Well, the site’s back up and running strong. Thanks to Jeremy and Devin for taking a look at it.
I bought a couch and what they call, a chair and 1/2, 62 days ago. Sigh. It’s still a no-show.
A large group of players from the guild White Rabbit joined our little guild The Stand…eh…about a month ago. A great group of guys. Together we’ve spent most of our time raiding. For those who don’t play the game, “raiding” means 10 or 15 members join forces to tackle a Dungeon. After two failed attempts, 15 of us were finally able to fight our way through Upper Blackrock Spire and kill the General. Been doing it successfully ever since.
Comic Book celebrity, Steve Niles celebrated his 40th last month with a little party at his house. Steve’s name may well become a household name soon enough. Stuart is adapting Steve’s “30 Days of Night” into a movie and Steve has four or five other comics in development at the moment.
Steve and actor Tom Jane recently started RAW Entertainment where they will deliver both comics and movies to the world. The three of us have been working on a project for several months.
The party was fun and I took picture after picture…of course, I left my camera so no pics for now. There’s a part on the 4th in Malibu so I assume I’ll get the old camera then.
Ben found himself in San Diego for a family get-together and drove to Calabasas for an evening on the town with Dean and me. Ben plays Warcraft with us. Benski, Benita and assorted others.
I snatched Ben from the splendid Goodnight Inn and shuttled him to Kings where the three of us broke fish together. On the drive over it occurred to me that we should have had other LA Warcraft members show up. Didn’t even occur to me (had been a busy week). Tom, Jeremy, Paul, Veygus…even Mel could have driven down had I or Dean planned better. Oh well.
We had a great time telling stories about Orcs and Raids and killing that I’m sure any ease droppers overhearing most likely grabbed their checks early and ran. Dean called it an early night while Ben and I hit the bar and threw back some Johnny Blue before hitting the hay.
This is my space-age litter box that no sane cat on the planet will use. Mel bought it months ago for the price of a hybrid Lexus and I think Spooky may have used it twice. So there it sits, in the corner…alone. I have, however, pissed in it twice just so I could feel I’m getting my monies worth.
Mel and I have been playing around with the Hunter class. It’s actually alot of fun. Hunters are perhaps the least populated class in the game but oddly enough are a blast to play.
This is a painting I had commissioned. I told the artist I wanted a map of the US but 1 million years from now…after California has slide into the ocean, the SuperVolcano under Yellowstone has created a lake, Canada is frozen, Florida has broken off and the States are scared from nuclear blasts. I realize I’m slightly twisted but it makes me giggle.
This is where I read and chill. It’s the reason we moved to Thousand Oaks in the first place…for the view…and to get out of LA, but man do I love my deck.
Ms. Taylor and I met some friends and hit Santa Barbara last weekend for the Summer Solstice Parade. It’s an odd little thing. Not unlike Benton Kentucky’s Tater Day Parade but much more tree-hugging.
It’s basically a big party. Homemade costumes and no corporate America sponsorships allowed. No Nike, no Pepsi, no one is allowed to make money off this gathering…well unless you sell hemp clothing, tie-dye and homemade soap.
This was actually my favorite picture. Daddy and daughter watching the parade together. As grumpy and longing for a fist fight to break out as I was I find it odd that I can actually have moments of decency. Not many mind you but once a month or so.
My grumpiness aside, it was enjoyable. I’ve no idea why there was a giant foot as a float but I’m since learned not to ask how the mind works within the elitist Santa Barbara. Instead I spend that time thinking about myself…
…like, my own feet for instance. Stunning if you ask me. You can take the boy out of Kentucky but you can’t make love to his cousin.
Anyway, I took about 50 pics with my little Treo 650 but only these came out looking like anything other than the tons of Tie-Dye they were pushing after the parade.
Dean dropped by a few weeks back and we took all my paintings to the framer. I miss my truck. Well, I got the paintings back this week. This one’s hanging in my office behind my desk. Eastwood as Harry. I bought it because it reminded me of Dean Riesner who split for the Happy Hunting Grounds three years ago. Good thing too. He’d cringe if he saw the crap-fest my life has become.
I had two of my maps framed as well. They hang across from my desk and I love them. The pic doesn’t do them justice…they’re huge. I love that I can cross over to them and map out the geography of a story with a simple glance. Before I’d spend hours thumbing through an Atlas or zoom out inside Google Maps.
Got Inos reframed. Here’s the before pic. Ignore the red wall…that’s from the LA apartment and I actually miss the red wall.
Here’s the after. … Okay, perhaps I should have zoomed in. You can’t even see the frame. Sigh. I’m moving back to LA.
The big painting is the New York skyline now framed. Next to it is a painting Rip, Sarah’s father sent me. Painted years ago on the back of a wood shake, I dug it so had it framed as well.
And below both paintings…what I like to call…my temporary couch. It’s a giant bean bag covered in plush fake leopard skin. Why fake? They weren’t selling the real thing, that’s why. Bean Bags are out of style you say? Who cares, you try watching the World Poker Tour sitting on the floor for 62 days.
Then we have Bold Jazz. And the new entertainment center. I grabbed it off eBay for 30 bucks.
So, the place is coming around…slowly. I’m in no great rush.
In closing, several of us met at a dwarven inn in the small snowy town of Kharanos to drink mead and shoot off fireworks.
It was a friendly way of saying goodbye to the members of White Rabbit. Officers of The Stand met a few nights back to discuss the status and future of the guild and came to the unanimous decision to pull back from so much raiding to instead focus on quests, player vs player and five man crawls. The White Rabbit members, however, would like to focus are bigger raids so they have left and reformed their old guild. Best of luck to them.
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