Clipfoxville has gotten pretty ratty during Clip and my three weeks of travel. We were on our way to top 100 Canadian cities but now the competition is lapping us. So we need help. :) Try helping in this new, improved multi-step manner...

1. Visit the XML stats page to see what the city needs. http://clipfoxville.myminicity.com/xml

2. Depending on which facet of the city is bad, help it out by clicking ONLY ONE of the following links:
http://clipfoxville.myminicity.com/ind - reduces unemployment (0% is good)
http://clipfoxville.myminicity.com/tra - improves transportation (100% is good)
http://clipfoxville.myminicity.com/sec - reduces criminality (0% is good)
http://clipfoxville.myminicity.com/env - Reduces pollution (0% is good)
http://clipfoxville.myminicity.com/ - Adds population (if everything else looks good)

3. Do this one per day per public IP address that you have access to. ;)

4. Leave funny comments on the news bulletin to make it more fun.

I feel like I'm living at work.

Tags: work
Current Mood: exhausted

Someone recently said something that really made me think. I love it when I can feel my own awareness expanding. On the downside, I've been rather a hypocrite on a few issues.

More thoughts on that later. For now, gotta get to work. :P

i came home to my parent's place this summer so i could get away from the city, be reflective, to see trees and be outside, and spend time with the people who mean the most to me. instead i find myself devoting the majority of my day to this computer, and shutting all that out.

i'm gunna stay online for one more week to clean things up, send refunds, and walk away as quietly as possible. i didn't plan on writing any entry like this, because i don't want to draw attention to myself, but i feel like i've let a lot of people down so i had to say something. i'm not leaving "forever" but i couldn't give any estimate of when i'll be back... maybe i'll try and bring back that school blog starting in the fall. all i know is i'd rather be Justine now than Kesame.

yes, i deleted my galleries. i know this is tacky but since all those pieces were commissions, i don't feel all that bad about it. the people who paid for them received them. i know other people enjoyed my artwork besides my buyers, and i simply have to ask them to wait. there will be more.

yea this is really lame and i'm really sorry. i dont love what i'm doing anymore, i dont like feeling like a sell-out artist, and i don't like sacrificing time i could be spending with my friends and family in order to maintain this online life. i feel trapped and i know there's a better, less dramarama way to do this, but i just don't care to. i dont care if this ruins my reputation or pisses people off, i put way to much effort into this thing and i'm just spent. i dont know how anyone does it. i can honestly see that if i stay in this weird fictional world any longer i'll turn into one of those bitter artists and i really don't want that, i'd rather just walk away.

goddessfarmer may you have an awesome weekend in celebration !!

Tags: birthdays

This week has been pretty busy and I am definitely feeling run down. I am at work right now waiting for my next sick patient to come. Dog has been vomiting since Monday. Good job Mr. Owner for waiting until SATURDAY! Stupid. 


Yesterday, my coworkers played a hilarious joke on me.  2 days ago, Wendy parked over 2 spots and I made a comment that she didn't want anyone parking next to her.  I have a neighbor who does that on purpose almost every day.  Anyway, the next day I drive in to find everyone had parked crooked or diagonal.  It was awesome so I parked crooked also.  Laughed in my car for about 2 straight minutes.

Dr. Who was awesome.  Won't give away any spoilers but I just can't believe the season is almost half over! 

Hey guys so I had a neat idea yesterday for badges...

your character as a clockwork/steampunk critter! All gadgetry, gears, made in metal: gold, bronze, copper, silver, etc.!

I drew myself one here as a test badge, and then thought it would be neater to have gold and pearly white accents to catch the light like real metal!:



Blurry pictures that attempt to show off how the badge catches the light:




I thought it was a neat idea, and considering the rising popularity of steampunk and all that, maybe a popular one to boot!

If anyone is interested in one of these types of badges, whether a pre-order for AC or any other con, I'm wide open for them today! They're only $30.00, including metallic accents, lamination and clip! Paypal and email address: kitfoxyfire@gmail.com

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Current Mood: working

Title: The Moirae
Size: 8.5"x11"
Medium: Acrylics and coloured pencils
Represents: Destiny

And then there were two.

So Japan, right?

Dude takes it upon himself to travel south from Tokyo to the small town of Obama, Japan (小浜 = little beach) in blackface.

The theme in play here is I become Obama, and travel to Obama.

Stick with it until the last page, and you get to witness Obama and Hillary debating in front of the Daitoryo building (大統領 = President). It's basically an exact preview of November, brought to you across time and space.



The awesome thing here is that the Japanese people making this don't even realize that it's offensive. This is not edgy, iconoclastic humor. This is humor provided by people who don't understand that blackface (or blondeface) is fundamentally gauche. This is no different than me spoofing Napoleon to them. In some ways, that innocence is enviable -- they live in a context free of racial tensions. In other ways, it goes past naïveté to open ignorance. The total lack of inter-racial interactions in the average Japanese person's day-to-day life is an active hindrance to their understanding of other people, and one that they will doubtless have to make special efforts to overcome in order to become a culturally responsible member of the international community in years to come.

In the meantime, we get to partake in the totally inappropriate hilarity.

are all under here. i'm making them free now----


give credit. okay to modify, okay on any chat.