So this is it, the new beginning in what I hope to be a lasting commitment. (God, it never works out that way). I want to begin by adding a series of articles, and eventually, I hope to create a series of satirical comics and essays based on the lives of my friends and me. I just need to get a proper scanner, and a new Wacom pen mouse to do colors and shading. I should also mention that this page is based off of a few others. The primary theft is from Penny Arcade, an ingenious web comic based on two gamers. While reading this work of art for so long, it feels like the comic is based on my life. There are so many similarities between me, my friends, and those two characters it is not even funny. But recently there have been some minor changes in my life that have made my situation IDEAL for a web comic. Just listen to this, I am a hardcore gamer, and so are all of my friends, we all just graduated high school, but 2 of us are going back for upgrades. My best friend works at a hospital, and I work at the local video store. My Life is a Penny Arcade cartoon. Our humor is fast, dry and ingenious. By writing this comic, I hope to make our plethora of inside jokes main stream (just like wang hangers in PA). I know that my comic will never turn out like PA, but I think of it as my homage to it. Everyone I know that reads PA, is because of me. I have been a dedicated fan for a long time (quite some time before it was being published in OPM). I could never think of any ways to prove my loyalty (except perhaps donations to club PA, and purchasing merchandise), but their page is so fantastic that it has “inspired” me to create a comic of my own. Another thing that I realize in taking on this project is that my comic can, and will NEVER be as good as Penny Arcade. On that note though, I should be getting to work on the comics. However, to tide (both of) you over, I have written a few articles, or even essays if you will. I have given them their own section. I hope you enjoy this and I look forward to hearing from you all in the future.
10/31/02- I realized some things today. One is that my insomnia is doing considerable damage to my body. The second is that I really fear another surgery. I thought I had come to terms with that whole span of my life, but I was writing this meager little auto biography assignment in class today (god I sound bitter today), and I had to relive that moment in my life. God, it was terrable, it has been over a year since that day and I am still suffering the aftermath of it. God, it enough of a toll that I had to come here and write about the damn thing. You know, I would have thought that everything was going to be back to normal, I REALLY did. Fuck I really need to vent this, I keep on getting pissed off at the hospital again, and everythime I feel like taking them to court. My life has never been the same and never wil be after that. After the myriad of injections, and iv's, the only thing I have left in my life is my friends. I really feel alone lately though. I have been using work and school, to consume my time, simply block the thoughts of the impending surgical hell that is bound in january. So much ambivelance in my life right now. Thank God for my friends, without them I would be nothing. Well, I think thats my vent for the day....(god I need a girl friend....)
11/04/02-Okay, a few small updates today; first is that I have finished drawing my first two comics, the only thing is that I HAVE NO SCANNER!!! I am almost to the point of taking pictures with the digital camera and working with them. But doing that would only raise a whole new set of issues, one being that I don't have a pen mouse, and two that I don't really know how to do that much on adobe. OOH! Good news though! I finally got 25 wins with the night elves on battle.net! (THat meant a harsh weekend of warcraft). I also got to try Star Wars: The Clone Wars for Game Cube this weekend. It's pretty fun, definetly not what I expected though. I thought it would be more like Grand Theft Auto with lightsabers. Not so, you get into a mission, you have only one vehicle, no getting out, no switching, nothing. I would say it's about *** ½ (out of five). I also got to play the illustrious grand theft auto: vice city. (I SO bought it) Awesome game. You know what it reminded me of? Grand theft auto 3, but with more crap. Normally that would piss me off, but GTA3 was so friggin great that it does'nt matter. *****. Maybe I just throw in some other quick reviews for the hell of it (theres been so many lately). Sly Cooper and the thevius racoonus ****½ / Lord of the rings: the two towers **** / Armored Core 3 ****½ (would be five, but I found out they are releasing an expansion.) / Kingdom Hearts *****/ Contra: shattered soldier **½ / X-Men: mutant academy *** / Robotech: Battlecry ***½ / Time Splitters 2 ***** / Super Man: Shadow of Apokolips ***½ /Um, that's all I can think of for now. I may or may not write reviews for these bad boys later on. (theres a few that I missed in there too. whatever.
05/14/03 – Dear Mitch, it appears that our two month sentence of you no being here is drawing forward painfully slow. Your presence is missed greatly; I have not really known what to do with myself. I can’t quite remember how updated you were on everything, so I’ll break it down for you (Just to let you know, NONE of this is really interesting, I’m just in SDS and I’m extremely bored). -Chris and Randall have started a regular pool night on Tuesday (as of yet, I have attended none… -On Sunday, Colin and I worked and he invited Chris (Wong) to come get high with us. He had this stuff called “buddha bliss bomb” (or something along those lines), he said it was the best crap money could buy. It was. We smoked a tiny joint between 4 of us and we all walked away totally messed up. After work (So like….minutes later) we (Me, Randall, Chris) decided to go to Chalk & Rack for drinks. I got drunk…. we all got drunk. It was bad, I got home at like 2:30 and I had to be up at 6. I ended up getting to sleep at 5:30 in the morning; that’s how messed up I was. Chris got it the worst though. He can honestly say a gay guy has hit on him. That was weird… -X Men 2 was SO sweet, god. -Matrix fever has officialy ensued -I got into SAIT for professional cooking. 05/16/03 – Hey Mitch, it’s Friday here and everything is going great! The sun is finally shining, the birds are siniging, and the bees are trying to have sex with them. Not much to update you with, but I thought I’d tell you of my interesting day yesterday; I got up to go to school, I got here, did everything i had to do in my stupid day, then my mom came and picked up me and chris. We went down by chinook to get my grad photos (my mom decided she wanted them this year), we got there at 12:05 and didn’t have to be there until 12:45. So we went off to chinook, and pre-bought Matrix tickets. We then headed stright back to Jostens and got my stupid pics taken. Then it was stright back to the theater. (We walked in just during the previews). Every part of my day was like…”righton time”. We sat down and thorougly enjoyed the movie. (Like, my god we enjoyd that movie. I can’t wait to see it again when you get back…). After that it was stright to sunridge to pick up my Enter The Matrix game for PS2. Then we rushed home, I got changed for work, then we rushed me to work. TIGHT SCHEDULE!!! I did work untill about 8, then colin got in with a Quarter (lot of pot) for me and a customer of mine named Jerry. He’s a REALLY cool customer, he went halfers on a half ounce with me, (so we each got a quarter). Then Colin rolled one up in the back while I helped customers. After I got rid of the customers, I put up the “back in five minutes” sign. We stepped into the back and started smoking (me, colin, and jerry). That was extremely weird. Cool though. I never thought I would be smoking in the back with a customer. That was awesome. I looked out the employees only door to see if anymone was coming in, when a truck pulled up. I was like, uh-oh. But I looked a little harder and discovered that it was two of our favorite customers (who we also ironically sell to), Rob and his wife Wynn. (She’s hot). He’s like “nice, I expected you guys to be doing this, that’s why we showed up right at 8 when Colin starts. Now let’s get back there!” We all piled into the back just a Jerry passed me the joint. I passed it to wynn when I said, “oh man Colin, we should roll another one.” Rob immedietly spoke up; “Got ya covered” as he pulled out one that he and Wynn had rolled. It was hilarious; there was me and Colin smoking with three of our regular customers in the back room. God It was a blast, the five of us piled out of the back higher than kites, Rob pulled out a small bottle of cologn for us, (he was prepared the whole time to get high with us. We had all talked about it for a long time. We cleaned up, closed the store at about quarter to 11, then rolled another, smoked it, got home just destroyed, and went to sleep very happy. The stuff we got is called “Blue Berry White Rhino”. It is INSANE! You’d love it. God, that’s all I have time to write today, but I’d just thought I’d inform you that I’m pretty much the only one having any fun without you. :P I hope you are enjoying your trip. I told you about my times, now you should tell me about yours! I’m horribly interested in hearing what you have been seeing, and doing. Please email me back if you get a chance. -Jon
5/22/03 – Hola Mitch! What’s up dude? (Yeah, ignore the perkiness, I drank like 50 cups of coffee thins morning and ate steak and eggs, I’m TOTALLY awake.) So what’s been up man? Where are you even, where have you been? Fuck I should actually make an effort to send this letter to you. So yeah, I might as well keep you informed of what has been going on as of late. You know, I originally intended to write a small entry in here every day, then send the weeks worth of notes to you on the weekend, but I am so unbearably lazy. I’ll only be serious for a second before I inform you of my wicked fast times! I miss you SO much man. I don’t think I can sustain a healthy relationship with the rest of the clique without you man. I’ve been getting pissed at Randall lately, but Chris and I are getting to be better friends. (lol, Korin called him gay yesterday, she said he gives off a gay vibe. I told her about how he got hit on at chalk and rack.) I would assume the only reason him and I are getting together so well is because all we have done since you left is party. I’m actually quite disappointed in myself since you have left. I look SO fat now man. I am going on a diet though, a strange one. I don’t quite know if you are familiar with it but my mom swears by it. Both her and my dad have lost immense amounts of weight and have only been on it for like, 2 weeks. It is called “The Atkins Diet”. The basis for it is that carbohydrates are the reason everyone is getting so fat, so you replace carbs with extravagant amounts of protein. I was doubtful at first, but looking at the evidence I was actually quite shocked. Perhaps when you get back there will be a slight change in my appearance. But anyways; I’ll tell you of our weekend (what I can remember of it.) Everything pretty much started on Thursday night, as stated above, but Friday was an insane day. Right after I finished writing that note, I went to my foods class. I showed Josh how much pot I had and he flipped. At lunch, me, Chris, Josh, Mike and some other guy hopped into Mike’s car and drove into some ally by Mike’s house. They pulled out this strange contraption that I knew could have only one purpose. It was a 2L pop bottle with the bottom half chopped off, and a plastic bag taped where the bottom should have gone. They took out some tin foil and made a bowl to put over the top opening on the bottle. They poked a hole in it so smoke could go in, and loaded it up with my blueberry white rhino. Mike lit it as Josh pulled the bag out of the bottle, it sucked an insane amount of smoke into the bottle. They popped the tin-foil bowl device off the top and handed it to me. I put my mouth on the spout of the bottle. It was A LOT of smoke man. The bag sucked back into the chamber and I passed it back to mike. We all got about two hits off of it. That was all we needed. We were a bloody mess. I got home and enjoyed my state for a while. I then fell asleep for about an hour before I had o get up and got to work. I got into work (still kind of high) and waited for Alex to get in. Alex and I did a bunch of work. At about 9, my friend Addison (from foods class) came in. I got him to roll another one in the back. We went out and smoked half of it. He left, and I was totally messed up again. About 10 minutes later, Colin came in with a grin on his face. I knew it was going to be along night. I asked if he wanted to go finish what Addison and I had started. He immediately agreed and once again I stepped into the back with him. He scoffed at Addison’s rolling abilities and decided to re-roll it, with some of his own stuff. (It was just more of what I had). We were trashed. I honestly can’t quite remember…OH WAIT, while Colin was rolling in the back, Randall, Chris (and Possibly Mike… I don’t know man it is honestly hazy) showed up. So Chris, Colin, Me and Derek got blazed. The rest of the night is a blur. Saturday is when the real hardcore partying started. After work, me, Chris, and Randall headed over to Antonio’s new house in Saddleridge. There was a good amount of people there, including Keegan and Liam. Everyone was actually QUITE pleased to see me. More than I would have guessed actually. I got a hero’s welcome. It felt good. They offered me some Vodka. There was a little under half of the 26 left. I got rid of it with one swig. People were impressed. Then as I was rolling a nice sized Joint ( I know how to roll now by the way) a troubling fact hit me, all I had to eat that day was a handful of popcorn. (ooh, I had forgot to mention that my dad was out of town for 4 days for a conference in Red Deer, so when he got back, we woke up early on Saturday morning and went to see the Matrix. He had wanted too see it, so I hyped him up about it and convinced him to go. FUN!), so yeah, that Vodka hit me fairly hard. Then we went out and got blazed. Twice. I have never seen someone SO messed up. I did not incorporate the fact that Mark Diaz is a tiny Asian, man what a lightweight. His whole body was twitching, he was shaking for like, 3 hours. It was funny. Our primary source of entertainment then came from a very drunk, very loud Liam. God he was trashed, it was hilarious. But, like every other SOCIAL occasion that has taken place in the last year, Randall turned all pouty because there was nothing there that he liked. He didn’t even TRY to socialize. I’ve decided that I just hadn’t noticed it because you have always been here to keep him mildly amused enough to not bitch. So we all went home (I think…) and the night was over. On Sunday, Randall picked me up after work (again) after me, Colin, Chris, and Derek got high in the back (again). This time it was Randall’s decision on what to do. As we were smoking I said to Chris, “hundred bucks says we are going to Mike’s family billiards till three in the fucking morning”. Yeah, I SO totally called it. Me, Chris, Randall and Mike headed to Mikes stupid family billiards and played snooker. It was fun, but I wish we could do something a little more innovative. Pool is all Randall is into now. He’s like, hardcore with it. “Hey dude, let’s hit the bars!”, “do they have pool?”, “well no but they’ve got this grea-“, “NO POOL THEN NO RANDALL!!! HAIL *hails Hitler*” But yeah, luckily this smoking hot chick showed up and kept my eyes amused for the duration of my trying not to talk to Mike. (Yeah, I’m not even gonna get into why that’s happening) . Too bad she was a huge bitch though. I can’t remember why, I was so out of it, but Chris said she was. So yeah, that was my insane weekend. I smoked a quarter in five days. If I Could do it again, I would (and I probably will this weekend). So, I guess I won’t talk anymore… I can’t tell you anything else interesting. (not that any of this really was, I’m just trying to make it sound good,) Hopefully I can email this off to you tonight, if not…. I dunno, I’ll get around to it. I hope you are having the time of your life. Enjoy your last month there. I’ll be writing you more when I have more to write. -Jon
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