One thing I have managed to accomplish since being here in San Diego was obtain my California pistol license.  So for three years I can legally own a pistol without having to take the test.  Don’t have to worry if I go to a gun show, or a gun dealer.  I’m perfectly legit.

It wasn’t very difficult.  Just read this a couple of times and take the practice tests in the pdf and you’re pretty much golden.  If that wasn’t enough the test is only thirty questions, of which you have to get eight wrong in order to fail.  Something crazy stupid like that.

I’m a firm believer that everyone should exercise their right to bear arms, or arm bears if you please.  I do have a hunting rifle, but I plan on using that barrel for spare parts and replacing it with an M38 sometime this fall.  Along with that I plan on getting a Glock 17 (rented one at the range last week and loved it) as well as a Ruger 10/22.  I’ve mentioned the latter in previous posts.

Now to obtain my hunting license and figure out some spots to shoot a pig.

Seems like a comic news kind of day.  Then again I added several comic blogs to my rss reader today.  So looks like I’ll be mentioning quite a bit more about one of my favorite mediums since childhood.  So all of you out there, go and read some damn comic books.

I’m writing about something something I just just read over at the New York Times that really perked my interest.  Invincible by Robert Kirkman is getting the small screen treatment.  It’s definitely a fun comic and happens to be written by one of my favorite writers for the past year and half or so.  It’s really the technology that has me stoked.

But it’s not quite animation in the traditional sense. “I like to think of it as cinematic comics — digital cinematic comics,” said David Gale, executive vice president of MTV New Media, which is producing the episodes in partnership with Gain Enterprises.

I’ll be honest here I didn’t see the animation that was recently done of Astonishing X-Men #1, but it definitely sounds cool.  I may have to pop over to Marvel.com and check it out so I know what’s what with this style of animation.  The fact that they’re going to have up to issue #36 by september makes it awesome.  Perhaps when they catch up to #50 they will release new "episodes" as the issues are released monthly.  How cool would that be?

One of my favorite comic publishers Boom! Studios has started to release more of their catalog for free according to Newsarama.  They already released Northwind like this on Myspace (which I don’t have anymore, they should add facebook) and I assume that it helped them push some sales else they wouldn’t be releasing more.

For those that don’t know, the image I use in my header is from a Fall of Cthulhu comic from them.  I forget which number off the top of my head, but it seemed fitting with the theme I found for wordpress.  Too bad they’re not releasing that one for free, but they are releasing Cthulhu Tales.  I always figured anything with Cthulhu should be given out for free since it’s based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

In other comic news the full trailer for The Spirit has been leaked.  I know I’ll probably see this but it does look over the top.  Then again a lot of trailers seem to look that way and the film can be very good.  Then again will this end up like the latter two Matrix films?  Or is it going to be as awesome as Sin City?  Only time will tell.

Well, it’s now down to 16 and a wake until I head back up to San Francisco.  In all honesty I can’t wait until that happens, just due to the fact that I feel like I’m dicking around when I should be taking care of some personal business.  You know, getting my apartment, furnishing it, getting my life all sorted out since I left Janelle’s and my apartment in earlyish June.

I haven’t been able to do an update for a little over a week due to the fact the machine I host on was in transit from Ireland to the Bay area.  Needless to say, that meant no web site, at least I host my email elsewhere.  It has been an interesting couple of weeks since I came down to San Diego.

I really don’t enjoy how hot and humid it is down here.  It’s a little too much for me, mostly because I’m not used to such weather after spending a little over three yeras in San Francisco.  At least in the east bay it’s not humid when it’s hot.  I’m sure I could get used to it after an extended period of time, but fuck it’s hot down here.  I sweat just doing nothing, sweat buckets.  If I walk then I’m pouring sweat.  Not fun if you plan on going out.

I did clown a couple of Thursdays ago.  Nothing major just some dirty puppet dancing at the House of Blues down town with Bruce and Willie Bologna.  When you’re doing something that crazy it gives you free reign to do what ever you want.  Hot girls would come up to me and make me grab them in all sorts of places and freak dance.  Sometimes I love weird shit just for that reaction.  At least there were no hippies about.

So the reason for the bug on this post is because when hanging out with Willie Bologna a constant topic of conversation is SHTF.  Basically what to do when the shit really hits the fan.  How do you survive, do you have  plan?  That sort of thing.  Since he’s crazy about surviving and making sure that he’ll live to witness the chaos he’s a great source of information.  Was going to pick one of those up anyway since they’re good times for plinking, small game and getting traget practice in cheap.

Probably going to do a camping and hiking trip up on Angel Island sometime in October.  Should still be fairly warm and not raining at that time.  Can see if I remember shit from when I was a boy scout.  Of course it might end up being rather rough for a first attempt.  Fun none the less!

I suppose that’s it for now.  More to come sooner or later.

I’ve learned how to make my own MREs to lighten the load of food and eat better than what you can get in a store.  I’ve figured out a lot of the things that I really should get.  Most expensive being the Ruger 10/22 semi automatic rifle.

Well I made it down to San Diego.  You know the town that means a whale’s vagina.  The land of Mr. Burgandy.  Good times to be had by all here, if that movie said anything.  After all I live in San Francisco and we have the Rock and Groove to go by.

I have to say Amtrak is the worst way to travel in this country.  I’m sure Greyhound is worse, but I haven’t taken one of those so I can’t really bitch too much about that.  I got thrown on the wrong train.  My tickets were written by hand so getting anywhere on that damn system was a complete cluster fuck.  I did get to meet some cool people (you can see my pictures on FaceBook).  It was just a huge pain in the ass.  Cussing gets you kicked off apparently, fuck that noise.

So now I’m down in San Diego.  It’s hot as hell here, and I can see a lot of boredom coming my way during the days.  It’s so quiet in this neighborhood, ironically, that sleep is probably going to be difficult.  At least I sleep in an UFO.  Yes that’s right a mother fucking UFO.  I can now say I have lived in some of the strangest places that anyone will ever deal with.