#ken baumann

[tvshowscouples]

If you love Ben&Adrian (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) and you want reblog or like,this is the link of my reblog couples :)

thank you!

[loosejournal]

If you're going to write about drugs, please stop. If you're going to write about a wedding, please stop. Stop writing about how weird it is to be gay. It's not weird anymore. Please do not write in hip-hop language. Don't write about porn. We already have enough of that in our lives and we all beat off a much as you do, so it's no biggie. Don't try to "write what you know." You don't know anything. Me either.

If you have to write about drugs, don't write about pot. Candy is more interesting than pot is. Knives are almost always cool. Accidents are good, but not car ones, unless everybody in the book is dead or dies at once. If there is lace of any kind in your writing, you are doomed. Don't write about Europe. You were there with a backpack for a week and barely scratched the surface. This does not permit you to have a character called Giuseppe. Do not open up your story with Bob Seger or John Mellencamp lyrics. Stephen King did that shit to me once when I was small and I'm still recovering.

Mental institutions are a dealbreaker. You can have an institution on your street or near your school but you can't be in one anymore. It sucks, I know. If you write by hand, write with the hand you don't favor. If you write by computer, and the room has a window, sit by that, and don't look out it. Ignore or be rude to the people you love. Then try to make up for it.

Don't try to surprise me unless you surprised yourself. Write a book that will make me want to keep reading it rather than getting head. I can think of 10. Font is important, both while you are typing the words, and when it is printed in the book. When you think you are about to write something really good, go to the grocery. Chekov's idea that "if a gun is on the mantle in the first act it should go off in the last" has done more damage than any other single sentence in writing. Objects are not road signs. Action in a book should not occur as if Keanu Reeves was in charge.

I'm still waiting to read a really good scene about somebody getting their ears pierced. It can be done. Never have children. Study story. Realize you cannot win. Repeat. If you've ever thought about Star Wars or mentioned Star Wars in conversation, or own anything related to Star Wars, or have seen Star Wars, don't write. Oh sweet, you went to that museum alone one day and had a tuna sandwich in the cafe? You're killing me, please. The subway, huh? If you listen to the Beatles or Radiohead, or Jay-Z, don't write. If you ever put up devil's horns with your hand at shows, don't write. You're probably in bad shape if you mention whiskey or a beach. Don't say "story" or "poem."

Mothers are better for characters to have than girlfriends. Ditto fathers/boyfriends. If the mother is the girlfriend or the boyfriend, I hope your story isn't minimalist or narrative. Abstractions and dreams are good.* *Unless your dream is about building a tree-house out of honey and glue with your brother who isn't really your brother but that Brad Renfro guy who died in Hollywood but nobody noticed and the tree-house turns into a bar then a candle then a city. We've all had that dream or something equally as underwhelming.

Write less dialogue, unless you are really good at it, which I guarantee you aren't. You're probably in pretty bad shape if you mention any website whatsoever or even a computer for that matter. When was the last time you ate at an Arbys? If it was more than a year you probably can't say anything I need to know. The cute fat Mexican at the bodega and his family who you think you're such good friends with probably live a much different life than you expect. Maybe don't start messing around in there.

Are you writing about someone taking a drag off of a cigarette? You might as well be saying, "He breathed." Don't write about skin unless it's going bad. Acne is always a choice subject. The shame and embarrassment that comes with terrible skin can be a goldmine. I'm talking Acne Vulgaris too, not a goddamn blackhead on your chin. Don't conceive of your "central" characters by defining them with a mental or physical "condition." If you're going to tell me about your Mom, do it from your dad's point of view. I want to know what she's like in the sack.

Don't connect with me. Don't try to pretend I'm not there. Don't try to be funny. You are or you aren't. Or the sentence is or isn't. You are neither David Lynch nor Captain Beefheart. You might be Cher. Cry more, but don't tell anybody either. This is the way crying is like rap. I used to say you can't write about serial killers, but they work sometimes, if they are described in the way one would a washcloth or a doll. Remember your asshole is a tunnel.

If you've ever read Bukowski, please stop. Please, God, no characters who are musicians. There is nothing worse than trying to describe music, or how someone plays it. Leave music to douchebags. Stop writing about rich literary boys in college. I hated you people when I was in college and I still hate you. Your frat took a shit on my porch.

Drink some water. Do not write about writing. Have you ever seen a painting of a person painting? No? Well, it sucks. If you've ever told someone they are "misreading" a philosopher, eat a cock. You are not Andy Warhol. You probably don't really listen to black metal. Can I reiterate the one about not writing about musicians?

If you are more aware of your own dick or vagina than you are of what your breath sounds like when you are asleep, please go get a job in marketing instead. The guy who lives upstairs from you is probably really cool. You should introduce yourself instead of imagining him doing weird shit with hooks and rope all the time and then writing it down. Get a hold of yourself, the guy's probably just playing Wii.

Oooh, prostitutes. So you're into that. Awesome. I'd rather hear from them about you.

If there's never been a book that made you not want to leave the house again, don't try to make your own. Stop being in bars all the time. Man in Bar = Man in Life. We know. If you're angry, go outside. Please do not put words into things. Not to keep the anger away, but to keep the Rage Against The Machine out of my ears. Own your advice in the same way you once tried to suck your own dick. By that I mean: everything is true.

If my cousins on my dad's side of the family know who you are, or feel interested in reading your book when told what it's about, you might be dying. Any critique of the social or emotional will go unnoticed. Pity. If you can separate the words and the story: trash. The word "lovers" always fails on some level. Don't just kill your idols; leave them in history. Avoid L.A. and New York altogether. If you lived in either of those cities, you would have given up writing by now anyway. I don't believe you.

Have you ever printed out your manuscript and bathed in it? Right answers are for those who hope. Tone belongs to music while deafness is holy. If you or the people in your writing have bought new clothes in the past two years, it's over. If you can point out "Action" in a book, why isn't it a movie? Don't write about America or Bush or Arabs. Don't write about the future. Don't write about endings. Probably don't write anything at all.

[balu8]

Superboy and Robin

World's Finest Three #2

by Karl Kesel/Chuck Dixon (W.); Tom Grummett (P.); Scott Hannah(I.); Scott Baumann (C.) and Ken Lopez (L.)

DC

[omniversecomicsguide]

Love the way the Silver Surfer has to have a loincloth on Sakaar to cover his ‘Ken doll’ bulge…

The Surfer returns to Sakaar - the world that both threatened the life of the Hulk and offered him salvation & happiness - during SON OF HULK (2008-2009). He doesn’t just meet the son of the Hulk, he becomes his unwilling thrall!

Featured art:

SKAAR: SON OF HULK #8 (variant)

By Ron Lim & Moose Baumann

[mxshpitbaby]

Memory, like a roadway, is emptied by plague.

Maybe I should have inked first, had my skin tainted. Tinted. Designs—de-signs. Marking and disfiguring, transforming skin, at least the upper dermis. Permanent to-do lists (get out) (don't get in in the first place)—dreamed misnomers laid upon.

— Ken Baumann, Solip

[siverwrites]

Book Log 2022

Early in the year I threw together a list of possibilities to read. I don't want to say plan, because that implies more follow-through than what I figured I'd do. So, possibilities it was and here's how that went.

I did have a goal of 50 books and made it.

* - don’t currently own or have access to

My TBR

Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones

The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones

Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones

The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss*

Bellwether by Connie Willis*

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh*

Dodger by Terry Pratchett

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle*

Monkey Island Chronicles

Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman*

The Basilwade Chronicles by Dawn Knox*

The Macaroon Chronicles by Dawn Knox*

Death in Disguise by Emma Davies

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Boss Fight Books: Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams

Boss Fight Books: Final Fantasy V by Chris Kohler

Boss Fight Books: Final Fantasy VI by Sebastian Deken

Boss Fight Books: Earthbound by Ken Baumann

Boss Fight Books: The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask by Gabe Durham

Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 2 by Jon Irwin

Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 3 by Alyse Knorr

Boss Fight Books: Shadow of the Colossus by Nick Suttner

Boss Fight Books: Shovel Knight by David L. Craddock

Boss Fight Books: Continue: The Boss Fight Books Anthology

Boss Fight Books: Nightmare Mode: A Boss Fight Books Anthology

Boss Fight Books: Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall

A Deception Most Deadly by Genevieve Essig*

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer

Tall Tails Secret Book Club by CeeCee James

Baking Bad by Kim M. Watt

Yule be Sorry by Kim M. Watt

Manor of Life & Death by Kim M. Watt

Game of Scones by Kim M. Watt

A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker by Kim M. Watt

Coming up Roses by Kim M. Watt

The Tales of Beaufort Scales Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries by Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Contagion of Zombies by Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Complication of Unicorns by Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Melee of Mages by Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Worry of Weres by Kim M. Watt

Oddly Enough: Tales of the Unordinary by Kim M. Watt

The Cat Did It: 8 short tales of troublesome felines by Kim M. Watt

The Good, the Bad and the Smug by Tom Holt

A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games (in progress)

The Prim Reaper by Kim Watt

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Books for rereading consideration:

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Hogfather Terry Pratchett

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin

Neverwhere narrated and written by Neil Gaiman (audiobook)

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Elfquest by Wendy & Richard Pini

Magic & Malice by Patricia C. Wrede

The Magicians & Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett

The House on Durrow Street by Galen Beckett

The Master of Heathcrest Hall by Galen Beckett

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien narrated by Andy Serkis (audiobook)

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett

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Currently Reading:

A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games from Bitmap Books

A Lot Like Christmas by Connie Willis

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Finished:

January:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien narrated by Andy Serkis (audiobook) (reread, but first time listen)

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (reread)

Monkey Island Chronicles

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones

The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones

February:

The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones

Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (reread)

March:

Boss Fight Books: Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams

Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 2 by Jon Irwin

Boss Fight Books: Final Fantasy VI by Sebastian Deken

Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 3 by Alyse Knorr

April:

Boss Fight Books: The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask by Gabe Durham

Boss Fight Books: Continue: The Boss Fight Books Anthology

Boss Fight Books: Earthbound by Ken Baumann

Boss Fight Books: Final Fantasy V by Chris Kohler

Boss Fight Books: Shovel Knight by David L. Craddock

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

May:

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (reread)

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (reread)

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

June:

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett (reread)

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

Baking Bad by Kim M. Watt

July:

Yule be Sorry by Kim M. Watt

Manor of Life & Death by Kim M. Watt

Game of Scones by Kim M. Watt

A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker by Kim M. Watt

Coming up Roses by Kim M. Watt

The Tales of Beaufort Scales Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries by Kim M. Watt

August:

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium - Paul Kidby

Oddly Enough: Tales of the Unordinary by Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Contagion of Zombies by Kim M. Watt

The Prim Reaper by Kim M. Watt

The Cat Did It: 8 short tales of troublesome felines by Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Complication of Unicorns by Kim M. Watt

Gobbelino London & a Melee of Mages by Kim M. Watt

September:

Gobbelino London & a Worry of Weres by Kim M. Watt

Tall Tails Secret Book Club by CeeCee James

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Beast-Laid Plans by Kim. M Watt

October:

Who Are You? : Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance Platform by Alex Custodio

November:

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (reread)

December:

The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (reread)

Yule be Sorry by Kim M. Watt (reread)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (reread)

A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker by Kim M. Watt (reread)

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (reread)

[shadowwingtronix]

"Yesterday's" Comic> Exiles #1 (Ultraverse)

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Exiles #1 (Ultraverse)

“This pose seriously hurts my spine. How do women in comics do it?” Exiles #1 Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (August, 1993) WRITERS: Steve Gerber, Tom Mason, Dave Olbrich, & Chris Ulm PENCILER: Paul Pelletier INKER: Ken Branch COLORISTS: Paul Mounts & Moose Baumann LETTERER: Clem Robins EDITOR: Chris Ulm Continue reading “Yesterday’s” Comic> Exiles #1 (Ultraverse)

[ssportss]

“It’s hard to maintain an unconditional openness to art when you’ve got a lot of shit to do.”

-Ken Baumann, Earthbound, 2016

[ttownpromoc]

YOU ARE WANTED!!

Colin O'Donoghue, Sasha Pieterse, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Jon Bernthal, Billie Lourd, Jamie Dornan, Finn Cole, Adam Levine, Ken Baumann, Jai Courtney, Blake Anderson, Danai Gurira, Jayson Tatum, Joseph Morgan, Kate Mara, Josh Peck, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, Stella Maxwell, Natalia Dyer

WELCOME TO TINSELTOWN!!

The place where dreams can be made, and hearts can be broken. Living in the public eye isn’t always as glamorous as it seems from the outside. Don’t forget, that spotlight you love so much - it illuminates everything, including your flaws. Between the gossip, tabloids, and grudges this town chews people up and spits them out day after day. The trials and tribulations of the Hollywood elite are unlike any other, it’s impossible to relate unless you're one of them. The high paced, sometimes high stress can get to a person, causing them their careers. Others thrive on it. What will happen to you? Do you have what it takes to make it?

[emmanelson]

Sometimes I think this show was a fever dream, and then I am reminded that no, someone actually sit down and wrote these scenes 

[belowthedot]

I’m watching I Know What You Did Last Summer and my brain did a thing.

[tvshowscouples]

If you love Ben&Adrian (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) and you want reblog or like,this is the link of my reblog couples :)

thank you!

[nottommy9]

I know he has his flaws and he definitely made a lot of mistakes but I still like Ben Boykewich from The Secret Life of the American Teenager. The guy was really relatable (dorky, nervous around girls, overly-nice) and lovable in season 1 and I still enjoy him after that. It's frustrating since he makes a lot of mistakes but I think the ridiculousness of the show makes it bearable. Ken Baumann really sold me on the character. The dude was really supportive and kind to Amy in season 1, even after learning about her pregnancy (I really sympathetised, though I can't relate, with him, being the boyfriend to a girl impregnated by another man) and his relationship with Marc Molina (left too soon from the show) was really nice to see. So sweet of him to assure Griffin that he's obviously invited to Leo's wedding in season 2. He was a bit pushy at times but I still love the episode where he and Amy get married (one of my favourites).

[hotncaps]

The Secret Life of the American Teenager Season 3 Screencaps Gallery

[moved-tocrylids-blog]

boykewich family

steve schirripa, leo boykewich (40)

nico tortorella, jamie boykewich (19)

halston sage, bethany boykewich (17)

ken baumann, benjamin boykewich (15)

( not pictured:

sarah michelle gellar, sarah boykewich (35) )

[optimistic-ginger]

Maven casting

OKAY, I SEE YOUNG KEN BAUMANN WHEN I THINK OF MAVEN SO SOMEONE FIND A YOUNG KEN LOOKALIKE that is all.