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

Was up until about 3:30 am last night.

Cleaned up the latest draft of the first few pages of LAST SHOT for Karl, so we can see if it's more dynamic now.

In 20 minutes, will drive the 2 1/2 hours north to Chicago to visit Sara's family and see RIGOLETTO.
Well, Sara will probably drive.

That's it.

I'm sleepy, and will probably plot more Mo-Lan Devils stuff in the car, maybe do the next few pages of LAST SHOT, and then fall asleep.

Smooches,

b

            My wife is reading The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

            Now she’s telling me that I shouldn’t have had pesto tonight, as it will make my basal ganglia problems (Tourette’s, OCD, et al) worse.

            Get it? Yeah, nothing like late Sunday night humor.

            She also just pointed out to me, however, that I often put my hand or fingers in front of my mouth when I speak. I’ve never noticed this, but realized I was doing it when I told her I would try to be more aware of it. She said that I have a very loud voice to begin with, though. I think that’s the first time she’s said that and meant it in a good way.

It’s always interesting to me when others notice compulsions that I have no idea that I have.

Very twitchy for the past week as I adjust to new Tourette’s medication doseages.

Also wrote two more articles for Shonen Jump, bringing my total to four. First one comes out this Tuesday. You can be certain that I’ll remind you.

Back to reading some more Ranma ½ before doing more work on the comic script for Last Shot.

In conclusion, two new icons I made, one of which will only be funny to a few people, one of which will be funny to even less people.

      

Such is the way of the misunderstood comic genius.

        
benjamin

A SNEAK PEEK AT THE PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR MY STORY "Last Shot" TO BE TURNED INTO A COMIC.



The latest in early character sketches by Karl Bryhn [robokat on flickr]. Hank's gonna end up looking pretty much like this, but a touch more jowly. Not in perfect shape, our Hank. Or rather, Jimmy. Oh, you'll understand when it comes out.

( The sketch here is an earlier version, but the body shape is pretty close to what it's gonna be. )

Karl's damn good, he is...

So, after reading a bit o' fun-nessosity from man_size and digitante (both of whose FUCKING journals you should be FUCKING reading), I felt prompted to repost this, so it'll be fresh in my brain -- hah -- when I get back to work on it later on. It keeps shifting between screenplay format and story format...let me know if you have ideas on how to make up its mind.

( Jimmy the Spook, Ghost in a Bottle )

benjamin sTone
11:29am, March 11, 2004
Urbana, IL
Current Music: "Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes
Last Book I Read a Page of: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee
Last Movie: BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE (Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, 1958)
Next Movie: KUNG FU HUSTLE (Stephen Chow, HK, 2004)