The Moose in the Closet: I totally punked out

I totally punked out - even I have limits, I guess

Friday, February 18, 2005

You know, I actually wrote something last night like I always do. This was a long one, four pages. It was about my third lowest-moment. It’s a really funny story but I went to post it today and I kind of choked. It’s a really funny story that makes me look really bad and I sort of got embarrassed. I don’t get embarrassed very easily, because I generally accepted the fact that I’m part idiot, but for some reason I’m not ready to drop this story yet. I’ve told it many a time. I think there’s a difference between telling a selective audience vocally and dropping it on the internet for all to read. I’ve been breaking a hundred readers a day (who are you people?) and that’s sort of the problem…I don’t know who you people are. Maybe I don’t want some of you knowing my “hooker-hand” story. Eventually, when I get up to like a thousand readers. Then I won’t care about scarring off half of you.

So now I have no prep and I’m just going to bang out a quick one. Since I’m pretty sure 90% of the people that visit this site are comic fans or creators, I’ll tell a comic book related story.

The Amazing Adventures of DJ Stringboy was my first attempt at sequential storytelling. I’ve done some illustrations before then but never really put it into a story before. I was actually a fairly decent artist as a kid, anatomy was a little off, but I got pretty far practicing on a light-box and eventually translating that to free-form. Too bad I gave it up, now I’m just a dime-a-dozen writer.

The Amazing Adventures of DJ Stringboy (I still have all twenty some-odd comics) was a twisted version of Roger Hargreaves’ Mr. Men series. All of the characters were simple shapes and happy and peaceful before DJ Stringboy moved into town and corrupted them. Now the town is overrun by drug-dealers, prostitutes and gangs. One gang is run is by evil-Jesus. Evil Jesus was a clone of Jesus created by Isaac Newton. Since Jesus’ DNA strand was incomplete he used pieces of Hitler’s DNA to complete the sequence. The other gang was controlled by DJ Stringboy himself. Other characters made regular appearances: Pontius Pilate, Peter North, the real Jesus, Loc X. Bui and Loc V. Bui, Ben Prick – the deaf and horny international super-spy, the society of dead rock stars. It was a good time, the cartoons mainly shared between friends and eventually hosted on a geocities site in 1997 or 8, back in the early days of the internet. I could have been the original webcomic. That would have been cool.

Anyway, I’m bringing it up because I’m thinking of relaunching the DJ Stringboy franchise, busting out the Wacomb and going to work with some 2D goodness. Start from scratch with the whole thing; call it The Ultimate Adventures of DJ Stringboy. I have no time though, no time at all. Editing for Hoarse & Buggy, trying to get my own shit out, this blog and now I’m working on this DC Conspiracy thing (coming soon, with details) - I just need more time. Gah! Don’t want to bitch, just trying to fill in the space left by my four page long hooker-hand story that won’t be seeing the light of flatscreen just yet.

read a book, fanboy: Absalom, Absalom!

turn off the metallica, fanboy: Mr. Hood

Labels: mitc

16 Comments

Jay said...

"Hooker-hand," eh? Is that anything like Jay Mohr's "The Stranger"? (You know--lay on your hand till it falls asleep, then use it to spank the ol' Franklin...the numb hand feels like somebody else's.) (Or so I've heard. Jesus, I'm revealing too much and this ain't even my blog.)

And what the hell is DC Conspiracy? DC as in comics, or DC as in Washington? (I'm guessing the latter based on the website.)

12:34 PM

Jason said...

DC Conspiracy is going to be a community of Washington DC based comic creators. We got some good people together, we're gonna make a jam book for SPX.

This will be our website.

1:38 PM

Jason said...

Oh and "hooker-hand" is nothing like a "Stranger" because it actually involves touching a hooker.

2:08 PM

Jason Copland said...

What happened to you pimpin' CEliving? The page won't come up? Is it dead?

2:24 PM

Jason said...

Yeah, it's gone into hiatus. We had great trafficand great feedback but we just kept missing deadlines.

I might as well say it here, I'm thinking of converting it into the blog of Chester Emmet, a schitzofrenic zionist. I'm looking for a cowriter.

2:30 PM

Jason Copland said...

Well, ECL's loss is TMITC's gain!

2:37 PM

Jason Copland said...

That was hard to say with my mouth full..... man, my knees hurt...

2:38 PM

Jason said...

What the fuck are you talking about?

Last time someone complained about their mouth being full and knees hurting at the same time was...well...last night.

2:42 PM

Jason Copland said...

Oh, that reminds me.... did I leave my wallet over there last... um... night?

2:46 PM

Jason said...

By the way, Copland, ADL is part of this DC Conspiracy thing. I'm not sure how active he'll be but he's taking some part so far.

2:49 PM

saulcolt said...

all this dirty talk is making me tingle.

JRod - dont be fooled by the number of hits. Most of them are me hitting the refresh button to see if you responded to any of my comments.

saul
www.ssscomics.com

4:10 PM

Jason said...

Saul - You don't get email notifications? Maybe I do cause it's my blog.

I actually discovered today the reason why I'm like the most popular fuck in the world this week is because of that little blog navbar on top of my page. Sending strangers here, strangers I tell you. Best part is, I get to visit their blogs through my stat thing-a-ma-bob.

Some people make the nice transition from George W. Bush love to talk of "hooker-hand".

4:16 PM

Jason said...

Oh, and I'm talking unique IPs, not page views. Page views are worthless because of people like you.

4:18 PM

Chris Fabulous said...

I've got to hear this 'hooker hand' thing.

CF

11:33 PM

Anonymous said...

Fuck the hooker hand, put up DJ StringBoy sucka!

This is rj. I forgot my password.

7:47 PM

Jason said...

RJ -

I started plotting out som enew stringboys yesterday.

3:23 PM

I totally punked out - even I have limits, I guess

Friday, February 18, 2005

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