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Todd Michael R. [Member Since: November 09 '07]
Blurbs
Pete says:
How did God smell? At night?
Todd Michael R. said:
God. I miss the way you smell at night.
Tyler says:
whoa wtf. Our god has fallen in love?! Is she also a god? (not a goddess… goddesses are just silly.)
Also, awesome about David Wise.
Tyler says:
Todd! Where are you?! You’re missing out on golden comedy material over on the forums!
Eric says:
It’s great stuff. Keep it up!
Todd Michael R. said:
thnaks for enjoying the team genius stuff!
boywond3r says:
hey todd. I can’t believe your DK remix hasn’t gotten more views. did you ever think of posting them on Donkey Kong forums? I just did a google search of “Donkey Kong forums” and found a handful that looked busy. The video is brilliant. Cheers.
Tyler says:
I’ve come to the conclusion that you get more awesome by the day. I was way behind on my “Thoughts That I Have Had”... but I caught up today. They just got progressively more and more awesome.
Gin says:
mmm, writing. the one thing I cant/wont do willingly. :)
Todd Michael R. said:
I’m still around!
Busy busy busy writing!
Monte says:
It’s great. I love how easy the site is to use, and the comics always arrive quickly and in great shape.
Todd Michael R. said:
Hope you’re enjoying heavy ink!
Robert says:
Hmm….Thoughts That I Have Had is still updating, but This is a Tricky Gray Area was shut down. Maybe Todd is off on a secret mission in Moscow and he can only spare enough time to update his comedy blog. Whatever you do Todd, make sure not to get your cover blown. I hear they wear furry hats and like vodka. Use that to your advantage.
Kiriska says:
Oh, apologies for taking so amazingly long to reply. I apparently don’t check this often. You can see my illustration work at: deadend-detour.com
Todd Michael R. said:
Yea, same?
Gin says:
mmm… now would that bubble go all over YOU or ME if I popped it… Never had someone pop a bubble on me. They usually pop themselves.
Never seen a grown man blow bubbles either, tho that could just be that beards tend to run in my circles and its hell to clean them off.
Robert says:
If I may make a small suggestion about the Team Genius site: I like how you linked the “Thoughts I Have Had.” But before that happened, the video on the main page was the most recent video added. Now it’s on the Nothing episode. Maybe something at the top of the page to show if something has been updated?
Robert says:
I’m sure Matt’s death was worth it for the most awesome episode ever. Be hard to explain to the police though… “Officer, it seems he tripped and landed head-first into this ax…”
Robert says:
Yea, I had definately not prepared myself to see Todd’s bare ass when I visited that site. Damn you Rogers!!!!
Doc says:
Hrmmm. . . I see what you did there!
Todd Michael R. said:
If by win you mean lose…ing..to me.
Dan says:
Whoops – that one’s fixed, but it looks like you’ve got another one in “afternoons and wonder sighs”. Same problem, same place: “(more)”
Todd Michael R. said:
Now how we doin? (and thanks)
Dan says:
You’ve opened the A tag in front of the “(more)” in your Exclamation! post, but you haven’t closed it.
Todd Michael R. said:
well I can’t fuckin see it.
Help me out.
daynah says:
Haha couldn’t get someone worthy of interviewing?
Todd Michael R. said:
So here’s the deal… Heavy Ink has given me excited permission to perform interviews with random users, which will be posted on the site, and linked within the newsletter, as the vocal, friendly, outspoken girl of the group, your up first!
email me: toddmichaelr@gmail.com
if you think that’s an awesome idea. If you don’t believe me,l check with TJIC!
Robert says:
Wow. I just watched the Improvs Improv video and I burst out laughing. “Am I going to be the coach or something?” “You get to be the wizard, and you’ll be off over there in the corner fighting orcs.”
Robert says:
I also looked at the Team Genius site. Funny stuff. “What do you want to do?” “Nothing!”
Tyler says:
Man… I just went back and re-read your fictional Stan Lee interview. It made me cry with hilarity all over again.
Tyler says:
Hmmm. Let me talk it over with the guys here, and see what we can do.
Todd Michael R. said:
Maybe we could do some sort of “Todd Michael needs an artist” contest..or open call thing…. something everyone sees on the front page for a couple of days..SOMEONE out theres gotta be looking for a shot…
Tyler says:
I can’t help but wonder “How?”.
Todd Michael R. said:
Hey man, thanks! Publishing is looking like… I just don’t know yet… today I start the great artist and publisher search of 2008..you guys wanna help?
Tyler says:
Woohoo. Welcome back Mr. Rogers. Things haven’t been the same without you. (Come to think of it, that phrase is rather strange… its like… “The sky hasn’t been blue, since it turned orange”)
Congrats on finishing the comic. What is publishing looking like?
MD says:
Yeah I'm in CA. Born and raised in Orange County, went to college and now live in the Bay Area. Got my eyes on moving to SF (or Boston, or London).
-b. says:
Ahh, so then I assume you must have been referring to the older House of M stuff then when you said I should read it. If so, that's cool, as I already have that.
-b. says:
Ok, ok, Todd. So I just added House of M: Avengers to my ever-growing subscription list. I'm generally a DC kind of guy, but the Breakout book was HIGHLY recommended to me and I'm going on your recommendation for the House of M miniseries. I do already have the old House of M stuff though.
MD says:
I seeeeeeee youuuu!
You got a letter posted on Gaiman's blog. I'm glad I'm not the only one who reads that thing neurotically :)
You got a letter posted on Gaiman's blog. I'm glad I'm not the only one who reads that thing neurotically :)
-b. says:
Thanks for the info, Todd. I went ahead and ordered Avengers Disassembled as well as New Avengers Sentry Premiere.
-b. says:
Hi Todd, just read your review of New Avengers Vol 1: Breakout. I had actually picked this up a couple of weeks ago, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I note you say I should read Avengers: Dissasembled first. Why is that, without giving anything away? Are you saying that because it's also a good read, or are you saying that because it's necessary to understand the storyline? Shoot me a blurb when you get a chance. Thanks.
-b.
TJIC says:
WRT to your question on my blurb a while back: no, there's no way to search through users yet, but it's planned.
geoff says:
haven't checked out umbrella academy yet, but i did check out the free comic book day stuff and it seems like just the kind of crazy i need in my life.
p.s.
you're doing great stuff with team genius. i mainly do improv stuff, but my friends have a sketch group that i help out with every now and then. check them out at www.thosearentmuskets.com
DB says:
Thanks, the Foom needs all the love he can get ever since Ellis tore his heart out. ;)
Nice Illuminati re-write! It tangentially makes me wonder what would happen to the world if Black Bolt sang the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme.
Gimpy Devil says:
Spawn isn't what it used to be since the days of Overtkill and Angela, but it still has my interest. I've been reading since issue #1, so I can't stop now!
Pete says:
Oh, I know I'm magic. But, there's also a bug. How do I know this? Because I'm magic!
Pete says:
Both your deleted blurb and the replacement showed up in my RSS feed... I can see things you've unsaid! I guess I'll fix that.
TJIC says:
This
http://thisisatrickygreyarea.blogspot.com/2007/11/fictional-stan-lee-interview.html
is the funniest thing I've read all day.
Well done!
MD says:
Dr. McNinja is a beast. You know, he's both a doctor and a ninja. He's a double-threat! Also, I couldn't do writing on a yellow notepad. I'd be too distracted. I like the crisp, pristine white.
Pete says:
Hey Todd, I saw your new threads and hope it turns into something. If we don't get enough reaction now we can try something bigger (emails, front page, etc) once we've grown some.
I think one great big messy forum is ok for now, particularly because the community is small. We'll move stuff later as needed...
I did make you a moderator, thanks for offering. I'm not sure what it lets you do, I haven't tried it before...
MD says:
CWIL may never catch on but at least now I'll know what you're saying :) Did a little skimming through your blog, btw. You've got a great sense of humor :)
For writing I tend to use white, narrow-ruled legal pads, and then copy that into OpenOffice. It has to be narrow-ruled, I can't stand wide-ruled. I also usually have a small notepad on me to jot things down, one of those cheap Memo guys that come in five colors varying from mundane to irritatingly vivid. I usually carry the hot pink one. I think it gets the point across best.
For writing I tend to use white, narrow-ruled legal pads, and then copy that into OpenOffice. It has to be narrow-ruled, I can't stand wide-ruled. I also usually have a small notepad on me to jot things down, one of those cheap Memo guys that come in five colors varying from mundane to irritatingly vivid. I usually carry the hot pink one. I think it gets the point across best.
MD says:
Loved your "interview" with Stan Lee. "When I write, DIAMONDS cut across the page, do you understand?" I had to stifle actual laughter. (I would say LoL but it doesn't really communicate laughing anymore, does it?)
I've heard good things about Final Draft before, but I'm cheap. It's why I got into writing! Notebooks don't cost much and nobody really bothers you about it. Maybe there's a good crack out there for it...
... I mean... I'm not doing anything illegal! Not at all! >.>
I've heard good things about Final Draft before, but I'm cheap. It's why I got into writing! Notebooks don't cost much and nobody really bothers you about it. Maybe there's a good crack out there for it...
... I mean... I'm not doing anything illegal! Not at all! >.>
For me, finishing any piece of writing is like trying to raise a million dollars in a week by being punched in the face for a penny.
I haven’t written anything past the seven pages on Family Comedy Movie. IN my defense, I have ben quite sick, and have decided to take the weekend off from worrying about it, as Sarah and I go visit family.
Yay! Road Trip!
I started a short story. I hope to finish it by the end of the week, in preparation for selling it to a magazine or some such other situation. I started writing as son as I had a title; In All His Precious Glory
So! Last Night I made all the necessary “Sarah the Loving Copywriter” corrections in Romantic Comedy Screenplay.
Oh, and let me just say…even though I forgot my lunch and didn’t know what to do about dinner. God provides at all times when needed…as it turns out our work was havign a giant festival with free EVERYTHING. From Food, to treats, to massages and polaroids!
It lasted well past dinnertime, so Sarah and I left the celebration full and giggling, and sat in the library working on art. I wrote, hwile she edited photos. I loaded what I had previosuly started months ago as Family COmedy Screenplay, onlyt o find I already had 12 pages written.
I decided that I wanted a fresh start, so erased all the pages and wrote until I got to page seven. So far I’ve referenced Mortal Kombat AND Jesus in two seperate jokes. I like where this one is going!
It’s interestign to me, as I already have a seven page treatement of the entire story, thatI’m building upon skills I’ve learned wth these last two projects, and evolving them towards this one.
Through the halls of frayed rugs and molding portraits, through the annex and into the dining hall of despair we sit and eat Fettucini Alfredo.
I smile over my cup of wine, a dusty glass of sparkling spirits, and turn to wink at my Love.
We welcome you.
Updates!
Today I start work on Family Comedy Screenplay, hopign to finish it in just under two weeks.
Action Comedy Screenplay is completed, with Romantic Comedy Screenplay awaiting just a few minor tweaks of spelling and clarity.
Finished it.
Roughly anyhow, but hey! As of last night, Action Comedy Screenplay is done. A few minor fix-ups and tweaks, and Sarah will be reading it this weekend : )
I Love Her (oh yea and writing and music)
by Todd Michael R.
at 04:25 PM
on September 15, 2008 16:25
Last night I wrote and wrote and wrote (14 pages!) then laid awake all night wondering how point A of the ending gets to point B.
Anyway, here’s some more music news:
Sarah and I shared our first kiss to a William Fitzsimmon’s album. It doens’t really get more indie then that, we could have our wedding superimposed into scenes of Garden State and STILL not get more credentials…
While I sit here at the- wait.
Okay, had to change tables.
While I sit here at the Library of Love, listening to some jackass flip papers and whisper like it’s acceptable forms of flirting, I’ll warm up my little fingers with coffee and a blog post.
I’ve been listening to a lot of bad-ass music lately, and it’s time I clue you folks in, dipping into the iPod of Doom, we have the following selections:
Thunder Storms of Goodness on The Horizon
by Todd Michael R.
at 04:22 PM
on September 15, 2008 16:22
The other day Sarah sat down and read Romantic Comedy Screenplay in it’s entirety as I sat across from her and worked on Action Comedy Screenplay. I wrote and wrote and wrote for the last few days, and now find myself (roughly)on page 66!
I don’t WANT to write today.
I spent yesterday working on Action Comedy Screenplay, and although I’m proud of where it’s heading, and how things are shaping up. I don’t WANT to do anything today. NOTHING.
What’s the point of having a blog if you don’t write it in?
The answer, oddly enough, is 1794.
Many things a-goin’ on, and a’hapeenin.
Finally finished screenplay no. 1, which, in the spirit of genre, we’ll refer to as Romantic Comedy Screenplay.
I just wrote something. I was supposed to be finishing my screenplay. ...But I accidentally wrote two scenes of something else. It’s a comedy. ...it’s ridiculous.
Item! – Welcome Home, You Lowdown Caballero! Is still in the process of getting inked, still thinking about what to do about a letterer or as Sarah calls it, ...a letterist.
Item! – Best band ever? Two of my brothers are on the road with their new group, The Cactus’s. Check it out.
Item! – David Wise the composer of all the Donkey Kong Country games contacted my former comedy group, and said he loved the video, and asked if he could show it in a seminar about his music. This has a holy shit rating of 5000.
Item! – Head over fucking heels in love with Sarah Kachevas.
The cave-in was massive.
The dust from the walls was an archaically fed mushroom, billowing up into the sky.
The entire west wing of The tower had fallen, crumbling into ruins of mortar.
Crushing me under it’s weight.
I specialize in is something I call 30 second comedy. I’m not naive enough to believe I invented it, only that I fully support it.
What it is is you take a joke, a hilarious scene, and grind it down to the quickest beat possible.
My name is Todd Michael Rogers
I’m sitting here at Panera bread with an itchy seat full of unwashed jeans.
the overhead speakers are blaring what i can only describe as Helen Keller on sax.
A light rock acid washed bullshit crescendo for the masses.
Eat our Bread! and listen to yourself die.
I am still alive.
Unerringly relentless in my campaign to blog from my great tower of semi opaque darkness, it’s windows curtained in un-lint-rollable grey velour
I bring you word from the Castle of Gloom!
Last week (last week?!) I read the prologue to The Book of Nog out loud to Sarah.
She really seemed to like it, and even gave me a high five (the lover’s equivalent of a firm handshake of awareness)
can’t stop working on The Book of Nog, though I really do hope to take another crack at Screenplay no.1 by the end of next week; not to mention start (and subsequently finish) screenplay no. 2.
I think I’m addicted to writing.
I spent last night sitting next to Sarah at my parent’s house as she edited photos of The Cactus’s (best band in Nashville).
I wrote at random, and ended up with a prelude to The Book of Nog. As of this morning I have a prelude, and roughs of the first 5 to 6 chapters.
Went over to Team Genius headquarters yesterday where I was greeted with he following video from Germany:
But she is gorgeous.
Spent the morning researching “letterers” for “Welcome Home, You Lowdown Caballero!”
That’s gonna take some tick-tock’s and thinking.
After that, I spent the rest of the morning finishing a (rough? finished?) chapter 2 for The Book of Nog. Sent it to Sarina through iChat while I was working on it and apparently it’s “not boring”, which what I asked her, bless her little interweb-swept heart.
Stuck at Starbucks in Franklin.
Had a wonderful meeting this morning with a gentleman (we’ll call him David, because that was his name).
Wrote Sarina a very long love poem.
Via iChat to Sarina:
I can’t tell if I’m pissed because this guy over here has the audacity to play b-52’s out loud of his computer speakers in the cafe ...or if I’m pissed because I’m singing along
Just JUST…(a little bit ago) finished writing issue 1 of Captain Warlock vs. Black Emperor
So today is going to be a good day and a busy week.
My friends Sakroka and Paxson of Ashgarden would be happy to know I spent Saturday working on EPIC, our card game.
I have to shit.
Hey did you guys (all three of you) know that I have a sketch comedy group?
I write for and pretend to star in several videos available here:
www.teamgenius.biz
I’m pretty proud of us, though so far our latest video is certainly our best:
Back in Nashville for the day,
The penciled pages from Weshoyot were, of course, fantastic.
Welcome Home, You Lowdown Caballero! is going to be fanTASTIC!
After stumbling upon old ideas and bits of writing, I spent most of this morning writing about other worlds, Mostly stuff for a novel called Drowning Lessons, and also an old thing on The Man of Moths, (who’s name is apparently Felix Forgotten) for my other novel, The Book of Nog.
I just finished screenplay no. 1 not but half an hour ago.
Now I just have to have Sarina read it and tell me why I’m wrong.
I suppose the next step is to get it registered and then figure out if I want to pursue an agent or try to sell it on my own.
Just finished a rough rewrite and edit of screenplay no. 1
and I changed the ending so that it feels much more…”right” now.
I broke down the scenes on a notepad and i think I know how to “fix” certain things that don’t feel right, and expand the screenplay into about the right “length”.
Last night while Sarah photoshopped, I started to work on EPIC, my card game of awesomeness.
And as much as I want to write about EPIC, that’ll have to wait, as today we’ll be talking about “Ridiculous!” which is the game I ended up accidentally creating last night and working on instead.
I had a beautiful morning, with a beautiful girl.
The plan today is to start finishing screenplay no. 1, now that I’ve made all of my notes and editorial slash marks across typos and shitty scenes alike.
I have to start writing, like now.