Darrell M. Stark

http://deadjournal.com/users/helpmejebus/

Go there!

Oh, and here...
http://commonsense.keenspace.com/

See 'ya over there.

-Darrell M.

All right, I've really gotta get back into doing this.

Right now, I'm in Math class. Obviously, I'm not mathing right now. Mr. Cross isn't here and since I'm done my work... well, here I am.

Nothing has been going on at all, really. I'm still geeking up the comic scene. I think, as of last count, I have 56 comic book collections and two or three dozen comics books themselves.

I started doing my own comic 5 days a week. I'm so proud of myself, that I've been able to keep up with it. I seriously can't believe that I've done six or seven straight weeks of comics! It's amazing to me! And the more comics I draw, the more comics and pages I'll have for my book, whenever I get that going up... I really want a published collection. It's like... my goal for Lunchtable!.

Man, my neck hurts like hell. I got a crick in my neck yesterday, right? It wasn't too bad until I acted like myself [read: crazy] and "jumped" my friend, Geoff Gardner. I sorta popped out from behind his car and scared him, but I aggrivated my neck. It still hurts... *sigh...*

Work is work. That's really it. It still sucks sometimes. It still rocks sometimes. Its's okay.

Yeah...

Before I finish this up, I must tell you this; SEE SHREK 2 NOW!!! It is definitely one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. I really, really recommend it to 'ya. I've seen it twice already and I think I may see it again! GO SEE IT NOW!!! RAUGH!!!!!

*a-hem!*

I guess that's it. I'll try and talk some more later the weekend.

Adios!
Darrell M.

I'm here, again, to talk, again, about things that, again, are happening again.

Yeah... If I seem...loopier than usual, it's mainly because I'm sick and doped up on ibuprofen and cough medicine. And I'm hyper. That too...

*sigh* What to talk about? So much has happened and not happened since my last post.

What happened? Well, let me tell you.

I'm now officially a comic book geek. Not only do I have my own comic, but now I'm actually visiting a comic book shoppe to pick some up! Simpsons Comics, Futurama Comics, Ultimate Spiderman and Ultimate X-Men. Yeah, not much of a collection yet, but I'm sure I'll find some more comics I wanna read sooner or later.

I've been talking to fellow cartoonist Scott McAllister from Scotland. We switched comics, as per tradition, for April Fools day. I drew his comic, http://wakeupscreaming.keenspace.com/d/20040401.html, and he drew mine, http://lunchtableonline.keenspace.com/d/20040401.html. I really like what he drew for mine. High-freakin'-larious. We've also decided to collaborate on a comic. He's the writer, I'm the artist. I can't really give any details yet, since we don't really know 'em, but it's gonna be good.

School keeps going. That weird editing project is done. My health project is done. Midterms were yesterday and today. The Math one I took yesterday was easy, yet hard. Dunno how else to explain it. Today's Health one? Well, being sick and absent from school... Let's just say I have to make it up. Yeah...

I hung out with Katie last week. We saw "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." That movie was awesome. Go see it. Now. Katie's awesome too. Or, 'neato' rather. That's her word. She's trying to revive it in modern speech. I'm glad we got to hand out, 'cuz we don't get to much anymore. I had a great time.

This weather is so depressing. Four days of rain that ended on Saturday morning. And where was I on Saturday morning? Work. At 7:30am, the clouds cleared and the sun came out. At 8:15am, everyone suddenly thought, 'The sun? Let's all go rejoice at Wawa!!!' Between 8:15am and 3:15pm, I swear I saw everyone in the county in the store.

The totals:
Customer count: 863 (a record among most)
Money count: I handled $5,164.53. A lot, I assure you.
And in the end, I was only fifteen cents short. With the amount of sales and money I took, being only 15 cents short is a freakin' miraculous thing. Seriously.

That day was horrific in terms of everything though. I worked mostly nonstop for 6 and a half hours. I swear I had an adrenaline overdose or something. I felt so naucious by the end of my shift. I didn't stop shaking until 4:30pm. Utter hell.

Speaking of hell, after work, I left Atlantic County and headed for Deptford where at a Barnes and Noble I picked up "The Big Book of Hell," a cartoon book by Matt Groening. This collection of his Sunday comic, Life in Hell, is very funny. Yuppers, it is.

Well, that's about it for now. My headache's returned and I ought to go pop some more pills. Heh.

Yours,
Darrell M.

I haven't posted in here in awhile, mainly because I'm a very boring person and I have nothing to say.

:D

So, what's up in my life now? Hmmm...

In school;
Not much is happening. I have to animate my Health project and edit it together before the first of April. I think I should be able to do it, but we'll see. Me and my procrastination, sheesh. I'm finally on the finishing touches stage of this project for the Atlantic Riding Center place... That'll be done tomorrow during school (I hope).

Comic-wise;
I've discovered the joys of the Audio Commentary. That's right, Lunchtable! now features Audio Commentary on each and every comic! Woo! Join the Revolution! http://www.lunchtableonline.com. I'm finally getting close to the end of this story arc. Tommorow's comic is the 23rd out of 36, so I'm getting there...

Work?;
Everything's good. I have my hours back, and each day is more and more fun. Sadly, in lieu of a social life, I find myself there more and more to talk to peeps. I've definitely made and rediscovered a lot of friends working at Wawa. I'm glad I got the job, not matter how bad it gets sometimes.

Lifing?
I'm still single, though my choice now (long story). I finally started talking to Van's friend Courtney, and now we're great friends. She's a great person.

I'm currently crushing on the following: (name withheld), (name withheld), and Colin Mochrie. (Edit: Whoops, how'd that get there? j/k).

I really like this one girl though. Like, its seriously bordering on love, in my humble opinion. I'm not sure how to go on with it though. She's currently nonsingle and I'm sure she doesn't feel the same way about me. It's weird. I constantly find myself ending up where she works just so we can talk. I don't know. I really want to be with her, but I don't think that'll happen. It's hard to explain to her how I feel. I suppose I'm just afraid that if I tell her, things won't be the same. I'm happy with things the way the are and even though I want more involvment, I don't want to ruin that. Love is hard. *sigh...*

There, now I went and depressed myself, lol...

Hmmm... IN OTHER NEWS:
Strong Bad reached 100 e-mails! Woo! High-freakin'-larious!!!

Yours,
Darrell M.

(I'll be posting more often, I promise...)

I'm bored again.

Hmm, let's see...

See Darrell.
See Darrell Exist.
Exist Darrell Exist.

There.

In other news, I'm still lonely. NOW HIRING, PEOPLE!!!

Sheesh...
Darrell M.

Ok, everyone at my school, you know the animation lab? You know how my stuff hangs up there, and whenever you ask about it, I tell you to leave it be and leave me alone about it? Yeah... Here's the story...

Don't talk to me about those comics... I'm not saying that they're crap. It's just that I can't stand looking at my old stuff strung up on the walls of the lab without my permission and in terrible quality. I can't even take 'em down! I'm seriously about to spend my own money to print my best comics out and put them up there myself! Dr. Bob just can't get it threw his head that it's my stuff, done on my own time, elsewhere then the school, using other equipment. He can't choose to display it without my permission, but if I do anything about it, I'll get bitched at by Mr. Smith and him. The world hates me... I really am thinking about getting a lap top with Flash on it, and transferring all my files to it, deleting the originals, and just using that in front of his face to spite him...)

Note: People not at the school, ignore the above rant...

Thanks, that felt good...

Yours,
Darrell M.

SNOW!
SNOW!
SNOW!
SNOW!
(we are getting)
(we are getting)
SNOW!
SNOW!
SNOW!
SNOW!
(we are getting SNOW!)

x4


(Why is it that I only get responded to when I do short posts?)

Yours,
Darrell M.

Happy Singles Awareness Day!!!

Hooray!!!

(Man, I forgot to get a girlfriend again...)

Yours,
Darrell M.

I'm back! For now.

Man, lately, I've just been... um, out of it. That's the only way to explain it.

I haven't been able to pay attention to anything other than school and work. I'm feeling uncomfortable with everything else. I really can't make it more clear.

I travel along on the road of life, and as things change and grow and I recieve more and more experiences and am preparing to use the past ones to venture on into the rest of my life (poetic, huh?) I'm feeling scared.

Recently, I had a grades scare in Chemistry class. With the block scheduling, (I can never spell that damn word! Watch it be right now though.) Each 22 days, or half a marking period, I'm learning a full marking period's worth of material. I was in darger of failing halfway through the second marking period. In the 22 following days, I got my grade from a 73 to a 79, and I did pass, but that still woke me up. I've never done that bad. Never in my life.

And now, I'm schedualed (Dammit!) for the SATs on the 27th or March. I know I can take 'em, and I'll probably do fine, but its still nerve-racking. That test will help to shape what I become. It's like the first step of the world's longest staircase.

Yesterday, I searched online for colleges with my mom. I'm still having a problem narrowing down what I want to do in TV Production (whether it be something with animation or maybe camera work), and until I do, I really can't search too hard for a specific school. So, now I'm under pressure to do that too.

The whole concept of college makes me cringe. I don't want to think about it.

Things have started getting back to a sense of normal, though. I mean, I'm not depressed or anything, just a little out of normal. Sooner or later, the rest of the stuffs will just get all comfy with me again... I really have to work on my analogies...and my spelling.

COMIC FRONT: Keenspace seems to have finally gotten fixed. Now, all I have to do is draw the rest of the comic that was supposed to come up today, draw Friday's, draw next Monday's and get ahead again so I can do the full week of comics I want to do at the end of this storyline... Damn, it's hard running a relativly unpopular webcomic.

Gotta go. I head the call of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (must remember to return it this time!)

Yours,
Darrell M.

...I swear!

Darrell M.

I have two words to say... HOMESTAR RUNNER.

Go there, now. This update can wait...

http://www.homestarrunner.com





Ok, 'ya back?
Cool.

What've I been up'ta? Well, not much.

I finished scripting the next storyline, and have drawn 9 of the 36 comics. Keenspace went down, so I haven't been able to really update it, and that's it with the comic so far...

My life, you ask? Not bad. I'm still slightly lonely, but I'll get over it. *screams!* Ok.

I just finished the first semister of my third year of ChARTer~TECH yesterday. An overview:

TV Production: Not bad at all. Smith gave me a key to the animation lab early on, and after one getting-it-taken-away-and-then-reregetting-back fiasco, i've spent a lot of time there. My shows went okay, and the grades are good...

English III: Other than the constant essays and books about social views and stuff, not bad. Ms. Peterson is evil, I swear. Even when she's angry, she always has like, an evil grin and a certain perkiness. It's insane! Seriously though, she was a good teach..

US History II: Mr. Szeker is cool. But not as cool as Mr. Heenan, whom I miss. Class was good, except for that 10-15 page term paper, even though it wasn't that bad...

Chemistry: It's not that I hate Chemistry. It's just that I hate getting to class, spending 10 minutes writing a journal entry and copying down the night's homework, moving to the center of the room, taking notes for 55-75 minutes (Dr. Rea times it...) and then repeating (throw in a test and quiz every five or six days, and that's the basic scheduale). Otherwise, the class was okay...

My new class list?

1. TV Production (still)
2. Algebra 2 (I'm not looking forward to this at all.)
3. PreProduction (A 90 minute study hall for TV class ((Maybe I'll actaully do some fullon animations during that time...)))
4. Gym/Health (All right...)

Man, I'm tired with an emphasis on the T and the RED.

G'night!

Yours,
Darrell M.

(*sewiouswy. Homestaw wunnew is cool! And so's Stwong Bawd. He's so Stwong... and Bawd....)

*Homestar Runner Accent

This last week or so has gone from depressing to exciting, from bad to good, up until today.

Up until Sunday morning of last week, 10 people were to come bowling with me. I got there that morning after finding out that Van and Chris and CJ and his girlfriend had canceled. I waited, I bowled three games (a 112, a 98 and a 132) and then left. It was very depressing to arrive and find no one there, to wait and find that no one was coming, to leave without knowing where anyone was. I felt so bad after that. I had gotten my hopes up and had gotten shot down...

But enough of the well-worded make-you-feel-bad-for-Darrell paragraph.

I went to Sugarhill in Mays Landing and got myself one of those great $4.00 hoagies they sell. That was worth it. Most definitely worth it. I went home and found out that Dave got up late, Dan just couldn't come, Christian lost his ride and Brandon couldn't come. Of course, nobody thought of called me to tell me. NO, that would have MADE SOME SENSE!!!

Whatever.

The day before that, Saturday, I spent running about. Mainly, I went to Kinko's. Let just say one thing... I am now the proud owner of every single comic I have ever drawn in grayscale for the low, low price of ten cents a sheet of printed paper. I put them all in a binder, and have gone back twice so far to print out late editions, AKA recently finished comics.

I spent the week in school, catching up with my chemistry homework, sketching the last of the 36 comics in this current storyline, hanging out, working and just plain living.

On Tuesday, I found out that Ashley had gotten sick, and that was why she couldn't come. So far, the universe has cheated us out of a good time for a count of six weeks now. Maybe we should just give up? Lol. I seriously just have to drive up to where she lives, knock on the door, say, "Get in the car," and drive off. That ought'a work.

Yesterday, I watched Bicentenial Man, starring Robin Williams. Hell yeah! I hadn't seen that movie in years, and it was like watching it for the first time. It was a little goofier than I remembered, but I loved it all the same. It's a great sci-fi comedy if you're bored.

Then, there was today. I went to school. That was fine. After school, I was the talent for David Baker's midterm, and then I took out a portable Mini DV Tape camera and went into the halls to film mine. It went perfectly. Now, all I have to do is edit it, and I'm all set. I had to give Ed, this guy who was my talent for my show, a ride home so we left, hit Kinko's (trip number two was today), hit Krispy Kreme (WOOO!!!!!) and headed home. He loaned me a Puddle of Mud CD to burn for myself. Bad name, ok group in my opinion.

So, I'm listening to the song, "Blurry," and start thinking about things. I realized that I'm seriously lonely. I need someone to care about who cares about me. In short, a girlfriend, but there's much more than that.

I mean, I suppose I know that any high school relationship won't be serious, but I'm still looking for some sense of a commitment. Really though, it's not even that. I just want someone to talk to and hang out with, do things with, care for. In my opinion, there's no one at my school like that for me. So, I don't know what to do.

There still are some people I'm wth a lot who touch me like that. People who I love being with and try to do things with all of the time. If circumstances were different, I'd try taking the opportunity to spend time with them, but for now, they aren't. So, I'll wait in the shadows of despair, fo my one small gleaming chance.

Well, that last sentence was depressing. I'm really taking it a bit too far.

But, I am lonely. And it burns to not have any way to fix that.

On a lighter note... READ MY COMIC!
http://www.lunchtableonline.com

Yours,
Darrell M.

Ok, I'm gonna go quick here cuz it's almost time for school...

I've been going all out on my comic this week. It's usually only a Monday, Wednesday, Friday comic. This week though, I've had something new every day so far (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...). I also have something planned for tomorrow as well. I love the fact that I can plan ahead as well as think of stuff to do quickly. Woo!

School is okay.

Work is tedious and boring and making my legs hurt, but okay.

I can't wait for Sunday.

From what I understand, Van, Chris, Brandon, CJ, one of his friends, Dave, Christian, his ride, Ashley and I are all going bowling Sunday morning. I'm not sure how it went from Van, Chris, Ashley and I to that, but i'll welcome the extra people. A group of ten bowlers ought to be interesting, if not fun...

Then, later that day, Ashley and I should be going out to dinner and a movie. Denny's! Woo! I can't wait to go.

That's it.

Yours,
Darrell M.

(check my site!
http://lunchtableonline.keenspace.com/)

I'm tired so I'm gonna talk quickly here...

Today, I went back to school. It was okay being back.

After school, I finalized my newest animation poster and then got three copies printed over at kinko's (10.75 by 14 inches) I laminated the two I'm gonna hang up at school and left the other one open so I can sign it for a friend that's gonna buy it.
(check it out at http://lunchtableonline.keenspace.com/d/20040105.html)

Just now, I did a short animation of Darrell... It's the first i've done with actual multi-level animation and i like how it turned out.
(check it out at http://lunchtableonline.keenspace.com/d/20040106.html)

Now, I'm going to sleep.

Night.

Yours,
Darrell M.

4,235 words and counting...

Yours,
Darrell M.

I'm making some progress on my story. I'm not in this middle of Chapter Two with a total of Three Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Seven words. That's about three quarters as many words as the last long story I tried writing> That one-- interestingly enough-- had the same title as this current one; "In the End..." by Darrell M. Stark.

I think I've got a general idea for where it's heading, but who knows. I couldn't even really tell ya'll how long it may end up being, or whether or not I'll finish it. But, for now, I hope to work on it a little each day, and post it up somewhere. I'm averaging about 850 new words and about 100 addition to previous material each day now. I only started it at 12:10 am, 1/1/04, though.

Dunno. Whatever.

In comic news? I drew three panels of the comic for Monday, January 19th. That brings the total to 4 out of 9 panels done; about 44% complete.

And what's going on with me? Well, today, I got woken up by my dad at 11:00. That was annoying. Mind you, I fell asleep at 3:50am the night previous, so I was tired. He gave me a speech on how I needed to get up right now and clean stuff, which I did, and after being told to meet him at my grandparents house at 1:00pm to help move stuff around, I fell asleep.

Then, I woke up at noon, showered, webcomicked, ate, left, listened to some more of that audio book for a half hour (see previous post if you don't keep up religiously with my life), arrived, spent five minutes moving a couch, and turned around to drive the 30 minutes back home.

It wasn't all bad though. I got a sub at the Sugar Hill catering place near my grandmom's house in Mays Landing. Mmm, mmm, MMM! Soooooo good. I want more, NOW!

Then, I went to work. There were four of us at first (Carol, Ray, Ashley [hey!] and myself) but Zeke came in to help. Let me tell ya'll about Zeke in one long and hyphenated word; He's-one-hilarious--and-hard-working-sonuva-dot-dot-dot. Today was his tenth straight day of working there and at another job. He's got dedication, let me tell you.

Work was okay, mostly because of Ashley and Zeke. They're both great peeps. (Heehee. I said "peeps.") I invited Ashley to come bowling with Van and I and his friend tomorrow morning, but I'm still not sure if she can go or not as of yet.

Then, I came home at 10:25pm, sat down, internetted, read my friends livejournals, confirmed stuff with Van, drew, and am now writing this.

Pwew.

Ya know, I think this may be my longest journal entry thing yet.

Well, gotta write, then sleep. See ya'lls.

Yours,
Darrell M.

Whew. I finished my long, toiling weeklong working week.

So, to celebrate, I slept until two o'clock pm, sat around and saw Paycheck at 7:20.

I liked it. I know I'm going against the general critic populations' concensus by saying that, but I really liked the movie, Affleck or no Affleck.

I've started writing again as of the 1st. I just had this urge to do it, though I still don't know where the story'll go. I'm at 2717 words in the first completed chapter, and I'm gonna tackle some more later tonight. It's called "In the End..." for now. I wasn't feeling too creative when I wrote that, so mayhap it'll change, but who knows.

On the comic front, I've finished the week of the 12th's comics, the first of a 40 ish comic storyline called "Zero Gravity Antics..." I've already written most of it (the first 27+ comics have been sketched out on paper as well) and I'm liking how its turning out. This story'll also introduce the main arc of Lunchtable! And afterwards, I'll try and make the comic live up to its name with some lunchtable centered oneshots. Woo.

Also with the comic, I've finally finished drawing up the second ad for school. It's in poster sizes too, so it'll be extrememly noticeable. I can't wait to print it up, but I'm not really looking forward to paying the prices. Oh well. At least I'll become a little more famous at school, lol.

("Lol." FYI, That's a catchphrase of mine. I actually say that to semi-funny things instead of my fake laughter now. This tidbit brought to you by Tap Surprise!)

On the personal front, not much is going on. I'm schooling, working and currently three-fourths of the way through listening to the audiobook version of "The Gunslinger," the first part of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I rather like that format of books. Since I read fast, I usually miss important lines. With an audio book, you're basically forced to hear everything, and that's good for me.

Well, I'm off then. I'm currently chatting in the #idiotsite on IRC, and it's time for some writen-form improv comedy! Link: http://www.idiotsite.com

Yours,
Darrell M.

Woo!

*blows noisemaker thingy*

Oh, yeah!

*falls over*

Finally! NO MORE CHRISTMAS CAROLS AT WORK!

WOO-HOO!!!

Sorry, just had to get that off of my chest.

Seriously, though. Other than the constant playing of the X-Mas songs at work, Christmas was great.

I now have almost completed my FoxTrot and Simpsons comic collections. I now own the Dark Tower series by Stephen King (in my opinion, the greatest book series ever). I have clothes, some more CDs, a computer and some stuff for my car. All in all, a good haul. But, that's not the best part.

I got to see my family again, almost as a whole. And that was great. I wish I could see them everyday, or at least more often. I'm definitely going to take some trips up there (only and hour and a half away but...) sooner or later.

And that was my holiday...

Now, for my holiday break... Hmm...

I was scheduled to work from December 26th, to New Years Day, 3--11pm.

Wait. I have to go to work now! Woo.

Talk to ya'll later.

Yours,
Darrell M.

Man. I have to work from 7am to 3pm today, then come home and wrap presents. I have to draw a comic for Thursday (it's an extra one, but I want to do it) and also draw the week after next's comics. I have to work tomorrow as well, and try an catch up on sleep. I'm busy.

Bah.

Yours,
Darrell M.