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Recent Ramblings
- I’m back!
- Some thoughts on turning… 45 (dun! dun! DUN!)
- What if…?
- Small thoughts on the new Facebook and illiterate authors
- Observations regarding our art festival experience…
- On Art Festivals and Mobility
- Wot news, and short reviews of a couple of awful books
- Some Netflix picks
- Just a couple of things I could do without…
- Keeping busy
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Category Archives: Webcomics
Bold Fabrications About Certain Webcomic Notables
None of the supposed “facts” about certain notable webcartoonists are true. They’re all lies. Fabrications and misrepresentations. This part of the post wouldn’t know the truth if it bit it on the post-erior. Lies. Lies. Lies. Now you may be … Continue reading
Posted in Blogosphere, Comics, Humor, Merry Blacksmith Press, Publishing, Rumor, Uncategorized, Webcomics
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Webcomicing it up (webcomicing… it’s a word!)
Remember how many of us started the day with the comics section of the local paper? Yeah, those days. Nowadays, I still start my day with comics, but rather than the increasinly lame comics found in newspapers these days, I’m … Continue reading
Friday’s Mail — making a list. It’s the Least I Could Do
Welcome to Friday! Today’s mailbox contained no envelopes, but two handwritten notes. The first note appears on paper yellowed with age in a rusty-brown colored ink. Dear Mr. Grocer, Please receive this, our list of monthly supply requests. I know … Continue reading
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Tuesday’s Rumor Edition Has a Posse
Rumor has it…By tradition, when a new administration takes office in the White House, the first choice of furnishings and decorations go to the Vice President who, in turn, defers first choice to the President. Former Vice President Dick Cheney … Continue reading
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Ogres Pick, Vandals Trick, it’s the Technology of Angst
Today’s Ogre’s Pick will be a quick one… a quick celebration of the TV show Dexter. I admit that when I first tried watching it several months ago that it didn’t take. Sure, the premise of a serial killer who … Continue reading
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Every Tuesday — Rumors, Facts, Lies, Half-Truths (mostly lies)
Rumor has it… Cartoonists Gary Larson and Bill Watterson have never been witnessed in the same room together. While most consider this evidence that the two are the same person and that Watterson’s moustache must be a fake, some also … Continue reading
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Friday’s Mail Promises Miracles Galore
Welcome to Friday, and if it’s Friday then it’s time to check the mail. First up is a flyer printed on a garish neon-green page in lettering that could be best described as the sort used in ransom notes. No … Continue reading
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Wrestling With Bruno
In between bouts of work, I’ve been torturing myself with a full re-read of the archives of the Christopher Baldwin webcomic Bruno. I think this is the third time now that I’ve done this since I first came across it … Continue reading
Posted in Book layouts, Comics, Publishing, TumbleTap, Webcomics
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Spreading Rumors is Good for You
Rumor has it…famous rumor-debunking website Snopes.com was originally Snoop.com until a Washington state judge ruled that Microsoft’s claim to the URL took precedent. Rumor has it…90 percent of commercial margarines include the same ingredients that are used to make packing … Continue reading
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On the Road to that American Dream thing (and getting hand-cramps along the way)
We continue on our path toward home ownership. The latest manifestation of that journey appeared last night in a meeting with the banker to sign a stack of forms so high we had to look around it to see each … Continue reading
Posted in Home ownership, Layouts, Uncategorized, Webcomics
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