Monthly Archives: April 2007

GO CANUCKS, GO!

At the risk of pissing off hockey fans, I find this terribly amusing. Just go, Canucks. Just go. Let me add though, that despite my ranting I have nothing against non-competitive, amateur hockey, any more than I have against the … Continue reading

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Rockonomics: Mastering: The Right Choice

Don C Tyler from LA’s Precision Mastering has mastered many Cake albums, along with Pixies, Barenaked Ladies, Beck, and Devo [full list click on this link]. By the time you read this he may well have started mastering the new … Continue reading

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Gliese 581

On TV and film, the nomenclature for planets is always based on the star and how many planets the planet is away from that star, i.e. Rigel 7, or Omicron Persei 8. So Earth would be, to a Rigellian, Sol … Continue reading

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Rockonomics: Cover update Part 3

First, review the old HPL covers here [link] This is the practically untouched scan. The finished will be cleaner and the colours will be different. And then there will be other pleasures courtesy of Stewie and Taytay – just you … Continue reading

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Rockonomics: Getting Our Music Out There

We recorded 16 songs but only 14 of them are going on the album “The Shadow Out of Tim.” We’re trying to decide what to do with the two other songs (“Kill the Chupacabra” and “Shhh….”) in between now and … Continue reading

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Thanks to Mr Bob Fugger for “Colour Me Green”

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Outnumbered pencils

I’m guest-arting the back cover of issue #5 of Outnumbered [link], a local comic about super-powered teenage punks versus drug-dealing wererats. Today I went to the semi-regular Vancouver Comicon and hung out at the Critical Hit Comics table trying to … Continue reading

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Why I Don’t Like Patriotism or Competitive Sports.

“There can be no world peace while patriotism exists” -someone. see also [old blog entry link] Patriotism is kind of like hockey. We cheer for our club out of pride – sometimes pride for excellence, but more often than not … Continue reading

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Hockey Discrimination

Last night I had a dream that I got on a bus on Oak St and the driver let me on but the bus and took my money but the bus didn’t move anywhere, and I could see another bus … Continue reading

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I’m Reading Comic Books Instead.

I haven’t been keeping up with the Virginia shootout thingy because…well, why should I? Once in a while I’ll get a snippet on somebody’s blog or hear something on the radio. I used to read the news every day when … Continue reading

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