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Ladies and Gentlemen! I give you... Erik's Nose Part 2. Thought it'd never come? HA!
No, really... forgive my laziness regarding this short comic that could've been finished much, much earlier (it's only two pages long, by gosh!)
Enjoy, my loves!
Here's a link to Part 1: [link]
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haha! lovely job! You're right! he seems to still have a nose!
I love the "poof" panel!
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thank you! I thought you would.
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This is GREAT! I'm not sure which I love most, the anatomical chart or Erik's "pouf"ing.
Barb
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Finally; thank you, Erik for the well-descripted explanation.
I had always wondered about that... nice diagram, btw!
(I'm sitting here silently thanking Magic School Bus for all I know about the five senses... 
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ha ha ha. I always loved Magic School Bus. That's where I got all my basic scientific knowledge.
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I think that show is the reason I love/am good at science so much...
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Heh 
When I was little, I knew the old lady in our village which had the same problem as Erik (she was also born without a nose), so although I read only some parts of the Kay's book (because it's very very hard to find it in my country 
BTW very nice anatomical picture
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really? My dad said he ran into a guy who had the whole left side of his face badly damaged from an accident of some sort. He had no eye, half a nose, and his muscles and bones were very visible. His ear was also missing. My dad nearly fainted!
how interesting.
Well, thank you!
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There was a story on the news a couple of months or so ago about a man who had lost an eye, his nose, and apparently a good part of the face in between, due to cancer surgery. They actually showed him in the video (with all the appropriate warnings first.) The lighting wasn't especially good, but it looked like he had a huge black hole in his face. VERY horrific.
He was "let go" from his job because of his appearance, lost his medical benefits, and could not afford reconstructive surgery or prosthetics (false nose and eye.) The story was an appeal to the public for either money, donated medical services, or a job and the health benefits that come with it - if the insurance company would accept him, anyway.
Of course we'll probably never hear whether the appeal was successful or not.
It gave me a much better feeling for what Erik must endure from the public.
Barb
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isn't that scary? I've always thought "if Erik were born in our day and age, he wouldn't have been treated so unkindly." Perhaps not, but he'd still endure many hardships. That's seriously very sad.
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The world has not changed so much for the better in 100+ years, to be honest. It is sad to consider, but it hasn't. Of course, there are some accepting folks, but then, I'm sure there were SOME back then. The vast majority however are pretty callous.
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i've always wondered about his nose...
one question,
how do u pronounce, Leroux?
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Oh Erik, I totally feel you man! XD Well, not in the lack of nose thing, but whatever. I always thought that it was weird to think that he wouldn't have a sense of smell or anything like that. If anything, maybe his "nose" would be more runny, due to the lack of outer nose to catch stuff and things. And to assume he can't smell either? That's ridiculous! >_<
I really love this! So, so much!
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THANK you. Not only for the comment, but for being smart.
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lol
"thank you Erik for the insight! no I'll be prepared to face the big......bad .......world *gulp* of fanfictions lies......all by...myself...."
* knees begin to shake and I start crying*
*Grabs hold of you calfs*
"I dont wanna go you cant make me!!!.....No please!!.....no...."
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Erik: there, there. You'll make it. Only keep a copy of Leroux's novel at arm's length.
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Shouldn't that be "keep a copy of Leroux's novel at the level of your eyes?" Both for reading pleasure and safety, of course.
Barb
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Oh my god! that made my laugh out loud literally, you so made my day! (although it is almost over XD) I was lacking the motivation to do anything especially homework and was rather down, but now! 
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Glad to have made you laugh. And (hopefully) inspired you to do your homework.
Barb
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nuh.. didn't do my homework. XD but I had a lot of fun.. I think.. I dunno, I can't remember what I did two days ago. XD
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I have a hard time remembering yesterday, too! Of course, that's because I'm getting old.
Barb
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Aren't we all getting old these days....
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Well now it's official, 'cause today's my birthday.
Barb
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Hey! Happy Birthday! I haven't seen you in a while, but guess what? I'm putting in the order for the prototype on the plush TONIGHT and I wanted to tell you.
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So how was your trip? Did you have lots of fun?
Barb
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LOL. Yes, the trip was WONDERFUL! There are some pictures from it posted on DA, but only a few. The rest I'll put on a myspace or a facebook if I ever get one.
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So sorry to take such a long time to reply. I HAD started to, but interrupted the writing to show my son something on a different web page, and when I got back everything I'd written was gone. All that eloquent, intelligent conversation, gone. 
So, how have you been?
Life has been (and usually is) quiet out here. Guess that's why I read so much fanfic.
Our son finished his army training and spent nearly three weeks with us on his way to his first posting. He's headed to the lovely Pacific Northwest!
Man, I'm jealous. I'd SO love to be back where everything is green. He's excited, but I wonder if he TRULY realizes how much it rains there? Guess we'll find out after he's been there a while.
Barb
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Awwww.... I wonder what your original message was like...!
Life here has been about the same. Work, kids, husband, fanfic occasionally (I haven't had time to write) and some DA stuff, particularly the plush project, which, I guess, fills the space where I used to write. But life is good.
Green? What's that? :lives in Texas:
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Here's a taste of what I grew up with: (Sigh)
[link]
Barb
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Wow. That sure is green! You also mentioned rain... what's that? :still in Texas:
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LOL!
You know, when I was in high school and college, there was a series of "Oregon Ungreeting" cards which amusingly poked fun at all the rain. I still remember a few:
Last year 644 Oregonians fell off their bicycles . . .
(inside) . . . and drown.
Last week Oregonians saw a U.F.O. . . .
(inside) . . . it was the sun.
Oregonians love summer . . .
(inside) . . . it's the best half hour of the year.
Barb
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LOL. Texas could have some cards like that, too... except they'd be the opposite.
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Same here. Ridgecrest's average annual rainfall is 3.5 inches, and it generally all falls at once.
Barb
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LOL. That's GREAT! I'm actually SERIOUSLY looking at moving to Terlingua, Texas, though I can't really do that until retirement... There's like... negative rainfall there!
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Negative rainfall? LOL! (Pictures trying to take a shower as the water falls UP.
I'd move back to Portland in an instant, but I'll never be able to afford it. Retiring Californians discovered the joys of the Pacific Northwest a couple decades ago and moved there in such droves that real estate prices went through the roof. (sigh)
Barb
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LOL. Yes, it's a difficult life out there...
Well, that happens. I can't ever go home again either, but you know... we manage.
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When my husband went back to school for his Ph.D., which took five years to complete, the secretary at the elementary school our children attended asked me how I could uproot my life so Eric could go back to school. The question surprised me, because I had never thought of it that way - I still don't. (She might not have asked the question if she'd spent any time in Ridgecrest. 
Yeah, I still miss the Pacific Northwest, but THIS is my life now, and I'm sure that's how most people - including you - see their lives. We may not be able to go back, but we make our OWN lives.
Barb (who's apparently feeling philosophical today.
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Yes, I think you're right. Well, I haven't managed a PhD yet (and my husband had his JD before I met him) but when I got my masters my husband didn't even blink. I think that a lot of people have no understanding of such things. I also think that the concept of "sacrifice" is only a sacrifice if your priorities are a bit screwed up.
Yes, that is how I see my life, but not forever. I don't plan to move back to Pennsylvania, but I also don't plan to live and die in south Texas. At times I hope to retire in west Texas. Other times I want to move to Jamaica, and sometimes, when I'm feeling brave, I even consider immigration to Israel. Who knows what next year or the next might hold.
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So, what is a JD?
You know, with the way the economy is, and the state of many retirement plans, we may NEVER be able to quit working.
And here I am, about to fritter some of that precious money away, 'cause MediaWest*Con starts NEXT WEEK!! Hopefully there will be art I like (though PotO stuff is sadly lacking.) Leah Rosenthal will have a number of cartoons, but I'm generally not interested in the fandoms she is. Give her a google. I know she's got a website, but I don't know what it's called.
Give it a try.
Barb
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JD is Juris Doctor, the degree a lawyer has to get. It takes three years only and of course no dissertation. It's more than a masters but less than a PhD. Very strange.
You know, everyone worries about the economy. I remember things being bad when I went to college, then suddenly everyone thought they were better, but I was poor. Now I'm a counselor married to a bankruptcy lawyer, so the current economy is sort of positive for us, which is sad, but, hey, lawyer's kids gotta eat too, right? My point, though, is that nothing lasts forever. It'll go back up. And yes, my "retirement plan" is in sorry shape if you mean the 403(b) or the 458(b) or whatever else teachers had instead of 401(k). Count the fact that I left teaching to go into counseling and you notice that I didn't get to pay into social security for nearly 10 years when I was making fair money as a teacher... and that now I can't pay into TRS anymore. It looks bad... but then, we also invested in gold, and I highly recommend that to everyone else. Don't worry! We'll all get to retire. We just need to be creative to make it work.
I am not familiar with MediaWest, but I don't think it's a bad idea to spend at the Media West Con. After all, there's a balance between spending and saving. I can't remember which band it was (maybe MegaDeth?) who had a shirt with a corpse in a coffin tearing at it's hair with both hands and the caption: "What was I saving my money for?" To a certain extent, one must live today, for it's all we have, yes?
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You know, I think MediaWest*Con actually has a Wikipedia page.
Let's see . . . how do they put it? "Of fans, by fans, for fans" or something like that. Basically, it's a fan run convention with no actors, no big authors (though perhaps you've heard of P.N. Elrod, Jean Lorrah, or Diane Carey?) and best of all, no big crowds. They've been holding it in mid-Michigan every year since 1980 or '81.
There's no real "main" fandom that is focused upon. Whatever movies, TV shows, books or whatever that has a following will probably have fans at the con. There's an art show and auction, a masquerade, a short play or two, lots of panels to attend, a dealer's room with all sorts of nifty stuff (from jewelry to fan magazines both old and new, toys, clothing, and more.) There's a video room where they show fan made videos, another where you can see movies or television episodes, and numerous room parties. (My daughter and I attended the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" party last year, and though there no longer is one, I used to attend the "Real Ghostbusters" party every year.)
Gotta say, I've been dismayed by the lack of PotO stuff, especially since the movie came out so recently. No panels or art at all last year, and probably won't be this year, either. (sigh) But I managed to snag a really nice piece of PotO original art back in '05. Guess that will have to tide me over forever.
Hey, speaking of fannish stuff, if you haven't had the chance to see the new "Star Trek" movie, take some time off your busy schedule and go see it. It's a pretty darned good movie.
I've been a BIG Star Trek fan since I was about 12 or so, and wasn't sure what I'd think of the new movie, but I really enjoyed it.
I won't say anything more so I won't spoil anything for you. Just, go see it.
Barb
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It doesn't sound like my kind of con, really. I mean, it's a nice idea that they don't have celebrities and all, that it's all about the fans and the fandoms and such, but I LIKE meeting the celebrities at least in some cases, and I like having a convention entirely devoted to the specific fandom. Like Trek, for example. I did the 30th anniversary Trek convention in Las Vegas and it was spectacular. But I've done some smaller ones and been disappointed, too. I guess it makes me a bit of a hypocrit, but oh well.
I do have plans to see the new Star Trek movie, but the week it came out we couldn't go and this week my stepdaughter is at her mom's. We all agreed to wait and go together. Maybe next week when she's back. I worried about the new movie maybe being a disappointment too, but I've heard from others that it's good, too. I only like the original series, so I was really concerned that my favorite characters were in danger of being butchered, you know?
But seriously... do the convention, spend on yourself, have a good time. Eat, drink, and be merry (in case) tomorrow we die.
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Gotta say I like the intimate, quiet lack of frenzy of this small convention, but that's probably just 'cause that's what I'm used to. Not sure what I would do at some huge, jam-packed, squeezed tight as sardines event.
I started attending MediaWest in 1985 - because we were living in the area at the time. I mean, what could be better than a 15 or 20 minute drive to a (sort of) Star Trek/Star Wars convention? And since it's so small, parking and traffic are never a problem.
I love the informality of MediaWest. I guess it's a bit more like a family reunion with fandoms thrown in. You get to reunite every year with old friends who share your interests, make new friends (CarolROI from ffn attends every year. I met her 4 years ago), and in general have a great time.
I will say that, with so many choices, fandom HAS splintered over the course of time. Good for the fans in a way, since there are LOTS of different fandoms to enjoy, but bad, too, since that means the fans are spread thinner amongst the various fandsoms; there's less focus on any one particular universe. Bad, too, for the artists, who get less money for their works at the auction because fewer people "fight" (have a bidding frenzy) for any one piece. Which in turn discourages artists from submitting stuff, which means less stuff to bid on.
And we're dying off, with few replacements. I was 29 when I started attending 24 years ago. We were mostly in our 20s and 30s (with some older fans), and now we're in our 50s and 60s and not many younger participants. It's kind of shocking to see a little old lady, with the stereotypically short, curly, white little old lady hair, tottering down a hallway behind a walker, dressed in a Star Trek uniform.
It's hard to believe it's been so many years! My kids were just shy of 3 and 5 in 1985. (I dressed them up as Luke and Leia the following year.
The original Star Trek is my favorite, too. I think you won't be disappointed. I'm a BIG Trek fan, and I enjoyed the movie. There's even an explanation for the differences between the old series canon and this movie, but I won't spoil anything for you by telling you what it is. (It's both clever and cheesy at the same time.)
I think they did a fantastic job casting Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy. Chekov and Scotty were a hoot. There were sly little nods to a number of things in the various series - including the animated episodes - and the redesigned Enterprise (which I thought I would hate) was spectacular.
In fact, there was really only one thing I loathed (which I won't detail until you've seen it), and that is merely a matter of personal taste.
Ah well, now that I've talked your ear off - so to speak - I will let you go.
Barb
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Wow. Holy crap! Long message. Well... I MIGHT get to see the new Star Trek tonight.... I don't know yet, so I'm just waiting to see about childcare and such.
As to MediaWest, where IS it?
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I just returned from MediaWest earlier today.
MediaWest (a play on "midwest") is in Lansing, Michigan, always over Memorial Day weekend. Hard as it is to believe, next year is going to mark its 30th anniversary.
Barb
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