Jibidy Hard with a Vengeance!

I'm running out of Die Hard jokes. As promised, the next riveting installment:

Jibidy 91

Poke the Frost Giant Again!

I'm trying to get on a schedule - posting twice a week (once on Sat and another Tues night/Wed morn)

So the Yeti is still stuck in the secret entrance, and look who else is back:

Jibidy 90!

Come back on Saturday for the next exciting episode!

Jibidy Hard 2: Jibidy Harder!

Well, Billy found the rest of the crew - that is, most of them. Aren't we missing someone?

Jibidy 89!

I've got the next few pages in the can, so expect a couple more this week.

Tonight: The last Saturday at Dr. Dremo's. A single tear for the last James Brown Ale I may ever have.

Yippee-ki-yay, lego pirate...

Jibidy 88 - Jake, Jibidy, and Co. are wandering the the ducts of the Viking fortress. Who knew Vikings installed such extensive ductwork?

Dwainies!

There's a writer's strike still going on, so let's get right to the awards (for the nominees, scroll down or go to here):

Best New TV Show: Chuck - this show gets better and better with every episode. A near perfect balance a cool, geekiness, and hilarity.

Best Returning TV Show: Lost - still the best show on TV. Can't wait for season 4. Bones would have won if the category was "most improved show".

Biggest disappointment on TV this year: Veronica Mars' cancellation - as much as a bitch about Heroes, watching a another brilliant show go out before its time was really too too sad.

Best Movie I saw in the Theater: Transformers - shut it. It was awesome.

Best Movie I got from Netflix (might not be '07 films): Dhoom 2 - no contest. If you are a fan of Bollywood, go see this. If not, you'll probably hate this musical version of Bad Boys/Entrapment.

Worst Movie I got from Netflix: Irish American Ninja - tough call. I know Who Killed me was reaaaly bad.

Best Album: Modest Mouse: "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" - another awesome album from beginning to end.

Best Comics Series or Miniseries: X-Factor - the little x-book that could.

Best Comics Moment: Cyclops unleashed in Astonishing X-Men #23 - the panel that finally sold me on Cyclops being a badass. It's only taken you fifteen years, Marvel.

Best Book I read:No Plot, No Problem! by Chris Baty - super duper inspiring.

Dude of the Year: Brett Favre (Of the playoff-bound Green Bay Packers) - sure he isn't going to the Superbowl, but he still had a unbelieveable year.

Dudette of the Year: Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars, Heroes) - I heart her.

2006 Dwainies

The great escape continues!

What's through the secret doorway?

Jibidy 87!

Plus: The Dwainie Award winners will be announced this weekend, Writer's Strike be damned.

Some random thoughts as I watch the NH returns

--One more reason to dislike John Edwards - his campaign theme is that awful John Melloncamp "This is Our Country" blech. And is that the guy from Desperate Housewives behind him?
--Sounding good tonight in their concession speeches - Mitt and Huck
--Sounding boring and poorly scripted in his victory speech -McCain

--American Gladiators may be the best thing to happen to NBC in awhile (it may also be a sign of the apocalypse).

--I've been reading up on Spidey's OMD debacle. Man am I glad I'm not a Spider-man fan. The X-books, on the other hand, continue to surge creatively.

--My current Super Bowl prediction: Green Bay vs Jacksonville

--Apparently Nip/Tuck isn't on tonight. I'm going to bed.

A New Year and a New Jibidy

He's back!

A quick recap:

• Jibidy confronted the dangerous Consultant (who turned out to be a fired coworker of Pete and Lou's)
• Howard was mortally wounded by an mechanical transforming lab assistant, and Billy Fang avenged him.

Will the rest of the crew be able to escape the fortress with their respective plastic piece intact?

Captain Jibidy 86

The best of 2007 - The annual Dwainy nominations!

Remember me? I'm that guy who wrote a novel in a month and then took the next month off. I'm back one last time before the end of the year. I'll post the nominees today and the winners in early January. Remember, nominees and winners are determined not be by how good they are but by how much I arbitrarily liked them. If you don't like it, make your own irrelevant blog award.

Best New TV Show:
Chuck
Pushing Daisies
Reaper

Best Returning TV Show:
Bones
Grey's Anatomy
Lost

Biggest disappointment on TV this year:
Addison leaving Grey's for Private Practice
Dr. Sara's head in a box on Prison Break
Heroes season one finale and lackluster volume 2
Veronica Mars' cancellation

Best Movie I saw in the Theater:
Live Free or Die Hard
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Superbad
Transformers

Best Movie I got from Netflix (might not be '07 films):
Alpha Dog
Bandidas
Dhoom 2
Fido
The Queen

Worst Movie I got from Netflix:
DOA: Dead or Alive
Idiocracy
I Know Who Killed Me
Irish American Ninja
Shooter

Best Album:
Amy Winehouse: "Back to Black"
Kanye West: "Graduation"
Modest Mouse: "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"
Rilo Kiley: "Under the Blacklight"
Spoon: "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"

Best Comics Series or Miniseries:
Astonishing X-Men
X-Factor
X-Men
World War Hulk

Best Comics Moment:
Black Bolt outed as a Skrull in Illuminati #5
Cyclops unleashed in Astonishing X-Men #23
Devil Dinosaur revealed as the mastermind in Nextwave #12
Hulk vs. The Sentry in WWH #5

Best Book I read:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
No Plot, No Problem! by Chris Baty
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
You Suck by Christopher Moore

Dude of the Year:
Brett Favre (Of the playoff-bound Green Bay Packers)
Bruce Willis (Die Hard 4, Grindhouse)
Michael Cera (Superbad, Juno)
Nathan Fillion (Drive, Waitress)

Dudette of the Year:
Aishwarya Rai (Dhoom 2)
Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars, Heroes)
Megan Fox (Transformers)
Yvonne Strzechowski (Chuck)

Who says you need 30 days to write a novel?

Because I just wrote one in 28 days! Thats right, my novel is finished. That means the story is done, and I reached 50,000 words! (50,989 to be exact). The novel is called "The Junk Whisperer" and should be available in Barnes and Noble in time to be a stocking stuffer! Or something like that.

Check out this cool logo thing I have now:

No, if you'll excuse me, I have champagne to drink and the further adventures of a neglected Lego pirate to consider.

Nanowrimo - Day 24

I just hit 40,000 words!

Less than 10,000 words to go in just over six days. I can practically smell the finish line.

Great shirt

While you read this blog post...

I'm in your base, stealing your flag!

Nanowrimo - Day 18

I wrote about 900 words this morning and then was almost completely waylaid by a trip to the pub to watch the Steelers game (grr guys, way to play down to another inferior opponent like the Jets).

Anyway, I'm a little under a day behind schedule, coming in at 28,581 words:

Words: 28,581
Target: 30,006
Difference: -1,425
Words to go: 21,419

PS: I hope to have some free time in the next day or so to work on Jibidy as well.

Nanowrimo - Half way there

Oh Oh - living on a prayer!

I just hit 25,000 words. Pretty exciting stuff. I still want to get about another 2,000 words written tonight, which will get me closer to being caught up with pace.

Quote of the day:
Steph: I know that typing speed does not correlate to creativity, duh.

Nanowrimo - Day 15

Half way there! Well, in terms of days, if not content.

Words: 22,798
Target: 25,000
Difference: -2,202
Words to go: 27,202

Writing music:
Breaking Up - Rilo Kiley
Dakota - Stereophonics
Under Pressure - Joss Stone
Jungle Love - Morris Day and Time

Nanowrimo - Day 11

Talk about a great weekend of football if your name is Dwain Smith (and mine is):

Penn State - win
Packers - win
Steelers - win

And on the other side:

Ohio State - loss
Michigan - loss
Notre Dame - loss
Florida State - loss
Miami - loss
Redskins - loss


Needless to say, writing is going more slowly than it should be:

Current word count: 15,038
Goal word count: 18,337
Difference: 3,299
Words to go: 34,962

I'm going to try and write a little more tonight, and then watch one of my netflix movies (I've had one for two weeks and two others for over a week)

Nanowrimo - Day 4

I've been able to successfully plug ahead, with a lot of help from my close friend Diet Dr. Pepper.

Current word count: 7,095
Goal word count: 6,668
Difference: +427
Words to go: 42,905

A couple songs on my writing playlist right now:

Paperback Writer - The Beatles (obviously)
Edit - Regina Spektor (something I'm not doing)
Melatonin - Silversun Pickups

I'm an idiot

For the last two days I've been using the wrong word count for nanonwrimo. Somewhere along the line I turned 50k words into 200k words. As I actually start writing I've noticed that the avg number of words needed to do a 200k word novel in 30 days seems like a lot. About 6700/day. But I'm not writing a 200k novel. So let me run those numbers again:

Current word count: 2,059
Goal word count: 3,334
Difference: 1,275
Words to go: 47,941

That makes me feel much better.

Day two of nanowrimo

Current word count: 2,059
Goal word count: 13,400
Difference: 11,341
Words to go: 197,941

Wow. I know, only two days have gone by, but I am more than a little behind already. I have nothing planned for this weekend but writing (ok writing and watching football - but I can do both of those at the same time), so I hope to be at at least 25,000 words by Sunday night. So far, what I've written actually looks like it doesn't suck!

21 min into NaNoWriMo

And I'm already behind! Word count: 0 (count em!) words.