furtive explorations

If I had that kind of cash to throw around, I'd name the kid "Rumplestiltskin, Jr."

BTW, this may be the lone post today since the current plan is to go home after this hellish day at work and cry myself to sleep. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep last night and I've been run around like mill-slave at harvest time. God help us if the almost-recession lets up soon, we can't handle the work we get now, let alone when people start spending money again.

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From the NextDraft Newsletter, {07.26.01}
(Holy shit, I hate that date format. MM.DD.YY? Man, can we either use american style slashed dates or european order if we must stick to dots? And how about 4 digit years to lose some ambiguity? Hey, where did that rant come from? Wasn't I praising his quotable coolness by quoting his permission to quote with attribution with attribution? =) And hey, isn't that one of my better sentences this week?

This code earns 4 and one-half BOOYAHs on my newly invented 5-BOOYAH scale. BTW, this is the Ryan Geiss of NullSoft/WinAmp fame. Oh those pretty visualisers; Oh those pretty graphics!

Give our French brothers and sisters a pat on the back! They're removing the ban on absinthe! First bottles to be had by Christmas! YAY! Now we can have a revival of absinthe culture, including the pouring spoons, the absinthe parties, and more!

Sign me up. Order me a case over the internet. Let's get lifted on wormwood! Hopefully it won't kill us!

I have to give SI proper credit here, they have really weird but good customer service. I don't believe I've ever spoken to a human being there. I got disconnected by their telephone support line a few times, I ordered over the web, I complained by email to which they responded with an unsigned photocopy of a form letter and the return stickers, and now they drop shipped the new item direct to me without the slightest contact after two weeks of silence. As far as I can tell, there is one really cool person there who alternates weeks answering phones, answering email with letters and shipping stuff. He's way too busy to talk to you, just mail him and wait for the email week to roll around...

I think that I don't care whether I use more first-person singular self-references or not. We've known for centuries that artists are often tortured souls. Now we know it by how many times they use "I"?

Leave us writers alone. Stop pissing me off!

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KINGS ISLAND IS NO LONGER SELLING CORN DOGS!

The Corn Dog Hut has been converted to the selling of drinks only.

Ohh dark days these have become.

They argue that whales would better serve as sacrifices to the human gullet due to their size? Uh huh. Now who's the fucking hypocrite? We eat what we want to eat because we like the taste and we recognize that the animals are a part of the food chain...some of us meat eaters KNOW we are eating something that once had a face...that doesn't bother us. We enjoy our meal.

Now along comes PETA with a holier-than-thou we-care-about-animals-so-we-should-decide-which-ones-should-die attitude? Which is more sick...someone who recognizes the natural order of our world and finds a way to live within it...or someone who says the natural order of our world is WRONG but since they can't convince everyone else of this "fact" they should be the ones who decides what dies to feed that need?

Fuck that...either eat flesh with the rest of us or piss the hell off and leave us alone. Go raise a bunch of animals in a commune somewhere and love and care for them and become their friends and clean up the voluminous mounds of shit they'll create. Live in communal bliss with your hairy friends. Your hairy friends will thank you, because you are their Sugar Mommy/Daddy. They'll be happy they've found one of Barnum's suckers to care for them and provide them with a lap-of-luxury lifestyle without threat of being eaten. They'll rejoice that they've found a poor sap to provide them with everything they'll ever want or need in exchange for occasionally nuzzling you and making you think they actually LIKE you. They'll make long-distance calls to all their animal friends telling them about the dumb human they've found who doesn't realize they're being taken for the biggest ride of the century! Congratulations! You've become the dumbest motherfucker on the planet! Except for GWB...he'll always be one step below you, of course.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will slaughter their relatives and enjoy their tasty tidbits! YUM!

Humans can survive on a meat-free diet? Great! Humans could also survive on a diet of vitamin fortified non-animal, non-vegetable paste designed to provide us with our daily vitamans, minerals, and proteins. THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE MUST DO SO! You go eat your beans and sprouts there, Moon Flower...I'll go eat my hunk of flesh and revel in the delicious beauty of the body of another animal!

And the boxy symbol to the left of the one is "Yuan", the word like "dollar". this one would be a 100 Yuan note. (The middle symbol meaning "hundreds".) Cool, huh? The internet rules. Zhongwen.com is the coolest chinese language site I've found.

im so excited i could pee my pants.... except im a little worried about the effect urine would have on my "make your legs sweaty" pants....

beer tv and my underwear... life really doesnt get much better than that...

fucking bear season......

And that leads into my first comics update in centuries. I should point out (the obvious) that Krazy Larry is back, back in color, and back in a new layout. And also back, but in the "back to the old ways" back, is Pentasmal with the happy-happy five panel and a quip mode that I love so much. Sure his experiment was fucking amazing but he had a real groove going with the blue and pink and I'm glad to see it getting mixed up and redone.

The recently added When I Am King has finished a complete 5 chapter storyline and is worthy of a full viewing. Start at the beginning and roll on through. Amazing stuff there. I can only hope for more.

In the recently added category we also have the fricking funny Owlie which is way worth keeping an eye on. 15 comics in and I've not failed to laugh yet. I dunno what schedule it is going to keep but i already deserves a spot up top.

While we are at it I should mention the Robots Exposed segment of Sunday Morning Coffee is now running and it looks like Lazy has found another niche to keep himself a-drawin'. Yes, that Lazy. (He also has up the Canada Comics list.)

And since it was brought up what is up with aren't we real?

I miss Life on Forbez I hope it starts back up soon. Till then dig through the archives and the newer stuff on Faans! even though there is no earthly connection between the two. =)

I sure am glad that these boneheaded women that are fostering this HIStorical rewrite of male power will get trodden under by continuing progress and eventually ignored like they should have been up front. (It is just raw anger and the women behind the men that built 7000 years of civilization, yeah, Michaelangelo was probably secretly a woman, yeah, yeah, and that whole penis even thing we talked about 20 years ago was completely bogus but this is totally on the level, promise, etc.)

and am unable to talk with the monkey

fuck everyone

i wanted to breathe smoke

shantih. shantih. please! shantih

I wound up not posting yesterday because I went out and goofed around with friends. We saw a movie (The Score... not bad at all) and ate some pizza (pretty damn good) and watched 3 hours of Wrestling. Yes, I am ashamed of myself but as I said last night, "When a 7'3", 330Lb man goes flying through the air, you just gotta pay attention."

Anyway I'd just like to note that there are (8) eight other people who have permission to post to this site and not a dang one of them posted in all that time, either. Honestly, I should either get friends who aren't the same kind of slackass I am or I should give up on daily blogging. At the very least we should splinter into multiple backstabbing groups who hate each other and have awkward little sub parties where we are mean behind each other's backs. That way the excluded ones could be posting vicious little diatribes here and it would be all soap-oprah-y and hip and interesting. Actually, now that I think about it more, that sorta is going on... maybe I should just stay at home and surf more... =)