So now I’m working a few more hours a week at the real-life cleaning job. It’ll be good to be making more money but bad for two reasons. The first reason is easy to explain. More time at work means that I have less time to work on other things. I have NO idea if I kick out as much Nutroll comicness for April as I had originally planned. On top of that, ScrollBoss will be dead beyond dead until May with none of the usual stealth updates. I’m okay with that. The main problem is that every part of my body that I messed up while moving/shoveling/working weeks ago won’t improve as quickly, if at all. My hands are getting better but the left one still sounds like the Juggernaut is tap dancing on a pile of bubble wrap. I’ll have to keep my typing down to a minimum, so don’t expect to see me ramble too much here or anywhere else for a while.

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I’ve been so busy lately that I missed the fact that Xombi brought the blog-style posts back to the front page of the-Breaks.com. As always, he had some interesting thoughts and links on deck. My favorite is this eSkeptic article about the flaws of television news.

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Happy Birthday to comic shop owner, swamp creature connaisseur and blogger extraordinaire, Mike Sterling!

The 1st anniversary of this here joint passed by on January 12 but I was too busy to even notice it. Even now I can’t really put together a celebratory post because… eh, I’ll talk about that later.

Anyway, Happy Birthday, Beans vs. Cornbread! With any luck, year two will be made of less fail than year one!

Here’s a quick post of random things I’m up to at the moment:

1.) ‘That thing’ that I was working on but only mentioning in a vague manner like Peter Potamus is now done. Click the pic over there to get all the info and I’ll have a post all about this later on in the week. If you know me, try not to act too surprised that I drew a background.

2.) Random pics that I haven’t forgotten about for other people: Snake-Eyes v.1 (currently in loose pencils), a kunoichi from the Punisher arcade game and a redrawn Martha from Combatribes because the old one turned out horrible.

3.) ScrollBoss’ first 2008 update hits tomorrow with a MUGEN version of Shinobi’s first stage, a review of Toaplan’s Knuckle Bash and some other random things. And damn me for not taking a pic of the Knuckle Bash cabinet when All American Comics had it in their store a few years ago. I think the cabinet is the only thing that tells you what the hell the characters’ names are. The Shinobi stage isn’t 100% perfect, but it’s better than the one wiped out by the horrific HD crash from a few years ago. I am NOT going to spend more of my life trying to record the timing of the little squirmy ninja hostage kids for a stage that, honestly, no one else is really going to give a crap about. At least it’s done and I can take it off the W.I.P. page.

And lo, I have returned from the lands of Notpostington to bring you (As if anyone’s reading this) this 100th post with a new, slightly-modded Default WordPress theme. Most blogs would celebrate their 100th post, but that won’t happen here. Why? Because what have I accomplished with this blog? Other than talking about the regional phenomenon known as no HARD jarring and the Funky Beat Puppet, not much. Who celebrates a milestone that was reached only because the person was bored enough to keep going? But I do acknowledge it because you kinda have to. I’ll try to make the next 100 posts better than the last.

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So what have I been up to? Who gives a f - - , er I’m glad you asked! For one, that cold I had was kicking my butt. Then I got better. But a few days ago, it kicked back in with a cough. In the good news, I’ve been working on Illmosis and ScrollBoss with all kinds of CSS and PHP goodness. I especially want Illmosis to look sharp in time for it’s 3rd birthday.

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Things that I’m digging right now:
Doktor Sleepless - Warren Ellis in super-genius mode.
G.I.JOE 25th Anniversary - I was going to do a big photo set after getting them all, but part of Scarlett’s crossbow fell off and bounce into the frightening unknown of who-knows-where. Crap.
Marvel Comics Presents - A mainstream Marvel Comic anthology that’s only on the curb of the current Marvel Universe that I no longer enjoy? Hellcat being the sure-shot? I’m on it.
Booster Gold - Seeing as how DC took a steaming, peanutty dump on all the JLU-based love people suddenly had for the Question, It’s nice to see them follow through on the BG and Skeets.
Sinestro Corps War - Beautiful. There are so many “Aw dang” moments rolling through this with some of my faves being in GL #23. Great stuff.
Marvel Adventures - the Avengers - Pure soul candy. I love how this “kids book” is one of the few titles where you can immediately tell who is speaking when an off-panel character’s word balloon pops up. Also, it has Karl.

Things that I only slightly dig now:
JLU Action Figures - While I still have issues with this toyline, I’m buying just about every set and figure that I see and like before it’s only available online for doo-doo dumb dollars. One thing that I’ll big-up Mattel on here is how they try to keep characters in good rotation through single figures and sets. Still, the fact that I’ll never have a Solomon Grundy will keep me from fully getting into this line.

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I’m out. I’ll have some photo and art posts soon along with other random crap. Until then, Y.B.C.

I did a Dreamhost Clicky McUpgradey with the WordPress blog, so it was looking a bit FUBARed for a bit. All seems to be as well as expected on a blog named Beans vs. Cornbread. If you can see this, it worked and my mention of this was pointless. If it didn’t work, then you probably can’t see this anyway which would make this just as pointless. Then again, who the hell is reading this thing anyway?

I’ll tell you who: spambots. When not eating old people’s medicine, they search the information superhighway for blogs to link to. Apparently, two found mine and one credited the post some other guy. If your so desparate for attention that you have to take credit for this crappy blog, you’ve officially hit an all-time low.

Sad news: YouTube.com had to take down a whopping 3 of the 4 videos from last week’s Funky Friday. You know, unless there are upcoming Kid ‘n Play and K-Solo DVD’s that I don’t know about or BET started showing a decent “Old-School” day while I’m still avoiding that channel, removing the videos is bass-ackwards. If it was from a request from the record companies, then they’re idiots. Having those videos on YouTube.com is pretty much free advertising on one of the most popular websites ever. It’s a shame to think that future generations may never know the glory that is the Funky Beat Puppet.

I’ve decided to restart this blog with the purpose of making it less boring. The first try bored me as I was doing it and I’m sure that it bored anyone that read it. More than anything, I’m going to write this in “my voice” without regard for how crazy it sounds.

The mission of this blog to take all the things that are cluttering my brain and leave them here so I can fill my brain with new, unimportant things. Musings will include just about anything from comic books to Hip-Hop to video games to how chicken pot pies that lack a bottom crust should be outlawed. There will also be posts that feature my crappy artwork that can be seen on Illmosis and a few places on ScrollBoss.

BTW: if you’re one of those “I have a problem with bad grammar and spelling” people, you should probably just leave now or perhaps, learn to deal with an imperfect world. It’s your call.