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By Eblen
Big day today. My oldest child, Andrew, turns 12 years old today. I’m proud of him, he’s had a good year. He started excelling in three things in particular this year that make me very happy: basketball, drawing, and writing. A very talented child, I have the highest hopes for his future. Happy Birthday, Andrew.
Also today is the first day of Stumptown in downtown Portland. Stumptown is the NW comic festival that has exploded in size the past three years. I do NOT have a booth this year; the past couple of years I was associated with Puddleville which had a presence at the festival. But this has been a transition year for me. This website has just gone live, so it would be hard and pointless to push my wares. Next year, though!
Andrew, Kincaid, and I will be visiting Stumptown today and tomorrow. There are some good storytellers visiting including, Jeff Smith, creator of the Bone series. Should be a fun time.
Posted in Comic Events, Comics on April 18th, 2009. No Comments »
By Eblen
How exciting is that! Blazers have had a great year! Anything they do extra, such as get past the first round, will be icing on the cake. Roy, Aldrich, Outlaw, Rudy… man. I’ve been dreaming about them. I am in the middle of a foggy stadium, I can’t see the seats but I can see the baskets and the Blazers are shooting around. Three pointers, dunks, ally-oops. Roy lays up a shot and then jumps on Oden’s back. They laugh and laugh. And then I realize I have no pants on.
Posted in Sports on April 17th, 2009. No Comments »
By Eblen
There are some bold statements coming out of Texas this week. Apparently their conservative politicians feel the need to hint at secession to make political waves. Their governor, aghast that the US government in charge “hadn’t been reading the constitution right”, and, considering his next run for governor, decided to make threats on behalf of “the people”.
Give them Texas. Imagine what would happen. There would be a migration of bibles going south, and a migration of open, forward-thinking realists going north. The move would streamline both conservative and liberal agendas.
Texas would immediately become a big player in international politics and trade. Hell, they would be able to export their oil, wind energy, and three Cs (cotton, cows, and cement). They could grow up to be a big balloon amongst the other balloons. Of course the other nations would despise Texas, but hey – persecution would just inspire their ideals.
But things would get out of hand and their balloon would start to leak. There would be no abortions or mention of birth control in Texas and a general consensus that trickle down, pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps politics is the way to go. It would become like a third world country in some areas of Texas, and to fix the situation they would punish the teachers, and send missionaries because obviously the poor people’s problem is their lack of faith. A large green cloud would float over Texas. But still, conservatives would blame all the problems on liberals. Rush, who moves to Texas shortly after the secession, would say, “The United States should be helping us out in our situation. After all it was their liberal media that instilled horrible values in our children.”
The secession would help so much in everything we want to do in the US. Not only would our federal government be released from slow-as-molasses deadlock, but half of our Mexican border issue would be resolved, our energy crisis would get a boost since Texans consume the most energy in the nation per capita and as a whole, and we might actually get universal healthcare. No longer would politicians talk talk talk; instead they would talk, consider, and do.
I like it, good thinking from Rick Perry. And I think Chuck Norris would make a great Conservative President for Texas.
Posted in Politics, Ugly Politics on April 17th, 2009. No Comments »
By Eblen
Hello folks, I hope you enjoy the site. The primary purpose of Hoboditty is to entertain through the comic, my crooked point-of-view, and unique uses of web technologies. The secondary purpose is to pick up chicks. And the third is to make a difference in our rapidly-changing-world, in both ideology and arts new technical medium.
If successful, I believe this site could grow to go beyond the comic and daily blog. As a web designer, I am constantly learning new ways to use the web. As my web tools expand, I intend to use Hoboditty as a playground to create art using my new skills.
Hoboditty consists of four parts: the blog (Burnside Amphitheatre), the comic (Hoboditty), specialty pages, and the Gift Shop. The comic will be updated twice a week (on the T days); the blog will be posted daily. Specialty pages, such as Daily Fortune, and Gift Store products will be added as they are created. The site will constantly morph as new things are added and more friends decide to pitch in. (So far two of my friends have added to the site, Joel Hendrickson has added some of his designs to my store, and Reid Craig created the image behind Daily Fortune.)
Thanks for checking Hoboditty out. Please come back.
If you are a cute chick and single (or, better yet, you are a lesbian in an open relationship and bi-curious and like threesomes), send me an email, babe.
Posted in Hoboditty on April 16th, 2009. No Comments »
By Eblen
A sad note last week as another creator of Dungeons and Dragons died. I played the game through a good portion of my childhood. I loved everything about it (except the social stigma of being a nerd).
I credit the game for several aspects of who I am. And only a few of those aspects are bad! Due to making statistic decisions and constantly calculating the possible die roles, I’ve developed a knack for percentages and mathematical estimations. Because of D&D’s character creation I tasted how it was to slip into someone else’s skin. That inspired me to get into acting and a reason I strive to add texture to the characters in my comics. But most of all, I credit D&D with allowing me to tinker with story lines. Finding balance between harsh boring reality and the world of make believe can be a challenge. D&D gave me the opportunity to test those waters; figure out what works and what doesn’t.
The article I link to above mentions that Dungeons and Dragons “spawned video games, novels, a cartoon, and a movie.” I think in a literal since that is true. But the amount of spinoffs D&D inspired in many mediums, especially video games, goes well beyond that. To the moon really.
As a testament to that “many mediums” claim, here is a little something I wrote a long time ago:
- Dark tan skin with well warn hands
- He was a tall 13th Level Fighter.
- His strength was immense
- And his intelligence wasn’t to be reckoned with.
- His name was Dirk.
- Orcs, goblins, ogres, and trolls
- Didn’t have a pixies chance against him.
- Gnolls, minotaurs, and dragons
- were chopped down like our rain forest.
- His name was Dirk.
- He had a +4 vorpal sword with a jeweled hilt.
- He had magical +5 platemail armor.
- He had gauntlets of Giant Strength.
- He had anything he wanted.
- He was awesome.
- No matter where in the world this man went
- He battled evil ruthlessly, effortless.
- And wherever he was
- Whatever evil he is destroying.
- I am there too.
- I love him.
- His name is Dirk.
(Please do not mistake this poem as being sincere.)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10th, 2009. No Comments »
By Eblen
From The National Republican Senatorial Committee: “Symbolism and leadership are critical in matters of world affairs. So it’s stunning that just hours after he apologized to a European audience last week, and said America has been “arrogant” and “dismissive,” President Obama paid fealty to Saudi King Abdullah by bowing to him at the G-20 Summit in London.”
Do you think the Saudi’s have power over us now? Since Obama gave a respectful bow, do the Saudi people assume that their government has control over America? The idea is ridiculous. There is no way, in this day and age, that something like that will affect the opinion of any society. However, it may affect the opinion of other leaders in the world. And I would like to volunteer the idea that, “maybe the rest of the world leaders would appreciate this fresh change in American politics”.
I think the Republican Senatorial Committee is just angry that the Obama administration is being so nice to everyone. “Preposterous! How does he get away with all this hubbub! Gribble Grabble Grumble!”
Posted in Politics, Ugly Politics on April 9th, 2009. No Comments »
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