alpie lives & a rye twist

Dragged alpengeist out of the closet tonight, shook the dust off it, and added it to the hub. Lo and behold it works, and can even grab an IP and everything. Too bad I don't have any actual space in the place for it, and will have to move it off my bed when I decide to pass out.

At any rate, I'm currently transferring over several fine files for to work on when I can. One is named catatonic.tar and maybe some of you can take wild stabs in the dark as to what it may contain. It's 40 megabytes.

Hmm.

Hint: No, it won't be a total revival. Just an, er, retrospective, if you will. Annotated and whatnot.

I also found a nice little chestnut of a short story I remember writing a while back. It's behind the cut.

( Rye Twist )

goin' catatonic!

30 down, 72 to go.

I'm amazed, really, because it's a lot easier to annotate them than I thought. And the writing is pretty decent, too. But now my brain has turned to mush.

Inez is holding a clay pot, of which she seems to be very proud. She has decorated it with lots of paint and glaze.

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Into the 60s now. The comments are smarter than I thought they'd be and I've yet to fall totally into the "I like this / I like that / I like pie" trap. It's like DVD commentary only bold and in #993300 and with numerous references to ifMUD. I forgot how that place was such a complete influence during my days writing the comic. And I can't even figure out why I left in the first place.

What's unsettling are the references to "my girlfriend at the time" but, honestly, Jen was a big influence too. She just keeps popping up through these annotations so I have to make reference somehow. It's the first time I've really written the newfound designation out, and I guess it's better than "Ex." I don't like the phrase "my ex" with or without the capital E. But it happens, and you adjust to it, and it becomes easier as time goes by.

But god damn. Reading some of the writing in the strips convinces me that I somehow got ahold of a big jar of comic genius and was spreading it all over the place. Maybe someday I'll capture that again.