Hmm... How has the weather been treating you?

Cool but lovely.
Rain is supposed to start tomorrow.

We've had our share of storms recently, and it's about the same here too.

Permission to ask maybe a few more? lol

Knock yer socks off. hun

Cool.

Any movies this summer you might be curious to watch?

If the 2nd part of the Hobbitt comes out, I'll watch that

Aside from that, no. Not to my knowledge

I see. *nods* I recently watched that first part recently. It was decent though.

A tad overblown, considering it was a single book. Not an epic like Lord of the Rings.

And I AM rather tired of all the bad guys being disgustingly ugly. (And what was with the hairy pajamas on the ponies?)

History lesson. The Hobbit was the result of a moment's flight of fancy. Tolkien was an English professor and, while grading tests, he came across a page a student had left blank. Seized by a sudden whimsy, he wrote on that page "Once upon a time there was a creature called a 'Hobbit', who lived in a hole in the ground..." The rest is history

I've not read the books, yet I know I should. lol It's crazy how they just went with three parts of the book and not just one movie. But oh well.

I don't mind them at all, but that's just me.

That is rather interesting! Wish I had inspiration like that with many of the ideas I have drawing wise. lol

Q1. Allright, do the character personalities or the character drawing come first for you?

0r

Is it a person, place, ideal, or a thing?

Circumstance is the factor. What needs doing, then who's doing it, then physical description, emotions, reasons etc

Why do we drive on Parkways but park on driveways?

Because English is a silly language

What's your favorite food? (and why if you know)

This is a REALLY hard question for me to answer, since I like a lot of different kinds of food. If I had to narrow it down, I'd have to say Chinese food generally

because it tastes good

ok thanks

Who do you dislike working for bronies or otakus?

I like drawing horses, so bronies are no problem

I don't know what an otakus is (are)

Otakus are japanime fans

Never dealt with them, so I don't know

Can it be that there is a worldwide boredom pandemic going around? I've caught it as well.

Because life is dull

Not necessarily.

It was around here until that woman walked in and bought a patio set

Does this look infected to you?

Not particularly

I have 5 cats. Dogs aren't my thing.

Yep. Cat lady. Crazy.... That's nothing new

<.< >.> *smuggles in art pad and pencils and drops them off at your desk! :)*

I wish. Got my damned pencils. Left my art pad at home

*&*%#%#Q@$

Do you find us annoying?

No. Do you wish to be?

Both yes and no I'm very confused on that subject

When you say "we", do you mean people who talk to me? Or furries in general?

Every one in general! would best apply to the question!

Are "people" annoying? They can be. Especially if they're young, self-absorbed and think they know it all.

Also if they cannot make up their minds, are excessively timid or excessively opinionated, or want your approval constantly. Stuff like that.

I'd say 85% of mankind are tolerable enough

Did the main story (with the Golden Dragons) ever have an ending in Xanadu? I sure loved that series!

I can actually answer that. Yes, the story is complete. I know because i did all the tonework on it. It's just that the publisher has not gotten their act together and printed it yet.

Yep. (would I lie about something like that here??)

If you could visit any period of time, what and where would it be?

1968 - Bethesda MD

Whyyyyy?

We moved into out new/old haunted house that year. Cool beans

In 1968, my parents bought an old farmhouse built in 1841 and totally rehabbed into a "country estate" in 1935. It had fallen on hard times and was scheduled to be destroyed in 1963, only the contractor putting up the new "modern" bungalows in the area fell in love with it and did his best to restore it. He tried to do it on the cheap, so he didn't do that good a job, but the electric and plumbing worked, the furnace worked and the roof didn't leak and my dad bought it off him for $41,000. (today it would list for 2 mil)

A number of REAL peculiar things happened in that house. Cold spots, knocks, bangs, doors opening by themselves, footsteps were regularly heard in my room. The most peculiar thing was that mirrors in that house often reflected things that were not there.

My mother suffered from insomnia and would often prowl down to the kitchen at night for a snack and a mystery novel. There was a "last looks" mirror at the bottom of the main staircase, so you could "check yourself" before you went out. One night, while heading for the kitchen, she looked into this mirror and saw a fire crackling happily away in a fireplace. This did not surprise her. There were three fireplaces in the house and my dad was a closet pyro. He liked burning stuff in firepits and fireplaces. It was totally in character for him to get up and start a fire. Then she saw candles burning on the mantle and this surprised her. Dad might start a fire in the fireplace, but he'd never light candles unless there was a party. THEN she realized that the mirror was placed so the ONLY thing you could see in it was the bottom of the staircase. It COULD NOT reflect any of the three fireplaces in the house. The fire she was looking at was not there. The moment she realized this, the reflection changed. The fire went out and she saw herself. PS: there was no fire burning that night. Dad was up in the bedroom asleep.

Holy.. shit.. that's scary! :D I have experienced a cold spot at Winchester Mystery House but wow.. nothing like that

That wasn't the only incident, either.

The single scariest episode took place in my old bedroom. When I turned 15, I traded bedrooms with my brother. I gave him my larger bedroom for his much smaller one and the so-called "servants' quarters", which included its own bathroom. He was quite agreeable to this trade in spite of the sometimes audible footsteps coming from my ceiling.

One night, when he was about 15 himself --3 years later-- he got up in the middle of the night to use the john. On his way out of the bedroom, he saw a reflection of himself in the mirror by the door. He was not surprised by this --until he realized that the reflection in the mirror was fully dressed while all he had on were boxer shorts. THEN he realized that the room this person was standing in was not furnished as his bedroom was furnished. In fact, it WASN'T his bedroom at all. Last of all, he realized that what was by the door was not a mirror...

...it was a corkboard...

Again, the second he realized this, the "reflection" disappeared and he found himself looking at various receipts for carparts.

He went to the bathroom, got his pants and boots and went out to spend the rest of the night working in the garage

"Greetings. I'm the oracle, and I'll answer you three questions."

"Three questions?"

"Yes."

"And I can ask what I want?"

"Yes."

"And you must answer me truthfully?"

"Yes. Have a nice day." *poof*

You definitely need more chocolate.

working on it, ma'am.

Would you ever consider re-starting the Xanadu 2000 comic again?

Possibly. Unfortunately the possibility of doing a traditional comic is slim. An e-comic is a much better bet, but the powers that be are traditionalists

IS IT SAFE?

The very fact that I am here...

True dat.

As opposed to what?

Tell me what the "it" refers to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzw1_2b-I7A

My god, dude. I'm a dental phobic. You picked the one three minutes of film in the universe I CANNOT watch

Sorry about that, Chief!

No prob

Still won't look, though.

And knowing Dustin Hoffman, he probably had it done to him just so he could get it right

Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Carmel Machiado

And sweet potato tempura sushi

(Don't laugh. it's GOOD)

Ooo! That DO sound good, with plenty of soy, ginger and wasabi of course!

There's food involved?

Everyone KNOWS that sushi is merely the vehicle for the wasabi, soy and ginger!

No. It's good. Swear to god. It's odd because its cut into what amounts to a thick french fry, dipped in tempura, fried, THEN rolled with vinegar rice and a small amount of wasabi. When I first had one, I had no idea what it was. Ume rolls can contain anything and often do.

I hate sweet potato.. period.. but if you dip it in tempura and deep fry it i'll be like.. what's this!? OMNOMNOM.. it's sweet potato? Eh.. who cares.. MORE! OMNOMNOM! :D

What was the most emotionally, or technically valuable, thing about when and where you grew up?

Come to think of it, I have no clue where you're from, originally.

Washington, DC, generally
Maryland suburbs of: Silver Spring/Bethesda/Gaithersburg

Emotionally: I was born and grew up in the 50s - 60s, when women were still confined in a socially restricted box. I did not like that box and was never made to fit in it

Technically: When someone told me that the best thing an artist could do was LOOK at what he/she wanted to draw. Not just the surface, but the substructure.

So the next question; social change is a good thing in a lot of ways, but society's always a whole thing and there's usually downsides to go with upsides. Do you think there are things you got out of not fitting in to really structured gender roles, that women who've grown up with less obvious straitjackets just don't fully realize or informationally, simply don't get?

I think it is difficult for anyone born after 1970 to get a good handle on what being female was like when I was a kid. I was born in 1953. At that time, wearing high-heels, white gloves, hats and skirts was mandatory for "ladies". No woman wore blue jeans. Few women wore pants. Few women worked, or drove a car. My father INSISTED my mother learn to drive, I was 7 before she started.

Being told to be a "good girl", to get married, to always let the guy have his way, to consign yourself to being a house wife and having kids. Of being told you are not as smart or as valuable as your brother. Of your father being resigned to supporting you until some man took you off his hands. (It surprised the living shit out of him when *I* was the one who moved out, got a job, kept my own home and supported myself. My brother has never really managed to so so.)

Most girls these days have no concept of this, just as my nephew (born in 1990) has no idea of what a Cold War was like.

Is everything ducky? Certainly not. But I'll take it over crinoline dresses and white cotton gloves. Absolutely

If genghis khan, does that mean we Kahn too?

No one sain the question had to be intelligent

But I figured if DM could get away with it...

Is cool, although you's started me off a stupid-cat-video schtick

KahnIhazcheezburger?

Rofl!

I got a way to cure you of your boredom~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA3dHi_o7Yw

=D

Do you like the movie Xanadu? How about the song? XD

Music great --if you like disco (I do)
Movie.... Sucked rocks. Literally the biggest waste of film since Plan 9 From Outer Space.

I like the song too. It was done by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), who also did other famous 80s new wave songs like Bluebird, and the famous Twilight. :D And it was sung by Olivia Newton John. Can't go wrong there! But yeah, I agree... the movie was horrible! I only gave it a chance because of the song... I had to keep skipping parts just to see if it would get any better. Apparently, the movie only made $2 million more than its budget, so that has to be a flop!

Lupin, Goemon, Jigen, Fujiko.

Your most fave of the foursome?

Goemon

Lupin was funny and brilliant. Jigen was a great marksman with a dry sense of humor. Fujiko was sneaky and smart.

Goemon was cool, quiet, observant...and ready with his blade at an instant. My fave as well.

I used to write fanfic from his perspective. The amount of research I had to do in order not to look like a fool was epic.

Do you have any favorite music artists from pop music?

I'm not sure what you mean by "pop"

I like Moody Blues, Jefferson Starship (nee Airplane), Manheim Steamroller, Roxette, Beach Boys Lots of different stuff

I guess I ment to say popular music, such as rock music. Your answer still was close enough of what I was curious about, though.

I like a little Moody Blues, myself. I also like Whitney Huston, Arethea Franklin, ELO, Supertramp, Genisis, and certain others I can't quite name at the moment. I also love the works of Steely Dan, as well as the solo career of Donald Fagan, one of the Steely Dan founders.

1)If I ran up and painted you some color of the rainbow, what color should I be painting?

2) At this point, should I wear protection because you would be trying to break my nose?

3) Who's your favorite Care Bear?

4) For something naughty... hm. Bowman's or half-hitch? Granted, that's more knotty, but it's the best I can come up with.

5) What's your favorite cheese?

6) What is the answer to life, the universe, everything?

7) If you woke up in a robot body and were given a choice of what sort of alternate mode that body could configure itself into, what would it be? Or, to put it simply, what would you transform into were you a Transformer?

8) How is a raven like a writing desk?

9) Which era of Star Trek would you like to live in as a member of (Earth or Federation) Starfleet?

10) If you had the opportunity to ask one question of someone who traveled virtually anywhere through space and time (like the Doctor, as an obvious example, although the choices need not be limited to – nor involve – him), what would it be?

Probably blue
Not really
Hate all Care Bears equally. And Smurfs
?
I like lots of different cheese
Endurance
Something that flies
They both have an 'e' in them
I'm not Trekker enough to discuss ST eras, but since I'd be an antique whenever I went, any-when would be fine
Can I go with you?

There are two valid answers to question 8: 1) Because Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both and 2) (the answer Lewis Carroll was looking for) They both have inky quills.

What is the coolest animal group, in your opinion?
Coral
Fish (Sharks/Rays, "standard" or placoderms?)
Arthropods (crustations, insects, arachnids, and the like)
Amphibians
Reptiles
Dinosaurs
Synapsids
Birds
or Mammals?

Bad spelling plagues this post.

Mammals generally. Equines in particular

Another question.. what ever happened to that magazine that was about Xanadu? You know the one.. Ever Changing Palace (had to look for it!) Reason I ask.. I want more of Xanadu 2000!!! That was fricking awesome! :D

The magazine stopped around 2000, issue 9 I believe. Xanadu 2000 has been backburnered for the time being.

What can you do Next with Xanadu, Any version? I have the comics, the ECP's, had more of the blue covered things, had the statue (destroyed by moving) Still love the story, Wish something, ANY thing could be done with it. Even Tabbe Le Fave stealing Erma's Crowbar!

One thing you could do is plot the characters between Xanadu and Xanadu 2k. the people. how the times change between one and the other. how the technology advances, how the magic knowledge advances. Love the series and want something done with it.

I know you do, but unfortunately I am struggling really hard right now to keep my head above water. I cannot do anything that will not bring in income. Xanadu will not bring in income. So I have to let it go until times are better. Please stop asking

I am sorry if I have offended you. I will stop asking. One day, I will want my Pigasus meeting my Pork Lion character. I hope that will at least be more fun.

You didn't offend me. It's just not something I can do anything about right now and it hurts

Well, failing that, Tell us supernatural tales of your area. We have the Sasquatch here, and Haunted Nahalem Mountain on the coast, And I know of three odd things in New Jersey. One was the ghost of a black man who wanted to be a doctor, Another is of a White Stag that prevented a car from taking a bridge that had been washed away, and the last and most famous, the Jersey Devil. What do you know of any of these, and do you have any in Delaware?

Er, why won't Xanadu bring in income? It was pretty popular back in the day...

Just wondering, not pestering you to go draw Xanadu right now! :)

Sorry to hear that Xanadu isn't bringing in some obviously needed cash. Let me think about some suggestions before I throw them past you. In the meantime, a question? Okay, if you found a magic lamp on the beach (the kind that would hold a djinni), would you prefer the djinni to be male or female and why?

Male. And cute.
Or female. And really funny.

It's the three wishes I really need. An appealing Djinni would be extra.

I've sometimes wondered: why the bit about only THREE wishes? In the original Arabian Nights story, Aladdin got as many wishes as he wanted. You know where the "only three wishes" thing came from?

The original "Aladdin" was Chinese and three is a special number in early Chinese mythos. More then that I do not know.

I see. Thanks!