TheLostSkellyton

Is there a challenge in adjusting to so many different orchestras and conductors as you perform in so many different places during the year? I listen to a radio program where lots of classical artists share their favourite pieces while telling stories (This Is My Music on CBC Radio 2), and a common story seems to be "and then I had one rehearsal with the orchestra before performance." Does this happen often, and is it a new challenge every time?

Hi Ryan! I met you once at a local comic con where you were at the Topatco table with Chris Hastings. I fangirled way too hard, and frankly embarrassed myself (and probably Chris), but you said I had a pretty name, so it all worked out in the end.

My question: how long do you see yourself doing Dinosaur Comics? Are you going to take a page from Sluggy Freelance (pun intended) and just never quit? Please don't leave us. We will be sad.

I watch F1 and the new team principal of Aston Martin this year is Mike Krack. As far as I know, Mike is his full name and not short for Michael—I've been told this is a thing in some parts of Europe, and I have no idea if that's true or not but Mike Krack is from Luxembourg so? Fortunately the F1 community is pretty good about self-policing low-hanging jokes there.

Got any special memories from the filming of Point Break?

This IS huge. I used to game regularly, as in every night, and not that many years later I'm only still friends with one of the people I used to share my life with everyday through gaming. All but one other person had zero interest in connecting in other ways after they and I drifted away from playing, and the other was an addict and refused all attempts at intervention or concern, and the last straw was her losing her shit at me after trying to pull me back into the game again and I declined again—and treating all decisions to stop playing as a personal betrayal, and being flat out angry that I'd found other interests and had my reasons for not wanting to return to that one. I knew I couldn't do anything to help her and I knew I couldn't put up with her constantly trying to drag me down anymore, so long story short I cut contact.

I still miss some of those guys. I was honestly really hurt that they had no interest in being my friend in any other way after all the time and conversation we'd shared for years. But there was simply no interest on their end in making space for socializing even online in other ways (such as through Discord, other games we were interested in, etc).