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  • 2010
    • June
      • The New and Improved Mari-Orange Studio
        06/30/10

        This latest page was brought to you by my new partner in crime, Murcot. As I'm sure you are all well aware, this lapse in page-making has been primarily due to the slow death of my old laptop (affectionately named Lemon). Well, thanks to the support of readers like you, I have been able t

    • May
      • Training anyone?
        05/17/10

        Hi to my all-too-patient viewers. In the likely event that some of you are unaware of what is going on, I have been having some computer problems over the past months. Basically, I have been without internet or a functioning OS since two months ago (long story). While this means that I have be

    • March
      • the Saints
        02/08/10

        It was a funny thing to be alone in my parents' house last night running back and fourth between the TV room and office in attempts to both watch the most historic football game in my hometown's history... and bring you the next page of Shizentai minus my poor recently deceased lapto

    • January
      • Shout-out to Crescent City Comics
        01/20/10


        Before my freshmen year of high school I had never opened a comic book or manga in my life. In fact, it wasn't until I lost my key and got locked out of my parents' house one day that I, upon wandering down Elysian Fields, discovered our neighborhood comic book store, Crescent

      • Sock Monkeys, Daifuku Mochi and a Happy New Year to All
        01/03/10

        Although the end of the decade is not technically untill December 31, 2010, I have spent the past week listening to several different "most notable music of the 00's" countdowns, dedicated to the period of time which has encompassed parts of my middle school, high school, colleg

  • 2009
    • November
      • A little bit of this, a little bit of that
        11/30/09

        For those of you who are enjoying the comic so far and just want a little more art to look over between updates, I think I should let you know that my deviantART account has a bunch of sketches from Shizentai, some sneak peek Communication Confusion goodies, poetry, photography, ceramics and i

      • How I spent Halloween 2009
        11/02/09
        Five words: New Orleanian Thriller Flash Mob

        Thrilla Guerillas Dancing infront of St. Louis Cathedral
        ...and a close-up of us dancing on Decatur in front of Molly's

        My sister is the brown-dressed Amish woman in the front right, My mom is the black-veiled zombie behind

    • October
      • The obligatory gi rant
        10/22/09
        You knew it was coming. It was only a matter of time before this blog turned to the only form of fashion in which traditional karate-ka indulge themselves while training. Having read much about different gi brands over the years I've found most karate uniform reviews fall short in three or more

    • September
      • In our blood
        09/17/09


        Though my French isn't good enough to know exactly why, it used to be a long-standing joke in my house that the meaning of our last name, "Baudier" was something akin to "one who rides donkies." However, due to my recent investigations on the internet, I have goo

    • August
      • miniatures
        08/20/09
        The other day I was going though boxes at my parents house, mostly full of decrepid childhood toys that survived Katrina somehow, but which have no functional place in my adult life. One of these was a set of nesting dolls which I got when we visited the traveling Romanov family history tour some su

    • July
      • The meaning of a belt
        07/27/09

        I own 4 karate belts. All others I either gave away to my kohai or lost in one hurricane or another, I don't really remember. Before I started training karate I assumed that a person's belts were like trophies which should be displayed proudly on one's wall, with the greater num

      • Dojo Shout-out #5: Iwabuchi Karate Kaikan
        07/16/09
        (Yes, isn't it wonderful that I'm all sweaty and tired looking in all of the photos I've put up here so far? Haha!)


        As it's been a while since my last shout-out, I feel it's only fitting to feature the dojo which inspired me to make this part of the blog and

    • June
      • What are you?
        06/29/09


        I wonder how many people out there have ever been asked this question. I've been told that I don't look like any specific race or nationality. I guess it bothers some people more than others, and that's probably why I get asked from time to time. As a kid I didn't rea

      • All South Karate Camp '09
        06/17/09

        Now that I have a moment to myself after rushing to get everything for issue 1 all print ready and uploaded, I would like to mention one of the most enjoyable karate camps I may have ever attended. As I mentioned a couple of blog entries ago, the camp was taught by Mikami Sensei, Osaka Sensei,

      • Shizentai is on Kidjutsu!
        06/12/09


        As we have now come to the conclusion of the very first chapter of Shizentai, I have decided to make it available on kidjutsu. For those of you who don't already know, kidjutsu is a collection of exclusively kid-friendly comics uploaded to one easy-to-browse website. Its purpose is

    • May
      • My art featured on Art Bloom
        05/25/09


        About a week ago I came across this really cool site. Basically, you can go there to look at art by various artists -but there's a catch: they have to put up some old and terrible work side by side with their more recent successful works. The purpose is to be a resource for inspirat

      • When my worlds colide
        05/05/09
        This past week I had the pleasure of spending time with my two good friends from Osaka. I was introduced to them through their nephew who I met when he was an exchange student at UNO about 8 years ago. He trained with me in my very first dojo and still trains in New Orleans with me under Mikami Sens

    • April
      • Tooth decay anyone?
        04/15/09

        This Easter was a pretty good one for me. Oddly enough, it looks like the majority of the eggs got died by yours truly. Typically this is a tradition one of my two sisters dominates... and I dare say they're much better at it than I am, but things just turned out really busy this year. It

      • Dojo Shout-out #4 - Louisiana Karate Association
        04/05/09


        Today, the day after the 45th annual All South Karate Championships, the longest unbroken annual karate tournament in the United States, I feel it is only fitting to acknowledge one of the most amazing people I have ever met. Though I have spoken of several dojo already in this blog, and

    • March
      • My day job
        03/02/09
        I can't believe I've been writing these blog entries for a year now without even mentioning what I do for a living. Well ladies and gentlemen, I study ants. Yes, that's right, ants. I got into it when I was an undergraduate student worker in an LSU entomology lab. Now I am a research

    • March
      • Dojo Shout-out #3: LSU Karate Club
        02/18/09

        This one goes out to my currently most frequented dojo. After I left Purdue in January 2006 I found myself in lovely Baton Rouge attending my third college: Louisiana State University. Since then whenever I'm in town I trained more here. LSU's sensei, Ricky Pampo (center) is a New Or

      • observations
        02/12/09
        "True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest,
        What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest..."

        That's got to be one of my favorite quotes of all time. It's from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism." In this work he discusses both the humerus h

      • Happy Birthday to Us!
        02/03/09
        Although it was in November 07 that Tele originally created the site, it wasn't until sometime in February 08 that the site was fully functioning and had any real content. So I decided a while ago to simply celebrate Shizentai's birthday and my birthday on the same day: February 3. So happ

    • January
      • A tournament to remember
        01/29/09

        The other day the weather was finally cold enough to put on my favorite green coat which was given to me by the Konishi family, relatives of my friend here in the states with whom I had the pleasure of visiting throughout my stay in Osaka. Now in the USA more than a year, I slipped my hand int

      • Hello, my name is Kaitlin and I have a flute problem
        01/19/09

        Some people are addicted to coffee, others to shoes, fast food, or any number of more serious things. As for me, I am a flute collector. Some of them are antique but most of them are new. A few are valuable but most aren't worth anything more than their sound. All in all I have over 30 di

      • Ringing in the New Year
        01/06/09
        This New Year's was a blast, and I am delighted to say that I spent my first wee hours of it with a handful of my dearest friends and family. I can't imagine a better ending or new beginning to any period of time regardless how long or short.

        I guess now is the time of year when

  • 2008
    • December
      • karate t-shirts
        12/17/08
        After you've trained in karate for a while, there are certain trends you begin to notice... like how gi pants are really comfy to sleep in, or that a toenail clipper can save hours of pain, or even that after a few years, your entire wardrobe is made up of karate-related chothes. I don't k

    • November
      • Dojo Shoutout #2: Ueda Sensei's dojo
        11/22/08


        During my last study abroad to Japan about one year ago I had the pleasure of training in a small dojo near Nagao station. The name of the dojo was 鶴見南支部. My sensei here in the states had given me an address and told be that the instructor there was goo

    • October
      • Halloween
        10/31/08


        As I sit here with around 60 minutes left of the holiday we call All Hallows Eve, I thought to my candy-stuffed, pizza-satiated self, this year's been a pretty good one. No offense to Japanese Halloween of course! You guys are really good at decorating for the occasion! It was just

      • Nationals
        10/18/08


        My last bout of undergraduate midterms is over! Thank goodness! I don't know how I did for most of them, but I know I at least passed... I think.

        As for the tournament, I had a blast. I got to hang out with my good friend Candy, practiced my shoddy formal Japanese with so

    • September
      • inside the mariorange studio
        09/26/08
        I love to watch the TV show "Inside the Actors Studio." I especially like the part where the actor is asked the famous "10 questions." They are far more revealing than the average questions most people seem to ask when meeting someone. For example "What's your favorite

      • bad day
        09/19/08

        So today, my apartment complex contacted me to tell me that we have one and a half weeks to find a new place to live. It seems that Gustav tore a hole in the roof, which caused rain to gather in the insulation above our ceiling, which caused mold to grow all over the ceiling, which resulted in

      • Dojo Shoutout! Purdue Challenge Karate Club!
        09/10/08

        I hope you guys up at Purdue don't mind terribly, but I'd like to take a moment to talk about how awesome you are.

        I had the wonderful opportunity of training with the Purdue Challenge Karate Club during my fall semester in 2005. Entering the semester two weeks late after

      • darn it all
        09/01/08
        For those of you who may have been looking forward to the grand reopening of Communication Confusion, or possibly another episode of Shizentai today...


        I apologize, but I'm about to turn off my computer, put it upstairs, cook all the raw food in the fridge and hope for the best

    • August
      • kitty face
        08/29/08

        Well boys and girls I would like to introduce you to the number one source of all chaos in my life. Her name is Boudin and she is half manx, a breed of cat that was once endemic to the British isles. They are born with varying degrees of taillessness and have shorter front legs and longer back

      • Tournament blues
        08/21/08


        As many of you know, in addition to spending my non-work/non-schooling time making web comics, I am also a karate-ka myself. In general, karate is probably the best possible means of self maintenance I can think of. I mean, it keeps me fit, gives me a source of self discipline (which alm