Greetings from the internet terminal at Gate 38 of LAX! LA was amazing, and I couldn't have asked for more. Huge thanks to my excellent hosts, Jamie Dee and Courtney. Some of the highlights:
(1) My impromptu sewer adventure that happened when I walked out of the house to go to the Flight of the Conchords concert. I calle 1-800 commute to get directions, and as the woman started reading them off to me, I whipped my ticket out of my pocket real fast to write on the back. The ticket immediately flew into the air, did a couple loopty loops, and went down into the sewer. I dove, rolled, wrote directions across LA on my hand, and watched the ticket land underground all in one swift motion. Then friends helped me pry up the manhole cover so I could climb under the street and retrieve my ticket.
(2)Walking up to the Flight of the Conchords concert, and admiring a fan's homemade shirt with Cartoon Conchords on it. Then, realizing that I DREW those cartoon Conchords. I stopped her in the middle of the street and exclaimed "Who! How! Where... where did you get that shirt??? I DREW THAT!" She immediately said "are you Ryan????" We stood in the middle of Broadway for a few minutes talking about how she printed it off my website and had a shirt made, before we realized we were blocking traffic.
(3) Standing in line, and telling the women behind me the story about someone else at the show wearing my art on their T-shirt. As soon as I said the word "Motherflippin'", they exclaimed "YOU DREW THAT??????" And then said "Didn't you draw one with Mel saying 'Oh, hey guys!' too?" Someone behind them overheard and commented that they preferred my drawing of Murray.
(4) The night before I left, I heard from the guy who was trying to save the contents of my broken hard drive. (Since I had dropped my laptop and lost the only copies I had of every comic I had ever done) The damage was too bad, and he couldn't fix it. It would have to be sent to a pro data recovery guy, who'd charge me at least a thousand or two to maybe get 70% of the data, and have to ship it to me in Korea a month from now. I went to bed kind of bummed, but woke up to learn that the guy had felt bad, so he pulled an all nighter, and had found out how to save 100% of my data, and make my computer 100% the way it was before I dropped it, except for about tripling my hard drive space, cleaning out the insides, fixing my broken keyboard, and personally hand delivering it to where I was staying, over 2 hours from his shop. And he gave me a free firewire cable. All for 600 bucks. If you ever need emergency Mac repair, go to Macadamia.us. Seriously. (It's right next to where they film LA Ink)
(5) Late night Thai Food party in Nancy Cartwright's House while she was out of town.
30 seconds left! More to come!
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