Zef: You're a good deal more robust than I had a mental image of.

But...I thought Pikachu was like a meter tall! From the pic, Zef must only be a FOOT tall!!!
DON'T LET THE DANCING POKEMON STEP ON YOU ZEF YOU'LL GET SQUISHED!!!!

Hmm. I've always been more of a Digimon fancier, or I'd have caught that. I'm sure by now Zef's "Stomp Avoidance" rating must be very high indeed... or perhaps he's got Tick-like nigh-invulnerability.

The Wombat: Victorian Police are describing a freakish accident in far-east Gippsland.... but unfortunately it's very hard to understand them through their enormous muttonchop whiskers. The problem is compounded by the constant squeaking of the joints in their penny-farthing velocipedes.

New Scarlet! And where's my two dollars?!
Looks like Davey's brief period of boring lucidity is coming to an end. Plenty to mock in this one >:)
Toni's speech is making me wanna barf. This is the most warped view of homosexuality that he's come up with so far. Jim, whom Toni presumably loves, is in there SOMEWHERE. There's absolutely no surface trait left of him, nor is there any manifestation of his personality(what little there was). Oh. except the ability to look *worried* in a certain way.
Scarlet has to all intents and purposes taken over. And Toni's.... OKAY with this?
Last panel: Okay, now I KNOW I'm gonna barf.
Toni: if I knew you're THIS affectionate..(the grammar, maw! It HURTS!). Hang on... Toni apparently spent 3 days boffing Scarlet and he's SURPISED at her affection?
And as I pointed out in his comments - it should be 'GLOMP', not 'POUNCE'. True anime furries glomp. Don't ask me why.

This made me laugh until blood came out of my nose:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/19478574/

Maybe I amuse too easily.

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New Scarlet!

The Church Police: Say...is that rat tart? DIS-gustin'!

What is with Davey's "human mouths have no teeth, just tongues"? Look at panel 2--is Toni vomiting his tongue, or a spoiled oyster? Just awful art, just awful.
And he just never is going to explain that "3 days unconscious while she's being banged" thing, is he?

This made me laugh until blood came out of my nose:

That artist must HATE AMERICA! Why else would she draw Coulter SO FAT?! I can't even make out the individual bones in her shins! Or her famous Adam's apple!

Commenter: "You think this is bad, you should see my gallery. I have an odd obsession with Dick Cheney slash."
NO. THANKS.

Scarlet has to all intents and purposes taken over. And Toni's.... OKAY with this?

Well, them there preeeverts is insane, so who can tell how they think (make sure to inflect "they" in such a way as to indicate utter otherness). Sure glad this Toni wasn't Kevin McCarthy's character in Body Snatchers: "They're here! You're next!... oh, I'm spoiling the cool surprise. Never mind!"

"You think this is bad, you should see my gallery. I have an odd obsession with Dick Cheney slash."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I didn't even notice that! That's great!
Not that I'm going to go look at it or anything. I DO plan on having sex at some point again in my life.

Zef: You're a good deal more robust than I had a mental image of.

Mexican food can do that easily. ooh yeah. It happened to Lou Vega, and it can happen to YOU.

It was a big ass pikachu, though, considering i'm near 6'. Still, it was a rad suit. way better than THIS ('nother pic by me, circa 2002)

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

This chapter seems pretty random, but I'm getting to something.

Quote of the day:

"I fuckin' hate guys who are like 'I've got no problem with gay people as long as they don't hit on me.' It's like. Yeah. Because you're sooo fuckin' irresistable that this is a very realistic danger. Because all gay men are instantly attracted to every man they shake hands with, but ESPECIALLY YOU, ya charmer! You are like mofOckin' CATNIP to gay men!"

-Xel

I saw Howl on the weekend, too :)
Last night of the Sydney Film Festival, so we got to see it in the original Japanese. Very cool indeed, I enjoyed it immensely. I agree, it's not *quite* Spirited Away, but I think it's just as good as Kiki or Laputa. (I found Mononoke a bit heavy-going, but that's just me. I like to be enchanted when I watch Miyazaki ;))
We also got a little personal intro from Toshio Suzuki, Howl's producer and (I think) head of Studio Ghibli. He came on nodding and smiling like a perky sparrow and read his little speech (probably not knowing what the hell he was saying) saying he hoped we liked the 'hilm'. And love the hilm we did. My friends with me were plotting how we could kidnap him and bring him into work for everyone to coo over :)

Bill's link to the article about agriculture reminds me-- did I recommend A Short History of Progress by Robert Wright to the assembly here? It's all about how civilization almost invariably ends up eating its own legs, and the starting point was inventing agriculture (which likely happened because most hunter-gatherers got too efficient and wiped out the local Brontothere herds). Examples include the various cultures of Iraq's broad grasslands, the Greeks in their lush Mediterranean forests and the plucky head-builders of jungly Easter Island. The bit about Easter Island is especially funny. By which I mean heart-rending and worrying.

I'M BACK! More specifically, back online. From the comfort of my very own home. For the first time in over two years.

So far I've just sent a few emails and left one highly-spazzed-out entry at my LJ, but Bill, I wanted you to know that this site was the very first place I bookmarked...and, I was actually able to sign (and write something of my own) to the PBS petition! I dunno when I last had enough unlimited internet access to do something like that! (Well, unlimited *quiet* access. The problem with using the compies at friends' houses--as well as the library, for that matter--is that folks tend to want to talk to me and disregard how rampantly this stirs up my ADD issues.) But no more!

I'll calm down in a few days, really I will.

YAY LILS! Welcome back!

Mimi: I agree, it's not *quite* Spirited Away, but I think it's just as good as Kiki or Laputa.

I wasn't that big a fan of Kiki. SO I *guess* that it was good that Byron picked that particular Miyazaki DVD to destroy.

I'm still puzzled about Ebert's review. He gave it thumbs down because it wasn't as good as his last 2 masterpieces, but gave thumbs up to "Revenge of the Shit," because it wasn't as BAD as Lucas' last 2 wet farts...Which movie would you want to watch a second time?

<I wasn't that big a fan of Kiki.>
I adore Kiki myself, so that invariably goes on my list of 'how good was this?'
And we scored a free promo copy of The Cat Returns, to boot (they were scattered on random theatre seats)
Cary Elwes as the Baron, mmmmmmm :)

Free Cat Returns! Fantastico! Sure do wish that the "Opens Everywhere June 17" statement in Castle's website included where I live (which, by inference, doesn't actually exist).

Zombie dogs, and the projected pickled people, are very creepy prospects. {terrythomasvoice}Good heavens, Bill old sport... Boffin's a sort of a science wallah. Top-hole thinkin' johnnies, what! Quatermass fellahs.{/t.t.v}

Condgrabulations on the technology, Lily.