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Things Misty and Watercoloured
I’m in the process of boxing up all of my stuff right now so I can do renovations. As I’ve been doing it, I’ve been coming across a lot of stuff that has boggled my mind.
First of all, there’s the absolutely breadth of stuff that really has no business still existing. Newspaper clippings for things I thought was important at the time, handwritten notebooks full of godawful fanfiction, emo teenaged poetry. So many mementos that either make me want to smack my teenaged self in the head or else give her a hug and a warm blow of soup.
And then there’s this.
I’ve finally gotten my website to a place where I can’t stand the sight of it. Of course, knowing me, that’ll last for all of five minutes. I get incredibly restless with things.
But for the moment, I’m pretty happy with things. I would like to get a gallery of my crafts up, but all things in good time. At least I have somewhere I feel I can put that stuff now.
Everything’s gotten an overhaul. First of all, my site is a bit brighter than it was before. I felt the old design was a bit dreary. The comics should also be a bit easier to navigate now and they all have snazzy headers on them.
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The biggest change is the store. I’ve had some complaints with running it directly though Paypal. It just wasn’t very functioning. Since I had everything (plus more) up on Etsy, I’ve now got my Etsy directly plugged into this site. Now, you can buy my comics, badges, figurines, sewing and other things from the site.
Now that the site is more streamlined, I’m hoping to actually use it as a blog. I’ve certainly got a lot of things to say and I should really use this as a platform to do it.
In Which Clare Bares Her Soul
For the last year, I’ve been on a bit of a bit of a journey of self-discovery.
Well, I don’t know how truthful that is. One’s entire life should really be a journey of self-discovery. But it’s been particularly prevalent in the last year.
World War Z Review
I don’t often write full-out movie reviews, but I have a lot of thoughts about this flick. I am a fan of the zombie genre. I am a loyal reader and watcher of The Walking Dead. I especially like inventive takes on the genre. I thought Warm Bodies was a revelation, paying homage to Romeo and Juliet and spoofing Twilight. I will defend to the death Zombie Strippers as a brilliant flick, as who would’ve thought you could adapt Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinocéros with zombies and porn stars playing strippers and make a commentary on the American government?
Being a fan of inventive zombie fiction, World War Z by Max Brooks (son of Mel and Mrs Robinson) is one of my favourites. I’ve read the book and listened to the audio several times. It is not an action tale. Inspired by Studs Terkel’s The Good War, it comprises of personal accounts of The Zombie War. It’s an engaging and chilling tale of the collapse and rebuilding of civilization due to a zombie plague.
Just to put this up front: I was NOT thrilled with the idea of the movie. The book is such a product of its medium, I knew it wasn’t going to translate to film. It is not popcorn movie blockbuster flick material. One of my favourite chapters is actually about Arthur Sinclair Junior from “Department of Strategic Resources” describing the conservation of resources and the retraining of the potential workforce from CEOs to repairmen. It comes off as something more suited to an apocalyptic West Wing (Which is aided in the audio by the character of Arthur Sinclair Junior being played by Alan Alda). Actual battle scenarios, fighting against the zombies, are actually few and far between, focusing on the human survival and socio-political ramifications of such an outbreak. That is what made World War Z unique. The only way to do a proper adaptation would have been as a pseudo-documentary miniseries, in the style of Ken Burns. Having people recount their stories with pictures and footage (both “real” and “recreated”) punctuating the narrative.
However, I thought I’d give the movie a shot. I knew it wouldn’t be like the book, but maybe, possibly it would be a decent zombie flick. The fact I wasn’t too thrilled about it can be seen that it’s been out for a while and I’m only getting to it now. But I thought I’d give it a chance.
Nope.
Despite stripping away everything that made the book unique in favour of an action-packed popcorn flick, it’s boring. The fighting is dull and mostly just people running while a shaky camera follows them. The parts without zombies are tedious.
(SPOILER WARNING! I’m giving the entire plot away. But the movie is so tedious, I’m saving you fourteen dollars and two hours of your life)
My Complicated Feelings about Kickstarter
Yesterday, the defunct television show Veronica Mars made internet history. It became the fastest growing Kickstarter project of all time. Creator Rob Thomas announced that they were raising funds for a movie. If they reached their two million dollar goal by April 12, a movie would finally happen after six years off the air.
After only twelve hours, the goal was met. The Veronica Mars movie is currently sitting at 2.8 million dollars or so.
Am I happy about this? As a Veronica Mars fan, of course I am happy. The end of the third season was frustratingly ambiguous. I would love to revisit Veronica, Logan, Keith, Wallace, et al.
However, this project has brought up my conflicted feelings about Kickstarter itself.
The Only Boobs I See Are Guys Who Think They’re Funny
A lot of people have already written on the subject of Seth MacFarlane’s dreadful Oscar performance, in particular his dreadfully distasteful “We Saw Your Boobs” song.
I wasn’t going to touch the subject. I’ve made my feelings on it clear in several different venues. However, an incident I had today caused me to want to write about it.
I had mentioned how disgusted I was with four the “boob displays” mentioned being in rape and sexual assault scenes at dinner. My brothers replied with, “Yeah, so?”
Now, I adore my brothers. They are really good guys. They are usually very respectful of women. That makes this even worse. Two guys who are usually incredibly respectful found no problem in the routine because it was “just a joke about showing off boobs”.
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New Website
So I’ve been working my booty off and have managed to get a new website up. And now I think I’ve done it. So… Yay.
This new website should be a bit more flexible, allowing me to highlight both my comic work and my writing.
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So… Go me. Keep an eye out for more updates.