We just signed our names over to the four bedroom place this afternoon. Which is great because I now have a dedicated room to work in which keeps harmful stuffs away from the kiddies. It's not much of a step up though, as it is in the same complex in the same less than desirable area, but this is just the next step in a larger plan. The landlord was gracious enough to give us 30 days to do it so we don't have to rush.


In other news, I really need to find a good international store. Japanese foodstuffs are not easy to come by in G-Town.

I am officially moved and living in the buckle of the bible belt again. Got my name added to the lease today, 98% of my possessions are in storage and I've spent all week in Charlotte traffic job hunting. Net access is sketchy until I get my computer over here but Melony's is doing it now.  Once it is though, new episodes of both Velvet Darkness and The Shit Kickin Road Show begin again. We also expect to move from the current three bedroom we are in now to a four bedroom in a week or two, which will provide me with studio space as I'm working outside now.

the big news is that I am also engaged. I popped the question to devil girl Saturday night, and not only did she say yes but thankfully the ring was the right size! We hope to do it on Halloween in Vegas with 70's Elvis presiding. TCB baby.

oh and I got out of a ticket today. All because I've only ben here a week :)

is to say that now that i have been out of my apartment almost three days i realized i forgot to pack my wok.

There's a local talk show here in Beltawhore known as The Ed Norris Show that I've been listening to since day one. Ed was the head of the NYPD for a time as well as Baltimore's city and state police departments. He was railroaded by the rather corrupt Maryland government and after a tumultuous few months landed on his feet with his own radio show. I am a known regular caller on the show and known as Chris 13. They gave away mock police badges to loyal listeners and mine is #13 (yes that # was picked on purpose). I always announce when I call that "Chris 13 is up in the kool aid bowl". They have a thing they do known as the backstage pass where listeners can sit in on a show. Well since I'm moving and a well known regular caller to the show I jumped on that. I sat in on the show in the studio at the table with Ed and Co-Host Maynard and on two occasion was "interviewed" by Ed. Both times, Ed announced me by saying "Chris 13 is up in the kool aid bowl", beating me to my signature line. And I announced to the entire Baltimore listening area that I am moving back to North Carolina and marrying the most awesome woman on the planet. Then Maynard asked if I wanted him to talk me out of it. Also got to meet a few other regular callers, "Beef Stew" and "Secret Man" and act like foul mouth yahoos during commercial breaks. One of their favorite topics is debating why Nascar is such a big deal, and Ed has been wanting to schedule a show trip to Charlotte to check out a race. I told him when they are in town I'd be happy to show them around and exchanged #'s. I had a blast, I wish I had time to do this once more before I roll out. And my radio voice didn't sound nearly as bad as I thought it would!

"you had me at Conan The Barbarian".


I truly love this woman.

I am both officially out of my apartment lease and have put in my notice at the daywalker job. Moving out by Saturday and will be crashing with a friend for the last two weeks of my job. My last day of work is the 15th and then emptying out the storage room and heading south. I will be offline after Friday so if any of you reading this are actually interested in talking to me, use (in my best Russian accent) my cellular device comrade.

and it only takes 5 minutes. Snake Eyes vs. Storm Shadow from G.I. Joe Resolute:





this 10 part series has been broadcast on Adult Swim's website since last week. It culminates in the entire hour being shown on Cartoon Network this weekend. Yo Joe.

When I conceived the idea to replicate Anton LaVey's devil hood, I thought that I'd sell *maybe* two of them. I always keep my expectations realistic because I'm grounded like that, but still set myself of a modest goal of ten pieces. If I could reach that at some point I'd be happy. Well, it's been officially for sale for eleven days and I am two pieces away from reaching the goal of ten (two of those are return customers). To say I'm surprised is a bit of an understatement, but I think it might be safe to say the slump could be over.

Rented a car and drove to Charlotte this weekend to see my devil girl Melony. I left ass early Friday morning in the hopes of getting in some applications for a daywalker job, and squeeze in a little extra time with her. We had an amazing weekend, but there pretty much is never any time with her that isn't amazing, this woman has completely flipped my kool aid bowl over. Took in Purgatory Saturday night, a fetish/performance/goth night thingy that was evidently the last one ever and my first. Wasn't bad, but the real highlight for me was running into people I had not seen in the 8 years I've been gone and the looks on their faces. Most notably my good friend Carrie who sent me a text to tell me about Purgatory and was quite surprised when I replied with one saying I was there. I spent the rest of the weekend enjoying another taste of my impending family life before sadly it came to a close and I had to get back. Good thing I'm moving soon, as parting is getting VERY difficult.

This was snapped Saturday night, Carrie Melony and myself:

Just received word from paypal of the first order placed for the LaVey cowl. Haven't sold one opening day since the Baphomet mask, keeping my coffin nails crossed this continues. My goal on this one is to move 10 of the 66, as that $ would help tremendously right now.


While I'm at it, I ran across two Clint Mephisto photoshops I did awhile back to promote episodes that I had to share.


For Johnny Cash's birthday:






And for Elvis' birthday:

I guess Satanic webmasters need a weekend off too. The April 11 announcement on churchofsatan.com for Anton LaVey's birthday is up. It of course features, my newest release, a neoprene replica of his devil horned cowl. Keeping my coffin nails crossed it does well, I REALLY need the $ right now!

The ring I had made for Melony is complete, I just came back from the Jeweler a bit ago. I got bits of information from her over the course of several chats and got pretty much exactly what she's always wanted. Good thing I listen well. She told me she's always wanted a Garnet which is her birthstone, so with the help of my mother found a dealer that sold garnets. Then took that to a local jeweler and he provided the rest. The picture I snapped looks like ass, but it's a single almost 3 carat emerald cut Garnet set in 14k white gold and engraved. The message is a line from the Planet Terror half of Grindhouse, which is one of our favorite movies (one more reason we were meant to be together). The line itself is "2 against the world". For the benefit of those who have not seen it, here's the scene:





I hope to have it out of there in a week or two and then just need to find the right moment to pop said question. I just hope I don't get down on one knee and go "blah bleh bluh blah blah".

In other news, I have encountered a bit of a stumbling block with my impending relocation. I've found an apartment to get into until Melony and I move in together, and I've been applying for jobs left and right. But the fact that I don't have an address there is preventing me from nailing something I think. Once I've got one of those two taken care of, the other will fall into place but I'm still not sure exactly how I'm going to get the skull rolling down the hill on this one just yet. A temporary base of operations would be great, but I'm not sure how I'm going to get that at the moment either. To quote Han Solo "I don't know how we're gonna get outta this one!"

You begin packing. As some know and some don't I'm about to do what I swore I'd never do, return to the buckle of the bible belt, North Carolina. It's not permanent, as from here we are going to the west coast once my pursuit of an fx career reaches the next step. How long though I'm not exactly sure of either. The geographical distance between Melony and myself has proven to be too much of an annoyance and I've altered the long term plan so that it is not going to be a hassle any longer. Initially I had planned on doing this by year's end, but since neither of us can stand it much longer, it is now a matter of weeks. So I'm in the midst of packing up my crap, and reminding kitty of the 3 and 5 year olds that are going to ensure she is never bored. I'm a couple days into packing but it looks like I've only been doing it for an hour.


I just realized another benefit of my return, Bojangles chicken every day!

April 11 as some may know, is the birthday of carny, gentleman, scholar of obscure subjects, proponent of the whoopee cushion and founder of The Church of Satan Anton Szandor LaVey. In honor of that special day, I present Lords of The Left Hand Path Series III: Anton LaVey's Horned Cowl. In the early days of the CoS, LaVey would inject his sense of humor by posing for press photos in a horned cowl and Dracula cape. He can also be seen wearing it in the documentary films that were made at that time as well. I've had this planned for months but had to sit on it until now. It is cast in neoprene and the horns are painted in a bleached bone finish then given a blood wash. Limited to 66 pieces and considering the high cost of neoprene, CoS members get the usual 20% off because as they say membership has it's privileges. It technically doesn't come out for over a week, but it's on the site now because I am impatient as hell.

So I'm five masks behind and though I got started late, I still made incredible time. I got one base coated and three finished then BOOM. My airbrush compressor has died. I still have two more to paint with no compressor to use, and since it's rent week I can't just bounce on down to Harbor Freight and pick one up.


On the rainy side of things, I was able to finish the prototype for the next mask release next week.

My friendly neighborhood UPS man brought me today...more geekery! The very first Sideshow Collectibles 12 inch G.I. Joe figure Snake Eyes. This thing kicks major ass. Articulated out the wazoo and packed with a small arsenal that only a highly skilled commando and ninja master could make proper use of. Check the awesomeness:

box shots:




and inside:




the weapons:




about to be unleashed:





had the Snake Eyes costume I am working on been finished, I would've struck this pose next to it:









Hopefully the badass line that Sideshow is putting out will ease the sting that the live action film will most likely leave on us Joe fans.

And...another fine addition to my Snake Eyes shrine and reason #44,678 why Melony is the coolest girlfriend and future wife ever. The Snake Eyes mini statue complete with his pet wolf Timber:

This is Spinal Tap is an absolute riot and one of my favorite movies in the whole damn world. Several times over the years, the actors have donned the hair band gear and gone on full length tours and one off shows and performed as Spinal Tap. I've never gotten the chance to see them until I spotted this on a news site....

Spinal Tap announced at a press conference yesterday that they will be going on tour later this spring –- but not as Spinal Tap. Confused? Let me explain. The core Tap trio of actor-comedians, Christopher Guest (aka "Nigel Tufnell"), Michael McKean ("David St. Hubbins"), and Harry Shearer ("Derek Smalls"), are hitting the road for a 30-date "Unwigged & Unplugged" tour, which starts on April 17 in Vancouver, B.C., and ends in Milwaukee on May 31. And they will be playing songs from both 1984's This Is Spinal Tap and 2003’s A Mighty Wind, in which the three played aging folkies The Folksmen. BUT they will be leaving their Tap outfits –- and, in Shearer’s case, the foil-wrapped vegetables -– behind and perform as themselves. The Tap are also set to release a new CD on May 25. I can’t confirm at the moment as to whether they will try to “milk it for a few more years in Europe.
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I have always vowed that if I won the lottery one of the first things I would do if I won would be to get them to play a full show in costume. Since that isn't happening, this is as close as I think I'm gonna get. I am sooooooooooooooooooooo there.

that I soon realized, doesn't actually look all that much like me but you get the idea:

Goofing around myspace earlier I had elected to put a song by one of my favorite bands The Electric Hellfire Club on my profile. I then noticed a link on their profile to a new website (the old one has been defunct for ages), so went to check it out and found this little bit of news:

"Smell something burning? New Hellfire is in the works!! You heard it here first! Thomas Thorn has begun work on a new EHC album!"


now if I believed in an actual devil I'd be saying praise Satan! but I don't so...oh hell why not, praise Satan! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Just sold two masks on ebay, with pending second chance offers for two more and I listed one of my Snake Eyes paintings as well that is selling as of this moment. It's nice to finally be over the no selling slump I was in. This $ will go nicely towards a little jeweled item for a certain devil girl's left ring finger.