I Can't Wait To Kick Some Romulan Blog!

I have nothing important to say today. That's probably why I'm blogging, after all.

Just got back from the iCarly wrap party. I'm so incredibly awkward at social events. I think it's cause I don't know enough people. Plus I need a date, so I can at least pretend I feel popular. Whatever, I improved from the Victorious wrap party, where I literally knew four people in the building. I even got hugged by Ariana Grande ("Cat" on Victorious) before she left. She definitely didn't know me. Glad she feels comfortable hugging strangers (I get the vibe she hugs an awful lot of people she doesn't know...)

We hit a bar afterwards (the ADs and production team, anyway. The kids went home, for obvious reasons). I finally got the chance to buy Danny Gomez a drink for all the times he's gotten my back and kept me busy. Unfortunately, he didn't want any specific drink, and the bartender (bartendress?) gave me loads of crap about picking something specific. I think she ultimately got him a sissy drink. I TOLD HER I wanted something "with a kick." Lesson learned, I need to start drinking.

PS: What do drinks cost, anyway? I told her I had a ten. In retrospect, I probably looked like an idiot. But seriously, Bar Lady, ten bucks can buy two terrible horror movies for a DVD collection, or it can be used on a glass of something somebody will pee out three hours later. Let's get our priorities straight.

Also, I've been feeling recently guilty about how slow my animation progress has gotten. How did I ever complete things like Three And A Half, Christmas Tree Bandit, and I'm Captain Falcon so quickly? I can't judge really whether the animation has gotten more complicated or not; all I know is that this single short has taken me forever, and I've barely gotten all the characters on screen yet. Meanwhile, I have about twenty more episodes building up in my head still that I CAN'T MAKE until I finish this one first, and then the others in the proper order. What a BIG _ BLOODY _ SHAME.

Oh, yeah. And Eisenstein. Ever since wrapping iCarly, I've started seriously writing a web series for our miraculous skeleton puppet, who frequently troubles his roommate with dastardly schemes and malicious intentions. These are bringing out the better writing side of me. It may just be the character (I often claim that he writes himself), or it might be having the appropriate inspiration (just coming off of working for a laugh track-driven sitcom), or even just being at a creatively good place (in between "slumps," perhaps). Regardless, we're ready to start shooting some of these, EXCEPT... I don't know who should play Eisenstein's roommate. :<

I'll be frank: I've been writing the part all along with visions of myself in the role (his roommate is even named "AJ" in the script), but I drool sometimes at the thought of actually getting a really GOOD actor to play the part instead. Production-wise, though, I'm scared to involve anyone else significantly in the series yet, since outside actors are destined to be less reliable to work with. I can pretty much guarantee an episode being shot every weekend if the title roles are played by myself and a puppet. So we'll see. :/

And that's that for the night. Go find some better blogs to read.