A Thousand Sins of Gluttony.

Frosty greetings from behind the shroud of Old Man Winter's deplorably skimpy loincloth, my Beloved Minions. It is officially colder than a frost titan's netherbits here in my mountain stronghold.

For those of you that celebrate the Feast of a Thousand Consecutive Sins of Wanton Gluttony, I hope yours was as good as mine. The heavens weep for the damage I've done to myself, and the turkey population, in the name of holiday participation.

The state of my card alter eBay auction shrouds the interest it seems to have piqued in many of you. A great torrent of email have I seen. A great wailing for more, and pleading to take commissions to alter favorites and playsets. Fear not. The great defacing work will continue. Weekly auctions, and yes, private commissions.

There is still a few days left on the Chandra A'Slaved auction, so everyone get your sniping scopes polished, and prepare your maniacal victory bellow.

And, as promised, another alteration is here.

The Hippodrome of Shai Hulud! I have long held that any form of sport, racing or otherwise, would be much more interesting with sandworm attacks. Who's with me here?

And this too, can be yours, if your sniper skills are up to it.

Next week: the final Scars of Mirrodin painting will swell your pixels! Grand Admiral Thrawn contemplates the horror he finds in the refrigerator! And probably some words hastily arranged!

The question of the week has been "What sort of alters have you done before? (Plus what's a Sharpie alter look like?)

And the above is the answer to both. I've had some very nice players take photos of alters I've done for them, and I've snapped a few myself before giving them up, like my children, with tears in my eyes.

These are what keep me up for three or four days straight at events. Taking stacks of alter requests, and pillaging the local convenient stores for enough caffeine to finish them all.

For those of you who are not yet on my mailing list: Specters of shame and torment follow those who are not "of the list." Remedy this before it's too late! Also, you can use it to brag about how much email you get. It's like having a +1 Inbox of Incredulity!

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Fanservice vandalism, France, and typical mischievy.

Those wacky Hutts. They never learn. Chandra A'Slaved eBay Auction.

New to some of you, I have recently taken to defacing my own artwork in a delightful ritual known as "card-alteration." Well, the defacing isn't so much new, as is using real paint and doing a decent job of it. Fear not, event patrons: I will still test the limits of caffeine and sleepless endurance to do your on-the-spot sharpie defilement at cons and tourneys. But this is a way for people to throttle a little more time and love out of me, and own what is currently the closest thing I offer to original paintings. To own this travestuous co-defiling of two beloved fantasy worlds: bid here on eBay. (link) Another alteration to further corrupt your childhood heroes to come next week. Same bat-time, same-bat channel. I've already had a deluge of queries regarding whether commissioning such vandalism will be possible. Yes. My irreverence is not above bribery. I will accept up to a whopping one alter commission a week. Act now, operators are standing by.

Last week(-ish,) I was privileged to attend the Legend of the Five Rings World Championship in Lyon, France. A mighty hell of a time was enjoyed. The Irish players would say "it was grand." "But grand-grand. Not /grand./" I think something may be lost in typing it... Perhaps I should instead say it was "deadly?" Special thanks to all my across-the-atlantic-pond friends who once again, treated me like a god of myth come back for a visit. Your legendary hospitality keeps me warm in my heart-meats all year long.

Many a card's tranquility sundered by my irreverence! Many sketches were birthed as well! Not enough pictures were taken!

At the cafe, this was boasted "the All American Combo!" Sorry, but not quite...

One thing I failed you on, was to bring enough deck backers for you all. In lieu of the seppuku that honor demands, but my weak will vetos: free shipping PLUS 10% off select deckbackers on my eBay store.

Catching up on some artwork, enjoy wallpaper sizes, commentary, preliminary sketches, time-lapses, and even more time-wastefulness by clicking on the following:

Next week: More seemingly ceaseless prattling, Magic artwork, Legends of Norrath, and another alter for auction!

Totally unrelated to anything: Upon arriving at the voting polls, this colossal dumpster blocking the handicapped parking and access to the building itself, seemed an all too poetic metaphor for perpetual political quagmire.

Oh no, I'm being all edgy and political!

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Dark hugs to you all, my Beloved Minions.

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