tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54587232011-07-08T04:15:23.106-04:00Comics, Cartoons, Hype, and Random musings from the Twisted mind of Ignatz Award Nominee, Ben T. Steckler. **************"I'm Nobody Famous, Dammit!"**************BenThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03572301318419129388noreply@blogger.comBlogger1861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458723.post-62935730116202062542010-03-16T19:47:00.002-04:002010-03-16T20:11:48.462-04:00

Egad. My High School 30-yr reunion should be coming up this year, and I don't have a single thing to show for my life.I finally relented and joined facebook so that I could get back in touch with the world, and find out how much longer I have to finish my Graphic Novel before the reunion, if there is one.I really should get back to drawing the thing. I've only been writing it and re-writing

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next is the work-friendly punchline...if you'd like to see the "dirty" version of the punchline to this strip,click here

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I'm seeking a volunteer to be a Matron of The Arts. It's like being a Patron, but you go beyond mere promotion and support. A Matron of the arts will coddle me and smother me, and stifle me when I want to listen to my naughtier muses. And bake me cookies, do my laundry, clean my room and put my albums away where I can't find them. And, when I eventually turn this concept into a new

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Even if it's just a municipal election year for you (like it is here; City Council, Treasurer, some Judges, and County Comissioners) get out and vote! (Unless you're going to vote against the candidates I like. Then, please, stay home and read your comics.)

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Here's a little (about 4 by 5 ins.) 3-color print I made (only 40 copies in existence) before I packed away the Gocco when I finished the covers to Halloween Stinks!If you visit my store you can purchase one for yourself while supplies last, and catch up on all my recent mini-comics, too. I accept payments via PayPal.

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...and now I am the zen-master of drawing nekkid peoples.I decided to break out my sketchbook from last year, and share some.you youngsters, cover your eyes, and you folks reading at work better cover your screens, too.............this is Katherine, who posed for us at the Missoula Art Museum one cold evening last November. this one is the tamer of the two I've selected of her, just incase

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This little comic was originally published as a quick little one-sheet mini comic in 2005.I had it layed out on one sheet of paper that folded into a little eight-page mini, I've re-scanned the art for you, and divided the panels to be able to re-assemble them in a readable order. I figured it was the season. I'm going to try to do one of these minis each week for a while, and maybe when I do

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Hot off the presses and available via PayPal now is this new Fluffy The Pet Fart adventure from none other than yours truly! It's 28 interior Black and white pages, with a two-color silkscreened cover. below is a scan of one of the covers and a couple interior panels.Have you ever had a fart that lingered?Well, this is a tale about a boy and a fart that stayed......and heeled......and begged.....

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...well actually, I'm just going out there to Missoula for the next four weeks* to learn how to sharpen Dental Instruments. I got a promotion at work, I no longer assemble the dental mirrors. Now I am a repository of knowledge for the company. We're closing down our factory in Missoula, and moving all the operations to our headquarters in Pennsylvania. My job is to learn how our our

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if you want to see what I'm wasting all my spare time on now, you should go to my other blog.

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In fact I leave tomorrow morning to go down to FLUKE in Athens, GA.I wanted to have a new book to take with me, so I sat down and produced a sequel to 2004's "Peeps Et Beans".Here it is, PEEPS GO DISCO!. Debuting at Fluke saturday from noon to six PM (Tastyworld, Athens GA) If I have copies left, they'll be up on my website next week.This one has a five-color screened cover that I did with the

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Here are some recent additions to my Pez collection, all relatively recent releases.The three Disney Princesses are Cinderella, Jasmine, and Belle. The packaging also pictures Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, and Snow White, but i haven't seen these in stores yet. Perhaps these will be added to the line later?The Hello Kitty dispenser is the 4th figure that was missing from the collection when Pez

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This year's crop of candy tins is pathetic. Not very long ago, at the start of the Holiday Season, I'd be able to come home from just one store with a couple bags full of new Candy and CookieTins. There'd be a new Snickers Norman Rockwell Santa, The latest M&Ms Christmas Village designs, both Plain and Peanut, a new Oreo "Discover The magic" box, sometimes even two of those, a Baby Ruth, A

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edited 04/24/08: forget it. I closed this P.O. Box due to inactivity. I guess if you really want to get hold of me now, you'll have to work harder.After a year during which there was no Post office on my end of town, they have finally re-opened a new branch near me, so again I have a PO box. (I cancelled my box last winter because I had to schlep four miles out of my way to get to the branch

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Mars was really bright in the sky tonight.It makes me feel Homesick.

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Attention all Fans of Palindromes and Wordplay:My first collection of "The Evil Dr. Palindrome" cartoons is now available at my store (click on the "shop for my comics" link on the right margin.) It's a thick little pocket-sized mini-comic, with 44 pages, chock full of my original palindromes and cartoons.The cover is screened in Gold Ink with my Gocco Printer.$2.50 plus a small postage fee via

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Sorry for the delay. I had originally wanted to post this back in July in observance of National Lollipop Day, but I got busy with work, and Dental Appointments, and family stuff and just kept putting it off. So tonight as I'm cleaning off the desktop, I thought I'd get it up here for y'all to enjoy. Especially since I haven't posted any new art in a few months.This was originally drawn as a

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I pondered for several days whether I should post this here... ...as it's more of a joke that only folks who have been in our house lately would get. But then, I really like the way my style worked on this card, and I figured I should share it, especially since I hadn't posted any art in some time. Dad, in his retirement, has two passions. Doing jigsaw puzzles, and reading. Mom, in her

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Found this creepy hand candle yesterday at The Salvation Army store. It always makes Monster stuff so much scarier when you find it at a shop run by reliigious types. I was wearing my usual jacket with my button that says "Devil" at the time. 

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I went to an auction to buy records, and ended up getting this 11-inch Tiki made of Lava Rock to boot for 9 bucks. I have to share. 

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Here's hoping All You Mothers have a nice day. 

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Recently I took a trip to Columbus, Ohio for the Small Press Alternative Comics Expo (SPACE). Before I left, I stopped in at an old Head Shop called "Monkey's Retreat". They had a box of old mini comics, surely not in the best shape but still readable, and still with the original sale prices! here are some scans.I promise that the next post I make here will be a new cartoon by me."Tales

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I'm still putting together new books for the S.P.A.C.E. show next weekend, so here's another classic Dr. Palindrome... It's almost Prom season again, so this one is kinda timely.

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Page 10 from "I Am A Rock" page 11 If I don't update here for a couple weeks, it's because I'm hard at work in my spare time getting new mini-comics ready for the SPACE convention in Columbus, Ohio on April 16th. I have three new books in various stages of production right now. The panels above are two pages from the new mini that I just finished the scanning on. "I Am A Rock" turns the

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You'll dread the day you learn how many words your cat understands.

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Parts to O'Brian. Air Bootstrap. This started out with me trying to come up with a St. Patrick's Day palindrome.I kicked around several keywords, I really wanted to make something work around "potato famine", but no luck. ...then decided to try Irish surnames. I need therapy. ...or perhaps a girlfriend.

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New Pez dispensers! The New StarWars assortment is out, and the new figures include Emperor Palpatine, a revised Chewbacca, and The death Star! I personally look forward to the epic battle between Emperor palpatine and The Heffalump in Episode Three. The Glow-In-The-Dark Palpatine (with the black robe) is a Wal-Mart Exclusive figure.

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How Saint Patrick Really Drove the Snakes Out of Ireland.

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Look at that evil grin. I bet he's dreaming he just assassinated Tony Stark!

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Now put your long ears in the air, and wave 'em like you just don't care... Dammmmn! I hope homie don't bust a cap in TastyKake's ass when he find out these have coconut in 'em.Word to your Grandmother.

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Only an Evil Doctor would Veto Medicaid, right?Yeah. I know..I tried to make this one make sense, really, I did.

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This is a scan of the card I sent to Misun Oh, of the zine Tearjerker, who enterszinester adulthood today. One of Us, Minty, One of Us! Happy Birthday, Queen Cat!

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Salon Des Scent(after an 1897 poster by Alphonse Mucha) Actually I based this on a line-art rendition I found in a Mucha coloring book. Yeah. I can't believe somebody made a Mucha coloring book, either. I was able to find an image of the original poster, which I display below only so you can see how litle justice my line does to the fine deco stylings of Monsieur Mucha.here's a shot of my victim

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Yes. I think being a Yankees Fan makes Doc Palindrome Evil. Not that I'm any fan of Baseball, or professional sports in general. If I were any kind of fan, I'd take more time to care about what a Yankees or Orioles uniform really looked like, or what that danged bird mascot or even a stadium looked like.Still it's that time of year when folks around here are excited because the Orioles still

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The Good News: We've Outsourced all Employee Deaths Overseas.The Bad News: You, Ed, have killed Three Indonesian Children this month.

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I know some of you are thinking, "So, Dr. Palindrome is a sexist! That's certainly Evil of him!" You should stop for a moment and consider that perhaps you, the reader, are the one who is Evil, for the dirty things you infer when you see this drawing. Perhaps the good doctor is truly feeling tired, and desires a nap on yon mattress before they film the next episode of his little drama.

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The Night Wind(after the watercolor of the same name by Charles Burchfield) I found a print of the original painting in an old portfolio from MOMA that was in a used book sale.I can't find the original image on line, but I'll scan a bit of it in for you, so you can see what inspired me to add the hooded figure with the gas problem:a segment of the original Burchfield piece Here's a link to more

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There were two ways I could have gone with this one. I thought about showing the Doctor refusing to bet on a golf game. But then I figured that if he was an evil doctor, he would be cheating on the golf course, right? I also considered using the computer interpretation of "links", but then I wouldn't get to draw the doctor in ugly plaid sportsclothes.

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The Wielder of The Thunderbutt(after a Tibetan woodblock print depicting Chana Dorje) I hope I haven't upset my Karmic balance by drawing this. Please note that in the interest of fairness I am more than willing to draw cartoons of any religion's deities farting. It's just a matter of inspiration whenever I get to your particular deity.

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Don't believe what they tell you about those late fees. Well I finally got a new scanner, so I can start posting my new cartoons whenever I get Off my ass and draw one. The new scanner is different from the HP I had before, so it may take me some time to learn all the intricacies of the new software. ( such as getting the thing to not scan in my blue pencil!) As I post this cartoon that I

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Another of my Genesis palindromes. In this one, Peter Gabriel (a very Biblical name!) is ratting out Phil Collins to their Mother shortly after the floodwaters subsided.

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Death As A Crapatista(after Cadavera Zapatista by Jose Guadalupe Posada)

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God Dammit! I'm Mad, Dog!

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GASTRACTION (Based on "Abstraction" by Wassily Kandinsky)

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Wo! Not a Motel Bible. Tomato Now! This is from a period last year when I wanted to show just how evil the doctor really is, by interpreting Genesis in his words.

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DALIarrhea

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Only three years too late!

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I'd appreciate it if the marketing department from either Water Bottler would cut me a check ASAP. I'm not picky. This is still one of my favorites of all the palindromes I've ever devised. FYI, that circle pattern in the background wasn't done with a computer. I actually laid out a diagonal grid, and using graduating circle templates, drew and colored them all in by hand.What is it about

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The Spider Barks(after "The Spider" by Odilon Redon)

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Oh, they're going to hang me in the South for this one...

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Three Stanking Figures (after "Three Standing Figures" by Henry Moore)

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May I be what? Ah! Web I Yam!

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"Indigestion in Brown" (after the work of Piet Mondrian)

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No! Young Man, I said Clean up this Kitty and THEN go to your room!

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No, It's not my Birthday. This is just another 'toon from my archive. PALINDROME NEWS (sorta): MIkePeter's almost makes a palindrome in Today's Mother Goose & Grimm strip. follow this link to see it (if it's no longer 2/06/2005, you might have to page back into his archive to see the strip) http://www.grimmy.com/comics.php

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"Foul Vapors Tormenting Me" (after Demons Tormenting Me by Ensor)

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I picked this strange sketchbook illo from my archive in Homor of the late Max Schmeling, German Boxer, who died this week.

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Sue Volume Emu Love U.S.! I have a couple new cartoons to post, but I'm still having scanner difficulties. I hope I'll be able to get a new one with my Tax refund. In the meantime, please continue to enjoy these cartoons from my archive.

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Caution: This Product May Parody PEANUTS.

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Ten Gamma Ray. A Ram Magnet

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Well Poppa, There Goes The Neighborhood!

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" I Assure You, Gentlemen, That came from the Cadaver!" (after The Anatomy Lesson by Rembrandt)

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I leave it up to the reader to decide if Doc Palindrome is evil enough to kill the girls because they won't go see "Bikini Bloodbath" instead. Would Sid Ska stop him?

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Ever have one of those days? Ya see, the real reason he's unlucky is that Farrah didn't get around to calling him until after she had gone totally nuts and made that "Dr. T." movie.

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Report; "a noose soon," at Roper.

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El-li-ot-t, Pull My Finger!

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Go hang a Salami. I'm a Lasagna Hog!

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"Organic Web-Shooters, My Ass!"

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Ashley thought "Following The Dead" all Summer would be more fun.

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Ma's story rots, Sam.

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O. I C. E-S F-R-10 (inspired by the cartoons of William Steig)

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Fun Fact: SMUT is a fungus that grows on corn. Click on the pic for a slightly larger version.

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I did it. I did. I.

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The Boulevard of Broken Wind (inspired by Nighthawks by Edward Hopper) If the concept behind f-ARTjoke is unclear to you, please read the first entry of this block.

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does this need an explanation?

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The PEZ family enjoys the Fireworks

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MODOK! Come Home This Instant! How many times do I have to tell you not to bother Mr. Wilson when he's gardening? Welcome, everybody to a New direction in my On-Line presence. For the last couple years, I've been maintaining a geocities site to promote my artwork, but I think more people will be able to access my stuff if I put it out in blogspace, so now when I have a new cartoon for you,

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Dr. Palindrome was born with a bizarre speech impediment. He can only speak in Palindromes. As an infant it was easy. He had no problem relating with MOM or DAD. His siblings even changed their names to ANNA and OTTO so that baby brother could call them by name. But as he grew, it became increasingly difficult to converse and relate to the Real World. He matured into a rather twisted

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"Dogs Playing With Fire" (Inspired by A Friend In Need, and others in the series by Coleridge) This early piece from 2000 is still my favorite of all of my f-ARTjoke parodies. I had to use it to inaugurate this new blog direction. The concept behind f-ARTjoke is simple. I take a famous work of art, or a famous artist's style, and create a parody of it with a theme of flatulence. It's

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For some dumb reason, I was thinking about Burl Ives... ...and I wondered, if somebody reminds you of Burl Ives, how do you describe that person? You have to resort to general descriptives, like Husky, Jolly, Grandfatherly, etc. But you can't use a term that would specifically call forth the Burl Ives metaphor. Burly? Burlish? Burlesque? Ivy? they're all taken. It's not

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Last Night was Trick-Or-Treat night in our neighborhood, and we had a refreshing rennaisance. In the last couple years, we were lucky if we got twenty kids, and if we had three houses on the block with lights on. Last Night 59 kids stopped at our door, and looking down the street I saw lights at five other houses. That's still a far cry from the 120 kids we had eight years ago, and

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My Brief Career in Film is over. I spent most of the afternoon today taking apart movies. Last Night was the closing night at the theater where I'd been employed as projectionist/asst. manager since May. The last film shown last night was The Bourne Supremacy. Today we began gutting the theater. I'd taken apart three of the last ten films we'd been showing last night, and today I had to take

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The Lion King Pez Dispensers have arrived. I just found these at the Dollar Tree near my House this afternoon. New Pez! I only saw these five. Why No Rafiki? Pez is really cranking out the New dispenser designs these last couple years. I guess it's in direct response to the collector interest in the old ones. It used to be there'd be maybe One All-New set of dispensers a year, One

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I'd Started bringing the stale Popcorn home to feed the birds... ...and ended up feeding the squirrels and other wildlife in our yard as well. This morning, I watched in amazement as one of the larger squirrels foraged on the popcorn I'd scattered over our mulch pile in the corner of the yard. Less than four feet away, perched on the fence, watching the squirrel, was one of the Falcons

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It's Official. Penn State Sucks yet again. They're off to a great 2 and 4 start, and, at 0 and 3 in the Big Ten, make the kids at Northwestern proud of themselves again. I want Joe Paterno to give me back the hours of my life I've wasted watching his shitty teams these last few years. I need to reconfirm my belief that Professional Athletes are merely Prostitutes, doing things with

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Well, My Brief Career in the "Entertainment Industry" may be near its end... I found out yesterday that the Second-Run theater at which I've been Assistant Managing since May will be closing October 24. The Mall we're in, which is practically empty, and fondly referred to by myself as "Mall Of The Dead" is slated to be torn down and redeveloped, and the new plans don't include a

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I just wanted everybody to know I'm eating SpongeBob Cheez-Its now. I thought it was important to share. I feel like such a girl.

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I've grown pretty bored with this blog I wouldn't read it to my dog. It needs a new gimmerick like posting in limerick, to give its charisma a jog. I'm off on a Saturday Night. I'm broke and the TV ain't right. The Brit-TV re-runs have given me the runs that squirt cause my asshole is tight. I bet that you think that it's funny Because you have plenty of money, You're out on a Date while I

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Long Time, No See, Revisited. Hello again. Half of the Susquehanna Valley is still flooded with the rains of Ivan, but I live on High Ground, in an Ivory Tower. All we got was a lot of wind and rain, and nicer, cooler sleeping weather as the high built in behind the system. If not for Mom and Dad letting me keep my aprtment in the basement, I might be in worse straits. I might have been

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Long Time No See. I've been busy in the Entertainment Industry. I haven't been around much because I've been helping to manage the local second-run Movie theater. Summer hours, with Matinees daily make for long workdays. I thought I'd start using this blogspace as a place to brainstorm story ideas, to keep them on record, and perhaps to invite comment on the ideas from anybody who might

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Okay, where is that Yard full of 17-yr-old Nymphs I'm waiting for? I expected they would be here by now, singing thru-out the evening to me and flitting all about my neighborhood, desperate to have sex! Have they become too shy to come out of their shells? I want my Cicadas, Dammit! Where are They? It's almost the end of May and they haven't surfaced yet around here. All of the Media

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Hello! I'm still alive. I just haven't been in a mood to blog much. That and I rediscovered SIMcity 2000 on my Playstation for a few days. That's a good way to waste many hours and make both your butt and your eyes sore. Egad, so many things I do make my eyes sore. Watching movies, swimming in chlorinated pools, surfing the net, Playstation, reading, drawing. When i do eventually go blind

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I'm not going to post today. April Fools! Oh boy. I really had you going there. You should have seen the look of disappointment on your face! Priceless! Now go here and watch cartoon characters sell cigarettes. I have a convention to pack for.

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I came in to tell you about what a great Movie Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind is. Excellent. Another great Charlie Kauffman mind-blower script. Maybe all Hollywood needs to get Philip K. Dick done right for once is to have Charlie Kauffman do the treatment. I offer this hint to people who have trouble following the scenes in the film. I know the non-linear storytelling with myriad

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Yesterday, I'm at our local dead mall to check for money in my POB, and to my surprise there were other people in the place. Well, it was a Saturday afternoon, and maybe the $2 theater was actually showing something that somebody wanted to see. So as I'm walking past the gumball machines near the exit, there are two boys, around 13 or 14, hanging out on the bench there. They were dressed

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Aah! Spring! What Have I hated most about this winter? My shampoo has had the consistency of Jell-O almost every morning. The Window sill in my Shower is one of the worst insulated areas of my House. I guess it's partly a side effect of venting all the humidity from the shower. As a result, my shampoo often congeals, as if it's been kept in the refrigerator all night. It doesn't help that

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! The day we all get to pretend we're Irish. We go out, get drunk, and our neighbors get bombed. But the hell with that Catholic Snake Charmer. Let's talk about what's really important. Why don't they make Richie Rich comic books anymore? Oh, the way he would go around buying all kinds of fantastic things, encrusted with jewels! And how he would invite his poor

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I am saddened by the deaths in Madrid. I hope, for the sake of any innocent Basque people, and for the sake of The cartoonists at NAPARTHEID, some of whom I've met at the ICAF and SPX shows, that the Basque Separatist terrorists of ETA are not found to be involved. That being said, this cartoon, which is the gateway into NAPARTHEID's website, www.napartheid.org, has rather sinister

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