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3pm on 11 August 2012 @ Epicurean (Van Ness/UDC metro stop)

So I saw. . .

Total Recall

And it was good. Well it was pretty good. At least Kate Beckinsale was good. She basically owned Total Recall. Kate, and some pretty spectacular special effects, is why you should see this movie.

There was also some guy name Colin Farell in it. He was. . .hmmh. . . OK. You could say his performance was on par with Arnie's in the original Total Recall. You know I'm not sure why I put that link in there. It's not like Amazon is going to pay us any money if you click on it and actually buy the DVD. It's late as I write this (1:49am to be exact) and it just seemed like the "right" thing to do. By that I mean I see a lot of other blogs with links to AMZN and so I thought I should do that too. But I digress, let me say it clearly wasn't Colin's finest hour. Or should I say 'finest run time of 2hr 1min'? He was serviceable though.

SO we have the good (Kate), the OK (Colin) and then there's the bad. Sorry Jessica, but that's you. I didn't think you were paying attention to your acting coaches on 7th Heaven and you certainly haven't improved much since then. (Watch Kate in 2002's Laurel Canyon after you see Total Recall and try to tell me the lady can't act.) But I'm not a critic. I'm just a bloke who paid $12 to see a movie. I'm not here to tell you how stale JB's performance was. Or how unimpressed I was with every minute of her screen time. Or that I actually cringed as I watched her plead (over-dramatically) at Colin's not-yet-dead-but-maybe-he-is-dead-but-the-audience-knows-hes-not-dead body near the end. Sorry JB, but I blame you for the suspension of my suspension of disbelief.

Well, at least we'll always have Summer Catch.. .

(To be honest I'd rather watch three of the four Underworld movies any day of the week. Kate in a shiny black pleather body suit trumps all.;-)

Note to Self: Delete Photo References

I love photo references. I use them all the time. But sometimes, the stalwart old Google Image search just won't do. And when almighty Google fails to turn up decent results for, "guy getting hit in the face," I am forced to improvise. Usually this means utilizing a mirror, a camera phone, and a lack of shame.

This is all fine and good, and these panels are typically better than the ones where I rely on guesswork and, you know, artistic intuition. My problem stems from the fact that I always forget to delete these references off my phone when I am done using them. Invariably, when I get back from some vacation and people ask to see my photos, interspersed with pictures of College Fjord, Glacier Bay, and Denali national park, without fail there's some picture of me, holding a stuffed animal like a small child, or balancing on one leg trying to mimic the Superman pose.
Granted, these are far from the worst images someone has ever unwittingly stumbled upon whilst looking through someone's camera phone pictures. Even so, I'm getting tired of explaining pictures like this to my friends and colleagues:

Sigh. At least I was wearing a shirt in that one.

Happy Friday, and keep drawing, everyone!

SCC Draw Off - "Rorschach As A Cat"

 At long last, here it is; the final product of our SSC Draw Off several months ago. Since I happened to be the only one who completed the "Zatana/polar bear/steering wheel/briefcase" assignment that month (to be posted soon), I was bequeathed the honor of picking the topic of that meeting's Draw Off. The first topic I thought off the top of my head?: "Rorschach as a cat...doing something gritty." Needless to say, we had some great submissions. However, Scott's (the final picture here) was given the legendary status of WINNER. And thus Rorcat was born:

^ by Desmond

^ by Wattana

^ by Mark (nice coverup attempt)

^ by Emily

^ by Brian (me)

^ by Maurice

^ WINNER! : by Scott

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