Firstly, here's a rundown of what's done. Two Lunatics has been filmed so next thing to do with that is edit. No clue what I'm doing, but I'm sure it will get done eventually. The next Billy in Space book is coming along slowly but steadily, and I've got another book in the works as well.

I've just started school again and I'm going to MATC to learn programming. Might be going into the game development program with a focus on coding. We'll see. You can follow those adventures here.

I honestly don't post in this blog nearly enough. I do however post on my facebook page fairly regularly. If you want to know what I'm up to with updates on how the books are coming you should go here. It's small stuff so it never feels worth posting on a blog.

Anyway. That's the state of things.

It seems the concept of magnetism has been common knowledge to just about everyone (except for the Insane Clown Posse) since we could rub two shiny rocks together.  A negatively charged object and a positively charged object are attracted to each other, due to electrons and tiny multicolored spheres and math and stuff. This little scientific fact is the basis of the commonly used phrase "opposites attract" in reference to couples that are so different they should totally end up together, like in every 80's movie ever.

Unfortunately it turns out we've all been had. Last week, researchers in Germany somewhere decided to actually test the "opposites attract" theory. Surprisingly, or rather not so surprisingly, materials with similar charges wanted to hang out instead of the other way around, which they all agree in hindsight, made no sense.

The reason for this deception by the scientific community dates back to the coining of the phrase "opposites attract". Scientists of the time wanted a pick up line they could use on the hot cheerleader types in a time before science was considered "cool". They went so far as making sure magnets were always painted in such a way to support their claims. Now that science and even dorkiness is cool, the phrase and its false scientific backing can be abandoned.

"We hope that the public can forgive us and we can all move past this. We came up with this theory in a rather lonely time for scientists, but we feel we've grown past the need for it now," said Danny Carlton, King of Science.

It remains to be seen what effect this will have on those cartoony U shaped magnets.

Hope you enjoyed today's lies about magnets. The world my never be the same. Here's some real stuff!

Animation: I finished up the music video for the Happy Horse Band! The final version of it got okayed yesterday. They're super happy with it, as am I. Once they post it, I'll share it here on the website. I think you'll like the song and the video.

Film: May have run into a bit of a snag on Two Lunatics concerning crew, but I have hopes that it will all come together in the end. Did get some essential props put together so that's just about all set.

Comic: I thought I was all done making comics for a while, but my good buddy D.B. Rouse is putting out a new album in a couple months and he wants a comic to go with it. So I've started working on that. It'll be black and white and loosely follow characters in the album.

That's what I got.

- Harry out

Spiders have been around for a long time. They've been creeping out lifeforms since there have been other lifeforms to creep out. They have too many legs. They've got pointy teeth. Their eyes are just plain weird looking. Some are small enough to easily get lost in your bed sheets. Some are big enough to cover your face. Some are deadly poisonous, and some are waiting in that dark spot in your cupboard. They are as varied as they are unpleasant.

Luckily the little critters have always had two major weaknesses. For one, spider bodies are incredibly squishable, succumbing to as little as a wad of toilet paper. Secondly, being spiders, they have spider brains, which are fairly small. Their diminutive intellect has prevented them from realizing what their creepiness could help them accomplish.

Unfortunately we may soon need to bow down to a race of tiny, terrifying tyrants. A group of scientists down in Arizona have developed a method to increase the thinking power of any living thing, by increasing how densely packed their brain cells are. Instead of testing this out on a species of something harmless like butterflies or alligators, they chose to test out this new affront to nature on everyone's favorite nightmare.

All attempts to reach the lab for comment have failed. The lab is assumed lost and will be nuked from a safe distance.

- Harry out

For all of humanity's brief time on our planet, we thought Earth was special. It was the only one we had so we best take care of it. Turns out we can start dumping trash where ever we like, because a second earth has just been discovered.

A few months ago scientists launched a satellite that would travel the same orbit around the sun, but going the other way around. Yesterday, the satellite got its first glimpse of a previously unknown planet, which experts are already calling Earth 2. E2 has been following the exact same path as Earth, but we've never seen it, because it was always on the other side of the sun. Not only is the planet the same size as Earth, but it will likely be able to sustain life.

"Yeah it's got water, oxygen, all that good stuff. And to imagine, it's been behind the sun all this time. Who knew?" said a totally legit scientist.

There are already plans to send a group of attractive youths there, to star in a reality show.