A Day Off, Popularity Explosion, and Other Stuff

[kybearfuzz]

This week has started out fairly well and it zooming into odds and ends now that we're half-way through.

• Back in August, my friend Dave Dudar, a photographer from Atlanta, came and did a photo shoot of me in various places around Cincinnati. A lot of guys he's photographed have been named "Beefcake of the Week" on Modern Bear's Facebook page. Yesterday was apparently my turn. I'd answered a questionnaire for them late last year, and they posted one of Dave's pics of me and my answers yesterday. That post now has over 1400 "Likes." Seriously, more than 1400! I'm flattered beyond belief. It's also come with a series of friend requests from complete strangers. On the plus side though, they posted a link to my comic book and I've also gotten a surge of "Likes" to that page too.



• I took today off because the Cincinnati metro area was supposed to get hammered with freezing rain and snow this morning. We had heavy rain last night, which washed away a lot of the snow already on the ground, but also a lot of the salt that was on the roads. I saw the traffic this morning on TV and it was a mess at 6 AM. So with that and the threat of late morning wintry mix, I begged off. Well, the bad stuff just started about 20 minutes ago. So, I'm kicking myself a bit as I could have put in at least a partial day today. Oh well....



• One of the nice parts of taking the day off is that I managed to get in my bicep workout early. I have considered rejoining a gym as I have been having trouble putting in my cardio workout with the winter weather.



• I'm halfway through the script of Issue #17 of my comic. I hope to have it finished tonight.

Happy Hump Day!

Comments

[ui-tomcat.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd get a lot of new friends after seeing that Modern Bear post.

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

May i repost this "weird" graphic i Loves it ;)

[barak.livejournal.com]

I was wondering how you were handling the sudden influx of friendly attention. But then its only right, you are beefcake. :-)

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

1400 likes- that's excellent!

:)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

You're certainly deserving. I'm so behind the times. I didn't even know there was such a thing as "Modern Bear":)

[cuboz.livejournal.com]

I shall have to endeavour to find this post / pictures of you on Dave's Facebook page...

I actually got to meet Dave in person, albeit briefly, when I was in Atlanta last year... And I picture I took of HIM became very popular! Ironic... LOL

[trulygrateful.livejournal.com]

Chip received many request of many kinds after his 2000 appearance in American Bear - before social media existed (but there were AOL chatrooms way back then). This does not surprise me at all in many respects.

I've always thought you handsome, I cannot lie. But though we've never met F2F, I also know you're more than just a thing.

[ricksf.livejournal.com]

We all deserve our 15 minutes of fame. We should make the most of it. But I suppose we should keep in mind that it's only 15 minutes.

And yeah, you very much deserve your 15 minutes of Modern Beardom, handsome!

[ironranger1.livejournal.com]

To be honest, Mark, I've had a few drool sessions over your beefcake photos on Modern Bear. LOL You are a handsome man and a fantastic cartoonist.

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

Beefcake!!!! :-)

I'm glad you got to have some fun with this.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

well you know I've always had the hots for you so no surprise at least 1400 others do too. It would be weird to get random requests to be facebook friends from that though.

[boobooirl.livejournal.com]

Just don't forget your original hardcore fanbase who have been drooling over you for 10 years or more ;-)