Arms Longstrom Delay

Arms is going to have to wait.

I just got home from my hockey game and my hands are too shaky to properly illustrate this episode.

I draw this stuff with the mouse, and it didn't go very well at all when I tried to illustrate about five scenes.

I think I'm going to have to save Arms Longstrom for whenever I work midnights. I have absolutely no free time during the day to illustrate this stuff.

Where is Arms Longstrom?

Welp, a few of you have given me some choice words as to how you feel about the current delay in release of Episode 4 of The Story of Arms Longstrom. (Reese, I'm looking at you in particular.) I've got the storyboard written and all my ideas on paper. I've made it that far. I'm beat lately.

I get up early. I get home late.

Yesterday I had planned on working on the first half of the illustrations for episode 4, but my aunt was having some printer troubles, so I headed there directly from work. I got home at about 8:30pm and after a day of eating a fruit cup and water, I was starved. So I eat, check fantasy scores, watch Pokemon Diamond & Pearl and go to bed. Tonight I'll be headed back there to finally get this printer working again, so I'll not be in the studio for the umpteenth day in a row.

The good news is that I've freed my entire Saturday (sans 11:30am hockey game) of ankle-biters so I'll finally have the time it takes tol illustrate the whole episode. That'll take most of the afternoon to do. Saturday night we have a HUGE Uniontown bar crawl planned. I'm really looking towards loafing around the mean streets of Fayette county with a less-than-sober crew.

I'll sit in with Monte Lowe sometime on Sunday and get him to narrate the thing. He's not much for honoring the Sabbath day by resting, so I think it'll be relatively easy to convince him to come talk into a plastic tube for an hour or two.

In the meanwhile, Charles Holman (who happens to go WAYYYYYYY back with me) has been giving me some extremely good advice as if he were my would-be voice coach. He even went as far as to type up a rather long email, citing examples of what I need to work on and how I can improve Monte Lowe from a viewer's standpoint. This has been some excellent advice from an even more excellent friend.

Thanks again, man. Whenever you get home, hopefully we'll get some time together to work a bit more.

This has been a computerblog by the one, the fun -- Crock.

What's Really Good

So, Rollo decided to tell me that he's not cutting his hair until I cut mine. I think this is a noble idea. Not much could get me to cut my hair at this point in my life. It's shaggy. I'm shaggy.

We filmed part of our upcoming short this past weekend. It's got three distinct segments (filming-wise) that require a different amount of manpower for each segment, so we got the easiest one out of the way. We'll probably try to use the upcoming weekend to finish the other two segments. Rollo's gonna be editing this one and it has a TON of promise, so look forward to a resurgence of titanic proportions.

I still haven't had time to write this week's episode of "The Story of Arms Longstrom" and to be completely honest, might not happen this week. I've been exhausted. In trying to get back to a normal work schedule that I find myself so drained that I'm in bed by 8:30pm each night. With the time I try to put into the illustrations, it'll be a lunar month before I've got my bearings back about myself. In fact, I'm struggling mightily to stay awake right now.

Crock & Murph news is so cold right now, you'd think it was Bo Jackson's illegitimate son who's laboring away in the minor leagues of two-plus sports. Every time I call Murphy, he gets cell phone reception for about a minute and a half before his phone drops the call. This leads me to ask myself questions such as "Is he constantly standing next to a microwave?" or "Did he drive to Montego Bay to try and reunite himself with his long lost love --- the ocean?" or did he simply steal saran wrap from a local convenience store and he's manipulating my fragile mind by crackling it it my earpiece as soon as he gets bored with my call? All very distinct possibilities.

In the meanwhile, I dare you to find another podcast as good as Crock & Murph. You just won't succeed. We're what's really good.

Game Boy Color!

My new (oldish) Game Boy Color just arrived a few moments ago!

I'm at work now, but Reese is testing it at the moment. She seems to be very satisfied with it.

More on this development as the information becomes available. Stay tuned.

POKEMON TONIGHT BABY!#@$!