We we're all set to kick off the opening night of Alter Ego tomorrow, Friday July 3rd....but we've run into a bureaucracy snafu.

The host venue for Alter Ego (Little Miss Whiskeys Golden Dollar) is brand spanking new. So new in fact....we were given the honor opening the venue for the first time with our event.

The building has passed all it's inspections and has been approved for their liquor license. The DC Gov't office in charge of getting the official paper license into the hands of the owner is moving a little slow due to the upcoming holiday weekend. In other words, it will be available Monday morning, but not today.

What does this mean for us? No booze.

So here's the plan...
We are going to open the doors tomorrow night for an open house. A sneak preview if you will. There will be some snacks and some non-alcoholic beverages available to visitors. And DJ shade will be playing some great music as originally planned.

If you're interested, please swing by and say hello. You're welcome to pop in and check the place out......we are so proud of it.....let us give you the tour!

And then next week, although we are scheduled to have Alter Ego on the first Friday of each month, we will do our official opening night, with booze, next Friday July 10th.

Unfortunately, the no liquor thing is out of our control for the next 5 days and we sincerely appreciate your patience with us.

Tags: alter ego

Face to Face June, 2009

Tags: fergus, photos, simon
Current Music: Ministry - Scarecrow (Live L.A. 1992)

I posted some barely started inks to this piece a while back. Anyway, these are the finished(?) inks and half an hour of colors.

I had a ton of problems with the original inks, and I have even more problems now. Murray Tinkelman once said to me "if your fly is down, you can set your hair on fire to distract from it, but it's far easier just to zip up your pants." I spent my whole morning setting my hair on fire with this piece. It's time to zip up my pants and move onto something new.

- commission custom art? -

PS. Hard to tell but her helmet is WAY Gamilon inspired.

PPS speaking of star Blazers/SB Yamato: YOWZA

Tags: digital, mecha, pen & ink, sketch of the day

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF VERY STUPID MONSTERS. Though I do enjoy the idea of the room that kills (Lurker Above, Trapper AND Stunjelly) The guy has some good points, and I think ol' man Gygax would have gotten a kick out of the article.

Also:
Cartoon Network gives in. Admits they have as much to do with cartoons as SyFy does with Sci-Fi

<-- Just made this new icon.
Blinking eyeball on a toothpick!
Shouts to Slash, for providing the original art.

I'm going to play video games, drink beer and eat pizza this evening.

Alter Ego's dry - as in no alchohol - run is tomorrow night
Alter Ego's wet - as in boozed to the eyeballs - run is next Friday.

Bummed as I am about the paperwork hassles, I'm still psyched we were invited to be the inaugural event for Little Miss Whiskeys.

Tags: alter ego