Free Hugs

I've noticed a number of students with "Free Hugs" signs around campus for the past couple of years. I thought it was something for a class, or a BYU thing or something. When I thought up this I had no idea that "Free Hugs" was an international movement that was started by a man in Australia that calls himself Juan Mann. (You can read a bit about it here) So I was planning this "Free Hugs" idea not sure if anyone would be familiar with it at all. Then I saw that Oct. 14th was national Free Hugs day when I was watching the Oct. 14th edition of the campus news show I-News. (I wasn't on the crew that day so I didn't see the story until I dowloaded the podcast on the 21st. You can subscribe to I-News on i-Tunes if you want) So I'm late I missed National "Free Hugs" Day, but hey I'm still doing some "Free Hugs" comics.

I had the chance to catch The Great Kaplan with a friend this weekend. Kaplan is a magician, who does sort of a comedy show along with his illusions. He had some good tricks, some good jokes, and a thing for bowling balls. He started the show by making a bowling ball appear (by shooting a spitball towards the cieling, where upon a bowling ball dropped through a bag he had just opened. Later on that ball and another floated to the cieling. The balls stayed there for the rest of the show) It was a good show and I'd say that if you see him passing through somewhere near you it would be a fun show to go to.

Empty Pockets

Just a sketch today. I had a pretty full weekend, and I actually need to draw up a whole new batch of comics. This sketch is somewhat older.

I saw Where the Wild Things Are this weekend, and I gotta say I was disappointed. Visually it is a very good looking movie, it's interesting to look at the creature effects are very nice, and there are some very admiral qualities to the movie. There were things I liked, but it was not what I hoped for. I remember the book being a fun book, I could not describe this as a fun movie. There are a couple of chuckle worthy moments, but surprising few, and rather than fun in tone the tone is melancholy. Frankly there was too much of that too much of the melancholy for me. I thought I was going to a fun kids movie and instead I got a melancholy and rather adult movie. Not in content at all, but in its tone, its pacing, and ultimately what it is about. I doubt kids would enjoy this movie and the kids in the theater seemed rather restless. My sister went with me and she disliked it rather strongly. I liked it more than her, but I can't really recommend it.

I have some new projects up on my other blogs.

http://preilly.podbean.com/ A new podcast this time I talk about Toy Story 3.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ A new video on the schools Cross Country program.

Hope your week is awesome.

Tells

My other two blogs should be seeing some updates the end of next week, maybe early the week after.

So they redid the road in front of my apartment complex and it has got to be the shoddiest job on a road I've seen. All they did is put a layer of gravel on top of the old road, which I do not think is the standard policy for redoing roads but then again I'm no expert. The end result -- now that I'm sure what we have is the end result; it has been lined -- is that the road is quite rough, and rather uneven as in some spots as the new top has been stripped away to reveal the old road underneath. The gravel that was stripped away as clumped up forming small bumps in the road. I thought about going down to city hall and seeing if I could ask if this was standard procedure for road repair, but then I decided I would rather complain about the road in my blog. Though maybe I should find out how the city feels about the work that was done on the road. . .

Normal House

Just a single framer today.

Things here are going well, although it got cold really quick. It has yet to snow yet thank goodness. I still am hearing predictions that snow is coming soon though. Can't say I'm looking forward to that.

Nothing really too exciting going on right now. I had two assignments for my multi-media journalism class come do which means that my other blogs were updated.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ Here you'll find some video. The assignment was to interview a classmate. I had some technical difficulties that kind of hampered my original plan for this video, so it's not quite what I hoped for. I've also linked to the interview done of me.

http://preilly.podbean.com/ Here you can catch the second podcast that I've done this semester.