25 Random Facts about me
A good friend of mine had recently posted a note on Facebook with 25 random facts about herself. Seemed like a fun idea, and I am shy on other topics this week, so here it goes. Some you may already know, some you could care less about, and others may cause you to never look at me the same again.
1) I have been fired from four of my six jobs. Of those four, four of them didn’t count as real jobs.
2) I didn’t have my first kiss till I was seventeen years old, but it wasn’t for lack of effort.
3) My brother and I once made up our own form of martial arts called Kuma Te. The cool thing about that is you are automatically a black belt.
4) My soon-to-be-born son’s name is derived from one of my favorite GI Joe characters. It took some convincing to get my wife on board. And no, it is not Zartan, though I did present that as an option.
5) Rainbow Bright was the object of my first masturbatory fantasy…before I knew what masturbation even was.
6) I attended DMACC (Des Moines Area Community college) without ever completing an elected class. Yet made the Deans List after required to take a “Driver Improvement Class”.
7) I once pretended to be Jewish just to date a girl (in my defense she was really cute). She was not happy when she learned the truth. You think she would have caught on sooner since I always referred to the temple as “church”.
8) As a child I had aspirations to pursue a career as a paleontologist, zoologist, herpetologist and a marine biologist. I never once said I want to pursue a career in Insurance.
9) I plan on writing comic books for the rest of my life even if it never pays the bills or makes any sort of income. It is a true passion of mine.
10) My beautiful, talented daughter is decades ahead of her old man, she has already written her first children’s book, which is in the process of being illustrated. Once published, all net profit will go into a college fund.
11) I have yet to meet somebody from New Jersey that I actually like. I am starting to believe that person doesn’t even exist.
12) With aspirations of taking Hollywood by storm, I once made a bet with my childhood friend, Christina Calisesi, that I would win an Academy Award by age twenty-five. Needless to say I lost that bet.
13) I’d always wanted a nickname when I didn’t have one, but then when I had nicknames such as BF, NGB, Princess-Limpy-Wrist, Johann, and Goona, I wished I hadn’t had one. And those we the names given to me by my friends, I’d hate to have heard the names people had
for me that didn’t like me.
14) I enjoy reading comic books and still play with action figures, but make no mistake: I am all man.
15) Before I discovered hustler there was Penthouse. Before I discovered Penthouse there was Playboy. Before I discovered Playboy there was Victoria’s Secret. And before I discovered Victoria’s Secret there was the Newport News Catalogue.
16) I created my first superhero when I was twelve years old, it was a vigilante called Death Shadow. I used to dress up as this character wearing black sweat pants, a black t-shirt, a blue cape and a black hat. Death Shadow was armed with an Uzi and a sword…and a mullet.
17) The best advice I should have followed: “Don’t sleep with that girl.”
18) My wife, Lindsey is not just my lover but also my best friend. She has been without a doubt the best thing to ever happen to me. I often shudder at the thought of where I may be now if it wasn’t for her.
19) I didn’t eat salad or Mexican food until I was twenty. I still don’t eat chili with beans, but maybe someday that’ll change. The thought of Mushrooms make me physically ill, and I refuse to anything with them.
20) I used to say that I hate fat people, but after gaining a little weight myself I have changed my stance: I hate really fat people.
21) One of my favorite books is Sympathy for the Devil by Kent Anderson. It is a brilliant character study of one man’s transformation based on experiences during the Vietnam conflict. I have read this book multiple times and it is just as engrossing and disturbing now as it was the first time.
22) When I was in preschool the educators believed I might have needed to go into Special Ed. As it turns out I was just really bored.
23) I used to pretend that my life was a sitcom, and not the unfunny Rosanne kind. This “delusion” often dictated many of my actions and the things I said.
24) I've read the bible cover to cover.
25) Just because I do not believe in God doesn’t mean I am a man without faith.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A new blog is being added to my every growing series of entries. This new one titled Jonah’s Joe’s is dedicated to my love of GI Joe. From the toys of the 80’s and 90’s to the classic cartoon and 155 issue Marvel comic book series. If it’s about GI Joe, it’ll be posted there.
I have been cleaning up my collection and selling large portions of it in order to start paying off some debt, which I hope to have cleared by the time the new baby arrives. I hope to post some pictures of the collection to share with you all. I most recently started going through some custom figures that I had made a few years back and have the intention of posting pictures along with descriptions on this blog. Several of the figures had been added to www.joecustoms.com, and can still be seen there under the handle, Jogunwarrior. I can’t really remember where that handle came from; I think it had to do with a narcissistic variation of Shogun Warriors. I have always been fascinated by feudal Japan. I remember changing it from the previous online handle Wldcrd78 after a stalker started using an all too similar variation of it (Wldcrd70) to harass my girlfriend. I never did learn the identity of the Internet stalker. But I digress…
If you want to see the work of a man who had way too much time on his hands you can find it here: http://jonahsjoes.blogspot.com/
Notice I used past tense, because I have not had that much time on my hands for quite a few years.
On to more important matters: My wife and I had our ultrasound this past Monday to determine the sex of the baby, and ensure that it has all it’s limbs. I am proud to announce that the baby is healthy and on track as far as developmental stages go. It is also a boy! People always asked if was hoping for a boy or a girl. They assumed a boy since I already have a daughter, and one day will need someone to pass along all my toys and comic books to. There is a part of me that was really hoping to have a boy to pass all my manliness along to, but most boy children I see are complete douche bags. And I’m not going to be one of those parents that says, “My kids never gonna act like that!” Because the truth is that they probably are and then I’d look like a dick. Having another girl would have been cool to, but I already have two women in the house bossing me around and another one may lead me to drink heavily on a regular basis. The truth is that I would have been totally happy regardless of the sex just as long as he/she is healthy.
Our daughter went with us, and afterwards we are all went out to lunch. We went to the Olive Garden where I ordered the seafood-pasta-stuff and had them hold the syphilis (that’s a long story for another time).
What else is going on? Not much on my end other than the exciting baby news. I got a promotion at my day job, which means more work, and less time to sit around thinking about useless shit to blog about.
Not much has changed in the Antidote world since the last update. Anthony is still drawing Bloods Own issue 2. Chris is still drawing Children of Circus. I am going back and forth on scripts for several stories in the works such as Freedom Guard and Black Jack…I’ll have the forty-plus outlined issues completely scripted by the time anyone gets around to drawing issue 2. I need to hire an artist, but that takes something I am lacking right now called – what’s the word – Oh yeah, money! I am also working on some proposals for other publishing companies on the off chance I ever pitch one of the big dogs an idea it’ll be ready. There had been some discussion at the last antidote meeting, which I unfortunately missed, to reduce the page count of each issue from twenty-two to twelve. This would hopefully reduce cost, as well as the time it takes to complete an issue. Issues could have some bonus stuff added like sketches, and maybe even script pages. The reduced page count would come with a lower price tag to the consumer, which is nice. I am not totally on board with these changes, as I enjoyed the current format with the visage of being able to go head to head with the big dogs, but I am willing to try anything to get more quality products out sooner. I also need to realize that ultimately this is just a hobby.
With Diamond’s changes in their distribution guidelines (my friend and neighbor, Matt does a good job summing it up in his own blog here: www.cupokryptonite.com we will probably not be submitting Black Jack or any other titles to them anytime soon. We will stick to the convention circuit for now and may review alternative methods of distribution when we have more books available. Once again, I need to remember that this is still just a hobby!
Hopefully I’ll have some more stuff for next week, and remember to check out the new GI Joe pages!
I have been cleaning up my collection and selling large portions of it in order to start paying off some debt, which I hope to have cleared by the time the new baby arrives. I hope to post some pictures of the collection to share with you all. I most recently started going through some custom figures that I had made a few years back and have the intention of posting pictures along with descriptions on this blog. Several of the figures had been added to www.joecustoms.com, and can still be seen there under the handle, Jogunwarrior. I can’t really remember where that handle came from; I think it had to do with a narcissistic variation of Shogun Warriors. I have always been fascinated by feudal Japan. I remember changing it from the previous online handle Wldcrd78 after a stalker started using an all too similar variation of it (Wldcrd70) to harass my girlfriend. I never did learn the identity of the Internet stalker. But I digress…
If you want to see the work of a man who had way too much time on his hands you can find it here: http://jonahsjoes.blogspot.com/
Notice I used past tense, because I have not had that much time on my hands for quite a few years.
On to more important matters: My wife and I had our ultrasound this past Monday to determine the sex of the baby, and ensure that it has all it’s limbs. I am proud to announce that the baby is healthy and on track as far as developmental stages go. It is also a boy! People always asked if was hoping for a boy or a girl. They assumed a boy since I already have a daughter, and one day will need someone to pass along all my toys and comic books to. There is a part of me that was really hoping to have a boy to pass all my manliness along to, but most boy children I see are complete douche bags. And I’m not going to be one of those parents that says, “My kids never gonna act like that!” Because the truth is that they probably are and then I’d look like a dick. Having another girl would have been cool to, but I already have two women in the house bossing me around and another one may lead me to drink heavily on a regular basis. The truth is that I would have been totally happy regardless of the sex just as long as he/she is healthy.
Our daughter went with us, and afterwards we are all went out to lunch. We went to the Olive Garden where I ordered the seafood-pasta-stuff and had them hold the syphilis (that’s a long story for another time).
What else is going on? Not much on my end other than the exciting baby news. I got a promotion at my day job, which means more work, and less time to sit around thinking about useless shit to blog about.
Not much has changed in the Antidote world since the last update. Anthony is still drawing Bloods Own issue 2. Chris is still drawing Children of Circus. I am going back and forth on scripts for several stories in the works such as Freedom Guard and Black Jack…I’ll have the forty-plus outlined issues completely scripted by the time anyone gets around to drawing issue 2. I need to hire an artist, but that takes something I am lacking right now called – what’s the word – Oh yeah, money! I am also working on some proposals for other publishing companies on the off chance I ever pitch one of the big dogs an idea it’ll be ready. There had been some discussion at the last antidote meeting, which I unfortunately missed, to reduce the page count of each issue from twenty-two to twelve. This would hopefully reduce cost, as well as the time it takes to complete an issue. Issues could have some bonus stuff added like sketches, and maybe even script pages. The reduced page count would come with a lower price tag to the consumer, which is nice. I am not totally on board with these changes, as I enjoyed the current format with the visage of being able to go head to head with the big dogs, but I am willing to try anything to get more quality products out sooner. I also need to realize that ultimately this is just a hobby.
With Diamond’s changes in their distribution guidelines (my friend and neighbor, Matt does a good job summing it up in his own blog here: www.cupokryptonite.com we will probably not be submitting Black Jack or any other titles to them anytime soon. We will stick to the convention circuit for now and may review alternative methods of distribution when we have more books available. Once again, I need to remember that this is still just a hobby!
Hopefully I’ll have some more stuff for next week, and remember to check out the new GI Joe pages!
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