I Kick Yo Butt

I want to be able to look at this person and think to myself, "Goddamn I'm going to get the crap kicked out of me by her!" All I can think of when I look at her is, "What the hell are you doing?"

When I'm bored I also take pictures of land development. I was (and still am) pissed off when I found out that they were extending this highway, du Vallon...

The reasons I have for being pissed:

• Most of the recent land development around this neighbourhood disturbed the local flora and fauna for ugly-assed condos (not apartments either) and stupid, useless highways.


• Increased traffic expected on du Vallon, which is already terribly congested, and also has the worst onramp in the freaking city near Charest.


• Urban sprawl. It's pretty gross. The area where you see Walmart in that photo is already the home of a sprawl maul. Right across from that is the Galeries de la Capitale.


• They'll have to either dig the bike path and sidewalk into the underpass at that intersection or make a gigantic overpass. It doesn't seem that they took bikes or people into consideration when they first blocked off pedestrian traffic, forcing them to the other side of the road where no sidewalk nor path existed in the first place... so my guess is that the bike path will be the last thing on anyone's minds when they cut the rope or whatever stupid pat-on-the-back celebration to open the extention.


• Of all the road projects the city could focus on, like fixing the crap up near Loretteville (where I had the bumpiest, most potholey, ass-pounding bike coastings down), or making roads safer for bikes, or putting in sidewalks where there should be some (eg. near schools and hospitals?)... or even putting in more effing trees on that goddamn road near the parliament building or something. Really. The city focuses on building an extention to a highway when better urban planning is needed.

In Calgary, Ed told Wesley and I the most traumatizing thing I think I heard on that trip out west. (And I experienced quite a few things that disturbed me sufficiently.)

Q: What is the sister city of Calgary?
A: Uh... oh goddamn...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the crazy-assed urban planning of Calgary and the increased urban sprawl of her sister city are related. Fortunately, I don't think Quebec has as much to worry about in terms of suburbia because it's almost 400 years old and the smaller cities here were already established. Calgary, on the other hand, is much younger, and has to deal with the gated communities that sprung up all over the place at the same time.

/I still can't believe that there's a naval museum in Calgary.

A Bunch of Posts!

Damn right!

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Vacation was good and bad in Alberta and TO.


The whole reason why we went to Calgary in the first place. Congratulations, Ilinca and Curtis!

Good: seeing my cousins in TO and Alberta, wedding meal, visiting Wesley, Banff and Lake Louise, Calgary Zoo (hence the sudden red panda craze), no heat wave (thank God), Aki and Betty's "vampire dog" Bobo after it calmed down.


One of four asian elephants at the Calgary Zoo. So cute!

Bad: how sad MH was, crazy urban planning in Cowtown, the misleading provincial-tax-lessness (because of more expensive goods), lack of any actual good chinese food in the two-block Chinatown, homeliness, homelessness, lack of humidity, lack of any plushie cows in the entire freaking city, driving back from MH (I thought I was going to *DIE*), Aki and Betty's "vampire dog" Bobo when it bit Michelle and Brian


Ugly photo of pretty mountains next to Banff. You should go there!

Funny: more pick-up trucks than SUVs in Montreal, "honour system" train, cowboy hats, Albertan accent, crazy freaky people roaming, Aki and betty's "vampire dog" Bobo.


Bobo the "Vampire Dog." Bad dog!

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Anyway, I thought I would just tell you some projects I am (attempting to start) working on.

Firstly, the webcomic is still stuck in limbo, since I had an idea what to do a long, long time ago before I started drawing the damn thing. Then I lazily forgot what was going to happen, which led to a terrible, terrible standstill. I have every intention to complete the project, but it's massive. (Following the BG1 storyline, without all the sidequests and idiotic backtracking.) So I'm contemplating on that while I'm working on finishing the game. No, I haven't finished the game. Not once. No. Dammit.

I posted those BG portraits some weeks ago, so you're always free to use for your own personal games, or just to stare at and worship, or something equally as hilarious. I am working on some more portraits as well, just to fill out the necessary roles. (Like the triple-classed whatnot... eh, who am I kidding. That one'll probably look like a freak.) What I can't do very well is everything having to do with non-person features. Clothes, weapons, props, backgrounds, etc. - these are the things I will be featuring more often in my drawings.

I have been reading many mangas online. This led me to recall a story years ago I wanted to work on in manga form, though I am afraid to start drawing and stop, due to forgetting the story *coughwebcomiccough* ... so I am writing the whole thing out before drawing. I'll present a draft of a few chapters here when I finish. Just to note, the writing is presented in pseudo-manga form, so don't expect an award-winning novel format.

That's all folks!