Thespiphobia - Screw You, Particle Board!

[News and Updates]

posted January 29, 2008, 3:27 pm

My current schedule allows me to sleep six hours each night. I've read between three and seven textbook chapters for homework every school day so far, I have Sweeney Todd rehearsals twice a week and two costume sketches due every week, I'm doing props for the current show and I'm on the Tech Direction team for the next one, and I keep getting distracted with roleplaying games.

I'm sure you don't really give a shit about all that, but it's nice to see it all in a list and remind myself of how fucking stupid I am.

Regardless, I'm sure you know the drill by now. This, however, is different: given time to adjust to my schedule, my classes are currently boring enough that I will likely be producing comics instead of listening to my lectures, so Thespiphobia could well revive in the next few weeks.

I greatly appreciate all of your patience and deeply apologize for my transgressions, but the fact of the matter is that school comes first. Another fact of the matter is that I'm just not interested in pulling humor out of my ass at the moment; nothing I write lately really appeals to me; and frankly I'd rather work on other things.

See you on the funway. :P

posted January 16, 2008, 10:11 pm

Happy Twenty Aught Eight!

I'm working on updating the fanart page, and new cast pictures are a possibility in the near future. Work on the buffer continues apace.

I've been getting a lot of random art done this winter break. Check out my deviantart account. It's badass.

I've also been getting a lot of sleep. Vacation's niiiice. ^_^

posted December 20, 2007, 7:35 pm

Aaaand we're back. No worries: I'm building next semester's buffer as you read this.

I'm pretty psyched about Sweeney Todd being produced as a movie. It's also a little terrifying. I was only introduced to it recently when a lovely young man by the name of Jeremy Moran suggested that our little guerilla theater troupe put it on at the College of Santa Fe, but it's siezed my soul, as I imagine most of Sondheim's musicals do to everyone.

I gotta say though, as Hollywood continues its movical fad, they couldn't have picked a better director for this one. If ever Tim Burton was going to direct a musical, it had to be Todd or nothing.

Now all the Troubadours have to worry about is making it BETTER.

posted September 26, 2007, 8:37 pm

Sooo... you may have noticed that the comic didn't update on Tuesday. Yeah. Well. You've heard all the excuses before, so I won't bother you with them, but I hope it's understood that I wouldn't be writing this if I thought there was even the slightest chance of continuing to update on a regular schedule.

That said, updates WILL continue on a regular basis. Thespiphobia is not dying. I'm just temporarily reducing the schedule. Until December 25, Thespiphobia will update on a weekly basis, on Fridays, starting this Friday, the 28th.

Sorry about that. But ten bucks says y'all are getting into the meat of school and shit too, and are far too busy to be reading comics anyway.

If you get REALLY bored, try going through the entire Mansion of E archives in one sitting.

In fact, I DARE you.

posted September 10, 2007, 9:21 pm

By the time you read this, it will be September 11. There is no correlation between today's comic and any sociopolitical offshoots from the bombing of the World Trade Center. I don't do commentary, so don't look for meaning where there isn't any.

What this comic IS about is something a good deal more obvious. I am not writing this storyline because I feel that gay people are oppressed (which they are not) or because I think it's trendy to oppress them (it isn't) or because this has happened to a gay friend of mine (it hasn't). The simple fact of the matter is that there is NO underlying moral to this story. This dude is just a DICK.

He has appeared in the comic before; you're not imagining things. I'm not going to link it because I'm lazy.

Actually, so has the chick that Gwyn and Kay have been talking to. I'll give you a hint: it's not her fault she doesn't recognize Gabe; he hadn't got such a head start on his drinking last time they met, and was considerably more suave.

posted August 20, 2007, 11:18 pm

Gwyn either doesn't realize that the past tense is incorrect where Tito's lust is concerned, or she doesn't care. Probably the latter--I'm guessing she's used to being lusted after, since she's a sexy bitch.

posted August 19, 2007, 8:51 pm

My best friend, Saturday night: You know, today's Thespiphobia... isn't... up yet.
Me: ...FUCK!
My excuse is that Friday and Saturday were the closing weekend of my play, and when I wasn't directing/stage managing, I was sleeping because it's a damn exhausting job. The dounle update would have gone up sooner today if not for the cast party, and also I'm painting a portrait of Seth and well you know how demanding Seth is. Or maybe you don't. Well, he is. "Pssshhh fuck Thespiphobia! Draw a picture of ME." *rolls eyes*

I seriously need to get my freaking buffer back. No more excuses. This is completely ridiculous. X|

The show went well, though. We made three hundred bucks! XD Today was the cast party, and we played improv games until I could no longer speak and my stomach was on fire with laughter. Loads of fun, plus a barbecue! Also, my cast gave me a hat. It's a black fedora that has "DIRECTOR" embroidered on the band XD Awesome, no?

I go back to college in a week! Hooray! God, I can't wait. I get the dorm room all to myself this time (no roommate hurrah) so I'm looking forward to putting up my decorations. I've got a big box of leaves and vines and fake parrots and shit to hang from my ceiling. Jungle fever FOR THE WIN! Also, I'm looking forward to seeing people again.

Actually, the reason I'm drawing this cast party out in Thespiphobia is cause I've run out of show-related jokes and I need the college theater season to start so I can get some new material. XD So that is also a good thing about going back to school.

In other news, I finally got around to taking digital pictures of all the paintings and drawings and shit I did for my art class earlier this summer, and they're up at my deviantart account if you're interested. I've been doing SHITTONS of tabletry lately. God I love my tablet. It is so delicious. LOVE IT.

posted July 23, 2007, 10:44 pm

Oh, Gabe. Your wacky antics will never cease to amuse me.

Bet you ten bucks I can get at least a month of material out of the cast party.

posted July 10, 2007, 11:04 pm

Me, in the car on a twelve-hour drive to California: You know, I know I scanned and lettered all the comics for my trip. But... did I... upload them?

posted July 4, 2007, 10:39 pm

I might have done a 4th of July bonus pic except for the fact of my crippling laziness. Oh well. Maybe next year.

posted July 3, 2007, 10:37 pm

Replace "batteries" with "ammo for the Broken Butterfly in Resident Evil Four" and this comic describes most of my freshman year of college.

posted June 26, 2007, 6:59 pm

Hurrah for Disneyland. Just got back, see above for sketch journal. It was fun. ^_^ But I swear to god I heard the phrase "Captain Jack Sparrow" about a hundred BILLION times in that ride. (They changed the recordings some, but other than that, three Jack robots, and a BADASS Davy Jones hologram on a wall of fog, nothing's different.) My only other note is that at the first parade we saw had the most awesome float ever for Alice in Wonderland: A giant table set for oversized tea that was ACTUALLY A TRAMPOLINE. Alice and the Mad Hatter looked like they were having oodles of fun. I was jealous.

posted June 16, 2007, 10:37 pm

So apparently the downage earlier this week has been kind of ongoing... if it keeps going down, I'll be posting in my deviantart blog, so if there's a missed update or something, check there. http://lekosis.deviantart.com

My life has been slightly hectic this summer, but I'm getting rid of two major commitments by the end of the month, so maybe then I'll be able to get some projects done. Whee!

posted June 11, 2007, 8:59 pm

CG's servers were down yesterday. The update was in ON TIME damnit! But yeah Saturday's update is up so hit the Last button like it says in the previous newspost.

posted June 10, 2007, 8:58 pm

Many apologies for the recent lack of communication in general regarding Thespiphobia. My poor laptop, Kickass Leroy, contracted a virus and was taken out of commission for over a week. I've been moaning on the deviantart account about it.

Many MORE apologies for the missed update on Saturday, and the exceedingly late update for today. Saturday's upate is now up, so hit the "last" button.

I've been using my mom's computer all week. I just finished redownloading all my programs today: Gimp, Frostwire, Internet Explorer, Winamp, AIM. Had to reinstall Microsoft Office so my Word docs would work, reset the settings on EVERYTHING, make sure my backed up files came through the ordeal okay... *sigh* and I haven't even started reentering all my bookmarks. I had over fifty comics bookmarked. Hell, more like sixty. All gone. x_X

On the plus side, we're finally going to get rid of the beagles. We were babysitting these two dogs for this guy while he was in Idaho, but then he had a heart attack and couldn't come pick them up. Luckily his daughter is willing to take them a week from Wednesday. Hooray no more beagles! They're adorable but damnably annoying.

Aw damnit, I still need to redownload MSN Messenger. X| Le sigh... but at least Thespiphobia's back on track now.

posted May 27, 2007, 10:25 pm

Yes, I have finally bitten the bullet and gotten myself a deviantart account. Go me. I spent all last night working on it and only finished uploading all the shit now. Go and feast your eyes upon the glory of my badassery.

Some of it you guys might have seen already, but I doubt it unless you're connected to Moon Willow. "Raven Darkfaerie Moon" is what caused the most recent Halloween bonus pic.

That right there is what I do when I'm not teching a show, drawing Thespiphobia, writing the next Great American Novel, eating, sleeping, working, or doing chores.

You know, put like that, it's a miracle I ever get any art done around here.

posted May 26, 2007, 9:25 pm

Well, it's working now anyway. Had to rewrite the whole page's code, but we were due for an update anyway. And if I upload the code and it still doesn't work, there will be no updates in a week when my buffer runs out because I will have shot myself. Twice. In the face.