Conventions & I-Pods

Sometimes I hate technology. Actually, a lot of the time I hate it. I know, I know –technology is what allows me to work from home out in the sticks of New Hampshire. And before this, it allowed me to navigate effortlessly through the dark of night and all sorts of bad weather when I was a pilot.

But sometimes it just raises my stress-level through the roof! My I-pod for example. Over the summer we traded in our ancient (though bulletproof and much loved) 2-door Honda Civic hatchback for a Chevy Tracker. The reason being that we are a family of three and packing ourselves into the Civic for trips to NYC to see the grandparents was a nightmare, moving big things was impossible, and loading groceries into the Civic was like a maddening game of Tetris. Not to mention the fact that is sat about 6” off the ground and getting in and out was becoming more and more difficult as we got older and older. I should also note that compared to my wee Scion xA, the Civic was a full-size sedan,

So this Tracker –its basically a piece of crap and that’s okay. It spends most of its time sitting in the driveway. The one thing I was excited about was the tape deck. Yes, the tape deck. Because I was going to buy a $3 adapter that in decades past would allow you to jack your walkman into the system to hotwire my I-pod into the sound system. Awesome.

But I-Tunes and my I-pod had other ideas. I hadn’t used the I-pod for a few months so the batteries were dead. It took three weeks before it was able to understand that it was plugged into my computer for recharging. When it finally booted up all the music was gone! Okay, this happens from time to time. Apple products are at least as quirky as Microsoft stuff. I open I-Tunes . . .where the fuck is all my music!?! Whu-wha. . .! Okay, okay, don’t panic. You have a back-up library with all or most of your tunes in it, just import that. Its corrupted! WTF?

So there goes several years and a lot of money’s worth of music. Fu-loosh! Right down the drain. God I’m pissed.

On a similar note, MySpace is messing with me! I can’t get in. If anyone’s been trying to contact me via MySpace or get me on their Friends list it could be a while before you hear from me. Its nothing personal.

Before I go washing machine shopping I’ll drop a quick update.

CONVENTIONS: Let the 2007 season begin. I’ll be at Larry’s Wonderful World Of Comics Show on February 11^th in Chelmsford MA. And I’ll be at Primate’s Boston Comic Book & Toy Spectacular on February 18^th in Boston MA. Please send everyone you know to buy a sketch or a few old sequential pages. This new washing machine has emptied my comic book fun fund and I have no idea how I’m paying for the big shows in Philly or Pittsburg in a few months now. I already paid for tables . . .but not room or travel. Crapola! LOL

I’ve got some new artwork up in the galleries, including the cover to ROBO #4 and a Robo Poster I did with Zack Finfrock. Zack is doing the art for the Ctr+Alt+Del book.

And finally, here is a most awesome Documentary of Stupid. Serious.