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Capes 'N' Babes preview image (4/7/08)...

2008-04-07T11:51:00.000-07:00

A preview image from today's Capes 'N' babes (4/7/08):

If you've never read my Capes 'N' Babes webcomic before, you can do so by clicking the link below:

Check it out today!

Thanks!

-Chris

Hand-lettering vs. Computer fonts...

2008-03-24T13:41:00.000-07:00

Okay, for anyone following me on Twitter or reading my Capes 'N' Babes blog, here is the Blog post I promised. Below are the two versions of the Capes 'N' Babes strip I did for today (March 24, 2008). I have been playing around with trying to hand-letter some of the Capes strips but after a week, I still haven't gotten to a point where I'm comfortable with hand-lettering.

I know a week isn't much time but I also think the "graphic designer" in me just hates the results. I have been told I have fantastic writing skills when I do cartoons in birthday cards or other very large illustrations but I think that legibility gets a bit lost in the strip. It could be the pen I'm using or the way I'm scanning my fully completed art. I'm not sure.

In any case, below are the two versions of today's strip. First, the original:

And now the one with the replaced computer fonts:

I might some day go back to hand-lettering, but for now, I think I'm going to retun back to computer lettering...

What's wrong with this picture???

2008-02-21T22:31:00.000-08:00

The other day, we got a magazine in the mail that advertised a whole bunch knick-knacks and things you generally use around the house. I'm sure you all have gotten similar ads or magazine. This one was pretty thick though so it took me a little while to get to page 117 where I saw the ad above.

Of course, as soon as I saw the ad, the "dirty ol' man" in e immediately began to chuckle. My wife wanted to know what was so funny so I handed her the ad and said "Do you see anything wrong with this picture?". It took her a moment or two before SHE realized what she was looking at as well.

Congress really needs to stop focusing on Major League Baseball. If anyone is using Human Growth Hormones, it's the kid in the ad above!

Also, please check out my web comic strip, "Capes 'N' Babes". It updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

-Chris

Girls with Slingshots fan art

2007-09-13T22:15:00.001-07:00

Okay, this will probably be a quick post since it's so late. Just finished putting the final touches on this... some fan art of "Girls with Slingshots". I wanted to send Danielle a one of a kind "thank you" for the time she gave me on Sunday at the Baltimore Comic Con.
You probably won't get the joke unless you are familiar with Girls with Slingshots. And if you aren't, you really should add it to your list of web comic reads. I just discovered it a few weeks ago and if it isn't obvious by now, I'm loving the strip (maybe too much?).
Anyway, here is Hazel and Jamie at a comic book convention...

Currently listening to "Timespace" - Stevie Nick's Greatest Hits
-Chris

New Capes 'N' Babes concept sketches

2007-09-12T20:59:00.000-07:00

Hey gang,

After attending the Baltimore Comic Con this past weekend and talking with Brad Guigar (Evil Inc.) and Danielle Corsetto (Girls with Slingshots), I decided to revisit and re-vamp my original web comic strip idea, Capes 'N' Babes.

I have decided to add a couple of characters that will drastically change the look and feel of the strip. I thought you all might like to see some concept sketches I just created for the two big characters I'm adding to the strip.

The first one is Roy. Roy's a werewolf. I won't go into too much details about his origins here except to say he's not your typical "turns into a werewolf every full moon" kind of werewolf.

Here's some Roy concept sketches for you all:
Original Roy sketch I did last night:

ROY #1:

ROY #2:

ROY #3:

ROY #4:

ROY #5:

ROY #6:

ROY - FRONT AND BACK:

Next Character: B.C.
BC is LOOSELY based on my next door neighbor - at least in terms of looks.

Here's B.C.:

I haven't done a lot of background writing for B.C. yet... mostly just working on his visuals right now.

Hope you all enjoyed!

Currently listening to WOLF FM (an internet radio station on iTunes)

-Chris

The 2007 Baltimore CamicCon...

2007-09-10T12:58:00.000-07:00

Well, the Baltimore ComicCon was this weekend (Sept. 8 & 9th). Thus far, this is been my eigth or ninth year attending the Con. Each year, it gets a bit bigger although it's still not qute as big as the Pittsburgh Comic Con, but it's getting close. How do I know? Costumes.

That's right. I said costumes!

For the last couple of years, There's been a sudden trend for people showing up in Baltimore dressed in costumes. This year had the biggest number of costumes showing up. Saw a Spider-man, Blade, one Jedi but LOTS AND LOTS of Star Wars Stormtroopers, Imperial Officers and at least three different Darth Vaders. So 2007 takes the prize for the most costumed attendees at Baltimore ComicCon then any previous year. If this trend grows, can a costume parade/contest be very far behind?

This year, I decided to go to the Con for the sole purpose of seeking out Brad Guigar - the writier and artist of Evil, Inc. A few months ago, Brad and I started up a bit of an e-mail exchange about my CMX Suite strip and he has been gracious enough to take some time out of his much busy Eisner-nominated life to give me some very welcomed tips about CMX Suite and ways that I could improve the strip. So one of my main goals this year was to personally seek him out and meet him face to face. We've had some great e-mail exchanges but there really isn't any substitute for meeting someone and talking with them face to face. It's even a bit more special when you've known the digital persona for a while but you finally get to meet the flesh and blood persona.

I had a great time talking with Brad (maybe too much as I was probably keeping him from selling more stuff - Sorry Brad!). In any case, I really enjoyed talking to him and I'm looking forward to seeing him again next month at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. I also really appreciated "talking shop" with him as well... whether it was about web comics or the daily grind of the graphic design/web design world we both share. And as I told him before I left on Sunday, maybe by this time next year, I'll be in a booth beside him peddling my Capes 'N' Babes stuff. That has to happen as I'm really growing tired of being on the sidelines watching the game. It's time to start playing and maybe with a revamped Capes 'N' Babes, I can finally start doing that.

The other person I'd like to mention very specifically is Danielle Corsetto. Danielle not only shares the same name as my daughter but she also writes and draws Girls with Slingshots. I just recently discovered Danielle's work from an interview that was posted on Comic Book Resources. I don't know... maybe I'm weirdly attracted to people who are doing web comics AND are graphic designers or currently working in the design field. Danielle was a graphic designer who is now doing Girls with Slingshots full-time - just as Brad is a newspaper guy - so maybe I'm drawing inspration from them. If they can do their strip five days a week and still do the "real job gig" thing, maybe I can too.

Anyway, as with Brad, I specifically sought Danielle out. I made my introductions on Saturday and came back on Sunday and had a great conversation with her as I was asking for some real world advice. Danielle, thanks for taking the time out of your busy sketch log and sitting down and sharing with me some things that worked and didn't work for you. You didn't need to do that - especially from a guy you only just met the day before. I hope my questions didn't backlog you too much. But I want you to know all of your answers were greatly appreciated and will definately be put to good use.

This year was very unusual for me in the sense that I almost never seem to make it a habit of actually conversing with the people I very much admire. I don't know why. Maybe there's a bit of starstruck crap in my head... maybe there's some sort of "Wayne's World - we're not worthy" thing going on... I don't know, but what I do know is that one person I was really looking forward to seeing (again) was Mike Wieringo. He normally attends every Baltimore Comic Con since it's (almost) local for him but with his sudden death a few weeks ago, maybe there was something that finally clicked in my head that said "Dude! Time is wasting away. If not NOW, WHEN, stupid???". And so I tried to make it a point to force myself to introduce and talk to people I admire - not as "superstars" but just as regular folk who are genrally interested to meet people who admire their work. The strange thing is, online, I'm never hesitant to strike up a conversation or e-mail exchange with another artist that I like or admire. One of those people that I've had planty of online conversations with is Franchesco. Last year, I did a caricature of Franchesco and Joe Pekar and posted it online to a forum they both frequented. I met Joe Pekar last year and talked to him a bit and he remembered it. This year, I did the same with Franchesco and he too loved it as well. He even asked another fan to take our pics together (I have one too but need to get it developed) and we chatted for quite a bit.

On the last day, I made it a point to stop by the Image booth and talk to Kris Straub and Scott Kurtz. Every year, I say the same thing... I'm going to talk to Scott and introduce myself but for a variety of various reasons, it never seemed to work out but this year, Sunday afternoon seemed to be an ideal time to talk with them. Sometime last year, when Kris and Scott were having fun with their Aviators, I had posted a stupid little thing on this blog where I thought Kris - in Aviators - sort of resembled on of the characters form Reno 911. It was just a silly thing to amuse myself since, as a caricaturist, I really did think Kris' facial structure resembled the character from Reno 911. Kris doesn't look anything like the actor from Reno except when he's wearing those Aviators. Anyway, he was a good sport about it and even posted a comment on my blog about it. He was even more of a sport as I talked to him about it on Sunday - which is always tricky because, as a caricaturist, you never know how someone is going to react to your humorous take on them.

My big bragging moment with Scott came when I introduced myself and he commented that he was, indeed, familiar with my work. That was a pretty big shocker for me as CMX Suite is a tiny little web strip that not many people seem to know about. I've sent him a few e-mails here and there but I know how popular he is so I never expected any reply or anything. Besides that, CMX Suite was always designed for a very specific target audience. I think I always understood it was going to be very limited in what I did - or could do - with it. It's still fun to do but if I take anything away from my brief moment of talking with Scott (as well as everyone else this year), it's that I really DO need to do my own stuff. And maybe... just maybe if I get off my lazy butt and really apply myself to Capes N Babes, the next time I meet and talk with Scott, he'll be more then just familiar with my work.

Curently listening to How Far We've Come, by Matchbox Twenty

-Chris

Content-Aware Image Sizing [EN]

2007-08-23T08:47:00.001-07:00

Now THIS is pretty cool! Of course, I can't help but wonder... when is the MAC version coming out??? :-)

Steve Jobs and the paper keyboard

2007-08-15T15:10:00.000-07:00

Whoa! Sorry for the long break folks (or who ever is coming to read and look at my little drawings). My mother-inlaw sadly passed away a few weeks ago. My father-in-law honored me by asking me to be one of her pall barer's. As as typically goes, life's been crazy ever since.

Anyway, here's a larger version of the Steve Jobs cartoon as he appears in "CMX Suite" this week: "Drinking the Kool-Aid...".

This is one of those weird combinations of "cartoon" and "caricature". In the above illustration, Steve's nose is a bit too large to really be considered a true caricature. I purposely was trying to make his nose look like a hawk's beak in order to give the subtle impression that he will soon consume us all. Just like a hawk hunting for mice.

Hope you enjoy. I'm currently working on a new Capes 'n' Babes cartoon - this one dealing with the re-imagination of "Superman: year One". I hope to have that finished soon.

Word to the wise to all you would-be web cartoonists out there: If you're going to try and draw a second web comic strip, it's probably a really good idea to have a whole bunch of them done before you create a web comic web site for yourself. That's the trouble I'm finding with Capes 'n' Babes... CMX Suite is taking up so much of my time, I'm not finding ENOUGH time to finish all the cartoon ideas I have for my other strip.

On a sad note, I also want to mention the passing of Mike Wieringo this past Sunday. Mike was a fantastic comic book artist who did work for DC, Marvel and had a creator owened series called "Tellos". I never knew Mike personally but I was very fortunate to meet and talk to him every year he came to the Baltimore Comicon. If you want to see what a lot of his friends are saying about him, you can read some of their rememberances at his web site.

There's been lots of comic book artists I've been fans of - John Byrne is one that immediately comes to mind - but there are only two comic book artists that really affected me so much that they managed to influence how I drew. One was Matt Wagner and his original series "Mage" and the other was 'Ringo and the way he drew all of his characters.

I'm not saying I ended up drawing like either guy - my cartoons will prove that I don't - but they influenced me such a great deal that I was conscious of thinking about their work whenever I started drawing something new. to this day, I still think about the way Mike drew his cartoon eyes - so you could say he STILL has a large influence on me and my art.

I'm very sad to realize I won't be seeing any more new art from him - and baltimore Comicon won't be the same without him this year.

-Chris
Not really listening to anything at the moment...

Illustration Friday - July 13th, 2007

2007-07-13T15:49:00.001-07:00

Ms. Bromback discovers Baby Batman teasing kids on the playground...

As the text in the illustration says, this was really my funny interpretation of reimagining "Batman: Year One" - but instead of looking at the subject matter as the first year Bruce Wayne becomes Batman, I thought it would be funnier to reimagine Batman in the First Grade (or Kindergarten... depending on what you consider to be the first year of school).

:-)

-Chris

Illustration Friday - "Geeky"

2007-07-06T07:43:00.001-07:00

Today's "Illustration Friday" theme is: Geeky.
For me, that means "Comic Book Geek". For all the comic book geeks out there, you will know that Blackbolt is a Marvel Comics superhero. His super power is the sound his voice makes. It is said that the vibrations from any sound he makes is so powerful, even a whisper from him can shatter mountains.

So I thought it might be fitting that he becomes a librarian in his superhero retirement age...

-Chris

Have a Happy (and safe) Fourth of July!!!

2007-07-03T15:22:00.000-07:00

I did this one for last year's CMX Suite July 4th strip.

Have a safe one everyone!

Listening to Laura Branigan's "Gloria" in iTunes...

-Chris

My Celbrity Cellmate (The Todcon 2007 strips - part 2 of 3)

2007-06-27T10:12:00.000-07:00

This is yesterday's CMX Suite strip from Community MX. It's the second of three strips based on TODCON: Las Vegas 2007 - the web developer's conference that took place June 11-13 in Las Vegas.

This strip details the results of going to Las Vegas after a disasterous instant "spray-on-tan" in which I "painted" Tom Green blue. There really isn't a Las Vegas law that forbids anyone from looking like a member of the Blue man Group but what the hay... I needed SOME way to get Tom in jail with a certain P. Hilton (who just happened to be relased from jail yesterday so it was a bit of simpatico in terms of the timing).

Again, a new CMX Suite strip appears on the home page of Community MX every Tuesday.

-Chris

This week's CMX Suite strip

2007-06-21T15:56:00.000-07:00

This one's a few days late folks but here is this Tuesday's CMX Suite strip. It's the first of three strips based on TODCon - The Other Dreamweaver Convention... at least, that's what TODCON used to stand for. Now, it's sooo much more then JUST Dreamweaver.

I wasn't able to go this year but that hasn't stopped me from making strips about it. This week's strip, Tom Green has decided to get one of those instant spray on tans with (as usual) disasterous results.

Listening to the office computers around me go HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....

-Chris

Scott Fegette discovers fatherhood

2007-06-13T14:11:00.000-07:00

Today's strip is a celebration of Scott Fegette's new found "Daddyhood".
But here's the problem with doing a weekly strip sometimes...

When I was first coming up with the idea for this strip, Scott and his wife were still EXPECTING. But as you can see from Scott's Flickr account, him and his wife already had the baby:

Scott's Flickr account!

Now... Because you all are long time readers of the strip (and I know ALL of you are, right?), consider this post a DVD extra you won't get any where else. Here's some "secret behind the scene tidbits" about this strip:

1) Scott's Wife:
I had never met or seen any pictures of Scott's wife before - including any pictures of her he may have posted on his Flickr account. My cartoon of her is completely made up but after seeing her photos, I thought I came pretty darn close.

2) Fiction mirroring reality:
When I first told Scott what I was planning to do (and sent him a rough sketch of the cartoon), not only did he and his wife love it, it also turned out to be pretty darn true as well. Scott and his wife didn't want anyone to know the name or sex of their newborn so even though it wasn't QUITE a N.D.A. (Non Disclosure Agreement), it was pretty darn close!

3) Scott's T-shirt:
I'm letting out a little secret here but Scott actually used to be a TRUE Guitar Hero God! If you're lucky, you still might be able to find proof of Scott's musical career by doing a Google Image search for him (but you didn't hear that from me! LOL!).

And there you go...
Three little secret tidbits about today's cartoon.

Who says you don't get something for your money every Tuesday morning at CommunityMX?

:-)

Listening to The Rocky Horror Soundtrack... ahhh! The memories!!!

-Chris

Tom Green's singing debut!

2007-06-13T14:05:00.000-07:00

I meant to post this last week...
My gooooood friend (and book co-author) Tom Green (the OTHER one) recently decided to get into music. well, being his friend and all, how could I NOT do everything I could to help promote his musical tour?

Here's a snippet of the next American Idol (okay, so Tom's Canadian - does that REALLY matter these days???):

Go here to see Tom's "video".

:-)

Currently listening to The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. Tim Curry STILL rules!!!

-Chris

Illustration Friday - June 7, 2007

2007-06-08T06:37:00.000-07:00

I posted this before in a earlier Blog but this is specifically for "Illustration Friday". The them being "Suits". I figured "Bob the Elvis impersonator" would be perfect since you can't get any better then the good ol' leisure suit of the 70's!
This was for a t-shirt design for a web developer's conference. The full color design is below:

-Chris

The Dog Days of Summer Blockbusters...

2007-06-06T06:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday's CMX Suite strip. Being re-posted from Community MX.I hadn't drawn Stephanie "Stef" Sullivan in the strip in quite some time. My cartoon model of her is one of the more complicated characters to draw in the strip. She came out pretty good in this one.

My kindom, my kingdom for a table...

2007-05-30T13:11:00.000-07:00

I decided, in an effort to help promote Community MX and the little web comic strip (CMX Suite) of mine that runs on the home page every Tuesday, I'm going to re-post the strip here a day or two after it runs on Community MX's home page and talk about the strip a bit more.

That being said, here is yesterday's CMX Suite:

Yesterday's strip was just a humorous take on the whole web designing debate concerning "Tables vs. CSS". I just thought it would be funny to take the whole "no tables" viewpoint to such an extreme that a web company would, literally, throw out ALL of its REAL tables... even if that meant a lot of inconvenience for them.

Would this really happen? Of course not. But it's sort of my comic strip version of the old "Airplane" joke "...and don't call me Shirley" gag. No one in the web design community thinks tables are so evil that they would be willing to actually destroy ACTUAL tables. But it's still funny to watch cartoon characters willing to go to such extreme measures... no matter what the cost.

Currently listening to Internet Radio (Club 977)

-Chris

TODCON 2007 T-shirt design

2007-05-22T08:56:00.000-07:00

Okay folks... here is the fully completed, low-rez version of this year's TODCON T-shirt:

For those of you that don't know what TODCON is, TODCON is a web developer's conference focussing on all things Macromedia (at least it used to be). Now the conference focusses on all things Adobe - specifically Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop and anything and everything inbetween that you might use (or need to learn about) for web design, development or programming.

So, if you are a web designer or developer and want to learn more or see demononstrations featuring all the latest programs from Adobe, I highly encourage you to go to the TODCON web site and check it out. I've not known a signle person who has gone to TODCON and NOT had a great experience!

And for all of you TODCON veterans who like to keep track of such things, this is my forth year of creating a custom t-shirt design for the conference. My only regret is that I won't be able to go to the conference this year...

But the t-shirt looks great, doesn't it???

Currently still listening to various songs on my iPod...

-Chris

A very demented Gwen Stacy cartoon...

2007-05-22T08:49:00.000-07:00

Here's a little cartoon I did of Spider-man's first love, Gwen Stacy, done as part of the Third Rail Design Forum illustration jam for last week (I'm a bit behind):

Currently listening to various tunes on my iPod...

- Chris

Very displeased with Casio customer service

2007-05-21T08:09:00.000-07:00

If you know me, you'd know that I don't normally like to complain about crappy or questionable customer service but my situation with Casio watches has really gotten me steamed. Here's how the story goes...
About two years or so ago, I bought a Casio Pathfinder watch. Here's a close up picture of the watch:

Now, for the most part, this is a fine, reliable watch and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The only thing I never really liked about it though was the band. Little did I know the band would end up being the source of my frustration this week.

See the little red circles on the band? That's where the pins go - only they aren't like your typical watch band pins. This particular watch actually has four pin parts that attach to the watch. There are two normal pins that attach to the watch and the band but then there are two other pin parts that attach underneath the band and hold the pins, the band and the watch in place. One of these secure pins is what broke off on my watch. And, stupidly, I thought it would be easy to fix by going out and just buying a replacement band (with pins) at the local Target or Wal-mart stores.

WRONG!

As it turns out, if anything happens to your Pathfinder band (or its pins), you need to order a replacement band directly from Casio itself. But here's where my frustration lies... Casio won't tell you specifically that the leather band and the pins that attach to the watch are TWO SEPERATE ITEMS!!!

Last week, I spoke to several people at Casio as I was trying to order my replacement band. I specifically went into details that it was the replacement PINS that I needed and that the band itself was fine. I just needed some way to attach the band to the watch itself. REPEATEDLY, I was told I needed to order a new band. At $14 PLUS the cost of shipping ($17.00 and some odd change in all).

Well, the replacement band finally got to my house on Saturday but to my chagrin, it was ONLY the leather band. No pins. No extra parts to actually attach the band to the watch.

So, this morning, after numerous calls to various Casio departments, thats when I was told that the pins and the band itself were two individual items and someone last week should have explained that to me.

Okay... someone messed up and that makes me mad because I didn't need to spend $17 for a band I already had. But what really steams me is the logic of having the pins and the watchband as TWO SEPARATE ITEMS!!! How in the world does THAT make sense at all??? At $14 (plus $3 for shipping and handling), you would think the pins would come WITH the band. I mean, honestly, when you go to Target or Wal-mart and purchase a replacement watch band, the PINS COME WITH THE BAND!!! So how does it make any sense that when you order replacement parts directly from Casio itself, they decide the two things are completely separate???

I think that, more then anything else, frustrates me the most. And even though they wanted me to purchase the pins again, after this experience, I've decided to just go out and buy a new watch (probably a TIMEX this time) because, for all I know, they might end up sending me only one of the four pins I need and I might end up having to purchase EACH of the replacement pins separately.

So my advice to all of you... whether you are purchasing a Casio, a TIMEX or some other watch, make sure you ask about how easy it is to replace the bands should something happen to the pins. I know that's what I'll be doing later on this week when I'm looking at new watches to buy... as much as I hate to say that because I really DO like my Casio Pathfinder watch (but the band... the band has got to go!).

Sorry Casio. You made a great watch but a lousy band. And please... make sure you tell people that the replacement band and pins are TWO SEPERATE items next time someone calls about their Pathfinder watch. Even though this doesn't make any sense, it still might prevent a lot of customer frustration in the future.

Just something to think about from a very dishearted and jaded Casio customer.

-Currently, just steaming (not listening to anything)

Chris

2 new sketches: Bob as Elvis & Musicaldruid!

2007-05-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

Well, the high school baseball caoching duties for 2007 ended yesterday as the JEB Stuart Raiders were eliminated by the Yorktown Patriots last night. So now that I no longer have any more baseball coaching duties for the rest of this year, maybe I can start getting back to posting art regularly on this blog.

My thanks to all those who regularly visit here and keep hoping for new stuff. As such, I have two new sketches I have been working on. The first is the beginning of a t-shirt design I'm currently working on for TODCON 2007. TODCON will be in Las vegas this year so I have created a character named "Bob" who goes to Vegas for the conference and comes back totally immersed in Vegas culture.

Here is my sketch of "Bob":

The second sketch is one I have been promising an online friend of mine for a very long time now. Musicaldruid (that's my online friend's internet handle) originally e-mailed me a request to draw or create an avatar for her based on a favorite character of her's - a female elf.

This is what I came up with (finally):

And that's it for today.

Currently, I'm not listening to anyone at the moment. Just the mesmerizing sounds of the office A/C as it buzzes over my head...

-Chris

Illustration Friday

2007-04-27T15:46:00.000-07:00

This is my first post for Illustration Friday. Today's theme is "Remember". I had already done an illustration of the Virginia Tech Hokie for my CMX Suite web comic strip but for this, I decided to color the Hokie and add the "I will never forget" tattoo to the bird.

Currently listening to "Essential Heart" in iTunes.

-Chris

Does this make me famous???

2007-04-27T12:49:00.000-07:00

The Canadian government has started an environmental awareness campaign in which they are trying to get people to use less electricity by turning out their lights when they aren't in use. The campaign is called "FLICK OFF" (hence my quasi-claim to would-be fame).

The designers of the campain have decided that it would be funny if the camapign was desined in all caps. As I can attest from a certain experience I had in seventh grade, that's NEVER a good idea!

Back in seventh grade, I had a habit or writing my name in all caps as so: CHRIS FLICK. Well, one day in my math class, a teacher I didn't particularly get along with, actually accussed me of "writing vulgarities" on one of my test papers and proceeded to send me to detention. It was the last class of the day so I had no way of calling or informing my parents that I was going to be late getting home that day.

When I eventually got home that late afternoon and explained what had happened, they were steamed (to say the least). The next day, my dad came to the school wearing one of his old football jerseys that had his last name on the back of it. As he talked to the Principle about the situation, he turned his back and walked down the hallway and, at the end of it, asked the Principle what it looked like on the back of his jersey. Once the Principle saw that, he realized my only crime was in putting the capital "L" too close to the capital "I".

I still prefer to write my name out in all caps. Only, now when I do so, I use a lower case "i" instead of an uppercase - so my name looks more like so: CHRIS FLiCK.

If you still haven't figured things out yet, here is a picture of the press conference for the Canadian campaign and a news link that follows it:

And here is the news link:
The CityNews story.
Currently listening to Mika's debut album, "Life in cartoon Motion" in iTunes...

-Chris

My web design workshop

2007-03-10T13:43:00.000-08:00

Today I went out to Loudoun County for my web shop presentation and had a wonderful time showing Shanna all of my wonderful web design tips and tricks.

No one else came.

But we had a great time nonetheless.

-Chris