Comic for Wednesday, March 23rd

Posted: 9:00 am, Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Did I confuse anyone else with yesterday's strip? 2.0 met me for coffee yesterday and said, "The strip this morning was ancient! You drew that forever ago!" I guess part of the joke was totally reusing a background like that. Part of the joke as I intended it, anyway.

For some reason, all of this week's strips were much funnier when I was drawing them.

Not a lot going on today. I guess the interweb took National Goof-off Day to heart. Hopefully I can dig some stuff up before I bolt for the day, but who knows? You may just have to hear about what I made for dinner last night or something, instead.

2.0 and MNP both let me know that evidently the absolute stretch of etiquette on wedding thank-you notes is one year, but that Miss Manners starts bitching after it's been two months. So, I'm more patient than Miss Manners, less patient than the boundaries of polite society. Not a bad place to be, I suppose.

RetroCrush reviewed Emperor of the North, which stars Ernest Borgnine as a hobo-killing train conductor.

I've linked to Call of the Green Monster a few times, but I just found their All-star mini-headline things, and I like them.

I found Journey into History the other day - I don't really remember how. It's kind of an interesting concept - the guy has a very minimal comic strip in which a pencil and an eraser discuss other comic strips, or just anything that is submitted to him. He pleads after having to review something called Full Blown AIDS for people to send things to him, and that he will review anything to keep himself from having to review the other thing the owner of Full Blown AIDS sent him. So I sent him Five Bucks. It'll probably be a while before he gets to it, but I'm kind of curious to see what someone who more or less reviews webcomics has to say about my stuff.

OK, yesterday's Music for America was definitely about music. If you're in the mood for a very thorough look back at hip-hop through the years, well, this is the link for you.

This week's Savage Love has a brilliant line - "in most cases, mixed signals are actually one loud, clear, unmistakable signal: 'I'm a fucking mess! Run! Run! Run!'"

I can't believe I've been at this over six months and have never linked to This Modern World. Tom Tomorrow's website is fascinating in that his current comic never appears on it, only archived editions.

Tom does, however, talk about Terry Schiano, and, specifically, DeLay's self- centered obsession with this poor woman. If you scroll down that page, you'll see that Asshat, as governor of Texas, signed something called the Texas Futile Care Law. What does the Futile Care Law do? It allows hospitals to pull the plug, regardless of the family's wishes, when there is no hope for recovery. Oh, wait, but only when the patient is unable to continue paying. Schiavo's husband, whose wishes are being trampled on, must still have some money left, otherwise Not My President would certainly empty that hospital bed so that a warm body with a full wallet could move right in.

Ugh, for God's sake. You're all my witnesses, OK? If I'm in a vegetative coma and can respond only to light and touch, and I've been that was for 15 years, and 2.0 wants to pull the plug, I fully give her permission to do so. Hopefully, Tom DeLay will by then have been eaten by starving non-Christians in whatever timeline this is occurring, but if he's not and tries to get involved, somebody hit him with a car. And then leave his feedtube plugged in.

Fucker.

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