Touch me. Touch me like you didn't touch me last night.

So, remember the Joshua F. eBay Dinosaur Saga? You can still see the drawings if you select the seller and choose "Completed Auctions."

Well, I wasn't going to tell Joshua or his mother why the sales were shooting upwards. I kinda wanted it to be a mystery, but somebody did something awesome.

nykkisent her an e-mail that week and let her know.

And I read the e-mail that the mother sent back and I cried, and I thought about how sweet and wonderful that was ofnykki--my fake-adoptive sister--and I started crying even more.

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"Awesome!!! Send me his address and we will do that, I will have Josh draw him a special picture and send with a thank you card! Send his info to my email: XXX. I love it Thanks so much!!! I know Josh is going to totally flip when he gets home from school and I show him all of this! Thanks again! Also thanks to you and would you please send a message to the people on the live journal a great big thanks? I would be grateful, we are going to have a very small Christmas this year because of financial difficulties and I believe that this idea of Josh's stemmed from that, it shows that he is growing up and thinking of others, and not only himself this Christmas!
Great thanks and God Bless!
Bonnie-Josh's Mom"

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This weekend I received a package. Joshua sent me a thank you card and a very special drawing of my own.

So please thank Nykki, and thank all of you again for doing such wonderful things for this 9 year-old boy.



Yep, that's a yellow dinosaur protecting its nest of eggs and salivating while looking at a delicious  flamingo.

You may now die of jealousy.

Love to you all,
Off to edit manga,

b

Wow, that was a lot of birthday wishes.

Mind if I go ahead and pretend that I thanked everybody individually?

Awesome, thanks.

b

Friend Eric "scud_o" Rampson's first issue of his comic is done.

Check it out or I'll...do something...clever...to you.

Damn it.

THE COMIC IS HERE.

You should also friend him on general principle. He doesn't post that often, but when he does, his fiction is superb.

jimmahgee presents Kit McCloud, Fox Detective in: Kit McCloud, The Origami Years.


Read the rest or I'll eat your chickens.

And tell your friends about it. IF YOU HAVE ANY.

One of my most favoritest movies ever, and easily one of the most beautiful ever shot.

Original Trailer:


And then for something coming at the end of this year.


Positively cannot wait for December 18th.

"The man spilled his soda pop, but he wasn't upset,"

i got it from ronebofh who got it from dpk

ericfmyers   is amazing.

See, he's doing this 50 BANJOS thing, in which he will be drawing 50 banjos. Which makes sense.
The cool part is that each one is essentially a $20 commission for a piece of his art, which he will send to you.
He's doing this to get some work done on his house such that the insurance company won't cancel his policy.
It's about 427 steps above "HAI GUYZ PAYPAL ME RENT KTHXBYE."

I shelled out my Jackson--who, incidentally, was a bad person--and told him "...draw[ing] me a banjo vaguely related to my fuckbrain would be awesome. Tourette's, OCD, bipolar, whatever. Just click on my LJ's fuckbrain tag for ideas."
Look what he made.

A fuckbrain banjo...

A fuckbanjo:




Could it possibly have been more awesome?
HINT: No.

Go help the man out and get your customized banjo art.

Who knew that a few posts about Creepy Photoshop Lady would provide so many entries of pure entertainment? Not I. And now...

TWO PEOPLE HAVE KICKED THE ASS OF EVERYTHING FOR ME!

Heh.


Life, it keeps getting better.

Part One:

A few months ago Lovely Wife Sara convinced me to watch a movie she loved as a child that had just come out on DVD, a movie called Savannah Smiles. I asked Geoff at That's Rentertainment -- best video store EVAR -- if he was getting it in, and he said he would call me when it arrived.

He did, we watched it, and I cried like a little girl at this children's movie about bank robbers who accidentally kidnap the Cutest Child Ever.

Anyway, when the tears ended, I took a photo of myself. If you think this is bad, you should see how ugly I am when I'm actually in the process of crying:



Yesterday Belgian artist grafunkel   was inspired by the last few days worth of photos and did me up right proper-like.


And if you missed it, you'd better see what pyrotech_c3h8  did for me at the same time, complete independently.

PART TWO:
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"Well Ben, thanks to your post about photo retouching services, I decided to try my hand at it, and I think mine came out pretty well. I thought it only fitting that I take a picture of you for inspiration!

First, I started with this picture



I thought I could even it out a bit and I was pretty pleased with the results. Now THIS is the type of picture you mail home to your parents in a Christmas card motherfuckers!"


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Now jump on their LJ's like they're sweet, round, perfect booties with the word TAP tattooed on one cheek and ME on the other.

Smooches,

b

PS - Special thanks to wigu, without whom none of this would have been possible. He probably would like you to mail him some beer.

Sara and I never really had a proper "Dating Anniversary" (now superceded, I suppose, by our wedding anniversary), so we arbitrarily decided that the first year it was on April 1st, and that we would move it forward a day every year.

Today is April 11th.

*swoon*