Archive for November, 2007
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Christmas Trees, Chirstmas Lights
(The call went out for holiday stories for our department newsletter, so I dusted this older piece off, trimmed the cynical and preachy stuff and sent it in. I liked it well enough that I’m posting it for you to read, if you wish.) A couple of years ago my I made extra holiday money [...]
No Comments » - Posted in holildays by Aaron Humphrey
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Traveler’s Guide
I’ve wanted to quit my job and travel since nearly the first day I started. This is no reflection on my job, it’s just a sign of how much I’ve wanted to see the world. Now, finally everything is coming together. Here’s a tentative itinerary. All is subject to change, so if you have advice [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in travel by Aaron Humphrey
Monday, November 26th, 2007
No Regrets
After living here and working in an office for two years, I am just about ready to break free and do many of the things I’ve been yearning for. Details are still forthcoming, but you all will known the plans soon.
2 Comments » - Posted in change by Aaron Humphrey
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Top 100
I have recently come into possession (i.e. I am borrowing) an external hard drive of the Billboard Top 100 songs from roughly the past fifty years. This is amazing. It is like an instant time-warp device. Unfortunately, being obsessive-compulsive about my music collection means that I will not be content until I have matched each [...]
No Comments » - Posted in music,OCD by Aaron Humphrey
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
It’s Time To Pay The Price!
When my roommates and I started watching Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim” block of “adult cartoons” back in 2001, our freshman year of college I don’t think any of us suspected it would still be on the air long after we left the dorms, let alone become something of a cultural institution. It was far, far [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Adult Swim,college life,nostalgia,television by Aaron Humphrey
Friday, November 16th, 2007
gosh darn it
I’m just going to go have some cookies and milk! … if there is any milk left in the fridge, that is.
1 Comment » - Posted in slightly pointless by Aaron Humphrey
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
True Tales of Robots
This is an old strip, but I’m working on writing more in the same style. It’s an interesting format to work with — four panels, each with action and narration from the perspective of a single character. Having a set structure I think helps me reign in ideas and keep things simple. I’ve condensed a [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in comics,fiction by Aaron Humphrey
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Graphic Content!
It is apparently impossible for me to go to a comic book store and not spend extravagantly more than whatever my projected budget is. If I plan on spending six dollars, I will spent fifteen; if I plan on spending one thousand dollars, I will spend a million. It’s deeply exponential like that. I once [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in comics by Aaron Humphrey
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Here is the news, my friends!
LATE-BREAKING NEWS: Money is Just Paper and Symbols! For some reason gambling websites like to link to my pinball stories. This is very curious. Do people gamble on pinball?? I’m going to delete the trackbacks, since they are basically spam, but I have to admit that I did leave them up for a while in [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in comics,gambling,post secret,the news,travel by Aaron Humphrey
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Get it done!
A while back I wrote a series of articles about some of the star film school faculty at the university where I work. This was probably one of the coolest things I’ve gotten to do on my job, since I got to sit and rap one-on-one with some really talented filmmakers. It was almost like [...]