so i lied

So I lied... my friend Dan asked if we should take another week for our animations, so I agreed. 

Therefore, another week it shall be. 

HERE is a half assed attempt to tell you all about what has happened since my last post.... here goes.....

*Sold the rest of the comics on ebay. good stuff. made some money... now just waiting for people to leave me feedback so that I can get the money into my account. 

*Dunny Series 5 came out. I ended up buying a case and when I got home I looked through the boxes again and found a golden ticket. Golden Ticket has a number on that back that is redeemable for one of 600 Huck Gee 3" dunnys. 

*Went to see "Burn After Reading". Wasn't as good as I was hoping for. Funny at parts but not AS funny as I wanted. 

*Found some video games on craigslist.com. Ended up picking up Rock Band, Halo 3, and Grand Theft Auto 4 from the guy. He works at a Sprint store near the Mall of America so we (gretchen, michael, and michael's girlfriend lauren) had to meet him there. Then we went out to eat at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Minneapolis. 

*Been riding bike for the last few days. Went 20 miles on monday, nothing on Tuesday, 30 on Wed., nothing on Thursday (continued below), and I hope to do 40 tomorrow which will be Friday. we'll see if it happens.

*CONTINUED from above. TODAY, THURSDAY, woke up and went garage saleing with Michael. Probably going to the Robot Love Trading party tonight to see if I can get rid of any of my older dunnys. Probably won't happen. But we'll see. 

I hope you enjoyed that. If I remember anything that I may have left out I will post it later on. 

And now, back to your normal updating from me. 

video and site should be up soon. 

ebay selling

Yesterday was the comic release day. And my favorite comic, All Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder #10, was released. So I picked up a few issues along with a few variant covers. When I got in line, the guys that worked at the shop told me that this issue might get pulled from the shelves due to some swear words that weren't fully blacked out during printing. I looked inside the books and sure enough, you could read the swear words through the black boxes covering them up. So I bought a few more copies. 

Later that night I decided to see if anything was going on on ebay. And sure enough those were selling like hot cakes. I posted a few, all for 'Buy It Now' prices, $50 for the normal cover and $90 for the variant cover. Within the first 3 minutes of them being up, I got an offer for $70 for the variant cover. I got scared and declined. Good thing I did too because I ended up selling one of the $90 ones and two of the $50 ones just last night. We'll see how the rest do. 

In other news: 

I just started my animation for the contest that Dan and I are having. I am also getting closer to posting my website every day. My next post will be to announce the launch of site and/or post my finished video. 

Peddled my ass off

Yesterday I went for a bike ride with my uncle Tom. We rode for about two and a half hours or so and went 30.5 miles round trip. The first 20 or so miles was very fun, as was the trip overall, but around mile 20 or so we hit some insane hills, not to mention it started raining.... poring... bone chilling COLD. I can't remember the last time I was so cold. I can't remember the last time I was so tired. I can't remember the last time I was SO hungry... 

After a hot shower, Gretchen, my cousin Chevis, her husband Dan and I went to Ichiban's in downtown Minneapolis. ALL YOU CAN EAT SUSHI. As soon as we got seated we started grabbing all sorts sushi off of little boats that float around the sushi bar. It was so cool. I've been there probably three or four times now and I've never been disappointed. I'm glad Chevis and Dan liked it as much as Gretchen and I do. We actually have a date to go back there next time Dan's friend and former coworker, Chris, comes to town. 

A Challenger Approaches

name: Dan Jensen

nick name: Savage Hobbit

degree: Bachelors of Fine Arts

graduated from: UW Stout (same as me)

blog: Murmurs From The Shire

Challenge: 

Animation Duel: Create an animation containing at least two characters. The animation must be between 30 and 60 seconds and does not have a specific theme. A two week time period is allowed for construction. Deadline is September 19. Animations must be uploaded by the end of the day (midnight) to Newgrounds.com. The newground members will be the judges. Go to Newgrounds.com and create a username to rate each video. 

updates will be posted...

I guess NOT

Well the latest dunny release was Wed. night at Robot Love so I didn't get to work on the site too  much, but over all it's coming along. I find myself changing my mind as soon as I'm ready to put the site up. I keep deciding that it's not what I want. I just need to put something up and stop dealing with the rest of it. 

but it'll be up soon.

finished HEROES

sorry to say this but ALL day I sat on my ass and watched the rest of the first season of HEROES. I actually really liked it. With each episode it just got better and better, until the last few. Kind of a disappointing ending, but I guess they had to leave it open for the following seasons. I'm working on getting season 2 but I've read REALLY mixed reviews. So I'm not expecting much. 

back to the site tomorrow

also:

almost to 1000 views on my blog. We'll see if i can get my site up before then.

:D

website... and HEROES

Lately I've been working on my website.... like I said I've been doing for a long time. But now I've moved passed the "planning" stage, and I've moved to the "getting it on paper" and "putting it on the computer" stages. We can expect to see the site up sometime this week... I'm not promising that it will be completed when it goes up, but it will be up. 

IN OTHER NEWS...

I just started watching the new show "HEROES", and I must say I greatly enjoy it. I know that things I say involving reviews need to be taken with a grain of salt sometimes, but if you like anything "superhero-ish" you'll probably like this. I was skeptical at first but it really turned out to be something that I wasn't expecting. It was actually better. Each episode just gets deeper and deeper and the story just gets better and better. There are actually quite a few well know actors and actresses in this show... not the kind who's names I know off the top of my head, but I could name the movies that they've been in. 

As of right now, I'm only 6 episodes into the first season. But I can tell that this is one I'm going to have to keep up with. Probably just as regularly as The Office.