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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 03:31:45 PDT</pubDate>        
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                <title>God of War: Manticore</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:21:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ There's a new Monsters of Ascension article up featuring a Q and A with me.<br />We talk about a new beasty in the upcoming game!<br />Check it out:<br />God of War Blog:http://www.godofwar.com/en-us/blog/monsters-ascension-manticore/<br /><br />Also see new artwork on my fanpage!: http://www.facebook.com/cannibalcandyart<br /><br />As always look for quick updates and idiotic musings by yours truly here: @cannibalcandy ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>God of War: Ascension SP Teaser!</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:27:20 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">God of War: Ascension SP Teaser!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ We have a teaser trailer for the single player adventure in the up coming God of War game I've been toiling on!<br />Most of our studio is in crunch which means twelve to sixteen hour days (or more) every day of the week to get this <br />awesome game out to you!  Please consider buying our game for your PS3s for all the blood, sweat, tears, and love that's going into this!  You will not be disappointed!  <br />I have many yummy monsters in this game, too! So please check it out!<br />Also! TITS!<br /><br />http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/01/18/god-of-war-ascension-single-player-trailer<br /><br />Don't forget to follow me:<br />http://www.facebook.com/cannibalcandyart<br />@cannibalcan ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Megaera the Fury</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:03:56 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Megaera the Fury</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Here's a feature interview I've done for one of the big bosses for the upcoming God of War!<br />All new arts! :D<br /><br />http://blog.godofwar.com/monsters-of-ascension-the-furies-megaera/<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cannibalcandy-Art-of-Izzy/199957426737372?ref=hl ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Massive art Dump</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:16:33 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Hello you dirty little monkeys!  <br />I have missed you!  <br />Here, sit on my lap.<br />Nice, huh?<br />What, that?<br />Don't worry about that.<br /><br />I just wanted to inform ya that I've dropped a ton of my 'recent' God of War art on my fan page!<br />Please take a moment and go check em out!<br />I guarantee you'll surely enjoy.  :D<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cannibalcandy-Art-of-Izzy/199957426737372?ref=hl<br /><br />The game is scheduled for a March release, which, if you are at all aware of game development,<br />means that we are going into super hustle crunch mode!! <br />12 hour days every day!  Phew, I'm beat.  Hence my lazy posting.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to getting this one ou ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>God of War: Ascension News</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:35:32 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">God of War: Ascension News</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Check out my cover for Game Informer's August issue!<br />http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/07/05/august-cover-revealed-hot-50-2012.aspx<br /><br />Also the God of War Sony Santa Monica blog has posted an interview of your's truly with my all newly revealed concept art<br />for the new multiplayer boss Polyphemus!  Enjoy!<br />http://blog.godofwar.com/monsters-of-ascension-polyphemus/<br /><br />For more art and information on what's going on with me check out my FB:<br />http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cannibalcandy-Art-of-Izzy/199957426737372<br /><br />I also come in twitter flavor:<br />https://twitter.com/#!/cannibalcandy<br /><br />I hope everyone had an excellent Fourth, and you ble ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Cannibalcandy Art Fanpage</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:03:57 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Cannibalcandy Art Fanpage</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I've gotten many requests to update new art.  I fully plan to get on to doing that and hopefully we will have something up here in the next month.  But for those of you that are of the impatient and slippery variety, come on down to my new FB fan page!<br /><br />There you will find some new never before seen art, and some of my many Magic Cards up, finally, in high resolution.<br />While you are there be sure to like and follow to stay abreast of my current events.  I will be posting about my novel's progression there as well, so stop on by, say hi and join the community that is the unwholesome and entirely sexy realm we call Cannibalcandy: The Art of Izz ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>God of War: Ascension</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:09:00 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">God of War: Ascension</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Check out the game I've been working on for the last couple of years.  I'm currently acting as a Lead Concept Artist.  It's a shit ton of work, but it's fascinating getting a larger picture of the game development process.  Really cool shit!  Anyway, watch the teaser trailer!<br /><br />http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/04/18/god-of-war-ascension-trailer<br /><br />How are you guys!?  I miss the DA crowd.<br /><br />Big love, and a mild reach around.<br />Uncle Iz ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>An Interview up at Sketchtheatre!</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:10:03 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">An Interview up at Sketchtheatre!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ http://www.sketchtheatre.com/interviews/izzy-interview/ ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Student Interview</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:01:41 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Student Interview</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ A student I met last year when I did a super short lecture at Siggraph sent some questions for a school assignment.<br />I thought there were some good ones in there so I figured I'd share them and my responses with you guys!<br />=============================================<br /><br />1. When did you first develop an interest in art? <br /><br />I started getting into drawing in Highschool, as I went to an 'alternative' school for weirdos, and they expected us to have a portfolio coming in.  I basically traced a bunch of shit out of a victoria's secret catalogue, and some manga images on lined paper. Hahaha, that's how it really got started, after that, I started ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Tiny Robot in a jacket!</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:43:08 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Sketch Theatre number II.<br /><br />http://www.sketchtheatre.com/?p=6531 ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>So cute she'll eat you alive.</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:18:47 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">So cute she'll eat you alive.</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ My first Sketch Theatre!<br /><br />http://www.sketchtheatre.com/?p=6116 ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Mercenary</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:12:36 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Mercenary</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I do freelance as well as my full time job, and I am always setting up the next job.  it's a safe bet, that if i'm breathing, I'm painting or hustling to get paid for more painting.  That's what I do for a living.  It's how I put food on the table, and porn in the bathroom.<br /><br />That said, I thought it bore mentioning especially here on DA though, that I work for HIRE.  If your sweet RPG project, or video game pitch has no budget at all for art, it will save both of our time if you don't try to tap me for artwork.  I Do realize I'm passing up an amazing opportunity for me to make my portfolio way more awesome, and that I won't be getting that fre ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Inverse Nationalism</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:36:25 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I have no nationalistic furor.  No particular pro-American leanings at all.  In fact, I wouldn't mind skipping country for adventure and beer permanently!  But the constant implications to our collective stupidity does feel a bit like sandpaper in the skivvies.<br /><br />I'm so tired of having to make apologies for my country of origin, as if I am some how personally responsible for the direction of it's educational system, or military interests.  As someone with reasonable intelligence here in the States, why is it beholden to me to make sure I'm not lumped in with the rest of America when I visit other countries?  If education is so awesome out ther ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Chaos Will RISE!</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:14:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ New Trailer:<br />http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-chaos-god-of-war/61815<br /><br />Show your support for all things awesome, and of course a few things ME by getting your hands on this bitch in a month and playing the hell out of it!!<br /><br />Off to work, suckas.<br />Peace ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Ariokh did a short Comicbook entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:49:31 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Ariokh did a short Comicbook entry</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ You can check it out on the Wizards website under the Planeswalkers comics:<br /><br />http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Multiverse/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature2/57b<br /><br />It was my first real foray into comic book work.  I have a whole new found respect for comic book artists, particularly the guys that paint everything from scratch!  SO hard.<br /><br />Lots going on with the impending release of GOWIII, look forward to huge art dumps in the not terribly distant future!<br /><br />Also.  Fuckity fuck shitty cock douche canoe cocksicle....<br /><br />I haven't been filthy on here in ages, I had to remedy that.<br /><br />Big loves from your uncle Touchy.<br /><br />===============<br />EDIT:  I should be clear, I ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>GOW III GamePRO cover</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:03:44 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Here's a painting I did for the cover of GamePRO.  The issue has a cover article all about the game I've been working on for nearly three years now.  *sigh*  SO very long.<br /><br />Anyway, check it out!<br /><br />http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/212635/god-of-war-iii-q-a-with-stig-asmussen/ ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Are you fucking KIDDING me?!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:17:57 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I was writing.  Working on another sentence fragment in my long-labored attempt at a novel when I ran out.  I didn't know it, couldn't even conceive that it was the case, but I had just officially smoked my last fucking clove cigarette.  I ran out a week or two ago, and while doing some errands, stopped at a seven-eleven today to stock up on my favorite trope of the would-be writer.  Second only to my glass of scotch, cigarettes are must haves for the who's who of alternative fiction.<br /><br />I tried a second seven eleven after the first turned up nothing. And the guy behind the counter told me about the ban.<br /><br />I raced home, completely pissed off, an ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Fat Princess!</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:42:30 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Play it!  So so fun.  I am diggin it's silly ways.  And it's unholy gore and fetishist chunkitude.<br /><br />Come on by and join me in a game!<br /><br />For those of you that want to play with me, note me for my PSN username.  But if yer clever,  you can probably figure it out. ;p ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Michael Jackson molesting cherubs</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:08:41 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ He'll be able to give them REAL jesusjuice.<br /><br />What a crazy day, I really thought he was gonna go full cyborg in my lifetime.<br />I definitely remember his music playing a big part in my formative years.<br /><br />Weird shit, mortality! ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>God of War III</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/God-of-War-III-233422540</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:41:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ The press junket dropped today.  God of War III is officially announced, and I'm really excited to see what you guys think!  I'm just a small cog in the universe of SCEA in Santa Monica, but seeing the trailer, and the photos on the website make me feel almost SIX feet tall.  So without further ado, please check out the trailer we made this last fall for the initial press release for GOW III (Keep in mind that these are all, *ALL* in game graphics, all animations and textures used from IN GAME.  Not a drop of post)<br /><br />http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/886158/god-of-war-iii/videos/god3_trailer_021209.html<br /><br />Here's an article featured on IGN, they ar ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Spam Rape</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/Spam-Rape-233499718</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:16:22 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Spam Rape</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ So, my bloody page has been completely infested with these damn "click here" spam messages.  And I understand all you guys got phished, it really sucks.  I hope you learned from your mistake and you'll be more careful about your passwords.  That said.  I have easily three pages and growing of nothing BUT spam, as comments.  And they are mostly repeats.  So I am going to start blocking you effective Monday.  It's nothing personal, it's just that  you guys need to get a reign on your accounts because I can't abide pointless advertising, and irritation.  And spam is nothing if not both.  So, consider yerself warned.<br /><br />Sorry about all that.<br /><br />Anyho ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Reformat</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:58:44 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Reformat</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ School starts this week.  It'll be my fourth time at bat as some insane excuse for a teacher.  This time though, I'm taking on a second class.  Cecil Kim, and Jung Park of God of War, GOW II, and GOW III fame and myself will be the Triumvirate of Concept doomy doom at Otis this term.  We've constructed a sort of mega class that hopefully will be really fun for all involved.  I'm pretty excited to see how the experiment turns out.  My bits are tingling as we speaks!<br /><br />Beyond that, I'm pretty much konked.  So tired these days.  With work on GOW III that had a teaser released last month on the VGAs forcing us to ramp up production, and my steady  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Swollen COCK Rifle!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:26:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ FUUUUCK YOU.  Fuck you, ya cuntfish, ya slimy shitweasel.  If only it were possible to stuff my rage into a mason jar with a spatula, pickle it with garlic and dill.<br /><br />Let it sit for six months in the pantry, then uncork it, and spread it in thick jammy wads onto your chest while you slept so that it would eat through your back and your mattress.<br /><br />Your downstairs neighbor would wake to dripping sounds, and look up at the hole in the ceiling burned through with the intense energy of my unholy growling nastiness, and see only bits of your guts sliding out, like an empty chorizo sack.<br /><br />You stole my money!  You wrecked my car!  You broke my toys!  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Strange Habits in Frigid Hours</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:40:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Up early.<br />Showertime.<br />It's cold as fuck, and darting about the house semi-nude the microwave beeps, bored.<br /><br />In the shower.<br />Ham and Cheese hot pocket.<br />Should be called napalm pocket.<br /><br />Lather.<br />Bite.<br />Rinse.<br />Bite.<br />Repeat.<br /><br />Ruminations on how said pocket remained un-soggied for so very long.  Will write governor about how unnatural this appears to be.<br /><br />Drive to work.<br />Since the move, the drive is laughably short.<br /><br />Gonna purchase a bike tomorrow.<br />Join a club.<br />Meet cool people.<br />Sex up some of them.<br /><br />Still arrive to work late.<br />Can't seem to shake that habit.<br /><br />Sit and paint.<br />Surf and paint.<br /><br />Yawn.<br /><br />Stretch and watch ridiculous television  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Moments in INFAMY</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:12:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I've never ever been one for astrology.  I find it often pretty ridiculous that anyone could honestly believe that the location of the stars and planets at the moment of their birth could have anything at all to do with their bloody personality or future as a living entity.<br /><br />Of course, there are people out there that believe in more ridiculous shit.  Like a monarchical heaven, while touting the superiority of a democratic society here on earth.  Bloody simpletons.  But that's discussion for another blog.<br /><br />What brings all of this up is; I was digging through my old paperwork, and whatnot.  And found my birth certificate.  I spend as much time  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Tha Move and other Fuck-stickery</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:20:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I'm completely moved into my new apt!  I've even got big kid bookshelves now.  Though I'm hanging on to my milk crates... never know when you might need those.  It's happily nestled in the westside los angeles area, and I couldn't be happier with it.  It's my first time picking an apt based on aesthetics and taste rather than simple utilitarian necessity.  Lots of painty space, and the ultimate in bachelor comforts.<br /><br />I've got easy access to Chimay and my favorite scotches thanks to near by markets!  And a little Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in walking distance!<br /><br />It is as if baby jesus hand crafted my place out of other babies, and puppies, and us ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Be Ariokh's Muse!  YEAH... WHA!?</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:23:38 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Be Ariokh's Muse!  YEAH... WHA!?</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ PLEASE READ RULES AT BOTTOM OF ENTRY BEFORE YOU SUBMIT!!!!!  You will not be eligible for usage if you do not obey.  OBEY!!!!  <br />=====================================<br />Hello dear soggy unnaturally aroused Ariokh fans.<br /><br />I've been busy with work, and well&#133; more work as of late, and I'm looking for a break from concept art work.  Something not taxing, but where I can still do some weird ass entertaining shit.<br /><br />I've come up with what I think is a pretty fun idea.  I've always dug what Zeruch&#146;s done with the DA portraits line.<br /><br />I&#146;m kind of inspired to do something along the same thinking, but I&#146;ve had wicked bad luck with findi ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>A year in gaming</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:24:02 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">A year in gaming</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Oh my.  Video games... My last and greatest doom.  Aside from Wominz.<br /><br />From this point till the end of the year such fantastic offerings will be placed before me, that I'm not even sure how I'm gonna pull off all the play time necessary.  Let alone find a way to cover the cost of them.  Remember these days most games are just shy of the seventies.<br /><br />Here's a brief list of some... of what I'm DYING to play:<br /><br />Fallout 3<br />Fable 2<br />Wipeout HD<br />Deadspace<br />Little Big Planet<br />Gears of War II<br />Mirror's Edge<br />Prince of Persia<br /><br />I'm nearly running in tight circles wearing holes in my footie pyjamas with excitement!<br /><br />What games are you monkeys looking forw ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Magic Mayhems</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:35:18 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Magic Mayhems</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Here's a couple of short Izzy related articles and bits of info on my collaboration with WotC's Magic: The Gathering.  There's a bit of art and process you guys may not have seen yet!<br /><br />http://wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1680<br /><br />http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/arcana/1642<br /><br />Other news...  Well, lots of changes for me lately.  I've got to get used to going back to teaching my class after a summer off.  I'm way off my game, but I'm hoping it will pull back together if the students can bring a bit more interest to the table!<br /><br />The game I'm working on is coming along, slow but sure.  I've been ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Through the Looking Vag</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:47:50 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Through the Looking Vag</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ The sun is shining, and it's a fine day.  Despite the circles under my eyes, and my hang over-like cottonball brain fog, I can't seem to rid.  I managed to pull it off.<br /><br />I got the old OS clean enough to boot again, and managed to back up at least just the files...  Not everything.  But, there it is. I really hope that at some point down the line I won't be kicking myself for the switch.  The new OS is very clean, Leopard, that is.  I am now in the process of bringing back all my stuff... but now that the darkest part of my deep cave hero's journey is over, I can slow down and get some rest...<br /><br />Well.  After, my super long D&d sesh today!  YAY! ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Into the Vag of Madness</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:24:44 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Into the Vag of Madness</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Shit fucking sucks right now.  Well not all shit... just my computer.  After class last night I went home with my spankin new copy of Leopard 10.5.4 for my lovely piece of shit Power PC G5.<br /><br />Wait... Let's rewind.<br /><br />Last Friday my old crappy iPod decided it was going to go on the fritz again.  This little fucker has been the most elusive, and flighty shitstack since Tinkerbell.  It spent a whole year a while back, on the shelf, unused, because it didn't want to work.  I picked it up again, and managed to get it working for my last big trip out into the world.  And all has been peachy.<br /><br />Until last friday.<br /><br />It basically stopped working, and in a  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>at a meeting on the meaning of life</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:53:04 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">at a meeting on the meaning of life</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ "That's right.<br /><br />I've had a team working on this for the past few weeks, and... uh.<br /><br />What we've come up with can be reduced to TWO fundamental concepts.<br /><br />1.  People are not wearing enough hats.<br /><br />2.  Matter is energy.<br /><br />In the universe there are many energy fields which we can not normally perceive.<br /><br />Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul.  However, this soul does not exist ab initio as Orthodox Christianity teaches.  It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation.  However, this is rarely achieved owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia." ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>See it!</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/See-it-236220283</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:58:52 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">See it!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Weary of cock, I write a new journal!<br /><br />The Fall, by Tarsem Singh.  Same fool that brought you The Cell.  Similarly named, and similarly visually brilliant.  It's a small art piece, that you may have never heard of, but it's deserving of ALL of your summer moneys.  Ten thousand moneys.  I want to write a review, but I'm going to let it sink in for a bit... then decide.  I would say it's comparable to Laberinto De Fauno.  A strange and exotic mix of The Princess Bride, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.<br /><br />See it!<br /><br />See it NOW!<br /><br />Or I'll dig your eyes out with an icecream scoop.  Cuz you don't deserve them, if you don't give them such lovely t ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Talentless Ticks</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:49:10 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ This says it all!  http://pelicanh.deviantart.com/art/Roxanne-lactating-67888089<br />http://personalbeauty.deviantart.com/art/Cleanliness-2-88852879<br />http://rogerraymond.deviantart.com/art/erect-4-88732838<br />http://rogerraymond.deviantart.com/art/erect-3-88732782<br />http://rogerraymond.deviantart.com/art/erect-man-2-88725942<br />http://jahjahjah.deviantart.com/art/vein-omous-45558933<br />http://vee-nue.deviantart.com/art/From-the-Ground-Up-86889225<br />http://midnight-slatman.deviantart.com/art/dimension-87014749<br />http://jmax81.deviantart.com/art/Shaven-Penis-86796687 (Great artistic quality on that one)<br />http://michellebitv.deviantart.com/art/White-Hose-an ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Threes</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/Threes-236427644</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:55:48 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Threes</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ resolute in my paper cut smile<br /><br />broken fingers hold rock bitten teeth<br /><br />but I cannot stop chewing<br /><br />=============<br /><br />building dropped toe<br /><br />levered into pools of birds<br /><br />the jacket flap sings the closing book<br /><br />=============<br /><br />Black bones are bigger still<br /><br />ink blot eyes<br /><br />hand grenade heart<br /><br />=============<br /><br />Daylight moon would deny Ra<br /><br />cold and sky blue the smell of wet concrete<br /><br />when I stopped collecting feathers<br /><br />=============<br /><br />I felt tall nostalgia as a very small child<br /><br />perfection in the morning when I tied my shoes<br /><br />under the heavy tear-rimmed sun<br /><br />=============<br /><br />Izzy<br /><br />Stan Winston died last night from cancer.  If everyone who's seen one of the mo ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>So EFFING tired...</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 01:06:15 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">So EFFING tired...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Edit: Up late again, after a near all nighter last night, but i FINALLY figured out what was wrong with my code for my website!  YAY!  Get this....  fucking capitalization.  That was it.  That was it.  God.  I am filled with an intense mix of rage, dumbfounded irritation at my own idiocy, and relief.... Either way... updated after two or three YEARS!  i give you:<br />www.mercilessdesign.com<br /><br />ps, there's some new stuff in there. *grin wink grin*<br /><br />============================<br />Another short rhyme session with my buddy.  I am dead tired, I was up till six this morning trying to update my site.  It's a VERY simple layout, no graphics at all, just te ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Shadowmoor Spoiler</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:05:06 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/shadowmoor/spoiler<br /><br />My very first four magic cards are hidden in that massive collection.  There are some seriously awesome artists on that list.  Just making me look bad.  Bastids.<br />=====================================<br />As some of you may know, I've played a few sessions of D&d to get back into roleplaying, since I gave it up before college.  All of my books and various dice got 'borrowed' by an ex, and everything; ESPECIALLY all my good dice juju, is GONE!<br /><br />My question is to YOU you gamers out there.  How do I train my new dice back up, and replenish my D20 juju?  What strange rituals do you lot perfo ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>MISK II</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/MISK-II-237100424</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:42:55 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ -I love checking out the galleries of the girls that get upset and want respect for their not so great nakey shots.  It's like that evolution of man illustration where we see the chimp transform into a man with a spear over several consecutive images.  I start at the very earliest posts of theres, and there is this clean cut sweet girl.  Photos of her and her band mates being foolish with their flutes.  The next page is her doing some myspace shots.  Just a tad bit of an edge, maybe some deep deep cleavage.  Next page... Underwear Victoria's secret shoot, but just her in a badly lit room with The Crow posters in the background, and stuffed an ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>MISK.</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:23:32 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ -Rape-able is an adjective meaning very hot.  So don't feel bad.<br /><br />-Is it just me or is there an odd coincidence that people that refer to themselves as Kun or Chan are often insufferable idiots?  It's almost numeric.  I'll look at the blogposts of said individuals and my brain will quickly begin to hurt with all the made up words, and throat closing attempts at cuteness.  This is all, of course, heavily laden with INANE chatter about the idiotic minutiae of their day.<br /><br />-I find myself regularly deleting people I was watching, that habitually post a journal more than once a day.  Your life just isn't that interesting.  No matter how much your v ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Descending Distraction</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:09:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ My best friend and I were chatting, and it devolved into a short freestyle battle... This is he and I of Frogjuice fame, if you haven't seen em check out our nonsensical meanderings while we were abroad and harassing locals in Japan and Ireland. <br />Pondocus on Youtube<br /><br />Lumpnugget= Pandimensional Mega Izzy<br />Pondocus= Super Space Poncho<br /><br />[17:11] lumpnugget: hahaha<br />[17:12] lumpnugget: I like it<br />[17:12] Pondocus: damn fox lord<br />[17:15] lumpnugget: sippin on chambord, like a samurai who's honor is restored, you'll be floored, press record on the last lashed sound board. Fall to your knees at the feet of the fox lord, guttering syllables over his  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Sleepy nonsense writings</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:18:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ My words fall like napalm,<br />jarring bones of corpses tossed in pits<br /><br />I let wind cross my lips in a willow whisper<br />to spiral over her ear<br />In her dreams my moonlight knife separated rib<br />from rib<br />Sleepy moans bely the pleasure<br /><br />I wear my opinions on my bumper<br />and my soul on my shoes<br />I am toddler-drowning deep<br />but epic in one fifteenth scale<br />You will remember me<br />it's a gypsy curse<br /><br />The Villain of nine hundred and ninety nine<br />faces<br /><br />Beware the solar messiah <br />my blue robes never could wash clean<br />Jesus needed colorfast<br /><br />And seared tuna sashimi<br /><br />seriously<br /><br />that shit is dynamite<br /><br />When my chapped lips quake<br />on my last ragged breath<br />my min ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Christmas Shits...</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:47:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Ah, yes.  I have been without the communications in quite a while.<br /><br />As per usual, my slimy tentacles have been kept very busy with sampling all the delights of the world.  I'm celebrating my xmas eve with porn, and the soundtrack from Conan the Barbarian.  You know, the snake worship hedonism scene?  The orgy?  Yeah, that's my xmas sounds.<br /><br />Normally I do a year in review or something along those lines, but I'm too damn lazy right now.  I just got up from a nap, and a long session with my Nintendog, Tuuque.  She's a lil pinky dalmation, and I can't believe how much I dig her!  I think I'm hamming it up though, because it drives the Girly nuts. ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Now in Techniblogspot</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:19:28 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Hey kiddies.  Step right up!  Come on in to the most fantangulous, exubermous, specialicus art blogspot in the thirteen colonies!<br /><br />Yessir!  That's right.  This ain't no Okie sprawlin' images of Barbra Streisand whingin' bout "painting these from TV".  Why this is the geniu-whine article.  The real deal!  For a mere saw-buck, you and your little lady can enter the tent, and penetrate yer very MIND!<br /><br />That's right!  Ariokh AKA Cannibalcandy AKA Izzy, now has a blogspot of his very ownsome.  It is here that you will find a myriad of delights, such as new work from recent games, that you've NEVER laid eyes on!  Tutorials, and essays on concept des ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The cake is a LIE!!!</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:18:19 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The cake is a LIE!!!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I finally got my copy of The Orange Box.  I LOVE the Half Life series, and the depth of story involved... but I have to admit I really bought it for Portal.  And honestly.  It was worth it.  That game is a brilliant first attempt.  I can't WAIT to see what they do with the mechanic!!  Or if perhaps there will be portal guns in the future for our dear friend Freeman.  *sigh*  I'm a total gamer douche.<br /><br />Anyway.  Life is pretty good.  I'm working a hell of a lot!  I've been busy with the project at Sony.  I feel like the job was almost tailor made for me.  (I hope they offer another contract.)  I paint every day, all day, monsters, hot chicks, G ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Laborious</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:25:47 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ A day off.  An opportunity to get a lot of my freelance work done.<br /><br />Procrastination... my only vice.  Well, that and vagina.<br /><br />I just finished watching a film, keeping myself from working.  A Christian Bale film to be exact.  Well, it's not his, but he is the leading man in it.  I have to admit, it's quite possibly the most brilliant performance he has EVER put forth.  I thoroughly enjoyed his other works, such as the Twins Borden in the Prestige, or even the rather death metal take on Batman.  All good... but he trumps himself severely in the epic tale I saw today.  He should have made more money for it, than all of the other films he's worke ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>one fifty eight of the clock</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:02:26 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ My back hurts.  Tension is coursing in alkaline and saccharin jolts up my spine.  My panicky eyes are darting like a ping-pong tournament featuring Chenrezig.<br /><br />I've just walked into a steamy dentist office, atmosphere and ozone so thick you can barely see the chair... or the corpse it seats, everything is white out from the primitive fluorescent tubes.  I wander around the room and the steam gets turned up... I am blinded... I hear running in the bright.  Quick and light thudding steps.  I spin on the spot... and the sound is gone, and the poor visibility returns.  I hesitate.  Better than blind, I suppose.  I begin to gather supplies.  My mu ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>That&amp;#039;s it!  I&amp;#039;m turning to cryog</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:15:19 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">That&amp;#039;s it!  I&amp;#039;m turning to cryog</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I have to freeze myself, Cartman-style for the next four days, because the wait for the Art Deco-first person shooter-rpg masterpiece that is Bioshock comes out on the TWENTY FIRST!  I've never had four days seem like a life time.  The most ridiculous part of this equation is that I ONLY just bought Overlord, Oblivion, AND Dead Rising... I'm maybe a third of the way through Overlord, and haven't even cracked the boxes on the other two, because I'm so afraid of them stealing my life like some kind of spooky lich pumpkin, that swallows my sweet life juices through puncture holes in my testicles....<br /><br />Umn... I digress.<br /><br />*sob... falls to his knees ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Snorting Stardust</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:39:15 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Snorting Stardust</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Holy crap!<br /><br />I'm so smitten with this film.  <br />It had all the wonderous fantasy elements, and goofy humor <br />of a modern day Princess Bride, with a little bit more epic thrown in the mix.<br /><br />I went in expecting crap, so that may be why I was so blown away,<br />but Gaiman does it again with really fascinating characters, and interesting<br />story archs!  I'm gonna have to read the book now! YAY!  I love Gaiman books.<br /><br />In other news.  I start teaching pretty soon, and I'm pretty excited about that.<br />I've never had to put together a syllabus before... so yeah.<br /><br />I'm always working on freelance, and that's been keeping me damn busy.<br />Throw in the teaching,  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Comicon Emerged</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/Comicon-Emerged-239706968</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:03:11 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Wowee.<br /><br />So, emergency averted, I managed to find some nice peeps, kind enough to take me in.  Cheers a thousand times Aaron and Earl.  May your children be powerful and free of STDs! *bow*<br />I went to comicon from Thursday through Satday.<br />It was a bloody blast.  I had no idea how big, and how fun it would actually be!<br />I'd been told by many that I oughta give it a shot, but I'd neglected for so long.<br />Foolish me.  What a spectacle of color, light and sound.  I even saw a young cosplay throw up on the floor, and then the crowd around just walk all over it, completely unaware.<br /><br />eww.<br /><br />I got a few shots, but not with my cam so I don't know if the ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Comicon Emergencee</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/Comicon-Emergencee-239737837</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:59:57 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Hey people.<br /><br />Tonight I'm heading out to my first ever comicon in SD, but my place to crash fell through!<br /><br />Would there be any wonderful art minded folk in the area that wouldn't mind letting me sleep on their floor perhaps tonight and tomorrow night?  I'd be happy to make it worth while, maybe a tasty bottle of Tequila, or somethin'?  I'm just going for networking, and to meet art people, so I won't need your bathroom for seven hours while I do myself up like the Devil from Legend...<br /><br />I hate to ask, but my ass is out upon the limb, and I really really wanna go.  I'm clean and non-murderous.  Don't let my art fool ya.  If'n it's possible, let m ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Ariokh Solves the Big Bang problem</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:53:59 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Ariokh Solves the Big Bang problem</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Well, Not really, I just add more poop to the pot!<br /><br />Something's always bugged me about the big bang. It's seemed counter intuitive to science in the back of my mind for some time. I can't disagree that the universe is expanding. The proof is in the pudding. But the idea of an explosion from no where, just never sat well.<br /><br />Well, I was sitting on the pot reading the book "The Language of God", by Francis S. Collins. Which has apparently been a book of some debate as of late. Anyway, I'd been reading through his chapters on how the big bang stumps even scientists, because there is no scientific breakdown for the concept of 'Something blown out o ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Holey Man</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 01:20:07 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Holey Man</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Update 2:  Slick Silver Slug<br /><br />I've been featured in some kinda wacky article thingie here on DA checkadis:<br /><br />http://news.deviantart.com/article/29405/<br /><br />My piercings are coming along nicely.  I'm a little fleshier now around the actual holes themselves, but I wouldn't call them full on blow outs, just that sort of slight tug of skin that happens when you pull out from inside of someone, but it kinda stays in that position.  Insides are pinkish and not quite perfectly healed yet, I'd say next week sometime.<br /><br />Ordered my new jewelry that I went through all this trouble for, should be here soon!  Then I'll do another quick Indigent photoshoot.  <br />T ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Ariokh the Otter</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:16:15 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Ariokh the Otter</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ The water is very cool, but a comforting kind of cool.  I can't see my own back but as I float I know that the light illuminating the pool- and the whole of the darkened courtyard- is spreading dancing bands of turquoise and cobalt on it.  I am staring up into the night sky.  The girls are chatting in the hot tub nearby and though I can't hear them through the tempo of my watery heart beat, I know they are doing that cute thing girls do where they talk about how great each other are, examining their qualities and writing up essays on their friends' awesomeness.  I ignore them, and the courtyard, and the light on my back, and the pool&#133; ev ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Such Messy Hands</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:49:23 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Tonight.  I got home from a long day at work.  Ate a tasty salad, and some brie and crackers.  Nothing fancy, just a bit of a triple cream wheel.  I'm dirt poor, but my belly likes yummy things.  As a girlfriend I once had long ago used to say of her father... "He's got champagne taste on a beer budget."  Truer words... This of course only applies to food, I live in a hovel with one piece of living room furniture on which I enjoy my gourmet cheeses.  I'm fond of pick a nicks in which I eat similar things with pretty young ladies in parks, but not much of that going on lately... much too busy.<br /><br />Anyway, I had a point to all of this.<br /><br />After my y ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Who do I have to fuck...(update)</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:48:07 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ ..to get into a bloody art book!?  I'm under a shit ton of stress, with so many things to do.  And to add to it, I find today that, though I entered many of my new pieces into the Expose 5 competition over at Ballistic Publishing, about two months ago, none of them are in the submitted art section.<br /><br />All that scrambling to get the files up in hopes of getting somewhere with them, and they aren't even there...  I checked last month, and there was nothing there then.  I figured it was just difficult to put up all the new work, and it would take time... but still, no sign of my entries.  I must have missed the damn deadline somehow.  I'm bummed!<br /> ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Slick shoes!!!</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/Slick-shoes-240825191</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:20:29 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Slick shoes!!!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Oh holy fuck, it's as if this band came from inside my head!  Now you will know what is going on behind my eyes, when they are closed!... ENJOY!<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Ikay3a1Zc ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Where's the pickle??</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/Where-s-the-pickle-240873785</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:43:02 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Where's the pickle??</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ It's a surprise!<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwEt6doEglA ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Almost Human</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/Almost-Human-240901172</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:47:17 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Almost Human</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I'm tired.  Dead tired.  It's been a long day.  Week.  Month.  More...  I don't know.<br /><br />It's interesting.  I go through these spells of mad euphoria.  Moments of extreme happiness and feelings of contentment.  A sort of acceptance of everything that seems to encompass my lack of greatness, my solitude, even my own embarrassing past.  It rises to the point of extraordinary happiness, where every breath and glance at anything feels like the most sacred thing.  Overwhelming.<br /><br />And then.  There are days or moments, like right now.  Where nothing seems to bring me joy.  It's as if everything is sucked up into me like a rotting vacuum on a mad hunt.  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Stranger than... life?</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:33:35 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Stranger than... life?</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ It appears I got a BDay present yesterday from someone.  I signed on and  the site was all weird, thumbnails, and all sorts of weird doo-dads, and bells and whistles.  I was very disturbed at first.  Until I realized someone had gone and gotten me a subscription, all anonymous-like.  Sooo... a cordial thankee to whomever was my silent benefactor!  Much appreciated! ^_^ ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Tagged &amp; Bagged</title>
                <link>http://ariokh.deviantart.com/journal/Tagged-amp-Bagged-240976805</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:40:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Dani tagged me.  There is some big set of rules, and all kinds of madness involved, which I will likely deny, for the sake of being a trendsetter. (I'm SO original!)<br /><br />Six weird things, or habits I have:<br /><br />1.  I have made such an effort to be non-judgemental towards abnormal behavior, I can now eat an interesting brunch with a serial killer, and not be phased.  (So long as I'm not on the menu)<br /><br />2.  I like to smoke my pipe, or some cloves and sip a few fingers of whiskey while I write.  Cuz that's the way it should be dammit!<br /><br />3.  I don't put on music to match my mood.  I put on different types of music to DEFINE it.  That's why I listen to poin ]]></media:text>            
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