St. Lazarus's Church

The team needs to find a way into the sub-basement of St. Lazarus's Church in Lanarka. 

Yeah, follow the link - this took me from September to finally get this whole scene posted, so I hope you enjoy it. In particular, pages 126 and 127 took a significant amount of time. I hope you like it.

Minestroned

Urban Dictionary:

min·e·stro·ned

[min-uh-stroh-need; Italian mee-ne-straw-need]

verb, to receive a bad hair cut.

an unsatisfactory haircut provided by a stinky (usually very old) barber who smells like a vegetable soup, often containing herbs, beans, bits of pasta, etc., and served with Parmesan cheese.

Origin:
2011; Canadian,  equivalent to minestr ( a ) kind of soup (literally, something served; see minister) + -one  augmentative suffix

I never really cared for Family Circus

Original concept: "Who's been giving Jeffy his insulin?"

Commemorative royal stamps available now!

what do stamps cost now? 25 cents?

The Taste Families Love

New Chef Boyardee flavour available at participating stores.

Licence plate I'd like to see

Capers!

New edition of the King St. Capers

Tyrannosaurus Hates handshakes

I drafted up a new comic idea, a short series of jokes I thought up - but was a bit surprised to discover that ... well, I'm not the first to come up with it. This after I designed the entire project around the name, "Tyrannosaurus Hates" and the premise to try and understand why it is that tyrannosaurus became the Tyrant Lizard.

It was to my dismay, but also pleasure, to find a series of jokes that are VERY similar in conceptual style and design BUT instead of rewriting everything, I said screw it, and that I'll just JOIN in. I'm not first to the party, but so what?

Without further ado, here's Tyrannosaurus Hates.You'll have to click on it to read the whole thing.

If you like this, be sure to read more about what Tyrannosaurus hates by visiting Zazzle, and it's "funny dino shirt." Funnier still is this list of Tyrannosaurus Trying to Do Stuff from 9Gag. Like I say, conceptually identical, unfortunately.

Welcome to Dinosaur

That's right - earlier this week I discovered there was a place literally called Dinosaur, in Colorado. That's pretty awesome. I was immediately overjoyed, and then dismayed, as I noticed on the town map that their two main streets are Tyranosaurus [sic] Trail and Brontosaurus [sick] Blvd.

Before you head out there, just understand that Dinosaur, Co. has all the paleontological accuracy of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. 

That's right - the first is spelled incorrectly, and the other is named after a dinosaur that the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature renamed in 1903 - so, when Dinosaur renamed its streets it was basically just naming dinosaurs off the tops of their heads, and didn't bother consulting a book for the spelling. Other issues with their naming strategy - Antrodemus Alley refers to an archaic version of Allosaurus;

Brontosaurus isn't the only thing with a name that's no longer in use: Dinosaur was originally called Artesia, but they adopted their new moniker in 1966.

Otherwise, they have a series of dinosaur-themed streets, including Triceratops Terrace, Platesaurus Place, Stegosaurus Freeway, Brachiosaurus Bypass, Ceratosaurus Cir. (which isn't a circle/circus), Allosaurus Lane, Diplodocus Drive, and then a series of gravel alleys.

Morrison Ave. sounds pretty normal - I would hope it's named after the Morrison Formation, but we can only hope.

There are also some regular-sounding streets like Frontier Ave., Dakota Ave., Blue Mountain Ave. (named after the Blue Mountain RV Park), and Deserado Dr. Then imagination and creativity was mined dry, and they revered to simply School St., and then a series of arteries called 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th. Then, because they couldn't think of any other dinosaurs, and there weren't any further businesses on these routes, they resorted to 5 1/2 St., 6 1/2 St. Half-streets - nice.

Why have you never heard of this place before?  Well, it's less than a square mile in size, with around only 300 people counted on the US Census in 2000. Plus it's tucked way up in the top cupboard of Colorado, in the north-western lands of Moffat County.

So there were about 300 people in about 0.8 square miles - which means the Population / Square Mile had to round UP to get their figure of 400, which is a geeky way to use stats to prove your town is wicked small.

BUT - there must be some cool stuff there, right? YES - the National Dinosaur Monument is there - and it's so awesome the entire town renamed itself after it! You can walk around and just see fossils out in the badlands - like hiking the Grand Canyon WITH dinosaurs, too.

So, as you head into Dinosaur, drive right on past the auto-wreckers on I40 and spot some of the kitschy local spots like the Bedrock Depot (gas station)

Almost the only thing in Dinosaur CO, according to my source's family road trip diary.

and get straight to the Dinosaur National Monument - it looks SWEET!

You need a haircut | New caper

The thrilling conclusion of the latest King St. Caper story arc. Elton John calls this the Circle of Life.

Read the complete collection here. 

The Capers Return

Port Perry became Hemlock Grove

This is about a month old, but I have a bunch of neat pics from when the Hemlock Grove crew came to town and transformed Port Perry's Queen St.

Stars of the show 

While Famke Janssen and Lili Taylor weren't around (as far as I could see), we spotted a few of the stars, including Bill Skarsgard.

And we were always happy to watch Terra Nova while it was on. Instead of being busy filming any new episodes of that, Landon Liboiron was filming for Hemlock Grove.

I'm not really sure who this is. I'm only guess it could be "Penelope Mitchell";

Downtown was transformed, and the familiar locations were refaced, including our local CIBC;

 The Home Hardware was transformed into Easter Valley hardware.

The Hardware Feed is really Port Perry's Car Quest Auto Parts;

 Downtown's Post Office of course had to be fixed to look like a US Post Office;

 The ReMax office was turned into a simple realtor.

Palmer Park was fixed up to fit the town's new nom de plume.

  The buildings were fixed up, too. This was really well done - looked genuine.

Local celebrities 
A local celebrity survived the casting couch and will be in the show, as far as we can tell. The White Feather Farms and Country Store's chicken truck took a trip down main street during filming. 

Production crew
Here are a few random shots of the set and production crew.

 

Sullivan on set - his first taste of show biz.

Ages since a Tomb of the Undead update here

Since I haven't posted an update in ages about the Tomb of the Undead, here's a link to Four if by Sea.
It's a good long post, too, so it should be worth your trip to the site to check it out.

The aftermath from Mugabe's sabotage takes its toll in Four if by sea.

 I hope you like it!

Just shorter, thanks | King Street Capers

Honestly, when I got my hair cut by this guy, he simply stared blankly at me, with no recognition in his eyes. That should have been my sign right then and there to cut my losses, take the apron off, and get out of the chair. That haircut was going nowhere good.

So here's my question to you: what could the barber do to make you get up and leave the shop before he's started to cut your hair?

Experimental King Street Caper

My first try at something like this - not sure how it's going to turn out.

Verdict : TBA

Shave and a haircut

I can't vouch for the accuracy of the magazine subscriptions available - you're probably best to not show up expecting to find those particular issues.

New King Street Capers

Mr. Minestrone will jump out of god-damned nowhere with a smoke in his hands. I've had to literally dodge to the left to avoid him.

King Street Capers!

Another common-day snapshot of King St. in lovely Peterborough. No reflection upon the sunny Millennium Park is complete without the human litter of crackaddicts draped over the benches while children play in the fountain.

Happy Campers

Courtesy of Ben - great idea buddy. Sorry it took me two years to get 'er done. ;)

New Fundraising Faux-Pas

Finally a new Fundraising Faux-Pas - see them all here.

This is the last of the initial batch we cooked up about a year and a half ago. I have more to consider, but these were the best of them.

Haircut, FACT!: new King St. Capers

It's been a while - but please help me welcome back the Kings Street Capers! There's a new character in here, I'm taking suggestions on a name.

Hope you like it!

Super moon tonight

Tomb of the Undead update

Yeah, you're right. It's been ages since I've had a Tomb of the Undead update, but we're in luck - I managed to complete a new chapter. Check it out, it's called Absolutely Rabbi.

On an unrelated note - my wife and I were bored because the NHL playoffs suck this year (aka CBC's coverage of the NHL playoffs sucks) so we watched Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, which continues to be a fine ambassador for the 1980s. Thanks Paul Reubens.

Next up will be Drop Dead Fred. Unless of course the NBA playoffs are better televised and are more interesting (which is entirely likely).

But all of that aside - please enjoy the Tomb of the Undead update. I hope you like it.

Zetterberg's playoff beard tribute post

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Game 4