Greg Matusic

I like the idea of the iTunes Store. I really don't mind paying for music, movies and other forms of media - as long as it's good. My sister gave me a $25 iTunes gift card for Christmas, and I was thinking about using it today. I've been jones-ing for a good zombie movie, even if it's one I've already seen (which would be most/maybe 95% of them). So I figured I'd check out the iTunes Store to see what they had. Announcement: they had crap. There were a few movies I'd buy, but I already own them (Tombstone and High Fidelity come to mind - I don't have the iTunes site open at the moment). I liked School of Rock, but not enough to own a digital copy that'll sit on my work desktop until my G5 eventually craps out (estimated date of crap out: September of 2010). The first Jackass was there, and that was pretty funny, but again, not enough interest to purchase. I'll send the iTunes folks an e-mail concerning their lack of decent movies, but I can't...

I decided to use the word fine in the title of this post. It's fine in the 1950's sense of fine , as in "Boy, that Whitey Ford sure is a fine pitcher," or "Mmm-MMM, honey! That was a mighty fine pot roast!" You get the idea. Fine as in really swell. So the weather over the past few days sure has been fine . Sunny and warm, but not too warm. And dry. It sure is nice when the heat arrives with dryness. Humidity can kiss my ass. That's funny, because when it's humid out it looks like it has kissed my ass, and my back, and my face, and my melon, and all my other parts. A big sloppy humid kiss - with tongue. Blech. Humidity is gross, but we'll address that when it arrives. Right now we'll revel in this stretch of fine , fine , fine , fine days.

Enjoy! Ahahahahahaha!!!

Iced coffee season is here, folks. I'm happy to report that this year's batch has been pretty decent so far. Now if you're shopping for your iced coffee at Starbucks, don't order an iced coffee. Seriously. You don't want an iced coffee. What you want is an iced Americano, which is a wicked shot of espresso over ice and topped with filtered water. It tastes like a cigar in a cup. Hell, it even SMELLS like a cigar in a cup. Very refreshing indeed. And it's strong flavor promotes smaller sips so it lasts longer, which is a problem with me, especially with the cream and sugar-substitute version I enjoy at the Dunkin Donuts. I recently heard that McDonald's makes a nice iced coffee - Paul Newman's behind those I think - but I have yet to try one. I order the decaf version of Starbuck's iced Americano, and there's no loss in flavor. So if you need an icy fix and don't want all the usual jumps and jitters, do yourself a favor and go decaf. The DD de...

So my lame excuse for never posting on my old blog site is that it wasn't very user friendly. It was also wicked ugly - and changing the colors, font styles, etc was a PITA, which brings us back to the user-friendless issue. Upon further review I suppose this is actually a pretty valid excuse for not blogging as often as I'd like. Now THIS blog site... Oh man... It's the cat's pajamas! And we all know how cool cat's pajamas are. Work: Going well. No complaints. The boss just brought us a 32" flat-panel so we can watch day games. How frigging cool is that? My Bill & Penny comic ads were nominated for a couple of Nori awards, so that's kind of cool/flattering. The dinner's in June, so we'll all just have to wait for the results. Freelance: I finished a pretty big illustration project a few weeks ago (sample above). It started off well, hit a HUGE snag, I haggled a new price based on said snag, and then I re-drew the illustrations. They loved the...