Oooo, new comments page! So shiny and clean!

Ok, I was gone for a long long time. I think I might have been dead. How is everyone? And more importantly, how are the kitties?

how are the kitties?

Jeez! You have been away a long time!

Byron is now an axe-juggling lumberjack mime! After thrilling most of Bulgaria, he now performs before the crowned heads of Atlantis.

Kill Kill simply stood up one day, said in a human voice, "Well, thanks for the Friskies, but I'm going home!" and walked on her back legs to a big flying litterbox marked "EINSTEIN CAT HOMEWORLD," which disappeared into the sky.

Me, I was killed by a runaway truck full of cat food! The irony--It was IAMS! "Good For Life"!

But--I'm dead. So how can you be reading this?

"I blog dead people!"

Wow, I have been away a long time! I'm glad the kitties are doing well, but I'm kind of sad about you being dead. You're still pretty funny for a dead guy. *copies entire post into quotes file*

Did Kill Kill had a german accent? that would've ruled.

It was more of a Swiss accent.
But what do I know? I'm dead!
(Sorry to leave so quick, but I'm TOTALLY going to mack on Princess Di!)

I wish I had antique places like yours, Bill.
Here, Antique shops are just that - antique shops containing fine china, beautiful elegant jewellry, handsome mahogany furniture and Mozart playing in a discretely-hidden CD player. If you're lucky, there's a resident cat draped across a piano stool.
If I want cool stuff like the stuff you and Jess find, I have to find a weekend 'market'.

Edited by author 05-02-2005 09:08 AM
Hi. I'm back. Did anyone notice I was away? No? Well, I was, and I took the whole last week off on vacation for my birthday, and I was dog sick the whole time. And now I'm back at work. And from my websurfing you can see how much piled up in my absence.

Davey sure knows how to introduce a new character, doesn't he? No, he doesn't.

Antique shops here are a bit of a disappointment, since there's only been European nicknack-based culture in the region since about 1890. It's worse since we started to receive transmissions of BBC's "Antiques Roadshow"-- some old dear with a 12th century great helm she dug out of her garden and has used for a planter since 1972, and endless 17th century sideboards "we've just got sitting around upstairs. Surely it's not worth anything much?"

Edited by author 05-02-2005 07:22 PM
Byron looks so awesome in the wilderness. much BIG feline-like.

soon he'll be dragging deers around.

But what do I know? I'm dead!

are you going to play air hockey against ben franklin? that's what i'd do.

here we don't have antique stores per se of any kind, but you can find rad stuff in the flea markets. like a copy of Super mario bros. 3 for a buck.

We have antique stores like that. But we also have big multi-dealer stores, where every display is filled with stuff from someone different. So you can get a nice variety, or you can something obsessive. We saw booths filled with *just* fishing lures, milk bottles, Jadeware or pink ceramic poodles.

Byron looks so awesome in the wilderness. much BIG feline-like.

soon he'll be dragging deers around.

He's a little guy, under 10 pounds. Today, in a high wind, he kept chasing dead leaves, which he would carry around by the stems. Until the wind blew them out of his mouth, or into his face. Most amusing!

BBC asks WTF is going on in Scarlett PU, and Davey "explains":

"When Jim fully bonded with Scarlet, he/she was daydreaming, apparently to long, because he/she lost track of time between panels in the previous page, and wasn't aware of what he/she's doing until he opened his/her eyes and saw Toni, on Jim's friends. (and obviously bisexual.)"

"Bisexual" means "immediately fucks a giant rat"? Only in Davey's world...

New news! Yay!

Poor Mrs. Jessica. If I were her--and I'm not, because she's probably more of a lady and less vindictive than I am--I would have given that guy a swift kick in the shins and stormed out. And think of an elaborate way to charge him and win in an "attempted child molestation" case (although I'm 22, I can easily pass as a 14- or 16-year old).

But bringing mace is probably a lot easier and less time consuming.

Hey, Bill! 'member the Gymkata movie review you wrote? I found someone else's review of the entire movie.

It's funny, but it's lacking that Splut humor that made me spit Ramen noodles all over my keyboard and desk...

... which was amazing because I wasn't eating Ramen at the time.

That was a joke.

I find myself becoming increasingly German with time. Now I've started wearing black shirts with misanthropic sayings, and big boots (I like big boots and I cannot lie.) Surely the grandparents would be proud.

"Bisexual" means "immediately fucks a giant rat"? Only in Davey's world...

Yeah, way to NOT answer my question, Gont 9_9
BBC gently reminded him that not ALL guys, not even bi ones, are furries.

"Bi" does not equal "screws anything." Trust me on this. It means you can be attracted to both males and females, not that you must be dating them simultaneously, or that you are interested in something (of any gender!) that's likely to give you fleas.

From the Gonterese Dictionary (god, do we need one of those):

bisexual: adj, to be sexually attracted to both the furred and the unfurred. Preferably at the same time. Using a bad southern accent.

I find myself becoming increasingly German with time. Now I've started wearing black shirts with misanthropic sayings, and big boots (I like big boots and I cannot lie.) Surely the grandparents would be proud.

Do you find yourself increasingly drawn to deco art, by any chance?

Somebody might have mentioned this already (like Bill, I was dead. But I got better), but I found some Gontergold while snooping around his site. If you go to http://foxfire.twu.net/temp/, there's some files there that aren't on his main site, including a new version of "Lost Boy Found." He's got a link to it up at the DisneyEcho, so doubt he'll notice if we take a peek.

Edited by author 05-03-2005 06:28 PM
man oh man. i like the 'revoltjohnny' one. the looped eyes makes me think he's been shot in the back of the head. what's with the 'utilidors graphic.gif' one? that's scary as hell.

I hadn't read 'Lost Boy Found'... (doing so now) and what i've read so far is like watching Gonty self-fellate. not amusing.

what's with the 'utilidors graphic.gif' one? that's scary as hell.

O_o... well THAT'S something I needed to see first thing in the morning.
I've never seen a guy so obnoxiously proud to have a female camel-toe.
Oh, Lost Boy Found is a gas. The creator basks in its aroma whereas anyone in the vicinity just wants to gag and run.
Ooh, he's added to it! The last version of it I read just had Copper hypnotising Adam to sleep. Now Wendy's entered the picture.. buying hygiene products, it seems. Now why does Davey feel the need to point that out? (and conveniently, all Copper's sex slaves have gone, thanks to Mr Republican Values).
Oh and isn't he too cute to kiss? Davey has given Adam/Copper/Wendy the home address of Great Ormond Street.
As if having a woman called Wendy dress her adoptive son up as Peter Pan for her own amusement wasn't clue enough. 9_9

entered the picture.. buying hygiene products, it seems.

At WAL-MART!! XD cracks me up. doesn't Davey know of better places to shop? he creates this 'mystic' aura for both Wendy and 'Copper' and then makes her shop at the W. geez. isn't Nevada full of classy malls? (granted, i dunno if malls there have supermarkets..) could've been worse, i guess. *cough*Big*cough*lots*cough*

I finished this one and skimmed another ( it started with his 'totally not minnie rip off' susan bleeding as she ran in a field, and so i decided it best to not read thoroughly) and it mentioned hypnotism too. what's with him and hypnotism? is he so thirsty for power that he believes in that and wishes he could use it? i shudder at the though of Davey with hypno-powers. 'Free Fursuits for everyone in the east coast' wouldn't begin to describe it, i guess.

You know, Bill, much as me loves da new Byron pix, it seemed to be lacking a certain something...not a je ne sais quoi (avec Monsieur Grands-Pieds? Cieux sacrés, mais non!) so much as an accoutrement of ye olde leash/collar/harness variety (minus any persnickety S&M connotations). Every time you recount taking Fearless Boy outdoors, I worry 'n worry 'n worry WORRY. I'm just sayin.

I've just returned from my root canal--far worse than it sounds--and must recommend to my friends of all genders the singular experience of applying lipgloss when your mouth and lips are totally numb. Even more fun than trying to drink from your water bottle without drooling on yourself! (Damn babies can get away with it, but at this age...not so much.)

Idle curiosity prompts me to ask if anyone actually knows any furries, and if so, how they feel about their recent depictions in the mainstream media (there was a 'plushie convention murder' story on CSI a while back, and MadTV last week featured a hilariously creepy furry [-ie?] in one sketch). I lost touch long ago with the furries I knew, and I was just wondering. (Then again, I'm probably the only person here who actually watches broadcast tv, so, erm, never mind.)

Just took a glimpse at the bmnb.gif in the Gonterman temp folder and...

"Bad Michael! No bagel!"?!

What the hell is that supposed to mean?! Does Eisner regularly partake in bagels? Is he Jewish and Davey's merely making a racial stab at him?

Lilly: I was considered a furry quite a while back. I didn't fursuit, I've never been to any conventions, and I don't look at animals in a lustful way. I just drew anthropomorphic animals. That was it. Yet people called me a furry.

This was before the subculture got a bad rep. (BTW, folks, MTV is not to be taken seriously, no matter how much you might like it.) I personally feel that the media's displaying only one side of the furry fandom--the bad side. There are a variety of subdivisions in the fandom, and while there are extremists (those who actually believe that having sex with animals make them furries), I've never met them. Nor do I intend to.

Try Googling "Burned Furs" and their extremist counterpart "Freezing Furs".

Fursuits don't scare me, honestly. They just bring back clean, wholesome memories of Disney World. (Yes, I am aware that fursuit porn exists, but I don't look at it.)

I know of a few folks who call themselves furries. Try Googling for "Trixi Solfire" or "Tet Solfire." Awesome folks; Candy's a popular, wonderful artist, and Tet's got a fantastic, snarky sense of humor (I have some of his LiveJournal entries booked in my Favorites).

What defines a "furry" varies from person to person. To me, it constitutes drawing, writing stories about, and enjoying anthropomorphic animals ("enjoying" is used in the clean sense here). But that's just my definition. You don't have to call yourself a furry if you fit my description; in fact, I won't call you a furry unless you call yourself one.

I still have my furry characters. I've been working on their story since I was 17, and I plan on publishing it sometime in the future. I haven't drawn them in a while, however.

"Do you find yourself increasingly drawn to deco art, by any chance?"

According to the black-lunged skinny boy I'm currently having unsatisfying sex with, art deco is PURE GENIUS. So, yeah, of course.

"an accoutrement of ye olde leash/collar/harness variety (minus any persnickety S&M connotations)."

Okay, that's exactly one bestiality reference too many. I need to go purify myself. Through vomiting.

'kay, so I check the always-awful Sunflake Studios, and they've got Davey's latest eyesore up. The one with the gay non-sex nonsense. It struck me that the Flakes are hard right-wingers (that "@freakshow" guy's comics are borderline psychotic in that way). What do they think of all this faggy-fagness on their manly site? I briefly thought of writing them through a sock-puppet and complaining. But would this lead to Davey going entertainingly nuts, or him losing his last venue to perform like a little monkey for our pleasure?

Then I checked his DA account, and his "feature" is that damn Linspire desktop, AGAIN. And Scarletts 31-33 are missing!

Why? Dunno. The page is still there, and today someone's further questioning the WTFness of it. "Gargu" asks: "Is it something like a classic character of David "FoxFire" Kintobor's failed relationship with General Zoisite?"

Ouch. Davey nonresponds with this:
"Jim may be drawn to romantic relationships with other guys--what he believes gives him the notion that he is gat--but he still has hang-ups when it comes to sex. He probably never gotten past the "Sex is gross!" stage in his thinking, and have heard one too many horror stories, and not all of them have to do with STDs. I'd explain more, but I don't want to be banned. So Jim may like other guys, he just doesn't want to do the nasty."

So he's got a "lover" who strips and tries to pork him while he's dressed as a giant chipmunk...but he never got over the "Sex is gross!" phase prepubescents go through.

I'm someone who never intends to have sex again, but it isn't because I think it'll give me cooties. I'm not sure if this tells us something about Davey personally, or if it's just that he thinks gay sex "makes my eyes burn." After all, he did deeply research the science of faggy-fagology by watching "Queer Eye" and those sitcom "gay friend who humorously advises the females, yet never has a boyfriend or sex" archetypes. Except here, the Fab Five screams in terror "That boy LOOKED AT ME!" and run to hide in the bathroom.

I don't know why he took down 3 strips the same day that the latest mess-en-scene appeared on Flakesville, or if there's any connection. But I will say: This is the most interesting New Meds Davey has EVER been!
Let the Gross-Sex Gayness Continue!

The one with the gay non-sex nonsense. It struck me that the Flakes are hard right-wingers... What do they think of all this faggy-fagness on their manly site?

I don't think they care, as long as they think it gives them more traffic. Besides, right-wingers have an obscene, unhealthy obsession with sex, no matter what form it takes. (I bet'cha half the sex stores in the country are run by conservative Republicans because it gives them dirty, dirty thoughts along with lots and lots of money.)

Even if they didn't allow TEH GHEY SEX on their site, they'd probably still ask Davey to send the comics to them.

So he's got a "lover" who strips and tries to pork him while he's dressed as a giant chipmunk...but he never got over the "Sex is gross!" phase prepubescents go through.

This is another piece of evidence for the "Davey is a Man-Child" theory. Quick, someone call Jesus Cantillarian!

This is another piece of evidence for the "Davey is a Man-Child" theory

Read the first paragraph of "Lost Boy Found," then jump to the new stuff (Chapter Seven) at the bottom.
He's age 11 at the start, but talking like a 2-year-old at the end. Cah-reepy.

I'm trying to picture, considering for Jim's "No Sex Please" stance, a bisexual of either gender who would be enough interested in a whiney, unemployed, garbage-pickin', man-child as a person to forego sex, which they can concievably seek from just about anyone they meet. I know a lot of people of an appropriate gender with who I don't... you know, thingy... but I don't refer to them as Significant Other.

...and then there's a roofied-up, betittied mascot in a swoon on the bed he's never shared with Jim, and what's the first thing that happens? Hmmm. Better add a line to the Gonternary entry: "Bisexuals are, by definition, time-bombs of rape."

Every single attempt he makes to try and explain it only reveals more of how emotionally fucked-up he is.
Yer right, Bill, these new meds are fun.

From another of Davey's attempts to 'explain' #33:

Jim has accepted the fact that he is indeed gay, but he wishes to be more or less celebrate.

I am going to be mentally laughing my arse off all night now.

Edited by author 05-04-2005 10:18 AM
Oh geez, and here's another notch for the VERY well-worn 'pathetic' column of Davey. He mentions on his last Devart journal entry that he'd finally managed to save up enough for a 3 month Devart subscription.
That's a grand total of $7.95.

I knew Maccas paid low, but not THAT low! O_o

I just joined Devart myself, s'how I know.

Okay, quick edit, then going to bed..:
Bill:He's age 11 at the start, but talking like a 2-year-old at the end. Cah-reepy.
You know... couple this with the whole 'I(sorry, JIM!!) doesn't like sex, he just likes to cuddle' thing Davey's trying to explain, along with the current Lost Boy Found thing where the young Adam likes to dress up as Peter Pan to indulge his 'mother', Wendy....
I have to wonder if we don't have a potential Oedipus complex here.. or gourd help us, infantilism! All this seems to point to a desire to revert to a submissive-yet-indulged child.
If any of his adult characters start wearing diapers or form an obsessive attachment to applesauce, I say we euthanize *cocking tranq gun*.

Final edit.. really..:
Okay, fess up. SOMEONE here is Raptavio. He's now referring to me as BBC. Only you guys do that. ;)

I don't think Davey has an Oedipus complex. Hos mother is only mentioned, that I know of, in SM:AK, in the context of having had a prtial-birth abortion that she wnated to be good and sure he knew all about. (The partial birth that turned out to be Sailor Moon, thanks to tortured logic that should have the ACLU up in arms.) The tone of that bit was hatred.

As for him wanting to revert to child status, well, I couldn't refute that.

Davey must have swiped the celibate/celebrate joke from Gary coleman. I remember that gag from "Diff'rent Strokes"!

Added you to my DevWatch, Mimi! 'course, my updates are few and far in between...

Ooo, Mimi on DevArt! I added you too. Love the sketches. The fact that they're Jem sketches makes them even better.

Fistlekits: What's your DA name? I'll add you to my watchlist. I'm Sparkyrabbit.

I always suspected Raptavio was someone on here. Now we just have to put on our detective caps and figure out who...

SOMEONE here is Raptavio. He's now referring to me as BBC. Only you guys do that.

I disagree. That's a perfectly logical bit of shorthand that anyone would've eventually come up with. I once had someone claim that he'd "invented" the nonword InExOb as shorthand for that old thing, when I'd been using it for weeks previous.

And, unlike Davey, I don't think that the world revolves around me or The Comments! He's just another Phrack Whore like us, even if he doesn't use the phrase, or more likely even know it.

a whiney, unemployed, garbage-pickin', man-child as a person to forego sex

Put that in the Gonterpedia!
"Garbage-pickin'"! I forgot about that.
Scarlett was curbside trash.

$7.95. I knew Maccas paid low, but not THAT low!

Even Mickey D's fires people, y'know.

I think there's something to the "spoiled only child who will live in Mom's house for the rest of his life" theory.
When Mom dies, expect to see DVK in the news in one of those headlines:
"Dead for 20 years, mother's body is found in freezer; Self-described 'Most Dangerous Cartoonist' senior citizen son who's been collecting her Social Security checks being held on $50 bail. That he can't pay."

Edited by author 05-05-2005 12:45 AM
He's led by relationships and romance, but not sex and lust. He's like the girl who just wants to be held; he thinks and feels with his heart, not his genitalia.

"He's the guy who always inserts a fox -eared and -tailed android sex slave into every one of his works."

And now he just "wants to be held"? Is New Meds Davey finally emerging from his Old Meds chrysalis? Will a beautifully deranged and entertaining buttfuckingerinsanefly flutter into view?

Is someone taking notes? Davey could be the Henry Darger of our age!

(edited for Davey spleling)

And yet in his Restricted forum, he's had graphic sex with(as graphic as Davey gets, anyway) and deflowered both Sue (via Johnny) and 'Vixen'(Marcie).
He just likes to cuddle. Feh.

I honestly think he just doesn't know how. When you get right down to it, Adam/Jim etc only act as far as Davey's actual experience goes, even in wish-fulfillment (being a snarky edgy hero who gets all the luvly ladies). In his sex scenes, his character is the passive one(see Restricted forum examples above)

Wear blood-red on Fridays, because now it's official: "Support the Troops" means "Let Them Die for Bush".

Well... I didn't know El President was such a star trek fan.

I just read "Human evolution at the crossroads." Nothing new or thought-provoking there. In fact, the writer doesn't seem to have the firmest grasp on the definition of evolution, but rather assumes that any change at all, whether artificial modifications to individuals or genetic manipulation that will be propogared to one's descendants, is evolution. But, oo-ee, look at those neato big-eyed pictures!

The most likely scenario they mentioned, I think, is slow homogenization of the human race. Never complete homogenization, however, unless you somehow wipe out all cultural differences which would lead people to seek out others of their own backgrounds. And I expect devolution rather than evolution. As science makes up for defects that turn up rather than letting natural selection weed them out, there'll be more people propogating congenital diseases, weak systems, and the like. (Not that I'm complaining - without my glasses I'd be quite blind, and I stand a bit crooked because of scoliosis.)

I think the author is speaking to sci-fi fans with little grounding in hard science. Even the book "Man After Man," goofy as it was, had a sounder scientific basis than this article.

Fistlekits: What's your DA name? I'll add you to my watchlist. I'm Sparkyrabbit.

Already added ya! (Fistlekits is my DA name.)

Bill, I've learned that the more people fear they might be dead wrong about something, the more vehement their conviction that they're doing or believing in something that is "right." (I hope that came out correctly.)

That's why so many people still believe that things in the Middle East are going so well. Or rather, want to believe.

I think deep down these people know that something isn't right. They just don't want to admit that they've been tricked and lied to... because in doing so, they'll also admit that they're easily misguided and vulnerable, and that their emotions can be used in anything that works against their own lives and country.

No one wants to admit that, deep down, they're really weak, easily manipulated people.

As the world gets smaller, so to speak, genetic diversity should start decreasing. That doesn't mean we'll stop evolving, it just means everyone in the world will be evolving along the same lines.

More war. Christ. No one is able to recognize truth anymore. Only the words of fearless leader projected large onto the dadaistic void. I WANT OUT OF THIS SYSTEM.

I WANT OUT OF THIS SYSTEM.

It's too late for us (unless we get our anarchy on and die like true, true heroes), but later humans will be spared the terror. because they're bound for extinction anyway, unless new, awesome super resources are discovered. until then, everyone's right, the world's becoming uniform (i mean, Mexico has Dairy Queen stores) and that'll be the end.

/hasn't had a lot to say, so reinforces what's been said already. -_- With Crichton's bullshit.

Reese is hacking and coughing and not eating. Mommy is worried. If she's not better by tomorrow, I'm taking her to the vet.

Says Davey, " Isn't filling up plot holes made by previous strips excellent motivation?"

Ahh, yes, and this explains
PHRACKING NOTHING!!!
Who what where when?!?! WHAT is going on NOW?
Seriously, is this before or after the last strip? What are they talking about?

"And with your hangups, du--" and we're supposed to understand? What hangups does a fox suit have? All I can come up with for "du--" is "dude," and that doesn't explain anything. "Dumbass," maybe? "DUUHHH"?

Apparently he's Toni from the last strip (despite looking exactly like Jim, and having budding breasts), but he has pants on now. Unless this is from before. And apparently they did have sex, despite Jim's screaming about the burning eyes. I guess! No idea, really.

But who could complain, gay or straight or otherwise, about raping a "soft, warm and all natural" cybernetic fox suit with a human being trapped inside it? Only Davey would have a situation like this and describe it as "natural."

Best part: The story makes less sense than it ever did, but Davey includes helpful arrows between the panels, so that anyone who doesn't read top-to-bottom, left-to-right, can figure out where to go. The strip's plot is a rat maze from Davey's twisty-turny mind, but here's a roadmap to 3 freakin' panels.

It's offensive, deranged, fetishistic and it contradicts itself from strip to strip. We're back to CLASSIC Scarlett! Huzzah!

<i>Reese is hacking and coughing and not eating.</a>

TAKE HER TOMORROW.
"Not eating" is a very bad symptom. Both Mrs Jessica and Mr Jessica's cats stopped eating (with different other symptoms), and would've DIED if they weren't taken to the vet the next day. In fact, THAT day.
I'm not kidding--call them up first thing and tell them her problems, and say that you want them to see her NOW.

I concur, with slightly less alarm, about cats and not eating. Of course, sometimes they stop eating because it's funny to watch mommy go up a damn wall wondering why.

I just had a read of the Red Shirt "movement", and I actually think it's brilliant on reflection. It shows support for the poor bastards drenched in their buddy's juice, without endorsing them being there. I imagine a sea of red outside the Weiss Haus this summer might be worth a couple of pictures.

the Red Shirt "movement", and I actually think it's brilliant on reflection. It shows support for the poor bastards drenched in their buddy's juice, without endorsing them being there.

Ummm...Where'd you get that idea?

"Rivera said he hopes to cover the country in red, much to the disdain of what he deemed the “un-American” ralliers. “Really, it’s like basically stepping on the graves of the kids fighting — and they are kids,” Rivera commented."

It sure sounds like he thinks that if you're anti-war, you're un-American and dancing on their graves.

I don't think he chose red for "needlessly spilled blood." He chose it for "Red States." Pro-Bush, pro-dying for Cheney's Halliburton stocks.

"James Rivera, an employee at Chestnut Health Systems," it does not say, has joined the army to promote his lil' idiot chickenhawk plan. Just like Nam, that's the first rule: If it's such a great war, why haven't YOU signed up?

I remember the first "yellow ribbons." They mean, "Bring the Iranian Hostages Home!" Now they mean, "Leave the Hostages of our Iraqi War There to Die!"

Edited by author 05-06-2005 05:25 AM
I have just come from work, where it's end-of-month free drinks night. So I am well and truly buzzed on Victoria Bitter and Yalumba cask wine (of which I am sure that means ANYTHING only to Steve, but anyway)....
I wish to concur a massive co-'Huzzah!' with Bill on the dawn of a new age of Gonter-insanity. The meds do NOTHING!
That Southern accent of Scarlet's has to stop. Seriously. It hurts inside.
In that last panel, what the hell's happening. It looks like her TAIL'S being stroked or something!
So 'soft, warm and natural' is something Toni's supposed to identify with, as a gay person? I am not gay, of course, but I'm pretty sure 'soft' is not the adjective I'd adjoin to typical gay sex. 'Warm' - alright, that's a matter of opinion... 'Natural'... that's even MORE a matter of opinion, and it points more to Davey's possible latent anti-gay sentiments than I care to comment on. ;p
Yes, sex with am anthropomorphic animal is more 'natural' than homosexual sex. Riiiight. 9_9

For our overseas readers;

Victoria Bitter = Massed produced beer, not the worst but definitely not the best.

Yalumba cask wine = One of the worst inventions an Australian ever came up with. Not the wine itself, that is mass produced swill. It's the packaging itself, it consists of a plastic blader inside a cardboard box. 4 to 5 litres of horrible hangover juice.

Mimi will not be smilling tomorrow morning.

And no, I am not dead (like Bill was). I have started working again and no longer have 16 hours a day to surf the net.

The Gont does not seem to change no matter what meds he is on, well how can you make something that bad any worse ?
I am sure someone will point out how!

Zef: later humans will be spared the terror. because they're bound for extinction anyway,

Oh, it's going to be their own fault. I've been saying (well, ranting to carefully selected audiences) for years that the stupid are out-breeding the smart, and it's only a matter of time before the vast swarm of dumb makes civilization unsupportable. Look at Bill's co-workers.

Bill: Ummm...Where'd you get that idea?

Combination of wishful thinking, lazy reading, and the end of a day which began at 5am. Whee! Sleep Deprivation is my DRUG OF CHOICE!

RE Davey Nightmare: "... this HEAR costume"?
I second the deletion of the blasted Southern accent. It makes my brain want to cry.

Re Red Shirts (where have I heard that term before?): I'm getting tired of these bastards calling us anti-war people "un-American" and crap like that. It's getting to the point where I'm going to start wishing nightmares of dead soldiers and babies for these people... for the rest of their lives.

I had an interesting discussion with Pat last night where he got me riled up about conservatives (he gets me angry because "he likes it"). He happened to bring up Clinton "not giving a shit" about the military and I quickly brought out some info on the total number of weapons Bush bought versus the number Clinton bought (about the same number) in 2001 and 2002. I put him in his place.

The next time he brings up Clinton, I'm going to tell him to get the fuck over it, and that his kind (Republicans) is only good at one thing: holding a grudge. Just to rile him up, of course, as it's only fair...

*sigh* Sometimes I wish I could be more understanding and less angered, like Bruno the Bandit's creator, Ian McDonald. Read his May 3rd article on the front page. The guy's got a level head (though I question him calling Ann Coulter "intelligent").

I wonder how people like this keep from getting angry...

(Lest anyone think I'm an alcoholic philistine, at home I usually drink Cooper's Red or various *decent* whites. Disney don't pay enough for us to be fussy about what we drink on their tab ;))
And I'm actually okay now. I got home about 7pmish and Mr Mimi fed me water the rest of the evening.

Sorry, what were we talking about?... oh yeah, sugah...
Kill the Fox.
Steve:The Gont does not seem to change no matter what meds he is on, well how can you make something that bad any worse ?
I am sure someone will point out how!
Well, I don't think it's a WORSE kind of Gonter-insanity. Nothing will ever beat his frothy tantrum days. It's just a different kind. He draws something insane, people call him on it, and he blithely tries to fix/explain it, usually with something MORE insane. I mean, c'mon...Johnny Briz=New Mickey? Douglas Adams 'spoof' to Peter Pan homage?? Queer Eye as REFERENCE material?? All with a straight face? The man is a loop of complete 100% froot.

Mimi:
Victoria Bitter and Yalumba cask wine (of which I am sure that means ANYTHING only to Steve, but anyway)

a-HEM. We ARE a Liquor Professional, donchaknow.
We have bitters over here (Fuller's, for one). We have Yalumba, and we have box wines, but we don't have both at the same time. The Yanqui Aussie box wine market is currently owned by Hardy's.

Steve:
I have started working again and no longer have 16 hours a day to surf the net.

What?! Then that means--your back WORKS AGAIN! Hooray!
So are you pretty much mobile and stuff? Are you kinda back to normal now?
I'd like to lay in bed and surf for 16 hours a day! For a Sunday. Then, I think it'd just start to suck.

cask wine = One of the worst inventions an Australian ever came up with.

Sorry, but I have to KNOW!
Who invented this? Here, it's Franzia that claims it invented the "wine box." I just wonder who came up with it first. It just seems so...American. "Wine in a bottle? But that means you need a corkscrew! That takes A WHOLE EXTRA MINUTE!" Like the McDonalds' drive-thru. "Wait in line for a burger?!"

Bill:
Then that means--your back WORKS AGAIN! Hooray!
So are you pretty much mobile and stuff? Are you kinda back to normal now?

Yeap, the back feels pretty normal now. I only feel pain when I do something stupid, like bend the wrong way. I am only doing 4 hours in the office each day, that is all they will let me do at the moment. I am also going to physio to strengthen the muscles that got weak during my extended period in bed.
I only rarely take pain killers now and then only over the counter codeine, so I am pretty happy. It looks like the fusion surgery worked, hooray!

Bill:
Who invented this?

Steve:
I'm very glad to hear about the success of your surgery!

Well, props to Oz for inventing the wine box! It's really an insanely good idea--Open a corked bottle, and you better drink that sucka in 2 days, or else it gets oxygenated. There's a lot of better wines coming out in boxes here, and they're selling better than we thought. $20 for bag-in-a-box? But it sells. I hope that this marks the end of corks, and the beginning of b-i-b's and screw-tops. Corks took over because the wine snobs demanded them, despite the fact that they lead to "cork-taint" and millions of gallons of otherwise good wine spoiled and poured down the
...
'kay. It's my job; I tend to ramble about it.

Billa-HEM. We ARE a Liquor Professional, donchaknow.
Yeah, I know ;) As far as beer goes, we've been sending our swill to America for years now. ;)
For the record, noone with ANY taste in Australia drinks Foster's. Noone. I prefer Cascade, Crown and Cooper's, myself.
Hey, I hear ya on the end of corks. Most wines sold here are screw-top now. And yes, a lot of better quality wines are heading for boxes, too. Yuppies like to picnic too ;)
When we were kids, our uncles used to take the empty bags from wine casks and inflate them for us to use as makeshift pool toys.

Edited by author 05-08-2005 10:18 AM
As an avid Zymurgist, I have to decry Bill's attitude toward bag-wine ("Goonbag"? Nice!). Cork taint is the possible price on pays for the subtle exchange of gases through the cork which makes fine/well-made wines an interesting thing to sock away in the basement for a few years-- better wine or vinegar? We'll find our when the grandkids learn to drive!

Of course, for the Common North American Pin-Headed Wine Guzzler, that's not an issue. Not only won't they have the stuff around that long, but I freely grant that the folks in the Liquor Store trenches will have an easier time of cleanup when a booze bag falls from their palsied hand. Hmmmm... I wonder if anyone's tried Bag'o'Bukov yet? I know the Koreans put soju in kiddie-style drink boxes....

though I question him calling Ann Coulter "intelligent"

Intelligence and any acquaintance with sanity need not co-exist (see above).

{edit: is it the mention of A.C. that leades to "Blue Pro-Life Wristband" ads? Eep.}
{edit ne plus ultra: "bozed bag"? What the hell have I been drinking?}

I forgot to mention, the vet couldn't find anything wrong with Reese, the X-ray showed no obstruction in her throat, and she's eating again. She's still coughing, but not as bad as before. So Mommy is happy.

I gather that the Ferd'nand cartoon (once you'd explained it, Bill), is about using the mattress to protect against breaking the crockery he's washing.

But still missing the funny. Huh.
It would have been easier to get if Ferdie had actually broken something in panel 2 rather than just look at the crockery.

I recognize an attempt to reproduce the "Runes of Risibility" in the second frame, as described in that ancient mystic tome, the original Dungeons and Dragons manual. If the angle had been right on that crossbar... man, would that be a funny comic!

On the wooda-been-InExOb, I notice one of the soldiers is nice enough to try to shield the eyes of the smaller child from the ugly scene at centre stage.

A hearty hurrah for kitties without clogs! Merry VE Day, everyone (except Steve and Mimi, for whom the word 'Belated' needs be inserted)! My Dad thanks your various Dads, Uncles and Grand-whathaveyous.

I thought he washed the mattress in the sink, and that's why it's so shiny in the last panel. But that's more surreal than funny.

Reese thanks you for your concern. The hardest thing about the whole experience is that it was a sharp reminder that she's ten years old and in the second half of her life. Our road together is shorter ahead of us than it is behind. Luckily I'll be living at home next year and I'll be able to see her everyday.

In Ferd'nand, "shine lines" indicate "pay attention to this." I think the Enigma code key here is the first time we see the...whatever it is. What is that dish thing? It's an elongated bowl with an inadequately-sized handle, and an odd wavy texture. My first thought was that there was a connection between the texture of it and the mattress. But that makes no sense. Davey makes more sense.

This is the greatest thing ever:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13034303/

Edited by author 05-09-2005 06:07 AM
Ferd' seems to have discovered that wiping things with a damp cloth makes them clean. It appears to be a new concept to him as shown in panel 2.
When I wipe this weirdly textured pot it shines. I wonder if this will work on the crusty matress I slept on last night? Well tie me down and cover me in borsch - it does work!

At least Davey describes his strange plots in his DA comments, the author of Ferd' must have one screwed up mind.

Bill:
You definitely need one of those harness things. That way when he wanders off you can reel him in like a squalling fish.

Yeah, Bill. Leash the cheeky little bastard.
A leash, and an omnipresent towel, seeing as he now knows that Claws + Mommy = FREEDOM!!

Edited by author 05-10-2005 03:21 PM
Hoo... heart-in-throat time indeed. I assume a pictoral talking-to with reasons why too much wandering is bad is in order.

And a leash. Miranda really digs her leash now, and the others are... well, extremely tolerant. It's the right thing to do, and a less terror-filled way to do it.

I realized that my comments a few days ago might have been a bit out of line. I didn't mean to offend anyone. I apologize if I did.

Edited by author 05-10-2005 01:26 PM
Holy Blood thirsty felines, Bill! D'you want a tube of this stuff sold here to help with cuts and stuff? i tried to find your address with zabasearch.com so i could mail it and it'd be a surprise, but there's like a million Bill Youngs in CT only.

Truly we see how awesome/deadly polydactlys are. and it reinforces my thoughts of Byron being a puma in disguise.

agreement to the leash here as well, as i don't think Byron would take not going outside ever again very well.

(i read that kitties get used to things they like very quickly, and very used, so that's why you must NEVER feed them expensive things or risk them wanting only that expensive thing for a loong time)

Man, FK, i don't think you did. everyone voices political opinions here and stuff, but as i've said, everyone (except me, probably) is mature enough to not be offended if something disagrees with them. most of the people here think on the same vein anyway, yes?

I just read your latest entry, Bill. God, that scared me. Please be more careful with Byron!

We'd all be upset if something happened to him.

Damn, Bill. That picture and story shook me up. Hope you and Byron are okay, and heal up fast.

I had to read back a few pages to figure our what the offence-provoker might have been. Clearly it wasn't wrearing on my imagination.

Speaking of which-- I'm sure that Zef's estimation of us all is accurate, so it will be obvious that the beaking at Bill about leashes we've all been engaging in is merely a sign of our wish to spare Bill any future mental anguish about Toezilla.

Physical anguish comes with cats, of course. Five out of six ends are pointy, after all.

Bill, sorry about the face, I hope it heals well.
But if there are scars involved, you really need a better story than 'my kitty scratched me.'
What about a rabid wolverine or a psychotic furry?
And if you see any sign of infection, please seek medical advice. I have had a cat scratch go nasty on me before.

And if you see any sign of infection, please seek medical advice.

What are the signs? I'm not worried about the face, but my thumb's really swollen. Of course, it was swollen as soon as it came out of that vise he uses for a mouth, but I don't know if it's just bruised or something else.

Bill, you poor thing! That is the naughtiest kitty I've ever heard of. I don't know if this will ease your wounds any, but it's damn cute: Kitten War!

I hope you and your naughty kitty are ok.

Edited by author 05-10-2005 11:45 PM
Damn, you beat me to KittenWars!
Do you read The PoorMan too?

(edit: Or is that the latest "all over the web" site?)

Am I an idiot for looking forward to Mr. and Mrs. Smith? And not just because I have non-sexual woman-lust for Angelina Jolie and extremely sexual dirty-lust for Brad Pitt?

Physical anguish comes with cats, of course. Five out of six ends are pointy, after all.

Unless you count the sixth end as "frequently pointed right in your face"...

Oh yeah, aeonflux.com now has a timeline up. It looks pretty good. But I still have no idea if the movie will be any good. I'm itchy for a trailer.

Do you read The PoorMan too?

Hell yeah. They've been on a roll lately. I especially liked the Fox 2015 SAT test.

Those kittens are so addictive. I just keep clicking and clicking and clicking...

Reese is acting all Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid. She'll curl up beside by chair like she wants to be petted, then when I go to pet her shes LEAPS to her feet and runs away like my hand's made of lava and if she touches it she'll get cooties. Crazy kitty.

Bill:
What are the signs? I'm not worried about the face, but my thumb's really swollen.

I was thinking swollen and or oozing muck, either of these things are bad.
You will most probably be OK with BigToes being an indoor cat, He will tend to have less nasty stuff hanging around his claws.

Years ago I got scratched on the leg by our oldest cat, at the time he lived mostly outdoors. It got red, swollen and full of pus. It took ages to heal properly. If that happens to any of the facial cuts then you may need a dose of anti-biotics from your local doctor.

Have you come up with a good story for the scars yet?

Make your story interesting. Tell people the guy you dragged home to torture to death got all bitey and scratchy toward the end.

Speaking of torturing people to death, the celebrated Seven Man Army arc of Inuyasha starts this week on Adult Swim. And if you watch it, you'll understand that bizzare reference.

Steve:I was thinking swollen and or oozing muck, either of these things are bad.
You will most probably be OK with BigToes being an indoor cat, He will tend to have less nasty stuff hanging around his claws.
Well yeah, but the Byster BIT Bill's thumb. Seeing as he'd been poking through underbrush at the time, who knows what he may have had in his mouth.
If it starts oozing or you start getting a fever, Bill, get some antibiotics into you.
I remember when I was about 9 or so. I was on crutches at the time and we went to the park. The park had a duck pond. Being kids, we must have dipped our hands in the water while playing around. That morning, I had pricked my hand on a piece of wire. That evening, my temperature soured and my hand ballooned. We had to make an emergency dash to my grandparents' house so my doctor grandfather could jab me with some penicillin.

We all know what cats have in their mouth-- their tongue, and the less said about places that visits, the better. I'd urge some topical debuggifier at very least (polysporin, tea-tree, straight rubbing alcohol-- but not H2O2, as it's just for lifting chunks of crap out of wounds rather than actual disinfecting), and of course vigilance.

As far as a good story goes, your projected "Och! Zombies!" response seems a gooder.

Edited by author 05-11-2005 05:17 PM
Over on Davey's site he has posted the Scarlet PI Outline

Compelling reading<not>.

The thing that got me was this,
Bonus Strip #2

Scar snuggles up and starts coming on to him again. Toni stops her by putting a finger to her nose, reminding her that they've ran out of condoms. “No condoms, No nookie. You got that, Vixen?”

So either Toni has TEH AIDS or Scarlet has TEH UTERUS and can fall pregnant with a freak child?

What a warped and twisted mind this boy has!

Edit: screwed up the first submission.

Edited by author 05-11-2005 06:11 PM
Scar slips her new slim purse (with her ID and Bank Cards) inside her boot

ID? woah woah woah. it's easier for a costume..walking..thing.. to get some sort of amerikan ID than for an illegal alien? or, wait, what kinda ID is it? maybe it's a FurCon guest ID. or it was printed off Scarlett's brain! via USB 1.0!

Reception is indeed mixed, although she'll make a web site which tells her 'story,'

Fur-cyborg-gay-guys can be Mary Sues too. Huh.

(She even got ID cards, a bank account, and some more clothes during the time.) Scarlet is surprised that three days has passed...
Toni recaps the past three days; a photo shoot with his best outfits from his clothing store, some gatherings with kids, and what not

Ignoring, as Zef pointed out, the utter absurdity of someone getting an ID while in a Halloween costume--she spent THREE DAYS doing all this crap (including a box of condom's worth of sex) and DIDN'T NOTICE? And she's a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR?
"Did you find out if my wife was cheating on me?"
"I spent 8 weeks watching her, but then I had a conversation with myself and masturbated, and then I had some gatherings with kids, and I ended up in Rio married to a llama, but I really don't know how any of that happened, and who's your wife again? Anyway, here's my bill, $2000."

Scar notes about the sex they were in, and Jim shows a box of condoms. An empty box of condoms. “Are you sure you're not a freak?”

The "sex they were in"?
I don't who's asking who about being a freak, but
FUCK YES YOU ARE.

“The human mind only fills up, on average, 10% of it's full capacity during that human's life. That's 90% of free space that can be tweaked like a hard drive...."

That is SO SCIENTIFICALLY TRUENESS! You only use 10% of your brain. It's like how you could run the 3 minute mile in 18 seconds, except that you only use 10% of your legs. Nature designed you that way! In fact, if you could use 100% of your stomach, you could eat an entire cow for brunch, and still have room left over for a steel-belted radial, as you only use 10% of your stomach acid.
Christ. Of course, the idea that Davey's brain is 90% empty is quite believable.

Scar hugs and lick-kisses Toni. “oh, that's so sweet.”

Every normal human's reaction.

“No condoms, No nookie. You got that, Vixen?”

Repeatedly banging a squirrel? Every normal human's reaction.
So he NEVER had sex with Jim Badlay, but he's blown his whole wad repeatedly into a fur coat. Forget the condoms, save up for some industrial-strength dry-cleaning.

Note that it takes her 10 strips to walk out of the door. Back to BakaBreakers pacing.

Only really amazing thing about the outline: He finally spells coming "COMING"!
The first time. Not the second.

Oh, yeah, forgot:
He's going to do "bonus strips," a faux-foxfire "Scarlett Blog," and release an e-book.
By the guy who finds his 2-shifts-a-week at MacDonald's too taxing on his schedule.
That schedule will last until the first time he has to clean the Fry-O-Later. Or Mom asks him to make his bed.

I would check and comment, but Foxfire appears to be AWOL at the moment. Damn!
I quietly added his Devart account to my Devwatch list (but I was careful to set it so he doesn't show up on my Friends list. I mean what would the neighbours think??).
Naturally, he'll get a message saying I've added him to my Devwatch, and he may well come over and check out my account.
Who wants to open the books on whether he'll pick anything of mine as a Favourite? I have Sailormoon AND Disney fanart there, something MIGHT catch his eye.
Or maybe I should just stick a Tinkerbell pic up there to lure him. Or a vaguely reddish-tinted fiery Tinkerbell-LOOKING fairy that oh I just made up....>:)

Bill:He's going to do "bonus strips," a faux-foxfire "Scarlett Blog," and release an e-book.
By the guy who finds his 2-shifts-a-week at MacDonald's too taxing on his schedule.

He hasn't updated ANYTHING in a while, what the crap does he DO with his time if he's barely making a thing from Maccas?? We know he's not working MUCH, because he has to BEG for donations for his dirt-cheap Devart subscription(among other things, like that whole Magic obsession).
Maybe he has to turn over 80% of his income to his mom as trauma compensation for what she has to endure with a 35-year-old son still living at home.

Edited by author 05-12-2005 10:20 AM
“The human mind only fills up, on average, 10% of it's full capacity during that human's life. That's 90% of free space that can be tweaked like a hard drive...."

I'm trying to remember where on the web I read about fractal stupidity-- something that's equally stupid no matter the distance from which it's absorbed.

On the Condoms front, I would have voted AIDS prior to the above showing up, since inter-species breeding only works with muppets. Now... hell, it might be that he thinks wrearing a condom is REQUIRED to get in sexs. Hopefully this view will never be disabused by any woman who shows an interest in him (the internet has taught me there is no abberation that doesn't manifest, so a Davey-stalking goil IS possible).

Mimi:
maybe I should just stick a Tinkerbell pic up there to lure him.

Fox Girl Android!! FOX GIRL ANDROID!

Maybe he has to turn over 80% of his income to his mom

Interesting thought! While it's rare for him to mention his real-world job, he's always talked about it in terms of how much money he gets, not how many hours he's worked. It would help explain why he has no money, no time, and yet thinks that $7.95 is an enormous expense for a DevArt account, while also thinking that you can rent an apartment for $25 a week in that unattainable Real World.
Maybe Mom charges $75 a week room and board for him to live in his old bedroom. She's a single mother with a leech on her teat, so why wouldn't she?

What about my favourite songs: "All around my head" and "Scratch me, bite me, call me dirty names" ?

Bill:Fox Girl Android!! FOX GIRL ANDROID!
Awww, do I HAVE to?... ;p
There's another girl on Devart who actually used to work with us (animator.deviantart.com), now SHE would be an ideal person to do a foxy anthro, she's a rabid furry.
She resigned from Disney cuz she couldn't handle the low-paying heat ;)
The amusing thing was, she bitched about it all over her LJ and the WHOLE company found out about it and read it. Bullet, meet foot.
Well, phase one is accomplished. Davey has added my account to his Devwatch list. Now... where's that Tink pic I did ages ago?... >;)...
(I know, I know, I SAID that my account was purely for my own stuff on my LJ, but as long as this doesn't leave this board, I'm safe ;))

Dang, once again I'm considerably more than a day late and a drachma short. Kiru perfectly encapsulated my own response (she's good like that :) in saying,

Damn, Bill. That picture and story shook me up. Hope you and Byron are okay, and heal up fast.

And of course congrats to you for making me gasp audibly enough to make the guy next to me at the library ask, "Are you okay?" (Me: "Nooo! Look at my poor friend's face!") Some Neosporin on those scratches might not be a bad idea, especially since I presently have scars on my hand and collarbone from Sophie-scratches that turned into abscesses. (And she's a strictly-indoor cat, too.)

I'm glad to see such a chorus of, "Get a harness, SOON!" as well. Especially since my stomach turned over and I got tears in my eyes--sorry, it's the Glory of Womanhood Festival, aka PMS City--when you talked about going back into the house and having maybe lost ToeMaster B forever.

I've actually been reading a book about a crazy Connecticut family this week (The Nearly Departed by Brenda Cullerton), so the other day I was already thinking about my fave resident of that state and being annoyed with myself for not having checked the News for a while...now that I see what happens when I miss a few days, I'll be sure to come by whenever I'm online! :-O

Holy Phrack, there is a new Scarlet PI Strip 35 up.

Toni has scored himself an unshaded fox ear.
Who is saying half the stuff in this strip?
It still does not advance the plot, was I really expecting it to?

Toni:..Even if it is because I like playing cast-member to a renegade costume character who escaped from an amusement park...
Iiii thought Scarlett escaped from a lab...(???)
Oh crud, if this is going to become Storm the Castle...9_9
Looks like we have our self-insert. Now that he's implanted Jim into Scarlet and hence doesn't have to write him anymore, Davey's free to make himself the Toni character. And oh, how convenient, he's BI... though who's betting you will NEVER see Toni and Jim, only Toni and Scarlet?

So, lemme get this straight. According to his Write-up,
THREE DAYS have passed between 34 and 35(the one just posted)?? In 34, they're still in post-coital chitchat, but in 35, apparently they've been out and about, done some shopping and come back to exactly the same positions as 3 days earlier?? Oh mummy, make the pain stop...>_<

Edited by author 05-13-2005 09:03 PM
THREE DAYS have passed between 34 and 35(the one just posted)??

Trust Davey to write an outline and ignore it the next day.

I thought that he meant that 3 days passed before the "MY EYES!!" strip. He seemed shocked to discover that not everyone would immediately rape an unconscious giant rodent. It's what he'd do! Every strip since seems to be some weird retcon, trying to justify that one scene. To me, it just opens a bigger plot hole--does Scarlett have regular blackouts or amnesia?
That, of course, would not only make sense, but also be a possible plot device. So he won't use it.

OK, you guys are the only group I know that might help with this, and I knw I haven't been by but I'm actually slowly catching up on News....

Anyway. A club in Australia is using a picture of a celebrity that was taken for Maxim Magazine in the background of their advertisement. I say that's illegal, it's meaning being that celebrity endorses the club, that the club and it's advertiser would have to get the celebrities permission, the MAGAZINE's permission (since that was taken exclusively for that magazine) and then the photographer's permission to run a picture like that and since it's pretty obvious that would NEVEr happen, the ad is illegal.

And skeezy.

But I couldn't find anything on Google that would back that up. I'm pretty frickin' positive that if you try and use a celebrity face to sell an object without their consent, that's just downright illegal. Can anyone provide links or proof? Some frickin' newbie is trying to tell me it's fine, they do it in Los Angeles all the time. I tried to explain to her that in LA, celebs probably DO give endorsements, because hi, they live there, they play there, they would be at the club anyway. But This person in Australia? NO.

So any help, thanks. I gotta go to bed. Garage Sale tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure that's no-go, M3, from a purely legal standpoint.
Mind you, clubs and raves flaunt copyrights all the time in their advertising if it's purely on a street level, like flyers and so on.
It would depend on the sort of advertising it is - paid ad in a magazine, for example, would probably be sueable. By Maxim, that is. They own the picture. The celeb, I think, is on slightly shakier ground. Once a magzine takes their picture, the magazine can use it however they like.
How many celeb URLs are actually for porn sites? Quite a few, IIRC. There's nothing the celeb in question can really do, as they don't 'own' their name in the sense of it being a copyrighted trademark.
Just me spouting off the top of my head here, so I COULD be totally off, too ;)

Senor Beell:To me, it just opens a bigger plot hole--does Scarlett have regular blackouts or amnesia?
And can we have SUBTITLES, PLEASE? "yoahself"? That accent still HURRRRTS!!!

Katzenkuller, I apologize for being a poor host. Welcome aboard!
It's still only a dollar a post!
Where's my dollar?

M3-- a quick post to Maxim, indicating how you are so pleased that they've given a ringing endorsement to a crappy local pub should have a planeful of lawyers there quite sharply.

Of course, I kind of like the idea of Maxim losing out on the exchange (stupid exploiters of women, and men's weaknesses!) so I'd keep my mouth shut. ;-)

Sweet Jane for President!
http://sweet-jane-says.journalspace.com/

Davey has a new toy.
Because he's SO confident he needs a centrally-organised place for his hoards of fans to submit their offerings.
When you offer a space for people to 'practise' the coding needed to use the board, something's wrong.
The only two pieces on there already(under Scarlet PI) were ones done ages ago.

And does he have enough CODE BANNERS at the bottom of the page there??

Davey:
"I want to have an active and contributing fan base with my web site and stories. It's something I want to promote even if any corporation wants to use my stuff."

Bill:
(blank stare)
I always thought that his "fan base" was people like us, who like reading him for none of the reasons he'd like us to.
And he thinks corporations will want his garbage? Yeah, here's our mascot, she's a horny fox android. New, from Kellogs! It's Fox Fucker cereal, the only cereal that tastes like semen-encrusted furries! Free condom in every box!

even if any corporation wants to use my stuff.

What about a McFur Burger?

Anyone wanna bet that the "corporation" that Davey secretly wishes would beg him to use his totally derivative non-characters is--
Disney?
Could he not mention Scarlett as a theme park character or Johnny Briz as a "new Mickey" any more than he does? While threatening the Disney lawyers, the ones who seem quite happy to not know he even exists?

Mimi, is there some subgroup that hates Disney, yet wants to a part of them? There's his Eisner-bashing, but he doesn't care at all about Disney's characters. They all have to be Daveyfied if they'll be any good.

"Any Brizketeers Around?" I laffs every time I see that ignored topic on DVK's message board.

Bill:Mimi, is there some subgroup that hates Disney, yet wants to a part of them?
*scratches head*.... only those of us who ALREADY work there?
I know it might seem like Disney engages in wholesale cashcow rape of its own characters, but they're actually VERY strict about keeping them in character and not 'reinventing' them...like WB and the whole Loonatics thing.
Mickey has a whole MANUAL on how he is to be drawn, written and what he can and can't do.
I bet Davey couldn't name one single reason WHY he hates Eisner. I bet he couldn't. Not that there AREN'T damn good reasons to hate the guy and cheer his imminent departure, but like his hatred of Microsoft, I bet his Eisner-hate is purely a 'me too!' thing.
In any case, I had BBC tell him the idea politely sucked ;p
Davey's response: I know of a couple fanfictioners who know Wiki pretty well. (as a defense against the idea that people aren't likely to swarm it anytime soon because it's too complicated)
Oh well, that's it then. CCS and PSP can just pack it in and go home now...;p

Google ads I'm seeing right now:

Tinker Bell Bedding
FurCon Furry Convention
What is "furry" fandom?
Children Costumes & More
All the Condoms

Davey would be proud.

I've found an artist who shares Davey's "minimalist" artistic style: http://cinnamonsugar.deviantart.com/
Except when she draws nudes, they're actually kind of sexy:http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14328586/

Let's track each over time and see which one evolves and which one doesn't.

Edited by author 05-15-2005 08:29 PM
I don't think it's valid to compare both. for one, she knows how to use color. and her char designs make a bit more sense. if anything, sometimes i'm afraid my stuff comes closer to Davey's, with the lines and stuff. (plus my reticence to use color and draw everything carelessly) it's a horrible honor, like having the biggest wart ever, but it's a honor i have to defend, right? right?

BBC should ask DVK about the "at least 4 fanfics" about him he claims exists. Has he actual fans, or are they Tasu-like people yanking his chain in a way he's too clueless to recognize?

I never had a problem with the creative side of Disney. I think what most people dislike is the whole marketing-sector "world domination" agenda. http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Disney/Labor.html

Oh, totally. If the powers-that-be would just relax and stop with the agenda to make every subsequent feature break all box-office records, people might enjoy the MOVIES again and not end up disgusted at the merchandise-whoring.
Shrek 2. Top-grossing animated film of all time. I still have no idea why ;p). I personally don't think it was because the film was a masterpiece, but because for MONTHS, all you saw was fricking Shrek on EVERYTHING. That damn ogre and donkey are the biggest corporate whores of them all.

So, last night at my parents place, my father arrives with a bag of stuff from the nearest government-owned liquor store (because booze=tax to pay for free health-care) and amongst the diverse oddities he produces is a bottle of absinthe. Looks like it's legal for sale here now, and costs a hell of a lot less than the site I've linked to offers it at. No eerie visions, but I've got an unaccountable urge to have one of my ears off.

Happily, there was neither a Mickey nor an "Ogre" on the bottle.

He drank a whole bottle of that stuff in one sitting? Shouldn't he be dead now?

Huh. "Brannigan" means drinking spree.

He drank a whole bottle of that stuff in one sitting? Shouldn't he be dead now?

Maybe just brain dead? I'm sure he's bound to have some sort of damage..

Shrek Absinthe! The drink as green as him! Drink 'til the magic green faerie grants you new, never before seen visions of the movie! pair it with Puss-in-Boots x-tra strenght catnip smokes for an afternoon of fun!

Down here, we don't have absinthe, we have some faux thing called "Absente." I haven't had it, but Scott bought a bottle. Everyone who tried it said it was the most disgusting thing that they'd ever tried to force down their gullet.

How much thujon is the Canadian version? There's a pretty clear cost-to-thujon ratio on that site you linked.

Thujone rating... lost to current memory. I'll check it next time I'm over at the folks, but it was definitely the Hill's brand name. Frankly, I think I got more effect out of the 70% alcohol (hahhhhhhh...) than anything else. And putting water in means you can then taste it. It's not the worst thing I've had in my mouth, but I've had Korean street-vendor food, so my baseline is in a funny place.

I love Zef's suggestion for cross-marketing, by the way. It would be great if Disney/Anti-Disney tried to copyright specific types of nerve damage.

but I've had Korean street-vendor food, so my baseline is in a funny place.

You ain't killed your taste buds until you get funky with some tacos off a street corner here. and some gusano mezcal. the plus is, after eating local street tacos, you can survive pretty much anything. (provided you get over the tacos in the first place)

Try Disney's new 'Mr Toad's Wild Ride' 'Shrooms! have a wild ride in the comfort of your own room! (keep sharp items away while on wild ride)

Edited by author 05-16-2005 08:37 PM
gusano mezcal

I loves me some tequila, but I hold off on mezcal. I don't drink Corona on the idea that "Any beer that needs a fruit slice shoved down it to be drinkable isn't worth drinking."

And a liquor that tries to improve its taste by tossing a maggot in the bottle...?

edit:
"Boy, this is one fine cheeseburger! But know what'd make it perfect? Some maggots!"
You just don't hear that.

I'm not sure they try to improve the taste with the invertebrate. it's just something you can be all macho about. it IS wise to hold off mezcal, though.

I don't like beer as much as the regular male, but corona seems pretty good for me in the rare occasions i drink it. I've yet to try any amerikan beer, though. as i said, i don't like the thing enough.

That pizza with everything--Can I replace the anchovies? With maggots? What?! You must have SOMEthing! Caterpillars, pupae, some kind of larva! FINE, fine, just make me a cheese pizza! There's a bait shop on my way home!
Mmmm--nightcrawlers!

it's just something you can be all macho about

Straight Dope:
"You probably think this is some ancient Mexican tradition, right? Not unless your idea of ancient is 1950. We even know who invented the practice. Various reasons are given for it, but I say it all boils down to: Let's see if we can get the gringos to eat worms."

Edited by author 05-16-2005 09:27 PM
Okay, okay, i give up. we DO eat insects. ant pupas, too. I haven't tried neither, but oh well. they're delicious AND expensive.

but you'll never read this entry again. I will, and I'll laugh at the memory of the Bigfoot Sideways Shuffle.


Bullshit. you always say this, and i'm always rereading the old news.

(sorry, i've been wanting to say 'BS' in such a tone, and i haven't heard any recent Bush statement)

What is it with absinthe being sold with the wormwood removed? Doesn't that totally defeat the purpose??

(Never had it, but wouldn't turn down the opportunity to try if presented)

Bullshit. you always say this, and i'm always rereading the old news.


Yeah, me too. You're more entertaining than you think you are. I even have a quotes file full of your stuff. Um, but not in an obsessive creepy way.

I even have a quotes file full of your stuff.

I'd be interested in hearing what you think is quotable. (And congratulations on graduating!)

Jeez...I thought that we were just kidding!

"Fancy a delicacy to tempt your taste-buds? How about maggots?

A German restaurant claims to be fully booked after adding these squirmy critters to their menu.

Dishes at the Espitas restaurant in Dresden include maggot ice cream, maggot salads and maggot cocktails.

Apparently, the eatery imports the 'nutritious and extremely tasty' maggots from Mexico."

Want mescal with that?

Here's a bit of conversation from Davey's board--it's accurate, but edited (heavily) for verbiage and funniness.

BBC: Why are they worrying about condoms? Scar is an android, she can't get pregnant or STDs.

DVK: Good question. Maybe I wanted to show an indication over how many times they did it.

BBC: Is it really all that important to the story how many times they did it?
Enough with the sex, STORY, David!

DVK: All right then. I'll skip the bonus sex part and just stick to the main story :) Just makes things that much easier on the mind.

TASU: and the stomach

The whole maggot topic reminds me of a story a friend who taught in Mongolia told me: It was suggested that part of a fun evening out include a visit to a Chinese restaurant. Being butted up against China, the friend assumes the Chinese food in Mongolia would be very authentic. Apparently so, as the Mongols in the group (a culture which invented the trick of drinking the blood of the horse one is riding as an in-transit snack) universally declined the idea on the grounds that some of the stuff the Chinese eat gives them the willies.

Actually, DVK's sex-capades sort of reminds me of the story too. Scarlet's an andriod/suit/thing, but... SOMEBODY in there has a prostate gland which I imagine such repeated jabbing at is going to make mighty sore. Bleh.

Ernst:SOMEBODY in there has a prostate gland which I imagine such repeated jabbing at is going to make mighty sore
I had actually considered that before I asked about the condoms. Which orifice is in operation here? If it's Jim's, then I guess you'd have STDs and AIDS to worry about, yeah.
But when I went back and did a bulk-save of the whole strip (for archival purposes), Scarlet DOES say that Jim's anatomy converts to hers. So he goes female.
(I reckon it's just so Davey wouldn't have to OMG!draw teh gay! sex!111)
Why is it in ANY story where a female android is created, they always include the glory hole? Even in an android created ostensibly for real work or analytical purposes, she HAS to have a vagina. Is every AI engineer a horny socially-inept male?

I'm seeing banner ads for furries, condoms and Tinkerbell costumes.
What kinda sickos do they think hang out here?? ;p

Why is it in ANY story where a female android is created, they always include the glory hole?

Anatomical correctness? no, seriously, have you seen 'Chobits' by CLAMP? it's slightly like scarlet, only MUCH less retarded and more fascinating, with a whole bunch of ethical/moral issues. (for me at least.) the glory hole issue is treated differently in the anime vs. manga (i think, i'll have to rewatch the anime) but it's harsher in the manga.

Edited by author 05-18-2005 09:33 PM
(Dons floppy hat labelled GEEK)

Why is it in ANY story where a female android is created, they always include the glory hole?

Shirow Masamune's "Black Magic" (the manga, not the anime) has some female-shaped super-awesome destructobots which appear to have NO functional genitalia. There's even a little digression at the end where the mechanisms hidden inside the chickbot shape are laid out.

(removes hat)

But, in general... it's pandering to those too poorly-socialized to talk to real girls (and likely too timid to try hiring one).

But, in general... it's pandering to those too poorly-socialized to talk to real girls (and likely too timid to try hiring one).

What about those too poor to hire one? ('course, 'bots tend to be a wee more expensive, so i guess it's a moot point) or too health conscious to hire one? (bots could be sterile clean too, dang bots. and i guess health would be a greater concern here)

/poor and health conscious but can talk to real girls.. for a bit.

BBC: Why are they worrying about condoms? Scar is an android, she can't get pregnant or STDs.

DVK: Good question. Maybe I wanted to show an indication over how many times they did it.

*headdesk, headdesk, head-freakin'-desk*

Nice to see not much has changed about Davey since I'd last seen him.

I think that the funny part about Davey's clear inability to grasp that MOST people do NOT want to boff freaks against nature like Scarlett is that...
...He identifies himself as a conservative Republican!

And I thought that the Log Cabin [ie, Gay] Republicans would be about as welcome in the GOP as would Ice Cube at a Klan meeting. Yeah, Davey, you rape fox-androids, get ready to take a seat at the table. Republicans love guys like you. As long as fringe group members like you are idiotic enough to donate your money, time and opinions. Possibly you suckers missed that day in history class when those terrible liberal teachers talked about how the Nazis made Jews dig their own graves.
Jump on in, Gays and Furries! Jump right on in.

However, I may be wrong. Republicans hate the Donkey, but they sure can love them some mules! Literally. Sounds just like DVK's kinda guy!

Got a spam on "How to trim away inches." They've changed their target demographic entirely!.

Ernst:Shirow Masamune's "Black Magic" (the manga, not the anime) has some female-shaped super-awesome destructobots which appear to have NO functional genitalia.

Which is especially amusingly ironic considering the sort of pr0n Shirow does now ;)

*headdesk, headdesk, head-freakin'-desk*

*puts pillow between Fk's head and desk* there. more amusing.

Which is especially amusingly ironic considering the sort of pr0n Shirow does now ;)

You mean Shirow hasn't been drawing H since forever? am i missing something?

1. Go here: http://jeibi.deviantart.com/
2. Click Evil Josh and Billy part 1
3. Enjoy

And while I'm sending you on errands, if you want to see a trailer for the upcomming season of Inuyasha, go here: http://www.taiyoukai.com/videos/index.html
Click on the pic labelled "Resolution - various clips of what happened at Mt. Hakurei." It's the second one from the bottom.

Way to go, Lav. Via that link i found a WAY superior mexican artist. (though granted, she relies heavily on CLAMP for style, but her coloring is KICKASS, something that i haven't grasped at all yet) so now you're to blame for my artistical depression. :p

In good news, I found out the Univ made a 4th convocatory (is that a word?) to enter to the "Modern English Language and Literature" career. and i'm on time to enroll! i won't have to go study at the states! (something i had started to think about/research today, seems like a FATE thing to don't let me go to amerika)

/mopes off

About Toupee-man: Ahhh, sweet memories of the Shawt days. Hell, sweet memories of pre-Shawt days. Bill, you remind me of the teenage redneck who taught me how to drive. Except you taught me how to be a smartass.

Ernst:You mean Shirow hasn't been drawing H since forever? am i missing something?
heh. Well, if you read look at his stuff in 'Intron Depot 1' and compare it to the later artbooks and Ghost in the Shell 2, his earlier stuff DID tend to be more 'practical battle jumpsuits' rather than 'camel toe body stockings' or outright nudity.
I've seen the famously-cut sex scene from GitS - wow, Davey only WISHES his android-pr0n was that explicit! ;p

Wow. I'd never even HEARD of the famously-cut sex scene.

(Wads up GEEK hat and dumps in compost bin)

On to other things-- Auntie Beeb is my homepage, and this morning they have a huge item about the thing that's going to make the US gov't blow up SOUTH Korea (it isn't, sadly, their whaling)

However, I may be wrong. Republicans hate the Donkey, but they sure can love them some mules! Literally. Sounds just like DVK's kinda guy!

I'd heard about this nearly a week ago. Of course, I decided to tell Pat about it. Heh heh heh. Too bad it's not someone in the administration, or I would have had an excuse to counteract Republican's whinings about "the blue dress" with a bleet or a bray.

(Hm. There's a pro-life ad from Heritage House on that DC Media Girl site. "Tools you need to help save the unborn," like addresses to doctor's residences and explosives?)

Off-topic: I see Davey's added you to his friends list, Mimi.

"When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I can't stop laffin!

Ernst:Wow. I'd never even HEARD of the famously-cut sex scene.
That's GitS, the manga, not the movie ;)

FK:I see Davey's added you to his friends list, Mimi
Well, I put him on Devwatch and I think I had something Disneyish up at the time. But he hasn't done anything else, nothing faved or anything.

I think I had something Disneyish up at the time. But he hasn't done anything else, nothing faved or anything.

Duh, girlfriend! Where is your Jem with FOX EARS?
Throw a bushy tail on Aja, and you'd be his dream artist!

(I have an Aja doll--as I've always wanted a blue-haired Japanese girlfriend-- but Byron tossed her down behind the stereo, where she won't be retrieved until I move)

While I impatiently await Davey's next foray into insanity, I've seen his last disaster enough times to notice: HE STILL DRAWS THEM FAGGY BOYS WITH ONION RINGS IN THEIR EARS.
Couldn't he give them a super-sized side of lobe-fries for once?

I think Scalzi might have Lucas confused with Spielberg. For example, did Lucas have anything at all to do with Jaws? Lucas's primary (and perhaps only) genius was with the technical side of movie-making. Is that a compliment or a criticism? I'm not sure which. Let's just call it a statement of reality and let it go at that. Probably his greatest achievement was a TV series called The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. It was utter poop, but it was also the laboratory in which Lucas perfected computerized special effects. Half the effects in Lord of the Rings were pioneered in Young Indiana Jones.

Bill:Duh, girlfriend! Where is your Jem with FOX EARS?
Throw a bushy tail on Aja, and you'd be his dream artist!
LALALA I *didn't* hear that LALALALA Will NOT be tempted LALALALA...
No, I want to really avoid drawing anthro foxes. The furry community has ruined the image of this proud and noble creature forever. I loved Disney's Robin Hood, dammit ;_;

What makes furries adore foxes so much when they're a certified feral pest?(at least they are around here, but all those Foghorn leghorn cartoons can't be wrong).
When I was a little girl and played Pretend with my friends, I always liked being exotic romantic animals like unicorns and pegasii..

What makes furries adore foxes so much when they're a certified feral pest?

Part of it is the fine bone structure, but it's primarily the delightful smell they emit ;-)

"Hm. There's a pro-life ad from Heritage House on that DC Media Girl site. "Tools you need to help save the unborn," like addresses to doctor's residences and explosives?"

We should totally make a "Tools to help save the born" website and list these guys' home addresses.

Shorter SWIII: RotS: ANGST. Still better than Eps I and II, though.

What makes furries adore foxes so much...

Sneaky and sly = sexy. For some.
To me, sneaky and sly animals are clever and adorable. For others, it could be sexy (I don't know whether it's just the traits themselves that are considered sexy or the possessor of those traits that made... them.. sexy... ramble... My train of thought derailed.)

I've heard that skunks are a favorite as well, maybe it's the markings. I've never seen anthro spotted skunks; guess the patches just aren't attractive enough for some artists.

The furry community has ruined the image of this proud and noble creature forever.

Foxes will always be wonderful creatures to me, no matter what some people in a group do with them in their art and stories. If I see a nasty anthro [fox] pic, I just move on and think nothing more of it. (Unless it's a Gonterman piece, then I wail. But he has that general effect on me.)

Slightly OT: I've never seen any anthro insects. (And the humans with WINGES PESTED ON YEY! don't count.)

did Lucas have anything at all to do with Jaws?

No. He meant that Jaws was the first "summer blockbuster."

I've heard that skunks are a favorite as well

Remember "Davey Crockett," DVK's skunk-suited persona who fought alongside Sonic as "David Kintobor"? Remember the first time you saw that ridiculous surname and immediately thought, "I'll bet he's going to 'shock' us when he spells it backwards"?

I've never seen any anthro insects.

If I were a furry, I'd go as a paramecium. Cilia counts as fur!

Here's a fic thing I wrote:
http://www.fictionpress.com/~moonlitwaters

Probably the first chapter of many.

Kits:Shorter SWIII: RotS: ANGST. Still better than Eps I and II, though.
I'll second that, we just got back from it. Not perfect, but I think it's as good as Empire.
I still think all Anakin's problems could have been solved if Jedi were allocated an hour's mandatory masturbation every day.

Lav: Too damn early for constructive criticism. I will merely say 'Good Stuff.' Not Mary Sue, tho'? No, you're right. That would be self-indulgent.

Nah, I couldn't call her Mary Sue. She's too nice.

Edited by author 05-22-2005 05:45 PM
SWIII: I've caved in and i'm getting a toy lightsaber. i'll wear it on my belt on the street. if i don't post anymore, i've been beaten by jocks. (but i won't go without a fight.. with a lot of lightsaber noises)

I have a small gripe with Grievious (which apart from the lame name i consider a badass) but i guess i'll wait until everyone's seen it. that said, it's good enough to watch it end to end (like i did with the original trilogy in betamaxes when i was 3) but i guess it could've been a lot worse.

Slightly OT: I've never seen any anthro insects. (And the humans with WINGES PESTED ON YEY! don't count.)

I was thinking about this in the media, but pixar, bluth, et.al don't really make anthro insects, yes? more like insects with a lot of human traits.

So i guess there really aren't because not many people find insects as 'cute' as mammals are, (though look at a praying mantis.. it's rad lookin'!) because there haven't been precedents by mainstream media to copy canons from (unlike with Disney's Robin Hood, which, i agree with Mimi, was AWESOME) and it must be hella hard to do a proper model, what with the huge anatomical differences and stuff. plus a true insect anthro would have to remain small anyway because of the exoskeleton.

though look at a praying mantis.. it's rad lookin'!)

Hold on, Zef. I just thought of something... Zorak could be the first anthro insect ever created.

plus a true insect anthro would have to remain small anyway because of the exoskeleton.

Yeah, that's a lot of thing some anthro artists never take into account: proper size (although the Sonic the Hedgehog characters were under four feet tall, but still...).
I'll admit that I never thought about proper heights and sizes when I made my characters; my fox-wolf hybrid (YES, I made one, so shoot me) was taller than my kangaroo character.
Although a hamster character was short and stocky; she was the only one who was a "proper size."

Another thing anthro artists/creators don't take into account is keeping animal traits--like the little quirks each species as a whole has. It's like they're just humans who happen to have a lot of fur and different skeletal structures. (I did make my cat character have a nervous habit of clawing the furniture, though. She'd puke on carpets to piss others off at times, too.)

On a slightly different note: how come some people are quick to gnash teeth when they see furry art and label the artists as perverts, but absolutely adore Art Spiegelman, Chuck Jones, Walt Disney, etc.?

And I've never heard anyone scream, "Those ancient Egyptians were FURRIES! Worshipping gods with animal heads, those perverts!"

Sorry to come off like this, but I still love my anthro characters, and I still plan on writing their story. Call me a furry if you want, but I will not be thrown into the same bag as the ones who gave the fandom a bad name (I could also question why some people focus more on the negative aspects of the fandom, but that's a different argument).

Whoa, whoa,... I wasn't trying to say that ALL anthro fans are furry perverts, but like hentai tentacle pron is to anime, the yiffy stuff is what most people think when they hear Furry.
I'm well aware that most furry fans aren't perverts and simply like to draw or look at anthro animals. Hell, that was ALL I DREW growing up. My beef is that so much of it all looks the same, even the good stuff. They all have the same quasi-WB face construction and there's honestly very little that Disney and WB haven't done already and done better.
As for Maus, that was allegorical anthro. They weren't literally mice, just people wearing masks. For another good anthro comic that signifies race with an animal species, read Apocalypse Meow, a manga set in the Vietnam war where the americans are rabbits, the VC are cats, the chinese are pandas and so on. All anatomically correct, too. :)

Edited by author 05-23-2005 01:32 PM
Just like to wish everyone a happy Victoria Day-- the day we celebrate the birthday of a long-dead queen who happened to reign through the period when England owned everything. I'm having the family over for a barbeque.

{edit: Anthro-pods... A Bug's Life? That thing Woody Allen did at the same time as A Bug's Life? And of course Zorak. I have a vague memory of some kind of bug in the Classical Era "Little Nemo" comics, but I may be misremembering.}

Ack... I didn't mean to be brash, Mimi. The post wasn't even directed to you, just a standard general rant. Sorry 'bout that.

I just found this comment on the flakes.

David Gonterman of Foxfire Studios brings us the brilliantly-drawn "Scarlet, P.I.". -Editor

Well, I suppose it may be slightly better 'art' than most of the other crap on the flakes. "Brilliantly drawn" are two words I never thought I would see associated with Davey's works.

Edited by author 05-23-2005 07:59 PM
(YES, I made one, so shoot me)

*extends toy lightsaber* nah, beating is more fun. about traits, that's kinda what i meant, even in real media, the anthros with animal traits are rare, it's the other way around usually, animals with human traits, so, mad props. (whatever that means)

{edit: Anthro-pods... A Bug's Life? That thing Woody Allen did at the same time as A Bug's Life

I didn't mention them because again, they're quasi-accurate animals, with human traits. (while we touched Antz and Bug's life, what's with the other studios [or is it only dreamworks?] trying to beat Pixar at its own game and just getting to look lamer by comparision? Shark Tale, anyone?)

Well, I suppose it may be slightly better 'art' than most of the other crap on the flakes. "Brilliantly drawn" are two words I never thought I would see associated with Davey's works.

as a wannabe artist, one thing i've noticed is, there's a lot of people who don't know *better* stuff to compare yours to and so not fawn and love it lots.

Edited by author 05-23-2005 11:03 PM
Davey! Davey Davey Davey! DEADLINE at MIDNIGHT!
Where's tomorrow's strip for the Flakes?!
Ooohh, H-Bomb will be SO mad at you! He may get so mad, he'll call you a liburul!

Meanwhile...Remember Davey's "dream job," that of writing Magic:TG books?
His awful submission was shot down. But it lives, IT LIVES!
(In that user-hostile PDF format he's become so fond of)

"With a majestic float-up past two milky-white folds which resemble sheets of paper, she ascended up from what appears to be an ancient book, just unlocked."

YOU RULE THE WRITINGS, DAVEY!

edit
Jamie: "Being a ghost must suck."
BWA-HAHAHAHA!!
Thanks for the insight! This is pure Davey Comedy Gold!

Oh, Lordy, I think he made it a PDF just so we can't cut'n'paste the better bits. Jasmine's response to the last quote is "Hells no!" just like any 3,000 year old sorceress from Babylonian times newly released into the modern world.
She'll make a Tarzan yell next!

edit edit:
Sorry, a 3,000 year old sorceress from a totally different reality who's never been on Earth before.
Hells yeah!

I had some fun on the adult swim message board. There was a debate about whether the president was dumb or not-dumb so I played the part of Bushbaby and said things like:

You juzt TOTALLY don't not get the geo-litalitical subtlties involved! See I drawed a pictur to explains! There's me in red crayon wif a cape, I'm the one labeled "GUD!" and there's Osama bin Hussein, he's in blue and labeled "EVUL!" and up here in the corner I drawed the sun! The sun is very important!!!1

What's wrong with the color-coded alert systum! Do you have something against COLORS son? If we don't have the rich, delicious joy of COLORS in our lives, then teh TERRY-ISTS have already won! I have an airplane!

Only NERDZ worry about the educatiomal systum! You're not some kind of Frenchie NERD are you?

Besides, the educam, educana, educato, **bleep**, that word's hard to say! I shall rename it LERNIN FACTRY! Which I can do, because I'm the president and presisents can DO things! The LERNIN FACTRY never did anything for me, so why should I do anything for it?

Only COMMIE-NISTS care about the economy! You're not some kind of FRENCHY COMMIE are you?

Another person who doesn't get geo-litical subtlties. If I and all my daddies friends had to pay taxes, then I wouldn't be able to afford this AIRPLANE! You people aren't Anti-American PLANE-HATERS, are you!

EFFECTIVENESS IS FOR NERDS! Why am I the only smart person in the whole widest world?

The environment won't matter if Osama bin Hussein is on the loose!

DUH! Dollars can't be weak! They're always worth exactly four quarters! You so stupid!

And what are these "stem sell" things everyone keeps going on about? I just read the pretty papers Mr. Cheney puts in front of me. All the big words are spelled foneticly.


Sadly, he closest anyone came to playing along was some guy who said:

All people in polotics are gay!!1

I'm still waiting for the presidential stumble on the stairs up to Air Force One which will cause the hatch on his head to open and reveal the two lab-mice running the controls.

...and of course, because driving is tricky, Pinky gets to do the talking.

STARWARS SPOILERS

Bill, I think you're being kind of harsh on RotS.

First, I don't see what the big deal about the Tarzan yell is -- Chewbacca does it in RotJ, and it's such a vague thing I'm willing to suspend disbelief and say that it's a parallel evolution thing, just a good thing wookies developed to express their bravery.

*I hear what you're saying about missiles vs little gremlin driods...I think one of those diagram books I read mentioned they are used when you want to disable and not blowup a craft, its not TOO tough to handwave a reason why you might want to disable or take control of a craft steered by a jedi. (and come on, griping about thesse leads to griping about "why do the starcraft bank like WW2 fighters" which leads to "why can you hear anything anyway" (I saw one scifi story say the ships are equpped with sound simulators to give a more tactile feel of the situation to the pilots...) and then to "why are these craft fighting at speeds a human-like creature can react at anyway"?...in other words, you're missing the point of Star Wars, go watch Bab5 or something.

*The hacking cough was a little weird, I think there's some backstory from that really cool Clone War cartoon that explains it. But the dude has lungs! Or at least some organs, we saw 'em. He's a bio/mechanical hybrid, like Vader will be but more so.

*the face thing...I thought maybe having his lightning bolts bounced backed by Windu's saber caused some kind of prosthetic treatment that made him pass as human melt away.

*yeah, a little heavy in the saber department...especially the huge count of chopped off hands, legs, and heads...

*I think the Swith Miss fairytale was given a lot more weight by Anakin's prophetic dreams. Plus, there are other hints that the guy ain't the brightest bulb.

*younglings...ehh, whatever. It did make me think of "won't somebody think of the CHILDREN????", kind of a cheap emotional shortcut

*Yeah, the Jedi seemed a little dramatically-convenient-weak. Though like I posted at http://kisrael.com/viewblog.cgi?date=2005.05.24 there is some evidence Jedi's might have been growing less powerful all this time. You saw the same thing with stormtroopers in the original trilogy, never deserving the reputation they were said to have.

*agree about the fudging with the pregnancy. I got a little confused with who would be paying attention to her, if she was acting as the elected princess or her handmaiden role or what.

* Some people think the shot w/ the death star might've been "out of sequence", since the look is a lot more like the original trilogy imperials than the Republic stuff we saw in the prequels. Or that the skeleton was the easy part. Or that it was a prototype, which made logical but not dramatic sense.

I thought it was a good film overall. Draggy in the first half, and a little confused, but I liked the starship battles, most of the biggest complaint things were cut down or eliminated, and the rest of the action was great.

Actually, my biggest complaint was how much he worked to parallel things in the Original Trilogy...like the pilot chatter. It kind of cheapens the tilogy by making the chatter just following a pattern rather than being part of a unique event.

Edited by author 05-24-2005 03:13 PM
But the dude has lungs! Or at least some organs, we saw 'em.

That's right! and the dumbmetalass DOESN'T protect them. (or at least not good enough to avoid a Jedi prying open the protection like a cabinet) This is my biggest complain, which compared with Bill's make you see how short an attention span i have. Still, cheapest death ever.

Some people think the shot w/ the death star might've been "out of sequence", since the look is a lot more like the original trilogy imperials than the Republic stuff we saw in the prequels.

You mean it shows a LOT the difference between the feel/ambience of the prequels and the originals? because that's what i felt, it shows the HUGE difference. (the screens aren't flat panel anymore!)

from the article:
He continued: 'It would definitely have emotions - that's one of the primary reasons for doing it. If I'm on an aeroplane I want the computer to be more terrified of crashing than I am so it does everything to stay in the air until it's supposed to be on the ground.

Yeah, and i don't want it to get angry at the pilot and crash on purpose after bailing out like that drivng system on the 18 wheeler Homer used to drive. cant' a million things go wrong with emotions? (like being paralyzed or blinded by fear?)

Talking to your yogurt would be cool.

'Good morning.'
'Oh, good morning yogurt. *yawn*'
'did you sleep well?'
'not really. a lot of mosquitos in my room again.'
'mosquitos? bummer.'
'hmm, yogurt, you're damn tasty today!'
'why, thank you. have you noticed how many strawberries i have?'
'yeah, it's pretty rad. "check out the big berries in yogurt!"'
'they're very fresh. it's the secret of my delicious taste'
'really? figures. Yogurt? yogurt? NOOOO I ATE ALL OF YOU!!'
*opens another yogurt*


/Maybe is so much of a loner that talking to yogurt sounds appealing. and yeah, i quote a lot of 'pulp fiction'.

"Yogurt? yogurt? NOOOO I ATE ALL OF YOU!!'"

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Seriously though, that's like the creepiest thing imaginable.

Or at least some organs, we saw 'em.

Yes, but what we saw was the size of a prune. He ran his whole body on that? Maybe it was his appendix, and Obi-Wan gave him appendicitis.

He ran his whole body on that?

I don't really dabble a lot in Star Wars (the books with the schematics and blue prints of all the ships are prolly the only 'in depth' thing i'd look at) but isn't he supposed to be half alien-half cyborg? so he could. still, that'd be like a cyber-Salacious Crumb. and he died of heartburn! hah! i can be so funny.

Mimi:
Shouldn't there be a "1" after the signature?
(Wondering who else will get your in-joke)

Trogdor the Burninator: http://homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html

This is the best game I've ever played!!!!1

Alas, I can't afford posting here more than once a week.

Can't wait hearing the eggs in my fridge begging for their miserable lives: "Don't eat me, eat him! It's first-in-first-out!" "No, no, better eat him, he's bio!"

You know, it's hard enough for a Buddhist to snag a clear-conscience meal now. The last thing needed is a bunch of chatty foodstuffs.

And you know that all any of it would say would be commercials. "Why go to the bother of cooking me? The stuff an McD's is already cooked and a lot quieter when you bite it. Go on. Treat yourself!"

re: Trogdor-- stupid little knight dudes!

Bill:Shouldn't there be a "1" after the signature?
(Wondering who else will get your in-joke)

...damn, there should be, too.
ARGH!
I deliberately didn't explain anything. I'm waiting to see who spots what the '1' would refer to ;)

I'm waiting to see who spots what the '1' would refer to ;)

I had a quick look at some of the art done by the person in the sig. I see the numbers and assume they indictate part of a series or such, but I could not find a definite answer.
Could someone please enlighten me on this point?

Could someone please enlighten me on this point?

We could...but we won't.

Here's a hint: When I saw the signature, I immediately started looking for something in the drawing. (It helps if you know who Hunter was based on)

We could...but we won't.

Jee, thanks Bill. Make me do my own research.

Well Nina, Nina, Nina to you too!

Re: talking food...Restaurant at the End of the Universe pointed out the benefit of food that really WANTED to be eaten, and could say so, clearly and distinctly...

Edited by author 05-26-2005 12:52 AM
Well Nina, Nina, Nina to you too!

Games like this were more fun before Google was invented.

(EDIT out the part that would give the game away, for those still playing)

Katzenkuller: Alas, I can't afford posting here more than once a week.

Our new affordable posting plan is only 50 cents a post!
(To new subscribers only using SplutCom All-Distance Plans, for the first half-day only; afterwards, other--and by which we mean other*--charges may apply)

*Other charges passed onto customers will include those not explicitly mentioned in the TOS, such as the CEO of SplutCom's buying a round of drinks for the house, his parties involving swimming pools filled with caviar, the cost of renting Paris Hilton as an alleged "celebrity guest," delousing Paris Hilton, penicillin shots for any party members who had sex with Paris Hilton, renting an elephant for Paris Hilton, any accidental and unintended damage caused when Paris Hilton's elephant smashed open the cages of the thousand screaming rabid monkeys, any damage that resulted to Paris Hilton when the elephant panicked and stomped her, gastral distress caused by the caviar being cut with gasoline, any explosions thereof resulting, and that admittedly poor decision to rent an anti-aircraft missile battery and allowing it to be used by Paris Hilton and/or her elephant and/or lice.)

Vader owned me, but only because i chose a cat.

Is it me, or the storm trooper that claps with Vader when he wins looks rather.. well endowed?

I'm glad you bought a harness for Byron, Bill. Just today, my mom called me and told me that a friend's cat had to go to the vet and... ugh... *wince*... the cat had to have an eye removed because it'd been scratched terribly while she was outside. I want to cry for the poor thing, even if she's doing well.

That's why I never let Pepper become an outside cat. I wouldn't know how to handle it if she was harmed.

Please, please watch Byron!

Peasant's Quest: The Movie
http://homestarrunner.com/filmstyle.html
Trogdor comes in the night!

Mwahahahaha Five in each twat!!

I can't wait to see how he responds to the questioning of his use of the word 'twat'. Probably something along the lines of "Well, it means something different in St Louis!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!..."twat"...
Damn! And Devart is in read-only mode at the moment, or I'd comment. But it looks like someone already has.
I'm guessing he meant to imply 5 pounds in each of Scar's boobs.
Does this girl think about ANYTHING other than how she looks?
And of course, now that she has ID and money, she'll blend in seamlessly. Even though she's a SIX-FOOT-TALL WALKING FOX!

Well, we don't now what the engineers at the creepy body-snatcher suit factory had in mind-- heck, given sexbot as the aim of the project, there could be four or five tucked away in there.

(Shakes like Homer contemplating his sisters-in-law)

Anyone else here have an ID card in their wallet labelled "Official Identification"? I think I got one in a playset connected with a Joseph Wambaugh-inspired TV series when I was eight, but oddly enough, never from an actual official source.

It will be an interesting test of the current drugs to see how he responds to two peer* reviews, though-- crazy outburst, demented explanation, or utter silence.

*- we all know the orders of magnitude of difference in artistic skill, but he doesn't.

Ernst:It will be an interesting test of the current drugs to see how he responds to two peer* reviews, though-- crazy outburst, demented explanation, or utter silence.
I DID get posted a link to his 'poll' (who would buy a centrefold print of Scar? Oh please don't all crowd!..), but I've lost it. I was the one who voted 'go flip burgers if you want money, wank-face' >:)

I'm surprised he didn't slap an Adult Advisory warning on the poll for the use of the word 'wank' ;)

I've just had a quick boo at his site again-- startled admission of innocence (in the "doesn't get out of mom's basement" sense of the word). Most unexpected.

Tia and Dee part deux: http://www.fictionpress.com/~moonlitwaters

Yeah, I noticed his immediate back-pedal, too ;)
He's changed 'twat' to 'boob' and rather crudely erased the 'ghost-head' of Jim.
So that's a centrefold of herself she's looking at? I thought she was checking out her credit cards. But... Toni just said she'd been modelling for his store (and his phrasing sounds like she has no recollection of it at all!). Couture models usually don't have size DDD boobs, nor do they appear in pinups.
This strip is drowning in its own vomitous inconsistencies ;p

Oh, MAN. I only get to see the corrected version! He even took Goodlow the Friendly Ghost out!

I'm still unsure how a giant android fox gets an ID...don't you need a Social Security card or a birth certificate? What did she show them, her warranty card?
Note that she dots her i's with hearts, just like a 10 year old girl.

BTW...have you heard that Davey uses Lisnpire? It's news to me!

Davey, reporting to police after his brutal beating outside a bar: "But, officer, all I did was say that his girlfriend was a beautiful woman! That's what 'cunt' means, right?"

Bill: Oh, MAN. I only get to see the corrected version!

I have just emailed the original version to you.
I was going to put it up somewhere else but that might attract the wrath of the Gont.

Enjoy the twatage!

Edited by author 05-27-2005 10:02 PM
Davey has had a major database issue with his webserver, all the forums are gone.
If you had an account you will need to create a new one, at last check he had not assigned DaveyKins to himself-how tempting is that to grab!

Edit: for speelink

I have just emailed the original version to you.

Thanks! it was worth it just for the look on Jiminey's face. "The horror--the horror!" What the hell was THAT about? He freaks when he sees his "lover's" wang, now he blows a gasket looking at--what? A "centerfold" of Scarlett, who's always naked? Was he shocked by seeing her wrearing clothes, ie his Lover's "couture"?
Isn't it odd that he thinks "twat" means "breast," but doesn't think "couture" means "gay cooties"? Hell, maybe he does, and he just hasn't used that word blatantly enough for anyone to notice.

Davey has had a major database issue with his webserver, all the forums are gone.

Yeah, I noticed that they were all down yesterday. Honest mistake, or another excuse for him to erase his embarassing past, as he's done so many times over the last decade?

Ooh, can I have a copy too, Steve? I should have saved it when I saw it.
My email is mimi at asifcomic dot com.

I know, I'm trying to reregister BBC to the forums.
Whadda pain, a lot of good snark got lost there.

Hey.. guess what?
You can post in Davey's forums as an unregistered guest.

At least for now, you can.

Mimi: Ooh, can I have a copy too, Steve?

Sent to you, anyone else want a copy?

Edited by author 05-28-2005 05:25 PM
More pics from the Aeon moobie: http://themonican2005.tripod.com/aeon_flux...s/index.album?i=9&s=
God, I hate that outfit.

Abimelech Not Killed By a Woman:
http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/ab..._woman/jg09_50.html

This is one of my favorites.

Sometimes I think the word "Bible" originally meant "Little Big Book of Utter Jerks". This is one of my favourites. Oddly enough, it's not the only bible story that starts off "God spoke unto him, saying, 'Dude, your sister is totally hot! You should marry her!'" Yuck.

And this thought just in from the depths of the skull-- Brick Testament maker must have about $10 million worth of Lego. That stuff ain't cheap.

Can I have a copy too Steve? I forgot to save it. And somehow I completely missed the Ghost Jim amidst all the twattage. My email's bunkeygal at fastmail dot fm. Thanks!

I'm disappointed he changed it, it was much more interesting in the original version. A fox suit with multiple vaginas? Now that's entertainment!

Rabbit:Can I have a copy too Steve?

Done.

Ernst:Sometimes I think the word "Bible" originally meant "Little Big Book of Utter Jerks".

Well I think it now means "Little Big Book of Utter Jerks that is Read and Believed by Complete and Utter Jerks!"

But that is just my opinion :)

Steve: Thank you!

I'm carefully saving the entire Scarlet PI. How reassuring to know that my version is the Director's Cut with deleted footage ;)

I just finished an hours-long debate on the Adult Swim message board about whether Jen Forgie is miscast as Jakotsu. Is this a sign to seek help?

I watched the series finale of "Enterprise" Sunday. I wasn't planning on it, it was on at the time I rewound the tape I watch Ebert on, and there it was.

But what the hell was up with that? What's with the Deanna and the...guy, first officer guy from Next Generation? RYKER, yeah him. I'll admit that my attention was wandering a lot, but I had no idea what this "tell Picard" crap was about.

They aren't planning another lame series, are they?

Does it make more or less lame that I think of Ryker as "the bad guy in Disney's Gargoyles"?
Oh, wait--I know the answer to that...
(goes and cries in a corner)

Didn't somethingawful.com feature a bit ago a forum with people all angsty about the series finally coming to an end?

I'm sure that if they discontinued the "STAR TREK: The Anal Wart Medicine" commercials, thousands would cry out "But the 'Mr Sulu, Go to Wart Drive!' ads were my FAVORITE ADS EVER!"

I didn't watch much of the show, as "Enterprise" seemed pretty anally warty. Like "Voyager."

Wow, how to kill a usually talkative board, just mention 'the bible' and 'Star Trek'!

I hope Byron gets over his hiding under cars habit, they can be really hard to retrieve(esp. when an asshole starts the car).

Our kitten just discovered the wonders of the house roof. I had to pull out the bush saw and hack the branches off several trees to remove her path to the heights. So what does she do, climb the highest tree in the yard and get stuck half way up it. She is really good at the going up bit, but she sucks at the getting down bit.

Zef:Didn't somethingawful.com feature a bit ago a forum with people all angsty about the series finally coming to an end?
Sounds like something they'd do. I'm more interested in the thread posting the Worst Furry Art you can find. I'm astonished that noone mentioned the G-man, but the thread's kinda disintegrated into 'post the worst furry Pr0n you can', even if it's competently drawn.

Edited by author 06-02-2005 07:27 AM
Wow, how to kill a usually talkative board, just mention 'the bible' and 'Star Trek'!
Sorry. Computer decided it needed a couple of days off. And Bill's clearly been busy with the typin' & the Byron.

If I understand things curreckly, B.t.Splut likes staying up late. Drunken assholes who start early are often in a coma before late occurs AND have crap memories. Thus, next winter when the milk-in-car-door-lock fairy gives them a late night visit, they'll be unlikely to either notice, or piece together the clues as to the fairy's true identity.

Why milk? Cuz it curdles in response to alcohol and burns in response to heat, and because locksmiths cost real money. Chocolate milk has extra sugar in it, for more messy.

And finally, Bill-- you've clearly got radically different taste in movies than my wife 'n' me-- "Van Helsing" isn't great art, but it's kinda fun. Although... in retrospect, I can't quite remember why we thought that. Just the sucky, objectionably bits. Hmpf. Totally agree about "Enterprise"-- wart city.

(edited for 5:30am spelling)

Nyargh. I've got a job now. Temporary, as I'm only going to give it a month. It's a nice little conservative, pro-war, biker-friendly restaurant on the Outer Banks.

Highlights of the bar counter: bumper stickers!

"Vote Confederate!"
"God Made Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve!"
"DIP Me in HONEY and Throw Me to the LESBIANS!"
And many more!

Interestingly, I don't feel threatened by the atmosphere or the owner... yet. I wasn't even angry at seeing the bumper stickers. But if I witness some anti-liberal tangent, I'm outta there, whether my month is up or not.

Kits:

I've seen those "OBX" stickers up here, and wondered what they meant. "Outer Banks," huh? I think they only registered on my brain because they dislexicated themselves as "NXOB."

Can anyone tell me what those "DEE" stickers mean?

"Van Helsing" isn't great art, but it's kinda fun.

That, actually, was my opinion. It's just that non-stop explosion movies should last 90 minutes, not 140. The welcome starts to wear out at that point.

I surely won't be disappointed by the DVD I got for $1 just now--"Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla"!

Edited by author 06-02-2005 07:21 PM
next winter when the milk-in-car-door-lock fairy gives them a late night visit

It seems quite Canadian to have a vengeance so thermally-basted. Revenge indeed is a dish best served cold, mais non?

I went as far as figuring out her name in order to get an email, and while I found a pay site it's on, my quest for blood isn't worth the $2 a month sign-up fee. And I wouldn't know what to do with once I got it, anyway...

edit: That should not have been "thermally-basted," although coating the hag in hot turkey grease isn't a bad idea, either.

And I wouldn't know what to do with once I got it, anyway...

That's easy.

You just need to visit sites like chickswithdogs.com, midgetsandmayo.com, ETC, and subscribe her to their daily mailout. Her email will then end up on the spammers lists and at that point the email address is useless. She will have a bit of explaining to do to the shouting asshole when he sees her inbox.

Well, that's what I would do if someone tried to run over my cat.

And I wouldn't know what to do with once I got it, anyway...

That's easy...
Well, that's what I would do if someone tried to run over my cat.

When I posted that, I thought "But I'll bet Steve knows!"
Ah, greatly vengeful minds think alike!

However, I don't have the email. Anyone have a non-pay way to find it from just a name and snail mail address? (Available off-comments, for all our safety)

E-mail. Feh. You gots the name, you gots the address, you gots the means to send requests for free literature to EVERY FUCKING LOONEY FUNDIE PREACHER IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD! Which gives a nice staged revenge:
1) "WTF are all these Jack Chick comics doing in the mail?"
2) Requests for cash by mail.
3) Requests for cash by phone (Henderson directories = BIG BUX!)
4) Requests for cash in person by adherents of the local branch of the church.

Potentially YEARS of shit stemming from a day of not caring about someone's surrogate child. And since a certain Splut is a materialist and not too worried about the karmic balances enacted thereby, pretty much all gravy. You can also throw in requests to various political groups, too. Imagine the fun if the NRA, MoveOn and the Libertarian-Saucerman Party all stop by on the same day.

"DIP Me in HONEY and Throw Me to the LESBIANS!"

One of my friends has a T-shirt that says "Dip Me in chocolate and throw me to the Lesbians!" She's a lesbian, of course.

"DIP Me in HONEY and Throw Me to the LESBIANS!"

Hmm.. like Negs, I always thought that was a tongue-in-cheek PRO-gay slogan. Anyone care to guess why putting it on their bumper stickers helps the fundie cause?

Even the rednecks with trucks with gun racks and NASCAR stickers likes them some lesbo action! So long as they're those hot, fake Cinemax ones, and not the ones who're feminists.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/18764234/

Davey left the "twat" line fixed, but he's brought back the weird goofy disembodied Jimmy head.

I'd wonder why, but of course everything he draws is freakin' gold. You KNOW he looks at Mimi's work and thinks, "Someday she might be as good as me!"

"Anyone care to guess why putting it on their bumper stickers helps the fundie cause?"

Who can say why people do these things? Why do monkeys scratch their butts and sniff their fingers, at which point the force of the stench knocks them out of the trees? Nobody knows.

Maybe even fundie heterosexual males just can't get enough of girl-on-girl action.

Damn, Bill, you're fast! I get alerts on Devart whenever G-twat updates, and you still beat me!
My only comment is - you'd think an AI of Scarlet's degree of advancement would have a FIREWIRE connection or Bluetooth. USB is, like, SOOOO 2002.

Admittedly, I thought the "The camera DOES add ten pounds... five in each boob!" comment was a little funny. If delivered correctly, it could be downright hilarious. Unfortunately, Davey fails to deliver... as usual.

Mimi:

I'm not THAT fast. I was talking about the last strip. You're ahead of me, as you saw this:

http://www.deviantart.com/view/19049657/

"This one was just as rushed as well. But at least we're getting into the good stuff."

Yeah, the good stuff. Get ready for a few weeks more of Nothing Happening.
As for rushed--note the laptop, wrear Davey apparently gave it a "USO" port before scribbling the O to a B. Doesn't he own an eraser?

I thought the "The camera DOES add ten pounds... five in each boob!" comment was a little funny.

I still prefer "five in each twat!" from the removed original. I still laugh each time I think of it.

Why does Scarlet sit like a guy in a chair? Also what happened to her huge twats, did they magically shrink or is Daveys use of perspective still screwed? Did she swallow a picachu?

And just to be technically picky wrear did the USB driver for Scarlet come from? A Linspire driver at that.

BillI'm not THAT fast. I was talking about the last strip. You're ahead of me, as you saw this:

Oh, okay. See, he posted both the retouched one and the newest one together, that's maybe where I got confused.
And that is a DAMN good question, Steve. I shall pose it to him in the Devart comments >:)
He'll probably just protest lack of time or his 'carpal tunnel syndrome'. WTF is he DOING that's giving him CTS?
...actually, don't answer that O_o

Also what happened to her huge twats

She's wrearing the magical Shirt of Containment. Which also contains all the needed softwrear compatibility protocols she'll ever need.

The last time I saw a USO port was the Playboy Bunnies bit in "Apocalypse Now" (and the hail of old fruit and vegetables began...).

"WTF is he DOING that's giving him CTS?
...actually, don't answer that O_o"

Oh God! The pain!

She's wrearing the magical Shirt of Containment. Which also contains all the needed softwrear compatibility protocols she'll ever need.

Well, it looks like Ernst wins the boobie prize. Davey has replied to Mimi's questions here

Part of me hopes this comment:
Pretty cretaive that sheh ad a usd cable in her head. Keep up the aewsome work.
...is done with full knowledge and in an attempt to poke fun.

(checks link)

Oh, crap. It's a 15 year old with some kind of learning disorder. Ironically, exactly what the G-man keeps being mistaken for.

Edited by author 06-06-2005 05:18 AM
Ernst:Oh, crap. It's a 15 year old with some kind of learning disorder. Ironically, exactly what the G-man keeps being mistaken for.

Welcome to Deviantart. Leave coherence at the door.
I get comments like that - 'liek OMGSQUEE!!111'. 9_9
The good artists on Devart get MOUNTAINS of them, and I'm sure they'd trade them all for one comment which is thoughtful, intelligent and more than just empty praise.

I think Ernst's explanation is more coherent than Davey's. The secret's in the SHIRT!

Edited by author 06-06-2005 06:21 PM
It's a 15 year old with some kind of learning disorder. Ironically, exactly what the G-man keeps being mistaken for.

My first exposure to the Gont was when "Jen White" sent me a Mysting of his Sailor Moon USA comic. "Yeah, he's really bad," I wrote her, "but I feel guilty making fun of him. There's no way he's older than 14!"
She wrote back "He's 28."
...
He's 28, and making comics about how Sailor Moon falls in love with him and turns him into a Power Ranger? 'kay, not feelin' guilty anymore!

At least hi snewest fan reallt ID 15.

"This is a drawin gthat i really like. It is of a knight who has defeted two demons. I realy like my new shading tecnique. The knight slayed the demons and is victorious. my friend cam eup with the title. i really liked it so i Put it in my picture. This drawing is copy right to me, so ask before using it. Enjoy."

My new shading technique is unstoppable!
I like how the Moon looks just like the guy on the Pringles can. And that 90% of the knight's body weight is in his head. No wonder Leanard's in awe of the Internet's Most Dangerous Hack!
Okay, he's 15, so now I feel guilty. He may improve with practice.
But I'll bet that 20 years ago when he was 15, Davey's art looked exactly like it does today.

(Is Leanard's name "Leonard" and he mispelled even that? Or is that like a liger, except a cross between a leopard and and a nerd?)

edit: Oh, and his current fave is a picture of furries sniffing each other's gym socks. Not a fetish I knew existed.

Leanard has almost the same reaction to criticism that Davey does.

Quote: "stop insultign me your just jeilous ofmy crativity. and yoiu need to stop "

I will cut him some slack, due to his age, but I think we have a Davey Jr. here!

Edited by author 06-06-2005 09:13 PM
Or is that like a liger, except a cross between a leopard and and a nerd?

You saw THIS too, Bill?

when scarlett's cable is connected to the USOB port, the comp supposedly goes 'BLEEP'. is this a new, cursing computer? is it a normal laptop that felt SO offended by being linked to a high tech fursuit, it had to curse out loud? Gont's art has interesting implications sometimes.

Man, Leanard stole my idea for a cat superhero named "Catman". (except i had it at 10 and i spelled it "Katman")

"This is a quick piccy that I drew of a bully punching someone. I hope that it's shocking enough to show people what bullies do and are capable of doing. I hope it helps people stop bullying in schools. "

Coincidence? pattern to all Gont-like people? it's even written properly, i think sometime ago someone (i think Negs) commented that Gont could spell properly too, but with specific topics?

/runs off to continue studying for Univ. admis test

Zef, those 2 links, especially the "shocking" one, make me suspect that the tricky Tasu may be back...

Wow. Now I want to visit Block Island.

Me too! In fact, I'd like to visit just about any point on the Atlantic Coast of North America that isn't frozen or full of gun-crazed goons (sorry, FLA). Between trips to LA, Seattle and Victoria, I figure the west side's taken care of, but the fascinating scenery and people of the East remain a mystery to me. And nothing Bill's said about his fellow inhabitants has convinced me it's worth a miss.

Skimming through Lenard's gallery, I am THIS >< close to calling troll. Yes, some teens ARE that stupid, but people have gotten very adept at taking the piss by imitating them.
With art as bad as that and an ego as big as that (and typing as bad as that), it's very tempting to think that someone is just sockpuppetting. People on the GAFF board used to do it all the time on fanfiction.net - post deliberately bad stuff to see who would swallow it.

As Bill said, maybe it's Tasu.

It's not online, sadly, but this month's Entertainment Weekly is said to have a 5-page article on that fine piece of cinema, Manos, the Hands of Fate.

Well, I should be sleeping, or talking to my wife, but...
unless that meant something to kids in the shattered world of post-Nazi Europe that I don't get. The Allied Air Forces, pounding the retreating Nazis?
Nothing my dad ever mentioned, and he got strafed by the RAF enough to have direct experience. Not, I hasten to mention, because he NEEDED strafing, but there were frequently bunches of Wehrmacht in the area of his house.

A question for the cat owners here(lurkers included).

Does your cat suck?

I don't mean suck in the bad way, our kitten likes to suck on our necks or earlobes when going to bed. Is this common? Does your cat/kitten do this too?

I think it may be because she was taken from her mother to early. I have never had a cat do this before.

It disturbs me!

Billthis month's Entertainment Weekly is said to have a 5-page article on that fine piece of cinema, Manos, the Hands of Fate.
What on EARTH is left to say about that movie that hasn't already been dug up in the wake of the MSTing?
A five-page-article in EW? What happened, did Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson et al take a week off from being idiots?

Steve-- Some cats do, indeed, suck. Most of them eventually stop sucking. It's nothing to worry about, as long as they don't do it while company's over.

Edited by author 06-09-2005 11:32 AM
I had to quit my job (and after only a week!). I gotta get down to South Carolina in a few days.

I'm kinda sad that I quit, especially since I was making a decent amount of tips... but then again, the environment isn't something I particularly enjoy...

Especially with treasures like this the owner puts at the back of the menu. Is this positive, negative, what?!

Edited by author 06-09-2005 03:23 PM
Eh, it just means that he can print self-righteous chain E-mails out. Kinda smugly old school. Whatever!

I guess he's one of those old guys weirdly proud of his senility. Who knows.

Speaking of defects of the brain, my poetry-writing class is approximately 11 times more enjoyable than my screen-writing class. Keep that in mind if you ever have a choice between the two.

Edited by author 06-09-2005 08:42 PM
I'm sure that that waaaay predates email. When was the last time you heard the term "Generation Gap"? I'm sure that it's been added to over the years, but the context (and that "Born before 1945" title) sures sounds like it was written in the early 1970s, aimed at Those Awful Baby Boomers. Who themselves are old farts now...

Yuh-huh. When's the last production year for VW Rabbits, anyway?

"We are survivors! We remember a time when cotton gin was something our property got drunk on in secret around the back of their quarters, and it was no shame to declare yourself a racist! When rock wasn't music, it was the main ingredient in a tool-box! When a barber would take your leg off if you asked him, and cram a funnel in your bum to deliver medicine the way the Good L--d intended! We're so easily confused with this modern world's steam guerneys and carbonic-arc lighting, we declare it pomposterous and bile-worthy! And since we're old, we're right! Look at all the exclamation points I have been driven to carve for my block-press! G-d Bless and Keep you, unless you be a heathen!"

Oddly enough, my father (b. 1933) keeps upgrading his computer for work purposes and was the first one in the family to voluntarily get a cell-phone. Some people of that vintage aren't necessarily fossils.

New Scarlet
Ech, I feel dirty again. Davey added my sketch of Hunter and Uly to his fave list.
Back to Scarlet - rather dull, this one. I mean... it explains with reasonable logic why Jim and Scarlet can co-exist in the same body and there are no typing errors. That's gotta be a record.
Although it doesn't explain why Scarlet's brain functions would 'override' Jim's, seeing as it's HIS brain. *shrug*
Toni seems to be suffering from... what's the reverse of hydrocephalus? ;)

there are no typing errors.

Yeah, for the first time in history it's spelled WEAR!
TWICE!

Glad somebody called him on that "we use 10% of our brains" foxshit. But seriously--who CARES about the Magic Science He Made Up that explains why they can occupy the same body? When is something going to actually HAPPEN?!

Davey added my sketch of Hunter and Uly to his fave list.

Inform him that it is NOT hottt girl-on-fox action. Uly's a DOG.
Okay, this is very harsh, but--do you think that Davey would screw a dog? His screw-a-fox obsession is so pronounced that it wouldn't surprise me if he has. Disgust me, yes, but sadly not surprise me.

PS: Very very funny, Ernst!!

Ah. Delicious pseudoscience.

I quite like this Kriegsaffe person. I am fascinated to see that the visual cortex is the "part of the brain the body needs to live". Poor semi-educated Davey. Any human brain is both totally full and has plenty of room left for memory (I don't recall any percentages given in Psych 333, the deliciously-titled Psychopathology) and there's a category of people who regularly use 100% of their brain. They're called epileptics. That's not too bad a brain picture, tho'. Who wants to say "Traced?"

Although it doesn't explain why Scarlet's brain functions would 'override' Jim's, seeing as it's HIS brain.

Her part's in front. Just like in those old training biplanes. It's so simple, even Ed Wood would comprehend it!

That's not too bad a brain picture, tho'. Who wants to say "Traced?"

I thought that it looked scanned from an old med textbook and then printed out. Check the unshaded part; Davey never draws that fine a line.

I wish he was that good, but a simple google images search on the term brain gives, what I believe, to be the source of the offending brain.

Thanks, Steve, that's far funnier than it should be!

Woe be to the artist who decides that that's what an armadillo looks like! Only in a really bad comic book.

And WTF is with SANTA? Is he sky-diving with an uncooked pizza in his hand? Was he a "wipe yer windshield for a dollar" city bum who ended up like a bug on a speeding semi's windshield? An emaciated Ninja Claus, with a defective BIG!Lots throwing star?
And, hey, Saint Matthew--you've got some gonads growing on your head! If that's actually a "head," and I doubt it.

No wonder Davey used it as a resource. Noooo resemblance to reality.
And there's a model for those of you who can't even draw a damn donut. Oh, wait. Davey, pay attention to that!

Well, in defence of Princeton, those pictures are of CG models, not hand-drawn. Complex CG models are tricky to make look realistic. They're just a bunch of basic styff for people to download and fiddle with (if they have the right program). They're free, so of COURSE they're not going to be all that good ;)
 Looks like Davey just GIS'd 'brain' and took this as the first one that came along.

Man, I'm gonna have armadillo nightmares now for sure. "Suggestive contours" indeed!.

I did the test for admision for the Univ. yesterday. sadly, an equation like Stuff+Cats=AWESOME was not part of it.

Zef:I did the test for admision for the Univ. yesterday.

I hope you went well in the test and score a place at the uni.

I put stuff on my cat all the time. I'm not sure why it's so entertaining, but it is.

That cellphone piece was so extremely sophomoric.

Any analysis of how cellphones prove how banal we've become likely ignores the scope of the cellphone backlash. It's not like you're a lone voice in the wilderness when you gripe about cellphones.

Connections are important. Someone once said that the real way to make money on the web is to let people communicate with each other more easily, and when you look at so many of the new technologies that have taken off in the culture, so many are comunication based, from cellphones to e-mail. (In fact, I'd say "internet time" pushing out "tv time" is a hugely encouraging fact)

And you know what else? THE STAR WARS FILMS AREN'T THAT BAD. They are a spectacle, a touch of bread and circus par excellence. They're big and dumb, but even then I've read about some subtleties that the fan boys got that I totally missed, and they are a hell of a lot of fun, especially this last one. It's like people expect them to seem as deep to us as the originals did when we were preteens. They're not meant to be that kind of movie.

I thought that the cell phone thing was tongue-in-cheek, especially with the non-stop famous quotes.

THE STAR WARS FILMS AREN'T THAT BAD.

They sure as hell aren't any good!

I hope you went well in the test and score a place at the uni.

Well we won't know about that until July 24th. won't it be a nice, long wait. But i think i did Ok. Thanks!

Yesterday i did the other requisite test, an english one (since the career i want is basically an english major) and totally owned it. in the top four of the 60+ guys around.


It's like people expect them to seem as deep to us as the originals did when we were preteens. They're not meant to be that kind of movie.

My 16 'choose your own adventure' books i got off ebay and now are busy gathering dust make me agree with this one.

Tia and Dee part three be up. The plot thickens! By which I mean, there is actually sort of a plot now.

http://www.fictionpress.com/~moonlitwaters

Here's an amusing conversation I had on Ye Aulde Adulte Swime Message Boarde.

Sesshoumarus_husband: I'm sure Jakotsu has had sex, there were plenty of gay men in feudal japan, just because they're not shown doesn't mean they dont exist. At his age he's definantly had sex.
LavenderGray: Maaaaaybe.
You don't need to tell me there was lots of gay sex back then. I know the samurai were kind of like the ancient Greeks in that sense.
But I think Jakotsu, specifically, might be an exception.
And I would honestly be stunned in Ban has ever done the naughty. I mean look at him! You can practically smell the virgin-ness on him!
DarthMaul: Hey Lav. I wanted to play it cool untill someone brought something up about Inuyasha that I could speak knowledgeably about, but it doesnt look like that's gonna happen any time soon.
LavenderGray: Hey!
So far it's just us being dirty-minded. Nothing much more complex than that.
Sesshoumarus_husband: I still say Jakotsu has had sex, and as far as I'm concerned, Jakotsu has gotten very naughty with Bankotsu...
DarthMaul: Hmmm, sounds fun, can I join?
LavenderGray: By all means!
Just don't bring up mud wrestling, cuz that subject has been beaten to death.
LavenderGray: Incest!
Sesshoumarus_husband: They're not related.
DarthMaul: hmmm.
Jello wrestling?
LavenderGray: They're brothers OF THE SOUL. That counts, dammit.
Sesshoumarus_husband: Doesn't count as incest...
LavenderGray: That too.
We still haven't talked about wet T-shirts though, so I guess we're due for that...
Sesshoumarus_husband: I think there whould be a wet tee shirt fight with Jakotsu and Bankotsu...
DarthMaul: Wet T-shirts huh? Uhmm, I vote yes. Well, both of your sweeties are here now. I think it's only appropriate you participate (heheh).
LavenderGray: A wet T-shirt fight IN MUD-FLAVORED JELLO. And not between adopted brothers.
Sesshoumarus_husband: Who cares, incestual wet tee shirt fights in jello!!!
LavenderGray: I'm sure Sessh's hubby would be excited to no end at seeing me in a wet T-shirt, but a lady's modesty compells me to decline.

I ain't quotin' no prior content-- that's the devil's work! However, on the Star Wars question: The old ones are WAY better than the new ones, and the new ones (well, I've not seen the latest yet) do rather suck. In the first three, such comic relief as there was was not odious, and that's the main complaint. Spectacle, yup. Shallow characters, oh yeah. But one didn't cringe at the appearence of JarJar/3PO in the old days.

...and then he thought hard about "Return of the Jedi". Shape of things to come, that was. Friggin' Ewoks.

I'd say the Star War films ARE "any good". Where else can I see that many spaceships and robots in giant epic battles? NO WHERE, THAT'S WHERE! And for me, that's what Star Wars has always been about. It always sounds to me like people want them to be something other than what they were meant to be.

Heh, 3 seperate people have reviewed Tia and Dee, and all have used the word "bizzare." Then there's my sweetie DarthMaul/Tommy, who said they were "original." He's so polite.

Happy B'day to the Kitties. May my namesake and his girlfriend choke on a chiken bone!

I second, third, and fourth Steve's Merry Age Incrementation Day blessing for the kitties and ill wishing toward the disembodied genital wart and cyst--I mean, Gina and BadSteve.

FK:

Co-worker Gina was merely misguided. We all make the occasional bad call.

BadSteve's fat, old, ugly, evil, cat-tryin'-to-drive-over's girlfriend's name is Lucy. She be NEEDIN' some chicken-bones in the throatin'!

Is it a bad thing that I have been feeling very broody lately? For the 4-legged kind?
Or should I just stop reading Mutt's'Shelter Stories'?

Holy Onions! I wish I could go off on the horrid people I have to interact with at work like that! Bravo, Herr Splut!

That, my friends, is why I prefer the company of cats to humans. Because cats don't suck.

Didn't Steve post something last week to the contrary? ;-)

There is a new Scarlet strip up.
<sarcasm>The shading is just devine and the plot has advanced in leaps and bounds.</sarcasm>

Toni really needs to get some sun!

I think Scarlet's expression is just priceless. "OMFG, I'm in a Gonterman strip. For the love of god, someone save me from this touchy-feely gay hacker...."

Edited by author 06-18-2005 09:59 PM
Ernst:

Few are the jobs when can scream "fuck you!" at a customer, and have your boss agree with you.
(This is the latent superiority of a small business over a soulless conglomerate--They realize that you need every customer, but not every customer. Assholes can shop elsewhere)

Mimi:

Thanks for the Mutts link. Cute, but so bittersweet. I could never work in a shelter; I'd end up with 200 cats.

Davey:

So, Toni just ...knows that these lil' alphabet blocks are chunks of their brains? I guess that makes them (wait for it!) BLOCKHEADS!
So, he not only has a laptop that's compatible with an android vixen, he also already has the software that they used in the Evil Lab to track this. Y'know...that really makes no sense.
"If I had more time..." what does Davey DO with his time? Practice his art sure isn't on the to-do list. Even he doesn't like the last background, and with good reason: where the hell are they? In a bunker? I guess that when your apartment rents for $25 a week, you can't expect the windows to be shaped normally. He must live in Factory Seconds Estates.

edit: He needs more time, but according to the Flakes, he'll be doing 2 Scarletts a week in July...I'll bet that experiment ends quickly.

Mimi:

It wasn't until I saw the big Sandy pic (http://www.deviantart.com/view/19432985/) that I caught what she's holding...Brilliant! (Or totally awesome, bitchen or tubular, whatever's more appropriate)
Now to play some A-ha and watch that flower dance!

Mimi- The very first comment:

Super nice. It looks very 70ts like, Doesn't it?

I'd expect better from a Swede. Ah, the 70's, when the trolleys were plastered with Champagne Biscuit and Bieres de la Meuse ads.... Super cool job on the lettering, by the way. Thanks for the link, Bill.

Oh no! Only 4 out of 5 reviewers call Tia and Dee "bizzare!" But the 5th one said they reread it, which blows my mind.

I is be back from Louisiana. I made conversation with old people and tried to hide my, you know, idiosyncrasies from the family. I saw Batman Begins with two of my cousins and was surprised by how good it was. I think it's the best of all the Batman movies. Granted, that isn't saying much, but still.

My biggest moments of amusement were when me and the cousins went to some riverside tourist trap. I found a charming nostalgia postcard of "Ole Mammy Brand Sugar" and bought it because it made me laugh. Which I guess should give you an idea about the kind of thing I find funny. Then there was a mimiature rubber chicken, and when you squeezed it, a clear liquid sac squirted out of its crotch with a yellow plastic yolk in the middle of it. I dubbed it "The Miracle of Birth Stress Toy." I am honestly baffled as to why it hasn't swept the nation like Beanie Babies.

Lav:Only 4 out of 5 reviewers call Tia and Dee "bizzare!"

I call it well written, but I am no critic, when will there be more? Also, will the whole story be published on the web?

I once new a girl like that, She was dubbed 'The Psycho Crazy Bitch!'. She stalked my ex for quite a while, it's bizare what can go on inside the head of an outwardly appearing normal person.

I could never work in a shelter; I'd end up with 200 cats.
Me neither. Mutts really knows how to rip your heart out when he gets onto the 'adopt today' theme.
So I just go and find some strips where Moochie is playing with Li'l Pink Sock, and all is wonderful in the world again.
(Dayamn, so wanting a kitty now....we're thinking of going and checking out some shelters on the weekend. Just 'to look'...hyeah, famous last words 9_9)
Super nice. It looks very 70ts like, Doesn't it?
I did a *headdesk* when I read that. Then I read that he was from Sweden, and thought eh... cut 'em a break, their high watermark of culture was ABBA, so it's probably little surprise that they were reluctant to let the 70's go while the rest of us were Wang Chunging ;)
Bill:So, he not only has a laptop that's compatible with an android vixen, he also already has the software that they used in the Evil Lab to track this. Y'know...that really makes no sense.
Davey did *try* to explain that by claiming that Toni downloaded the drivers from Scarlet herself. Yes folks, androids are plug n play...9_9

Steve: You so sweet. I'm thinking Tia and Dee will have 10 or 11 chapters. Eventually I plan to explain whether or not Tia exists.

Man, the Mario Brothers games are the gayest games ever. I tend to be skeptical of the idea that you can change a person's sexual orientation, but I honestly believe playing Mario can make you gay.

http://hocuspocus.penguinia.net/staff/cammi/yoshicrack2.mp3

(Warning: Clicking that link will make you slightly less heterosexual than you are now.)

Unofficial and Unsciencetiffical Poll!

Should Mimi go to the shelter and look at adorable but very sad and lonely kitties who need a loving home?
Bill votes
YES!

Should she pick out more than one?
Bill votes
YES YES!

What should they be named?
Bill Votes
Hunter and Angie! Unless they're boys, then they should be named George Michael and WHAM!

What should they NOT be named?
Bill Votes
Chlamydia and Hirstute Monkey; Milli and Vanilli; Rumsfeld and Abu Ghuraib; Polystyrene and Motor Oil; Big Mac and 99% Arterial Blockage; Tony! Toney! Toni! and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez; Daveykins and Scarlett; Ferd'nand.

I think dinosaurs are my favorite part of the liberal media conspiracy.

Edited by author 06-21-2005 01:56 AM
My poll entries;

Should Mimi go to the shelter and look at adorable but very sad and lonely kitties/puppies who need a loving home?
Steve votes
YES! but make sure you get a puppy, not one of the older dogs. The reason being that the older dogs are there for a reason, usually unsocial behavior, the puppies are there because someone could not afford to feed them.

Should she pick out more than one?
Steve votes
NO, try one first and then if space and patients/love allow get another one.

What should they be named?
Steve Votes
Mini-Mimi for a girl and Defor if it's a boy.

What should they NOT be named?
Steve Votes
Fluffy!

Edit: I changed the poll to include puppies, them is cute and should also be considered.

We had mentioned to my parents on the weekend, that we were thinking of pets, and my mother didn't comment much at the time. Last night, having had time to sleep on it, she rings me up to rant and BEG me not to get a cat, because that means kitty litter, and kitty litter is OMG! EVIL and UNHYGIENIC and REVOLTING and DID YOU KNOW THERE'S A TENUOUS LINK BETWEEN CAT-OWNERS AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS??!!
She doesn't like cats much, can you tell? 9_9
She then proceeded to rant about how cats kill the local birdlife (she has a point there. Australians are not as 'house cat ONLY' as Americans) and we should wait at least until we get a HOUSE.
Hey, I'm waiting until we get a house before I get a DOG, because our backyard is the size of a tablecloth.
Yeesh. Mothers 9_9

As for names, most shelter pets are already named, aren't they? Seems a bit confusing for the animal to suddenly expect them to answer to another name. In any case, Mr Mimi has a thing for naming a pair of cats Dieter and Carlheinz. I'm told it's an SNL reference, but we never got the show down here...

I think Mom'o'Mimi should have some well-known non-cat-owners pointed out:

HITLER!

STALIN!

ALL MAJOR PLAYERS IN GULF WARS!

THE DINK WHAT LIVES DOWNSTAIRS FROM BILL!

*cough* sorry. too emphatic. will talk quietly now.

Edited by author 06-21-2005 03:15 PM
Woah! Can't someone be without internet for a few days without the messages piling up? ahem. anyway, we closed out internet cafe (was more expensive to keep it open) and cancelled the 'net account. with no phone line at home, i am effectively forced to use OTHER net cafes like a sucker.

Further postings will be more sparse, as you can guess.

Mexico votes YES to Mimi getting the cats on. mom doesn't like cats either, and i might be getting one soon since the new house is in a hood still loved by mice. i had to kill one tiny one the other day.

Here's a pic of me with Pikachu, anyway.

Look Ma! I wrote a political poem!
http://www.fictionpress.com/~moonlitwaters

Bill: Here's the math on cats-- three cats in a 550 square foot house with about a 300 sq.ft. basement is on the very edge of insanity. Six cats in a 990 sq.ft. house with an equally large basement is... manageable. I don't think it's a linear progression, since by any estimation more than 7 cats is lunacy in a dwelling of any size.

Given a wee apartment, I think you've made the right choice.

Lav: Kooky. I was pondering something like that about this time yesterday (in the nature of, "Why is Canada, in which people are encouraged to express ancestral culture, better racially integrated than the homogenizing Melting Pot to the south? Hmmmm.... I'd ask my friend whose Dad is both American and Black, but she's never lived down there. Hmmm....").

Zef: Proof positive that someone's writing must NOT be used to surmise physical shape. You're a good deal more robust than I had a mental image of.

Earnst: That's pretty much how people talk here. The exageration is very slight.

Zef: OMG! Skunk stripes! That's so cute!

Amazing poetry! (not mine):
http://www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1531562

One of the Flakes on paranoia:
http://snowflakestudios.keenspace.com/at/at201.png
Some guy you never heard of is leading to Howard Dean lynching blacks! So all liberals should kill themselves!
And that's a direct quote.

Paranoia? Another person with no sense of irony. Or sanity.