I have never written a blog before , I guess this is because I never really had much to write about. well that's not 100% true , in fact thinking back there is a lot of stuff that has happened to me over the last few years that might be note worthy
Entering the world stinging nettle eating contest was one of the dumbest things I have done to date. I do have to point out that as far as I could see there where only people from the west county there so the term "world" seems a little over the top, but thats what it was called. This was followed by having a foot race to the top of the Eiffel tower , I did not win this and as we where in france the idea came about that I should eat a raw snail ......... Bad times ....
One of my better memories would be my free trip to Montreal, not only was it a free trip from the company I was working for at the time but I guess the lady at check in took a liking to us as when we arrived on the plane we where taken to first class and handed a glass of champagne. "Welcome to first class" Good times ... I was also told by a good friend to check out the strip clubs , Now to be honest every time I have been to a strip club I get too drunk to fully appreciate the full experience and end up leaving with no money and fuzzy images of breasts flying around. This time was no expectation although I do have one very clear memory that will stay with me for along time, It seems in Montreal you can touch the girls , now this is a new concept to guys from the UK as far as I know, although this also means they can touch you back and when the subject of spanking came along my friend jumped at the chance to have the two naked girls whip my leather belt off, hold me down and spank me so hard I could not sit down..........
I needed a joint to relax a bit. Lucky for me it took about 5 minuets to find some one that was willing to sell us some fine weed. We had to do a "drop" this is also some thing that is new to me, I don't often buy weed off the pavement but it seemed like a good system as both parties don't hand anything over , not sure that would fly in the UK though.
Now this is just a small example of what's been distracting me from an idea I had over ten years ago that I am now finally embarking on making. This is what I am going to blog about, my comic . Being a writer is not some thing I set out to do, but I have never been able to get the idea out of my head and even though I have worked with 5 different artists, it was never quite right , until now that is. I now have a team of people that understand what we are trying to achieve and thats all ways a step in the right direction. The comic is called The best buds and it is set in a underground government grow room where a leek of toxic gas changed the genetic make up of the weed forever...
I have just finished the draft of the first comic Attack of the spider-mites and am sending it over to get drawn up in the next few days. Now you might wonder why I would want to make a comic about little buds in there own little plant pot world ? well there are two main reasons one is simple I really like weed ....... and two I thought it would be fun to play about with all the crazy names weed has and give them a personality. The main reason however is to try and create some thing that every one can read smokers or non smokers alike in the hope they might learn some thing new and maybe even change the way they look at weed.
so ..... if you wanna find out more about the process of getting a comic off the ground I will write some shorter ( I promise ) blogs to let you guys know how its going.
Peace