A BoMToons shirt was spotted in the real world!

Thanks Afro-Ninja and Luis!

Buy one yourself and send me a pic of you wearing it around your local hang-out!

Well, I'm proud of myself. I rode my 1st 100 mile bike race on Saturday.

It was the Tour De St. George and it was a lot of fun (and grueling, mind numbing hard work). My first century in my training for the LOTOJA in September.

You'll remember I weighed 238 lbs 6 months ago and am now down to 186 :)

Stats:
13.9 mph average speed
38.7 mph top speed
7 hrs 7 mins 49 seconds
104 miles

These are my 2 favorite Portal Defenders videos, they had me really rooting for the guy playing.

The 2nd one (available in HD on youtube) actually shows the player earning the "King of the Portal" medal which means it was his 1st time winning, epic moment caught on film!

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Picked up my racing bike so I can begin properly training for the LOTOJA. It's a '09 Specialized Roubaix.

It's a huge difference compared with my mountain bike. It's super light and stiff, all carbon fiber, and the gearing on it allows me to hit some pretty nice speeds. Still gotta get a speedometer/odometer attachment and clip in pedals.

P.S. I'm down to 186 lbs making my total weight loss 49 lbs!

It's still kind of surreal to imagine there are people out there playing my games (over and over in PD's case thanks to the difficulty :P )

I found these videos on youtube. WARNING: SPOILERS!

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This one is kinda laggy, but I thought the Dutch(?) rap music was funny:

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P.S.
Check out the "Paint the town red" contest here. I update the featured picture that loads into the game every so often and send traffic to the winning artist's userpage!

This is the official place to post a link to your "Paint the Town Red" art.
Every so often we'll update the game with a new piece of art...it could be YOURS!

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Follow these instructions carefully:

1) Make a piece of bloody footprint art in the "Paint the Town Red" mini game within the flash game Portal Defenders

2) Press Prnt Scrn on your keyboard to copy a screenshot into your computer's clipboard

3) Paste the screenshot into paint, or photoshop, or gimp, or whatever image editor you have

4) Save the image and post it to a hosting site like www.liammacdonald.co.uk/Uploader/, www.putfile.com, www.imageshack.us

5) Post a response to this blog and paste the link to your image.
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If we choose your image, we'll link it to your NG userpage turkey!
GOOD LUCK PORTAL DEFENDER!

Luis and I have been working on an epic game on and off for the last few months. It's finally almost done! We hope to release it tomorrow...ultimate NG tribute.

See a preview below:

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My good friend and excellent violinist has made it into the YouTube symphony orchestra finals!

Winners get to go play in Carnegie Hall and are determined by user voting!

Please follow this link:

http://www.youtube.com/symphony

And follow the instructions in the pic below to vote for him. This is a seriously HUGE chance for him and his music career so please help him out!

A good friend and contributor to BoMToons.com has the chance of a lifetime offered by YouTube.

YouTube is holding the first completely online-based musical competition with the winners being sent to play in Carnegie Hall! For a musician this is an outstanding opportunity.

Ben Chan is one of the best young violinists in the world and needs your support by viewing and voting 5 stars on his audition video.

Please check it out and vote 5 stars if you think it's worthy!

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Wow, its so cool to see our flashes "Castle Crashing the Beard" and "Pico Blast" up there with the other nominees. Of course I clearly don't stand a chance at winning when put against masterpieces such as Aether and Fancy Pants 2. Still, the nomination alone is more than enough of an honour.

I have to say that this has filled me with motivation to make incredible flash this year. I want my next big flash project, if nominated, to be something I consider worthy of being judged alongside the other entries. I'm gonna work my buns off to try and make something truly epic (maybe the ultimate 8-bit tribute?)

Anyways, thanks to newgrounds for the nomination, and I have to say its hard for me to narrow that list down to even 5, I have no idea how the panel is going to manage. 2008 was a phenomenal year for flash, and I'm glad to have been a part of it all.

Here's a game over screen I made for something with jmtb02. I find game over screens a good way to get in touch with my more macabre side.