Aloha and Mahalo

In spite of grim economic conditions, I managed to escape LA for a few days and now feel refreshed & recharged. Not much happened while I was gone, but I got confirmation that my ‘Tiny Spaceship’ submissions to five more film festivals are complete and accepted… now we just have to wait and see where we do/don’t get in. Meanwhile, I’ve spread the ASK A PUNK message to salon.com and have been reposting on their “Open Salon” platform. We’ll see how that goes. Also – the growing ‘Another LA Cartoon‘ readership continues to surprise me. Thanks to everyone who has been checking ALAC every Thursday. Aloha.

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Batter Up !

Argh. Opening Day got rained out back at Fenway Park. I don’t think these sorts of things are ‘Bad Omens’ but after a long Winter’s wait, I was itching to see some hometown baseball. Maybe tomorrow.

Meanwhile back here in reality, well… L.A. reality anyway, I’m still waiting to hear on a few things… which is typical I know, but I’m not just sitting around staring at the phone. I’ve submitted ‘Tiny Spaceship’ to five more film festivals, in Atlanta, Austin, Milwuakee and Los Angeles and I’m finally making some real writing progress on my latest project – a spec pilot for a half hour single-camera “workplace comedy.”

A few people asked what the heck that picture was in the previous post. I thought it was fairly obvious but apparently I was wrong. So here goes: The original picture is from the ‘Planet OConnor’ header (above) which I have cartoon-ized using the same process I use for ‘Another LA Cartoon.’ I’ll be using that image as my ‘gravatar’ here on WordPress and elsewhere. It is also the image I’m using for my twitter feed etc. That’s all. No big mystery.

…and we’ll wrap this post up with another picture (submitted by a friend/fan) from the growing collection:

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Twitts

Yes, ok, I give in… I’m on Twitter now too.

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I’m still not exactly sure how I’ll put it to use, but I promise I won’t bore people with the sort of “mmm I feel like more coffee” posts that drive ME insane. It certainly was nice to be able to go back and track audience reaction to “Tiny Spaceship” when it screened in Seattle.. I knew some of that tech-savvy crowd would be live-tweeting from the film festival… It was nice to see that feedback, AND be able to respond directly to some of it… This is the way to build a fanbase around nearly anything – a film, a TV show, a person etc. Maybe I’ll even use it to remind people that:

Wednesdays always mean a new Ask A Punk post,

and

Thursdays always mean a new LA CARTOON.

No news on my spec “Rock Hard, Big Dick’s” I continue to wait and wonder as invisible wheels turn (we think)… but the sun is shining and I have an ipod full of punk rock to keep me busy, not to mention the fact that the water temperatures are warming up in SM bay….. cowabunga.

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Surviving Saint Patrick.

Don’t get me started. With a name like mine (and a middle name of: “Patrick”) I get plenty of good-tidings wished my way on the 17th of March. I appreciate them all, even if all I did this year was watch THE QUIET MAN and go to bed early.

Little to report. I’m launching ‘The Tiny Spaceship’ off to several more film festivals this week after having such a good experience in Seattle. Writing-wise, another one of my contest-winning scripts “Rock Hard, Big Dick’s” is finally getting some readers and fans around town… and no I won’t be posting it here any time soon – I’m trying to SELL this one.

and folks have been clamoring so – here’s another “Tom or O’Connor” …or both picture… taken in my grandfather’s hometown of Dingle, Co. Kerry.

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End of the Month

A fast February wrapped up with visits to some post-production offices and much discussion of AVID workflows etc. Also finally got my youtube channel connected and working… as soon as I start posting stuff on there, you’ll hear about it on here.

This weekend I’ll be wrestling with ‘withoutabox.com’ submitting ‘The Tiny Spaceship’ to a few more festivals. Next week: more meetings.

And more cartoons! The fast spread of my ‘Another LA Cartoon’ blog continues to surprise me.