Platinum Studios’ The Comic Book Challenge 2008

Check that out, the larget comic book creator contest on the planet and just lookee who’s on the list. Keep looking…that’s right…down…down…there’s it is, your’s truely, Jim Keplinger, comic writer and brewer of fine coffees.

Proof, boys and girls, that bribes DO work!

nin.com [download]- the slip

Go! Get it! Be happy!

Why are you still here?

Go away.

I’m not paying attention to you anyway, I’m listening to my new, free NIN album.

Bugger off.

Anyone remember the episode of the Brady Bunch Kids cartoon where the kids are on the Nile surrounded by Hippos  and they’re trying to find a cat that’s been magically transformed into  one and they discover it when they all yawn and the cat is the only one that meows? Just me?

Life has become more easy with Triggit :: Harry’s e-World
I haven’t seen something so cool in my life.

Now that’s as glowing an endorsement as one could hope for…but he goes on with the following list I hope he doesn’t object to my reposting, because it says a LOT.

This is what you need to do.

1. Goto Triggit website and sign up for an account. Use the invitation code Shoemoney. Be quick as only first 100 users can isgn up with that code.

(KEP SAYS: if that invite code is full, use “NEW” instead) 

2. Copy the Triggit code and place it anywhere inside the body tag on your Wordpress blog.

3. Add the Triggit page to your Firefox bookmarks (You will see what to bookmark as soon as you sign up).

4. Now goto your wordpress blog select a post.

5. Click the Triggit Bookmark you just added to Firefox.

6. The Triggit toolbar will load giving you options of adding affiliate link, image using flickr and a video using You Tube.

7. For affiliate links, just highlight the keywords, search, select the product and click save. This will create an affiliate link for you.

8. For videos you can search by typing the keywords. Triggit will provide you with videos relevant to your keyword/s which can be selected and attached to your post wherever you want it by just moving your mouse.

9. Deleting the affiliate link, picute or video is super easy. Just click the X sign next to it.

Many of you who read this blog are probably wondering where the hell I am. Me too. I have been deadlining like a fiend on several books. That’s good news though. It also means I don’t blog much though. BAH!

But I am writing today because I am testing a groovy new tool from TRIGGIT (www.triggit.com) that allows me to drag and drop images from flikr and videos from  YouTube into the post…AFTER I’ve written it.

For example…

ANNNNND…

Now let’s face it, that’s just cool. And useful!

I’ll be back later this week with a HUGE game list…it’ll be worth the wait…as well as comic info and maybe some random silliness. WHEEEEEEEE!

Meanwhile, if you want to help betatest TRIGGIT as seen in this post, let me know…I’ll give ya the hook up!

Microsoft, in yet another push to recover the ground lost to Mozilla, Google and other up-n-comers has actually taken the rather brilliant step of including a WYSIWYG blog editor with VISTA (downloadable for XP jocks too0 that actually is cross-blog compatible and seems to by pretty slick. How Slick? Wellll…right now I’m giving it a go and it’s not too bad so far. Yea Me!

Most notable is that I now have a Windows spell check…which is still a bit better than anything for Firefox (though those are improving mighty fast). Also, it doesn’t force me to boot up a browser to use…which may, someday, impress me.

More later on this…or not.

For those of you who got this far, thanks. Here’s a bonus treat.  Coming soon TWO new books written by yours truly. Comics that is. White Gold. Geeky tea. No, I’m not moving to Beverly…but wouldn’t that be nice?

I know, I know, REAL bloggers don’t let being out of town stop them from writing inane things int heir fuzzy, little online worlds…I do…cope.

BUT I’M HERE NOW! WOOPIE!

First up: BOOMSHINE
http://bored.com/boomshine/index.htm
Now, here’s a strange little game…sort of like puzzlegame meets shooter. But you get one shot. Shoot one of the dots, blow it up and if any others are in range they go too. Simple. Yeah right.

Next up: MiniPut III
http://wegame.info/games/miniputt3.swf
This has all the feel of a good ol’ 1994 game played on a 386…but without the hiccups and bad graphics. Ok. the graphics are not good…but they aren’t bad either. This is exactly what it says it is…MiniPut Golf…and it’s (gasp!) FUN! The shelf life of a game like this is about three games before you’ll move on, but it’s an entertaining three games.

GAME OF THE WEEK: VIVA VOODOO!
http://www.vivavoodoo.com/
For anyone who ever thought "Man, I just love being a Yeti and smashing penguins (Good evening, Mr. Bonds) but I need more depth in my virtual death relationships" have I got a game for you! VIVA VOODOO is wicked good fun…has suprise endings and the best soundtrack of the week by far! This is smart, Gorey fun at it’s best! So far I’m terrible…2084 is my best, but I bet a few of you out there are real rope pullers and aren’t ashamed to tell us all about it. Go hang a voodoo doll and don’t say I didn’t warn you!

Until next time when there WILL be comic book news from the pen of this old scribe (REALLY!).

AEIOU,

Kep!

Alanis Morissette "My Humps"

Fucking brilliant. I know most people will think this is a parody, but I disagree. This is a hard stab into the heart of the music industry and the way they pimp out the girls with a shred of talent and tits in order to make a buck for themselves. The song is perfect in this context…makes be wonder if Will I Am wrote it to mean that in the first place…it just seems to good for the piece. Alanis’ voice is haunting and still seductive in the second decade of her career…wow. In impact only (it sure isn’t similar musically) it reminds me a lot of Pat Benatar’s Love is a Battlefield video when it first came out.

Shoot me. Please, just shoot me. I have returned from New York with the infamous CON CRUD! No sooner do I get off the train than I start feeling like a possum hit by a semi-truck…three days later, I’m still in the middle of the road and quite flat. Fortunately, I’m seeing SOME hope on the horizon (God bless you DayQuil, God bless you). Until then, please forgive my utter lack of an appropriate convention report.

On the plus side, not getting out of bed for 72 hours has given me time to work on my notes…and notes…and notes. My, you’d think I was a writer or something. Who knew?

If you’re reading this over the weekend of February 23-25 (or a couple of days thereafter), it’s a pretty save bet we’ve met at the New York Comic Con! It was great meeting you! Please forgive the dust around here, I’m still getting the new blog and portfolio settled. Meanwhile, if you have any questions, comments or answers, please don’t hesitate to drop me a note here or at the address on the business card you’re probably holding in your hand (calls are always nice too).  I’ll see you all back here next week!

AEIOU,
Kep!