Edited by author 02-27-2005 04:23 PM
Iguanas! Can't wait to see the "exotic and illegal pets for sale" ads!

(Not that iguanas are illegal or necessarily exotic, but they are commonly found in those stores that sell sugar flyers and other odd animals. At least, they are in Florida.)

Edited by author 02-27-2005 06:00 PM
Iguanas RULE. (Bill, with a title right that you'd know i'd come pipe in right away, yes?) Iguanas are mostly eaten in the tropical south, that i know. Looks and tastes like pork. you DO NOT want to know what they do to turtles there.

Anyway, Re: ugly animals, it's a joke, right? I mean,otherwise i'd fail to understand a self-respecting science site talking so derogatively of animals. all animals are pretty! (weren't manatees thought to be mermaids? and is dewgong the same as manatee?) But brown pelicans are jerks. they aren't scared of humans, and they dive even if you are around, so sometimes one will come crashing right next to you. (yes, the water was full of small fishes, making it worse)

also, Dang! Bill had the same accident i had! not that it makes it any better for him. But at least it made me feel better about paying only $25 to repair it.

Good observation, Zef. Scientists shouldn't really be biased in their findings, but this was probably just a joke of sorts. And yep, the manatee was thought to have been a mermaid at one time (though the Pokemon you refer to looks more like a seal than anything to me).

I think I might have come across a brown pelican or two while I lived in Puerto Rico, but iguanas were definitely crawling all over the place, and still are, thankfully. On one part of the island, you can find these massive, black, crusted, sun-baked masses that are supposed to be iguanas skittering around and begging people to feed them pork that are sold from snack stands.

Re Psycho guy: Well, at least he admits he's crazy. Here we have another right-winger who would want nothing more than to force his ideals on others. Forcing everyone to say the pledge of allegiance and say "in the name of the father"... I may be mistaking, but didn't another country try something similar ages ago?

Well, at least he admits he's crazy.

He does? Where? I didn't read all of his pages, as, again, I don't think that's possible.
Favorite quote: "I WANT A PRESIDENT THAT TAKES THE BULL BY THE HORNS STARTING AT 7AM I WANT A COWBOY THAT CAN SAY MISSION ACCOMPLISHED EVERY DAY."
I love that song!

Speaking of Crazy People Rambling, I just revisited the Brick Testament. Man, oh man. If I'd ever actually READ the Bible as a child, I would have become an athiest a hell of a lot sooner.

"You don't have to be crazy to like Bush, but it sure helps! And I AM!"

That's what you posted. I only saw the top 1/3 of the page and immediately closed the browser window. Perhaps when I'm drunk and unaware of what sites I'm viewing, I'll be able to stomach the rest of it.

'kits:
That was my comment on him, not his mission statement. Like most TOTALLY deranged people, he thinks that he's completely sane and making a cogent argument.
At one point, he says that Gore saying "America is the strongest nation on earth" or such really meant "I double-dog-dare al Qaeda to attack us!" and that caused 9/11 (along with the flag-burning). I also love that it's the DEMONCRATS that won't give the troops benefits, when it's Bush that's done everything to cut them. Like I said, totally divorced from reality.
I wonder if Davey knows the guy...

Edited by author 02-27-2005 11:50 PM
Am I the only person to find Peter Puffer incredibly disturbing?
It's nightmare stuff. Nobody's to scale with each other, and he's got that baby face and those armless HANDS, and the bear-things that are way too happy to eat--err, meet that giant duckling. And how come the lantern growing out of hs "hair" is just a lantern, while he's got an anthropomorphic butt-plug dancing on his caboose?
Run, giant little duckling, run!!

edit: And the author's first name is..."Moli'y"? That's like an Elder God name! No, ryleh!

Am I the only person to find Peter Puffer incredibly disturbing?


What really concerns me is that you can buy it for friggin $38. That's right, $38, wow, if you have this book then keep it Bill, in another 20 years it could really be worth something.

Just remember to never read it to the children.

That was my comment on him, not his mission statement.

Oops. Heh, shoulda realized that.

I did get to read more of the front page before deciding that I really didn't need to go to bed with that particular man's rantings boiling in my head; I've got a quiz tomorrow and the heat that usually emanates from my rage might eradicate all the information I've memorized.

12-STOP BUYING FRIENDS

Sorry guys, if I want those free binoculars, I'm gonna have to stop paying you.

Wow, that's just...wow. I knew right-wingers were nuts and all, but that takes the cake.

(Wow, that was a comment-filled week!)
I wonder how crazee pro-Bush chap enjoyed the opening of the Oscars? OVERTLY saying things like "sucks at his jobs"?! Must be Demoncrats, who enjoy eating babies.

I was in a pet store once which categorized the fish you could order into four categories: Pretty, Nice, Not Too Pretty, Downright Ugly. Apparently one could cause them to bring in Mudskippers (#4).

And to prove I did my homework after being away-- Zef, the powerboat chase was brilliant.

Guess what I found while Googling today?

Laugh at Liberals!

Such compassionate people! No wonder they're God's Chosen People!

(Sorry, that's about the only thing I can say.)

If I'd ever actually READ the Bible as a child, I would have become an athiest a hell of a lot sooner.

I dunno, i remember clearly reading both the apocalipsis and all the passion of Christ as a child, (4,5 yrs) just when i couldn't find anything else to read. ( i prolly read more of it) Plus our bible had this section with classic art of most passages. but then i'm Insane and stuff.

FK, I know Dewgong is a Pokémon, but since there's 'dugongo' in spanish, i kinda assumed it was an actual english word too. (there's this Pikachu pińata on sale in the way to my house that i swear i'm buying one day)

Thankies Ernst, and everyone else who dug the powahboats :P

I just viewed more of that "Laugh at Liberals" site and... just... ugh... just ugh. I'm reminded of that dreaded "World" magazine.

I'm gonna look at Zef's art some more. I likie the Zeffie.

The first step in my becoming an athiest was reading the Bible. I started with the Old Testament, and quickly realized that this was NOT the God they taught me in Catechism class. And that the stories frequenty made no sense or contradicted each other. In fact, they contradict each other on the first page, when it gives 2 entirely different versions of the Adam & Eve story.

I wonder what my reaction would've been if I'd read the New Testament first. I may sound like I'm contradicting myself, but I consider myself an athiest and a Christian. That Jesus guy, he had some really good ideas. However, many "Christians" are really Paulists. Jeez said you went to Heaven by being a good person, the apostle Paul said it was because you converted others to Christianity. The focus was changed from helping others to swaying others, from seeing them as other people to seeing them as pawns to be won.

The irony being that Paul was the only apostle to have never met Jesus H, whose previous job was persecuting Christians for the Roman Empire, and whose conversion was born out of blunt force head trauma. "I falled offen my horsie and hit my thinker-thing" really isn't that great an argument for a theology. It's like Martin Luther nailing his theses to his forehead.

I'm gonna look at Zef's art some more.

Shameless plug!

*Hides*

Something poetic I read today:

Music is powerful stuff. Elvis Presley is still showing up in 7-11 stores across the country, despite bing dead for years, so I figure music just might be the most important thing there is.

The kitten has a new trick.

If I don't pay _FULL_ attention to her then she will jump on my chest and rub her face against mine.
If I still fail to give her what she wants then she will stick her bum in my face, what is that about? Stinky cat but!

She has also discovered the laptops keyboard, as that is where my hands spend a fair amount of time, time she believes would be better spent giving pets, can't say I disagree with her too much on that score.

What cuteness your cute kitten cutely supplies, Steve! Them animals can be adorable at times, can they not? (Sometimes all it takes is a slight cock of the head and we'll be all doe-eyed with admiration and mouth agape with "awwww's".)

Pepper has a cute thing she does: when I'm holding her and make kissing sounds, she'll push her head towards my mouth so I can kiss her little head.

I have no idea why cats like to stick their rears in people's faces... or why they like to step on sensitive parts of the body while you're laying down. Or why they find the bed a perfect place to yack.

Cats are kinkier than you'd think. they just like to mess with our minds.

Huh. Prankster posted this and I got it as a subscriber, but it never seemed to make it here.
Hitchhiker's Guide trailer self-parody. It amuses, but the movie still doesn't look that great to me.

That is a unique trailer, nicely done, but marvin still sux.

Cats are kinkier than you'd think. they just like to mess with our minds.

I know what you mean. Egon keeps jumping up on me and licking my face. I think he's trying to make out with me.

Aw, my roommate just bought him his first bag of big kitty food, instead of the kitten stuff. They grow up so fast.

(This is him as a kitten. This is him now.)

Hooray for Egon on his graduation to Cathood, may he catch many mice and eat many yummy things.

He was a cute kitten as well and a big YES to the fact that they grow up way too fast!

SteveM: Many thanks from his manly catness. :)

Seems like just yesterday he was just a wee little thing, and now he's all grown up. Huge, in fact. *sniff* But he's still pretty awesome, even when he tries to sit on my laptop.

A search for something else turned up the fact that I'm boring and I'm stupid.

Not anymore, u r teh funny !1!!!!11!!

Steve: The butt-thing is a sign of unlimited trust-- "I find you so trustworthy, I arrange myself in such a way that I cannot see you and you can either become familiar with my odour or claw the hell out of my genitals; your choice!" To bring it quickly to a conclusion (looks about furtively) blow once and gently on the presented bottom. Not only does the cat believe you've been polite and had a good sniff, it gets catbuttpong moving in the right direction-- away from you.

Bill: You have over a 9 on each site, which means you are teh x-treme funny. I like the InExOb and the News, as do millions of people--I think it's say to say millions--and some people just don't understand the sheer joy one can get from observing and commenting on odd objects. They are teh stoopid.

Bill: You have over a 9 on each site,

Umm, that was me, their voting system keeps putting you back at the same page, I just sat here clicking on 10 for each site, about 50 times each. I tried to get it to 9.9 or 10 but it would have taken ages. Everyone else is welcome to throw Bill fifty 10 point votes however.

Ernst, thanks for the cat bum tip, I will give it a try.

Umm, that was me

SteveM, human Diebold machine!
Were you the guy who stuffed the ballot box for Jerry Van Dyke in the InExOb Horrible Heads poll?

Were you the guy who stuffed the ballot box for Jerry Van Dyke in the InExOb Horrible Heads poll?

No, I never voted in any of the InExOb polls :(
I just didn't like the fact that the suckhole site rated your fine rantings, pictures and commentaries so low, I believe you deserve better than that, if just for the countless hours of amusement you have provided me over the years.

After tonight I will not be posting for a while, my operation has arrived and I go under the knife tomorrow. I will let everyone know how it went in a week or so.

Best of luck, Steve!

Good luck to you, Steve! We'll be thinking of ya.

Best wishes, Steve! Maybe they'll make you into a cyborg--the 6 Million Dollar(AU) Man! Then you'll run at 150 kilos an hour, but only in slow-mo while making whoosh-whooosh-whoosh noises.

Thanks everyone, I will talk to you all in a week or two.

Merry Anaesthesia, Steve!

OK, it's late, but the thought still counts.

Forgetful me! I should have also ranted approval about "The Cat Returns", latest from Studio Ghibli! RANT RANT RANT! There's more than one cat in there! AND Peter Boyle! Seriously, go see it. It's no "Tonari no Totoro", but it's a great way to pass an evening.

Edited by author 03-03-2005 09:28 PM
Sprited Away came here a year after Bill saw it. and lasted even less than 'Team America' in theaters. they didn't even re dub it from the spain spanish. you can rent it in blockbuster, tho.

So i guess i'm bittorrenting "the cat returns" instead of waiting for if it'll EVER make it here.

Cat lovers with an Xbox, play Blinx 2! It's all 'extreme' and stuff, but how many cat-starring games are out there? (in this generation's consoles. there was 'a week of garfield' for the NES) plus it only cost me $25.

yawn
http://www.deviantart.com/view/15738131/
Crimeny, but this story moves slow. Oh, no, who is the mysterious hamfooted stranger? Who cares?

Edited by author 03-03-2005 10:40 PM
"The Cat Returns" is in my Netflix queue, along with the other new Ghiblis, Porco Rosso, Nausicca, and Lupin.

Oh, and I'm currently watching "The Rutles II," and it's awful.

Edited by author 03-03-2005 11:24 PM
Re new Davey bile: Anyone notice that Scarlet got a Southern accent in the second panel?

Anyone notice that Scarlet got a Southern accent in the second panel?

Herr der Kins explains in his comments that it's so you can tell whether it's Jim or Scarlett speaking. Thank Gourd he didn't again use a different and unreadable font, like he did with the Wiccan in "Night Stinkers" or that l337-speaking dragon in Painwalker.

The Oldies station we play at work has a feature called "The Top 6 at 6." Today, they played the top songs from this week in 1966. Number One? "The Ballad of the Green Beret." Hey, where's today's pop hit about throwing away American lives in a pointless war for nothing?!

Segue: it's March. So I guess that the Gonter Beret Comic is officially over, yes?
Well, we tried!
Well, Ernst tried; the rest of us promised to and didn't.

Edited by author 03-04-2005 09:13 AM
Ah, Bill, if I may quote Doctor Manhatten-- nothing ever ends. It's undergoing a long ripening process, like awful French cheese, or one of those jungle fruits that smells like a damp months-dead corpse. Heck, once my brother's baby is in the world, I'm sure he'll have a huge amount of free time-- mebbe I'll suggest that he take a run at it.

(edit-- it just occurred to me: that ballad thingy actually uses the word "DIE" in the chorus, don't it? An act of treason for a modern US soldier to write such a thing, I'm sure....)

Zef: Sprited Away came here a year after Bill saw it. and lasted even less than 'Team America' in theaters. they didn't even re dub it from the spain spanish.
I take it that that's less desirable than me having a foreign film available only in British English? I'd be pretty happy if all dubbed Godzilla movies had been done by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Herr der Kins explains in his comments that it's so you can tell whether it's Jim or Scarlett speaking.

It sounds like he got that idea off Tasu.

About Teh Team Phrack Whore, oddly enough, i started my panels last night ^-^;; so, i guess we have to wait for everyone else involved to see if we pull the plug or not.

FK: sorry, sometimes i forget entire topics, but yeah, i knew about the B-52's playing the Rocko theme. and yeah, i like the first one better too. I don't respect the B-52's as much after 'the flintstones movie'.

did you watch Rocko a lot? have you seen the ep when Filburt has to spawn? i have a question about that one.

Ernst, i guess it's about the same. different words, and accent. not very annoying. amusingly, when i rented the DVD, i hated both the original japanese and the new mexican dub. i grew used to the spain dub.

some poor Sap is bidding on Gonterman's old domain Grimmoire.com
for almost $300! i hope he isnt getting a cut of that


That was just posted on the original Comments page, the one for 12/03. The significance? Someone was able to find us talking about Davey, prly by Googling him.
If they can find us, he can find us.
The poster's nick was "Oh-Dear," which is what I said when I saw the comment.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/15792871/
Yes, Davey has decided that the world needs to see what his Linspire desktop looks like.
I'd rather see the rest of his bookmarks. I wonder what that folder marked "Former" holds. Sites he liked when on his former meds?
Or what's under that window. Any guesses as to what his desktop picture is? His HOTTTest drawing of Roll and Scarlett doing him, I'll bet.

Zef: Rocko was one of my all time favorite cartoons... of all time! I don't quite recall the ep where Filbert has to spawn... is it where the planets align and he tries to fight the urge to travel to an island in the tropics? It's been ages since I've seen the series (though the Christmas ep did play last December.)

Team Phrack Whore: Argh. I had that one finished panel somewhere in my bookcase, too... well, if I could find it...

Yes, thats it! I miss the spanish dubbing, but I soothe my pain with P2ped eppies. these are hard to find, tho. anyway, the question no one's ever been able to answer is what's the song playing on the beach scene in that episode. it does sound B-52y, but since i don't know a lot of their stuff, i dunno.

I've been googling "Born to Spawn" for a good hour and I haven't found anything yet, Zef. There's gotta be some info on the bg music you're talking about... I'm prolly using the wrong combination of words or something.

If either of us ever come across that ep, we'll have to record it so we can read the credits (unless you're a speed reader and can read an entire screen of credits that are up for about two seconds).

I know there isn't a lot on the 'net around about that ep, if i asked it was to see if by some chance you knew the song already ^-^;; thankies for the effort tho.

Happy day to all of the XX variety.

Is it me, or everyone's just *vanished*? or quite likely i'm still the only one with time to waste.

Steve's bedridden and Mimi's moving back to Australia. No idea where everyone else is...

Checking the old boards, am i being dense (in that they just changed names) or we lost commenters as well, Bill?

*shrugs* Really haven't thought that much about it.

If people don't want to comment, they don't have to comment.

One of Davey's new friends comes up with more ideas for Scarlett in 1 post than Davey would have in the rest of his life. Davey responds with a dismissive "Not bad ideas there. Even though it'll be a while before I can get to that part, going up against the Evil Amusement Park with villians like what you mentioned will come into play. I just want to deliver it in bits and chunks."
Dude, those are better ideas than you've EVER had. And of course it'll "take you a while" to get to them--nothing ever happens in your strips anymore. Livewire Latte began in 2003, and we're STILL waiting for something to happen.
"I just want to deliver it in bits and chunks." So...you're going to vomit it?

Zef: Maybe this is why no one posts here. They're sick of the Gonterman.

Edited by author 03-09-2005 06:12 AM
That's funny. I know I posted a message yesterday, in which I said "braggedy brag brag" about having done very well in that obscure words test (less than Bill in 2nd category, but more in the fourth). Of course, I may well be wasting my time typing here if this message doesn't post, and perhaps I'm not alone.

Perhaps Homeland Security is screwing with one whose views don't conform properly....
(edit: I won't go into how vexing that would be, what with it being five in the bloody morning).

If people don't want to comment, they don't have to comment.

NO, BILL! YOU GOTS TO PUT A GUN TO THEIR HEDS AND MAKE'M COMMUNT! COMMN'T OR THERE WONT BE KUTE KITTY PIX!! LOL

Ahem. I didn't do too well in the test, so instead of bragging here i put it in DJ.

They're sick of the Gonterman...

I dunno.. Gonty basically held together a lot of the comment-time.

Pretty damn good for a second language, Zef! What baffles me is that if my scores put me (and I assume also our host, Bill McBrainsplut) ahead of 99% of the people in our respective age/gender categories, what the hell are they doing assigning such low rankings to you? Surely they can't think that young people have a STRONGER grasp on the subtleties of English and its manifold circumlocutions!

That aside, YAY! Comments are appearing!

Maybe the comments aren't appearing? I didn't get the one Ernst mentioned, and I remember that recent one of Prankster's that never made it here.
If you're posting and it's not showing up, let me know.
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HAHA, I am back (did you notice the subtle pun there?)

Everything went well, I am back on my feet and moving slowly, my pain is down to about .5(on a scale of 1 to 10), hoorah!!!11!!!

Oh well, much catching up to do, catch you all later.

I'll comment with a link. "By presing down a special key, it plays a little melody!"

http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index432.html

YAY for Steve being aiiight!

Everything went well, I am back on my feet and moving slowly,
Initial scan of phrase: "My feet are in my back, moving slowly." Perhaps my subconscious doesn't trust doctors.... Hoorah for Steve and his nigh-pain-free and footless back!

SH*T, I had just typed out about 80 lines of relavent stuff when the kitty walks across the laptop chasing the moving cursor, bye bye all gone. Now I have to remember what it was I had typed.

Steve, it could've been much worse. Kitty could've shot you.

OK, I think I will break this up into chunks.

My feet are in my back
That is exactly how I felt when I cam out of theater, ouch ouch bad pain, it hurts us my precious. It was the strongest, most complete, mind shattering, body spasming, intense pain I have ever felt in my life. To add to that the drug they had put in the PCA machine was not morphine, this resulted in the obvious lack of pain relief. The net result of this was me shouting at the top of my lungs "GET ME SOME F*CKING MORPHINE NOW!!!!" which they kindly did.

I talked to my surgeon about this and he said it was because he used the main scar down my spine to get access to my hips for the bone grafts I required. This involved a lot of stretching of the skin and movement of muscle, but meant I only ended up with one scar instead of three.

On the height front I have gained 1/4 of an inch in height. Making me 6'2 1/4" hooray. This is because the disk that was damaged had all but disappeared and he seperated the vertibra 1/4 inch to insert the grafts from my hips, all very bloody and yuck, but it seems to have done the trick.

The kitty is asleep so I will write some more without risk of losing it again :)

I used way too much morphine whilst in hospital, on the first day after surgery the nurse that was monitoring me said I was pin-eyed, like a junky, and needed to slow down on the morphine. For those that are not familiar with PCA machines a brief description follows; it is a box that contains a huge needle full of morphine, this needle is connected to the drip tube that is stuck in my arm. I have a button I can press that pushes a pre-set amount of morphine into my drip tube. I can only press this button once every five minutes, the machine simply ignores attempts in between.
What was happening was that I would wake up, go ouch, press button, go mmmmmm-morphine, pass out, repeat.
I got stuck in this loop and it concered the nurse, it did feel great though. I did manage to slow down after she finally break me out of the loop.

Now I am back at home, I am wearing TEDS stockings to stop blood clots and also the coolest back brace to keep my torso upright and solid. What a fashion statement this makes. I have to wrear (HAHA) the brace for the next 3 months, but it feels good the have on, so that's OK.

Well that's where I am at now.

Edited by author 03-10-2005 08:18 PM
Great to hear from ya, Steve! Sounds like you're doing a lot better than I was today (massive headache that would *not* go away, no matter what strength the pain relievers were). Here's hoping you feel a lot better in the next few days.

NOTE: I started writing this at about 7:30 or so but got sidetracked in another window.

WTF?!?!

http://www.deviantart.com/view/15912198/

Nice spit-take, I'll admit--prly the best drawing Davey's ever done, except for 1 tongue too many (and further proof that his art is best suited for comedy). But what's going on? Is this Jim Goodlow, or another Jim, given the lab ref and the lab coat and the vagueliness?
Oh, wait--GAY EARRING, I guess it's Jim G.

RUN, you guys! The air is filled with FLYING CHEEK LEECHES!

Additionally:
"I'll give a free commission to anyone who donates me enough money for a Deviant Art Submission. Three Months minimum. I would have paid for it myself tonight, but I have more bills than paycheck."
I've no idea what he's talking about here. The last we heard about his McDonald's job, he was using it as an excuse to not post as he was working too MANY hours. What are his bills? Doesn't he live in a harrible $25-a-week apartment? Or his old bedroom at Mom's? Maybe Mom's making him pay for his Cheetos bill now.

Steve:
Can you rent those morphine machines? I could use one at work.

Hope you feel better soon, Big(ger!) Guy!

Bill:
Can you rent those morphine machines?
Renting a PCA machine should not be too much trouble, getting your hands on morphine may prove a little more difficult however :)

Morphine to dull the pain of work... man, why didn't I think of that before? Thank goodness the Taliban have been put out of power in Afsponistan! All we have to do is mention the stuff a few more times and the side-bar will offer all the opiates we'll ever need.

Kitty could've shot you.
Hmmm. Given what I know about the relative weights of cats and handguns, that should work about the same as me knocking a 27" TV off a counter by accident. What a precariously perched gun! Doesn't the NRA offer firearms safety courses beyond "this end away from face"?

How the hell much does three months at DA cost, anyway? Everybody and their dog seems to be posting art-like objects there. Alternatively, if I'm paying to support DVK's torpor for three months, there had BETTER be free art in the offing

"Scarvision"?! Implication-- someone at the lab hacked at the Zoot's eyes, leaving a mass of light-sensitive scar tissue. He's still thinking hard about the writing, isn't he?

Much like Lav, i seem to have run into an InExOb who is again in the internet spotlight. (though the humor is retarded in comparision to Bill's. scroll down)

some newer HK .45 guns are 2.5 pounds. aren't cats heavier than that?

All we have to do is mention the stuff a few more times and the side-bar will offer all the opiates we'll ever need.

My Google ads are all for spam sending software, as a professional email systems administrator that is the last thing i shall ever need.

Morphine - Morphine - Morphine - OI, OI, OI!

As a curiosity, I would like to ask a favour.

Could those that could be bothered please post a message stating your current local time and time zone?

I am curious about the spread of readers versus time zones.

Current local time: 10:00AM 12-March
Time zone : AEDT

Since i'm the one who's always hitting refresh in this page..

it is march 11, 5:15pm here and i'm in.. central american time? is that my time zone?

AS a further oddity, i too have ads for spamming!

8:54 Eastern Standard.

Georgia is Eastern Standard, right?

I re-watched The Road to El Dorado today, a movie I saw for the first time because I was told it had homosexual undertones. It turns out that was a big, stinky lie, but it's okay, because it's a good movie, very much in the Emperor's New Groove vein. Especially since the moral of the story is "religion is evil" (no, really, that's the moral.) Always a good lesson for kids to learn.

Edited by author 03-13-2005 11:17 AM
10:16 Central Standard Time, same as Zef, I believe, and we don't cotton to that "Daylight Savings" foolishness around here (while I'm at it, a big shout out to Sir Sandford Fleming, the inventor of the time zone).

My totally non-morphine sidebar follows the pattern indicated by others. Perhaps Google Ads doesn't like opiates.

Edited by author 03-13-2005 01:50 PM
1:21 PM, Eastern Standard. And, yes, that's Georgia's time zone. I'm in Atlanta, y'all.

Perhaps Google Ads doesn't like opiates.

I am of the opinion that Google Ads thinks we have these opiates to sell, that is why it is providing us with spam services.

Subj: Add 1nch3s 2 your p3n1s with our new m0rph1ne p1lls !!!1!!

Oh hey, look, I found Transformers slash!

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ficbitches/8620.html

I know there aren't many techies around here, but since all of you are awesome anyway, i decided to ask. I'm giving a friend my old Gameboy, (since i won the newer one and he needs it to complete a collection of sorts, being the Nintendo addict he is) but he is broke (because of buying the most recent nintendo product) and offered to give me an OLD 386 laptop in trade. what do you think?

the thing has a faulty battery, but works fine when plugged in. also has a monochrome display and 31/2 drive. I'm thinking it'd be amusing to at least program BASIC in, but i don't know if it'd be a good trade. (that gameboy is sold around $80 new)

Edited by author 03-14-2005 10:53 AM
I paid a friend $5 for a Powerbook 180 with a dead hard drive that went for $4500 when it was new. How old is your old Gameboy? How close is your friend? (edit: The new HD cost $35. I'se so Retro!)

On the subject of spam, I highly encourage people with their own pages (BILL!) to have a look at this. It's a system that lives to screw spammers, and it's working RIGHT NOW because of that link.

On the subject of spam, I highly encourage people with their own pages (BILL!) to have a look at this.

I linked to that like 3 years ago.
And your advice might be better given to people who actually update their pages...

How old is your old Gameboy?
A bit, i'd guess. (launched in 2001) THIS is it.


How close is your friend?

We were supah-buddies back in junior high, not so much now, but i'm willing to cut him some slack. still, i've been thinking more, and the retro-appeal that the lappy might have for me isn't beating the $50 that i could ask him for, methinks. (plus i remembered he offered to sell me that same comp for $30)

I went and bought a laser pointer today. Both the cats love it, I think the older cat likes chasing it more than the kitten.

Red dots are fun to chase!

I knew about this in the second half of the nineties. Back then Wpoison was an EXE that you could put on your server, using an invisible link on your page so the bots would get into it but your users wouldn't. And they encouraged you to change the program name so the bot owners wouldn't just program the bot to skip it. It doesn't look like the current version addresses that problem, so all bit makers have to do is tell their bots to ignore the one specific program on that site.

OK, I'll be less excited about the poison. And more attentive to back-issues of News. (Hunches shoulders and shuffles into corner, the very picture of contrition-- cue laff track to lend the action a comic effect).

Our young ones will chase Red Dot four feet up a wall. It's cute and alarming!

*pats pats Ernst* i didn't knew such a thing existed! don't feel bad!

More Flux:
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/articles/1741.asp

She looks kind of good in this pic. I wonder who that Okenada person plays.

I feel like such a hick having to look up 'Aeon Flux' using Google.
Oh well, one day our TV will be on par with the US, that will probably be the day I smash my TV set ;)

Edited by author 03-15-2005 11:02 PM
Byron seems less playful, and I just discovered he has some kind of diarrhea. I'm monitoring the situation, but is this a crisis yet?

edit: Everything I Googled said it's not a crisis without other symptoms, or if it lasts less than 2 days. Still watching.

but is this a crisis yet?

Probably not if it's only been today, if it lasts longer than a day the dehydration becomes the big concern.
If he still has it tomorrow then it could well be vet time.

Hmmm...for the first time yesterday, I bought the "Italian" rotisserie chicken and gave some to Byron, expecting him to reject its spiciness. But he ate it. This might be a clue.

It sounds like Big Toes has what we call 'The Ring Of Fire'.
This is a burning sensation in the seat of your pants that is the result of eating a spicy meal, such as chicken vindaloo.
I hope he feels better soon.

He just puked a lot. Nose is cold and wet, doesn't seem to have any other complaints. If it's his food, why would he puke today when he didn't yesterday?

If it's his food, why would he puke today when he didn't yesterday?

We just had the same thing happen with our kitten, it turned out to be worms. She had her first lot of shots on Monday and she gets her worming juice tonight.
But to be honest, I am not a vet and have abolutely no idea why Byron would be shooting from both ends.

What's wierd is that he doesn't seem to be any bad spirits besides the urping. Once he's done with either, he leaps to the back window to look outside for a while. And he did go outside for a while yesterday, twice in fact, but I made sure he didn't eat anything. Websites say "call the vet when diarrhea and vomiting occur together," so we'll see how this progresses. Weird, he doesn't act sick, just pukes and poops a lot.
OH FUCK!
He's got Young's Syndrome!!

He's a lot more playfull and curious now. He hasn't puked or pooped in the last hour; there's a relief.

Latest theory: Byron's been doing something in the kitchen sink for weeks, causing me to cover the drain before he sticks his paw down the garbage disposal. No matter what I put over the drain, he works it out and licks the sink. I just discovered that the kitchen tap drips, so maybe this is where he's getting his (possibly dirty and nasty) water from. I piled a pot lid and 2 ceramic cereal bowls on top of it; so far, that's prevented him from getting in. And when he tried, I picked him up and led him to where he SHOULD! be drinking from. And he drank from there.

Little boy with the big feet! You must get better!

Lets hope lotsa-toes feels better tomorrow.
Sending happy cat thought ------>

There is, of course, the feline disposition to vomit as a way to kill a few minutes. Still, it might be worth a pass at the vet-- my parents cat (who, for perspective's sake, was 19) began some unprovoked pukies, which apparently can be set off by an adverse reaction to some kind of food and then becomes self-sustaining because the initial puke makes the tummy sensitive. The vet was able to do something about that (as opposed to the "19 years old" thing...). Depending on how you groom them, and how they groom them, it might be an idea to get some Petromalt or other hairball nostrum as well.

Poor Byron. I haven't had a cat that's experienced what he's going through, so unfortunately, I can't recommend anything other than a trip to the vet if the condition continues or worsens. (Getting him away from the potentionally dirty water was a good idea, though. Living things just should not drink from there. Bleargh.)

C'mon, Byron, you gotta get better for your mommy and sister!

Best of wishies to Byron. I'm holding back since i'm biased against anything coming from italy, so i could say a lot about blaming the chicken.

It's true, cats do puke a lot. Back home, Mumsy and Popsicle are always having to clean it up. But if it's more than once a day, and it continues for several days, there might be something wrong.

Our little boy is fine today. Thanks for the get well wishes!
He won't be getting any seconds on that seasoned chicken...

Just read the News and then Your Most Splutriffic Majesty's post and am most relieved. Give the toesie boy a big kiss and huggle for me please!

It's good to hear Byron's back on his big feet!

Hooray for Byron's return to the regular emetic schedule! Now, if only they could be convinced to stick to non-porous surfaces....

On an entirely different topic-- who wants a stealth bike?

Yay! Byron's okay! I thought about the little guy last night and sent another little happy cat thought. Maybe an extra one will keep him in good spirits if that tiny portion of chicken makes him ill again.

Re noiseless motorcycle: Wow, emissions you can drink! That... that's really interesting. I wonder if they'll come out with different scents and flavors?

Re sun lamp that Bill bought: Hey, now there's something I could use, too. Especially at the dorm. Ooo, maybe they should install one in every room. (But then we'd probably have to pay extra for that, too.)

Geez, I just can't seem to stay updated here. Damn school, stealing all my fun.

I'm glad that Byron (and Bill!) are feeling better. In honor of your recovery, here's a new Scarlet P.I.!

Oh yeah, one more thing before I go off to write a horrible paper. I hope everybody bought Nausicaa on DVD. I borrowed my friend's copy because I'm cheap. Beautiful. I nearly cried. I haven't seen Porco Rosso or The Cat Returns yet, though. How are they?

I have to agree with potlan's comment, WTF is going on in Scarlet P.I? I have read every panel he had put out so far and I am still confused.
Is Scarlet rubbing Jims crotch with her knee? and what the hell is a licksmooch?

Bahhhh DVK you suck more than normal with this one, it looks like putting his strip on 'the flakes' has affected him mentally, just like all the other flakes writters.

Thanks, Rabbit, now I feel sick again! "LickSmooch"? EWW!

It showcases SteveM's beloved shading (all "twoards" the bottom of the drawing, not following any natural contours), but I particularly like the first scribble. Note Jim's...head things. Enormous bloodshot eyes and a mullet the size of the Sargasso Sea. And it's supposed to be her nose, but it looks like the pencil-thin moustache one normally associates with old cartoons of the French. All she needs is a beret, a loaf of really long bread, and a balloon saying a la Maurice Chevalier, "Ohn-ohn-OHN!!"
(3 people got that last ref--me, myself, and Splut)

Best bit, from the 'kins himself:
"I don't like this page as much as the others, but you'd have to stop at something and put it out eventually."
....
There's...quality control at Chez Davey?
One can only imagine the ones he didn't think worthy for public consumption. Imagine, and then SCREAM in TERROR.
Or at least groan "Ohn ohn OHN!" while hovering over the toilet. Like I did today.

Shifting subjects--How ya doing, Stevie? Are you motile yet?

Rabbit:
DON'T buy Porco Rosso! It's worth one viewing, and that's it. It's not terrible, but I hold my Myazaki's to the "Want to watch repeatedly" standard. PR is just...well, it started as a short, and there's a short's worth of plot. There's a lot of filler. The ending says "figure out what the movie was about yourself." It's worth a watching, but not worth owning.

Shifting subjects--How ya doing, Stevie? Are you motile yet?

Sure am, the only time I spend in bed now is sleeping time.
I have to wrear a back brace when I am not lying down, this means I cannot bend and must do everything through my legs.
I have almost no pain now, which is great but gives me a false sense of security. I have to be really careful about moving too quickly or trying to bend or twist my upper body.

I feel absolutely great however, but I am SOOO BORED!!!!!
I have been walking around the block and also walking in the local heated pool to try and build up the muscles I lost when I was injured.

I should be back at work in about 3 months time, I have to wait for the bone graft in my spine to take and then I need to start proper physio to build my body back up.

I have also stopped smoking the dreaded cigarettes, this is a great thing as I have been smoking since I was thirteen (yes, I was a naughty, naughty boy).

It's Friday night here and I am stuck at home again. I so want to go out anywhere and do anything, the boredom is really driving me insane. At the moment lighting a box of matches, one at a time, would be exciting.

I am going to look at a remote-control car kit tomorrow, that should give me something to do for a while. I can also chase the dog with it when I have finished putting it together.

But yes, I am feeling wonderful, thanks for asking.

I should add that I watched the dubbed version of PR, and I hear that the subbed version is different. But as I didn't want to watch it twice, I didn't check.

Jim put on the fursuit. So, he's inside the fursuit. But he's also outside of the fursuit, having a conversation with the fursuit, with no hint of just what the hell heppened.

Yep, this is classic Daveykins.

Edited by author 03-18-2005 09:46 AM
While catching up the reading, I developed several theories about what the hell DVK's notion of story-telling was with this latest offering. All but one are rejected-- meds balance ain't right. Is there an award for Most Painful Rendering of an Accent in Writing?

Rabbit: I'm a bit less down on Porco Rosso than Mijneer Splut, but that's because I got a free copy of a pirated Chinese sub. There's a lot of entertainment in the reading of the dialogue that way. It would have been a perfect character for Phil Hartman to voice (curse his crazy wife and the easy access to guns!). The Cat Returns isn't totally Miyazaki, but it's pretty darn good. I can't recall a bit of computer-assisted rendering in it, either-- Hooray for Studio Ghibli's old-school approach!

Steve: Hours of tedious diversion are available through your computer-- hunt down a demo of "Space Empires III". It's not QUITE real-time slower-than-light galactic conquest, but it FEELS like it! It is less likely to start a fire.

Words fail me:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16211571/
Read the artist's comments. Davey wants how much?!

Edited by author 03-18-2005 11:58 PM
The first donation of $50 or more will get the wallpaper, the commission, and the actual drawing for this wallpaper mailed to you.


<sarcasm>Yeah, I can see plenty of sane people giving DVK $50.</sarcasm>
But then again, the world is full of wierd people so there is probably someone that will anty up the cash.

Edited by author 03-19-2005 12:35 AM
the world is full of wierd people so there is probably someone that will anty up the cash.

Steve, are you using the Davey Dictionary? ;D

Explain to me, someone, why one wouldn't just right-click and resize this illustrious wallpaper for free? The one with no less than THREE blatant Foxfire brandings? And a "joke" that became trite, what, 7 years ago?

Are those blue strips supposed to highlights? Or are they the kind of neon crap ricers use on their stupid cars? Cuz I don't get how a light source could come from above and below and the side at the same time. Especially those butt highlights. They look like dyslexic smilies. (.P=. Like that.

And is she siting on the Little Prince's planet? Maybe it's PRINCE's planet, as it's purple. Davey's gonna party like his IQ is 79!

Uh-oh, she stuck her left hand in the tar baby! Is this a sign that his belovedly rascist stereotype Uncle Retardus Remus is going to make another appearance? I hope he brings that gorgeously drawn Mary Poppins Fresh along again!

edit: Man, how'd I miss this?
"Anyone who donates to my web site--especially twoard..."
Foxfire: Wrear things never change!

Steve, are you using the Davey Dictionary? ;D

Yup, it has been a long day and seeing DVK art at the end of it screws up my mind.

I did buy my remote control car, it's a Tamiya Baja King kit, nice, it should take me a few days to put together. Then it is time to turn part of the back yard into a dirt track.

Explain to me, someone, why one wouldn't just right-click and resize this illustrious wallpaper for free?

Yes, you could do that. Would you really want to though?

Are those blue strips supposed to highlights? Or are they the kind of neon crap ricers use on their stupid cars? Cuz I don't get how a light source could come from above and below and the side at the same time. Especially those butt highlights. They look like dyslexic smilies. (.P=. Like that.

I think Davey is trying to give some depth to his drawing, he should learn how to use a descending palete. Shading can make such a difference to coloured pictures.

And is she siting on the Little Prince's planet? Maybe it's PRINCE's planet, as it's purple. Davey's gonna party like his IQ is 79!

No, that is Davey's idea of a complex background, going from his past strips it is one of the most complex backdrops he has done for a while.

edit: Man, how'd I miss this?
"Anyone who donates to my web site--especially twoard..."
Foxfire: Wrear things never change!

I think you concentrated to much on my speeling :)
If he does not add at least on of his signature words per strip then I feel let down.

BTW that science article rocked, there is still a lot of stuff we know nothing about!

Hm, I think I'll just borrow Porco Rosso from my friend and save my money for Nausicaa. Thanks for the advice everybody. :)

In other news, there's another brilliant piece of performance art by Tasu over on DVK's forum. It's in the restricted section, so you might have to sign in to see it. It's sad that it's probably the only Jonathon Brisby fanart Davey will ever get.

I'm sorry to hear that Byron's still sick too. :( Poor kitty. I hope everything's ok.

Did you know...?
Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan on 9/13/85 -- a Friday the 13th.

As you can tell, I have a deadline and I'm using the opportunity to creatively procrastinate.

Re Byron: Again? Goodness, the little guy has to stop this! Take him to the vet, Bill. Better safe--and a few dollars lighter--than sorry. I hope it's just something he ate and not a virus.

I discovered another little item that just increases my desire to flee Jesusland. Actually, Patrick discovered it.

We visited an antique shop in my "home town" while I was home for Spring Break. I was enjoying myself, browsing through a few cat figurines and I'd just moved on to a display case with Elvis collectables when The Man Who Wants to Marry Me picked up a tasteless item to show me... a novelty jar that had engraved on the front: "Ashes of Liberal Democrats"

There's another store I'm never returning to.

Of course, he apologized profusely for several minutes afterwards (and many more the next day over the phone). I'm not a Liberal Democrat, but a Liberal Independent. I consider LD's my siblings in spirit and it kills me to see stuff like that.

It's also one more painful reminder that anyone who is or thinks like a Liberal isn't welcome in that area.

And people wonder why I'm so quiet in public. One slip and I could have ten Dittoheads trying to disembowel me through the eyesockets.

Whoa-ho-ho! Here's something I haven't seen in years. Warning: terrible, terrible writing and plot. And why'd David have to die? Why couldn't he just have been gagged and hung upside down with his eyes taped open as his captor reads SM:AK to him?

And why'd David have to die?

Just because!

I agree with the author, the death of Kintobar was just and required.

Hooray for Jamie Jeans.

I just watched Nausicaa and it was GREAT. Obviously the precursor to Mononoke--strong heroine, man's war on nature, and nobody's the "bad guy," they just have conflicting motives. I'm going to watch it again tomorrow before sending it back to Netflix, to see if I want to buy it.

Byron is fine since that one day. I'm keeping an eye on him.

Edited by author 03-21-2005 03:49 AM
Wow, the Schiavo case is one fscked up piece of shit!
We are not really seeing much about this in the media over here. I suppose our journos don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Wow, I just have to say again how fscked up that whole business is :(

Edit: Hooray for Big Toes, may Kill-Kill and the big B stay heathy and happy.

The Schiavo case really upsets me.

The poor woman is dead. Her brain is gone and will not be coming back. Her body just doesn't know it. If that were me I would want them to take out the feeding tube and break me up for the organ banks, because I'm not doing anyone any good as an empty husk. I've felt this way for years and have made it clear to my whole family.

That our Gummint is using her case as an opportunity to seize more power for the federal courts and prance around for a while on the "moral high ground" makes me ill. Don't they have, you know, federal issues to take care of? Doesn't the Shrub have Social Security to gut and a Constitution to deface? And let's not think about what sort of precedent this action is setting. *groan*

We get plenty of "news" from the US (or, as it's labelled here by law, 'news-flavoured processed 25% or less fact-based substance'), and at my generally abominable workplace, a gentle cheer went up the other day when it seemed they were going to be sensible and switch things off- and that bunch is pretty darn Christian by local standards (includes Urkrainian Orthodoxy!). When exactly did the word Hospital come to be synonymous with Ghoulatorium? I was under the impression that "do no harm" would include an injunction against driving the family of a headless corpse into homelessness.

Happier

We get plenty of "news" from the US (or, as it's labelled here by law, 'news-flavoured processed 25% or less fact-based substance'), and at my generally abominable workplace, a gentle cheer went up the other day when it seemed they were going to be sensible and switch things off- and that bunch is pretty darn Christian by local standards (includes Urkrainian Orthodoxy!). When exactly did the word Hospital come to be synonymous with Ghoulatorium? I was under the impression that "do no harm" would include an injunction against driving the family of a headless corpse into homelessness.

Happier news from the hospitals of the great white north: I's Uncle Ernst now.

OK, I'd delete that truncated message, but the attempt brings up an error message... from BLOGGER.COM! The internet's gone stupid!

Congrats on becoming an uncle Ernst!

Edited by author 03-21-2005 08:29 PM
That our Gummint is using her case as an opportunity to seize more power for the federal courts

Actually, it's the opposite of that, which is worse. Congress is overruling the judiciary, and basically saying "Do over!"

edit: It's worse, as it's unconstitutional. And do we really want congress to arbitrarily overturn court rulings when they think that they can get some political mileage out of it? What if, say, someone was found innocent of a murder charge, but they'd been demonized by the press/right wing enough that many people wanted him put to death anyway--should congress be allowed to overturn that verdict and have him killed?
(Which is another level of hypocrisy here--how many times have you someone who's pro-death penalty complain about "wasting our taxes keeping him in prison!" [Which is a myth--an execution costs more than life imprisonment] Since the "pro-life" crowd is always pro-death penalty, why aren't they complaining about the money that's been wasted for 15 years keeping a vegetable on life support?)

What really gets me mad is the utter hypocrisy--the Repubs don't care about those 2 cases in Texas, where the families DON'T want the plug pulled, and the hospitals are doing it because they can't pay. If she didn't have any money, the right wing would ignore her, just as it's ignoring them.

Edited by author 03-22-2005 06:01 AM
Hmmm. It seems that the rightist fundie Retardlican gang down there is actually under-cover Confuscianists-- if one is in reduced circumstances, it's because the universe itself judges them as DESERVING to be in reduced circumstances, and any attempt to help them is not only doomed, but in fact is contrary to the will of God.

(shudder)

I was reading an article earlier today that said that the right wing christians viewed this issue in the same light as abortion. How the hell does that work. The poor woman in question is brain dead according to everyone but her parents. Where is the correlation between this woman and an unborn fetus?

Bill, your country is going to pot. Time to put the Democrates in office, I think. Then again that was what the sane half of the world wanted last US election :O

Time to put the Democrates in office, I think.

Time for me to win Lotto and move to New Zealand, I think!
NZ, not Australia. Howard the Duck doesn't seem that big of an improvement over Dumbya to me.

Howard the Duck doesn't seem that big of an improvement over Dumbya to me.

Yeah, I agree, they both seem to be made from a similar mould.
From what I have seen the NZ PM seems like a sock puppet. At least we both know whose pulling the strings, I have no idea who is operating the NZ PM.
NZ is a very pretty country though, I visited it about 8 years ago on a work trip.

Time for me to win Lotto and move to New Zealand, I think!

Time for me to get off--er, on my tuchus and write that best-selling novel so I can reap the royalties and move outta here.

Damn, who woulda thought that one man would destroy the U.S.?

Edited by author 03-23-2005 05:24 PM
It's true, my kitten is evil.
Whilst reading 'The Register' the kitten decided that the laptop keyboard would be a great place to nap.

All of a sudden the address box started to fill with text as she walked and then sat on the keyboard.

Here is a transcript of her writtings, judge her level of evil for yourself.

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Edited by author 03-22-2005 04:58 PM
Wow. KKK alone is remarkably evil, and kitten seems to produce them in abundance. Sleep lightly!

(Edit: But... KK as in Killsy seems the opposite of evil. I'm too lazy to count K's to see if they divide better by 2 or 3. You're the one with the potentially evil beast, you do it.)

Ooo ooo ooo! New Tasu story on the Gonterboard. Highlights include Gontervania and a rifle that shoots pieces of furries.

Oh yah, Terry Schiavo. That's some messed up shit. Leave it to the Christian Right to muck around in people's personal affairs. I'm sure it's got something to do with abortion, it usually does.

An excerpt from Tasu's story, These furries have a cool scene where they dance and sing and seduce the man, but he punches them all in the baby maker, and then they loose their power.
What can I say, that is some freaked out sh*t!

I can't wait to see Davey's reply to this.

I can't wait to see Davey's reply to this.

Me neither, although I assume it'll just be DVK ignoring Tasu again.
It's not as great as Tasu's original story. The first paragraph is funny, but then it gets too violent, unlike Davey's strips of recent years. Davey's psychotic phase seems to have long since passed. Now, his strips are like suspended animation--nothing happens, and it happens verrrryyy slllooowlly. Who but Davey can churn out those "nothing happens for months or even YEARS" strips like he can?
And who else would want to?
Not that Tasu should. Or anyone. I just think that we're rapidly reaching the point where Davey ain't worth any effort beyond a yawn.

Edited by author 03-23-2005 01:11 AM
The Flakes has a comic with humor in it!
Take a look at 'Life In Puzzle' 2 of 13. It gave me a laugh, which is a first for a Flakes toon!

I just think that we're rapidly reaching the point where Davey ain't worth any effort beyond a yawn.

Yeah, I have seen glaciers that move quicker. Maybe it's time to find a new target?

"Your lives that I spit on are now nothing but a caricature of a cartoon drawn by a kid who is stupid!"

Quote from Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga. I need sleep desperately.

Edited by author 03-23-2005 04:37 PM
Bill, I hope KK feels better soon.
It sounds like Youngs disease is doing an entire loop around your family :(

Edit: DVK replies (sort of) to Tasu's post. Tasu a troll, no way Davey, he's just a normal human being and one of your greatest fans!

I love Tasu's concept drawing! It's either because of the pipe or the monocle, don't know which.

It's very early and I slept on my sense of humour:
"Nausicaa" is apparently some kind of classical Greek reference, and there's just and unfortunate choice of colour for her pants.

Cat bugs there are, oh yes-- either Byron sniffed up something on one of his EVAs or something rode in on your shoe (like the inexplicable kitty cold running through our 'hasn't been outside since September' population).

Well, if one sibling catches a bug, the other has to catch it. It's the law of nature.

I hope Killsy gets better. (Quit getting sick, you kids!)

This Schiavo case is dominating the airwaves. Cripes. What are these alleged pro-life people hoping for? That God will come down and make this woman's brain whole again if we keep her feeding tube hooked up?

I've been thinking lately that maybe I should have a living will. Because if I'm going to be in a vegetative state for the rest of my disabled life, I don't want to be alive. Kill me, ferchrissakes!

I think I'll discuss this with my dad when I go back home a week from now. And since he listens to Hannity and Limbaugh, he's probably adopted their opinions already... but I can always ask him if he'd be able to live with himself for making his braindead daughter suffer.

Frankly, in my opinion, keeping such a person alive when there's no hope for recovery is a cruel and selfish act. And the people who want to keep them alive can only keep suffering.

But those are my two cents. *leaps off soapbox and twists her ankle upon landing*

Cats and poo-- one of nature's most mysterious synergies! I'm sure all of us cat owners are largely immune to E.Coli infections thanks to constant exposure (guess what's three inches from my face as I type?).

twists her ankle upon landing

There's those that would say that allowing euthanasia in any circumstances would ensure that such a brief incapacitation would be your trip to the organ farm. These people are "stupid alarmists". I just heard an item on the radio that the parents were bugging a court in Georgia for a writ of Tubebackinher-- how the hell many jurisdictions are these people living in?! I thought the action was in Florida.

Simple solution: Give Schiavo's custody to her parents, but tell them they have to pay to keep her alive. Watch the Republicans run away fast. Will the Fundies offer money in place of prayers?
Since when is it "God's Will" that someone with a brain the consistency of a Slurpee live? Christian Scientists would say that the feeding tube is the Devil's work.

Thrill to backgrounds! Or a background.

Davey's got him some stumps! And fresh woodless pencils! And he's going to try his golly darndest to make some real backgrounds!

"I'm not too happy with how some parts of it came out of, but what the heck, Piro isn't an background god either and you all fawn over him."

Getting a little testy there, aren't we, Davey?

Wow, that's awful. What're all those computer-generated horizontal lines in panel 1? There's even one right through Jim's shoulder. I suppose that Davey used them because he can't draw straight lines (not a great sign for an artiste-wannabe), but even Photoshop has an erase tool.

More of Steve's beloved shading here. "What wallpaper pattern should we use on the lab wall?" "Oh, here's a good one-- Toddler's Random Grey Scribbling!"

Where are Scarlett's legs in panel 2? Note that her voluminous boobies shrink to accomodate word balloons.

As for the dialogue, I don't know where to begin. Yeah, she's either babysitting or giving Clinton jobs (hopefully not simultaneously), or showing off, whatever the hell that means.

Who's Piro?

Edited by author 03-25-2005 10:45 PM
I have came back from Dick Blicks and got some stumps well damn well learn how to use them you fool. For fscks sake, if you are going to put so little effort into shading then why bother shading at all? I thought programs like gimp and photoshop had tools that let you shade areas, I know Mimi uses them in Her work. Then again, this is Davey we are talking about.

Where are Scarlett's legs in panel 2?
What the hell happened to Jim's eyes in panel one?
Maybe Davey decided to try out his stumps.

On another note;
My laptop harddisk decided it did not want to be a harddisk anymore. It was not even showing up in bios or any utility I tried. After saying Fsck way too many times I decided a little kinetic therapy was in order. A quick whack with the ball of my palm (how much more fscked can it get?) and now it is working like a charm. This leaves me feeling very uneasy about the drive so a backup is being done. I was running some fairly intensive applications over the last 5 days, no stop. Maybe the drive just got tired?

Wooah, I go away for a bit, and even the cats get sick ;)

Steve, for what little i know, HDDs are temperamental things. I hear putting them in a freezer for a bit makes dead disks work for long enough to do a backup, and hitting them is standard procedure. (even if they aren't supposed to be hit or be dropped)

Piro's Megatokyo's artist. his comic's hugely popular.. i have never read it though, so i wouldn't know why.

Okay! tomorrow i'm going to swim! yay!

Piro's Megatokyo's artist.

I've only read a few Megatokyos and wasn't engaged by it, but at least I know the name. One doubts Scarlett PI will ever reach that recognition, beyond those of us who mock it.

I'll bet Davey is all pissed that NO ONE is noticing his stubby pencils, and is instead talking about some holidays involving that lame Jesus dude. "You all fawn over HIM!"

Stop reading if you don't want to see the Jesus Joke I came up with a decade ago. I was reminded today when the classical station played Haydn's "The Seven Last Words of Christ."
They were "I can see your house from here!"

"The Seven Last Words of Christ."
They were "I can see your house from here!"

Oh, that is good. I almost feel inclined to post it on a fundie website, just to stir up the shit.

Give Schiavo's custody to her parents, but tell them they have to pay to keep her alive.

I missed this until just now--She's only being kept alive because of the money her husband won in a malpractice suit over her brain injury.

Remember a month ago, when the Bushies rammed that "tort reform" anti-malpractice suit law through the puppet Congress?
She'd be dead already if they'd passed it before this.

It's not about "the sanctity of life." It's all about the power of money.
Hypocritical bastards.

She's only being kept alive because of the money her husband won in a malpractice suit over her brain injury.

All becomes much clearer now. Also I'm glad to hear that both your kids are on the mend. Our oldest cat goes psycho ninja when we try and give him meds. The best way I have found around this is to throw a towel over him and wrap him up. You still need two people to do anything with him however, unless you want to lose a lot of blood.

I was having a look at the thing on Auntie Beeb-- I notice in August 2003 Guv'ner Jeb wanted a "new guardian" appointed. I wonder if he had anyone in mind, or if the court didn't act simply because they were asked to pull names out of a hat. Hey! Jeb's sittin' pretty! Maybe HE could step in as court-appointed guardian and payee-of-record!

Good news on the kitties front, bar the actual presence of worms. Since the only cats I've had to give meds to were either teeny kittens or a 2.5lb 19-year old, I don't have any technique advice, other than to pass on this from a martial arts instructor: "Focus your intent."

On the last words of Christ-- Jim Carrey in an old stand up routine did something (vaguely) similar, followed by, "Man, I'm going to hell for that. And so is everyone that laughed." I'll bring the marshmallows.

I'm not sure if any of you guys have seen this yet, but I found this yesterday: The Rude Pundit

Be warned: you may get offended (not that he'd care). Or you may react the same way I did: slackjawed and unblinking for several minutes because you're paralyzed with shock and amazement.

In short: he's got a nasty mouth on him. But I think I'm going to enjoy reading the archives and future posts.

Edited by author 03-27-2005 01:33 AM
Comments from Davey's last work of beauty:

(edit: Oops, forgot the link)

Snarktastic: People fawn over Piro because, if they don't, he'll cry and commit seppuku. Ha. Damn wussy.

DVK: And me? People would love to watch me slice my wrists and would even put the tape on Al Jazera. Remind me to tell Piro the facts of life when I see him.

Again anyone who thinks he's a hack is the same as an Islamic terrorist! Hey, Davey: martyr-complex much?

("Al Jazera" is that Arabic all-jazz station. "Light jazz favorites to make your jihad jazzier!")

I guess that Piro is Davey's new Ken Penders.

You know, I just wanna log in to my rarely-updated Deviant Art account and tell Davey on his little comments page to shut up shut up SHUT THE DAMNED HELL UP about the terrorists already.

And maybe add that this self-pitying is sickening of a man his age.

But I won't, because he'll go check out MY account, check out my website, and possibly find the Comments from scouring my links... and he'd probably "draw" (for lack of a better word) strip 29 of Scarlet PI where Jim Good-gourd-almighty-is-this-guy's-intelligence-low takes temporary leave of the main storyline to pump fifty rounds of good ol' Republican-blessed American-born lead into "Fistlekits al Ackbar", Osama's most favorite "hore."

he'd probably "draw" (for lack of a better word) strip 29 of Scarlet PI where Jim Good-gourd-almighty-is-this-guy's-intelligence-low takes temporary leave of the main storyline to pump fifty rounds of good ol' Republican-blessed American-born lead into "Fistlekits al Ackbar", Osama's most favorite "hore."

Yeah--but it'd take him 32 weeks to complete it!

Like most doubleplus-good doublethinkers, the word "Osama" went down Davey's memory hole at the same time "WMD!" entered his vocabulary.
"WMDs" went down the tube around the same time "FREEDOM LIBERTY DEMOCRACY FREEDOM LIBERTY & SHIT!!!" replaced them.
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery!
Ignorance is Strength!!

Re Deviant Art acct--You've got one, so why is Davey begging for funds to keep his going? What does it cost?

I have a free account, but I think he has (or wants) the ads-free version with extra features.

The sad thing is that three months costs $7.95. Even on a MickeyD's income, he could afford that. Unless he's terrible with money...

At least he's not looking into the other services that DevArt advertises. What a laugh that'd be.

Yay for Boondocks and more Venture Brothers!

http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=8933

hey-- do you have the link for the site where they dress up the cats in cute froggy hats and such? There is a damsel, the villian, hero, sheriff and so on...

CAT TOWN!
http://www.spatch.net/cattown/

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING? THAT'S VERY RUDE.

HA HA HA

Bwahahaha! Bill, you gotta check out the new Get Your War On strips! I personally like the sixth strip. (That's what we need in this country: zombies!)

Thanks, it's really funny and harsh in GYWO's way, but I saw it already. Because I am THAT COOL.

I'm going to see Steamboy in an actual (if small) theater tmw, as I am THAT COOL. On the other appendage, I have a feeling that the movie will not be that cool. However, I'm going for free. Which is THAT C--oh, you know what.

Edited by author 03-28-2005 05:13 PM
Davey has delusions of grandure, he thinks people all over the net will 'masterbate' to a film of him dying! Go ego Go! I know that I may clap, but 'masterbate', um no Davey, not likely.

Now that's more like our Davey of old! This Piro-hate is the type of stuff that led to such classiques as "NiTRO" and "Sally Rescue"! Too bad Mimi's dropped off the comments, or BBC could incite a war...

I just can't masturbate to his works. Can I menst... no. Too icky a joke, even for Davey. Forget you read this post.

Jerry Falwell in critical condition from his second case of viral pneumonia.

I'm conflicted. I don't like the guy--I find him disgusting, in fact, especially after his comments on 9/11--but I don't want to be a jerk and, you know, revel in this news.

Or do I? No, really, I don't know how I should feel about this.

Edited by author 03-29-2005 11:42 PM
You beat me to that!

My opinion:
"Remember Jerry Falwell, the creator of the Moral Majority and hirer of prostitutes? Wouldn't it be AWESOME if he became brain-damaged and was put on a feeding tube? Because it WOULD, is just all."

edit: Like HE never reveled in being a jerk. That was his whole CAREER.
Good riddance.

So, ummmm... are we to take it that God isn't lifting him up on silken wings in a big fat rapture? Unless having a machine inflate your chest for a while is in Revelations. Oh, hey, wouldn't it be funny if he did get all raptured up into heaven, but his sinful breathing machine wasn't allowed to come too. An eternity of laboured gasping!

I've just started reading a book called "Pagan Christ" by Tom Harpur-- prehops Jerry has been thrown into a twitter at the thought that his personal saviour is just a recasting of Horus, who apart from being older and occasionally hawk-headed, does seem to have the same secret super-origin as this Jesus kid. Rob Leifeld's not the ONLY plagerist!

The more I think about it, the more I realize that I shouldn't abstain from feeling some (read: shitloads) of joy.

Jerry Falwell would never feel compassion for me: a pro-choice, agnostic liberal. If I were in his place, he'd be saying I'd wind up in the fires of Hell and that I'd deserve it.

Besides, when Rush went into rehab, some liberal pundits offered their sympathy... but being a natural-born jerk, Rush never thanked them for the sentiments. He never opened his eyes to see that some of his enemies could be truly caring people. He went on being the asshole he still is today, railing against liberals and Democrats, spitting the thickest venom his cancerous mouth could produce.

If Falwell were to recover from this, he wouldn't thank his opponents for their well-wishing.

Who wants to dance on his grave? Or better yet, use it as the new location for a port-a-potty?

(This almost makes me wanna watch the 700 Club to see what their reaction to the news is.)

Ernst: "sinful breathing machine" made me burst into uncontrolled fits of giggles. That's gonna be hard to get outta the noggin. ;)

Is this why Davey was whining for money?
http://daveykinsfoxfire.deviantart.com/
Cuz he ain't got no DevArt page no more?

Edited by author 03-30-2005 11:19 PM
Cuz he ain't got no DevArt page no more?

Umm, I am not sure what you mean. It works for me and he has just added 4 new pictures.
Maybe you tried as he was updating or something, or am I missing something really obvious?

Edit: He has posted a new Scarlet strip. He claims he has used the stumps on this one to smooth the shading, I wish I could tell where!

Edited by author 03-30-2005 11:29 PM
I tried and tried, but all I can get is a page (with his url) that's an ad for a Deviant Art con.

Any Americans getting in? And Steve, could you post a direct link to one of those nightmares pictures?

edit: Oh, wait, you just did. Still can't see it. Lemme try (ugh!) IE instead of Netscape.
No, that's not it...I guess we'll have to wait for independent corroboration from another source.

edit edit: "There are just hours left to get tickets for $55, before the price increases to $75! Register today and save!"
Since it's already tomorrow in Oz, maybe this is US only, and they're pre-empting the free pages? (I don't have Fistlekits' account url handy; maybe she could check)

Edited by author 03-30-2005 11:38 PM
Oh yeah, I saw that earlier today. I think there is somewhere that you need to click to move forward. It was quite a while ago and I can't remember where the link is, but I do remember there being a link to click.

Edit: FK's site works for me as well. Look for the link to move forward, it must set a cookie.

Edited by author 03-31-2005 12:43 AM
I think there is somewhere that you need to click to move forward.

Ah, yes. Way at the bottom.
Possibly I was just hoping that he'd lost his account.

Well, let's take the tour...

Scahlett P.Ahh:
Remember when Scarlett O'Hoogivesadamn was like 8 feet tall? Now she's shorter than Jim Goodgay. I guess that it's some fantasy sequence or shit. But I'll also guess that Davey will use that as a backfill excuse if anyone points it out.

Chrast, could thah convahsation have anymore fucking faux Suth'n patois, hunnychile? And hasn't every human being thought from time to time that they're a lab experiment? Every human Davey's talked to, I'm sure.

Panel 3: WTF's with Scahlehtt's haid? It all messed up!

Davey comment: "Awwwww.....Scar does a little bit of existential agnst....how cute."
Only he would look up how to spell "existential," and not look up "angst." Agnst, yeah, that looks like a word in "Egnilsh."

http://www.deviantart.com/view/16696635/
"Eventually I have Cindy meeting with her new life half-way and adopt a 'Business Casual' style when she's not in her princess gown."

Yeah...Medieval times were famous for their Casual Fridays! No, wait, they were famous for their "Plague Years." This makes the exact same sense as any woman going to work in 2005 while dressed as Cinderella. It'd work on 10/31, but on any other day, abrupt unemployment would follow.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16696072/
Peter Pan for the 00's! With his bugged-out cross eyes and gaping drooling mouth, I guess that Davey's prime influence was Terry Schiavo's zombie corpse. "Uuuurrrk."

He's more "cosmopolitan" with his crotch-grabbing action. Yes, Davey has worked in another media obsession: Peter is the 19th century's Michael Jackson, complete with gloved hand, crotch-grabbing, and underage boys going to Neverland. And he has the weirdest little damn nose you ever did see!

"There is a reason why I listed Barrie and NOT Disney." Well, I'm guessing that The Internet's Most Dangerous Plagiarist put a (c) (his first ever, I think) on Barrie's out-of-copyright work means that the little wuss really IS a-scared of Eisner's lawyers.

Oh and he's based on Link, but you don't see a copyright on that name. And Peter Pan was similiar to Link, as they wore green pointy hats. So do many lawn gnomes. Sodomy the InExOb Lawn Gnome would KICK YOUR ASS, Peter Pan Lancelot Link, then BANG IT!

"But what can I say, he has a fetish for tights ;)"
...
Yeah. HE'S the one that does.
Watcha wearin', Davey?

From "my upcomming story," which will certainly be themed "Why I'm Better than Peter Pan":
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16695868/

"Who's the cat with the bigger mullet?"
"KINS!"
"Who's the cat who won't cop out, when his bigger sword is out?"
"KINS!"
"I hear that Kins is a BAAD--"
"SHUT YO' MOUTH!"
"Just talkin' about the fact that Davey can shoot comets from his anus!"
"Then we can di--No, wait, ass-comets? Sorry! We don't dig that AT ALL!"



edit:
Umm...did anyone else take a second look at that last Peter Pan pic, and start to wonder if Davey, at age 35...still has imaginary friends? And I don't mean that as a joke. That's actually depressing.

That last thing, with the two poorly drawn guys... is there a hint of tentacle hentai going on? Or just some other half-assed crap his style doesn't make clear?

in a pose taken from Omnimucha III (I think I've butchered that name)

Is there a series of anthologies of the Penthouse-published pop science magazine of the 1980's that I'm unaware of? Or is he referencing "Onimusha", the wildly popular, easy-to-find-online-references-to Playstation game?

Why the hell am I asking so many questions? Rhetoric? Comedy? Can anyone stop me?

Edited by author 03-31-2005 01:19 AM
Umm...did anyone else take a second look at that last Peter Pan pic, and start to wonder if Davey, at age 35...still has imaginary friends? And I don't mean that as a joke. That's actually depressing.

Umm, no all I thought was 'sperm wars'. Yes sick isn't it!

My eyes burnt from the first Pan pic, someone has commented on the creepy nature of it as well. Daveys reply - "Well, it was a parliminary sketch. I might be working on the eyes later on." Umm, yeah Davey, I bet you have a desktop document just full of these lame ass replies and all you do is copy and paste from it.

Edit: speeling and then I noticed parliminary WTF is that, some form of pre-parliament??

I was going to post a link to the Terri Schiavo blog, it made me laugh, but then I'm sick that way. I then figured that everyone here can use google if they want to find it, Urrrrrk!

Scarlet comic make brain hurt. The accent aside - I guess his Sonic works have deadened me - alla sudden Scarlett doesn't know where she came from and is angsting all about it? When just moments ago story-wise she was Miz Exposition, happily telling Jim all about everything, including how he's gonna take over his brain and help him seduce straights? And Jim put her on, but now she's talking to him while... oh, FUG IT. I'll go back to savaging editing Nuklear Age!

Inability to spell 'Onimusha' aside, perhaps Gontling Bland has noticed that the female figures in manga and anime are addled with angst (the Miyazaki heroines less so, but it's there), and figures his should be the same. It would be an encouraging examples of an excursion outside his own head if that were the case, even if it was just to the Island of Otaku.

Edited by author 03-31-2005 01:39 PM
I'm so damned disappointed.

Edited by author 03-31-2005 03:18 PM
Only he would look up how to spell "existential," and not look up "angst." Agnst, yeah, that looks like a word in "Egnilsh."

Maybe he meant 'existential agnostics'??

FK, methinks you worry too much about politics, stances and the such. Politics isn't a variable that oughta affect how you live or feel, far as i know. it's good to be informed, but it's not good to be annoyed by it. then again, maybe you're just joking all the time, or maybe i worry too much. plus these two cents come from a place where votes are still sold on a regular basis, and democracy is taking baby steps... towards DOOM!

Here's a kitty to cheer up y'all.

Edited by author 03-31-2005 04:45 PM
Bummer, just when I thought that Falwell was going join the worlds newest craze - Feeding Tubes. If it's good enough for the Pope, then it's good enough for You!

Edit: Great timing on that joke Steve, Terri has died.

Edited by author 03-31-2005 04:53 PM
I wish they'd depose the Pope so that he could have his health problems in peace and not scrutinized by the world at large, eagerly watching with a magnifying lens.

At least now Ms. Schiavo is at peace, hopefully in a better place. I don't get why most christian/catholic religions mind euthanasia, if it means a faster way to the afterlife. (living is awesome, but in both religions afterlife is supposed to be MORE awesome9

religions afterlife is supposed to be MORE awesome9

Especially if you're Muslim and you blow yourself and a whole bunch of innocent people up with you. Young Virgin Girls By The Bucket Load, or so they say. As far as I know no-one has reported back confirming this theory.

FK, methinks you worry too much about politics, stances and the such. Politics isn't a variable that oughta affect how you live or feel, far as i know. it's good to be informed, but it's not good to be annoyed by it. then again, maybe you're just joking all the time, or maybe i worry too much. plus these two cents come from a place where votes are still sold on a regular basis, and democracy is taking baby steps... towards DOOM!

I'm just really disappointed that my country has become what it is now. The hypocrisy is just amazing and I can't believe what lengths some people will go to to gain control of other people's lives. I mean, our president touts our alleged freedom to the rest of the world, but is obviously seeking to repress those who don't agree with him or who aren't like him.

And the fact that some people eat this crap up like it was decadent chocolate covered in rasperry sauce.

Half the time I do joke about this stuff. The rest of the time, I really worry what's going to become of this country.

Cutest catpic EVAR!

So they finally stopped playing Weekend at Bernie's with that poor woman's body. A blow struck for all that is good and rightous in the world.

I'm writing a paper on this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120866/
It be good. The architecture and fashion is a hybrid of ancient Rome and twentieth century. The only colors used in the design are black, white, silver, gold, and blood red.

Bill - actually, it's "ungoodthink." They've eliminated "bad" because they have the negation of its opposite. You'll get your copy of the 11th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary in a few weeks.

Cutest catpic EVAR!

Yay! someone noticed.

Edited by author 04-01-2005 09:43 AM
I believe it was in 1983 that I was shopping at a local store, and found a bright orange rectangular foil package labelled, in yellow and black, "Victory Candy". It wasn't the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth, but it was certainly an unsuccessful candy (like non-medicinal Fisherman's Friend; one of the major ingredients was linseed oil). I thought, given the date, "How horribly appropriate."

Personally, I prefer Huxley. Slightly less depressing. Speaking of depressing, I heard a fairly bold statement from the Catholic church on the Sciavo deal, in which I think they're laying the groundwork for having the current pope kept in office until the flesh actually falls off his bones.

Edited by author 04-01-2005 06:34 PM
c'mon guys, lay off the Pope. I rarely whine at the religion-bashing, being loosely catholic, but in this case the Pope hasn't done anything wrong, save the occasional catholic-dumb-thing enforcing. I believe he doesn't deserve the morbid attention media is giving, everyone trying to beat everyone to tell the world he's gone, to make it worse here. Catholicism might have a lot of things wrong, but in this case it's a human being, and one who's tried to do good things for everyone.

Edited by author 04-01-2005 08:46 PM
Ha Ha, Davey got Fooled!

It appears he read this and got all steamed up!

They have now posted this explaining that is was a joke.

Look at the date Davey!

I was listening to one of my fav podcasts and the author tried a similar thing. He had me giong for a moment until I remembered that I get to suffer about 2 days worth if this crap due to my time-zone.

Edit: I screwed up the Kevin Devin URL by not putting http:// in front of the domain name. Stupid Quick Topic, you should know what I mean.

Random thought of the day:

The slogan of the Democratic Party ought to be "It's better than bad, it's good."

That is all.

This just in:
Pope John Paul leaps up in bed, screams "APRIL FOOL!" and runs around room giving cardinals wedgies. Film at 11.

I wish. Yeah, he's backward on reproduction, but, as I like to say when the topic of Intelligent Design comes up, "Even the POPE believes in evolution! And he doesn't strike me as a secular humanist!"
He was against invading Iraq from day one. Bush claiming he's praying for him is just more of W's trademarked hypocrisy.

Edited by author 04-01-2005 11:36 PM
Backtracking a hit I got, I found that the InExOb is Yahoo's #1 site for "Super Green Beret." But only #2 on Google.

Google ad on the search result:

"Super Green Beret
Super Green Beret - Good Or Evil?
Vote & Get $100 Free To Eat Out!
BestVote.net"

I vote EEEEEVIL!
(Actually, I didn't vote. Not with all the info those spam merchants wanted)
I'll bet that you'd get to eat at a place that serves delicious wild goaded pig!
...or boar. Or peccary. Or tapir. Or Viet Congses.


edit: Umm, why are my lame Google ads here lame like the one I just mentioned? They're all about LAGOS. Not Legos, Lagos. Lagos as in the capital of Nigeria. Lagos Singles, Lagos Jewelry, "Totally Free Deals on Lagos."

I response to Zef-- I feel huge sympathy for JPII, as it's clear from the way he's been crushed out of shape by the job that it's way more than waving at crowds and flicking water. He used to be an ecclesiastical Robin Williams, for mook's sake! When the vultures started gathering outside the Popecave last night, commenting that "That light in that window isn't usually on at this time of night!", I wondered how long it would be before they brought in the helicopter with wall-penetrating FLIR cameras.

Anyone remember the full day of "water from a height" shots which the crash of JFK Jr. provoked? Bet we all get REALLY familiar with Vatican architecture.

On the subject of foolishness-- nationstates.net got 'shut down' by Homeland Security yesterday for suggesting alternative government styles. It was very convincing, but for the Orwell ref at the end. (Hmmm-- maybe the joke's gone awry; gettin' a lot of CONNECTION REFUSED out of them now...).

Okay, so it's gonna take me scads o' eons to catch up on the past month here, and especially since I'm still solely-library-kompyuter-enabled, that's gonna take me a while, speed-reader or no.

Still, it's lovely to see tout ici, and as further thanx, here's a lil' linky-loo: http://www.themoggy.com/olympics.htm

Lav, I actually kinda liked that movie. Of course, it was partly because of Taymor's muy interesante approach to art direction, and partly because I will go see absolutely anything that has Jonathan Rhys Meyers in it (though Titus once more made me beg the question of whether it's written into his contract that his bare ass has to be in EVERY one of his movies).

And Zeffy, dearest--I'll be writing to you next, promise! I'm not sure what scandalizes me more--the fact that Jolette hasn't gotten thrown off yet, or that Azteca found it necessary to zero in on her cold sores like that! (Trans. for everyone else: y'all are missing ten kindsa fun on Mexican tv, I gotta tellya.)

Big hugs to todos from the Left Coast geekage! :D

This creeps the hell out of me: http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html
Even your own BRAIN lies to you!

Even your own BRAIN lies to you!

If it wasn't so, i bet insanity would ensue. I know i'd be crazier if my mind didn't keep me in check.

Even your own BRAIN lies to you!

Wow, that is a bad clip to watch before the first coffee!

I have always liked this.

It is great to watch peoples faces the first time they see it.

I'll chip in: March of the Octopodes!
And on the Moggy Horde-- man, I thought our bunch were given to odd sleeping habits before I saw that.

Edited by author 04-03-2005 08:37 PM
It's kinda good that Bill's so slow to update the news. It gave me time to post this in some sort of context.

Bet we all get REALLY familiar with Vatican architecture.

yeah, here it was terrible. constant,
24 hour coverage. and it had been going on for quite a while, too.

When the vultures started gathering outside the Popecave last night...

THIS Should've happened.

I couldn't resist... plus it's not like i'm making fun of him.. i bet would've liked to upgrade the Popemobile like that. heck, who wouldn't?

Awesome Dino Zef!

Edited by author 04-03-2005 08:37 PM
It's kinda good that Bill's so slow to update the news.

Well, I'm glad you like it! Since there was that time I said, "I need a break from constantly posting for a while." And that was April 2004.

Seriously--"Pope is still Dead," why is that news? Shouldn't they be reporting on the candidates for his job now?
Fill me in when the purple smoke is released.

BTW, page is updated. Just a pair of cat pics.

Today my mother told me she did not start drinking until after I was born, but that there's no correlation between the two events.

Also someone ELSE who will remain UNNAMED went into this long spiel about how Noam Chomsky is the devil because he bad-mouths the American government, then went on an EQUALLY long spiel about how the gummie-ment is evil. Like that one Marge Simpson quote, "You don't even know what you're being ignorant about right now!"

I just finished Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns, and it defines the word "delightful."

http://www.wketchup.com/

Sadly, I have no idea whether this is meant to be a joke or not.

Gray: I wrote about that in my blog quite a while back. I think it's real.

Looks like anything these days can and will be used as a political tool.

Edited by author 04-04-2005 07:42 PM
Looks like anything these days can and will be used as a political tool.

On the same vein, it took me a bit to find the transcript and check if i had heard properly. (mexican newscaster was trying to translate when i heard it first)

""It is these truths, he said, which have led people all over the world to look to America with hope and respect. "

Bush, after the pope passed away.

Is it me, or he sounds WAY too full of himself there?

Zef:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Bush, after the pope passed away.
(After some minutes of sputtering indignation) I have this terrible picture of him saying these things with that crappy "dunce with shoe-lace conumdrum" look on his face which he seems to think looks magisterial, all the while with his hand down his pants.

...and he's not checking that his cross-covered diapers are on right-way up, either.

A Terri Schiavo TV movie is in the works! Huzzah. (via TBogg)

If there's a Hell, I might be going there for laughing at this. (And Jim Carrey's take on the Crucifixion and Denis Leary's Christ-Elvis impersonation.)

A Terri Schiavo TV movie

Well at least the female lead will only have to learn one line, 'Urrrg'.
Now I am going to hell!

Bumper sticker sighting: Prune Bush.

I love this. The people it's aimed at will cheer, the people who would be offended by it are too dumb to get the joke. For that reason I dub it The Perfect Bumper Sticker.

But doesn't it lead to confusion of This kind?

yeah, here it was terrible. constant,
24 hour coverage. and it had been going on for quite a while, too.

Ditto here, at least from the Anglo-who-watches-copious-amounts-of-Spanish-language-tv. Doesn’t matter if it’s Univision, Telemundo or Azteca America, for the past week or so it’s been Solamente El Papá, Todo El Tiempo...except from 7-11 p.m. when they resume novela programming. Priorities, ya know...ohhh baby, you know what I like!

Is it me, or he sounds WAY too full of himself there?

Or at the very least, Bush once more rampantly disproves that Canada is the country that “produces more waste per person than any other country.”

Owing to rampant gastrointestinal unhappiness, I’ve been down for the count the past few days, and am actually only here at the library to help mi amiga/tutee Régine with a school assignment, which is why I have yet to attend to certain drastically-overdue emails (and y’all know to whom I’m apologizing here--the one to whom I think I forgot to mention that Jean Reno IS going to be in The DaVinci Code movie, just in a role predictably secondary to Tom Hanks).

Still, Bill will hopefully appreciate the fact that the other day on the 32 bus home I elicited all manner of strange looks as I continually lapsed into helpless giggles whilst reading the New 80 I’d printed out. One can only be thankful for having endured a painfully ostracized geeky adolescence, as it tends to result in an ‘adulthood’ largely immune to social censure (though wordy pedanticism is of course still a work-in-progress, alas).

All this, plus new kittypix accompanied by a description of their hilarious hijinks. My cup runneth over! (Of course, that’s why I wear a Minimizer, y’know...whoops, TMI, never mind.)

I spent 16 seconds and 9/10 seconds looking for Hitler.

That was easier than finding [paste name of deity/non-existant Iraq-based weapons/Teamster's Union president here]!

I spent 16 seconds and 9/10 seconds looking for Hitler.

DUH, obviously you just took MY HINT ("He looks liek teh HITLER") and STOLE IT!!!!

DUH, obviously you just took MY HINT ("He looks liek teh HITLER") and STOLE IT!!!!

Yeah, it only took me 12 and 8/10 seconds using your excellent Hitler hunting method!

It would have been more of a challenge if they hadn't used just the frowny war-time "Hitler Classic" photos. Toss in a couple of his 1922 "Adolphus the Amusing" mime-act promotional shots, or the group photo of him at his chum Julius Feinberg's bar mitzvah when he was a wee nipper, and those times will climb!

I agree with Ernst. 10 Sec.and 4/10 Sec. PWNED.

Edited by author 04-07-2005 11:19 AM
Oh, Bill, you're just jealous that I have 1337 Hitler-finding sk1llz.

Yeah, it only took me 12 and 8/10 seconds using your excellent Hitler hunting method!

And Steve has 13373r Hitler-finding sk1llz than either of us.

EDIT: Zef is the 13373s7 of them all!

It would have been more of a challenge if they hadn't used just the frowny war-time "Hitler Classic" photos. Toss in a couple of his 1922 "Adolphus the Amusing" mime-act promotional shots, or the group photo of him at his chum Julius Feinberg's bar mitzvah when he was a wee nipper, and those times will climb!

Oooh, find baby Hitler! Or find Mrs. Hitler carrying the future Fuhrer! Find the evil sperm that'll create Mr. Master Race!

I wish I knew Flash and had better Photoshopping skills.

I wish I knew Flash and had better Photoshopping skills.

Not that these PS were the gr3at3st..

Noodle Ball Z:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/763386/1/

If you hit yourself in the head with a brick a few times before reading it, it's even FUNNIER!

Bill - Re sleep deprivation and hunger, that makes all kinds of sense to me. I wake up in the AM starved, and I only get about 4 hours of sleep a night. But on the weekends, after 8-10 hours of sleep, "Food? Oh, yeah, I guess I ought to eat something..."

How tall are you?

How tall are you?

Huh?
Oh, to compare with my weight. 5 7, 135 lbs. So, pretty skinny.

Heh, ya got me. Your BMI comes out as 21.1, which is on the slightly low side of normal. I'm 5'5", 103 pounds, which gives me a BMI of 17.1, and a cookie on my computer that causes the CDC site to ask me for my contact info every time I visit there. 8^p

(Actually, mine is not so bad. I have a very small frame.)

I was surprised when I weighed myself and saw 135. I usually run in the 125-130 range. But I guess that it's been winter, and I'm not getting my twice a week miles-long walk in the state park, as I hope to start doing again next week.

I have a "scrawny frame" in the sense that "I make stick figures look fat." I was even accused of being "a male anorexic" at my last job, by a boss an inch shorter and 50 pounds heavier than me. He regularly would have an Ultra Slim Fast with his lunch of 2 bacon cheeseburgers.

Edited by author 04-08-2005 12:17 AM
Ellie--err, Fistlekits, pointed out something I didn't notice--You get different "Find Hitler" pics if you play it again. Funnier ones.

edit: There's one with NO Hilter, just a bunch of NATO Leaders. I clicked on Bush, and that counted as a Hitler...

current music: Cute and high-pitched little deaf cat squeaky noises, while Byron bats a thing across the kitchen floor.

Holy SHIT, the "thing" turned out to be a live earthworm he'd dragged in from the common hallway! Out the window you go, worm, hopefully to not be tortured by crazy little cats!

new current music: Byron looking for the worm.

I always feel awkward with greetings, so I'll just drop right in. I used to be a regular reader of your news section, but for reasons I won't go into here, I had to stop visiting my favourite websites.
The last time I was here, you had just gotten Byron home; I'm amazed at how big he's grown -- and how much of a kitten he still is. He's definitely the feline equivalent of a college jock. (Kill Kill would have to be a pre-med student. Or maybe a lawyer.) This might seem like an odd request, but is there any way you can record their 'songs' so that your readers can get to know what you have to sleep through? ;)

I've been called anorexic too. That's a good way to get me angry. Very thin does not necessarily equal anorexic! I eat, I enjoy eating, I just don't go overboard with it like most Americans do. I also get a fair amount of exercise, between walking a whole lot (no car) and DDR.

Ah-heh. Sorry, I had to rant a little. It's a touchy subject with me. People I don't know have asked me for pro-Ana info recently. Argh!

Ultra Slim Fast plus burgers. Heh, until someone patents the anti-calorie, ain't gonna work! And there were such a thing can you inagine the binging that would cause?

So elegant:
http://pics.livejournal.com/jacksonpublick/pic/00001q04/g3

I've probably linked to this before, but here it is again. YOU'LL CLICK IT AND LIKE IT.
http://www.chrisis.org/lace_onscreen/vb1map.html

DAVEY UPDATE ALERT

Gah, YUK! They're kissing! Sure, he's "gay," but Davey knows that NO MAN can resist frenching a big fucking squirrel.

In the comments:

Davey puts a (sp?) after the word "solivent" (I guess he means "solvent," although I think "paid up" would make more sense), but he STILL spells it "wrearing."

"Personally, I think that she would take a pair of jim's pants and make them into cut-off shorts if that's what Diasy Dukes are ^-^ and find a T-shirt or Buff in his dresser that could cover her assets. (But then again, she'd just let them bob freely at this time.)"

Bob Freely...hey, I think I went to school with him!
...wait, he means "bounce her android skunk titties"! AUUUGH!

He hints again at the "gay is a choice" thing, as Jimmy might be bi. Or he might be a FUCKING FREAK, as the only woman who's ever turned him on IS A GIANT TALKING POSSUM.

Steven King wrote a book called "Mystery." Any bets on Davey having never read the book, just seen the movie? The movie "Mystery"? Thank you, Davey the Retarded Ebert.

DAVEY UPDATE ALERT

I love the way Davey gets called when Jim kisses Scarlet and his response, "Jim is Teh Gay and he can kiss a girl if he wants", "he might even be Bi, I cannot remember!!My characters have a life of their own, I am not resposible for what they do."

Oh the Misery!

Oh, blarg. If Jim is gay, as he identifies himself, it's unlikely he'd be attracted to a female right off the bat like that. Bi is fine - I can personally attest to that - but you don't just flipflop like that without some soul-searching.

Actually, since he's both inside the suit and outside of it, he's making out with himself. In fact, if they head to the bedroom he'll go f... no, I'm not that crass. let's just call it masturbation.

Hey, speaking of weird-ass comics! El Incredible HomoPater!

I wager El Incredible HomoPater is more doctrinarly sound than Battle Pope, but probably no where near as funny. Although "chastity pants" has all sorts of comedy potential....

I wonder if Davey is inviting his loyal wrearders to strap him to a bed and shatter his ankles? I suspect he'll be disappointed to discover that his work doesn't stir THAT much passion.

re Davey: *bites knuckles* I'm thankful I have a lot of self-control at this moment.

How rude of me! I got all Davey'ed up and forgot about Pcat! Welcome aboard!

"Favourite"? You Canadian, eh?

"is there any way you can record their 'songs' so that your readers can get to know what you have to sleep through? ;)"

There prly is a way, but I don't know how to do anything on a computer.
I generally don't have to sleep through them, as they generally sleep with me. The only noise that can't be ignored is the dreaded Byron Siren. Seriously, it sounds like he's fallen tail-first into a woodchipper.

There prly is a way, but I don't know how to do anything on a computer.

Bill, get yourself a cheap headset from Best Buys or a similar computer store. Connect the microphone lead to the input of your sound card and the speaker lead into the headset or speaker output of your soundcard.
You can then use windows sound recorder (it is found under accessories) to record the kitties for us and also Skype to talk to people for free!

Yep. I'm from the country to the north that actually thinks things through. To bring it back to your cats again, we're Kill-Kill while the US is Byron. I mean, I just can't see how 51% of Americans would vo--
...I have no idea where that rant came from. I apologize.
Aaaaanyway -- what SteveM said. You can buy stand-alone microphones relatively cheaply as well.
And I'm frightened that Davey-kins is still drawing -- and in a style that's barely unchanged from when he started. I suspect he learned to tune out his critics -- and tuned out those who were trying to make friendly suggestions, too. Or maybe not; you'd think his PLOTS would evolve over the years, at least.

Actually, sometimes Davey has asked for criticism, gotten it, and changed his works based on that. I was one of the beta readers for a project or two. However, I don't think he learned anything. He seems uninterested in putting forth the effort it would take to improve his work; he's content to settle back in the old, easy style and never rise above it.

The best artworks I've seen from him are his oldest. He had his college (!!!) art portfolio online loookg ago, and his life drawings were better than what you see now. (Not good, mind you. They left me wondering how they got mutants to pose for his class.) And some old Sailor Moon drawings, which were obviously copied, were better than his current stuff. However, again, he didn't learn from those.

It's not that 51% of Americans voted for The Shrub, Pcat, but 51% of those who voted voted for him. There's a significant difference. If he'd had better opposition than Kerry, he'd have been out on his ear. As it was, "Well, at least he's not Bush" is not a wonderful vote-motivator. That he got so close is a pretty clear testament to how much so many of us wanted Bush out.

Edited by author 04-09-2005 03:38 PM
That he got so close is a pretty clear testament to how much so many of us wanted Bush out.

And the amoeba had the nerve to call it a mandate. (EDIT: The 51% thing, of course.)

Of course, looking at the news now, we can see that it's not going well for Bush 2.0. Bless the Second-Term Curse.

I've never quite understood the problem with Kerry-- OK, he looks like a bit of a zombie and isn't a real firecracker at speechifyin', but from what I could tell from my own little igloo, it looked like he thought about stuff... oh, wait, I get it. Nervous-making for the deep south.

Speaking of igloos-- two weeks ago, -20c (for you degrees F followers, halfway between freezing and -40; you do the math) outside. Today, +21c, which is comfy room temperature. Crazy ol' wobbly Earth!

51%, my ass. Funny how every exit poll directly matched how the voting came out--except in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida where they used Diebold machines. Why did thousands of people polled in the most important swing states vote for Bush, then claim they voted for Kerry?

Of course, as the Diebolds leave no record, it'll never be proven that he rigged the election. Which was the point.

"Ultra Slim Fast plus burgers. Heh, until someone patents the anti-calorie, ain't gonna work!"

Dude, they should TOTALLY market the anti-matter burger. When it touches the matter in your belly, it results in a powerful explosion that just melts the fat away.

Wouldn't work. What would they wrap it in? You can't make paper out of antimatter, everybody knows that. Plus, even if you could, it'd explode as soon as you bit in. While this would make for a great episode of "Candid Camera," I don't think it would do well on the market.

Wouldn't work.

Why let logic stiffle a really good idea? Go the Anti-Mac.

*pokes head in to show everyone I'm still alive, sees Davey's latest post and comments, retires to plunge head repeatedly in bucket of iced water*

Hey everyone, remember that Pop Star manga I did a few months ago? It scored a runner-up spot in Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga Comp.

I AM still here, just sans computer. Mr Mimi and I are moving to our new place tomorrow, so once we get broadband and my old computer jerry-rigged up, I'll try to drop in more often. :)

Of course, as the Diebolds leave no record, it'll never be proven that he rigged the election. Which was the point.
Especially since Team Publican had the sense NOT to transform the election into a blowout. 51%, everyone shugs and says, "Well, I s'pose...." 85%, and questions get asked.

Hiya, Mimi!

Something I read today that made me laff:

My brain is all abuzz of what various delightful sundries the second season will entail.... Atlantis, Spider Skull Island, a Doc Savage-style flashback adventure of Jonas Venture, a love interest for HELPeR, more secret ops from Bowie, meeting Brock's mother, a cameo by the grown-up Jonny Quest, Rusty actually inventing something that works, or even the Venture brothers getting new clothes???

Hiya Mimi,

Welcome back to the land of Oz.
Hope the move is going/went well, it will be good to have you back!

Hi, Mimi! I've been thinking about you. Hope the move is/has been less of a pain than it has to be. Y'know what I mean. :)

Edited by author 04-11-2005 10:05 AM
I boggle at the apparent syncronicity: Mimi sticks her head in, and Cane Toads March on Darwin is on the front page of the BBC News site. ;-)

Yay! Yay! La seńora Mimi lives!

Stuff has appeared at http://aeonflux.com

It's about what I expected. Looks amazing, sounds...less than amazing.

(From The News)I have a movie that I have not seen yet, but I will and I know I will hate it.

The H2G2, that review is now back online and gives the movie a right bashing.

It is a real shame, I love the books, the radio series(new and old) and also the TV version rocked. It looks like this version will suck, but I am still going to see it. I think it's like a car crash, you cannot help but look!

I'm holding off judgement until there's a 2nd opinion. Like I'd wait to ask for a slab of beef after only one guy got Mad Cow.

But I don't have my hopes up. This looked like shite from the get-go.

I'm very taken with Branaugh's version of Henry V myself. Possibly something to do with Brian Blessed whalin' away with a mace.

Yeah, I just got to read that Hitchhiker's review (short version), and it's dismaying...but I've been hearing that this guy has a personal grudge against the film because the filmmakers didn't consult with him. There's another, extremely positive review, here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F124?thread=623566

I really hate to sound like Mr. Delusional Optimism in regards to this film, but this is the first really substantial negative word about it I've come across. There have been a number of other, quite positive reviews, from people I basically trust...one guy named Jeremy Smith (his blog is here: http://mrbeaks.typepad.com/) who is given to fairly restrained and sardonic appraisals called it "A lovely mess" (and I realize that's a backhanded compliment, but a faithful adaptation of HHGTTG would pretty much HAVE to be messy...)

I'm cautious, but I've seen more positive than negative so far.

I'm pretty sure someone here has pointed it out, and if so, this site needs another mention... and if not, well, it deserves a mention anyway:

KittenBreak.com

Because we all need kittens in our lives.

Yay! kittens! however, for those with a darker soul who flinches at the mere sight of wuvly fuhballs... you could join the Ninja Jedi.

I've been hearing that this guy has a personal grudge against the film because the filmmakers didn't consult with him. There's another, extremely positive review

...which ends with:

"This is a beautiful, astonishing, hugely funny, sometimes moving and infinitely cherishable movie. I love it.
And not just because my name's in the credits :)"

So he might love it for the same personal reasons the other guy hates it.

The long review really eviscerates the film. It sounds to me a lot like the Bakshi animated Lord of the Rings--if you didn't know the story, you had no idea what was going on, and if you did know the story, you hated it for how much they mangled it.

I guess we'll have to wait until someone without a personal stake in it reviews it, like Ebert.

if you didn't know the story, you had no idea what was going on, and if you did know the story, you hated it for how much they mangled it.

That's how I read the first review, I really hope it's not as bad as the reviewer makes it sound. I have been really looking forward to this movie. I missed the second and third part of 'Lord of the Rings' on the big screen because of my back and that sucked big time!

If Ebert does review it then could someone please post a link to the review?

If Ebert does review it then could someone please post a link to the review?

(hearty chuckle)
I watch exactly ONE HALF HOUR A WEEK OF TV, and you can guess which show. (Hint: Involves a film critic named Roger, and a dingbat named Roeper. They're cops!) So, yeah, soon as he reviews, I'll post. I'm sure that he's a HGTTG virgin, and he's the best critic in America, so his review should be the one to judge by.

So he might love it for the same personal reasons the other guy hates it.

Yeah, I thought of that right after I posted it. Still, there have been other positive things here and there.

By the way, I didn't make the connection, but MJ Simpson (the negative reviewer) wrote "Hitchhiker", a biography of Douglas Adams--hence his personal connection to the material. (I didn't care for the book--Neil Gaiman's "Don't Panic" is vastly superior.)

As for Ebert...he's a brilliant critic, except when he's not. And when he's not, he's really really not.

As for Ebert...he's a brilliant critic, except when he's not. And when he's not, he's really really not.

Agreed-- I remember being dumbfounded when he and his erstwhile partner Gene tore "Hook" a dunsail. Why? Because it departed from the spirit of the original... Disney movie. Not one word about its internal merits. On the other hand, the bit on the show where they try to boost a dinky film is most laudable.

I view it as another example of Evil Twin Syndrome. Other sufferers include Bill Gates (Monopolist/Philanthropist) and Ted Turner (Colorizer/Restorer of classic movies).

My favourite thing about Ebert is how anything with Angelina Jolie or J. Lo gets a pass. Shark Tale being the lone exception so far...I guess if he can't actually SEE Jolie, the enchantment doesn't work.

Eeb, he like-a the boobies.

I was amazed when Ebert gave the first Tomb Raider a good review (the second one's not so bad.) I'm a fan of the game so I was preparing to make excuses for this thing, but I had to stop watching about half way through when my eyes caught fire.

Edited by author 04-13-2005 07:59 PM
What's with all the hatin' on m'man Roger?

Sure, he's made some bad calls. Titan AE he gave 4 stars, when it wasn't worth the time it would take to kick to the curbside. But it's all a matter of taste, and we always know that we're the only ones who have it. Remember all those crap movies your friends insisted you see?

But as a friend of mine (who keeps making me watch terrible movies that he loves edit: And vice-versa!) once said, "Unlike most major critics, Ebert isn't full of himself." He's not someone who'll give a positive review to something self-consciously pretentious and arty to make himself look "smart" (like Siskel would). He won't give a good review to a gigantic, box-office-busting "crowd-pleaser," just to have his name quote-whored in the ads, like every midmarket radio or TV "critic" does. He's giving HIS review, not a review that will be reviewed for it's cinematic correctness.

So, who's your favorite movie critic? Gene "I LOVED IT! SINCE I LOVE SHIT!" Shalit, or Michael "Head is Dead" Medved?

Edited by author 04-13-2005 09:00 PM
So, who's your favorite movie critic? Gene "I LOVED IT! SINCE I LOVE SHIT!" Shalit, or Michael "Head is Dead" Medved?

I dunno any of those, so i'll say... myself.

This is from the guy who liked Jackie Chan's 'the tuxedo', so in a pinch, the onion av club will do, though it's never stopped me from watching a movie i want to watch. afterall, movie tickets are $4 here.

Comparison Chart:
Shalit would be the stupidest-looking critic in America; Medved would be the stupidest-sounding.

Naughty FoxieBoobies--Tagged with an Adult Warning!

Nothing we haven't seen before. I thought he was going to draw Jim wang for a minute there (not that I want to see Jim wang). God, Davey, you're such a tease!

Davey was known to tag pictures that showed a hint of nipple through clothing - as in, "Gosh, it's cold in here!" - as adult pictures. He has an odd view of what's NC-17 and what isn't.

I suspect the "Mature" wrarning is in place because of the source of the pose in the second panel, which seems damn familiar. I wouldn't have seen it in the most recent SI swimsuit edition (since I don't actually pick up SI, no matter how many boobies they use to displace the... {shudder} sports), but I get a "Pop Culture Swimsuit Pin-up" vibe off it. The question remains whether it's a freehand copy or he just used a light table/the basement window and some tape to trace it. I like that Battle Ape 9 offers advice that would be useful if there were actually anything objectionable present. Oh, dear-- sheild your eyes, everyone! One of the cats just came into the room, and she's not wrearing nothin'!

I don't hate the 'Bert. I hate his FILTHY EVIL TWIN! But neither of them is a quote-whore, so even FET avoids the post-revolution purges.

There's a critic here in Toronto named Norm Wilner, he's my fave. He's down-to-Earth and sincere, AND he has good taste.

I can't deny that sometimes, Ebert just nails it. But then there are other times he seems to be writing from beyond the moon. I fully accept that I'm never going to completely agree with any one critic, but I'd rather read a negative review of a film I liked that I feel honestly encapsulates the film (or vice versa) than a review that agrees with me yet seems to be wacked out on wowee sauce. I mean, sometimes with Ebert I feel like he didn't even see the same movie I did--his infamous reviews of Gladiator, Fight Club and the LOTR movies are good examples of this. I'm not saying I neccessarily disagree with his overall opinion, I just feel like he didn't really capture the essence of the movie in his review.

Also, the fact that he appointed that overdressed ventriloquist's dummy as his partner for what used to be the liveliest and most interesting film criticism show on TV shows that he'd rather be "comfortable" than try to recapture the magic of what made that show great (the uncomfortableness). Say what you will about Siskel, he really pushed Eeb to greatness and vice versa.

Jeez, is a MATURE WARNING ALERT!! just something all the Cool Kids on Deviant do? Seriously, she took off her vest? That's like Yogi Bear taking off the tie and shirt-collar-with-no-shirt-attached.

he appointed that overdressed ventriloquist's dummy as his partner

I'm with you there. Doeper's not as bad as he once was. He no longer tries to shout Ebert down as he's talking, like Roeper's a drunk in a sports bar arguing about who's the best quarterback. But I want my film reviews to come from a critic, not an ordinary guy with no actual experience. If I want an average person's opinion, I'll ask a friend, and some of my friends know more about film than he does.

Remember when he hated all anime instantly, because "I don't like how the eyes are drawn"? Hey, I don't want to see 99% of the crap Hollywood product out there, but I'M NOT A PROFESSIONAL FILM CRITIC.

It was really irritating when Ebert went through this faux "try-out" phase for Siskel's replacement on the show. And then--huh, he picked the guy who works in the same building as him! What are the odds. I guess that when Gene died, the Tribune didn't hire another film critic.

Back with broadband now! :)

The G-rated nudity aside, this is looking more and more like Davey wanking through his pencil again...*insert gag about enough lead here*.
Davey: Add to the fact that there are people out there who would report a DA violation in my name _out of spite_ and you come up with my liberal use of the MA rating.
9_9 Who wants to join me in a chorus of the world's tiniest violins?
Only Davey could take a perceived persecution and turn it into an ego trip. 'Oh, whoa, I must PROTECT my work from the EB1L TROLLZ who, quite honestly, have better things to do with their time, I think. If he had real people out to get him, they'd have attacked his forum long ago. Even the PoE crowd have gotten bored.

And I'm sure people could find plenty of reasons to boot him off DA if they REALLY wanted. DA must have a 'don't be crap' clause SOMEWHERE ;)

Welcome back Mimi,

Davey has posted a splash of his desktop on DA, he is now a L33T Linspire Guru :o
The thing that made me laugh was that in the top left corner he has a CD mounted with obviously pirated episodes of Yugioh(SP?).
I wonder if the next group of lawyers to feature in a DVK story come from the makers of said comic?

What type of egomaniac do you have to be to think that people care what's on your desktop? Especially when you're the type of egomaniac who puts your own shitty drawings there?

I don't know if it's something that comes with Linspire, or it's Davey's personal work, but what caught my eye was at top center. A bubble that reads "what does it means?" Maybe this is why Davey's so fond of it--it talk like he do. Maybe there's a "wrear is my files?" balloon.

re. Well-"meanings" Linspire whore Davey....

I love how he obviously had to work a shift a week at Maccas for....oh, about 3 months to pay the $50 software fee to get the program. He only mentioned EVERYWHERE how hard he was working and striving to get a Linspire machine and away from Windows(knowing him, he probably gave up while trying to change the wallpaper), and then when he HAS it, HE IMMEDIATELY OFFERS TO BOOTLEG IT FOR ANYONE WHO GIVES HIM MONEY.
Davey clearly has no 'you're being a dick, stfu!' synapse.
There's a review on Linspire's site that says it all:
I was able to witness first hand how Linspire allowed technically challenged PC users to actually become functional

I wish I could see the 'inbox for Daveykins' window, tho' :)
And goddammit, I want to redo that Scarlett pic. PROPERLY.
But that would be to violate an unwritten law that no artist with any talent shall feed the Ego.

I want to redo that Scarlett pic. PROPERLY.

You could do it and show it to us. It could be our little secret!

Although it would be interesting for someone to do a deliberatly BAD one, and pass it on to DVK. Would he recognize it as "bad," or claim it as fanart?

So it's "Maccas" in Oz, "MickeyD's" in the USA...What's McDonald's called in other lands? Just curious.

Guesses:
Canada: McEh?
Mexico: McZuma's Revenge

Oh yeah, I forgot to say, Simmons r0x0rz my s0x0rz.

Although it would be interesting for someone to do a deliberatly BAD one, and pass it on to DVK. Would he recognize it as "bad," or claim it as fanart?
Maybe if I'm bored enough I'll have Tink-fan bluebriefcase try some fanart of Firestorm. As badly as a non-artistic teenager can ;)

Edited by author 04-17-2005 11:10 AM
Guesses:
Canada: McEh?

Well, I'm not up on the hip sayings of the kids these days, so I just call it the Festering Clown-Hole. Rotten Ronnie's has some currency here as well. A local business printed up this shirt to show his love of the joint.

edit: apparently I have trouble with conjugation and declension on sunday mornings. All better now.

As far as i know from anime, in japan it's McD's. (either anime or Jlist, i forgot.) I filled out a suggestion ballot in a McD's nearby with Bill's name, but i think the joke is lost here.

I'm sorry if anyone here likes YuGiOh, but it's CRAP. CRAP CRAP CRAP. yet another Pokemon clone, 15 minutes of each ep are spent talking, the character design is horrible, and it was merely made so that Konami could jump on the trading card bandwagon. (my opinion on this last one, He-Man was made to sell toys, but it didn't made it as bad as YGO is)

It makes sense that Davey would like it.

And my favorite guilty pleasure movie is Barbarella. No really. NO REALLY.

Edited by author 04-17-2005 10:39 PM
I'm sorry if anyone here likes YuGiOh...

I don't think you have much to apologize for, Zef.

I do have a few Yu-Gi-Oh cards... Japanese ones at that... that I plan to sell to some Yu-Gi-Oh junkie one of these days. That's about all they're worth to me--a few quick bucks.

Wonder if I could sell them to Davey?...

EDIT: The guy does no research for his projects, so what could possibly stop him from buying a $30 Yu-Gi-Oh card that's actually priced at about $3.25?

Wonder if I could sell them to Davey?...

I'm sure that he'd be glad to pay you in "GOT VIXEN?" desktops.

Edited by author 04-18-2005 07:19 AM
I'm sure that he'd be glad to pay you in "GOT VIXEN?" desktops.

Does each desktop need a license ???

edit:I'm sorry if anyone here likes YuGiOh...

Ummm, I don't think you have anything to worry about there Zef.

And my favorite guilty pleasure movie is Barbarella. No really. NO REALLY.

The first step to recovery is admitting the problem ;-) Of course, I'm in no position to talk, since a posse of Godzilla movies occupy my "guilty pleasure" shelf. But not "Godzilla's Revenge"-- that's pure crap that makes an individual episode of YuGiOh seem worth watching.

Does each desktop need a license ???

They're only available on 5 1/4" floppies, individually numbered and signed by the artist.

I've heard wierd things about Hogan's Heroes. From what I understand, it seems to be a comedic version of The Great Escape. I find this intriguing.

What? You've made it to adulthood without ever seeing Hogan's Heroes? What are they teaching you kids in school today!

It was a comedic version of Stalag 17, which was a seriocomic look at life in a WWII Nazi prison camp (right down to both having a guy named Sargeant Schultz), with a bit of 60s James Bond fever mixed in. I loved it as a kid, although it's subject matter was controversial right from the start. Could you set a comedy in a Nazi prison camp? MAD magazine ended their parody of it with its logical extreme, a comedy called "Buchenwald's Heroes," which was set in a concentration camp.
As memory serves: "Your prison baseball team is so bad, Hogan, that I'll have to send them to the SHOWERS! GET IT? The SHOWERS!" "You're a GAS, Colonel Klink! GET IT? A GAS!"

Show trivia: The 2 German characters were played by men whose families fled Germany when the Nazis took over, and one (Schultz) was a Jew. The guy who played the French guy was actually IN a concentration camp as a child. And, of course, as MST3K fans will tell you, "POOPIE!"

Great Quivering Larches! I hadn't seen a picture of any of the prospective popes previously, and I was totally unprepared for the concept of Pope Nosferatu I. Does the other front runner look like Wolfman or Frankenstein's Monster?

So, Cliff Clavin is the new pope?

He'd make a good pope. He knows all about morality.


Yes, and it'd be good to aprecciate how he got past the brainwashing and political pressure to end up doing GOOD to people.

his country, but he also was shooting at us Good Guys. Oh

I think most of the Iraqui/Afghan populace would tell you that 'U.S. good guys' is an oxymoron.

So the leading Popeful (word stolen from The Daily Show) was a Nazi youth?

Wow, couple that with the fact that Hitler was a Catholic... wait, I forgot where I was going with this.

If I were Catholic, I'd be deeply offended by the prescence of this man. But I'm not. My stepmom is, though.

I think most of the Iraqui/Afghan populace would tell you that 'U.S. good guys' is an oxymoron.

As if we didn't know that most of them think that already. What's your point?

My point is, The Iraquis/Afgans might think that, but it's not entirely true, is it? I think it's kind of the same here. the dude was hitler youth, but (probably, we won't know unless he starts another genocide) he overcame that and became a good person. (unless thesmokinggun.com comes up with a pedophile german police file on him)

I don't mind bashing against catholicism, as it's done some dumbass things on its time, i mind making fun of good people. americans would be outraged if the vietnam vets were made fun of, yet they sometimes had to do terrible things, things that are now in their past.

That's all i'm saying about the whole deal.

Speaker A: . . . gobbling the whole, sharpening the flashing iron.

Speaker B: And the helmets are shaking their purple-dyed crests, and for the wearers of breast-plates the weavers are striking up the wise shuttle's songs, that wakes up those who are asleep.

Speaker A: And he is gluing together the chariot's rail


It's gonna be a wacky second Renaissance.

Doesn't a second Renaissance presuppose a second Dark Ages to reawaken from? I'd be just as happy to find out that's what 1914-2004 was, but given the ready availability of hot baths throughout that period, I suspect not....

...and having said that; what the hell kinda gibberish is that, anyway? Colloquial babelfish.altavista?