6.28.09/20:14  stolen papers and golden showers         

The covers section is now complete!  Well, as complete as it will be for a little while.  I made chord and lyric pages for all the songs I have videos for, but that's not to say I don't want to make more videos.  I do want to make more videos.  I'm desperately wanting to put up a baritone ukulele cover of Your Love by The Outfield.  Maybe even a baritone uke version of Beyonce's Irreplaceable. 

There are like 30 cover pages, and the videos serve as a kind of tutorial for those of you wishing to learn some rockin' pop songs.  Just sayin'.  That's all, man, I'm just saying you should consider it.

And these pictures.  Nothing to stir up your 4th of July patriotic spirits like a golden shower, right?  And, apparently, one of my neighbors is a little upset that *somebody* is stealing her paper.  Stupid Post-Gazette...not like there's ever anything good in it anyway.  I'm going to start putting up my own notes soon...

6.18.09/00:12  number crunching                         

When I changed the format of the main page, I started using Google Analytics to track visitors to the site.  The upside was more accuracy, but the downside was that only pages I created after the transition were being tracked.  For a long time, I've been under the impression that peachycomics has been brightening the lives of around 100 to 150 people per month.

However, this has not exactly been the case.

Back in 2006, for a joke, I made a monster archive page containting 3 years of posts.  If you don't remember, you can see that glory by visiting:

http://peachycomics.com/main.html

Don't be upset if its massive size destroys your computer with its hugeness.

Anyway, while I was tinkering around in the site's control panel during our little service disruption, I realized that search engines were sending a LOT of people to the aforementioned mega-page.  It turns out that something like 10,000 unique human visitors every month get to experience the joy of peachycomics.

Which makes me want to take advantage of that somehow.  Should I put up some ads?  Should I start pimping out the projects of my friends?  If you have any ideas, you can, as always, e-mail them to jbaugher@rocketmail.com.

6.16.09/18:59  issues                                   

We've been having technical issues for a few days now...

However, if you can read this, they might have been resolved.

Cheers.

6.13.09/20:30  return from the beach                    

Many thanks to Cica-san for his tireless driving abilities and for maintaining his cool even during hours of political antagonism (meant to keep him awake and fired-up while driving, of course...) anyway, we're back from the beach, our skin burned and our tummies full.  And now I'm starting to PEEL.

The top shot is a pic of the castle Nick-san and I made.  This is after the tide came in and started smashing it.  The bottom shot is a cool pic of the water swooshing into the moat we dug.  Sadly, our five-dollar wooden shovels didn't survive the week.  Sucks.

It was a good week of hanging out with the girl, exploring the Outer Banks, and rocking some badminton and foosball.

But what news of peachycomics-related things?  Ah, yes.  I've been working relentlessly on the music section, so now you can find chords, lyrics, and embedded-video pages for all of my original songs.  Next I will work on chord and lyric pages for the covers.  Who can say how long that will take...

6.5.09/18:28  the mighty baritone ukulele               

Big things are afoot.  Today we leave for the beach, and last week I made a stealth visit to IN for a job interview.  I don't think I got it, but I'm kind of okay with that.  It would take a lot of money to ever convince me that moving back to that backwater mire is a good idea.  And I still maintain that it most certainly is not.  I still have no desire to move back to that state.

In an effort to broaden my musical horizons, I kicked around amazon.com until I found it, that mother of all unattainable glory:  the baritone ukulele.  For a benjamin and a hamilton and the mental anguish of 4 days of waiting, I became the proud new owner of a Lanikai LU-21B baritone ukulele. 

If I put a sentence here just to help the formatting of this page so that the two pictures wouldn't touch, would that be such a terrible thing?  Would you forgive my neuroses just this once?  Well, you may find that you have no choice but to just play along...

Some of you may be wondering, 'what is a baritone ukulele?'  A baritone ukulele is the largest of the traditional classes of ukulele, the four main types (from smallest to largest) being the: soprano, concert, tenor, and the baritone.  Its size is comparable to a 3/4-size classical guitar, but with only four strings.  The thing that makes the baritone so much more special than the others is that the four strings, D G B E, utilize the same tuning as a standard guitar.

My thought upon learning this was, sweet, I will be able to master it with very little effort!  But I learned a hard truth:  4 strings is harder than 6.  My perpetual mission of finding the easy way out was crushed.

So, my goal is to spend the next week passed out drunk on the beach with my ukulele in hand, and to wake up at some indefinite point in the future having mastered the damn thing.

[ukulele info page] an information page for uke enthusiasts

And yes, the link above.  It takes you to a page showing all the standard and baritone ukulele chords.  If I can convince Cica-san to bring his movie video creation device, perhaps I will put up a few videos of the mighty baritone ukulele in action.  If you can't wait for that, here's a video to sate your ukulele appetites.  You may remember Ted's band covering this song on Scrubs.

5.22.09/20:26  new glasses are here                     

Actually, I got them two weeks ago.  There's a lot of lag between events and the posted explanation thereof.  I'm pretty happy with them.  They do that turn-into-sunglasses thing when I go outside, and that makes them pretty useful for me, since I hate the sun.

Another news...er...in other news I mean, the lyric and chord pages are up for all the songs on nocturne digitalis and short-hand clockspins.  I know you were all eagerly awaiting them [sarcasm].  Heh.

And Nate's comic Epic Earth is pretty awesome.  I want to do a little feature on it when I get some free time so you can see just how cool it is, but that'll take time, a precious commodity when you're working two full-time jobs and off-shifts and weekends and never getting enough sleep...

Yeah, baby steps.  Rome wasn't sacked in a day...

5.3.09/01:08  shout-outs to my peoples                  

I ordered new glasses.  A side-effect of the eye exam was having giant pupils.  For a few hours, I found myself hating the sun even more than I usually do.  I think the specks are pretty sweet, but we'll see how well they work out for me when they actually get here. 

Should be sometime next week.

And I've been rocking my way through Phantom Hourglass all week.  I hope to finish the game this weekend so I can go back to making chord/lyric pages for all the songs that have been YouTube'd.

But that wasn't my impetus for this post.  The thing is, with the weather finally getting warmer and my spirits starting to get rekindled, I'm wondering what's going on with my friends, flung to their respective corners of the globe...

Jezza - How's the big O treating you?  Drop me an e-mail once you get settled in and get your computers and their internets up and running.  Remember, a time will come when you will need stuff translated, and you won't want to do that yourself.  I know a guy who can do that for you...

Q-diesel - Now that you've finished the process, I'm wondering if you'll drop me a line and let me know how you're doing.  I heard you got shot in the eyes with some burning substance.  Reminds you of our college days a little, doesn't it?

Jason - Now that you've gotten your freedom back, I'm looking forward to your visit to the 'burgh this summer.  And put up some goddamn videos of your awesome guitarring, will you?

Amanda - Speaking of visits to the 'burgh, where are you?  This Waffle Crisp won't eat itself, you know.  It's been what, three years since we last did the hanging of the out?

Eric-sama - Did you go to Japan to visit that girl yet?  Are you married?  What will you name your interracial children?  Name one after me.  And let's drink a beer when you get back and decide to take another  thousand-mile manic road trip.

Marc-sensei - The Fukuoka ladies sound so lovely.  I haven't heard from you in a few months, and I'm wondering if you're still thinking of moving back to Cali-Cali if you haven't done so already.

Nate - I'm eagerly awaiting some comics.  It'd be nice to have a few brews and jam some guitar and plan for the invasion.

Crazy Matt - My records indicate that you don't visit the site, so I don't have much to say to you.  I'd like to see Moseph sometime, though.  Long live the FIST!

Kimmy - You DO visit the site sometimes.  But you never send me e-mail...honestly, I don't know what you see in that Florida.  You should move back up here.

Jesse - Yeah?  Don't you have family up here?  I mean, you don't have to come visit me, but don't you owe it to them to drop by once in a while?  And when you do that, come see me.

ショウコちゃん - ハワイに着いたら知らせてくれ。そっちに行ってあそびたいんだよ！金持ちのダンアみつけた？

Nick-san - What are you doing at a bachelorette party?  Granted, you get to hang out with a lot of women, but is that really more fun than playing the Scrubs drinking game and a few rounds of Scattergories?

Gabi - Don't you get enough of me in real life?  Do you really need a personalized missive in this forum to feel validated?  Yeah, I love you, too.  Just don't expect me to play Othello with you again anytime soon.  Sheesh.

4.18.09/23:07  an excerpt from jobe the robot           

Ito was in the penthouse suite, being ridden by a demure girl named Da Mei. His arms behind his head, he was mentally laying out storyboards, thinking of layouts, positioning bodies and lights and shadows and, of course, splotches of blood.

She was straddling him, pumping up and down for all she was worth. She turned around into a reverse cowgirl, she switched holes, she screamed, she pretended to cry, and Ito was paying very little attention to all of it, until it was almost time for the finale.

Jarred back into the present, Ito’s attention was caught not by the sweat flying off Da Mei’s tits, but the subtle clicking of mechanisms in the door that was supposedly locked.

He put one hand under his pillow, grasped the gun there, and focused for the fight he knew was coming.

Da Mei kept pumping.

The door opened and a gun-toting man in a blue suit opened fire, sending a few rounds through the Korean girl, the force of the bullets blasting her right off Ito’s cock and into the wall, Ito’s juice shooting up into the air like a white geyser.

The intruder glanced at the bullet-riddled girl, then back to Ito, but Ito was already off the bed and nowhere to be seen. Six hollow-point rounds echoed through the room; Ito was standing behind the intruder, holding his revolver in one hand and a shotgun in the other.

“Roku! You son of a bitch! You think you can just pop in here and snuff me? You have any idea how expensive that bitch was?”

“You’re wasting your damn bullets.”

Ito raised the shotgun, its oversized barrels looking almost cartoonish.

“I helped build you. You think I can’t end you? This ain’t no ordinary shotgun. This here is what I call a fucking ‘robot-killer’. Now get the fuck outta here!”

And Roku left, closing the door behind him.

Ito walked over to the prostitute’s bloody body and shoved a few fingers into her. He looked down at his erection. Tears were streaming down her face as the last traces of life were leaving her body.

“Well, at least she’s still wet…”

4.13.09/13:01  rocking the youtubes                     

Before I get started on my typical rant, I would like wish a resounding 'Happy Birthday!' to my love, Gabi.  She's 21 today, and we plan to celebrate tonight in true viking style.

So...what was I doing?  Right.  Lately, I've been posting a lot of videos on the youtubes as part of my effort to have every single song from every single album and every single cover song accessible on the internets.  I've got around 40 up so far, so we're a little over halfway.  Here's what random 'netters have to say about my videos:

'its kinda funny :D”
-Behemothsoldier

“your playing is fantastic. your voice is not. try to sound less like Billy Corgan.”
-Dukky

“haha you whistle! two thumbs up =]”
-Suphermarie

“you are an absolute faggot”
-langostino1234

You can see where I'm going with this.  I encourage you to go watch some videos on my youtube channel and rate them and make comments.  Creative insults may end up posted here.  For your efforts, here's a bluegrass song about vikings.

3.16.09/20:14 hey!                                      

Me no do posting long time.  I know, man.  It's just that I'm, like, going through some stuff right now.  It's like my whole life is so crazy and I don't can't totally won't not...

*thwack*

Okay, so despite appearances, a lot of stuff has been going on behind the scenes.  Music and writing and graphics and whatnot.  I even made an album cover for those kinda sorta not so serious songs I posted videos for.

I know, right?  Yeah, it took me forever to Etch-A-Sketch that shit.  Almost as long as it took me to find a perfectly square Etch-A-Sketch...

If you want a little sneak preview of what the new music page is going to look like, click here.

If you want a post-sneak preview of February or stuff from the past, click here.

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