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October, 10 22

Geek Consumerism

I keep a little moleskein book full of hopes and dreams and quips.
I finished the last page on my 2nd moleskein today, and thought I’d give it a proper sendoff before I show you what else I bought.

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Someone actually saw me write this and hid my notebook from me for a day before demanding that I buy her coffee or give her 4 bucks, but that I was to refrain from the awkward flirting. Which is sad, really. That’s the best part.

My moleskein houses some of the ugliest shit I’ve ever drawn.
MOLESKEINsquareanimals
MOLESKEINmcdicksguy

- and the classiest poems I’ve ever written.
MOLESKEINroark
MOLESKEINfriendswhores

with literary flashes of morbid-
MOLESKEINnurse

+ deep, valuable life insights
MOLESKEINmosquito

+ healthy amounts of petulant-child reality checks.
MOLESKEINcannothas

But none of that matters ANY. MORE.
Because I bought a new moleskein, and this one is cool.

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Dear Pac-Man Moleskin
I look forward to our relationship together. If you ever get lost, you are authorized to self destruct.
Love Vcky.

October, 10 19

Celebrate Major Buzzkill

To commemorate Major Buzzkill’s return in today’s comic, this is a small recap of Major Buzzkill.

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major buzzkill strikes again

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and today’s comic
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I really thought he was in wayyyyyyyyyy more of my comics, but I guess I’m just confusing his presence in my real life with the stxx comic life. Life is confusing enough as it is regardless how many times your buzz gets killed throughout the day.

Like this one time this morning, I was so cold so I slow-jogged for the bus to warm me up. My slow-jog was so taxing on my out-of-shape body that I was sweating by the time I got on the bus. And then the bus was pumping hot air through its vents and I was like freaking nauseous, and that was my minor buzzkill.

What was one of your recent Major Buzzkill moments? Let me know in the comments, and a random* winner will have that moment immortalized in stxx form :)

*randomness is based on the drawability of your moment.

October, 10 13

How To Use A Pickup Line On Someone Daft.

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Well Hellooo, Lucas Lee.

What does the term ICEBREAKERS remind you of? An Ice-Pick? A dumb team-building game? A Nintendo game?

(If you picked C, Nintendo Game, you are wrong because the game is ICECLIMBERS not ICEBREAKERS, and we can no longer be friends.)

(If there IS an ICEBREAKERS Nintendo game, then I’m very sorry and I will eat my own words when I get hungry).

A PICKUP line has become an ICEBREAKER. No one uses it seriously because of it’s ominous overtones – you never want to think of ICE and PICK together while picking someone up, ‘cus then you start thinking of Sharon Stone’s vajayjay and messy, psychologically damning orgasm-sex death, and it’s awkward for everyone involved so just- just don’t.

Rules
1. Use a Pickup Line knowing that you are Using A Pickup Line, and go all out. Choose an especially damning one so you can both laugh about it without her/him trying to guess whether you are serious (repulsive), or an idiot (less repulsive).

ie. “HEY! Something about you falling from heaven wit yo daddy bein’ a bombsquad guy or wait have YOU GOT A LICENSE TO LOOK SO GOOD because I’ma have to arrest you and other things HANDCUFFS etc etc lewd aspect of carpentry with nailing and hammering subtext I forgot my number so I CAN HAS YOURS??????????”

BAM!!!!!!!!!!! That pick-up line is full of win and I would totally let myself talk to me.

2. Don’t listen to me.
Some guy came up to me and said HEY I KNOW YOU and I blanched and stuttered and squealed that I was SO SORRY I didn’t know him back and he said OMG I AM SO OFFENDED, NOW YOU HAVE TO LET ME BUY YOU A DRINK and I said aiight and it turned out nobody knew him, so… so don’t take my advice, the end.

October, 10 12
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YWiB Beyond Pink 2010

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Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy y’alls I’m in the tradeshow again this year! I’m very very excited. Clicking on the picture takes you to the Beyond Pink exhibitors page, but if your index finger ‘ain’t feelin’ up to moving or anything, this is what’s there:

Vicky Liu | Vckystxx | Vicky puttered her way to a small design business, armed with nothing but a mighty pen and an imaginary (but huge) sword. VCKYSTXX.com launched in September 2009! A predominantly serial web-comic site, it is home to the three-haired, genderless stick-person duo known as The Stxx. VCKYSTXX Designs have since graced the likes of greeting cards, wedding invitations, and public washroom stalls. The Stxx made me draw them pink teeshirts, and they look forward to being your favourite Imaginary Friend.

- If you’re coming, I look forward to seeing you! If not, go! Or I’ll post some afterpix again of everything-but-the-me(girl) (<– remember that band? “and I miss youuuuuuu.. like the desertsss misss the raaaiiinnnnnn”).

OH man, I’ve had a crazy week! If you have too, remember to blink. It’s a bitch when you forget, and then your contacts get all dry and when you finally blink, your contacts pop out and crinkle into dust.

October, 10 08
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PLEASE, STOP-

.. right now, and thank you very much! I need somebody with a huuu-mannn touuuchhh, hey you! always on the-

The morning bus commute I usually take is about 1.5 hours, full of languid sleepytimes with headphones on. Never underestimate your productivity for the rest of the day when you’ve been spending your mornings letting Britney’s confused “where the fuck am I” vocals slither over your eardrums.

I drove this morning because I was late, and the radio assaulted me with commercial after commercial of the same ideas-

Person 1 loves Product/Service.
Person 1 realizes Product/Service is offering sale/specials.
Person 1 asks to apply this sale/special to Real Life.
Person 2 is confused but aw shucks, is sold on it in the end.

I’m looking at you, Fountain Tire guy. Burger King guy. McDonalds girl.

I’m just tired of radio ads falling back on this horrifyingly tired cliche of a marketing scheme. If a friend of mine ever gets mad at me for not giving out seconds at dinner when CLEARLY, FOUNTAIN TIRE has BUY ONE GET ONE FREE this week-

you can go eat those fucking tires.

< / rant >

In other news, it’s Friday and for half of the world there’s a holiday on Monday! Happy thanksgiving and see you on Tuesday – the stxx and I have lots to eat!

October, 10 07

Corn Cup

I don’t know if I ever posted a picture of this, but I started using it again recently-

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I designed a cup for the Social Work program at UBC for their fundraiser. This cup is made out of corn, and will biodegrade on it’s own after a few years of usage. It’s one of the most unassumingly wicked things I own, the other being this rapier wit I keep hidden in my-

Apologies if I’ve shown it before, I’m just having one of those ‘proud’ moments that I think parents feel for their children, ‘cept, you know.

Goodnight, Wednesday!
The hammer is my penis.

October, 10 01

Ella, eh, eh eh.

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The University of British Columbia umbrellas printed, just in time for a small Vancouver warm-streak! Available in Black, Yellow and Blue, they’re $17.95 on sale at the UBC Bookstore only. Thanks for all your support!

In other news, look what happened at the UBC Starbucks today. Either the barista knows me, like knows me knows me, or he wrote the C too close to the I.

… actually, upon further inspection, I’m pretty sure that’s what happened. Damn it I killed my own buzz.

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September, 10 29
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As the Pixies said..

Remember, just a few weeks ago when I thought 09/10/10 was 10/10/10 and I fucked up a comic-punchline? Let me perfunctorily explanation myself-

The date was 09/09/10 when I was drawing the comic, and since I usually draw after dinner and post just after midnight, I thought the logical progression of 09/09 was, 10/10, ‘cus obviously the numbers go up by one and the YEAR never changes.

I’m usually also watching some movie in the background (case in point, today’s background movie is THE RUNAWAYS), and am distracted.

TODAYs ‘where is my mind’ moment is brought to you by a month-long case of farting brain.

I swear – I thought Halloween was coming up in 2 days. I’ve thought this, evidently, for a long time. THAT’S why I started asking people for Halloween costumes. THAT’s why I keep asking people what they’re dressing up as for Halloween. THAT is also why I’ve been putting off my haircut (you know, costume potentials)……………………

I apologize for noticing this late, and for the really urgent requests for Halloween Costume Ideas for the Stxx. I am a leotard. IF YOU STILL HAVE COSTUME IDEAS, I’ve decided to continue accepting them until Halloween day (the rEAL day, not the day in my head), and from now until then I’ll draw the Stxx in some of your ideas periodically.

Thanks for the understanding folks, and if you DO see my brain out there, poke it in its membrane insane and scoff that Krang did it wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy much better.

September, 10 28
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Showing Off

LOOK AT!
Pictures relate to today’s comic, a little bit :) And appeases this gigantic need of mine to brag about my toys.

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I am a small Batman fan. And I say ‘small’ because I work with a very large Batman fan, notwithstanding stature. But I have some die-cast characters floating around of Harley, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Rogue, and Ms. Marvel. I really like them. It’s the Harley show today though.

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Aren’t they great?
Sorry about the overexposure – I was over excited and the over’ness had some spillover.

I think a lifetime of painting die cast iron wrought characters would be so great. You’d have such perfectly trained wrist-tremor control that it’d be easy-peasy to move into petty crime and freak people out with your ever-so-steady “I’ve-done-this-like-a-million-times-before” fake-gun wielding skills. What’ch oo lookin’ at?

I just watched LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, again. Damnit, Netflix. My thoughts have a British accent.

‘Appy Tuesday, Evbody!
Guns are bad.

September, 10 27
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A True Friend’s Work Is Never Done

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Yeah? :) Mocked something up for the new University of British Columbia umbrella.. I’ll post more pictures when more colors come out, but I think it’ll turn out. My own umbrellas have swears on them, so we’ll see if UBC wants to carry them when they’re printed.

I hope everyone’s weekend was good! I spent pretty much my entire life browsing through and watching stuff on NETFLIX – you Americans have it so good you don’t even know.

I watched JCVD and LUCKY NUMBER SLEVEN and RUNNING WILDE. I have to say, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVEN has one of the best side-story love-stories, evar. I don’t know what about it gets me. Oh wait I DO know.


That’s a massive gun, mister.

Some people don’t get his appeal, but come on, it’s written all over his naked chest! my pants! his face!

Happy Monday!

Ps. Accepting costume ideas at this link http://bit.ly/bdXQ1 until Halloween! The stxx have, like, no imagination whatsoever, and I refuse to give them giant penus costumes so all the help they can get would be vast-amounts appreciated.