December 2003 Blog Archive

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December 30, 2003

 

  The other day I watched a thing on the Game Show Network about the guy who won over $100,000 on Press Your Luck back in 1984.  He did it by memorizing the pattern of lights as they moved around the board...so he knew when to stop it.  The weird thing is that I had never heard of him before recently, but have always remembered watching that particular episode when I was 8.  That's the only specific episode I remember, just because the amount of money was so huge.  It was really strange to see it again for the first time in 20 years and remember specifically watching it.  Talk about random.

 

 

Page 8 should be up soon...within a week I hope.

 

-Brian

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December 28, 2003

 

  I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and ate too much.  Because I did, and I don't want to be the only one who gained weight.

 

I was looking at the search words that people have typed into Google that brought them to gravyboy.com, and have to note that the majority of surfers who come here were looking for the "Christmas Shoes Song".  (see entry below for Dec. 5)  If nothing else I am glad that I have polluted the search engines enough to steal away these wayward masochistic surfers from inflicting this wound upon themselves and instead inflict upon them a small measure of lighthearted tomfoolery.  I said it once and I'll say it again.  It's a song that should never have been written...but then again some will undoubtedly say that of GravyBoy, too, and to those people I offer this.  

 

Happy new year!

 

-Brian

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December 22, 2003

 

  As suggested to me, I have now included a form (to the left) where you can sign up to receive an email when the site is updated.  I'll only send one out once a week at the most, summing up recent changes. 

 

This new form makes the site look cluttered though.  I'll have to work on that.

 

-Brian

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December 21, 2003

 

  Page 7 is up.  Pages 8 and 9 to follow shortly.  Enjoy!

 

-Brian

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December 19, 2003

 

  When I was in third grade, most cartoons centered around giant robots.  Transfomers, two Voltrons, Go-bots, and a show that few people seldom remember: Tranzor Z (AKA Mazinger Z, but only in Japan).  For years it seemed that I was the only one who ever watched it, though a few people I know now remember the show, if only vaguely.  Looking back there are things in that show they would never allow on TV today.  I highly doubt that they would allow Tranzor Z's female counterpart, Aphrodite A, to be shown launching her "breast rockets".  Yeah, you heard me correctly.  Her breasts doubled as missiles.  Another strange character was the villain who was a man on the right side, and a woman on the other.  Or was it vice versa?  Either way, Sir-Ma'am (yes, that's what they called her) is to me, now, very disturbing.  But we didn't think twice about it back in our ignorant youth.

 

Of course the reason certain aspects of the show are so strange to us now is because it came from Japan.  Japanese have different ideas as to what should go into cartoons.  Most of which isn't suitable for kids.  Don't let your kids watch Anime unchecked. 

 

As soon as I can get to my friend Chris' scanner, I'll have more pages up.  They're ready to go.  Also, I'm planning on having the actual printed version out by June of next year.  Just in time for Heroes con!

 

-Brian

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December 18, 2003

 

  Yesterday I spent an unprecedented 7 hours inside a movie theater to watch Return of the King...twice.  Okay, not back to back.  I had a 3 1/2 hour break in between showings.  Am I a freak?  Yes.  Will I be going to see it a third time?  Most definitely.  It was, in my opinion, the best installment.  Of course, it's all one long story, the ROTK is just my favorite part.  Great great movie.  I said this on a message board today, and I'll say it again:  If you don't fight back tears during this movie, then you are dead inside.

-Brian

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December 15, 2003

 

  If we are to follow the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" to it's logical and grammatical conclusion, the poor recipient finally ends up with the following totals:

 

12 Partridges in 12 Pear trees

22 Turtle Doves

30 French Hens

36 Calling Birds

40 Golden Rings

42 Geese a Laying

42 Swans a Swimming

40 Maids a Milking

36 Ladies Dancing

30 Lords a Leaping

22 Pipers Piping

12 Drummers Drumming

 

This is a grand total of 376 items over a period of twelve Days (counting the 12 pear trees separately).  We can only assume the majority of birds and pears goes to feed, initially, this mass if people holed up in the recipient's house.  The 40 golden rings will soon be sold for food.  Leaving behind a group of people with little left but rhythm and music.  Who could ask for anything more?

 

-Brian

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December 10, 2003

 

  All I want is to listen to some Christmas music in between home and work and vice versa. Unfortunately, all I seem to be finding is a 40 minute set of today's best commercials.  Some of which are cleverly disguised as Christmas songs.  So much so that I have to listen for a while until I realize I have the sudden desire to purchase a Buick. 

 

XM Radio is looking very attractive, though sadly unaffordable.

-Brian

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December 8, 2003

 

  After 6 months of my scanner at home being broken I finally fixed it.  Apparently my bios reset...that's all it was.   Weird.  In any case, to celebrate I scanned some things in and updated the art page on my personal site.  Enjoy.

 

Everyone I know is sick, myself included.  I didn't get to sleep until 3 or 4 this morning.  Needless to say I skipped out on work and although I was feeling better most of the day, I'm starting to get run down again.  Oh well.  Someone from work called to ask me a question and they said my supervisor went home around noon.  I asked if he got sick too.  The answer was yes, if a hangover counts as being sick.

 

Apparently I didn't miss much.

 

-Brian

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December 5, 2003

 

  There should be a test that you have to pass before you can write Christmas music.  At least, before you write a commercially released Christmas song.  Perform all the crap you want within the confines of your home.  Just don't try and bring the rest of us down, we've got 11 months out of the year for that.

 

First of all, if I ever meet the person who wrote the Christmas Shoes song, I will waste no time clipping their legs out from under them and beating them with MY shoes.  For those of you who are not familiar with the song, let me sum it up:

 

"Merry Christmas, your poverty-stricken mother is dying."

 

And if you can't get enough of that crap, there's a whole line of merchandise and TV movies to quench your thirst to be beaten to death with sadness and tragedy.

 

Until this classic came along the worst we had to put up with was that glorious yuletide paper-cut called Happy Christmas.

 

"So this is Christmas, and what have you done?"

 

What?  Is this sarcasm?  Are you insinuating that I'm lazy?

 

"Let's hope it's a good one, without any fear."

 

Yeah, great.  Let's hope that.  Thanks for the greetings.

 

Write happy songs dangit!

 

-Brian

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December 4, 2003

 

  The other day I went to the eye doctor to get glasses.  They're giving me a pair to wear when I'm on the computer or drawing and reading.  So maybe now I'll be able to see exactly how crappy my art is.  Speaking of art, pages 7 8 and 9 should be up soon.

 

Also, I really really really hate jingles.  At least lately I do.  Or maybe it's just that no one writes good ones anymore.  I heard one on the way to work this morning that was a Christmas song that had been changed to advertise a Buick Dealership.  It was excruciatingly long. 

 

And today our first bout of winter weather has left me disappointed.  No getting out of work early today I suppose. 

-Brian

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