HAPPY EASTER!

BURGOS IS BACK with some cartoon style comics, including: Power Girl (sigh), wonderously busty Wonder Woman, 70s style Supergirl and Batgirl, and Power Girl (sigh) as a vampire.

AN ARTIST NAMED VATZ shows off a panel from his forthcoming LH-Art debut, on Wreck Shop's message boards. I like it--the quality at LH gets better and better over time.

AN INTERESTING STORY BY MERZ, on DtV, called Renee Armstrong: Smaller, Stronger, Faster, More.

A NEW CHARACTER BASED ON STEPHANIE, available on Renderosity. There's nudity. I think she's really cute. Here's another.

NOMDRESERV posted a new world-switch FMG story, called Switch.

LOVE CHILD, by Andrew Neiderman, is now in my possession. From page 113:

In the darkness she ran her hands over her body. Her bosom had more lift and fullness, her shoulders and arms were rounder, firmer, and the little softness and chubbiness in her lower stomach and thighs was gone again. Her body was undergoing some kind of change even while she sat here.

MORE SILICON DOLLS: The Superbabe 2000 expanding bosom model, which can be ordered here. I sure am glad they have a winch...thingie...to solve that pesky storage problem I was worried about. You would have to be some kind of loser to spend $6000 on this.

I SAW A WOMAN TODAY who was the inspiration for one of the characters in The Amazon Artifact. I wrote that story six years ago, and I dated her eight years ago. Today I was walking through the Village, and all of a sudden realized the women coming toward me was "Alex." The last time I saw her was autumn, 1994, right where Jenny finds her. We passed on the sidewalk and said nothing.

LEEE ALSO MORPHS HALLE, here. He writes, "Your posted image of Halle seemed a natural for some morphing....Sorry I couldn't resist! :)" I might take a shot at that image, too! And what is it about Halle Berry that makes her such an inviting morph target?

THE NEW YORK TIMES says the Web isn't fun anymore, and that there aren't any good sites anymore. I'd agree that the Web isn't novel anymore, but I never have trouble finding Web content to amuse and entertain myself. (You'll need to have a NYT userid to get that story, but it's free.)

A QUICKIE MORPH by yours truly.

LEST YOU THINK I AM DOWN ON HALLE: Look at this photo. Can you believe she's going to be 34? She has the bosom of a goddess.

NICE SUM UP OF THE OSCARS, by Ann Coulter:

I tuned in late and consequently can speak only to the last three hours of Halle Berry's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards last Sunday...

...Yes, at long last, the "glass ceiling" had been broken. Large-breasted, slightly cocoa women with idealized Caucasian features finally have a chance in Hollywood! They will, however, still be required to display their large breasts for the camera and to discuss their large breasts at some length with reporters.

If you ain't on the right, you won't like this piece, btw. But I think she's got her analysis pretty straight.

BURGOS POSTED SOME NEW STUFF, but nothing that knocked my socks off. Check here.

HOWARD THE DUCK?? I like it!! (Nudity, breast growth) Can't believe this is in a mainstream comic. Missed it at the newsstand, will have to check tomorrow.

NEW COMICS DAY! One bit of femuscle in Wonder Woman #179. Garganta is back, and built like....well...like a giant muscular woman.

PHILADELPHIA CATCHES MAXIM: Leave those rats nowhere to hide!

REAL DOLL, for those of you who have never seen the site, manufactures life-like sex dolls. As posted below, apparently the neighbors of some German sicko thought he was toting a woman's body around--I'm sure they're much relieved to learn it was just a three-holed sex doll rendered in life-like silicon. Can you imagine laying down six grand for one of these things? I mean, sure, if they were $100 we'd all own one, but $6000 is a lot of money for something you've absolutely got to hide very throroughly when company comes over. And I can remember performing CPR on Resusci-Annie in high school--it was sufficiently unpleasant that the idea of whipping out a tube of KY jelly and humping her second cousin fails to raise my interest. We FMG guys may be a little off, but at least we screw real girls!

VISITOR STATS:

2002-03-19: 289
2002-03-20: 337
2002-03-21: 394
2002-03-22: 329
2002-03-23: 298
2002-03-24: 280
2002-03-25: 451

THE DANGER OF OWNING A "REAL DOLL": "When the officers then told the man they were investigating a murder he showed them his newly acquired silicon sex doll," the spokeswoman said.

TWO NICE PICTURES OF BRITNEY, courtesy of the BEArchive (1, 2).

I LIKE THIS ONE, TOO.

AND ANOTHER JAPANESE WOMAN, damn near exploding out of her top. Japanese potential bikini top explosions can be our theme for this message.

I LOVE THE JAPANESE. After this photo, I must express my admiration and amusement. It's just a funny picture.

AMAZONS ARENA STILL EXISTS!! Get a load of this HTML train wreck. Some people shouldn't be allowed to learn javascript.

BURGOS DID A BIG DUMP: He keeps checking the "Buy it Now!" box that lets people buy the artwork at less than it would go at auction, damn his charitable soul! Anyway, lots of good stuff, including a female Captain Marvel, Red Monica, She-Hulk, Wonder Woman, Evil Wonder Woman, yet another Wonder Woman, Lara Croft, and Tomorrow Woman.

The female Captain Marvel looks a bit like the character of Black Ada I created a few months ago and posted at the Mary Marvel Yahoo! Club--especially the thunderbolt tattoo on her forehead. Hmmmm...

FFEJL POSTS A STORY TO DIANA THE VALKYRIE: The Making of Melissa, which goes back to 1995 or 1996, is available again. According to Rob000 on the DtV Muscle Growth board, this story was first posted on the old Amazons Arena BBS--a dial-up bulletin board in Texas that migrated to the Web in the mid-90s.

I eschewed Amazons Arena because some of my stories showed up there (and on CDs sold from the site) without attribution. Of course you all know I would never hold a grudge. Back then Usenet and FTP sites rivaled Web sites for distribution of FMG material--not that there was much of it.

AND WHAT DID THIS LITTLE FELLA do to merit an amazon wife like this?

HALLE SHOWING A LITTLE BICEPS ACTION.

WHO IS LAURA HARRING? I think I'm in love. I didn't think they made movie stars like this anymore. Wow. I'm gonna have to go rent Mulholland Drive. Plus she's apparently the Countess von Bismarck--no torpedo jokes, boys.

3M NEXCARE BAND-AIDS ROCK. Your only problem will be figuring out how to get them off. Somehow they manage to practically fuse to the skin--but when you do manage to slip a fingernail under the damned thing, it comes right off, with no pain. I can't figure it out.

SIDNEY POITIER named his daughter "Sydney Poitier"? That's a bit much. Did anybody catch any femuscle at the Oscars? I didn't.

OFF-TOPIC, but funny as all hell.

MAYBE MUSCLE GRAFTS NEXT? Interesting story.

A SITE A FRIEND SENT ME a while ago...very interesting. I was aware of these women but didn't know about their Website.

THE VERY BEAUTIFUL RACHEL WEISZ talking about all the physical labor involved in making Enemy at the Gates, and how it made her muscles get bigger. I always thought she was pretty muscular to begin with. Don't you think? And this? I mean, I'm not suggesting she enter the Ms. Universe contest, but she's definitely got fairly thick, very toned arms.

A WEIRD LITTLE ITALIAN SITE I found, which has weird celebrity muscle morphs.

ACTUALLY, THE RIAA is not a bunch of "do-gooders". It is, instead, a cartel of fat cats using strong-arm tactics, illegitimate influence over legislatures and courts, and general intimidation to preserve a distribution channel--and an industry--that has been made as obsolete as buggy-whip manufacturers. Not nearly as bad as do-gooders, of course, but still very stinky.

I RECEIVED A MESSAGE ON WEDNESDAY from Ben, which read in full:

after trying out the new morpheus I have come to the conclusion that it is a piece of shit. I suggest you Download the hacked version of Kazaa Kazaa lite which is exactly like the old morpheus and is much more stable and well, useable, than the new Morpheus. get it Here:
http://cleanclients.tripod.com/kazaa.html

After a few days considering Ben's thoughts, I have come to the conclusion that he is not entirely correct. To call the new Morpheus client a "piece of shit" is to inflate its value. It is a piece of spyware, adware, pop-up spawning mediocre code doubtless composed by a below-normal-IQ drooling troglodyte in the employ of the RIAA that in addition to being all but useless also seems somehow to cause some kind of packet collision problem (a guess) downstream on my DSL line. So to hell with it. I would add to Ben's suggestion that you can download the purified Kazaa code at these two sites:

http://www.kazaalite.tk/

http://www.refosearch.tk/

Expeditiously, before the do-gooders strike with their weapon of choice: the cease and desist order.

RAYG0920 POSTED A NEW MORPH at Wreck-Shop's site--here it is. One of the very cool things about this morph is that it contains Stephanie elements taken from Poser, which makes it less a morph than a composite. Cool, either way.

MY FAVORITE NEWSGROUP, alt.binaries.tv.shaggable.babes, has a picture of our favorite little popstar muscle girl, Britney Spears, that really shows off her muscular shoulders. The message is titled, "britney bare nipple in french mag."--for the life of me I can't see the nipple, but the shoulders look terrific.

POWER GIRL (sigh) drawing on eBay.

FFEJL WRITES:

Hi Lingster,
Drquatro got it almost right.

The Truth ads are funded by The American Legacy Foundation. The foundation was created in 1999 as part of a settlement between the tobacco companies and a bunch of states that were sueing them for things like the cost of state-paid health care for people hurt by smoking.

The Foundation is completely funded by money from the tabacco industry (i.e. smoking profits) and was specifically created to educate people about the evils of smoking, in part by creating and running anti-smoking ads. The tobacco companies got one *major* concession from the states, though: The foundation isn't supposed to portray the companies as bad guys. They can talk all they want about the dangers of smoking, make smoking look uncool, etc., but they aren't supposed to say "tobacco companies are evil." These days, in fact they're doing exactly that and
the tobacco companies are pissed. Pissed enough that I think there are some lawsuits going on.

So, as you guessed, the money is actually spent by a bunch of do gooders. The Board of Directors is all a bunch of politicians and college professors, and the President is another academic type, noted in her biography for having "[written] a chapter on cessation and smoking policy in the recently published Treatment of the Hard Core Smoker."

I first found out about all this from one of the online Magazines, either Salon or Slate. I got the specifics from thethruth.com and americanlegacy.org.

Best,
FfejL

Thanks, FfejL!! I knew it had to be those damned do-gooders--I can smell those people ten yards off. (Especially the ones who wear patchouli.)

I MISS GAUGES: My car--which I bought about 18 months ago--has a digital mileage indicator. So tonight, when I hit 15,000 miles, the occasion was marked by a sudden, silent blip from 14999 to 15000. I miss the gauge. I miss watching the wheels slowly turn over to indicate the arrival of milestones.

I GOT A FEW RESPONSES on the TRUTH stuff, the most complete from Drquatro:

The truth campaign started a few years ago when the
federal government decreed (heh) that a certain
tobacco company had to spend a certain amount of of
it's income and educational PSAs. I'm not sure which
one it was, my memory is a little fuzzy... Acutally
quite fuzzy.... Anyway, they used to put there name
at the end of each add.

This of course was a couple years before the rest of
the tobbacco industry had to put out PSAs. Now,
almost in retaliation for having to take a chunk out
of their own business before the other companies, the
adds are becoming, as you noted, even more erratic.

They were even sued (pending) over their add comparing
dog crap to cigarettes. There was a news article I
had on this, I'll see if I can dig it up.

I believe that the tobacco companies may be paying for this, but I doubt they have any control over content. My guess is that content is controlled by a trust of do-gooders that receive the funds and then disperse to another group like the Ad Council that makes the silly things. Then they enter them in a contest and hope to win a Cleo, or something.

A NUDE RENDER using Victoria, not Stephanie.

BLOGSPOT FTP seems to be down, so today's posts aren't showing up. I'll try again later.

"TRUTH", some sort of anti-tobacco do-gooder group, had a PSA during ElimiDATE. There are a lot of good reasons not to smoke--and I don't--but it irks me that TRUTH would be, well, untruthful about it. TRUTH used to be all about attacking tobacco companies (a coincidence, no doubt, that at the same time the Democratic National Committee was trying to use tobacco company campaign donations to taint Republicans). These days TRUTH comes up with PSAs that seem designed more to win awards than convince anybody not to smoke. One I recently saw had a man wearing a rat costume pretend to die outside a subway stop in Manhattan, holding a sign that said cigarettes contain cyanide, "just like rat poison". I'm sure it's true that there are a few parts per billion of cyanide in cigarettes, just as there is in most plant matter that people eat (don't eat fruit pits and seeds, btw--mucho cyanide!), but my understanding is that most rat poison has as its "active agent" arsenic or strychnine, not cyanide. So they lied on both sides of the equation! Cigarettes contain only tiny trace amounts of cyanide, and cyanide is not commonly used as rat poison! LIES, and for what?

These do-gooders are always taking things too far--one year they're talking up the proletariat, couple years later they've killed off a big chunk of it and put another big chunk in Siberian work camps.

I WATCHED THE SECOND ELIMIDATE that aired in NYC last night, just now. In this one, a Nashville police officer was set up with four Hooters Restaurant girls. The cop is just an embarrassment to his department--If I lived in Nashville, I'd be perturbed enough to write a letter to the mayor. The girls were pretty bland, although one of them was really tall and athletic--though when she flexed there wasn't much there. Another was a cute little blonde with boobs that were both real and big. I don't recall this show being skanky the last time I saw it, a few months ago. It's definitely drifted downstream.

ELIMIDATE WASN'T BAD! The show began with four women: a deliciously busty but bitchy real estate agent, a very pretty, demure red-head, a personal trainer who reminded me a bit of the Lady Chablis from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and a powerfully muscled circus acrobat. Of course the acrobat was the first one cut. One of the other girls said, "I don't think he wants a girl who can bench press more than he can." And by the look of her, she probably could have benchpressed not just MORE than him, but twice as much--maybe his bodyweight plus his bench. In the end, he picked the same one I would have--the red-headed Tracy.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED shows a two-page "Leading Off" photo of the Jones/Harding fight--Tonya's muscles look quite impressive. It's right near the front in the Baseball 2002 Preview issue.

IDIOT ME: I've been squinting at my monitor the last two days, wondering if my eyes were going. Then I realized that I still had it sized at 1280x1024 from making that movie. Now it's back at 1152x864, which is much better. I'll probably go with a smaller frame when making the next one, just so we can make it long without it being a prohibitively large file.

RED ALERT!! RED ALERT!! ElimiDATE tonight features a circuit acrobat named Danielle who says, "I have bigger muscles...than most of the guys I meet..." Thanks to oash444 on Boomer's Celebrity Flexing board at DtV for spotting this! ElimDATE broadcast map.

LEEE WRITES (following some chit-chat):

I also noticed there's been a lot of attention about the new Stephanie model. And I wanted to let you know that AltaWoman is now partially based on Stephanie. (I kept Victoria's head and put it on Stephanie). She has much more defined muscles. Anyway you can check out her new look at my site. The new model is only on the cover and one picture in the gallery, but the rest of the stories will feature the NEW AltaWoman!

It looks pretty good! Check here.

I AM NEVER BUYING MAXIM AGAIN, even if they put Alyssa Milano on the cover. This story just pisses me off in a way that is completely irrational but very, very heartfelt. To paraphrase The People vs. Larry Flynt, "Boys, Maxim is mocking you!"

THOSE BASTARDS! The Survivor wankers voted out the lovely and munificently abundant Sarah! Let's see if I have this straight--you're stuck on an island for weeks on end, without enough to eat, being made to run endless competitions with another "tribe", a beautiful woman is deposited amongst your tribe, and the first chance you get, you get rid of her? Idiots!

I'VE BEEN DOING THIS for over two months now, and there have been over 15,000 visits. At first I spent a lot of time on it, but now I just log in once or twice a day and record thoughts or links I've found. And the traffic seems to have plateaued around 300 visits a day. I think it works.

WYRMMASTER is also working on a kluge for 3D Stephanie's limited breast geometry, which in turn limits realistic depiction of large boobs. Nudity.

WYRMMASTER'S VAMPIRE: This is so cool. (By the way, anybody see that IBM TV ad with the middle aged manager attacking the use of the world "cool" by one his young techies, to describe a new purchasing system? "'Cool' is why my son needs new sneakers every month. 'Cool' is why my daughter has green hair. 'Cool' is why her boyfriend has a bolt through his nose. 'Cool' costs me money!" I love that!)

MORE ON LUBA #6: Love and Rockets Comics go back about 20 years (link 1, 2, 3, 4; Salon article), and to my mind what's best about it isn't the terrific storylines or characters, so much as that the characters CHANGE. They get older. Time passes! Superman, for instance, is the same age he was in 1938. Beetle Bailey has been a private in the Army since the Korean War. Archie Andrews is still in high school. Booooooring!

When we first met Petra Martinez, about ten years ago, she was a fabulous, gorgeous, big-chested blonde known only as "the doctor's sister". "The doctor" was her fabulous, gorgeous, big-chested brunette psychoanalyst sister. They were in their late 20s, today they're probably in the their middle or late 30s. Petra has had two kids, two marriages, and a breast reduction after her boobs got bigger after each pregnancy. After the surgery she began working out with weights, and a few years later, she's really big. Gilbert (Beto) Hernandez is definitely drawing her bigger this issue than in the past--she's got tremendously muscular arms, now. Some great lines from this month's issue:

Hector's friends: "The Martinez sisters are legend, Hector. Dating one of them is as easy as winning a billion dollar lottery."
Hector, to himself while meeting Petra: "Jesus Christ! Her biceps are as big as my head!"
Petra's daughter Venus, advising Hector before his first date with her mother, "Don't get scared, Hector, but Mom dresses, uh, kinda young for her age. She likes to show off her big giant balloon muscles."
Petra, explaining her bodybuilding to Hector, "My legs are naturally really big, so I built up my upper body, especially my arms, to balance myself out, y'know?"
Hector, musing to himself, "My tired depression lifts in her exquisite, amazonic presence."

It's a great comic--look in the adult section of your local comics specialty store, or buy it online at Fantagraphics Books.

THE MOVIE IS POSTED. It is available under the "Files" section of the Yahoo! Female Muscle Growth II Group, and also on Morpheus. Give the first a shot and then the second. The filename is "FMG-shegrows.AVI". It's only a few seconds long, and just a taste of what's possible with the new Stephanie model. I promise to experiment more.

NEW COMICS BONANZA!! Wheeee! The comics are bursting with femuscle today! A list:

Haven #4, superstrong and muscular "Nia" on the cover and throughout the issue.

Gen 13 #75, Kind of disappointed with the new artist, but lots of Caitlin being super-strong.

Supergirl #68, no muscle, but features Supergirl and Mary Marvel beating the crap out of each other,

Thing/She-Hulk: The Long Night, kind of disappointing, but there are a few good shots of the She-Hulk. She keeps her jacket on for the first half of the book, which is disappointing.

JSA #34, Paydirt! Power Girl (sigh) is looking beefier than ever, and even brags that she's stronger than Captain Marvel!

Luba #6, a Love and Rockets comic, Gilbert Hernandez is drawing Petra more thickly muscled than ever, and she's flexing all over the book--especially at the end when she's sitting astride her weaker male lover, with her arms raised in a double-biceps pose. She's terrific!

NEW COMICS DAY! Update to follow this afternoon.

3D MODEL STEPHANIE as athletic big-cat trainer, and as topless muscular centerfold sword maiden.

THE GROWTH MOVIE turned out pretty good, for the simple little ditty it is--it took about 3 hours to render, less than I expected. I'll add bumpers and credits tonight, compress it and put it up on Morpheus, right off. I will also try to upload it to the FMG2 group at Yahoo!, but I expect that downloads will overwhelm the limited allocated bandwidth for the group. I ask that if you do download it and have broadband, please leave it in your Morpheus shared file folder so that other people can get at it. If 15 different Morpheus clients are offering it, it will be much easier to get than if it's just my lone Morpheus client. I will update the blog when it's ready to go. I used 24 frames per second, by the way, less than the 30 Poser normally uses, but equal to that employed in the making of Ice Age.

OFF-TOPIC, BUT FUNNY: The Dialectizer. What a hoot!

ARIJA BAREIKIS from Fox's new show, The American Embassy, has nicely toned arms. I watched the show last night--kind of a cross between Ally McBeal and The Innocents Abroad. In some scenes you could see that she's spent a fair amount of time hitting the weights. I recognized her from The Myth of Fingerprints, a weird little indy film I saw four or five years ago at the Angelika in NYC. (Oh, for the salad days when I took weird little art chicks with purple hair and black-rimmed glasses to "films" at the Angelika.)

I WASN'T FIRED. Last night I was on some heavy-duty flu meds--maybe they made me a little paranoid? Right now I'm working on a simple Poser growth movie starring the new Stephanie model--just one camera shot, 3 seconds long. She starts as fairly slight and becomes, well, "Wreck Shop" muscular. It's a deep render, in terms of the texture and lighting I'm using--that 3 seconds could take 5 or 6 hours to render. So I'll leave the computer to do it overnight. Any idea as to where I could host it? Maybe the FMG2 Yahoo group? I'll look around this evening--hopefully I can compress it to less than 1MB.

SOMEBODY ELSE is using the new Stephanie model to make muscle girls. Check here. It's a little dirty, by the way.

HAVE YOU EVER HAD one of those realizations, where it suddenly strikes you that you're in deep shit? A set of circumstances emerged late today, which suddenly caused me to suspect that I'm going to be fired tomorrow. Ouch, huh?

ROB W. WRITES, regarding the "Bardot" video:

The animation was originally created by Momentum Studios (www.momentumanimations.com) for a music video for the group Bardot (they were the group from the first season of Aussie Popstars). The song kinda sucked tho. and tanked in the charts. The animation company decided to take the footage and re-edit it with new music and sound effects as a test reel for a proposed TV series/movie spin-off of the characters.

Long story short, they are currently in pre-production for Galaxy Girls, a CGI movie about a group of four female musicians who moonlight as superheroes.

Are we networked here at Riiip!!, or what?

DAVID ANNAND brought this product to my attention--and this movie is really cool, though it's pretty big.

DIGITAL AMAZONS added two new movies today. One of them is really--I mean REALLY--odd. I can only imagine how much work it takes to do movies like that--I don't know if he used motion capture or coded it from scratch--but they're impressive. I like how the Japanese muscle girl gainax bounces.

MARKNEW SAYS Marissa is not based on that girl I mentioned, but on a girl from his past. A little self-importance goes a long way, but this time I got nailed.

GO SEE ICE AGE. I saw it this evening, and it's terrific. Very funny, and if you know anything about 3D modeling...well...I'm still trying to figure out how they did some of those scenes.

KUNG FU FIGHTING A GORILLA: I don't know how I missed this render before. Nudity.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

WHEN KEYWORD SEARCHES FAIL: This amusing news story showed up in keyword search gone awry.

THEY'RE STILL ALIVE? Don't mean to turn this into a celebrity blog, but get a load of the guest list at the freaky Liza Minelli wedding. I thought most of these people were dead.

GAIL EDWARDS: I had such a crush on her, growing up.

GALVATRON is a funny guy.

ANOTHER RENDER: I call this one "Office Muscle Girl".

And since I raised the subject, have any of you ever worked with a female bodybuilder? For two years in the mid-90s I had an assistant who was a female bodybuilder! She was very petite, but the body on this girl was just incredible. I used to write to Marknew about her all the time--I suspect that she was the model for Marissa in his story "The Good Witch", but I could be wrong. I even found a picture of her online once, flexing. I myself never asked her to flex, though sometimes when people in our office would go out drinking I'd steal a quick grab of her upper arm. She loved it--she'd ask if I thought that it was attractive for her to be so muscular, and I'd say, "It's sexy as all hell."

As I was coming home this afternoon, my next-door neighbor's daughter came running out of the house--she's a college student, 20 or 21 years old. And she's on the college dance team. The last time I saw her in tight-fitting clothing, maybe in September or so, I was struck by how muscular she'd gotten. She was wearing a halter top today, and she's gotten significantly bigger. Don't get me wrong, this is a girl who is probably 5'3", 115 pounds. She's not huge--but she's got biceps that now bulge--a lot--all the time, whether she's straining them or not. And her breasts have gotten bigger, too, and that's saying something. I cannot wait for the summer. Agewise, she's at the bottom of my range--but with a body like that I'd make an exception in a second. And her mother's pushing 50 and still looks terrific.

ROB SMITH WRITES:

It's probably out of print, but see if you can find Love Child, by Andrew
Neiderman. My paperback was published by Tor Horror and has a 1986
copyright. It's about a young woman who grows to about 7 feet or so (and
very muscular) whenever she gets sexually aroused. Turns out the legends
about the Amazons weren't all false... Quite a few good growth sequences.
I've in fact owned the book since 1986 (bought it in a gift shop while
waiting for a bus). I've been an amazon/giantess fan since well before
that. I still remember a Superfriends episode where a Dr. Amy Zonn, went
bonkers and grew to 50ft tall. Or when some glowing gas turned Wonder Woman
into a giant she-hulk-like creature. And I remember the Plasticman episode
where Penny grabbed a meteorite and got huge. Anyone else remember those?

OK, I remember all the cartoon references, but I've never heard of the book before. The Plastic Man episode was the best of the bunch, in my opinion. Rich, from DtV, had a lot to say about that episode when I mentioned it a few months ago on the muscle growth board. A bunch of used copies of the Neiderman book are for sale on Amazon.

I've written about this before, but while I always liked the She-Hulk, and even as a small boy remember stuffing cotton balls into the sleeves of my sister's Barbie dolls to give them muscles, I didn't have a sexual reaction to FMG until I was well into my teens. I had drawn a few pictures of the She-Hulk going through a transformation, and then began doing pull-ups on a bar that was mounted on my bedroom door. After doing a bunch, I was struggling to raise myself one more time when a feeling of absolutely euphoria and strength came over me. It was an orgasm. After than I began drawing every night. Haha.

AND SETH WRITES:

Hey, you know me, I'm into the comics- I thought I'd mention that you
might want to let people know that the cover is by Dale Eaglesham and
Rodney Ramos, and not Brandon Badeaux. No biggie though.
So on the martyrdom front, can we ever expect to see any continuation
of MMAC, or a bit more on the teaser of a piece known as Pig Latin? :)

I don't think so. I mainly wrote stories when I didn't have to write much in my job. Now I have more than enough writing on my plate, thank you very much. (If I get laid off before finding another job, then I may possibly write more.) I'm glad you liked them.

MARKNEW writes to note that Boomer got some Tonya Harding screencaps.

ANOTHER NEW RENDER: I was fooling around--it's kind of a joke. But the girl with the muscles is nice to look at, all the same. This took about 5 hours to make--so it's time to go to bed, now.

TOM BURGOS hasn't posted any new auctions to eBay in a week. I wonder if he's working on a big dump?

NUDE RENDER OF STEPHANIE, the new model from DAZ3D.

BY THE WAY, I'm a walking zombie today from lack of sleep. Not to make a martyr of myself, but what other purveyor of material in this genre has ever put his physical well-being at risk in order to rush new stuff into your hot little hands? Huh?

COMICS MUSCLE ALERT: This new Brandon Badeaux guy on Green Lantern has a serious liking for femuscle. He draws Jen, the girl Green Lantern, pretty bulked up. Even when she's wearing street clothes, the sleeves are stretched over her upper arms. So I was kind of impressed--here's the cover.

Also, while I was in Forbidden Planet today, a guy who claimed to be Ken Knudtsen, creator of "My Monkey's Name is Jennifer" came in and wanted to thank Jeff, one of the guys at Forbidden Planet, for making his comic the pick of the week. I'm of two minds on this one--#1, if I wrote a comic with that name, I'm not sure I'd want anybody to know my real name, much less what I looked like. (Note that as author of such classics of bad fetish literature as "Mighty Morphin' Amazon Cheerleaders" and "The Amazon Artifact", I have kept my real name/face from all but three or four of my readers--not that it would take a whole lot of effort for any of you to figure out my identity.) #2 Going around and promoting the comic, despite its silly name, and moreover thanking those who are also promoting it, is probably the best way to take a weird comic with an odd name into a real success, thus furthering young Ken's ambition of being able to actually MAKE MONEY writing and drawing comics. I guess I'd endure a little embarrassment for a little money. Anyone interested in producing a major motion picture release of any of my stuff should feel free to contact me at the email address above.

MY FIRST SHOT with the new model is here. Now I have to get to bed--I'm due on a 7:15 train and need to sleep.

OK, SPORTS FANS: DAZ3D has just released a new 3D model that's built off the mesh of the Michael 2 model. Why is this important? Because Michael 2 has the geometry to look like this. Now, I'm not saying it's going to be possible to make the girl as extremely muscular as that while maintaining things like, say, breasts, but I'm going to give it my best shot. They have released one topless shot of her muscularized as part of the product promo. What's interesting here isn't the size, but the detail. What we have here is a female model with realistic definition of very specific muscle groups--and that's not something we've ever had before.

TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC BUT BREATHAKINGLY HILARIOUS: If you don't have broadband, it may take hours to download, but damnit, it's funny.

WEB STATS:

Lingster's Blog had a total of 2294 visitors last week.

Visitors for last week divided per weekday:
2002-03-05: 332
2002-03-06: 322
2002-03-07: 397
2002-03-08: 283
2002-03-09: 244
2002-03-10: 395
2002-03-11: 321

FISTMAN has set up a new Yahoo! Group, called Her Biceps. Marknew got me started on keyphrase searching a few years ago, and it's obvious that Fistman also does it--periodic searches for "her biceps" on Google always turn up results. Lots of very nice pictures at this group.

THERE IS A GOD. And he hath finally spoken.

AND MY POOR ATTEMPT AT PROFUNDITY: Last week, I was talking to someone about my lingering feelings of guilt about 9/11--guilt that I strolled out of the WTC at 8:30am, 15 minutes before the first plane hit, and watched the events unfold from several blocks away, unscathed. She asked if after 9/11 I had become a better person or a worse person--and my response was that I had clearly become a worse person. And when she asked why, I explained that not only have I become thirsty for the blood of the perpetrators of this atrocity, but that I am thirsty for the blood of their wives, their parents and their children--I want all trace of them eliminated from existence. Also, the dancing in the street throughout the Islamic world made me wonder if we are really at war with Islam, and if our approach perhaps should be to level their holy sites, deconstruct their religion using the tools of modernity, and generally reflect the contempt they have shown us, and show how much more weight our contempt carries.

Maybe these extraordinarily hate-filled thoughts will fade from my mind eventually, but then again maybe they shouldn't. Maybe we should Remember Ground Zero for the rest of our lives, and do what we can to undermine those nations who played roles in this attack, and their religion. Maybe pitiless loathing is the best choice.

Delenda est Carthago.

I WOUND UP watching the rest of it after all.

THIS 9/11 DOCUMENTARY IS TOO MUCH. Jesus Christ. I can't watch anymore of it now--feels like somebody punched me in the head. I'm taping it--watch it later. The memory that it brought back, most strongly, was of the failure of the phone system. I was so desperately trying to find my sister as the buildings were burning--as I was WATCHING THEM BURN. And cell was dead, and even land lines were overloaded. Finally the email came--she had made it to work in Midtown, and had taken the 33rd St. PATH instead of the WTC PATH, which I'd taken. And then they fell.

IN CASE ANYBODY WAS WONDERING why Sophia Loren became famous.

ATTACK OF THE 60 FT. CENTERFOLD, going for $10 on DVD at Amazon.com. The lead in that movie, J. J. North, used to own a comic book store in Brick, NJ, right across from one of the high schools (I always get them confused--one is "Brick High School" and the other is "Brick Memorial High School". Lotta creativity on that school board, huh?). So her assets are as follows:

very good-looking

stacked

likes comics

played a beauty contestant who drank a formula to increase her bust and wound up growing to 60ft in height (nudity).

It was a bitch figuring out which comic book store was hers--I recall reading an article in a schlock fandom magazine about the movie, and she offered her comic book shop as proof of her forward-looking good sense and upward mobility (heh). But my research showed that at the time (1995) there were at least four comic book shops in Brick! Luckily, the second one I walked into was filled with J. J. North memorabilia, thus bringing a resolution to my quest. Feigning ignorance, I struck up a conversation with the manager/clerk, something to the effect of "What's with all these big-boob B-movie posters on the walls?" He explained that his sister was the petite blonde with the most bodacious bosom of the bunch, and that he had been left in charge while she went to Hollywood to pursue stardom. I never did get to meet her, and a few months later the store closed--I recall that the "Gone out of business" sign was somehow obnoxious, but can't remember exactly what it said.

AND LOOK AT THIS. How is it that this woman never showed up on Baywatch?

THAT BRITISH NEWSGROUP, alt.binaries.tv.shaggable.babes, yesterday featured a woman named Tatjana Simic. Wow! No muscle to speak of, but what a rack! I love women in terry cloth robes. In this picture she looks kind of like Halle Berry turned Slavic and blessed with some extra flesh all over, don't you think? Also, here's a link to an unofficial Website, with some nudity.

NEW CELL PHONE: You know how the instructions always say to fully charge the phone before you use it? Well, I didn't. The phone burned through the whole battery in just over one day, when it should last four days. So I let it drain all the way in the hope that a full recharge from zero will "reset" it. Batteries are mysterious things.

GALVATRON STILL BUSY: Look at the mammary glands he stuck on JLH!!

RAYG0920 WRITES:

Thought I'd give you a ping and a thanks for
mentioning the Hannah image on your blog page. A few
more images I'd happened across over the ages demanded
the chocolate-peanutbutter treatment this morning, and
the result has been posted to the FMG2 group album:
"Willow the Buff Vampire Slayer". All in fun, as
always.

Maybe the writers of Buffy will decide Ms. Hannigan's
character has become powerful enough to hulk herself
out; I haven't seen but one episode of the series, but
from what I hear about it, it wouldn't be a rupture of
continuity, cohesion or tone for them to do it.. In
the meantime, just the stuff of rabid imagination (at
least until such time as one of us gets enough mastery
to pull off motion effects) :)

Cheers

For those of you who don't phool with Photoshop, it might be hard to appreciate the quality of the work Ray G. is doing here. Please note consistent depth in the image--the head and body have similar pixels per inch scale, and even more important is the consistent skin coloration and tone between the head and body. Also, Miss Hannigan's hair protrudes realistically over the hyper-muscled body to which her head has been attached. All in all, a very nice piece of work.

Plus it's sexy as hell.

FISTMAN's board at DtV has some very nice muscle pics listed today and yesterday.

I JUST DISCOVERED an artist on Renderosity named "Maira". She has a number of renders and products for sale that show athletic, busty or muscular women. This one's my favorite. She's really competent with whatever post-work editing tools she uses.

JANET JACKSON and her abs, from USA Today.

CELEBRITY BOXING: I have to admit, I liked it better when it was going to be Tonya Harding vs. Amy Fisher. Tonya and Amy deserve each other--and Amy actually SHOT someone, so she deserves to get her lights knocked out. But Paula Jones is to my mind a figure of heroic proportions, and that she needs to do this to make a living while someone like, say, Anita Hill is earning big bucks is a little troubling. Granted, Anita Hill is an attorney and Paula Jones was just a low-level bureaucrat, but one was embraced by the media, and enjoyed speaking fees and exaggerated professional success as her reward, while the other one is living in modest circumstances and agrees to make a mockery of herself on TV for a few bucks. James Carville called this one right--not about dragging a $20 bill through a trailer park--but about Paula being no better off for her claims in the long term.

MARKNEW WRITES:

I'm thrilled to see that my favorite celebrity badgirl biceps busting blond is back in the news. First one with a link to a picture or video showing Tonya Harding flexing her muscles -- if she still has them -- gets my thanks. So far, this is the best I can do. http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20020307/capt.1015476693.celebrity_boxing_carm102.jpg

VERY FUNNY, but off-topic.

BLOGGER was down when I tried to post this morning from home, but you really don't want to miss these. Go to the BEArchive and check the free site user gallery for two morphs done by Galvatron. One of the morphs is of a voluptuous girl who's been posted unmorphed to BEA for the last week or so, and he morphed her into the She-Hulk. The other is a breast morph of Jennifer Love Hewitt, but the picture he chose to do it with makes the morph very amusing. I love Galvatron's stuff. I'd provide the links directly, but I'm at work and, uh, well...you understand. There's a lot of nudity at that site, btw.

NOTE USE OF WORD "FORMER": Whew. Talk about over. At least she can afford liposuction now.