Comic for Wednesday, Nov 10, 2004

Posted: 8:52 am, Wednesday, November 10, 2004

One of 2.0's favorite things about the strip is that, in figuring out what Jen and Lissa are going to wear, I usually pour through her Jane magazines for fashion tips. I also try and notice stylish-looking ladies on the subway, although this is slightly more hazardous. Sure, I can get a helluva paper cut from Jane, but the dudes on the subway could pound me for looking at their girlfriends. To say nothing of what 2.0 would do if she caught me. Which, thanks to my writing this publicly, she now has.

At any rate, while it's relatively easy for me to keep an eye on ladies' fashion, I have no idea what men's fashion is like. I wear brown slacks and a shirt to work every day - I have some shirts that look nice, and then some craptacular ones that I wear just to have something covering my nipples at the office. But are any of them stylish? Meh. So, whether or not it looks it, take my word on it - Ron's outfit is hott.

Two things about Pete in this one: He's drinking from a Happy Bunny mug. Happy Bunny cracks me up. Crownover got us mugs for our housewarming gift - between the two of us, 2.0 and I own I believe about 16 mugs. We drink a lot of coffee. Ooh, maybe I'll take pictures of our mugs for no real reason for the Museum. Yeah, I think I will. I know, I know, I promise a lot in this museum. Oh, the other thing is that he's wearing Chicago Bears pajama pants - readers of this site from Alumni Hall, and maybe MNP and JJ, will perhaps recognize them as being similar to the pajama pants that one Andy Malec used to wear all the time. Because, when it comes to deadbeats sitting around someone else's habitat, you can't beat Malec. (For the record, yes, I remember that Malec's pants had the bear's face on them, but that was kind of complicated for such an obscure gag that I believe four of us may get.)

Wonkette mentioned this on her site yesterday, but didn't actually link to it. So I hunted down the Declaration of Expulsion. It's hard to say what's wrong-est about this thing - I'm torn between the author's defense of the Confederacy or his aspersion that being ethnically diverse and artsy are negative traits - but the author wants to expel New England, New York, the West Coast and I believe Illinois from the Union. Please do! I would fucking love this. It would be all the satisfaction of moving to Canada without having to leave my lovely new apartment! The guy didn't mention DC by name, but he did say Maryland, so I guess we get to take the nation's capital with us, too, since they voted Democratic on something like a 9-1 scale. Seriously, can we get the ball rolling on this?

Here's something on how those touch-screen voting things may've been rigged, but I don't recognize the site. Could be the tinfoil hat brigade, but who amongst us would be surprised if it was?

I got my dad a Saint-a-Day calendar for Christmas. I can't believe they have such a thing. It's like the test audience was my dad and the Pope.

Oh, also, my shopping list for the Thanksgiving-ish: Turkey, 2 bags stuffing, potatoes (sweet and Idaho), marshmallows, cinnamon sticks, rum, orange spice tea, gravy, celery, apple cider, cream of mushroom soup, frozen cut beans, cranberry sauce (real and fake), Wheat Thins, cream cheese, horseradish, clams, butter, onions, sausage, chicken broth, graham crackers, whiskey, pumpkin pie filling, soda, milk, onion rings, acorn squash, chestnuts, pancetta, chicory, carrots, cauliflower, cashews, veggie platter, apples.

Key Food is going to be excited to see me coming.

Now for something possibly ill-advised, calling out another web comic. OK, there's this strip I found a few months back called Least I Could Do. It's not on the links page because I don't particularly like it. I don't think it's all that funny - actually, I usually think it's mean. But the Rayne character has some traits that I envision Pete having, so every once in a while, I check in to make sure I'm not going to lift anything from the guy directly, down the road. Anyway, yesterday I looked at it for the first time in a while, and the post is the guy bitching about how not enough people have bought his book. He says this is his readership letting him down.

Are you fucking kidding me? OK, evidently 500 people said they'd buy it, and he took that as a promise. I guess I can see him being let down that less than 350 have bought this book. But, c'mon, it's the internet. And it's a Bush-run economy. I don't know how much he wants for the book, but, you know, maybe $15, $20 right now is a bit much for someone to spend right before Christmas. Whatever the reason, it is so friggin' lame to blame your readers for not supporting you.

I don't know how in the hell you could make a living doing this. Well, I guess I do - one, you'd have to be a lot funnier than I am, two, the art would have to be better, three, ad space, four, and possibly most important, sell something. Actually, that all discounts being immensely popular. Or just being immensely popular with three rich patrons, like George W. Bush. (Ba-dum.) I never envision making money off this. Maybe at some point, if I start pulling in readers on some ludicrous level, I might make a t-shirt or two to sell, but that would be mostly for the kick of maybe seeing someone wear a t-shirt I made. I doubt I'd cover bandwidth for a month with the profit (I pay $10 right now, so that's how low my goals are).

But, God, yelling at the people who read your stuff for not buying anything? That's just lame.

(By the way, when I'm rich, famous, and all of you have Ron's face tattooed on your ass, we'll all look back at this post and laugh.)

Oh, and happy hump-day, everyone.

bullfrog