Posts Tagged ‘Mike’
Information Technology Fairies, Part the First
by Vincent on January 28, 2009 at 12:00 amHere is something that those of you new to Vincent Macropod should know: I post these on Wednesdays, pretty faithfully, for reasons now lost to the mists of history; I’d sort of like to remember why I picked Wednesday, because Tuesdays tend to be pretty crap days for me. They’re the first day of my work-week, and it’s a ten-hour day, and I rarely get enough sleep Monday nights. And things just generally tend to go badly. So I wind up all crotchety when posting-time comes. I’ve had friends think I was going through bad periods of my life, just from reading my VM posts. Untrue! I’m just grouchy on Tuesday nights a lot of the time.
I may reload this one later in the week; I’m not entirely happy with how it came out. Then again, I may not! Who knows? We keep you on your toes here at vincentmacropod.com.
Vincent Macropod in “As Classy As It Gets”
by Vincent on March 12, 2008 at 12:00 amNo, I’m sorry. It doesn’t get any classier.
By now, it’s a cliche to talk about how much the late Gary Gygax changed one’s life, at least among the people with whom I associate. But that doesn’t make it any less true. I shudder to think what manner of productive member of society I might have become, were it not for his invention. I didn’t agree with his philosophies about the hobby much while he was alive, but still I owe him a debt of gratitude. A debt of gratitude manifesting as a ludicrous cartoon.
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- Gloriously, or horrifyingly, if you prefer, I didn’t have to look up any of the references in this cartoon. It’s all in my brain, and presumably will be forever, long after the Alzheimer’s has robbed me of my memories of friends and family. I did look up the spelling of “Farastu (Tarry) Demodand,” though. Also, the first Neo-otyugh picture is copied from the Monster Manual. Smile and all!
- They’d be on Dungeon Level 7, by the way, if there’s a Neo-otyugh. That, I did look up.
Did you see? Did you see? Lilawyn’s back, doing Vincent Macropods in color! I’m so excited! She’ll be doing them out of order now, so as to keep you guessing. On your toes. More are coming! Let’s have a round of applause!
Regarding my week, the less said, the better. Everything will be okay, though. Here’s a cartoon. It is dedicated to basically everyone I know.
Vincent Macropod in “Sweeney Todd Explained”
by Vincent on January 9, 2008 at 12:00 amBack by popular demand – it’s the Vincent Macropod ensemble recreating the beginning of a popular recent film! WOOOOOO and so forth. Has anyone even seen Sweeney Todd apart from my wife and I, though? Get on it, folks. It is so good.
The cartoon, by the way, has minor spoilers. And also a medium-level spoiler. But it’s of a thing that happens early in the film anyway. Also, it is a film of a popular musical from thirty goddamned years ago. I can only protect you from spoilers for so long, my darlings.
Anyway, as always, hope you like it!
Vincent Macropod in “Routine Maintenance”
by Vincent on January 2, 2008 at 12:00 amSo happy new year, yes. 2007, huh? Yeah. Actually, it was a pretty okay year for me, at least compared to the years that most of my friends seem to have had, which were nightmarish carnivals of mayhem. Coulda done without the hospital stay, true. But free car, cool gig writing for an action figure website, stuff like that. I give it a B- overall.
Supposed to get down to ten below here tomorrow morning. Will my car start? Stay tuned…
Oh, and then there was this cartoon!
Vincent Macropod in “A More Civilized Age”
by Vincent on October 17, 2007 at 12:00 amMan, Tuesdays. Tuesdays are to me like Thursdays are to Arthur Dent (who never could get the hang of them), or Mondays are to Garfield, the zany and not at all tiresome cartoon cat. I don’t like ‘em. I’m grouchy on ‘em. And yet most of the time, they are the days on which I post new VMs. These facts are not related! I enjoy posting new VMs. But due to my apparently standard Tuesday grouchiness, I seem to make the text bits, like this one, more grim than is generally appropriate to my life, yes? One friend of mine came to the conclusion that I was going through a depression or somesuch, based on my VM text-bits. Don’t a-worry! I’m fine. Just not on Tuesdays.
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