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Happy Frakkin’ Birthday, Chris!

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I was a big fan of Battlestar Galactica when I was a kid.  Loved the show, wanted to be Starbuck: chomping on cigars, mackin’ on the ladies, raking in the cubits playing cards, and shooting down Cylon Raiders in my Viper.

Then Sci Fi did the whole re-imagining thing and I had mixed feelings about it.  I wanted it to give me the same kind of childlike joy that the original series did, and after George Lucas had so thoroughly and repeatedly disappointed me on that count, I was fairly certain that the network that had given us dubious programming like “Stan Lee’s Lightspeed” and “Mansquito” would fail miserably.  So, I didn’t even give it a chance.  My friend Chris told me a few times to watch it, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.

Anyhow, a couple weeks ago my wife read a quote from Joss Whedon saying that Battlestar Galactica was the best science fiction show on TV.  Given the fact that Joss Whedon is my master now, I knew I had to watch.  So here I am, just as the fourth and final season is starting, completely lost but wanting to know just what Joss thinks is so awesome.

So Chris comes to the rescue, loaning me the season one DVDs, and once again I’m late to the party but happy to be here, spending hours glued to the TV catching up on the first 3 seasons.  Today’s Chris’s birthday, so just thought I’d give him this shout-out to say, “Thanks for the DVD loan–I wish I had listened to you in the first place.”  Happy birthday, man.

GSM 01.18 More Bowling

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I spent a ridiculous amount of time thinking of team names for the bowling shirts that were suggestive and naughty, but it seems like most of those ideas have been put on t-shirts already. I looked at my dad’s old bowling shirts and realized that they typically just had the name of the local business that sponsored the team. So dat’s what I did. Jo’s Place is just a generic bar name, but Mostly Sanitary Brewing Co. has history.

My brother-in-law Tim bought a homebrew kit when he moved here from California a couple years ago and we started brewing. We’d make beer, listen to Dan Reeder, and talk about the silly labels we’d put on the bottles. He came up with the idea for Angry Pussy Ale (available on posters, coasters, etc.), which I imagine to be a beer that Gus would really enjoy. I thought that a sweet, fruity kind of beer that Gus might share with the ladies could go by the name Grandpa Sex Machine’s Liquid Panty Remover, also available in multiple formats. Anyhow, Tim named our little enterprise based on our “close enough” attitude when it comes to the cleaning of supplies, work space, etc.

We haven’t brewed for awhile, but plan to get back at it this summer. Awesome.

Advertising

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So I signed up for Project Wonderful the other day, made up a few ads, and started putting them up at various websites.  Let me welcome any new readers that decided to check out Grandpa–hope you dig, and thanks for stopping by.

Last night I set up ad space here and at Grandpa Sex Machine’s Drunk Duck page and had a few ad bids when I woke up this morning.  Thanks to those advertisers.  Readers–any support that you can give to the folks that choose to advertise here would be appreciated.  Thanks!

GSM 01.16 Gramps goes bowling

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Two years of nothing and then updates two weeks in a row? Is this some harbinger of doom?

No, just Grandpa up to his old tricks. I was thinking of maybe having Gus drop a ball on his foot, and then this weekend I had a lame skateboard accident and jacked up my wrists and back. Is that some sort of proactive karma preventing me from hurting the old guy? Hmmm…

The stirrings of life…

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Just letting you know that stuff is starting to happen. By now you may have noticed that the funnies are no longer available at chromedomestudios.com, making this subdomain more useful and less redundant. The old site is now more of a portfolio thing, and you can see some of the stuff I’ve been working on, distracting me from important stuff like lecherous old men and boobs. I put together new websites for the Looking Glass Playhouse, a community theater in Lebanon, and the Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu Academy in St. Louis. To be filed under “nepotism,” you’ll also see the genealogy site I did for my mom, and the cross-stitch site I redesigned for my sister-in-law (to be re-redesigned this summer).

Also did some more Quidditch team art for another Harry Potter conference last Spring, but bailed out on the one that’s in the works for this summer. Actually, I considered bailing out, changed my mind and agreed to do it, then lost contact with the people in charge and eventually found out that I’d been replaced. That’s cool though. My Potions Masters logo from Phoenix Rising was such a big hit, some people got tattoos of it. Sweet, huh?

But I know that’s not why your here. If you stopped by, it’s on the off chance that I got off my butt and drew something. Well, back in the Fall of ’06, I did a guest strip for Yirmumah that addresses my lack of updates (be warned–the language is a bit rougher than I typically use around here, but what do you expect? It’s Yirmumah!) Well, now, over a year after that guest strip, less than two years after a new comic here, I’ve got 4 Grandpa Sex Machine comics in the can and ready to post. I’m currently working on getting a few Sin Police comics ready to go as well. Comics will begin again in April, but I’m not going to promise any kind of regular schedule. I know that’s completely unprofessional, but that sort of fits the definition of someone that doesn’t get paid to do stuff. I’m also thinking about a few other projects, involving zombies, time machines, and beer, but I suppose I don’t really need any more distractions than I’ve already got, do I?

I guess that’s about it for now–check back in April for new comics, and if you subscribed to the old RSS feed, you’ll need to do that all over again as this feed is coming from a new (sub)domain. I appreciate the patience, and those of you that have been bugging me for new comics, I actually appreciate that as well. It just means that I was doing something you dug and wanted more of. See you next month!