What am I doing!?

So, I have a day off, that of course I am going to do something completely different with it. Aands iyes is bloggerified in my brain globes :heh.

I am not vlogging this. It is a blog.
music: wheres my money ,honey~ :smile:

Where was I, oh on a real farmville. Only 3 miles of treeline to clear tomorrow. Or so. We shall see how far I get with that. There is also grass to mow ..... but the lawnmower is ..large, and ..I am, gonna wait till someone can show me what exactly does what where before I do that. Old friend nearbouts came by the store and offored to come up, do part of the lawn and show me how to use the huge thing, anyway. That is for later,

finished mah cigarrette, time to watch spiderman.
The Amazing One, that doesnt use the power line..
Great stills, wheres the video game, online probably.

.....crap. I got let go from the part time thing I was doing..

Well, all is well because I would only have been able to work for them a couple of more days anyway because!! I am going to start helping at Light Lyre Studio on thursday!!! Woot! Its not a paid gig but, I will be helping with a real movie production! YEEEHAW! I have no idea what the project is going to be, but that is fine by me! This project will be taking up all the rest of this month and next. I am so psyched!

Other news, I am tying my social media stuff together and making progress, I think I am going to get a foodstamps card for the next few months as my monies are going to be very tight unless something wild like some one buys my one of my books, and the last time I talked to my dad he asked about Gen Con. Gen Con! Woot! So that is looking up! I am going to get insurance and hopefully tag my car in the next couple of days, and that wil be good. I have been on foot for like two years.. hmm, what else?

Tango! I found an awesome app for my android device that gives me the ability to send video text messages, its pretty cool. Hmmm, thats all I can think of right now. Um, I guess I am considering doing a complete makeover on this category of my blog, and on the days I am not working with Light Lyre I will be doing HTML5 dev for mine webs. So if you you havnt seen Ifyousheashow.com in all its clunky HTML4 preproduction glory check it out!

Forshadowing

One Paragraph to rule them all, one paragraph to bind them, one paragraph to meta narrate them all, and on the internet bind them. youtube/askshea, wikidot/campaignsmile, online/ifyousheashow. Please respect SMS grammer, and remember to Smile!

Stretching my blogging muscle!

I need to get back into blogging. Really blogging. Like, I used to blog all the time. About everything from bad spelling to yoga postures. I guess the truth is something has turned me off of the site I have been blogging at. Nothing about their service or anything like that. I am not complaining about the button interface. Just something in life or whatever that has drawn me away from my old blogging haunt. Recently I have found myself what I call 'faceblogging' ..yeah its kinda failblog, but I find myself doing it. I am a very musey writer. I can pretty much write something anytime but not anything whenever I want. Like I am writing in wordpad right now. wtf. I am a notepad purist. Purist! I say! Gahh, I am not sure the grammar really conveys the sentiment there. But, what I am saying is that I go syntactically where the muse draws me. A supersticious and cowardly thing perhaps, but it is what it is.

Hitting return twice is not necessary in wordpad. Who knew? I feel that online journaling is best done with a line break between thoughts. Its wild, faceblogging with the comment interface. wtf. Like, its too much line break..ya know.. Like write a five comment essay on a facebook post. Reads *pretty much* like a five paragraph college paper, but also not, because the number of lines between each comment just throw the whole thing off. I have got to get back to real bloggery. Real bloggery! I say! I had something to say a minute ago.....and I still do! What I am not exactly sure, I have been taken up lately by my daily life. I did however write an eight comment faceblog about Disney City the other day. Its public on my 'if you shea show' facepage. Gahh, people that create their own fanpage on facebook. Really!?

So like I am sortin through my email right? Ok wait a minute there is no music playing. Music! ..... ok better. Aha! Suddenly I am remembering something very salient about ONE Blog. Be topical! SO this blog is about blogging. About how I have not been blogging. I have been faceblogging, which tisnt really blogging at all. About how to blog, which is; to be both topical and free. Good blogging is flow. Great blogging is flowing in one direction. Toward a point. Toward a real gold medal. Why are you blogging and who are you blogging to? Another man might have put two interrogitives there.. but the interrobang is real. Are you an interrobanger too? I think that the truely effervesant and exigent truth in regards to who who who are you blogging at is..you are, you should, you would.. be blogging to whomever might be listening.. to what you have to say. Right? Write to et all. eg. This blog shall be named!

What is in a name? The If You Shea Show is not my nameology. It was an answer to why 'AskShea' wasnt going to work. We were discussing it, a whole group of us, and one of the more silent participants leaned forward. And simply siad 'The If You Shea Show' and no one. Not one person in the gang had a thing to say. Flabbergasted. Struck dumb. Nailed to the quik. Then we registered the domain name. What works is what works. What works is letting your think box flow while keeping a goal in mind. Flumoxing around with errant ideas and not one whit to a conclusion or success scenario..that is what doesnt work. If you can enliven a muse and find a even so sully a point as 'this blog is about blogging' ( which I said I wouldnt do again when I started this blog ) then you have a blog. Otherwise you are whiling away a nameless piece of semi rant worthy reading. Idle rant worthy reading. This blog shall have a name, and that name is! Stretching my blogging muscle!

QfG Six!?

You may or may not have heard of the Quest for Glory series of games. They were made by somebody whose name I dont recall quite a while ago. I should probably know who that is because I am intending to include them in my The If You Shea Show Zyngstravaganza. Those of you familiar with video games will be familiar with the Fallout and Elder Scrolls Series. QfG is a predecessor ( and almost contemporary to the early elder scrolls games like Daggerfall ) and has in it the same 'open endedness' that the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games have that make them more like a story play than the regular shoot em ups and platform adventures. You are given an option of three different character classes and the scenario is resolved differently by the three classes. This is a huge difference ( and even huger considering the arena QfG came out in ) to the run of the mill adventure games of the era. You could swing your sword through the quest as a fighter, slink quietly through as a thief, or blast your way through as a wizard. While the quests were very linear ( almost like playing only the story missions in an Elder Scrolls game ) the open startedness of the character creation gave Quest for Glory that subtle feel of a real story play.

The greatest thing about the series is that you could carry your character through from each one to the other. The wizard you made in the first one can be ported with all his stuff ( with some glitchiness ) to the second and all the way to the final fifth game where he becomes a king. Playing the game aright your hero travels from sleepy Spielburg to the warm sands of Shapier then on to a mythical Africa full of Taurna and warriors, then to a strange victorian horror show, and finally to a grecian paradise wherin he must face the final test of a true king - battle. Like in Skyrim - a true king must be both warrior and poet. When I saw that they are making another one I was like WHOOOPIE! And, without looking - this is how I would do it.....

So your a king now. What next? I mean? What more glory is there? Not one but five kingdoms owe their continued existence to you. Cant you rest on your laurels from here on out? No! Five kingdoms may be safe from the quickly rising darkness, but that does not mean the world is secure! One thing that I would necessarily include in a Guest for Glory 'Kings Quest' game is the inclusion of having to manipulate people. You are going to war.. nobly and justly of course, but war nonetheless. Perhaps a return to Shapier? Perhaps a new exotic location like a fantasy India to compare and contrast with the third installments fantasy Africa. Regardless, a true kingdom is plagued with an evil ruler ( fantasy Japan? ) and you the noble hero king must ride ahead of your armies to the lands that yearn to breath free air! There you deal freely with friendly merchants on the infinite credit of a king, and must make the correct tactical decisions for your army. QfG being a single character game at heart - the ultimate success must lie in your hands, but the added elements of having an army at your disposal would be an excellent touch. Having a royal treasury at your disposal will also be awesome. The final question would be ..who is the villain? QfG 1 had an evil witch. QfG 2 had an evil king. I have never beaten 2 and therefor not played three through five. I think four had a mad scientist and five was a great gladiator if I remember my spoilers correctly. If it was fantasy India they could do a demon cow...

Dr Strange Prophecy

One Blog 1 Saturday

As was foretold by prophecy. I shall blog as to wit, why should I write a Doctor Strange script?

Are you aware of the prohibition versus vampires and werewolves in the comic code? I am. The Marvel TM universe skirts the issue by having 'different' vampires. Werewolfism happens, but only in an 'obliviate' hogwartian style fashion. If there is a werewolf there must be someone casting the 'make someone a werewolf' spell. Vampires, a little different story. Ya see, there was this title called Arion The Atlantian.. and this weird pink funky lookin monster guy that was an antagonist for Arion the Atlantean cast a master level spell and created vampires. They cant die ~ unless *all* of them die. And suffer agg damage to silver. Stephen Strange Master of the Mystic Arts ( but not sorcerer supreme of the earth dimension at the time ) almost destroyed all the vampires by reading passages from the tome of Darkholm, but could not complete the spell because his brother Victor was a vampire and ya canna kill ya brother. Right?

My knowledge of the comic code is not the reason I should write a doctor strange script. A man could get a PhD detailing the minutia of my previously vague assertion regarding the use of 'vampires' in the Marvel TM universe.. particularly if they analyse the use of Mobius TM the 'not a vampire but kinda walks like a vampire' ( quack ) element in regards to the whole anti vampire ..and most importantly the 'why' of why vampires and werewolves are forbidden in the comic code.. At least not werewolves and vampires as most people understand them ~ no! Atlantis Vampires equal bueno. Jesus vampires equal blasphemy. Apparently. BUT! The fact that I know the comic code is not why I should write a doctor strange script! Nono!

I am summoning the spirit of Tom Robbins! I shall not backspace! I shall!

I remember the first actual doctor strange comic I actually read. I had seen him and his eye of aggamatto and etc. He had been in a crossover or another. The magic master magician guy. Yeah. Anyway - power pack! Or whatever, but then I read a doctor strange comic. Ya see - Doctor Strange met this guy who was sorta a gold ..dr fate.. ish.. kinda person who wanted all the magic everywhere. The gold guy explained that there was a finite amount of magic in existence and if everyone used magic then no one had allot of it. So ..... the gold guy was going back in time and using Doctor Strange to help him pass through the ages of retroconectivity. Eventually it was the gold guy and Doctor Strange standing at the nearly the dawn of time moment and the gold guy is like 'ok now it is only you and me using magic and now I understand half of everything and let me explain some things and now you have to leave so that I can go to the actual dawn of time moment without you the only other person who uses magic and be the only person who uses magic and then understand all of everything' and he then teleported Dr Strange to the exact moment goldy had pulled Dr Strange out of the time stream and then goldy apparently reached nirvana. And Yeah. Nobody died. There were no fights. It was just a story. The first one of DR S I ever read. This is really no nevermind simply a factoid paragraph.

If you dont know how the comic code fucking works and you have never read a Doctor Strange comic for the sheer love of it then you should probably not even so much as attempt to write a Doctor Strange script. If you have never sold a script to anyone then you are not allowed to join the screen writers guild of America.. If you have never been paid to run a D&D game then you are not allowed to join the table play conductors guild of America... I just made that up up! I have about *that* much prerogative. Are you aware of the nature of the creation of the character known as Damage? Are you aware of how awesome the character called Damage is? Can you explain to me why he is not used more often? Did you like Amalgam? Did you die inside when Ultraverse gasped its last desperate failure ridden breath? How many ( no please do - count - a fucking number ) superheroe characters ( villains bystanders and extras included ) have you *ACTUALLY* created? Hehe, pardon me for leaning on my 1008. Fuck you ;) Im working on it. And,

The reason I should write a Doctor Strange script.. is because I know who the goddam Beyonder is!