that I'm proud to be an American. [link]

An excerpt from the AP:

A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday after an "out of control" throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains broke down the doors at a suburban store and knocked him to the ground, police said.

At least four other people, including a woman eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.

Nassau police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the store doors at the mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the man to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion


What the fuck?

Naming characters is a bitch. Well, for me anyway. I put way too much thought into it. God forbid you make a character you end up having to draw a million times and you end up hating the name though. 'Cause then it's there forever, taunting you.
I try to avoid using names that people I know have, but really it's kind of pointless to do that. I've known way to many Mikes to strike it from the list. The world needs Mikes. That's a scientific fact. A world without Mikes is hardly a world at all. The thing is I always fear that they're going to think it's some kind of reference to them. Then if they hate the character they'll always be like "why did you name that shitty character after me"? And I'm like "Dude (or girl dude as the case may be.) I totally didn't", but then you wonder if they believe you. I wonder if I'm the only person who stresses over this stuff so much.

You know, I like that there are more paranormal shows on television lately. It's neat that we've shifted into that desire to connect with the unseen again, but not every show needs to be Ghost Hunters. I've seen about enough of regular chumps wandering through old buildings, with random electronics. Let's find a new gimmick. Seriously. And if you really can't think of a new gimmick at least find some "investigators" with a little stage presence. That would be nice.

Also, I know times are tough, but can we stop showing the same 10 shows every Halloween? Please spend a little money and send out a new team to "investigate". Do a new documentary, or something. I can recite most of the History Channel's paranormal programs by heart.

So, the character in deviation 001 is unnoficially named Desdemona. There's no particular reason behind this. That's just the name that my brain latched onto when I decided how she would look. It was either that or Luxray, because her head reminds me of the pokemon of the same name... Anyway, I was checking my myspace and had a friend request from a spambot named Desdemona. I though it was a fun coincidence. I heard someplace that the law of big numbers says that you are likely to experience 10 wildly unlikely things every month or so. Apparently those averages are disputed. In any case I seem to experience many more unlikely coincidences than that per month, so I guess I'm throwing off the averages.

One of the most unlikely things I ever saw happen was when I watched a girl throw a wrapped CD case on the floor and it landed on an edge.

For the record, I deleted the last journal entry because I decided (and was told) it would be better to be sneakier about stuff. So now I'm all in sneak mode... Sneaking about and whatnot.

Thanks to those of you who commented by the way... I appreciate it.