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The Big Blue C

I was fine when he said it was cancer. I was still fine when we discussed different types of cancer and the prognosis for each. I was even fine when we discussed the relative merits of compassionate euthanasia. What got me was this line in the printed client instructions: Indulge him in whatever he wants. […]

Posted on 2010/08/24 by dominic in personal | Tagged eddie, pooch | 1 Comment

Outside Lands

A really quick post between bouts of caring for Eddie with short reviews of bands I saw at Outside Lands last weekend. Gogol Bordello Everything I’d hoped that a Gypsy Punk band would be. Thick accents, an accordion, charisma, and tonnes of energy. My Morning Jacket I just kept wishing it was Radiohead up there […]

Posted on 2010/08/19 by dominic in personal | Tagged live music, music, outside lands | 1 Comment

What a guy! Makes you cry. Und I did.

Eddie is ill. This should not be a surprise; he is, after all, fifteen years old which is a fair stretch for a dog. What is a surprise is the suddenness with which his illness has affected him. We always knew about the swollen liver, the heart murmour, the chronic ear infection, and the hardening […]

Posted on 2010/08/12 by dominic in personal | Tagged eddie, oliver, pooch | Leave a comment

Droid Love part 2

Part 1 is here. It took a little more than an hour to end up with this. It was so much fun to get all the details right on R2, but I’m not sure I like it as much now that it’s complete. I think when I ink it, I will simplify him a bit […]

Posted on 2010/08/09 by dominic in personal | Tagged drawing, star wars | Leave a comment

Droid Love part 1

Katie Cook, the expert in all things in the intersection of the sets Star Wars and Adorable, asked via Twitter for ideas for one of her mini paintings. Side note, I picked up one of her mini paintings of Yoda at SDCC and loooove it; if you get the chance to get one, do so. […]

Posted on 2010/08/04 by dominic in personal | Tagged drawing, r2d2, star wars | 1 Comment

SDCC part 2

I’ve been planning a relatively long post detailing my weekend at San Diego Comic-Con but there’s just far too much to write about. Instead I’ll just give an overview of all the bits that were in between my favourite bits.

Posted on 2010/08/02 by dominic in personal | Tagged sdcc | Leave a comment

My favourite moments of SDCC

Disclaimer: These are my personal favourite moments. There were almost certainly more interesting and exciting things going on at SDCC, and I certainly saw more and did more than is in this post, but I wanted to boil it down to the moments that meant the most to me. Milo Manara Mirto introduced me to […]

Posted on 2010/07/29 by dominic in personal | Tagged sdcc | Leave a comment

SDCC part 1

I arrived in San Diego! The last couple of days at work have been agony as my twitter feed kept reminding me about all the awesome things I was missing. Finally today I got out of work and jumped on a plane. Two hours of listening to the two chaps next to me (an IT […]

Posted on 2010/07/24 by dominic in personal | Tagged sdcc | Leave a comment

Please excuse this funk up

For a while now, I’ve been running on autopilot: Get up, see Mirto off to work, walk and feed the dogs, go to work, come home, sit with Mirto while she animates, go to bed. Rinse and repeat. Today, I’m taking back some control. “But how?” I hear you both cry. Well, since you asked […]

Posted on 2010/07/15 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

Old Jersey

Link: Old Jersey This is where I was born and grew up. It’s also why there’s a New Jersey. Thank you to @mental_floss for ensuring I have somewhere to point to when asked to explain.

Posted on 2010/07/13 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

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