yep, that much! I know. Ok, aside from testing how painfully long I can make entry titles here on the ol’ Normality, I did want to drop in for a bit, because I was obviously and completely absent this last week. So to make up for it, here’s a nonsense-filled-egotistical meme, of no merit whatsoever! Yay! I stole this from Doctor Mary, so blame her for bringing it into existence anywhere near me O_O:

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and the site completely changes O_O. Luckily, I think that this change is a rather nice one… so yay!

Normally today would be a day of webcomic-y shenanigans but alas, I think I have nearly killed myself by fighting nigh impossible odds to complete a literally 6 foot+ tall webcomic for Megalo Life to complete the 4 part Xmas Special mini-series ( parts 1 2 3 )… I had to wrastle things, dive through poison dart spitting ancient corridors, out run, out smart and out last voracious executive elements that breathe the foulest smelling air hidden within the deepest dungeons of the day-job fortress. Within these slime-coded catacombs, where eldrict era cobwebs constantly wafted into my eyes, nostrils and mouth I did valiantly venture forth, my trusty wacom, Goliath, in hand to complete this unruly quest.

But now, the quest is complete, I am rewarded with a message far better than, ‘Sorry, your princess is in another castle, fuckwit.‘ And I can at last relax… needless to say, this horrendous and gargantuan project has tried to not only eat my soul over the last four week spanning episode releases, it has also invariably been gnawing away at what precious time I have… but now, time is mine once more, and so I shall use it to sleep.

In the meantime, I think that the webcomic will be returning next week, and in the interim I am preparing something special for the Holidays. Until then, when I see you once more, after a long shower to wash away the slime, crusted blood and other unthinkable detritus brandished upon me in dying gasps and fountain like spurts from my nearly human, but ultimately fallen, combatants.

This is not madness, this is Normality Restored!

–Aleister D D Gilgrim

Hello to all!

I was planning on putting together something a bit more festive for today in honor of the winter celebration of the western sun god’s birth tomorrow. Unfortunately, I got hit with some less than stellar news today which made the whole idea of scribbling something festive-y not so attractive anymore. This makes the second piece of weird or bad news that I’ve been handed in the last 2 days. If the old rules still hold true then I’m sure I can expect one more piece of emotional-psychologically-draining-or-physically-debilitating shit to hit me square in the face before everything is said and done, and things start going back to a more enlightened form of multiverse-cosmic balance.

That said and in honor of my current feelings, here is a little something for the season of traitors and wrongdoers…

In special honor of those who seem to have spent the better or at least latter portion of this year trampling on trust, destroying a record of unrequited devotion, sacrifice, honor and basic civility. To those few who seem to have made it a special mission to attack and or endanger my family, my self, my work and my livelihood, as they say, ‘this one’s for you!’. It is my sincere holiday wish that Krampus was real and that he would show up individually to your doors tonight, flatulent you repeatedly, and painfully with his fist full of switches and carry you away sobbing, beaten, broken and bloody. He’s ready, he’s happy to do his job and he has no problem showing you what I think about you miserly, fucktards of despair, spiteful retaliation and selfish ghettoized sense of community responsibility. To you, slobbering, rancid cunts, Happy Krampus, may you receive nasty staph infections, IRS audits and street walker born STDs all!

To everyone else, you’re awesome, please do enjoy this winter holiday and unlike the previously mentioned twats, may you find happiness and comfort in your honorable deeds, the company of your friends and family and in the reflection of another year gone by!

I love you all (or at least those who shouldn’t have Krampus coming after them tonight),

–Aleister

This was completed last Thursday, and seems to have finally gone up today… all in all I was surprised by the cancellation of the series, but the reasons for the cancellation are, well, not evident at this time. However, I was lucky enough to be able to put together one final strip in order to say goodbye to all of the wonderful readers who stuck it out and came back week after week for the 30+ installments. To all that have been reading the series and allowed me, April, Wednesday and even our son, Salem, to be a part of your lives - and to all of those who enjoyed the strips, thank you, very, very much.

So here it is, the final installment of Megalo Life - for Trickster Online Revolution.

And so 2007 closes today, and with it this weekly webcomic serial. Thank you again to everyone who showed their support, if you would like to leave comments for the series itself, please do so in the actual comments section for the Megalo Life series at the bottom of the URL link as I will be reading them there.

See you all next year!

–Aleister

Those that know me, or have been following my personal bloggings for the last year, know that I have a thing for French Bulldog puppies. You see, whenever I’m sad, or am having a bad day, all I have to do to help thwart the pain of my current predicaments is do a google image search for the inarguable cuteness that are French Bulldog puppies. Most of the time this works to an amazing degree. I developed the habit when I was working at Blizzard and my teammates and I would participate in ‘image search races’ where we would use the google function to try and find the best, weirdest and funniest or most random images the fastest.

This tradition and practice has continued into my new job. Although there is no official ‘race’ everyday, there is still the occasional need to find the weird and obscure. To this end, and in celebration of this weird and delightful net-surfing pastime I present to you my collection for today of the weird and unusual from ye olde interwebz. Behold:

A creepy man in a creepy hat

“Spiders are the fiercest hunters on the planet!”

this is why furries frighten me… O_O

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And there you have it, my image findings for the day, enjoy, smile, and try not to think too hard about the weirdness that is out there waiting to be found on purpose or by accident in the digital-web-i-sphere.

–Aleister