animayshun improfessional! » doodles http://meridiandream.com/blog drawing, storytelling, blogging. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:04:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sympathy for the Exhausted http://meridiandream.com/blog/2009/12/14/sympathy-for-the-exhausted/ http://meridiandream.com/blog/2009/12/14/sympathy-for-the-exhausted/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:59:38 +0000 Jim Mortensen http://meridiandream.com/blog/?p=602 We did some private-room karaoke on Saturday night, which was an absolute blast. I had the brilliant idea to do the “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones.

Good Lord, I forgot how long that song is.
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Stieg and I came up with a theory of how UP is like LOST.

Carl Fredrickson = John Locke
Charles Muntz = Ben
Kevin = Sung (the whole separation plot)
Dogs = Smoke Monster
Dug = Hurley
Russell = Kate (both whiny to the end)
Balloons & The house = The Numbers
Paradise Island = The Island
Storm that brings the house down = The magnetic event that brings down Oceanic 815

I guess that makes Jacob… Ellie?

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Some people think they can outsmart him. Maybe. Maybe. He has yet to meet someone that can outsmart bullet.

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Before I moved to California, I took a trip around the country in my Dodge Grand Caravan and visited San Francisco, staying in Mike’s place . Two days before I was supposed to leave, I got hit by a car while riding my bike, separating my shoulder and breaking my collarbone. Thanks to the fine folks at San Francisco General hospital, I was on painkillers that zonked me out.

Mike was so incredibly kind to put me up for a couple days before my flight back to New Hampshire to recover. He worked from home while I stayed up and watched nothing but Kathy Griffin’s “My Life on the D List”. Like I said, I was on painkillers and zonked out.


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Thanks, Mike!

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Now It’s back to cleaning up the Dorothy turnaround before my Schoolism class starts on the 26th. Yeehaw!

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Also: A shopping trip to Topo Ranch, courtesy of my lovely girlfriend. She’ll make a respectable man of me come hell or high water.

This was my pre-holiday project that turned into a post-holiday finished project.

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