tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92174416769551141782024-02-20T00:48:27.728-06:00Just BeForget should. Forget doing. Just be.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-68013787621955744942010-02-15T07:39:00.001-06:002010-02-15T07:47:29.582-06:00Angry Like Kevin Smith...but not quite so famous? Read on...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/fitness_exercise_health/files/2010/02/kevinsmithtwitpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/fitness_exercise_health/files/2010/02/kevinsmithtwitpic.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Here's the run-down, really fast, because I don't know that everybody who reads this (all ten of you) will necessarily be up on this particular news bite. Kevin Smith, the director of Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy, was booted off a Southwest flight this weekend for being "too fat for the sky," as it was so aptly put by one of his twitter followers. The resulting shit-storm by Kevin, via twitter, was a thing to behold. He came down hard and fast on Southwest, causing the company to apologize by way of the poor sap who has to run the @southwest twitter feed, and via their blog, which I won't bother linking to; it hasn't worked for me once since I started trying to view it.<br />
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As I listened to Kevin's podcast, the <a href="http://www.smodcast.com/">Smodcast</a>, it was really nagging at me. What do you do if you get royally gnawed on by the corporate machine, but you don't happen to have <a class="link-followers_page" href="http://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith/followers" id="follower_count_link" rel="me" title="See who's following ThatKevinSmith"><span class="stats_count numeric" id="follower_count">1,651,646</span></a> followers on twitter?<br />
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I'm not exactly sure, but it really bugged me all night, and I thought I'd try something. What if you could use a twitter hashtag, that little # that makes people know you're talking about something that others might want to talk about as well, and people would take up your cause, and re-tweet that mother, so that the corporate douchebags might take a little notice of your tiny twitter account with all of 18 followers?<br />
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That's why I'm taking this absolutely longform attempt at creating such a hashtag.<br />
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If you've just been screwed over by the man, if some corporate douchebag just made you cry like a fat man thrown off a plane (I know, Kev, you didn't cry, but that girl sitting next to you wanted to, and I don't want to pick on her. I know you can take it), then maybe we can find a little help in Kev's army, and bring some light to places where there needs a laser-powered spot-light.<br />
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And maybe only ten of you will read this, and it'll die right here, but this was really eating at me all night, so I had to try. Tweet this mother of a blogpost, and let's get started. Let's do it for that girl sitting next to Kevin on that second Southwest flight. Let's do it for her, whatever her name is.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057108226227620854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-87996051022756547642010-02-12T23:38:00.000-06:002010-02-12T23:38:50.429-06:00So I stapled together that first one. Staples are NOT seams.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZGl3eL7aeSN6ZJVdJ8VL4BraPQpbPkAnqqgUTPanhrWZCq9_kLNPPS_amfYGRpRIMyvTo6RqEihUmqeTzBTwo_TCWY2oHPEDc5HGOIXl182dJ5Jvr-LtzaXmCfJoGtj3XxvZ6RR0NjMk/s1600-h/HankPlushPrototypes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZGl3eL7aeSN6ZJVdJ8VL4BraPQpbPkAnqqgUTPanhrWZCq9_kLNPPS_amfYGRpRIMyvTo6RqEihUmqeTzBTwo_TCWY2oHPEDc5HGOIXl182dJ5Jvr-LtzaXmCfJoGtj3XxvZ6RR0NjMk/s320/HankPlushPrototypes.jpg" /></a></div><br />
These are the first two attempts at turning Hank, into what I'm calling Pocket Plush. The final will be a limited edition red suede, with possible later editions done in something a little more felt-ish. (and cheaper)<br />
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I'm happy with the way he's turning out. The first one is really horrible, but it was really just a way for me to see what something like this might look like. I've got his string down pretty solidly, I think. It's raffia wrapped heavy gauge wire, and it stands him up very nicely. It also means that you'll be able to wrap him around your desk-lamp or the neck of your least favorite Munny. There are some tweaks I'll do to the final pattern, I think, but overall the image is there.<br />
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In other news, it's Valentine's day and you don't have a date. I'm not judging. I'm just saying maybe you should stop hanging around the water fountain, filling up your Hello Kitty water bottle, and pick up a <a href="http://www.milothecloud.bigcartel.com/">Milo Pocket Art</a> instead. All the good Valentines include one. Even the LATE Valentines. And man, are you late.<br />
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Me, I'm totally not late. I got mega reservations for tomorrow night. Dinner, dance, and a swank hotel. I love me some Valentine's day. Give your sweetie a squeeze, and if you ain't got a sweetie, then go squeeze a stranger. Just don't blame me if you get slapped after.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057108226227620854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-11431491305280794082010-01-26T10:05:00.000-06:002010-01-26T10:05:33.783-06:00The Ease of Starting Something...I was struck again last night at how easy it's become to Start Something. I use caps because it's one of the themes I've been wrapping my brain around lately. How do you Start Something that others will find value in, and how do you get those people who would find value in it to know that it's there?<br />
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My main source of experience in this at the moment is obviously Milo, and I'm having some luck there in getting eyes on the site, and getting folks to know what's going on in Milo's world. But this weekend I was asked for some help in getting an online presence for someone, and not in creative circles, but just in terms of a landing place on the web so that they might try some online advertising. You need a place for the clicks to go, if you're going to be paying for clicks, and you have to have at least some bare bones information out there if you want the possibility of anyone finding you and what you can do for them.<br />
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So, for 14 bucks, I put up a free-hosted Godaddy.com site for <a href="http://www.dansconstructionservices.com/">Dan's Construction Services</a>. It's not slick, and it's not flash-animated, but it's definitely not ugly. So, for 14 bucks for a year, I got up a real honest to goodness web presence that has the capability of growing into something that IS at least a little slick, even if it does have a Godaddy advert at the top, and for a little more, we might make it even slicker.<br />
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We can do some youtube videos for them, or a photogallery of the kinds of jobs they do. There's so much possibility. And that's really what I'm talking about here. I spent a little more money on <a href="http://www.milothecloud.com/">Milo</a>, but ultimately it isn't that much. I've recouped the cost in selling <a href="http://www.milothecloud.bigcartel.com/">Milo Pocket Art</a>, and it's now in the black. <br />
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I'm obviously not saying that all you need to do is throw up a website and all of a sudden you'll have 14,000 followers and people building cults around you. But, it's so easy to build something, and if you're excited about truly building it, the excitement shows. People will find it. And maybe it'll take advertising to get them to find it, but THAT's not that expensive anymore either. I'm going to look into it soon. Because I think I'm ready for that.<br />
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There are memories from childhood that make the hairs on your arms stand up and dance, in the best of ways. This song, and specifically a few scenes from this video, do that for me. The drum fill at 2:50 is the kind of instantaneous magic (combined with the overall fun of the cut) that can bring me out of even the deepest funk. I remember seeing this video and thinking that there could be no better fun than dancing on top of a soundboard with two buddies, and that dancing while trading hats must be genius level awesomeness that only the British could have come up with.<br />
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Looking at it now, I'm struck by the fun again, but I'm also struck by how much Andy Summers reminds me of Harpo Marx, something that I'm sure was intentional on his part. He makes a couple of faces that are pure Harpo, and even the dancing and camaraderie is very Marx Brothers. It's still as fun a clip as I remember it, but having sat outside Wrigley Field and listened to these three guys a couple years ago, it's also interesting to think about where they were when this video was made. <br />
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It's at this point that Sting is thinking about solo stuff, and the band is at each others' throats quite a bit of the time. Soon after this the band will split, and the world will wish for years and years that they hadn't. Having heard these songs on the radio as a small kid, when they were brand new, I loved the Police, but I grew up and became a musician in a world where the band no longer existed except in history and on vinyl/CD/magnetic tape. (my tape recordings were so worn out that I think I have a warped sense of what key these songs should be in).<br />
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It's also pretty cool to listen to this as I'm finally starting to enjoy practicing for the first time in my life. I've always had a really bad practice ethic. I just hate it. I've started to play guitar so many times, and after a few days just decided that life was too hectic, and I'd do it some other time. But for the absolute first time today I found myself studying ii/V/I chord progressions because I wanted to, not because some teacher told me it was what I needed to do. I've started really enjoying picking up the ukulele and practicing. I'm not saying I'm any good yet, but I can see a time when I could be good. I've always been a good singer. Never had to practice much at it, and so I got by. But this is something I DO have to practice at and I actually find that I love doing so. <br />
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So what does that have to do with The Police or with this video? Only that I learned "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaNt9-QkiHI">So Lonely</a>" today, and I can play it badly. But I am very certain that I will eventually be able to play it so well that I can do so while dancing on the soundboard, or trading hats with Andy Summers. And that'll be a fun day.<br />
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We all hate practice in general, but for some reason I'm thinking that I just really needed to find an instrument that made me smile despite being bad at it, and not minding so much that it was going to take a while to be better. It's just great fun to suck at this for a while, because every time I pick it up I really do get a little better. And I keep picking it up. That's the key.<br />
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Could just be because it's not very heavy though... Happy Saturday night, everybody.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057108226227620854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-18540051855815424332009-12-12T17:39:00.000-06:002009-12-12T17:39:08.742-06:00Slurmy/Lou update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXh9YDVaRLbnS8zACUmXS0QPLTJ0PUsCgTz1HDqfSLW47HqJCAMKIKj6It2yV4Mt3-ZrjARjbm1VbK_zHGxotVr2FohHgT5SvwEYhQ1TdGfA2iz-I2OkYpImYijDP4KsehumXeK_s1SlQ/s1600-h/SlurmyProgress01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXh9YDVaRLbnS8zACUmXS0QPLTJ0PUsCgTz1HDqfSLW47HqJCAMKIKj6It2yV4Mt3-ZrjARjbm1VbK_zHGxotVr2FohHgT5SvwEYhQ1TdGfA2iz-I2OkYpImYijDP4KsehumXeK_s1SlQ/s320/SlurmyProgress01.JPG" /></a><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just a quick post before I head out to a post thanksgiving turkey party (one of the best kinds of parties) and NOT head to a gig that was canceled yesterday (meh). Here's a bit of what I did today, aside from make stuffing. Did a bit of painting on the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zook360/3512851994/sizes/o/in/set-72157617685683269/%20">Slurmy project</a>. I'm happy with Slurmy. Just not all that happy with Lou at the moment. Turns out the details I cut into the piece were not exactly how I want it to be painted, so it's going to take some more work. Which is fine. No big. I dig the big goofy grin on this worm. Gonna paint some segments on him next. Likely tomorrow while my wife is studying.<br />
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This is going to be largely a post for me to sort out some possible venues for merchandise. I've gotten a couple leads from surfing the websites of other folks who are doing this stuff, and so I'm posting them here so I don't forget them. If it's of use to anyone else, that's great. I'm not endorsing these folks, because I haven't done business with them. Just collecting data right now.<br />
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<a href="http://www.poseurink.com/modbuttons/15inchbuttons.php">ModButtons.com </a> Just what it says. They do custom buttons and magnets. Thinking I might do 4 or 5 designs, and sell them in packs.<br />
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<a href="http://www.brunettotshirts.com/">Brunetto T-Shirts </a> Custom T-Shirts. The pricing looks good here. <a href="http://www.arianaosborne.com/?p=601">Ariana Osborne</a> used them to make the T-shirts for <a href="http://store.dieselsweeties.com/products/happysad-diagram-shirt">Diesel Sweeties</a>. I have to read Diesel Sweeties again. I haven't read that in a while.<br />
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Also, (and here, I <b><i>am</i></b> endorsing) if you haven't been reading Ariana, of late, she's been on about <a href="http://www.arianaosborne.com/?p=646">POD</a>, and has some really good thoughts on it. Even if she is a bit of a meany about it. But that's okay. A lot of us need a meany to kick us in our collective buttock and remind us what it means to <a href="http://magicalnihilism.com/2009/11/07/get-excited-and-make-things/">GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS</a> (Thanks, Matt Jones).Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057108226227620854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-71233595211601197232009-12-08T11:24:00.000-06:002009-12-08T11:24:31.212-06:00New Shipping Design<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitpic.com/soctf" title="Share photos on twitter with Twitpic"><img alt="Share photos on twitter with Twitpic" height="150" src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/soctf.jpg" width="150" /></a><br />
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</div>Last night I did a little work on the shipping design for the Milo Pocket Art. I think it's pretty nifty, and wanted to share it with you guys. The bottom of the box, I'll let be a mystery until you get one in the mail. It's nothing much. Just a fun bit of copy that I'll likely change up every now and again. I sent out a box last week, and at the last minute I drew Milo on there all excited that he was going in the mail, and then I thought it might be cool to have that be a ready made label that I could just pop an address into when I got a sale.<br />
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So. There it is. Learning and changing as we go. Think next time I'll make copies and print out labels as I go, because the inkjet ink runs with moisture, and thus I had to tape this one up with strapping tape so it doesn't bleed. Kind of makes it less cool, but I can't redo this one today. Have to get him in the mail.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057108226227620854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-74595619384614648242009-12-01T09:42:00.002-06:002009-12-01T09:44:09.242-06:00Back On the Air<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm back. This blog is reactivated. I decided that I like having the comic separate from the blog, even if I decide to pull in an RSS feed to the comic page. Just feels better having two separate entities. Because not all of this is going to be Milo related. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, this is a tiny sculpt I did this weekend, of everyone's favorite migratory secret agent. I'm doing it for a collaboration with the creator of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zook360/3512851994/sizes/o/in/set-72157617685683269/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/zook360/3512851994/sizes/o/in/set-72157617685683269/</a> Slurmy, the artist known as Zook. (Sorry it took me so long to get on the stick, man.) The scale is pretty tiny to do all that detailed a sculpt of Lou(with my not-so-mad skillz), but it's going to be a cool first crack at it. It's got my mouth watering for a bigger version that I have planned. Picture Lou bristling with guns.<br />
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</div>Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17057108226227620854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-25263630119825035972009-03-30T16:35:00.000-05:002009-03-30T16:44:17.912-05:00floating on the breeze...So, this'll be the last post here. I'm gonna leave it up for a while, because some people may not know about it, and I want to catch the stragglers up to speed. I've moved everything over to <a href="http://www.milothecloud.com/">MiloTheCloud.com</a> and the blog exists there too. The reasoning was that I really hated all the clicking one has to do on blogger. Click to see the full size, scroll through and THEN click to find comics from the past. I've moved to <a href="http://wordpress.org/">Wordpress</a> and specifically <a href="http://comicpress.com/">Comicpress</a> which gives a fully customizable setup that's made for webcomics. So you'll be able to scroll easily through all the archives, and look through the blog posts separately if you want to read them.<br /><br />So, there it is. Goodbye blogger, and hello <a href="http://www.milothecloud.com">MiloTheCloud.com</a>. Follow me there, and add your name to my email list, so you'll get newsletters on merch and other happenings.<br /><br /><form action="http://madmimi.com/signups/subscribe/1578" method="post"><br /><div><label>Email</label><br /><input id="signup_email" name="signup[email]" type="text"><br /><input name="commit" value="Sign Up" type="submit"></div><br /></form>Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-58873040292800405772009-03-26T23:31:00.001-05:002009-03-26T23:35:05.495-05:00Milo Comic Strip #17<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPE6qDg0vNY4j7FLnONaMscv_d2KsN94bxwKBr1z8ANq-T9w9_sUAVOkNQlMJcMyVFMVmIUWNnBsQTQNK7oSM1DLLCdxtSy1DZWSOtwp_9Wvh41rFpWehbiMt8VyfvR5zXJPy18bvK28/s1600-h/lidded.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPE6qDg0vNY4j7FLnONaMscv_d2KsN94bxwKBr1z8ANq-T9w9_sUAVOkNQlMJcMyVFMVmIUWNnBsQTQNK7oSM1DLLCdxtSy1DZWSOtwp_9Wvh41rFpWehbiMt8VyfvR5zXJPy18bvK28/s400/lidded.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317720726751218402" border="0" /></a>Click for big-osity.<br /><br />The colors are not as good on this as I'd like. Photoshop always drains the color out when you convert to jpg. Anybody who knows the magic of how to keep that from happening, I'm all ears.<br /><br />Hank finally gets the drop on the little guy. I'm sure this will end in tears, or possibly shreds of rubber all over the ground. But not for a while yet. Probably it'll get worse before it gets better. Maybe for years.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-30879398976218467682009-03-24T16:47:00.000-05:002009-03-24T16:56:01.669-05:00Nailing down a cloud (or at least asking him to sit still for a second)<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Csarcher%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >The thing that made me want to write this down was that I was thinking of who my audiences are, and the thought of the kinds of people that might dig what I’m doing made me realize that there’s something very cool about the age that we live in.<span style=""> </span>Because of Twitter and blogs and message boards about random interests that are shared by niche groups of people around the world, it’s a very interesting time to be a small-time creator starting out.<span style=""> </span>The fact that every time I post one of the <st1:place st="on">Milo</st1:place> strips on <a href="http://www.sulliedreputation.deviantart.com/">http://www.sulliedreputation.deviantart.com</a> someone favs it, or adds me to their watch list, means that the strips are enhancing someone’s life, even if only in a small way.<span style=""> </span>And because of that, people will start to find it, and because of that, they’ll start to find the other things I’m doing, and planning to do on MiloTheCloud.com.</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style=";font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:10;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >I’m very excited, and I’m glad if you’re lurking out there.<span style=""> </span>Hit me up on twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/SeanArcher">http://twitter.com/SeanArcher</a>, <span style=""> </span>or drop <st1:place st="on">Milo</st1:place> a message on the digsby widget and let me know if there’s something that you’d love to see that you haven’t seen yet.<span style=""> </span>I’m not promising it’ll sync with what I’m planning, but I promise to listen.<span style=""> </span>At least until the haters show up and start griping about how there isn’t enough helium in Hank’s body to lift a teddy bear.<span style=""> </span>I’ll have you know it’s super-helium, and the bear is made of a space-age polymer that weighs next to nothing.<span style=""> </span>Your child won’t even know he’s holding a bear!!</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style=";font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:10;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >Anyway, if you’ve read that whole thing, then cheers to you, and I hope that you enjoy the ride.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:10;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sean</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-76600742230301819372009-03-23T23:28:00.001-05:002009-03-23T23:33:32.810-05:00Milo Comic Strip #16<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5h4Nkgo6nxF3G74LT8xY4itFmSkm6XoVeBk8enBb_IEarHd2SI4naNFrKPav5bNjGToNDjLSvmoYOILU0UbVYdRLYuZsjyMIyLx0scSGUJ03kVVXZzz22VuIV-JwoUu4MbQa375bdmw/s1600-h/Slackjawed.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5h4Nkgo6nxF3G74LT8xY4itFmSkm6XoVeBk8enBb_IEarHd2SI4naNFrKPav5bNjGToNDjLSvmoYOILU0UbVYdRLYuZsjyMIyLx0scSGUJ03kVVXZzz22VuIV-JwoUu4MbQa375bdmw/s400/Slackjawed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316606603772264834" border="0" /></a><br />click for bigness.<br /><br />This look on Milo's face is something that cracks me and my lady up when we do it to each other. Best used when feigning indignant astonishment and pain. Milo's pain is real though. As is Hank's utter disregard and slight amusement at Milo's distress.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-43132265317391850892009-03-20T02:10:00.001-05:002009-03-20T02:17:03.786-05:00Milo Comic Strip #15<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB6gCBiw7Q_VrTm4aFAbpooEL3-lcRn5D_KDFz0KkyqWuQY-iiqu6Dh2BIe5aR8_ZXz6Bg0S10e0pTURCjUrr8vOGFlj-zbNqjwmAHGNU88C9zLjp6EPa2GngSGrI-jKaiiI7x_UZnTro/s1600-h/willkill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB6gCBiw7Q_VrTm4aFAbpooEL3-lcRn5D_KDFz0KkyqWuQY-iiqu6Dh2BIe5aR8_ZXz6Bg0S10e0pTURCjUrr8vOGFlj-zbNqjwmAHGNU88C9zLjp6EPa2GngSGrI-jKaiiI7x_UZnTro/s400/willkill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315164095065560354" border="0" /></a><br />Click to embiggen, (I think, although, it might actually be as big as it'll get right here. I don't know, it's 2 a.m. and I'm only posting this because I set myself these stupid deadlines and I'm trying desperately to keep them and also plan a wedding).<br /><br />I don't really want this to become a political cartoon, but sometimes you just gotta say something, and Lou is a good voiceless voice. I figure he'll sell his services to the highest bidder, even though he'd probably do it all for free just to prove he can.<br /><br />Have a nice Friday. I plan to go for a walk.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-80386221309724690502009-03-16T08:29:00.000-05:002009-03-16T08:31:31.342-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkkd2a2k-z1YgVq95XNzrWXgmq_otrECAXQon80OacKm3MVysjo9zn2MMw2xWT8aXiv3u2RE8D-Rsdq3MO5-Wix0tXwXLNt-FIl8c_FvYdGr98muBA_ao-s9NxzK7nIJeL5bquSjDBk8/s1600-h/untiedstrip.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkkd2a2k-z1YgVq95XNzrWXgmq_otrECAXQon80OacKm3MVysjo9zn2MMw2xWT8aXiv3u2RE8D-Rsdq3MO5-Wix0tXwXLNt-FIl8c_FvYdGr98muBA_ao-s9NxzK7nIJeL5bquSjDBk8/s400/untiedstrip.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313777350748984498" border="0" /></a>Click to embiggen.<br /><br />The end of the storyline. With a healthy dose of truth about balloons. Ingrates, all of them.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-2629191463152275592009-03-12T11:41:00.000-05:002009-03-12T11:45:52.341-05:00No comic today.Unfortunately the scans I did today (which I was going to work on at lunch and on my break) are corrupted. I tried something different and tried to scan straight to a .psd and it didn't work. I went to open them just now and it told me that Photoshop couldn't open them because they weren't valid photoshop documents.<br /><br />Which is kinda lame.<br />Sorry, folks.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-13871386636824429672009-03-10T13:54:00.000-05:002009-03-10T13:55:54.946-05:00Not comics...This is something I happened across, and wanted to share with those who come here. It's about 9 minutes long, and it's worth watching. Very cool, and touching.<br /><br /><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3365942&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3365942&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/3365942">World Builder</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1349603">Bruce Branit</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-54641096030746605062009-03-09T23:26:00.001-05:002009-03-09T23:29:34.648-05:00Milo Comic Strip #13<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhMXC-UIv2G13wLO7XfZZe9PWolj9JmbqzcAjgYNZ4_tX9H9_pfx9nleZiLY_nP_AdvCU160GtGq5nVeiTX7-H7FDJkCr9xxaNZBP6XSKK2i0up01q4bMqrOR0gvHe8EgLRFah3k2M5Vo/s1600-h/opposablethumbs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhMXC-UIv2G13wLO7XfZZe9PWolj9JmbqzcAjgYNZ4_tX9H9_pfx9nleZiLY_nP_AdvCU160GtGq5nVeiTX7-H7FDJkCr9xxaNZBP6XSKK2i0up01q4bMqrOR0gvHe8EgLRFah3k2M5Vo/s400/opposablethumbs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311411020592504658" border="0" /></a><br />Click to embiggen.<br /><br />For some reason this one took me for-freakin'-ever. Hope you enjoy. I like the middle Hank, myself. Self-righteous little balloon. Sleep now.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-10578779932121163202009-03-05T19:21:00.001-06:002009-03-05T19:38:39.931-06:00Milo Comic Strip #12<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDtJfAevudJkLYK3M7rhk4KfI3WreOLE8JlA3esmxY2hWjCDOSNqcgCnfBQz9hW0xFhORHbuR4w_HMHnuxgaZwCuQLFpf7WXTrtOahNMiBuHsUGq4obfzwyvQsaEUJpsmm4Al5fqRsBU/s1600-h/evameeting.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDtJfAevudJkLYK3M7rhk4KfI3WreOLE8JlA3esmxY2hWjCDOSNqcgCnfBQz9hW0xFhORHbuR4w_HMHnuxgaZwCuQLFpf7WXTrtOahNMiBuHsUGq4obfzwyvQsaEUJpsmm4Al5fqRsBU/s400/evameeting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309883120565273250" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Click the comic for full size.<br /><br />Here's Eva. She looks a bit overwhelmed to be meeting the boys. As well she should be.<br />Not gonna say much on this one. I could have worked for hours more on it, and not felt like it was done. But I want these to come out in as timely a manner as I can, so I let go of it.<br /><br />Enjoy.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-47007407912858263572009-03-02T22:56:00.001-06:002009-03-02T23:01:21.569-06:00Milo Comic Strip #11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggHJ1WLc_YN5_rquZuRfKdCHxclEmoaPDVii2RO2q6kAaJvAJXMQUoJ2mElpG3zq8J_gG9_DITTd9bVVl7ifEB3snVeuv7y8O60BToPoSEUtuiK3cOmX4z8yn67JPwaM4Lk-APGF0U_VA/s1600-h/UmmmNo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 149px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggHJ1WLc_YN5_rquZuRfKdCHxclEmoaPDVii2RO2q6kAaJvAJXMQUoJ2mElpG3zq8J_gG9_DITTd9bVVl7ifEB3snVeuv7y8O60BToPoSEUtuiK3cOmX4z8yn67JPwaM4Lk-APGF0U_VA/s400/UmmmNo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308821168815160690" border="0" /></a>Click the comic for full size.<br /><br />Better late than never, huh? I'm doing my best to keep to my Monday and Thursday upload. This is technically still Monday, though it's stretching it well into Monday night. (11 pm central standard time). I'm very happy with the sketches I've been doing on Eva, who I think I'll be able to introduce to you folks on the next strip, which'll be a full pager. Want to introduce her in a cool way. Till then, Lou deadlifting a blender.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-53529895992513153942009-02-26T11:57:00.001-06:002009-03-05T10:28:37.479-06:00Milo comic number ten<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYSzF5lkLHVZ5dx0yZ_2ZKqwEMiR_t84iO1Dfi-_yn1QyhH9jZHu3ffADbupgwLRqC_YJ6oiyCt5Vjq1k1A81iLsE8f0TGFly5Y_BdjQ8PqDlLLkokLkffrdtDyfFs8f545zR-TbQlBA/s1600-h/hiding.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYSzF5lkLHVZ5dx0yZ_2ZKqwEMiR_t84iO1Dfi-_yn1QyhH9jZHu3ffADbupgwLRqC_YJ6oiyCt5Vjq1k1A81iLsE8f0TGFly5Y_BdjQ8PqDlLLkokLkffrdtDyfFs8f545zR-TbQlBA/s400/hiding.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307167567236832274" border="0" /></a>Click the comic for full size.<br /><p></p><p>I'm having a blast drawing Lou. I also like nervous hide-y Hank and his teddy. But frankly I'm as ready to get rid of the teddy as Hank is. Still have a few more strips to go with this though.</p><p>EDIT: (I just realized that the teddy-bear has the string on the wrong hand in this one. Damn you, editorial department!! You're supposed to catch these things BEFORE I post them!)<br /></p>Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-47502033144381986112009-02-23T16:39:00.000-06:002009-02-26T11:46:49.738-06:00Chatting with Milo (or Hank)So I'm testing out a new thing. I've installed a Digsby widget in the page, and now you can chat with Milo. Or if I'm feeling like letting Hank have his say, I may give Hank the chat access for a while. Obviously the Hank chats will be more colorful, but I thought it'd be cool to have a bit of fun with the characters and let people chat with them if they'd like.<br /><br />If it gets out of hand, or people start abusing Milo, he'll go away, so be nice. Otherwise I'll have it be Lou the Cardinal chat, and he'll just sit there logging your IP addresses and compiling a list of people upon whom to visit his chainsaw fury.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-50836457025535495862009-02-23T11:52:00.000-06:002009-02-23T12:03:46.189-06:00Milo's coming...I'll hopefully have something for you guys today, but it's not going to be a full strip. This weekend was all music and driving, so there was no time for comic-creation. I drove to St. Joseph, Missouri to sing in the wedding of a friend. The wedding was beautiful, and the reception a blast. I was happy to do it, and my part seemed to go over well. I sang "A Simple Song" by Leonard Bernstein, and it was such a nice space for singing. Only thing is, St. Joseph is 8 hours drive from Chicago, so I'm beat. I drove the 8 hours after working an almost full day on Friday. Left around 7:30 and got in around 3:30. Then I was too wired to sleep, because I'd been drinking caffeine to stay awake.<br /><br />Needless to say, I wasn't feeling very fluffy or cloudlike. Milo had to go on the back burner this weekend. But that's cool, because I've got the next part of the multi-part story simmering. I think you'll dig it...if you've been digging it so far. And if you haven't, well, then maybe you'll start, because it's going to take a bit of a turn in a couple strips or so. Much as Lou makes me smile, he's not the whole story here.<br /><br />The fun thing about doing this is that I've really started to think that I've got something that's continue-able. I've just met these characters as you have, and they're starting to really talk to me all day long. I'll see something or someone and I'll hear Milo or Hank commenting on the situation, which-while a bit unnerving-is really cool.<br /><br />Anywho, might post something later tonight, if I can get my wake up enough to get my pen hand running on my lunch break. Hope everybody's Monday is as sunny and blue as mine looks.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-40443925010892542142009-02-19T13:58:00.000-06:002009-02-19T14:03:51.231-06:00Milo Comic Strip #9<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnd64gevyuY8ElfGeY8l0yMDJBAlEHzj5BfdIXRyNDjTH4x31NnaA6vWCXFAS1kd3UAhZjfwSoAh3ZDvyZh91AyLGEl9HH4ztSSEgLebJxhQW8B_x-w7CzTDlj2lq7H0GC_lAxYCcuZac/s1600-h/Aaaaaaaa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnd64gevyuY8ElfGeY8l0yMDJBAlEHzj5BfdIXRyNDjTH4x31NnaA6vWCXFAS1kd3UAhZjfwSoAh3ZDvyZh91AyLGEl9HH4ztSSEgLebJxhQW8B_x-w7CzTDlj2lq7H0GC_lAxYCcuZac/s400/Aaaaaaaa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304600826385908834" border="0" /></a><br />Click the comic for full size...puh-leeez.<br /><br />No real story here. Just loved the idea of a tiny cardinal chasing someone with scissors. And it happens to be Hank, because he's Hank. Hope everybody has a great weekend.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-70759189549586694752009-02-15T22:30:00.000-06:002009-02-15T22:40:05.743-06:00Milo Comic Strip #8<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiigEAy-5S55k-cnKN2E4a7OgX4PghF1JzYagr1Wt5qvJ3DVvz17KrrTY1jyMCvxN3uXZS3KYq-w1Y-5KMNjbr6x1nr_tdRkc_SkCdsL_7bPTCy7-ZLNDUunKhMH-EH7Mjrzaoy_qs-lWw/s1600-h/Chainsaw.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiigEAy-5S55k-cnKN2E4a7OgX4PghF1JzYagr1Wt5qvJ3DVvz17KrrTY1jyMCvxN3uXZS3KYq-w1Y-5KMNjbr6x1nr_tdRkc_SkCdsL_7bPTCy7-ZLNDUunKhMH-EH7Mjrzaoy_qs-lWw/s400/Chainsaw.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303248358879692178" border="0" /></a><br />Click the comic for full size.<br /><br />Introducing Lou, the cardinal. The new character was initially going to be a grackle, because we saw these gawky hyperactive grackles in Mexico, and I loved them. Only problem is that I couldn't capture the personality in something that has to be drawn that small. My attempts ended up looking either too cartoon-y or too UN-cartoon-y, and I just wasn't happy with them. So I completely changed tack and went for completely the opposite personality. The grackle was going to talk a mile a minute and always be in motion. Lou, the cardinal, is going to be stoic and silent. <br /><br />I figure you guys are going to get enough yakking out of Hank. Enjoy the matter-of-fact calm of Lou.<br /><br />Hope everybody had a great Valentine's day.Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217441676955114178.post-69381918232782963012009-02-13T10:47:00.000-06:002009-02-13T11:13:57.550-06:00Valentine - freebie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3PE3bhDtD5x-P4CpdicmepjjXE-CSuCe1PW60DZRy9SlcN1uAoqAH_tD9aL6gsfhyphenhyphenyionxrxYMmntaUH9gJQnm5E3dfKDjMj9mGp75H6jhnttnXPv_uQREnoV9d1fshS2Mr8949WWwqc/s1600-h/Valentine09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3PE3bhDtD5x-P4CpdicmepjjXE-CSuCe1PW60DZRy9SlcN1uAoqAH_tD9aL6gsfhyphenhyphenyionxrxYMmntaUH9gJQnm5E3dfKDjMj9mGp75H6jhnttnXPv_uQREnoV9d1fshS2Mr8949WWwqc/s320/Valentine09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302331373474040434" border="0" /></a><br />Click for the full size version.<br /><br />This is just a quickie because I felt like there should be a Valentine from this crew. You know, for all the folks who end up going to the grocery store and picking up a sad batch of dyed carnations and a box of sad heart-shaped chocolates. Here's something you can print out and hand to your special someone to let them know that you cared enough to copy someone else's valentine and print it out for them. Or send it to them in an email, if you're REALLY gunning for that pole position in the Lame-o 500.<br /><br />Or, you could do us all a favor and actually take twenty minutes on your lunch hour to write that person a love letter to let them know how much you care about them. Doesn't have to be on heart-shaped paper, or even have a doily fringe. Just tell them they mean the most to you.<br /><br />And if you're smart, you'll copy a picture of Hank, and give it to them telling them that he's the official balloon of love this season, and that they should go check out his adventures with Milo at <a href="http://www.milothecloud.com/">Milothecloud.com</a> because that's what all the really soulful lovers are doing, and they want to be soulful lovers, don't they? No? Well, that's a shame.<br /><br />Oh, sorry. I got attacked by one of those time-share a-holes while we were in Mexico, and I think it rubbed off on me a little.<br /><br />Happy Valentines weekend. (that's right, spend the whole weekend, not just the day).Sean Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01892051375648043042noreply@blogger.com0