Wide Awake Five is hot off the copier and after being hand assembled is ready for release. As you may already know the release party is Friday the 19th! Click here for more info.

I saw the Lord Of The Rings trilogy yesterday. The first 2 were the extended additions and then The Return Of The King. It was a truly awesome day. 12 hours in a movie theatre and they gave us frames from the movie at the end of it all.

As a bonus there were previews for Sky Captain and Spiderman 2 which I highly recommend seeing.

Hey, happy holidays! I'm finishing up the next issue of Wide Awake soon and we're having a publication party on the 19th. I'll be posting more information soon.

Oh, I just bought the first Ratchet and Clank game for playstation. It rocks so hard.

I'm also being forced into doing a stuffed animal for this jerk from college. He's verbally abusing me on his website. Send him some e-mail and tell him you hate him. chris@harbers.net

My friend always has to try and be as fly as me. So he put a blog on his homepage so he can read all his wondermous daily ramblings to his dog when he gets home. You can see it at harbers.net Warning: 98% of it will be about how he likes to hockey and beat his dog.

In other news I finally finished Grand Theft Auto. Now I'll have time to finish my real work. Like you care.

Shhh, don't tell anyone.


Graddy had no lady.


Das Pumpkinator.

More Halloween goodness.

Jim Struff

Puhnumkey

In October, Halloween takes over my 3mr mailing list.

October 1st = Drake



October 2nd = Kittie

An auction of unique piggy banks will be held for Hands On Greenville.
This is what my piggy looks like. Wouldn't he look lovely on that end table in your den?


The Auction
Thursday, October 2nd
7:00-9:30 p.m.
Twigs Tempietto
info

Give a gander at Greenville South for art, city, folk and area links in Greenville South Carolina.

Today's 3 Minute Robot:
Unit 2 is here to assist you.



Cool comment
"He looks like the love child of the aliens from Close Encounters of the 3rd
Kind and C3PO." - Renee Beaudin from 3mr mailing list

Shins single came out today. Very cool stuff.

Good day fellow peeps. This weekend I stopped by the Pickens County Upcountry Folklife Festival and Old Time Fiddlin' Convention. I've posted the short film my mother made while we were there. Called Jimmer Sawing.

Today's Bot:
Izit Alloween Et

See that didn’t hurt so much. I’ll be using this area everyday or so to run my mouth. About events, trips and I don’t know what all. So if you’re bored silly at work you can check in and see what’s up.

Today’s bot:
Captain Yee-Haw the 3rd

WAITING FOR CHEWBACCA
Source: MetroBEAT article by Chris Haire
"The air is thick with the smell of doughnuts. Every breath is a sugar-rush. An extra five pounds. A clogged artery. Although Krispy Kreme is only a short walk away from where I'm standing, I will not be tempted by the warm and inviting scent of sugar-slick lard. I will not be distracted. I came here to meet Chewbacca." Chris Haire of MetroBEAT searches for a Wookie, but he finds more: a man who fights flying snakes, a room full of Kit Culkins and the long lost Star Wars Holiday Special.
Read it!

and...

Don’t forget to go check out Art In The Park this weekend Sept 20&21 in Greenville SC.

Spontaneous Combustion


2nd Annual
Rock and Art Show
Saturday October 25
About 8:00

The Asheville Community
Resource Center,
Lexington Ave., Asheville NC

The sun is the limit so strap on your Icarus wings. Contact Andrew if you want to perform or help out (Andrew's # 828-645-1384) Members of the Wide Awake collective zine performing are Widdershins (the rock out quartet), Andrew Davis and Michael Gowan (those no class a-holes: Brian Eno meets Captain Caveman). A prime location in downtown Asheville, The Asheville Community Resource Center so get it together and fly till you burst into flames.

So I checked my P.O. Box the other night and there was the new copy of Zine World. I flip through and find a little illustration done by J Chris Campbell. And I go, "hey that's my name" and then I'm like, "oh yeah I did that illustration." So anyway, the newest issue of Zine World is out and you can read the review of Wide Awake 3. Zine World is available at http://www.undergroundpress.org/whatsnew.html it's number 19 with the mole thingys on the cover.
This is Mr. Skipples today's 3 minute Robot.

Coming up with ideas to test this blog is lots of fun. Like this idea here. It's about how fun it is coming up with ideas to use for the blog test. Man...... i t ' s g r e a t.

I'm feeling really bad about not doing robots. I'll hopefully start back real soon. I did find time to do the Hoarse Box on the front page.

Duane Ballenger, Mark Roper and I will be road triping to the Charolet Comicon on Friday June13. We'll be taking lots of Wide Awakes. We'll also have Duane's new mini comic Short Stack. It's a compilation of drawings that were inserted in Wide Awake 4.