Monthly Archive for September, 2007

J Valentine, HIN Pre-​​Party

Published on Sunday, September 30, 2007

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J Valentine per­formed at Tonic Live’s party at Fanatics Ultra Lounge in San Francisco on Thursday, September 27. See the photo set here: 2007.09.27 /​ Fanatics Ultra Lounge. Scroll past the fol­low­ing pics for pho­tos from the HIN Pre-​​Party.

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HIN Night Shift photos Monday

Published on Sunday, September 30, 2007

Photos from Fanatics Ultra Lounge this past Thursday and Friday will be up soon (to­day). Come back on Monday for pho­tos from yesterday’s Hot Import Nights Night Shift at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.

Fanatics Ultra Lounge

Published on Friday, September 28, 2007

If you’re look­ing for your pho­tos from Thursday night at Fanatics Ultra Lounge, you’re here too early. Come back to­mor­row. Maybe tonight, but by to­mor­row they should be up.

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Wedding photography sucks

Published on Thursday, September 27, 2007

I’ve been de­bat­ing with my­self lately about whether or not I should try to be­come a wed­ding photo­grapher (as in mar­ket my­self as a wed­ding photo­grapher and make that my pri­mary thing), and I’ve come to a de­ci­sion: hell no. I’d use a dif­fer­ent four-​​letter word in­stead of hell but not for this blog. (Hi Mommy, Daddy!)

Banned from this church. Boohoo!

There are too many things I don’t like about wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy. The only rea­son I even con­sid­ered it is the po­ten­tial for a sta­ble in­come. To be hon­est, wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy an­noys me. Not wed­dings. I’m okay with wed­dings. But wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy, ugh…

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Mission Man — Part 3

Published on Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Here’s the third Mission Man comic strip, which in­tro­duces Freshman Boy to the se­ries. Like Mission Man, he wasn’t cre­ated by me. He was an­other char­ac­ter from MSJ lore that I de­cided to in­cor­po­rate into the comic. I think I saw him dur­ing a school assembly.

Aiyouweiya was one of my AOL Instant Messenger screen­names at the time. I don’t know what it means ex­actly, but it’s some­thing that a Chinese per­son some­times says when some­thing un­for­tu­nate hap­pens. (Like if you ac­ci­den­tally kicked the foot of a ta­ble with your pinky toe.) And it should be spelled aiy­oweiya, with­out the u.

In case you missed the ear­lier posts about Mission Man:
Mission Man comic
Mission Man — Part 2