*arm shoots up in air* Gonterman Squad Lt Art Slave checking in! (Negaduck is General ;))
Me me me! Though I'm not a 'fan'...Gontie DOES have 'fans', but they're the sort of people who have pudding for brains and very low standards. I am more an....Observer. Yesssss... *steeples fingers together, rotates chair around*

Yyyyup. Looks like chocolate mousse on the surface, but one dig of the spoon reveals the crap is still there.
I think he has honed his coping mechanism to just ignoring any outside opinion and withdrawing into a little 'I am but a lowly dreamer. So was Walt' world.
Walt was at least smart enough to hand his characters over to some COMPETENT artists ;p.

That reminds me, Negaduck, I MUST finish Mysting Night Soldiers....*I* wish he'd update MYstic Mice, you can't BUY that kind of grandeur-delusion! <laugh>

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They just *had* to name that kitty Lilly, didn't they? Hey, I'm not neutered or spayed, but I don't spray either, dammit! (Any other promises of good behavior are specious at best.)

Otherwise, me be with much love for the kitty pix from alls 'n sundry. Zef, dunno why I thought you had a black girl cat--clearly my aged brain is in further rapid decay. M3, remember, the RC Clone is now Monsieur VitesseDeux *seulement*!

A quasi-panicked appeal to any this might concern (this'll be in my LJ too)--are there any Ani Difranco fans around? See, my niece has to meet and interview her this weekend, and so far I've only come up with one good question for her to ask. I'll check back later to see if anyone's got any ideas, cos right now Shannon and I are pretty much coming up snake eyes, though I'm actually here dans la bibliotheque to do research for her (see, I gets all noivis about mi espanol w/a native speaker in the bunch, which causes the reversion to francais instead. Frickin PC, how do you make that little squiggly notation on this anyway?)

Bill, your b.d. card proceedes apace. Don't say I didn't warn you, but Daveykins is gonna look like Leonardo da Vinci (or I'll just seem like DiCaprio?) once you get a gander at my attempts to draw. And *other* reasons why I've always found my forte to be abstract art and collage...

ooooh, non T7S fans friending me in my brandynew (and sad) LJ would be so cool.... I'm _m3_ because m3 and _m3 were taken and my friend signed me up for it although I've boycotted those bastards for a few years now. *sigh* I have CSI:Miami Icons there, Lilly Joe... *wiggles cat treat temptingly*

Wakboth:
Yes, it has, but I may be full of it. I Googled "caffeine allergy," and found out that there's no mention of vomiting, and the symptoms resemble severe schizophrenia. Other info is sparse. It seems from the article that general craziness results when you keep pounding coffee regardless of what your body tells you, so maybe I quit at the right time. I'm not making yet more doctor's appointments unless it comes back, but I'm laying off the caffeine anyway.

Gonterphiles/phobes:
It's amazing that he still seems to think that he's going to someday make a living doing...whatever it is he's doing. He doesn't even grasp the simplest concept of a comic strip: "Give them a reason to read the next one." If it's a humor strip, the last panel should be a joke. If it's a drama strip, it should be a mild cliffhanger.
Start here and click through a few and see what I mean. What happens? Nothing!!! It's the strip version of someone trying to tell a story by saying "It was Wednesday, and I was going to the grocery store--wait, no, I go to the grocery store on Tuesdays, so it was a Tuesday--anyway, like this guy's car comes out of nowhere and I'm--wait, no, I had to work that Tuesday, so it was Wednesday, and--no, wait, I went to the laundromat, not the grocery store, so...Wait. It was Thursday. Because, Thursdays, I always get a raisin bagel at the bagel store--Have you been there? The have these really great raisin bagels! Anyway, this guy hits my car and I get thrown into the steering wheel--wait, it was a raisin cinnamon bagel..."
zzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Zef:
Byron's a bit blue around the edges in certain lights. He was photographed late afternoon in very direct, very bright sunlight. Usually, in coloration he lives up to the name he had before I adopted him: "Dustball."

M3:
Self-promotion is allowed here. Feel free to include the link to your LJ. (If you want. I found it already)

OK, some questions for the Ani interviewer from a third party: (A) Is it true you dont like audience participation when you sing your songs in concert? (which it IS. she tells people to shut up, this is why I refuse to see her in concert) (B) Ask her who some of her favorite artists shes worked with are. (C) How she went about starting her own record label, Righteous Babe Records (D) Why she didnt participate in Lilith Fair

Bill... um... in that first panel... what species and what sex are those things?!?!!? DAYUMN. I gotta get caught up on Gonty.

http://babesagainstbush.com/
It's nice to see people using nekkidness for good instead of evil.

(some googling later)....Ah HA!
Bill - a thought on Young's Syndrome. Have you considered it might not be the caffeine, but the tannin? Tannin retards digestion and is present in both coffee and tea. I can't find anything on allergies to tannin, so it might not be something the doctors have considered? In your case, tannin may be doing its job too well....
Something to look into, maybe?....

Gonterman - I don't get it. Does he have a purpose? Was I supposed to be amused?

We have trash gulls here too - almost 7 hours from the nearest beach. They all live together in the parking lot of an empty grocery store and you do not want to get caught outside your car with anything resembling food. The movie The Birds come to mind when these things start thinking they are gonna get fed.

"...like it rained dead zebras on the Serengeti."

This made me laugh hysterically. In fact, I never weighted in on the how I foudn this place...I, too, found it through the InExOb. I believe it was linked in one of Yahoo's Cool Links sections. I used to read it at work and I would start laughing so hard I had to go to the bathroom so my coworkers wouldn't know I was screwing around reading the internet and not working. I found it before it ended...In fact I'm in there. Anyone want to guess who I am?

Bill the Splut said: '... He doesn't even grasp the simplest concept of a comic strip: "Give them a reason to read the next one." '

But of course, he's given us all plenty of reasons to read the next one. I.e. "how stupid will he be THIS time?"

Maybe he really digs all of the negative criticism.

Too late for the gulls, supersizing be gone by the time evolution kicks in... I was puzzling why I saw flocks of gulls over the parking garage across the street from me. I'm only about 10 miles or so from the ocean, but still, if I were a gull and as lazy as I was a human, why bother moving inland? I recently found about a mile away (further from the ocean) was a GIANT park with a huge lake/fountain in it... and swarming flocks of gulls. Mystery solved.

Except some of the gulls were distinctly pink. Hrm...

Even stranger is that there are seagulls as far inland as Colorado. I think they were at a rest area off of I-70 ... can't quite remember. Poor things... hope they don't sue the fast food establishments for their weight problems. Perhaps they should stick to the coasts and the fishes.
Nahh... that's a far fly for fish.

"Give me convenience or give me death." -Jello Biafra

debbieb:
"I don't get it. Does he have a purpose? Was I supposed to be amused?"
I'm not sure if you mean whether you should be amused by him or by me pointing him out. But, no both ways. He used to be much more entertaining, but then he switched from one brain-med to another. Gone were his angular and angry drawings about Sonic and Sailor Moon. Now, we get these warm&fuzzy big-eyed dullathons like in the link. It takes 6 strips done over the course of weeks to let us know that Daveykins Adam Packbell drinks a lot of caffeine, and that cross-town traffic is light. Crimeny. Whatever happened to those glory days of murdering the MST3K crew with his Space Blimp?

"Adam Packbell." Anyone want to bet that those are derived from the names of Davey's first computer, and his latest? A simple twist of fate in the past, and he might have been called "Commodore Applintosh." "Tandy Dell." "Sinclair Hew le Tard."

Art:
As for tannins, as I read your post I was drinking a glass of red wine, and that doesn't make me puke. The caffeine thing is all I can come up with, and so far I puke a lot less. It's probably less monocausal than I think, but I'm going with what works for now.

I've nothing for The News tonight. For an easy transition, here's April's comments page. Feel free to continue any threads there.

canary:
You were in the InExOb? If you're 6 inches high with a huge head, that'd make you Speedy. If you buggered a deer, you'd be Sodomy the Lawn Gnome.
I'm hoping for the first one.