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Nelson Eisner nod

April 7, 2012

I did a piece called “Lost & Found” for Paper Science 7 back in December and since then it’s received some pretty stellar reviews.

Here on Forbidden Planet International and Broken Frontier.

Also in the good news pile Nelson the book I co-ordinated when I worked for Blank Slate last year has been nominated for an Eisner for Best Anthology. I am the most excited. THE MOST. For those of you not familiar with the Eisners it’s essentially the top honour in the comics industry. It is the Oscar of comics. I am so proud and happy and elated. Ahhhhh!

Also I appear in the most recent Buzz Magazine put together by the Edinburgh Napier University journalism students. You can pick it up around town here at local cafes and pubs. :D

Tags:Blank Slate Books, Eisners, Lost & Found, Nelson, nomination, Paper Science 7, reviews
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Róisín and Kayla go to the Zoo

April 7, 2012

My housemate Kharris works at the Edinburgh Zoo and was kind enough to acquire some tickets for Róisín and I in early March. The only other zoo I’d ever been to was the Toronto one and I’d gone ages ago- the appeal of seeing the uber advertised pandas was clearly too much for me and I had to give in.

Lucky for us the weather was fantastique-

Roisin treated me to a squashed penny souvenir- panda panda panda

PANDA!

I kinda feel like I have a weird thing for them as my teddy (yeah… my teddy… don’t act like you don’t have a favourite teddy) is a panda.

This statue is clearly not an act of god but rather, a freak of nature. Thus- he is my favourite. (Why would you blend a coo with a penguin? Especially when there are no coos at the zoo?)

Boar with face paint!

Monkeys are always the best/most exciting thing at the zoo. So we chilled in their house.

This guy was kinda creepy

And this one was havin’ a wank in plain site. Which of course I took about 12 pictures of. I am the classiest. Really, I am.

I claimed to be some form of animal whisperer which is a load of shite but I did manage to lure this bad boy out of the bushes. Deer rodents for the win! (And no, I will not be giving any of the proper animals names during this entry.)

Ok I know this one- tapirs! TAPIRS! Wee tapir!

This rhino was sunbathing. As you do.

The only thing as neat as monkeys at the zoo are the penguins and this zoo has all the penguins. Ones in fancy suits…

And with fancy hair…

Or lacking fancy hair- I think he was Róisín’s favourite. He must get ridiculed by his bros.

Baby penguins … eee!

Dogs of the wild variety-

Flamingos! I don’t think I’d ever seen one before.

Yawny leopard

Now this… this is Róisín’s attempt at recreating the moment when my camera went flying out of my pocket while we were on the tram-like vehicle and I had to ask the driver to stop a couple minutes up the road causing us to disembark sheepishly and walk all the way down the hill to retrieve it in the bushes only to find out that someone had handed it in to lost and found. An adventure really.
…she was raging… :D

View from the top (once we finally made it to the zebras)

This bear is a total stud posin’ for a photo and all that-

Best monkey at the zoo? I think yes, this wee fella and I bonded.

Most frightening thing at the zoo…

More adventures to come surely.

Tags:Edinburgh, Edinburgh Zoo, monkeys, penguins, Roisin Tuohy, Scotland, UK, Zoo
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A visit from Mr. Hunt, Mr. Tompkins and some sweet sweet tunes-

February 10, 2012

I know all these photos really, probably aren’t that fun for anybody else but those involved… but when your “drunkface is drunk” you have to take note and document.

Scott is one of the best people on this planet and he and I hadn’t really got silly together- so along with the legendary Marie Montondo we went out and had the best night ever when he came to visit a coupla weeks ago.

But of course prior to those shenanigans here’s what happened.

We ate all the cake and did all of the talking-

We borrowed Mr. Rodwell’s veggie lasagna recipe and consumed it over a bottle of win(e)

This is Scott’s lasagna face-

Then we got piercings as you do-

Marie Montondo brought us to the most delicious of all the veggie restaurants Black Bo’s nom nom

Then this happened…

I couldn’t possibly love this picture more. Love, love, love.

I really ought to stop making this face.

After an amazing few days with Scott I was bloody privileged enough to get to spend some time with my buddy Josh. I mean privileged- I hadn’t seen him for over ten years, I can remember running into him in the hall of my high school just for a brief moment ages ago… we’d kept in touch but what an epic game of catch up to play after a decade…

I cannot stress how fucking fantastic those few days were with him. Not to mention how lovely it was that he and Róisín got along so well- kindred spirits level of camaraderie.
Kinda wanna keep this visit close to my chest- because it ended up being far more important (for lack of a better word) than I could have ever expected. His return back to Australia was slightly … devastating. Yeah, devastating. I fucking miss that bitch.

I’ve also enjoyed the sweet tunes of some lovely friends lately. Róisín’s BFF (mother) Hannah O’Reilly played a gig at the Edinburgh College of Art- she’s friggen AMAZING.