Lost Carcosa

Chaosium is now accepting submissions for the fourth Halloween Horrors Monograph.

Each entry must be an original BRP adventure between 6,000 - 10,000 words. Text files or word documents only. Don’t submit PDF’s, quark files, etc. Don’t worry, 6,000 words is much shorter than it sounds!

Entries must be turned in before October 1st, 2008.

If you think you’re a good writer, or a good artist, then why don’t you head over to Chaosium and take a look.

OK, yeah.  I’m not French, but my family came over from France way back in the day when it was the hot new thing to do.  And I’m sure at least one of my readers out there is French… or knows how to speak French… or knows someone who knows someone who once ate a baguette… yeah… Happy Bastille Day!

Its the day we celebrate one of the first published zombie stories in the world.  In fact its probably the most famous and popular of the zombie stories.

Have a good one!

I’ve been thinking about my life and what I might want to change in it. I think my goals are mostly geared towards more efficient and effective usage of my time.

My first goal is to spend more time on my comic. Currently, I tend to spend one evening sketching and inking, and maybe one to two more evenings PhotoShopping. Those “evenings” tend to be anywhere from one to three hours in length, so really, I could be doing two or three comics a week. Or I could be spending the whole week to make one really good comic. I know this is something that you, the reader, would probably really like to see. But there is a third option as well. I could just spend less time per comic, (at the cost of quality, of course) and use the extra time for doing fun stuff, like browsing the web.

For goal number two, I plan to read a whole lot more. By “a whole lot more”, what I mean is actually starting and finishing reading of stories. With the story compilations I buy, I can knock out a whole story in three days! Thats a whole 200 page compilation in two months! Ten stories a month! Six and two-thirds pages a day! Wow! I don’t know how I read so much as it is! Of course, if I start looking for compilations with shorter stories, I can get my “story read count” up by a factor of two without having to spend any more time reading. Alternately, with the shorter stories, I could just read the same number of stories per month, and use the extra time for stuff like web browsing. Which leads us to the last goal.

I probably need to spend less time browsing the web. All of us spend time browsing the web, right? It can be a real time sink. Its estimated that people, on average, waste some amount of work hours, the actual numbers I forget, browsing the web instead of working at work. My goal? Cut back on the amount of time I spend zombied out in front of whatever device I’ve got siphoning the “tubes” to my brain.

I’ve written up an estimate of the amount of time I spend wasted on “browsing”, factoring in the number of devices simultaneously use for browsing.

• 2 hour - While getting ready for work
• 1.5 hour - Commute into work (via Cell Phone)
• 8 hour - Morning work period, pre-lunch
• 1 hour - During lunch break
• 8 hour - Afternoon work period
• 1.5 hour - On the commute home (via Cell Phone)
• 1 hour - During Dinner
• 12 hour - After Dinner

Thats 35 hours of wasted time! I spend more time browsing the web than there are hours in a day?! I’m doing the browsing of two to three people! No wonder I can’t get anything done. I mean, how much Raccoon-Furry-Bondage-Nurse-Tentacle-Porn does one person really need? But, as the old saying goes “The Raccoon-Furry-Bondage-Nurse-Tentacle-Porn isn’t going to browse itself”.

So I guess this means no goals for the new year… Its going to be a good 2008.

Its the first moments of the new year!

What do you have planned for 2008? The usual losing weight, stop smoking, and all that? Maybe you plan to try to help out your fellow man a bit more? Donate a little bit more cash, a little more time, hold open a door here and there for someone else.

I hope to do a little more work on my comic, a little more artistic things such as painting, clay modeling, watching and reviewing movies, reading and reviewing books, and lets see if I can get started on getting myself an MBA.

What ever you plan, Happy New Year! and good luck!

For being the day after Christmas, with most of everyone out of the office, I’m really busy today.  Servers are down, servers need rebooting servers need reinstalling, and I need a break.  Since I can’t do that just yet, why don’t you take one for me and read Fatally-Yours’ review of “Santa’s Slay”.  This weekend, I managed to watch “Silent Night, Deadly Night”, but this one sounds even more entertaining.

Read the festive review at Fatally-Yours.com

I might not have a special comic drawn for you this year, but theres always PennyArcade’s most excellent story, “The Last Christmas”.

Read it at PennyArcade

Well, you better watch out
You better not die
You better not pout
I’m telling you why
Cthulhu Santa is coming to town!

Found at Neatorama (who found it elsewhere)