meet gluck plus a name change
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009First, let me introduce Gluck, the newest member of the GingerDead and Friends cast. I’ve been toying around with concepts for a couple of weeks and finally fell in love with this guy, perpetual bleeding head wound and all. Undead, yet dapper, I suspect Gluck will be fun to write for.
I wanted to name him Splinter as I was dying to use that word as a name until I found out there was a Teenage Mutant Ninja character by that name…a rat, I believe. I came up with the word ‘gluck’ imagining the sort of sound that might escape a reanimated corpse’s mouth. After tossing around a few other ideas, I realized that I was already referring to him as Gluck in my head so that decided it.
Speaking of names, I have an important announcement to make. leNoir is bored with people mispronouncing her name so she’s changing it to reflect her feeling on the matter. As of now, leNoir’s name is officially Ennui. Hope you guys can respect her wishes and adapt to her new name.
I know you got used to leNoir, but honestly how often do I even use their names in the writing? Hardly ever. I really felt like since people can pronounce Renoir it wasn’t a stretch to say leNoir. I also thought combining the French words for the (le) and dark (noir) was pretty clever but alas, if even a quarter of my readers are pronouncing it lenore, it bugs me. And if I take this comic beyond the internet, it may get confusing. There is already a comic character named Lenore in the same genre by the talented and ridiculously sexy Dirge, so I had to make an executive decision and give Ennui a name that is completely unique, still French and happens to be one of the means of death in Edward Gorey‘s the Gashlycrumb Tinies (one of my favorite artist/writers). Besides all that, it’s a name very sentimental to me for the years I’ve spent as a fashion designer in Second Life under the name kaia Ennui.
That’s all I have to say on that. Now for something really cool…
On Saturday night, I went to a fun local dive to check out a band called Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dollz which based on the ad conjured images of psychobilly and alternative burlesque. The show delivered and then some. The band was awesome putting on a great show in their own right but add the Voodoo Dollz dancers and wow.
The girls did a sort of tongue in cheek style burlesque show in pin-up and cabaret costumes which changed for each number. They performed practically every other song with a perfomance relative to the song’s lyrics and mood. There were mock knife threats, voodoo marshmallow roasting and twirling pasties. So. Much. Fun. Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dolls are on tour now throughout the US and then into Europe I believe, so keep check out the dates and check them out if they are coming to your area. I’d even drive an hour or so to see them. It was that good. Here’s some links…
Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dollz Official Site
Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dollz MySpace
And some photos…
Photographed by the incredible Jesse Louttit:
photographed by Leigh Armstrong – (read Leigh’s TBT Sound Check blog for more photos and a review of the St. Pete show):
I think I forgot to mention I put up an Easter-oriented card on etsy using an old Easter comic.
Also, I have a Mother’s Day one complete, just need to format it for printing and put it up. I’ll surely have that done by next week’s update.
Have a great week and please give Gluck some welcoming love through your mad haiku’n skillz!
<3 calan
April 8th, 2009 at 12:24 am
pleased to meet you gluck
how did you get that head wound?
welcome to the world.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
‘Gluck’ (though with an umlaut over the ‘u’) also means ‘luck’ in German.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
renaming a child
is considered bad juju
ennui’s black heart beats backwards
April 8th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Chimera – welcome! i didn’t know that, thanks! i guess it’s a matter of perspective whether being undead is lucky or not. when i researched the word – didn’t want to have to change it later
– i found there is a famous poet and a composer with Gluck as a surname. that seemed kind of appropriate, particularly the name being associated with poetry in some regard. mostly i was just relieved no one else was using it for a comic character.
Seraphine – love love love that last line. beautiful!
April 8th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
call her what you will,
leNoir or anything else–
ennui fills my soul
April 8th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
justme *hugs you* thanks
April 8th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I feel all happy on the inside that I WAS PRONOUNCING ENNUI’S FORMER NAME RIGHT ALL ALONG. w00t.
Yet sad, since she was such a perfect leNoir. Ah well.
I am now in love with Gluck . . . he is the most perfect comic character ever next to . . . well, everyone else in this comic. LOL.
April 8th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
…LeNior. Oops.
DON’T KILL ME!!! ENNUI!
Dear Gluck,
Though Gingerdead is
Saddened by your arrival,
Vendetta is NOT.
Love coolio.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Glück (German) can also mean happiness. I lived in Lesotho, a country in Africa. Families who had lost a child would sometimes give the next born a name that would make them seem less desirable to whatever spirits happened to be responsible for taking children. I knew someone named Dog (Ntja), a few people named Death (Lefu), and one lucky girl named Murder (Polao). They were all quite healthy. This might explain Gluck’s nasty head wound.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
en’newy, right?
because i’ll die if i pronounce it wrong
and have to marry gluck.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Cady – thanks!
Coolio – a haiku prediction, very coolio of you.
Kyle – That’s so interesting. thanks so much for posting. i love learning about different cultures. it’s odd, sure, but it makes sense too based on their beliefs and the motivating factor is to protect their children. i should jot down those names for future characters.
seraphine – ah, i should have realized some might not be familiar with the word! thanks. it’s pronounced on-wee. it means boredom but in a sort of overwhelming sad way. i chose it when i joined second life because it seemed to perfectly describe why i would be joining in the first place. real life was the pits at the time.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
the bones are still bones
by any other handle
and still taste as sweet
April 15th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
gluck in the parlor
a tiny brown spider spied
later that night died.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
welcome lovehound, my twittery friend. i’m going to cut and paste your lovely haiku into the game of clue comic on the very next page. thanks!
April 15th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
ack! i’m sorry, calan! i’ll make sure to post future gluckus on the correct page…sorry for the extra work!
April 16th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
amy, don’t be silly! no work at all
May 6th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I like Gluck
He looks a little like a methed-out potato crisp.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Chance – I freaking love that description! Thanks for the Lulz