Hello. I have to make this quick. First, Happy Birthday to Rini. Rini Bell has a Bacon Rating of 2. I can't wait until Ghost World comes out. It looks very true to the comic book. They don't have much up on their site yet, but it's here for future reference. Also, Linus sent me a copy of a picture from the upcoming live action Scooby Doo movie. Wow. What a great idea. The picture he sent me didn't work, but it inspired me to find this page which I'm guessing is equally funny.

Hmmmm. What else? I just got a message from my supervisor here at CityPaper. It says:
*** **** called. He said he'd worked with you before. Needs freelancer for band stuff / Dischord Records...
Damn I'm a lucky bastard, eh? I'm hoping that this pans out... I also got a raise here last week. I showed up two hours late to work, and they gave me a raise. I started a new job here tonight. I'm now designing ads and laying out stories. It's a lot like the Reveille.

What else? There's a lot of stuff coming up soon. I have a meeting with the marketing director of Visions Cinema (the place I used to work) on Thursday. She wants to talk to me about being my "agent". Sounds good to me. I hope it works out. She set me up an interview with another newspaper called "On Tap" (that circulates through the DC bar scene) about submitting weekly cartoons. Sounds like my audience. After I meet with her, I'm going to go down to the Mall cos I heard there was a free showing of animated shorts at the Hershorn. On Friday, I'm going to see some animated shorts by Rachel Max. The DC Independent Film Festival is this week (also at Visions). I met Rachel Max yesterday. I gave her a bunch of comic books. The first thing she said when she saw my comics was "Hey. This stuff reminds me of Don Hertfeldt's". I fear I will forever be compared to Don Hertzfeldt, which is not a bad thing by any means. Don Hertzfeldt is awesome. Rejected just got nominated for an academy award. How cool is that? Anyway, Rachel Max was cool. I'm glad there are other animators in DC. I'n fact, she is my new favorite person in DC. Maybe we'll work on a collaboration one day...On Saturday, I'm going to go up to Baltimore to show my portfolio to a classical animation school. It's a school that teaches strictly film animation. The classes are really cheap too. I want to take classes there mainly so that I will get off my ass and start making films. Ever since I discovered it, ideas for animated shorts have been flying out of my ass. Now it's just a matter of editing them down to just the good ideas. Blah. On Saturday night there is a post Mardi Gras party that my friend Cesar invited me to. Post Mardi Gras party? Got me? DC is weird. Write to me if you want to trade CD's...