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I Hate the Word "Partake"
I hate the word "partake." And apparently, I am the only in the world (or maybe just on the internet) who hates that word. Because the sentence "I hate the word partake" gets absolutely no results on Google. None. I feel so alone.
Why do I hate this word? "Partake." Well, I pretty much only hear it used in a druggie context. "Do you partake ( Read more... ) -
Jeux sans frontières
You know the part in Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" where Kate Bush sings "jeux sans frontières" ("games without frontiers" in French)? For the longest time--at least for a decade--I thought the line was "she's so conceited." Why am I posting about this? I don't know what made me think of this, but I tried Googling "jeux sans ( Read more... ) -
One of my little peeves
One little peeve I have: when someone uses "a blog" to mean "a blog entry." The website that contains the individual postings is the blog. The individual postings themselves are blog entries. I blame MySpace. If you subscribe to someone's MySpace blog, you get notifications that say, "[Username] has posted a new blog." Have you noticed that ( Read more... ) -
FBoFW--what might be to come, week of 2/16/2009
Today (Monday, 2/16/2009) we had a reprint strip where Liz is awake and crying in the middle of the night and Elly cannot figure out why. For those interested, I'll post what happens in the next couple of strips in the original run, behind the cut.
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My new comics projects
I just launched two new projects today! One is foob-related, and the other is a comic strip I've been planning in my head but just taking forever to actually put in strip form.
The foob project is called "FOOBAR" and takes place in the land of FBoFW new-runs. The other is called "Crazy Guy and (Not)Jesus." Have you got a crazy neighbor who ( Read more... ) -
Help set the record straight about ACORN, the mortgage meltdown, and the financial crisis
The wingnuts are working overtime to pin the mortgage meltdown and financial crisis on ACORN. Here is an excellent article that sets the record straight.