Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Geoff Sebesta's LiveJournal:

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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
10:59 pm	The Pawnee of Post-Rock Country Ellsworth is in the part of Kansas known as Post-Rock Country. That's because when people moved out here weren't no trees. So they scraped back the topsoil, cut eight-foot posts out of limestone, and used those to make the boundary fences. Hard core. Do Make Say Think and Tin Hat Trio are two of my favorite bands, and they play what some people call post-rock. See? See? Get it? Plus the Pawnee live around here. And Pawnee looks like PWND. There has to be a hilarious gif in this somewhere. Which no one in Post-Rock Country would ever see, because they don't believe in gifs. Here are some great names for bands: OJ and the Real Killers MC Ctrl-Z The Shirtless Kirks Waiters of Mass Destruction The Affordable Health Cares* Van Candy Google McMyspace Baby Shark Jesus Centimeter the Empty MC** Shanks vs. Shivs Dipthöng Dredlox El Kablammo The Devious Elite*** Brillo Glacial**** The Ditko Dots Sugar Shock The Harsh Realities Pro-Life Bang-List***** Googlability The Monster Island Marching Band Weird Pointy Industries Proud Member****** Cadmium Cocktail +1 to Music Perfect Bacon******* *This one is a really, really long story. **Must be prog-rock or post-rock. ***Stole that one from Shane. ****Stole that one from a bottle of Pantine hair conditioner. It's French for "Icy Shine." *****Jake assures me that's a good idea but I'm not so sure. Probably should be an ironic punk band. ******Also yoinked from Jake. *******gyanked from Charles. (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 21st, 2013
1:33 am	Feef #015 I like to stay up all night drawing them comic books. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, January 14th, 2013
1:52 am	Feef #014 Even though I am writing a comic book about a child being horribly kidnapped, I do not think this story would be improved if there was a gun in the home. Guns are stupid. I don’t even like playing with them in my imagination. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
1:59 am	Feef #013 So when I am not drawing comic books for you fine folk, I write articles for the internet. I use a variety of internet services for this, none of them pay particularly well. It’s sort of grueling work, in a weird and lazy way. You can make as much as you want, but you have to put in the time to do it, and it is dang difficult for a person as perpetually distracted as myself to put in more than a few hours a day on anything besides drawing, and I usually have about thirty drawings I’m working on at a time. “One of the many ways that green homes are going to revolutionize our living experience is that they will remember, respond, and adapt to the people that live there.” I just wrote that. It was 29 words. I could have said it six words, but I wouldn’t have gotten paid as much. Now that the internet is literally my job, when I’m not drawing pictures on it I’m writing letters for it, everything is a little different. I do love working from home, though. My garden is doing great. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, December 31st, 2012
2:51 am	Feef #012 My goal for the first part of this year is to learn the fine art of web design and to be a good father. Wish me luck. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, December 24th, 2012
2:51 am	Feef #011 I am actually writing these posts weeks in advance, which is a switch for me. At first I was trying to write the sorts of things that I thought people wrote in blog posts, but that quickly became dull. I really miss the Livejournal days and the endless writing that I used to do, so I thought I’d try that again. I have a facebook and twitter and such, if you are interested in the endless minutae that I wonder about every day. In this format I think I’ll try to get back to writing bigger and more complicated things, but I have a bad record with statements of intention, so I wouldn’t count on that. In any case, I have decided that every post of Feef should be accompanied by words, especially since Feef is such a slow story (at a panel a week, I’ve already penciled the first two years, so once I have a comfortable lead expect faster updates. I just have a kid on the way, so I’m scheduling much further in advance than before). Hopefully this will cause my brain to keep the subconscious routine open that generates blog posts. It’s interesting, because when you do something all the time, it gains momentum. It’s exactly like leaving a Firefox window open in your mind. Here’s to hoping for consistent inspiration. Merry Christmas, which it will be by the time some of you read these words, and after for most of you. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
1:53 am	Professor Door #4 This one was by Gewel and me. It was made to amuse one of her teachers, a man whom I have never met and probably will never meet, but I hope he likes it. I am also not sure how this works on the internet, because it is very, very small on the internet. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
1:27 am	Jack Kirby meets Chris Ware You would laugh if you knew how long this took to put together. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, December 17th, 2012
2:51 am	Feef #010 It turns out that the most “American” car in America is the Toyota Avalon, which is like 85% assembled in Georgetown Kentucky, lord only knows where the parts come from. I guess the first thing this means to me is that I owe Martha Layne Collins an apology. She was governor of Kentucky in the early 80s, and she actively enticed Toyota to come to Georgetown. If one assumes that the economy is doing something positive and that slightly better cars are better for the environment than slightly worse cars and that our entire car culture is not propelling us into a confrontation with this generation’s General Winter, by which I mean that if every step towards cars is a step towards our own doom, then there is no good step in that direction, but if there is such a thing as a good step in that direction, bringing Toyota to Georgetown was it. If nothing else it gives Central Kentucky a leg up in the inevitable robot wars to come. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Friday, December 14th, 2012
1:20 pm	Kirby = Kapow! Studying Jack Kirby lately, because I really like some things about him. Not a lot of things, definitely not all of them, but some of them. I had a comic that I was working on for the Next Issue of Rocksalt that needed a giant knock'emout punch for the antipunchline (that'll make sense when you see it, the comic is sort of based around the idea of reading it out of order so that the first thing you read gradually becomes something different as you get around to reading the rest of it, sort of playing upon the expectation that a comic should be read from left to right versus the reality that comics are read from the most eye-catching panel to the next, occasionally modified by that aforementioned expectation, so if you make a central enough image you can sort of make people read it over and over again while they read the rest of the panels in a sort of jagged order), and I needed the most rockin'est punch that could exist, which is of course Kirby... ...I'm just breaking up the paragraph here for readability, I'm still on the same subject... ....so I became interested in that most central and pressing question of our time, is Kirby's anatomy realistic? In the process of making this drawing, I actually took a million reference photos, photoshopped them together, and drew over actual human anatomy in fragments to get this result, and then I had to go back even farther into cartooning (and away from the model) to make it work, so no. Kirby does not depict realistic anatomy. He depicts plausible anatomy, which is better. (Comment on this)
Monday, December 10th, 2012
1:07 am	Feef #009 So I finally got around to it and started to study Jack Kirby. I think I sort of get it, a little better, now, mostly, sort of. One thing is that he liked to fill every inch with texture, to the point where it doesn’t even look good. So far I’ve noticed that he was really, really good at outlining bones and muscle groups with hard, flat planes. So that pretty much puts the kibosh on the idea that he didn’t know anatomy. You gotta actually know where the bone goes to put that precise squiggle there, and if it works any other way I’d like to know about it. Crossposting has been quite wack for this series so far, I swear to you I’m working on it, I desperately need to take a course in web design and get this stuff on track. In the mean time, here are the nine panels of Feef that I’ve published so far: Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
1:07 am	Feef #008 True Blood is the most consistently well-acted TV show I know of, or at least it was for the first two seasons, I heard it ain’t as good, but whatever, you know what I mean. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, November 26th, 2012
1:40 am	Feef #007 Gewel and I are going to have our first child at home. It is expensive. It is extremely expensive. It costs $3,000, I guess taxes are included, if not, it costs more. https://www.wepay.com/donations/money-for-gewell-s-doula If you feel like lifting some of this burden from our economic life, please, feel free. It must be a little odd to hear me talking about the kid as the same time as I’m posting this terrible story about a kid in danger, but hey, keeps it interesting. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, November 19th, 2012
1:40 am	Feef #006 Having kids means a lot of worrying. The kid isn’t even here yet and I feel a little overwhelmed. Don’t ask me how people do it, because I already know how people do it. They just get used to the feeling of being in over their head all the time, and the grace of life carries them along, except when it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t that’s just too bad. I understand that, but I’m not exactly looking forward to it. There’s one amazing thing about being single and lonely and meaningless in this world; you aren’t responsible for anyone else. I always knew this without knowing what it meant. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, November 12th, 2012
1:27 am	Feef #005 Vermin Supreme did not win. Here in Travis County, they didn’t even record my vote for him. It turns out that only pre-registered write-in candidates are allowed in Texas. I am sure this is evidence of some ancient and epic fraud but who knows how long ago, coulda been Sam Houston did this to freeze out a shipwrecked Horatio Hornblower who mighta won it if not for this specific shenanigan. Anyway, it’s in our state laws, so it’s unlikely to change anytime soon. Texas. It’s the Ravenloft expansion for America. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
8:31 pm	Cloudhopper 220 Hey look at that, I actually finished a page of Cloudhopper. It’s been about five months since the last one, sorry about that, I have a series of excellent excuses. In any case, here it is, can’t exactly guarantee that the next one will be along soon but I’m on it. These pages take as long as the take. I mean, if you’re curious, yes I spent days drawing this barn, no you cannot see most of it because it is dark, and no I do not plan to ever revisit this area. I hope it’s worth it, it certainly was fun. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, November 5th, 2012
7:41 am	Feef #004 Vote Vermin Supreme! What’s the matter with you, don’t you want a pony? Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, October 29th, 2012
7:37 am	Feef #003 Are you ready for the least competitive presidential race of your entire entire life? Please vote, but who cares for President. The downticket stuff is where it is at, 100%. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
2:06 am	Feef #002 I’m working on websites right now, I don’t have a clue what I’m doing but it’s important that I learn so I’m stumbling through some Dreamweaver tutorials. I really, really, really need things to look better on this site. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.
Monday, October 15th, 2012
3:25 am	Feef #001 Welcome to a new story that I have been working on, called Feef. I will be updating every Monday from now on, forever, until the whole story is finished. It’s a story about horrible things that happen to horrible people and also computers. I hope you like it. Mirrored from Radio Free North Hollywood.