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Conversations With Stuff: The Fly
Manda: Alright, time to sit down, relax and get some work done.
Fly: hhhhhhHHHIIIIIIiiiiiii
Manda: What the—
Fly: ffffFFFLLLLLYYYyyyying!
Manda: How did you get in?
Fly: hhhhhhHHHHIIIIiiiiii HI!
Manda: Fine, just stay out of my way and let me concentrate–
Fly: llllliiiikeyourHAIR!
Manda: That is the opposite of letting me concentrate.
Fly: circlecirclecirclecirclecircle
Manda: (gets out fly swatter)
Fly: LIVING ROOM!
Manda:…that’s better (goes back to typing)
…
…
Fly: fffooooundyourEAR!
Manda: AH!
Fly: Wantthescreen (bump) Wantthescreen (bump) Wantthescreen (bump) Wantthescreen
Manda: THAT’S it! (grabs fly swatter again) You are now my prey.
Fly: Escape ESCAPE ESCAPE ESSSCAAAAPE!
Manda: (flailing wildly) you have to land sometime.
Fly: DISHES!
Manda: Do you think that will stop me?!
*CRASH TUMBLE*
…
…
Fly: ssssstiiillALIVE
Manda: You aren’t nearly as fun as Glados.
Announcement: Con Bravo
Look! It’s an exciting announcement! You can tell I made this when I was tired because my left eye always droops when I’m too tired.
But yes! I will be going to ConBravo in just a few days!
Aaaand, holy crap it’s nervewracking.
There are a ton of cool guests and events. It’s a little daunting to share the floor with them. But at the same time, it’s going to be three days of nerding out with my friends and peers at one of my favourite conventions. I am so pumped.
If you happen to be in Hamilton this weekend, I would highly suggest coming out. Here’s my schedule for those that don’t want to get it from a rambling video:
- Friday, 6:30pm: Letters to Video Game Characters (Live Whitless Letters)
- Saturday, 4pm: Storytelling in New Mediums (Video Games, Webseries, etc.) with Clan of the Greywolf, Normal Boots and Derek the Bard
- Saturday, 10:30pm: Audition for the Worst Movie Ever with Tom White
- Sunday, 4pm: Gender Roles in Video Games with 3killabytes
Errol will also have panels!
- Saturday, 2:30pm: Crowdfunding for Indie Artists
- Saturday, 6:30pm: Super Audio World II Concert
- Sunday, 11:30am: Nerd Music
It’s going to be lots of fun! Come out and geek out with us! Hope to see you there!
Conversations with Stuff: Pants
Pants: Manda….
Manda: Yaargh…
Pants: Maaaanda!
Manda: I can’t hear you!
Pants: You have to put me on, Manda.
Manda: No, I don’t!
Pants: Look, I know you’re not my biggest fan.
Manda: Got that right!
My Neighbour Errol: Eyes
Errol: Is there something on my face?
Me: No, why?
Errol: You keep looking at my nose and mouth.
Me: No, there’s nothing on your face, I just can’t look you in the eye.
Errol: How is it that I STILL intimidate you?
Me: I thought that would be obvious.
Errol: (sticks out tongue)
Me:…what are you doing?
Errol: If you can’t look me in the eye, you might as well look at my tongue!
Me: This is your ploy to get me to look you in the eye?
Errol: Yup.
Me:…it’s working.
Errol: *SMUGFACE*
You know the face.
Conversations With Stuff: Nerves
Brain: Alright, time to work!
Nerves: Nervous.
Brain: Oh, for…why?
Nerves: I don’t know.
Brain: Of course. Here, drink some tea, while I tell the hands to dial out a number to our client.
Nerves: NO DON’T!
Brain: why NOT?!
Nerves: NERVOUS!
Brain: That’s not a compelling reason. We have to do our job or we’ll get fired.
Nerves: WE’RE GOING TO GET FIRED!
Brain: That’s not what I intended you to focus on…
Nerves: EATING OUT OF TRASH CANS!
Brain: Okay, just calm down…
Nerves: DYING IN A GUTTER!
Brain: It’s just one little phone call…
Nerves: NERVOUS!
Brain: I don’t care!
Nerves: THE PLANET IS DOOMED!
Brain: Okay…what?!
Nerves: We won’t have water! Or food! We’ll all be starving and fighting ourselves to extinction! So we need to quit our job! And become farmers so we can fend for ourselves!
Brain:…you really don’t want to make this phone call, do you?
Nerves: I CAN’T SEE THEIR FACE!
Brain: Alright…well, if that’s how you feel, how about I go and talk to our boss then and—
Nerves: NERVOUS!
Brain: That’s what I thought. I’m dialing.
My Neighbour Errol: Outdoors
Errol is not known to suffer in silence.
Reaction to me not seeing Totoro.
If there is something he dislikes doing, he will let you know, at length and in great detail, just how much he abhors an activity/food. Like mushrooms, which he describes as “Nature’s Odour Eaters”. Read the rest of this entry
Conversations with Stuff: Hair
Me: Hey there, hair.
Hair: Good morning! What are we doing today?!
Me: Well…
Hair: Straightening? Curling? Some fancy Game of Thrones hair style you always wanted to do?
Someday…
Me: About that…now, I don’t want you to freak out… Read the rest of this entry
Sidekicks: The Beginning!
Update post! Filming for Sidekicks has begun! It is really weird to think that after a year and a half of writing and preparing that we’re actually recording it to screen.
In many ways, it’s a similar experience to NaNoMusical. We’re pretty much a rag tag operation who works on it during our precious free time on the weekends. We depend on borrowed equipment and kind volunteers to keep us going and our wallets relatively full. Errol never stays on script.
Or undistracted.
But in so many other ways, it’s vastly different from NaNoMusical. Read the rest of this entry
Conversations With Stuff: Jogs and Whipped Cream
Recently I’ve taken to posting fake/semi-true conversations with my body or inanimate objects on my Facebook wall. And I thought, why not blog them as well? So welcome to my new “Conversations with Stuff” series! And my first one for the blog occurred tonight :D.
Brain: Huzzah! We finished a jog! Don’t you feel good, body?!
Sidekicks- The Terror
My webseries Sidekicks is happening! I’ve decided to dedicate some blog posts chronicling the filming process. I have another, far more fun post after this one :D. But this one needed to get off my chest:
This weekend we finally begin filming for Sidekicks, a webseries that I began to work on a year and a half ago after NaNoMusical ended.
I am somewhat terrified at the prospect. Read the rest of this entry
Thoughts from the Test Chamber 