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Jason Rodriguez
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Hello everybody.

My name’s Jason Rodriguez and I recently found out about this forum and decided to join along with a buddy of mine to take advantage of the Script writing workshop. Being a huge fan of Chuck’s work didn’t hurt my decision.

I’m an aspiring comic book creator that has some experience with playwriting from college. Currently I do all of the editing duties for [URL=http://www.hoarseandbuggy.com]Hoarse & Buggy Productions[/URL], the publishing house that puts out the critically acclaimed [URL=http://hoarseandbuggy.com/shop/book.html/cat/1]Western Tales of Terror [/URL] and [URL=http://hoarseandbuggy.com/shop/book.html/cat/3]Elk’s Run[/URL]. I get to work with some of the biggest names in comics on a daily basis and it’s been a good time. My first comic story (cowritten by my friend Chris Fabulous), All the Wrong Choices, is going to be printed in glorious full-color in Elk’s Run #2 as a six page back-up. I also have a three page black and white story called Six Shots that will be in Western Tales of Terror #5.

I am also three months into my year long undertaking, [URL=http://www.jasonrodriguez.com]The Moose in the Closet[/URL], a 5 day a week blovel that tells true stories about growing up in Brooklyn and going to school in Boston. It’s been well received so far, so much so that super star publisher [URL=http://www.ait-planetlar.com]Larry Young [/URL] himself has written [URL=http://isotopecomics.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=126]tongue-in-cheek fan fiction about it[/URL]. The blog has an update Monday thru Friday and opens with a blurb promoting Indy comics and goes into my daily story.

I’m excited to contribute to this forum in any way that I can and plan to start diving into scripts as soon as I get a few of the scripts out of the way that I’m currently editing.

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Hi there, Jason. Welcome aboard. I'll have to check out those links and your work when I have some more time. Sounds cool.

[QUOTE=Jason Rodriguez]comic book[/QUOTE]

A little tip: Around here we call it a comic "boob."

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Sweet, a comic guy! That's a lot of linkage for a first post. Kudos. Brak's not kiddin' about the boob, either.

Welcome aboard, matey.

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Hi there.

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Thanks for the resume, we'll call you if anything comes up.

Jason Rodriguez
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[QUOTE=fullmetalbrak]A little tip: Around here we call it a comic "boob."[/QUOTE]

Need to track down the origins of that one.

Nightrious wrote:
Thanks for the resume, we'll call you if anything comes up.

That's all I ask for.

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Smartazboy
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You are two days older than me. Are you the older twin brother my father once mentioned I had when he was in a drunken stuper?

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[QUOTE=Jason Rodriguez]Need to track down the origins of that one.[/QUOTE]

It was just a funny typo made this morning by snuffy, our illustrious mod of the newbies, who will be poppin' in soon, I'm sure.

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[QUOTE=fullmetalbrak]It was just a funny typo made this morning by snuffy, our illustrious mod of the newbies, who will be poppin' in soon, I'm sure.[/QUOTE]
I think his new title should be comic boob.

also yo.

Jason Rodriguez
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[QUOTE=Smartazboy]You are two days older than me. Are you the older twin brother my father once mentioned I had when he was in a drunken stuper?[/QUOTE]

I have a brother, according to my father, but he's in Vietnam and ten years older than me. We don't speak about him at family functions. He's an "unwanted disgrace caused by my father's sinful transgressions."

So you could technically be my twin brother but that would require, at the minimum, a time machine. And if you are my twin brother I should warn you, you are the spawn of my father’s weakness and the cause of my mother’s shame.

But I think you’re in the clear.

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Hmmm...

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[QUOTE=Jason Rodriguez]I have a brother, according to my father, but he's in Vietnam and ten years older than me. We don't speak about him at family functions. He's an "unwanted disgrace caused by my father's sinful transgressions."

So you could technically be my twin brother but that would require, at the minimum, a time machine. And if you are my twin brother I should warn you, you are the spawn of my father’s weakness and the cause of my mother’s shame.

But I think you’re in the clear.[/QUOTE]
Are you joking?

Jason Rodriguez
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[QUOTE=stoyan]Are you joking?[/QUOTE]

Yes.

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Everyone, I should mention that Jason Rodriguez is nothing but trouble. I call him "the widow-maker."

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[QUOTE=Chris Fabulous]Everyone, I should mention that Jason Rodriguez is nothing but trouble. I call him "the widow-maker."

CF[/QUOTE]
Yeah, we thought so.

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[QUOTE=fullmetalbrak]It was just a funny typo made this morning by snuffy, our illustrious mod of the newbies, who will be poppin' in soon, I'm sure.[/QUOTE]

i was talking about the series "The Walking Dead" by Robert Kirkman. It's wicked famous, but i still like it a lot.

what's funny is the "k" and the "b" keys are no where NEAR eachother. I could cover my complete embarassment about this by saying something clever, but i just ate a big bowl of hot and sour soup and i feel like sleeping.

Welcome to the cult, Jason. You and Chris fabulous gotta gimme some hot comic BOOK titles to check out when you got the chance. In terms of comic boobs, well, i'll try to take care of that on my own time. Smile

also, check out the comics section of this website:

[url]http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/forumdisplay.php?f=170[/url]

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[QUOTE=snuffy]
what's funny is the "k" and the "b" keys are [B]no where[/B] NEAR [B]eachother[/B]. I could cover my complete embarassment about this by saying something clever, but i just ate a big bowl of hot and sour soup and i feel like sleeping.
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You're 3 for 3 today, buddy. Or would that be 0 for 3?

Smile

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[QUOTE=Undertow]You're 3 for 3 today, buddy. Or would that be 0 for 3?

:)[/QUOTE]

that's annoying, quit it.

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[QUOTE=snuffy]that's annoying, quit it.[/QUOTE]
Snuffy gets mad when you make fun of his spelling, because it's his typing, not his spelling!

Yet, he makes fun of it himself in a joking manner, which would lead one to believe that it's a subject that one can pursue on a course of hilarity, yet again, then he gets insulted.

It would be like Chris Farley suddenly getting upset at a fat-joke. You're sending mixed signals, man. But you know...whatever breeds your mule.

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[QUOTE=Nightrious]It would be like Chris Farley suddenly getting upset at a fat-joke. You're sending mixed signals, man. But you know...whatever breeds your mule.[/QUOTE]

what kind of idiot would make a fat joke to Chris Farley?

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Yeah, Dingus. He's dead!

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[QUOTE=Vendetta]Yeah, Dingus. He's dead![/QUOTE]
I know he's dead. I assumed you would assume that I took that into consideration and was talking about his pre-death days.

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[QUOTE=Nightrious]I know he's dead. I assumed you would assume that I took that into consideration and was talking about his pre-death days.[/QUOTE]
You know, there are modren fat people to make fun of you don't have to keep refering back to your prehistoric copulentos.

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[QUOTE=Vendetta]You know, there are modren fat people to make fun of you don't have to keep refering back to your prehistoric copulentos.[/QUOTE]
I couldn't think of any other fat comedians that make fun of themselves. Except John Candy, but then we would have run into the same problem,

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[QUOTE=Nightrious]I couldn't think of any other fat comedians that make fun of themselves. Except John Candy, but then we would have run into the same problem,[/QUOTE]

i see what you're saying, though. i was just in a bad mood at that time when i spoke harshly,

mods are people, too. god sometimes there so much pressure to do a good job, i just feel like i might snap from the stress.

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In Mod we trust.

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Howdy Jason, welcome to our version of [I]Haunted[/I]'s Writers' Retreat Theater. You're in now and you are not getting out until you tell us you stories. Even then we may not let you leave.

Man, this site is free-association heaven. We go from welcoming a new writer to debating whether it is fair game to make fat-jokes about dead fat guys. Alfred Hitchcock was ultra-sensitive about his weight, so much so that once, at a dinner party, a guest made a rather mild remark about Hitch's appetites and the entire table froze until Hitchcock said it was the one subject he would not discuss. Later his wife recalls finding him sequestered in a spare room, in tears. Call him a Freudian nutcase perfectionist obssessed with an unresolved Oedipal complex and a rather blatant rape fetish--no problem. Make a crack about his weight and it would reduce him to a hurt child.

Again, Hi Jason! Hope you are enjoying your Welcome mat. (No, I don't get how the two subjects are connected either. Around here you just learn to roll with it--and pick up great ideas for stories.)

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[QUOTE=Nightrious]In Mod we trust.[/QUOTE]
All things in moderation.

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[QUOTE=Luddy Dunn]Alfred Hitchcock was ultra-sensitive about his weight, so much so that once, at a dinner party, a guest made a rather mild remark about Hitch's appetites and the entire table froze until Hitchcock said it was the one subject he would not discuss. Later his wife recalls finding him sequestered in a spare room, in tears. Call him a Freudian nutcase perfectionist obssessed with an unresolved Oedipal complex and a rather blatant rape fetish--no problem. Make a crack about his weight and it would reduce him to a hurt child.
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i feel like hugging alfred hitchcock right now.

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[QUOTE=Luddy Dunn]Howdy Jason, welcome to our version of [I]Haunted[/I]'s Writers' Retreat Theater. You're in now and you are not getting out until you tell us you stories. Even then we may not let you leave.

Man, this site is free-association heaven. We go from welcoming a new writer to debating whether it is fair game to make fat-jokes about dead fat guys. Alfred Hitchcock was ultra-sensitive about his weight, so much so that once, at a dinner party, a guest made a rather mild remark about Hitch's appetites and the entire table froze until Hitchcock said it was the one subject he would not discuss. Later his wife recalls finding him sequestered in a spare room, in tears. Call him a Freudian nutcase perfectionist obssessed with an unresolved Oedipal complex and a rather blatant rape fetish--no problem. Make a crack about his weight and it would reduce him to a hurt child.

Again, Hi Jason! Hope you are enjoying your Welcome mat. (No, I don't get how the two subjects are connected either. Around here you just learn to roll with it--and pick up great ideas for stories.)[/QUOTE]

I'm used to threads going all over the place but not as used to threads filling up so damn fast. Makes it tough to keep up. I will try my best.

And I don't see why one would make fun of Chris Farley's weight when it's much more entertaining to make fun of his raging coke habit.

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[QUOTE=Jason Rodriguez]
And I don't see why one would make fun of Chris Farley's weight when it's much more entertaining to make fun of his raging coke habit.[/QUOTE]

now THAT was funny.

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[QUOTE=snuffy]i feel like hugging alfred hitchcock right now.[/QUOTE]

I'm afraid he's dead, too. I don't think he was much for hugging anyway.

Now I'm all perplexed about how one could have a raging coke habit and be that overweight? Contemplating the amount of food Farley must have needed to stay that big suddenly has me thinking about Guts again and...think I have to go faint now.

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[QUOTE=Luddy Dunn]I'm afraid he's dead, too. I don't think he was much for hugging anyway. [/QUOTE]

oh he definitely was for hugging. i don;t think he'd like me too much though.

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[QUOTE=snuffy]oh he definitely was for hugging. i don;t think he'd like me too much though.[/QUOTE]

According to E! True Hollywood Story: Alfred Hitchcock, Alfie was actually Aphenphosmphobic so he probably wouldn't want to hug anybody. He was also Bolshephobic and Papaphobic.

Separately, this is the best website ever:
[url]http://www.phobialist.com/[/url]

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[QUOTE=Jason Rodriguez]According to E! True Hollywood Story: Alfred Hitchcock, Alfie was actually Aphenphosmphobic so he probably wouldn't want to hug anybody. He was also Bolshephobic and Papaphobic.[/QUOTE]

I saw that special, he was molesting everyone! what are you talking about!