Steady As She Goes

So, I'm still suffering from allergy attacks daily (Not sure what's causing them, might be mold from my roommates plates which he hasn't washed?). This really makes spring suck for me, but oh well. Also my back piece has just gotten into the peeling/scabbing phase and frankly, I want to take a metal rake to it.


I'm figuring that I'm not going to be a daily blogger, I aim to get at least 3 a week, and I'm going to try to get 1 comic up a week (though it seems to be just as difficult to come up with ideas for the nonsensical comic as it was doing concept art for the serious comic). But nonetheless I'll try to keep this moderately interesting for anyone who'll read it.

I'm feeling a withdrawal from a lack of 360...sadly left the bulk of my games home and didn't grab them when I made my last excursion there. I need to get my fix of C.O.D soon or I'll syntax a stranger....

Speaking of video games: reading Game Informer, I'm looking forward to the new game Bulletstorm, by the people who made Painkiller (a game I still have yet to play but have heard many many good things). From what I've read so far, Bulletstorm seems like an awesome game, the story seems ok but the kill system is whats really appealing. Still waiting to either get Darksiders or Dante's Inferno, still leaning towards Darksiders (can't really get past the idea of Dante being a badass as apposed to the poet). Also, just need the last expansion for Fallout 3, Mothership Zeta, and i'll have finally finished the game. Again. And then I'll start it over...this time I'll actually maintain good Karma (How do I resist blowing up Megaton though? I mean c'mon, I'm only human!).

Back to tattoos though. I have 7 now: my back, the back of my neck, my chest, both forearms and both hands. They all share the theme of portraying my Irish heritage, for 2 reasons. First, well, I love my Irish heritage (duh). Second, because to me, if you get a tattoo it should have a meaning behind it, and if you get many tattoos, they should all have a way of relating to each other in some fashion. I don't particularly like the idea of getting one just because it looks cool (not saying that's wrong to do, just to me it's not a good enough reason to get something permanent). Does this mean I'm never going to get a non-Irish tattoo? No, not really. I have a few ideas for tattoos that, well, just look cool. But they too also represent things I like.



and now, I've run out of ideas to talk about for the moment.

Till next time, maybe a comic?

Let's See Whats Going On Here...

Ahhh, spring is in the air. My sinuses are inflamed and my throat is scratchy. Allergy season, we meet again.

My weekend was a surprise: while I didn't get to go to my campus' big event, Fountain Day (really is my luck to have lost my SUNY card the night before bringing a friend to the bus station), I did at least get to go to our neighboring schools thing, no idea what it was called but it was a big free concert. Got to play a lot of Frisbee with an old friend who was visiting a friend of hers who attends St Rose, and then spent the remainder of the weekend with the girlfriend. All in all, pretty good weekend.

Right before starting this blog, I got the tattoo I've been waiting to get for 2 years. Didn't think I'd be able to get it till much later in life but my guy, Drew ( his website is http://www.drewstattoo.com/ , check his stuff out, he's definitely an amazing artisit), and a photo of it's up top. Please, overlook the fact I look like a zombie in it.


So, as I said in my first post, I'm trying to put together a web comic. I've decided to take a different approach for now: instead of working solely on the serious series, I'm going to branch out into something more along the lines of Cyanide & Happiness, something that doesn't necessarily require the artistic skills which I lack and instead look back to the doodles I used to do in high school. These will be pretty rough starting out, but once I move up from just MS Paint and into something a little more advanced I think they'll get a better look. As of now, it's just me myself doing these, but I'm trying to recruit a few of my old friends to get in on this.

also, I need to figure out how to get the images to show up clearer on here....

anyways, I'm calling it on this post, more to come.

It Begins....

Ok, so I guess I'll do the same thing everyone does when they start a blog:

I'm twenty right now, going to SUNY Albany as an English major with a Communications Minor (or at least i'm trying for it, advisors have proven not to be too helpful with this). My goals with this is to eventually get into either publishing or into a technical writing position, and then move on to publish my own works (starving author as apposed to starving artist...riiiight...). All in all, the point of me getting this blog is to do about 3 things: allow me to vent when i'm frustrated (this will probably occupy 1/3 of this blog), possibly post on the projects i'm working on (and to seek help for them, STILL LOOKING FOR ARTISTS FOR A WEB COMIC!), and to just generally for fun. As You can see, or will see hopefully, I have agreed to allow ads on my blog with the ADSense widget, I'd appreciate it if you were to click the ads that appear (I'm a college student with little job opportunity during the semester =[ ). As far as I understand, I get a minor commission for each time a person clicks on these ads, so if you do it for me that's cool, but I won't beg anyone to do it. It's an experiment.


This post I know is a bit bland, I'll learn how to make it more aesthetic later on.

A little more general info:

My signature here is also my X-Box Live gamertag, I think it is semi-clever when compared to most those you see in the Lobbies, as well as just sounding cool.


I'm an avid gamer (not so much during the week with classes but yeah), currently hooked on Modern Warfare 2-awesome game but you probably already know/have heard, trying to get back into Border Lands, and always find myself coming back to Fallout 3.

I'm a huge fan of web comics, huge fan of Ctrl+Alt+Del, Cyanide & Happiness, Least I Could Do and Looking For Group, which I read daily. I'm trying to get a web comic of my own started, but as of now it's a pipe dream.

I love writing, reading, Frisbee, tattoos, music and my friends. Been in a relationship with my girlfriend for over a year now, can easily say I love her more than anything else.


Oh, I'll try to respond to any and all comments. Feel free to argue with me or anything like that. Most cases I'll have an honest debate, sometimes I'll just flat out fight you. Don't take offense to anything I say, this is my blog and not yours. I afford you the freedom to disagree and argue, afford me the same freedom.

I suppose that's it for now.

More to come.