amidst the fires. The fire up near Sylmar has been choking the air with smoke since yesterday. When I got up yesterday, I had to go outside to see the smoke laying on the northern horizon; by the afternoon, the smell of smoke was in the air. I haven't yet been outside today, but it looks kind of hazy outside.

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For your Sunday consideration, open your hymnals to...Is Barack Obama the Messiah?I think this must be the flip side of the "Bush=Hitler" meme.

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Here's something that I feel uneasy about.This is from www.change.gov, "The Office of the President-Elect". In the Agenda section of the website, under Service, the following goals are listed:Expand Service-Learning in Our Nation's Schools: Obama and Biden will set a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year. They will develop national guidelines for

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Well, Fox has just called it: the 44th President of the United States is Barack Obama.Congratulations, folks - I know a lot of you were pulling for him. No sarcasm meant there; I didn't vote for him, but on the plus side, it's good to finally have an African-American as President.Now's our chance to make fun of the President!In all seriousness, I'll be praying for him, just as Christians are

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From The Onion:It may not be pretty and it may not be easy to swallow, but it's the truth. This is Bazooka Joe. This is two square inches of real life....Yes, of course I voted. Gosh!

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I'm gonna write chapter one! Then I'm gonna write chapter two! Then chapter three! And chapter four! And chapter five! And I'm gonna keep on writing until the month runs out and I write 50,000 words or more! HYYYYEEAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!So here I am, early Saturday morning after a little Undead-playing on World of Warcraft, a late viewing of "I, Robot" and no trick-or-treaters (no big

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I miss trick-or-treating. I miss creating and wearing a costume, for that matter. I love this holiday.Also, Happy Reformation Day!On this day in 1517, Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, initiating debate about the Church's practice of the sale of indulgences, claiming it turned the act of repentance from

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This one is from Michael S. Malone, technology writer and columnist on ABCNews.go.com.I also appreciated that he brought up the media's treatment of "Joe the Plumber" following his filmed questioning of Obama and the "spread the wealth around" quote. Apparently a Toledo Police Department employee has been investigated for performing an illegal search of information on Joe Wurzelbacher's

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Orson Scott Card's editorial on the media and the Wall Street Bailout.That reminds me, I've been meaning to get to that copy of Seventh Son...EDIT: IMAO's Frank J on the problem with the media.

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Beth once told me that she considered books to be an investment in the future.That's why I have this disease.

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Happened across this gem tonight.Suit against God thrown out over lack of addressBy NATE JENKINS, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 15, 8:42 PM ETLINCOLN, Neb. - A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator's lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn't properly served due to his unlisted home address. State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against

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One of the websites I've been looking at to find work is CalJobs. If you were to do as I did, and look up the jobs under "Graphic Designer", you'd find several entries marked "Creative". Clicking on one of these would reveal to you the following entry:Job Duties:Job title : CreativeBusiness Group : United States-RetailJob description : More talent. More impossibly cool products. More jobs for

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Pat pointed his accusing finger at me and demanded that I acquiesce to his demand for personal trivia. Because one doesn't see enough of personal trivia on a blog, right? The following trivia (trivium?) I've posted are indeed as random as I can manage at the moment, but I apologize if I've mentioned one or more of them here on my blog before. I'll try to be original.Anyway, here's how it goes:

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I was unaware of the cryptic connection, but apparently I must conclude that my father is a racist.Frank, my old boss at Northwestern? Racist.I'm glad there are politicians to help me better understand the world around me.In other news, if you've seen my wife's blog, you know that we've started to see roaches in our apartment. At the beginning of the week, we had seen three in the last few

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Trucker Frank shared this with me, and I thought it was wonderful.

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For what small degree I've pulled my head out of the sand to look at political coverage lately, I've regretted. This video pretty much sums up my assessment of news coverage of Obama and the DNC. I had hoped for some ribbing from the Daily Show for all of the blatant fawning, but was disappointed only to hear Jon Stewart just giving rah-rahs for the Democrats and reminding us how eeeeeeeeeevil

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#1: "Angel"#2: "Star Trek: TNG"#3: "Silent Hill"I'm a big fan of Silent Hill. I've played through the first, second, and fourth games in the series and am currently in the early-middle part of the third game. I have concerns about the fifth game, which is coming out soon, and I'd like to pick up "Origins", which is basically "zero" in the series. I own most of the soundtracks. I've seen the

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Thanks to Slusser, Johnathan Coulton's "Still Alive", the theme song to the video game "Portal" is stuck in my head. I don't even own the game.The longer I spend working on my portfolio, the longer it seems to take. That may sound like circular logic. What I mean is, I've worked on research and scripts and layouts and character designs and this week I'm actually penciling the pages...for my

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I just want to bang this off quickly before I go to pick Marilyn up from work, because it's been buzzing in my head all day.This morning I took a break to play a little World of Warcraft. I have a character I play who is in a guild - guilds being social groups you can create and join, usually centered around some theme or idea, from "people who just want to kill stuff and rack up [the equivalent

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Slusser called me earlier in the week and offered to make it worth my time to come up the mountain and work on digging ditches. Well, that's not entirely accurate - actually, I'm helping the Slussers to dig out trenches so that they can build a new retaining wall. I left the pickup truck with Marilyn and Michael gave me a ride up here to their house, where I will stay for the rest of the week

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If you've seen my wife's blog, you'll get a pretty good idea of our experience at the San Diego Comic-Con thus far. In fact, if you haven't already read her two posts on the subject, go over and read them now. I'll wait.Ready? Okay, here's my experience.Overall, I have to admit - I find the convention a bit of a depressing experience these days. If I were coming just to soak in what's out

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So, if you haven't looked at Skaggs' blog, check it out now. There is Something Of Interest There.If you haven't looked at my wife's blog, go there for a wonderful link that may make your day brighter, as it did mine.I've been quiet, it's true. I've spent a fair amount of time working on artwork, working out the technical kinks in my ramshackle operation, and squeezing in the occasional World

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Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0created with QuizFarm.com You scored as The Amazing Spider-ManAfter being bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker was transformed from a nerdy high school student into New York's greatest hero. Peter enjoys the thrill of being a super hero, but he struggles with the burdens of leading a double life. He hopes someday to win the heart of his true

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I don't believe in luck or karma, but the last few weeks have made me consider the possibility. Is it that I screwed up someone else's life and just never noticed? (I don't know if this is technically how karma is supposed to work, anyway, but for the time being I'll just go with the pop culture variety) If you want the latest skinny on my root canal, you can read Marilyn's blog. This post is

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The title of this post comes from a line in the musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Once More, With Feeling" (well, actually, it's Dawn quoting Buffy from the previous season's finale episode, "The Gift"). We've been watching the entire series, and we just got to that episode yesterday. Man, they should not allow James Marsters to sing.I don't know if that line is necessarily true -

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I've graduated from MCAD. I got a C in my Independent Study - I fell short of my original stated goals, but it's a passing grade.Now I'm just waiting for my degree to show up...

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Last Tuesday, I finished the last day of my Independent Study, turning in all of the work I'd completed on my comics project and resigning myself to the fact that I had no time left for it. I'm pretty sure I did okay - my teacher said that he liked what he saw - but I didn't make my original goal, so I still worry. As of this entry, my final grade for the class hasn't yet been posted, so I

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Hi everyone, Marilyn here. I'm hijacking Devin's blog so that we can all leave him happy birthday comments. Tuesday he turns 35! He's only got a week left of school and he's been very hard at work the last few weeks. Today he had to send off his senior show to the school's gallery director so she could hang it for him. Now he just has a few more pages to finish drawing to complete this semester's

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Today Marilyn and I went down to the Staples Center for the Wizard World Los Angeles comics convention. Mainly it was just for the purposes of getting my portfolio looked at and handing out some leave-behind copies for editors. Unfortunately, WWLA was smaller than the one in Chicago, and I only got to speak with one editor, from Top Cow. I don't think I have enough bikini-clad women in my

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I had a dream last night in which Trace Beaulieu, the guy who used to play Dr. Clayton Forrester and Crow T. Robot on "Mystery Science Theater 3000", got beat up by some guy because Trace was making fun of him via the Crow puppet.I'm really not sure what to make of this dream.That's all I have to report right now.

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I don't usually have a reason to cross-post on my blogs, but I think this is notable enough to mention here as well as on my gaming blog, The Head of Vecna:Ernest Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and author of several similarly idiosyncratic games and novels (so much so that "Gygaxian" has entered the geek vocabulary), has died at the age of 69. While not the only person with such

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As Marilyn alluded to in her blog, here's the picture of me with Tom Cruise's hunky tresses:The alignment's still a little wonky, due to our differing facial shapes, the angles of the photos used, and HairMixer's engine. I could probably fix it up in Photoshop, but that would mean devoting more time to this nonsense instead of working on my Independent Study project. Marilyn has more than once

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My favorite art movement was that of Art Nouveau. Not only do I find the look beautifully organic and romantic in all of the best senses of the word, but I admired the ethic which supposedly motivated it, to elevate "low art" - common art found in people's everyday lives, such as advertisements, furniture, jewelry, street signs, and so on - to the quality of "high art", and thereby increase the

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-34677071448245738472008-02-08T09:29:00.000-06:002008-02-08T10:25:01.834-06:00

Somewhere between catching up on Big Time Attic's blog in the small hours of this morning and hearing Marilyn say these words as we lay in bed before I took her to work, I realized that this is what I felt, too.The entire time we lived in Minneapolis, my spirits were buoyed by the thought that we would eventually return to California and be near all of our old friends and my family again. We

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-68415765114632840452008-02-08T00:35:00.000-06:002008-02-08T00:55:55.976-06:00

So, Marilyn and I just finished watching the latest episode of "Lost" a half-hour ago. I found it interesting that Naiomi's shadowrun team included a woman who was identified by Ben as Charlotte Staples Lewis - i.e., C. S. [Clive Staples] Lewis.This makes me want to speculate as to what role she may play in this epic drama. Here's my theory: She enters the story as someone hired by The Hanso

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-50803340790686797372008-02-05T20:39:00.000-06:002008-02-06T00:47:09.813-06:00

I was going to do a big long post about church discipline. In the first draft, there was a lot of hand-wringing and paragraphs about how even though all of us in the Church are sinners, we're still called to pursue purity. But I'm guessing that everybody who reads this has already had their fill of that topic, and at this point I'd probably only be preaching to the choir (in fact, some of said

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Today we got our internet and cable connections hooked up in our new apartment in Toluca Lake. I think that was the longest stretch of time I've gone without an internet connection since I got my first e-mail address. I'm so dependent upon the internet, not just for entertainment, but for everyday things like looking for work and corresponding with my friends and family. It felt like living in

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-75301390431546183932007-12-25T08:16:00.000-06:002007-12-25T09:17:03.688-06:00

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a

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It's a little odd - normally I'm acutely aware of the Christmas season, what with the music and the decorations and the snow and all, but this year I've barely noticed it. It's probably due in part to the fact that I'm no longer working at the Christian bookstore, where there would be no way to avoid it, and the fact that I've been mired in homework before the end of the semester (which occurs

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Forgive me if I'm beating a dead god - er, horse - but I occasionally run into comments and statements about "The Golden Compass" that I just feel a need to comment on. However, given that the movie comes out in a few days and thus I'll soon cease to speculate as to how it performs at the box office, I still recall Philip Pullman's very public tirades against "The Lion, The Witch, and The

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And here I thought I could trust the media.Okay, granted, when it comes to the Gnostic gospels, one must look at them with a significant chunk of salt, but in case you weren't already aware of the pop media's prioritizing of shock, sensation and controversy over accuracy and factual content, here's a reminder.Well, at the very least, I thought I might be able to trust the National Geographic

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This has been a week of movies. Thanksgiving was great, as per usual, and I always associate the holiday with a certain amount of movie watching. Some years involve seeing the latest "Harry Potter" movie, others mean watching a DVD or two with the family.This year we watched "Transformers." It was...silly. Very silly. But then, I couldn't believe that someone was actually making a live-action

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-80618444697069539162007-11-20T11:50:00.000-06:002007-11-20T11:54:03.094-06:00

I don't know if I mentioned it here, but I started a gaming blog a while ago, The Head of Vecna. There's a link to it down somewhere on the right-hand column; I forget now. But I decided that I needed a place specifically to put all of my geekiest game-related posts that I figured many of you who read this blog wouldn't really be interested in or be familiar with the references I would make

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Marilyn and I are packing up our things in preparation for our move (okay, Marilyn's packing a lot more than I have been). As I go through my piles of things in my bookcases, I've come across a few things of interest that I've forgotten. Allow me to share one of them with you, because I'm going to throw it away.In one of my creative writing classes, we were assigned the task of writing an

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-6824110228304673832007-11-01T22:43:00.001-05:002008-11-13T14:25:53.164-06:00

I want to talk shop for a moment. This is actually a pretty well-done comic, here. The artist has managed to make a dinner conversation visually interesting. He changes the point-of-view without going outside a 180-degree arc, and uses a variety of background elements, from simple setting to mood-setting abstract shapes and shades. And that brush work on the inking is pretty nice. Okay,

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The events of yesterday kind of summed up everything I was talking about in my last post.My Illustration class was an example of the fun of Halloween. We wore costumes to class, carved jack-o-lanterns, ate food and candy, watched "Shaun of the Dead," and generally had a good time. Fun was definitely had by all. It was a harmless holiday.In my Drawing class before that, however, there was a

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Once again, Halloween is here, and I find myself thinking about the divide within the Church regarding this holiday. There are those which say that Halloween is something which no Christian should have anything to do with; Pyromaniacs even go so far as to say that it's "another religion's holiday." I myself have always enjoyed Halloween - getting dressed in a costume, going around getting candy

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-42524219534201561672007-10-20T13:21:00.000-05:002008-11-13T14:25:53.287-06:00

Hello. I've been working on homework today since 3 AM, and I'll be spending the rest of the day working on homework, too!Marilyn has been cleaning and packing for our move. As she went through the bookshelf, she knocked one of my many notepads on the floor. I opened it and rediscovered a little comic I made. Here it is for your perusal.Today is 24 Hour Comics Day. Everyone at MCAD and at Big

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This weekend I went to the last FallCon that I'm going to be able to attend for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, the weather was just about the worst kind of weather one could expect - it rained quite a bit on Friday night, so Saturday was hot and humid - hardly the ideal for a paper-based medium. Inside the convention hall, it was worse, because the ventilation was poor. I was blessed

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In my Drawing 3 class, our first projects have been about the Body. To introduce us to these projects, our teacher had us read a couple of chapters in our textbook which gave an introduction to Postmodernism. While it primarily discusses that paradigm in the context of post-1980 art movements, there's enough of the underlying philosophy discussed there to give the average person an idea of what

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The first installment of my new webcomic, "Scythians", is now online for your perusal:http://www.webcomicsnation.com/mysterycycle/scythians/series.phpLet me know what you think, and be honest - this is my first attempt at a webcomic, and I have to create four more installments this week. I want to know what needs to be improved!

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...but you already knew that, right?At the suggestion of my Professional Practice teacher, Terry Beatty, I've registered a portfolio on DeviantArt.com. I'll probably update my work on that page fairly often, if you want to see what I'm up to or have done. I'll still post some of my stuff here, but most of what I want to put online to show for myself will be put over there.Additionally, I've

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This is the project I'm working on right now - well, one of my projects - for my Illustration: Tools of the Trade class. We're using gouache, which looks to me very much like paint designed to be used for people who use ink most of the time. In other words, it seems like it might be a medium that I may take to. I certainly hope so; I'll find out this weekend how comfortable I am with it. In

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After I picked Marilyn up from work yesterday we went to the Blockbuster with our old movies and picked out some new ones. I noticed that they had just stocked "The Dresden Files," a series on Sci-Fi based on novels by Jim Butcher, about a modern-day wizard-for-hire. I knew that the books and show had a fan following in the gaming community, so I thought I'd check it out.It was...meh. It

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Pat directed me to the amusing results of a Google search - a website called Pyromaniacs. Specifically, the entry for August 2 titled "Book Titles For Which I'm Still Waiting," which is basically a list of highly-unlikely publications to get chuckles out of Christian subculture geeks. I found that, in responding to Pat, I couldn't help but come up with a few of my own:"A Generous Orthodoxy", a

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Madeleine l'Engle, one of the fantasy greats, author of many books including A Wrinkle in Time, and sister (aunt?) in Christ, has gone on before us to be in her Lord's presence.While I'm sad to hear that another dreamer's voice will no longer be heard in this world, I rejoice to know that she will never again know anguish or suffering, that even now she basks in the joyous, eternal light of her

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I took a test while eating breakfast. My result:That's 29.78304%. Which, in usual terms, means 30%, because you round off the first decimal. See? I know some math stuff. It's enough to qualify me as a "total" geek, but it's still pretty low on the geek cred totem pole. Somehow, I can live with that.Boring post. Oh, well. I'll probably have more to talk about soon. Like maybe about how

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I bought some color pens for one of my classes, and they came with a free "manga artist pad." I tested them out by drawing an Obsidiman from the Earthdawn RPG. I was looking at a few different artists to see how they portrayed these guys (Janet Ausilio does them best, I think), but then I realized: no one does big rocky guys as well as Mike Mignola. Besides, I hadn't yet given in to the

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This is it. This week I've started into my very last semester at MCAD.* Come mid-December, I'll have a Bachelor's Degree in Comic Art. Hopefully (and far, far more significantly), I'll also have a job or a lead on a job. But that's months from now; in the meantime, I've got homework to think about.My classes are as follows:Drawing 3: Figure. As much as I dislike drawing classes, I feel

Devin Parkerhttps://profiles.google.com/116524787483000521653noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924745.post-43501095481883917482007-08-21T19:18:00.000-05:002008-11-13T14:25:54.708-06:00

"No, Dick, you can't cast 'Magic Missile' at the darkness."Nothing much to report right now. I begin classes next week, and I'm a little apprehensive, since this is my last semester before we move into Unknown Territory (in Los Angeles). Marilyn and I are hooked on another Sims game we're renting from Blockbuster (The Sims 2: Pets for PS2). We've had rain all weekend, which was really nice at

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I sketched these at the hotel in ink, so I apologize for the errors and odd placement of things. It was a great convention, and very good for me. I didn't get anyone offering me any contracts, but I got the next best thing: positive reactions to my portfolio, requests for more, and the possibility of future projects. Relationships are how this industry is built, or so I'm told.Another

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I finished the first volume of Cerebus the other day. Each volume of this collected monthly comic is like a little phone book, all newsprint pages and black and white artwork. When I found out the local library carried a number of these volumes, I decided that now was the time to read this epic about a misanthropic aardvark barbarian at long last. Dave Sim, the author and primary artist, is

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In The Mark of Cain, Stuart Barton Babbage made reference to the fact that the Victorians are often criticized and caricatured for their refusal to discuss sexual matters and their obsession with death. In this era, birth was not openly mentioned; instead elaborate behaviors and euphemisms were fabricated, such as the myth of the delivery stork. It was also an era which experienced an increased

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Here's what the bridge looked like before the disaster:Here is after the collapse:Further pictures can be seen here to get an idea of the extent of the damage.If you tried to call yesterday evening and got a busy signal, this time it wasn't because we were online, but rather that phone lines - both cell and land - were overloaded with phone traffic out here. Thanks to Christina and Michael

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Those words, spoken by Homer Simpson in "The Simpsons Movie", are funny because they're true. Of course, while he was referring to the cartoon show he'd paid to see in the theater, his words apply quite well to the blight of modern movie-going:(Thanks to Mike Sterling for the blank template/internet meme)I've read that this blaring giant-screen television advertising at the theater is supposed

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Well, since Beth asked...The anxious expression is probably because of A) the deadline hovering just over the back of my neck, guillotine-like, and B) the fact that I hate painting.The t-shirt is the one I'm currently wearing, displaying my corporate ownership; I'm on the spousal dole, but the shirts are free!

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We went to Michael and Laura's wedding in North Carolina, and afterward Mom and Dad came up to Minneapolis to visit Marilyn and me at home. We had a great time, though we all got pretty exhausted from all of the sightseeing we did. We did more sightseeing in the space of four or five days than Marilyn and I have done our entire time living in Minnesota.That's not my harrowing Midwest experience

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I saw a commercial last Saturday that advertised the station's intent to start airing digitally remastered episodes of the original series of "Star Trek" on Sunday afternoons. As dated as they are, I still enjoy the opportunity to get a little Trek infusion from time to time. Even though my projects right now are largely set in the past or in a fantasy world, I'm feeling the old sci-fi bug

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I just happened to be working my way down the blogroll and noticed that Ben Stewart's band, Conspiracy of Thought, has changed the look of their website to advertise a new album, "Colorblind." Oh, and Ben's taken to wearing mascara, I guess. If you click on the link to his website down on the right-hand column here, make sure to click on the MySpace link he has on his site to listen to one of

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I decided that it was high time I start really looking for interesting web comics. There is the possibility that one of my projects may end up online, so I thought it would be a good idea to start seeing what other people are doing with the medium in the compu-lectronic world. There are a ton of comics out there, not just the strips that I've been reading (like PvP), but normal, full-page

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