{"id":7589,"date":"2017-12-10T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=7589"},"modified":"2017-12-10T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T06:33:28","slug":"tough-crowd-at-t-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2017\/12\/10\/tough-crowd-at-t-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Crowd at T Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, by the time we get around to T.A.L.B. at 8:30pm, chances are that Ol\u2019 Dad has been blowing &amp; going since before dawn. Consequently, recent story quality has been\u2026 well, let\u2019s say uneven. I <em>was<\/em>\u00a0kinda proud of the new characters I invented recently\u2014Mr. Robert Cat, a bobcat, and Moe Hunculus, a homunculus\u2014although Finn just shook his head and said \u201cI often wonder whether you\u2019re having a stroke.\u201d &#x1f61d;<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, when our friend Maria is in town, she really pulls out the stops. Whereas I just try to invent stuff on the fly, she starts mapping out characters &amp; events ahead of time using a pen &amp; notebook. I\u2019m pretty sure that somewhere she has a wall that looks like this:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/INewImage-5.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"530\" height=\"265\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Finn noted the other day that \u201cT\u201d quality has varied widely lately\u2014largely depending on who\u2019s doing the telling:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bd5T04Ad-Vg\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happily, I\u2019ve been working to up my game recently, and we\u2019ve been having a lot of fun incorporating Finn\u2019s Yellowstone buddy Bert the (stuffed) Buffalo\u2014who, it turns out, is quite the dancer. A few collaborative sketches of Bert in action are below. &#x1f403;&#x1f60a;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/INewImage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/INewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"530\" height=\"530\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/INewImage-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/INewImage-1.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, by the time we get around to T.A.L.B. at 8:30pm, chances are that Ol\u2019 Dad has been blowing &amp; going since before dawn. Consequently, recent story quality has been\u2026 well, let\u2019s say uneven. I was\u00a0kinda proud of the new characters I invented recently\u2014Mr. Robert Cat, a bobcat, and Moe Hunculus, a homunculus\u2014although Finn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7592,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions\/7592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}