Updates on everything

Hola mis amigos!

It's the weekend, and I thought it was time to offer a couple updates on things going on with me, the house, and friends...

HOOKER GOTTA EAT!
Now that I have a house I'm doing everything I can to make an extra buck. (Okay, who am I kidding? I'm enough like my mom to try and score some almighty green whenever I can.) As such, you'll notice ad links at the top of the blog. Click one or two every now and then, would you? I make a penny or something silly like that, but if you all did it, I might be able to buy Steve a Christmas gift. Your 10 second gesture can help promote a loving relationship (How noble!)
My buddy, Alonso Duralde, has a new book! Alonso is one of the smartest men I know with a concise eye on the world of pop culture, and his new book looks amazing. Steve and I will be going to his launch event next week but check out his book on Amazon and find out more!

The house is coming along, and we have replaced our mermaid bathroom with a lovely chocolate brown and blue. Thank God Steve has an eye for art (and visits Crate and Barrel every now and then for inspiration) because I wouldn't have thought to use that color combination. It really looks great, but the picture we took isn't uploading onto the blog for some strange reason. I'll try and figure out the problem later but I need to get to work.

Oh, and our kitchen is JACKED UP! It's going to be another week, replacing some of the floor that got hurt in the process, and more fun things. We're still basically living out of boxes right now until we can work that all out, but by next weekend it should be good. In the meantime, I'm going to try and review A LOT of restaurants this week because I'm tired of microwaving in the living room, making coffee on the edge of the kitchen counter, and washing dishes in a bathroom that is sorely lacking a garbage disposal.

Our friend Aliki is just wrapping up her Nickelodeon short, Yaki and Yumi! Here is a photo with Andre (voice actor), Jun (director), Aliki and Candi (other voice actor).

If you love animation and want to see the creative process in action you really need to check out her work ASAP! As she said to me in an e-mail...

Come by to see what the props are lookin' like in Yaki and Yumi's world. Check out what the characters look like as a pastel drawing! Find out what an "expressions sheet" is. Watch part of the animatic! You will get to hear the official voices
of Yaki and Yumi and hear ME as the "THE AMAZING FORTUNE FISH!"

For those not in the know, an animatic where they take a temp dialogue track and run it with still pictures from the animation-- kind of like those film strips you used to watch in school. I think they're kind of neat. So check out Yaki and Yumi.

Finally, I'm going to introduce a couple new weekly events into the blog. One I'm keeping secret for the moment, but the others include the Phrase of the Day! and Word of the Week! By the way, both will only happen weekly but they each sound better when stated this way. Besides, I don't know if I have enough of anything to give it to you every day.

Today's (PHRASE OF THE DAY! (day, day, day, day...) (that's an echo effect, ya see) is:
Town and Country
Usage: An adjective, mainly used to describe someone's eyes.
In a sentence: Laura Bush has such beautiful Town and Country eyes.
Inner definition: One eye looks at the Town, one eye looks at the Country.

Thank you, and have a great weekend!