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Aldoth

Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA


Joined February 19th 2008

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So Im back

October 27th 2009 08:34
So I took a break for a few weeks and I am aware that the last couple of blog posts have come from a negative place. I wanted to make apologies if anyone was worried.

I am fine. I had a perfect storm of events that made life for me unfun for a few months. I have now started a new job 3 months this week so I am feeling better about life. It is tough to loose your job at a time when every time you turn on the news they talk about global financial crisis.

So I want to let you all know my readers that I am going to try to hit a weekly schedual and see if I can hit it for the next couple of months. If I am unable to hit the deadline I will surrender my blog so now Im back.


So How about something geeky Karl?

Well Ok but only cos you insist.

So how about I talk about something cool that I have heard a thing or two about that may be under the radar?

RASL that is my contribution.



RASL is a comic by Jeff Smith who created Bone.

Bone was a book that was a fable. Drawn with a colorful sense of wonder.

RASL is a comic that is very different book. It is comic that deals with a weird wonderful violent comic that deals with sex and violence and alternate universes.

RASL is a cool book that will be something that people will talk about for years about how good it is.

I have been reading comics for years and I know that this has that something special about it the first four issues have now been collected into a trade.

Get ready for a cool ride.

Trust me RASL will be something you wished you read earlier.


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It is time for hope

July 20th 2009 00:54
I have had a really sucky few months. I am at the point now that I have no idea how to pull myself out of this hole that i have found myself in.

I love all things geeky and I am a person who believes in the better nature of the world and I am not really a pessimist, but as of this morning and today where I am sitting I have no clear path and dont understand how I can find a way to make things better.

The truth is that I have not been keeping my blog for the last few months because I lost my job and have been working anyway I can to bring cash into the house and trying to find a job and I have had challenges finding work. So I get to this moment when a set of circumstances conspire to make things really difficult for me.

I have had a crummy morning to add challenges to an already difficult situation.


I am holding by my fingernails and having trouble keeping my grip.

But this is the time for hope. This moment right here and now is when I need to keep hope stronger than ever. I will never give up, but as of this morning I am in a dark place.

Time to take a deep breath, stand on my two feet and scream at the universe that "I will never give up. I am going to make it!"

So I refuse to buy into the despair but that doesnt mean that life is difficult and that I cry with sorrow, but god damn it I will not give up.

I am gritting my teeth and I will step up again.

After a while the bruises go numb and then every other knock wont register.

Time to get punch drunk and step up one more time.

As J. Michael Straczynski "Never surrender dreams" time to see how much I believe.

My heart burns fiercer than the cold of failure. This is just that moment i needed to dust myself off and step back up.

Sorry I don't usually like to make this too much about my day to day. But I hope that you will forgive me this detour into my personal life.

I go to get back into the fight.

"Once
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I am not dead

July 6th 2009 07:11
Had a lot of stuff going on in personal life, but I wanted you to know that I am still alive and will be writing more blogs later.

But I am still here.

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Alan Moore

May 12th 2009 10:16

OK so this is the blog that I have been fermenting in the back of my mind for a few months. Alan Moore is as interesting as the work that he has created. When I started to become interested in the people that create the comics that I read he was one of the first writers that I became aware of after Neil Gaiman.

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This is the future that I want

May 6th 2009 07:57
Quick post to say that this is what I love, the fact that people are out there researching and trying to find a way to make what I have dreamed of since a small child possible.

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Im still Alive

May 4th 2009 13:21


Its been a few weeks without a geek. I am aware of this and please accept my apologies for no geek for a couple of weeks. Things have been busy and I am currently living in interesting times


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Its time to create a fantasy world

April 13th 2009 14:11


So I run a variety of games and also write contemporary dark fantasy, but when you run role playing games you will eventually get to a place where you want to create your own fantasy world. This was what I faced back in 2000 when I purchased my brand new Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook


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No blog

April 6th 2009 10:48
Sorry was in Tassie seeing my son.

So no blog this week


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Elves

March 29th 2009 11:24


So here we have one of the cornerstones of fantasy literature. Every fantasy author has a choice to make when they put pen to paper. Will there be elves in the book and if so what will they be? Some feature traditional elves Shannara books, others feature characters that are elves by other names Wheel of time have the Ogier a race that while visually different share aesthetic similarities with the forest race


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The Man Machine Paradigm

March 22nd 2009 11:25


There is a rule in Science Fiction movies, create an advanced artificial intelligence and it will try to kill you


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on It is time for hope

July 20th 2009 05:58


It's All Geek To Me
katyzzz thank you for your comment.

Dont smoke (never have). Dont really drink not my thing. Umm am with my fiancee of three years all going well there and I was in a job for 5 years (that finished up in April)

So I have been working at different jobs for the last few months and have found nothing stable yet.

So thank you for your comment

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on Merlin

May 4th 2009 13:33


It's All Geek To Me
Jason you should look at Stephen Lawhead. His Pendragon Cycle is fantastic and gives you a new take on Arthur and Merlin. He is currently doing a Robin Hood Series.

Also track down a copy of Once and Future King. It is the classic Arthur book and has a very funny moment when two old Knights meet that had me laughing out loud.

Also The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper (the Seeker movie was VERY loosely based on it.) You will find it in the young adult section but a fantastic read.

There is a place to start.

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on Its time to create a fantasy world

April 15th 2009 21:45


It's All Geek To Me
It is only unfinished if you want to finish it. iF that is the case please do finish it and then send it out into the world it is better than sitting in your head

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on what is there to say

February 8th 2009 20:39


It's All Geek To Me
Johnny thanks for the encouragement. I am phobic of needles so it is going to be a challange but my amazing other half will support me.

Edward I am sure that everyone here appreciates just how much people in other countries including the US care about us and the level of pure human concern that this event has generated.

You guys have suffered through a fairly hairy summer and it looks like we are going through the same thing. It doesnt bode well for the rest of 09.

All I can hope for is that this will inspire people to lend a hand to the people in trouble close to home. Think global act Local.

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on The Top 10 2008

January 5th 2009 09:57


It's All Geek To Me
according to the daily orble you hit the top three days ago with the top 10

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on Artists

January 5th 2009 09:32


It's All Geek To Me
Todd Lockwood did the artwork and he is the man I have been emailing him for a while.

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on The Top 10 2008

January 5th 2009 09:19


It's All Geek To Me
Thanks Jason checking out your top 10 falls a little on the lower rating for me but as you said we got 4 out of 10 that is not bad.

I think my taste reflects the geek in me .

Thanks for the comment from one of the most popular Orble Alumni to one of the smallest ones.

Thanks.

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on My Top 10 of 08

January 5th 2009 09:12


It's All Geek To Me
Jason I have to say that I would rate most of your top 10 a bit lower Sex in the City is a top 20 for me. I appreciate that you enjoyed them and as you said on my top ten HERE.

Great taste in Tropical Thunder.

Karl

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on Isaac Asimov

December 1st 2008 08:46


It's All Geek To Me
the amazing thing about foundation is that it is Asimov's retelling of the rise and fall of the roman empire.

Great stuff

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on Serial - Post Mortem

October 26th 2008 12:24


It's All Geek To Me
The Main character was a changeling

Wikipedia link

Who having replaced a child from years is finally disintegrating and the fey that have been holding him together are clawing there way out.

Cool nasty stuff.