Shawn is dead.

I was unable to make any sort of contact with Shawn today. Yesterday he told me he was feeling ill, so it is safe to assume that he has expired.

I'm sorry to inform you that Shawn is dead, maybe.

Shawn, if you are not in fact dead, please make some kind of post.

I saw the Los Lonely Boys perform a concert at the rodeo tonight, and was thoroughly impressed. They rocked out, they were great. Good times. I'm tired and somewhat delirious now. I must cease writing before I sound loony.

Adieu.

It is now Thursday afternoon. I'm still giving Shawn the chance to post by adding to my previous entry, but I thought I'd share with ya'll the story of how my car was physically attacked this morning by a nice Mercedes sedan.

Coming off of Louetta I was attempting to jump into the feeder lanes when a white van switched into my lane of choice, so I stopped and waited for the next gap. The 50 year old man behind me did not wait for the next gap, he though I had taken off. My head hit something and I got a little whiplash, but nothing bad altogether. Accidents happen at this particular junction quite often. He tried to get out of his car to come talk to me, but I wasn't going to have it. He knocked my pathetic Geo Tracker half-way out into the lane, so I backed up a little to get out of harm's way, and waved for him to follow me.

We pulled over into a small lot just before Splash Town and he trotted up to my car, fumbling over an apology. I told him not to worry about it, accidents are common there. I skipped under the back of my car to make sure it's inegrity hadn't been compromised and found everything okay. Being the genius auto mechanic that I am, this means that I made sure the metal stuff under my car wasn't torqued, cracked, or broken.

The bumper on my car suffered minor scrapes, I think. It was already scratched, but I'm not that overly concerned with my car's aesthetic appeal. His white, brand-new looking $60,000+ Mercedes had a three foot section on the front of his car that was horrendously scratched, but I'm sure the car will live. I told the man not to worry about it and to have a nice day-overall I was in good spirits, almost humorously so. I perceived no reason to raise this guy's insurance or send him to that awful defensive driving class I had to attend, on account of him making a 2-inch scrape to the bumper of my dilapidated automobile.

And that's the story.

I knew I should have brought my DS to school today...

Vote For Us, Or I'll draw a Kitten in a Blender next week

I have a new avatar. It's glowy. Shawn will get one within the next day or so, whenever I have time to manifest it. Until then though; I have a shiny avatar, and Shawn's is old and jaded. MUHAHAHA SHINY CHAMPION!

On to serious matters.

Some people may not care for what I'm about to say, but it's the simple truth of the webcomic world. As of a week or so ago, our site has acquired two vote buttons on the left side of the page that we encourage you to click on every day. This sounds silly, but please hear me out.

The higher we get on the webcomic lists the more traffic we will acquire, thus allowing us to sell ad space, and the more traffic we get, the more money we'll make on ads. When we actually start making money (which should be relatively soon) it will become easier for us to start producing T-shirts and handing out buttons and all of that fun stuff that people like. In short, vote for us everyday, and you'll notice cool stuff happening around here.

We hope you enjoy our comic and tell your friends, family, pets, and banzai trees about us. Thank you for visiting Blue House Comics.

Oh, Buoy!

How a n’yawker might say it.

Only sequence and elapsed time can reveal the end of this impending fiasco. Bach by Kenny G? Yes, thank you and please some more.

Can I ruminate about the word ruminating? It literally means to chew the cud, as a ruminant. Like a ruminant chewing cud, I have been “chewing” on the “cud” of the “thought” of golfing. Mostly, I wish I could be out doing that all day rather then studying. But an education will enable more golfing in the future, right?

Say, we want to give a huge thanks to all the people who have made our past couple of days a success. We’ve been having pretty successful numbers and we appreciate your help.

If we’re worthy, tell your friends and give us a vote! Thanks!

-Arrivederci!

Sunday Sketch

In addition to the regular Adventuresome Toad comic (now updated on Wednesdays) I'm adding an unofficial Sunday Sketch that you'll find in the Toad strip every Sunday. This way, when that lazy Sunday afternoon mode kicks in, and you end up browsing the internet, there will be something cool that I have drawn to look at (coolness not 100% guaranteed).

Today's sketch is something of a preview for the film noir comic that Shawn and I hope to launch sometime in or around next summer on this website. I'm working on tapping into my darker roots, to create dark art. Heavy shadows and high contrast, you guys. Watch. Out.

The noir comic will be an outlet in which I can refine a different art style (i.e. more realism), and Shawn can become a larger factor in the creative process. In fact, I'd bet my neighbor's dog that the noir comic will be 100% written by him, so I'll just stick to illustrations and not have to worry about where the plot is going.

Honestly, I'd bet all three of those dogs that we're going to have air outside tomorrow.

Y'all had better bulk up on your vocabulary, too. I'm fairly certain Shawn is going to eat a thesaurus before he really gets cooking on the script. Again, watch out.

Do you know where else it says, "Watch out" ?

On-a-toad-button-so-buy-one-now! Or, if you are within poking range, get one from Shawn for free.

Enjoy the lazy Sunday.

My Highly Ethical and Sophisticated Moral Argument

Well, I think that a lot of music stars are kind of piggish. But let me break it down for you non-philosophics.

You have an acute angled isosceles conjectured with a twenty-newton mega-ohm-amperes. You then propagate the conscience in the centrifuge, compounding moral elasticity yielding a more pliable and thinner sense of guilt. Netting these exponential results and scientifically theorizing the consequence of the sinusoidal waves timed by the apogee of the human soul and you have a remarkably innocent and guiltless library of pirated music.

I know that’s technical, but I like to think highly of our audience.

Now, I have two broken toes. They’ve turned blue and are sore. I’m saying this to feel the combined empathy of all our readers and convalesce that much faster.

Hey, if you tell your friends about our site, I’ll give you $4,000.

Can I get caught for lying like that? No.

-Arrivederci!

Free Pancakes

Yesterday was National Give People Free Pancakes at IHOP day. I'm not quite certain of the actual title, but free pancakes were to be had. I was not made aware of this until last night when I checked slickdeals.net just before going to bed, as sometimes there are last minute things that pop up.... like a notice saying that today was going to start with free pancakes.

So yes, Kathy and I ate free pancakes. It was good fun. Of course, throw in two beverages, a tip, and a small donation to whatever organization was responsible for the pancake giveaway, and I came out of IHOP seven dollars lighter.

It was almost free. Thus the comic. Enjoy.

The Toad appreciates your support, as his life is rather rough.

Star Wars + Dinosaurs = Awesome

Two new games just gathered my interest. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which has an amazing tech demo you can see here (easily as innovative and impressive as the tech demo Valve released for the Source engine a couple years ago), and a new Turok game. They will both be debuting on the PS3/360, though I haven't seen anything on them coming to the PC. No matter though, my PC nor any of my friends PCs could run games that look this good.

Check out the screenshots, watch the videos, next gen games are finally starting to look next gen.
The Star Wars game is slated for November 2007, I don't know about Turok, and for those of you who salivate at the mere mention of Bioshock, it should be coming Q2 of 2007. I'm going to have to take over Shawn's 360 when Bioshock comes out. I have literally been waiting for this game for seven years.

I am here, bathed in a cool, white light.

I lie on my back, my laptop resting on my stomach and I think to myself, at so late an hour, “what is the correct usage of lay/laid/lain/lie?”

I have, in the 10 minutes span of that paragraph break, duly researched the word and still arrive at no veritable conclusions. But you understand my meaning. It’s late and I’m typing this in my bed.

It’s a shame. In order to make this post, I’ve had to bump Sterling’s down, and there is a very nice piece of work he created pictured in it. So, in kindness to my urgent biddings, please scroll down and view it for yourself.

Thank you very much. Hannah, I don’t know if you still read this, but I’m fairly certain you will lay/lie this whole verb issue out to me soon. I’m so stupid with words. Thank you for bearing with me.

No, thank you.

Keep jivin’ babe!

-Arrivederci!

Boots and Buttons

Kathy and I have returned from the Boot Scoot 2007 preview party with pictures! My boot ranked something like 37th out of the 85+ boots entered into the "contest." Not quite top 20, but it seems like the higher ranking ones all dealt w/the common theme of western heritage and rodeo tradition, seeing as it's the 75th anniversary of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

If you want to run out and find my boot, it will be somewhere in the Bush Intercontinental Airport. I'll be able to tell you exactly where later, when the boot is in place.

And now for some photos!













I know I look rather silly in the first photo, but it shows some of the other boots(the boots in the back three rows were some of the top 20). Kathy caught me in between expressions (i.e. I thought the picture had already been taken). That is my boot.


Action shots of our merchandise!

On Kathy's purse!

On my bass strap!

They go everywhere!!! WHOA!














One last picture I forgot. They actually messed up my name on the plaque for the boot.


I'm hoping that Mark can have someone fix that before it goes on display.

Malaise and treason!

Fun words to begin any intellectual discourse. But I’m not doing that. I’m just posting.

Well, what does synchronic, morphological studies, phonemes, Van Gennep and ambilineal descent groups have in common? They are all fair game for my anthropology test today! And what a tremblesome ordeal it is.

You may interpret today’s comic as a satire, developed in its sophistication and precise in its effect. I will not protest this perception nor will I dissuade. Only for the sake of a balanced perspective will I mention this might not be its aim. But it probly is because we’re both really really smart.

Now, this is amazing.

I wish I were a stout-hearted 66 year old Brazilian with the ferocity of a starved jaguar.

-Arrivederci!

Alterations Necessary

I managed to edit the layout of our website to some degree, and I have the button links in a more convenient location, so feel free to order one.

I bought some flip-flops today, and apparently Shawn found himself a bona-fide private I. style trench coat for $5 at a thrift store. He wins for today.

Anyone looking to get an iPod Shuffle or Nano? They have the refurbished ones for 41-68% off.

John and I dueled in Tribes for a bit last night, and it was good fun. Tribes is the best.


Have a good one.

Broken

Everything is messed up on the website. We somehow lost our code for the blog, and if you can read this, we're not exactly sure how it's possible.

The paypal account is set up, however, there's no link directly on our site yet, it's a little weird right now but you should still be able to buy a Toad button here and a Blue House Comics button here.
Click the bigger picture of the logo/button to be taken to Paypal. Again, we're still new at this, so you do actually buy a button from us, go ahead and email me at Sterfry75@aol.com with the subject "I WANT A BUTTON," and we'll make sure that we get you what you want.

We apologize for any inconvenience our website may be causing you.


Hang on, I think I fixed everything. Roll out.

The Adventuresome Toad Returns, with BUTTONS

The buttons have arrived, and here's the story. The shipment didn't make it to Shawn's apartment for some reason or another the first go around. Thankfully, they were able to swiftly resend the package and lo and behold Shawn has the buttons now. We will be passing them out to people starting tomorrow (at least Shawn will), but we only have 50 of each right now, so supplies are limited.

We will undoubtedly order more, as Shawn assured me tonight that they look awesome.

Make sure to let us know if you want a button ASAP so we can get one to you before we run out. The buttons will be free; however, if you don't live near us, we can't physically hand you one. We can mail one to you though, and in return we ask that you pay for shipping them in a little white envelope with a stamp on it. We're talking roughly $.50, no big deal. I have to figure out how to get a paypal transfer thingy set up, seeing that I haven't yet attempted to arrange my account in such a way that I could actually receive money.

Email me at Sterfry75@aol.com with the subject title "I WANT A BUTTON."

I will try and make the paypal transfer possible by tomorrow evening.

We haven't done a comic actually starring the Adventuresome Toad in over two months, and as promised, he has returned. As you all know, things were nuts over the holidays. Thank you for waiting. The Toad appreciates your patience.

Now brandish your gear with his amicable emblem!
(ask Shawn for a free button)

That Wasn't Supposed to Happen

I somehow managed to come across this video. I'm not sure what's going on here, but I believe there was a satellite on that rocket that was supposed to go into space, and not explode into a million pieces. You guys tell me.

I apologize for the originally huge comic for today. I have reposted it in a smaller resolution, one that I believe can be comfortably viewed at 1024x768. Not everyone has a monitor that will do 1680x1050, grahaha...