University Street Fair Day 0ne

by on May 18, 2013 at 10:02 pm
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Corner47th&UniversityDanceonthestreet fabulouspartyboys Well the Street Fair season has begun again. Starting with my very favorite, The University District Street Fair on the Ave!

And it had everything it always has Music, overpriced festival food, obnoxious evangelists, arts and crafts, the list goes on!

To a certain extent I think it’s gone down hill quite a bit. For the longest time my favorite part of the street fair was all of the artists with my favorite part being the opportunity to talk shop with the watercolorists. This year there were no water colorists and hardly any regular artists (two painters, one photographer, two caricaturists. All in all I think the whole things been going down hill quite a bit. Still the people watching is always fun and I got to get a few sketches in. The first two being rushed street scenes and the other being musicians from the band Fabulous Party Boys.

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

by on May 15, 2013 at 9:27 am
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Well for some time me and all of my friends at the Dreaming Comics and Games store have been teased by the rumors of Marvel’s cinema universe taking it’s next step with doing an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D television show and just yesterday I was pointed towards the first full trailer of the show!  What I’m seeing so far is the usual exposition, a taste of witty dialogue, what seems to be Luke Cage in the first episode and… HOLY &^$% AGENT COULSON IS ALIVE! I GOTTA SEE THIS!!!

Ahem.. .Well. Looks promising but of course the making of trailers has become an art form which when done right can drag you in whole heatedly while telling you absolutely nothing… but still, here’s hoping. What I’m seeing here is the usI don’t follow Joss Whedon quite as religiously as some people I know but I think I can trust him to focus on story arcs as opposed to the monster (in this case superhero/villain) of the week.

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Game of Thrones the Countdown begins.

by on May 13, 2013 at 6:15 am
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The long awaited “Maid and the Maiden Fair” This season’s episode written by the author George R. R. Martin was everything I hoped it to be including the advertised fight between Brienne and a bear. Along with all of this it very much looks like we’re well on our way to this season’s climax which, at the moment, I am fairly sure shall rhyme with “Dead Leading”

Again, as I’ve mentioned several times, I’m fascinated how the show is becoming it’s own thing. I keep waiting to see things happen on the schedule I’m expecting and I keep getting surprised that I’m surprised when it doesn’t. This episode was closer to the book than the last two episodes probably due to the work of the author but even then all of the new material began to continue it’s own way while at the same time compliments and improves on the original material. In this episode the best example of this is Tyrion’s mistress, Shae. In the book she is just a childish camp follower picked up at random and painfully naive. In the show she is intelligent and ambitious with her own agenda. It makes more sense for this character to do what she will do later on than the version in the book does.

The other example is the character of Gendry who’s story has gone in a completely different direction than it has in the book. In the book he joins the Brotherhood Without Banners and that’s it. Here his story is merged with another of his father’s bastards, Edric Stone. I have a hard time believing that it will end in the same way and I look forward to finding out.

All in all this one was great. We had one of the best dragon scenes in the entire season and we had a BEAR. What more can we ask for?

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Toonies

by on May 11, 2013 at 1:26 pm
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WCNWLogoell today I’m taking it easy doing some office work while I get ready for this evening’s annual Toonies banquet.

For anyone who is wondering the Toonies is the annual awards banquet for Cartoonists Northwest held at Ivar’s Salmon House. Where all of the members dress up to meet up over an option of Salmon, Chicken or vegetarian option Four Cheese Ravioli and do clay sculpture while listening to this year’s speaker.

I confess that my opinion of the whole affair has been gradually dropping over the years (partially due to not being nominated for any catagory for the last couple of years “so that other people can get the chance”) but it’s a chance to put on the urban camouflage so I generally get guilt tripped into it eventually.

This year the organizer lost the list of suggestions and just made a list of nominations out of nothing and while most of the list certainly deserve the nominations the whole thing felt horribly fake. I didn’t even bother to vote for anyone. As far as I could tell other than nominations for the “Golden Toonie” award I didn’t see anything listed for other categories. Ah well. I guess we’ll all get prizes for good attendance as per usual.

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