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| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 |
binky_betsy
[ dreadedcandiru2 ]
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9:00p |
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Well, I had 23:59:30 of a fairly decent birthday yesterday (thanks for the greetings, BTW) marred by thirty seconds of Foobery. Let's see what happens when Elly is actually in charge of Jim for a change.
(OT: A character in "Legion of Superheroes" referred to some guy as a foob. Thanks to Lynn, it's spreading.) |
shannon_a
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4:26p |
Stoopid July
July has not been a kind month.
Things started getting hectic on the week of July 4-10. That's when I was working on the iPhone book like a maniac so that we could get 100+ pages of text ready for online release. Since? Crickets. We expected Apple to release us from our NDA on July 11, when they rolled out the SDK, but that hasn't yet happened. As a result, that work was all .... well not quite for nought, but at least not required at that level of intensity.
Then, two days after I finished my work on the book, I got sick. I've been on-and-off fatigued for a week and half since, plus I've had varying levels of concentration problems, sinus pressure, sniffling, headaches, and all that sort of fun stuff.
Yesterday was actually the first time that I felt like I had any energy in a week and a half. Whereas I'd been spending most of my non-work hours previous to that on the couch reading, I actually worked up some energy to make a banner ad for a friend last night. Not much, but it was something.
I've still got a lingering hint of a headache today, and am going to go visit the doctor soon if it doesn't clear up, but my energy remains decently good.
Very annoying. I sometimes wonder if I'm a wuss about sickness because I don't get sick very often, but this last weak and a half I think would have knocked anyone on their ass. |
binky_betsy
[ megan_koumori ]
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1:20p |
Rules of dealing with an ex (And how many Anthony and Liz broke)
Was watching 'Mike and Juliet' this morning and one of their segments was on rules for exes. I immediately went for a pen and paper because I knew they were going to list some stuff Lizthony ignored:
1. Don't be good friends or confide in an ex. Well, right off the bat, we get a Whammy. How many times did we hear this: "Anfunny and I are just fweeeeends! Why is Thwease so jeawous of meeeeee?"
2. No sex with an ex. Well, duh. I think it's safe to say Anthony and Liz weren't doing the bedroom boogie while he was married. Of course, that doesn't mean he wasn't thinking it...
3. Be acquaintances, even if you have kids together. Lizthony claimed continuously that they were just acquaintances who happened to stick their tongues down each other's throats date in high school. Riiiight...
4. New relationships are a twosome, not a threesome. Evil Therese expected Anthony to uphold this rule. That shameful harpy her.
5. Don't hang out with an ex alone. Busted. They were alone at the New Year's party, at the bus station, at the "I have no HOOOOME!" episode, and at the trial.
6. Flirty texts and emails have to go. I don't think that applies here. Can you honestly see Anthony sending a flirty email that doesn't start, "Roses are red..."
7. Don't play matchmaker with ex. Why would Anthony do this? Since he was still in love with Liz, I'm sure he wasn't thrilled about any of her new BFs, despite the fact he had a wife.
Well, that's it. Eat, drink, and be snarky! |
snarkoleptics
[ bolindbergh ]
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1:59p |
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| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
binky_betsy
[ dreadedcandiru2 ]
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9:00p |
Wednesday, 23 July 2008 In yesterday's strip, Iris mentioned that Elly was going to take over watching Jim for a while, probably to avoid having to watch Liz blow a blood vessel over nothing. This means one of two things will happen: either Elly will yell that she's through being a daughter in response to some mild frustration and pack Jim off to the Assisted Living Warehouse or she'll perform a miracle cure. Either way, reading this strip is a lousy way to spend thirty seconds of my forty-third birthday. Panel 1: We start off today's mess with Flapandhonk telling Jim the the people at the front desk told her she could find him and Iris in the garden. His response is to say "Yes." Panel 2: She then runs her mouth about how great it must be to have such a nice garden behind his building. He again says "Yes". Panel 3: Iris then reminds him that Elly will be looking after him while she visits her son. Panel 4: Sheet Shaver then repeats that because she too thinks he has the IQ of a pile of manure. His response is to angrily yell "Yes! Yes! YES!" Panel 5: Iris then tells a shocked Elly that it's not his memory that's short, it's his temper. Jeez, I wonder why that is? It couldn't be that he's all the way "in" there and treated like a vegetable by impatient simpletons, is it? Summary: Jim is one "Boxcar" away from living at Sunset Acres. ETA: She changed the banner again. Now, we're back to looking at Edgar the dog as he drinks from the sprinkler. |
snarkoleptics
[ jenfullmoon ]
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2:51p |
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binky_betsy
[ forworse ]
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2:43p |
Collection Two: Is This "One of those Days," Daddy? Since this week appears dedicated to strips of how funny it is that Jim is confined to a wheelchair and unable to communicate, I thought I'd post a look at the second collection. This one is introduced by a fan who wrote to LJ to tell her that the comic was the story of her life, a precursor of the “camera in my house” brigade. |
| Monday, July 21st, 2008 |
binky_betsy
[ dreadedcandiru2 ]
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9:00p |
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
It's day two of "Jim goes to Sunset Manor". Will an over-burdened Iris do what Lynn thinks she's supposed to and resist a helping hand with whatever strength she has left? Will Elly only offer it because she finally clued in that an eighty-two year old woman who was never obliged to do so in the first place can't do it on her own? Will Kool-Aid Nation applaud this atrocity as being true to life? We shall see.
Panel 1: We see him and Iris in the courtyard of their building. One of the orderlies says that it's good to see him outside. Iris says that he's looking well, a statement which Orderly Number Two echoes.
Panel 2: She then says that his health is fairly stable. Orderly #2 says that's a good thing to know.
Panel 3: She then talks about how they've had visitors who aren't April lately, gone on drives and taken in a movie as well as Elly finally coming to stay with him. Feel free to use a synonym for "Finally" about that last statement.
Panel 4: Jim thought-bubbles his frustration about not being able to express his opinion. If he could complain, he'd have pretty much nothing to complain about.
Summary: Since Elly is dumber and less patient than Iris, she'll return from her long-needed vacation to find that Jim had been packed off to Sunset Manor without her permission or approval. That move will also be without real medical necessity. |
snarkoleptics
[ timtylor ]
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7:42p |
Chorus Line-Drawing? A little proposal from Matt Shepherd of Man-Man. "Musicals are notoriously hard to do in cartoon format, by the way.
But if you know of anyone who’d be willing to give it a go, we’re [Man-Man & Dr H] using essentially all the same jokes."
For that matter, what other comics (superhero or otherwise) are crying out for the musical treatment? |
twoflower
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12:18p |
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qcjeph
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11:12a |
New user icon Because the old one was out of date (and this one actually looks like me):  |
binky_betsy
[ dreadedcandiru2 ]
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6:19a |
Coffee Talk, the week of 21 July 2008
I'm starting up this thread in case CT appears this week.
ETA: It's up and it's loaded with pro-Lizthony glurge. We're in for a lousy six weeks. |
| Sunday, July 20th, 2008 |
snarkoleptics
[ mckenzee ]
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9:42p |
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binky_betsy
[ dreadedcandiru2 ]
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9:00p |
Monday, 21 July 2008
It would seem that howtheduck is right in assuming that we've seen all the wedding preparations we're going to. Lynn's probably going to have Elly remember John or Mike doing something stupid.
Oh, dear. It's Lynn's ongoing tribute to the neglect of the elderly.
Panel 1: We see Iris wheel Jim to the elevator in their building.
Panel 2: They are greeted by three generic old mutant ladies.
Panel 3: Iris engages in conversation with said misshapen women while acting as if Jim is not there.
Panel 4: Continuing to treat him as if he had the IQ of a houseplant, she shoves him into the corner and continues running her yap.
Panel 5: The poor wretch is left wishing that the walls could talk. That way, somebody would actually talk to him.
Summary: This is when Jim gets packed off to Sunset Manor. This is also where I've about had it with Iris. I mean, it's good that she has a life, I just wish she didn't think Jim's was over. Of course, I hate Elly more what with wasting her time interfering in people's love lives and ignoring him when he needs her. |
binky_betsy
[ hoppytoad79 ]
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5:02p |
The Costume Nazi Briefly Expounds on Victorian 'Dresses'
The Costume Nazi forgot yesterday that Victorian 'dresses' aren't dresses; a woman wore a separate bodice and skirt. Please adjust your mental images of Liz trying to fit into something too small for her accordingly.
The debate over what size Liz is, exactly, need not continue. She is not XS to S, so she wouldn't fit the skirt and the bodice wouldn't fasten in the waist area. Her chest might not give trouble, but her waist would.
For those who are confuzzled about why this is a Big Deal, the dress under the house is NOT the same dress Marian was drawn wearing in the past. The dress the Costume Nazi is referring to is from a strip where Jim is thoughtbubbling him and Marian at their wedding and she is clearly wearing a Victorian era 'dress'.
The preservation issues facing a dress kept in a crawlspace are a whole other discussion, regardless of style. Someone suggested perhaps the Pattersons chemically treated the gown to get it white. All who responded to that agree that would seriously damage the gown. Since that action defies all logic we here possess and would render the gown unwearable, it strikes the Costume Nazi that this is exactly what the Pattersons did since Foobverse logic seems to run counter to the way it works in reality. ;) |
snarkoleptics
[ jeriendhal ]
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2:55p |
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jinwicked
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12:13p |
LUNCH BREAK IS UP NEVERMIND, my impatience compelled me to figure out how to correct the database errors directly in phpMyAdmin. I barely understood what a database is about a month ago, but somehow I managed to fix Lunch Break this morning without blowing anything away. So enjoy. Some of the pages need editing and the list-by-title isn't complete, but Saturday night to Sunday morning is the deadest part of the week so I went ahead. If you find that's anything obviously a mistake (as opposed to unfinished) let me know.
I think part of the problem was that I went from WordPress 2.5 to 2.6 during the switch.
New comics, postcard art, and the rest of the tweaks to the new site forthcoming this week. |
jinwicked
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8:48a |
LUNCH BREAK IS DOWN I know, so please don't send me any upset messages about it today.
Everything is backed up, but something went wrong installing WordPress to the live site.
Hopefully all will be well again once DreamHost support gets back to me. |
| Saturday, July 19th, 2008 |
binky_betsy
[ hoppytoad79 ]
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5:44p |
The Costume Nazi Speaks Out on The 'Antique' Gown I talked to a woman who has decades of experience with vintage clothes the other day and asked her what the condition of a 40’s wedding gown that had been in a crawlspace under a house for about ten or fifteen years. With absolutely no hesitation, she told me the gown would, indeed, be yellowed and stained and there’s a good possibility of mildew as well. When I asked what, if anything, dry cleaning would do, she told me the mildew spots wouldn’t be removed. She wasn’t clear about other stains, though, but I’m thinking that would be another ‘sorry, Charlie’. She wasn’t clear about the state of sheer sleeves but she didn’t correct me when I said those would’ve rotted away over the decades. As for Liz’s gown being white, Hell has a better chance of freezing over than the gown ever being white again. No trip to the drycleaner would change that. I know I’m not saying anything we didn’t already know, but we have Expert Testimony to support us now. I explained someone I knew had written a story where said gown was taken to the drycleaner and it was white and clean again. To quote the woman I talked to, “That’s not a very good story. Why would anyone write that?” Smiling slightly, I said someone who didn’t bother to do any research, a view the woman totally agreed with. ;) I’m Costume Coordinator for a local production of HMS Pinafore (more on that in my LJ) and the director wants the costumes true to the year the show was first produced, so I’ll be doing plenty of research into Victorian fashions. As we all know and Lynn couldn’t be arsed to verify, Marian was drawn previously in a garment clearly from the Victorian era so look forward to further commentaries/Costume Nazi rantings on the reasons why it’s highly unlikely Marian would’ve been wearing something like that. I’m sure I’ll end up repeating some or all of what I’ve said before but that was digging through memory and hoping I was getting it right. Absolutely Marian was wearing a corset with the Victorian gown. Any time Lynn has drawn Marian, she has not been a slender stick of a woman so there’s no way she fit without having her waist artificially shrunk. IIRC, the thought bubble we see Marian and Jim dancing at their wedding in doesn’t show Marian with an hourglass-type figure. The Costume Nazi is Not Amused because it is clear research was not done and Costume Nazi is anal-retentive about doing your research when drawing period clothing. The Costume Nazi is especially Not Amused because of the minimal amount of research required to find out when a woman wore the style of gown Marian is wearing she would be wearing a corset to give her an hourglass shape. The Costume Nazi is certain that no farm girl would have been wearing something like what Marian was drawn in because the Costume Nazi is pretty sure that sort of garment was worn by women of a higher socio-economic status than that of Poor Farm Girl, so unless a female relative on Marian’s family tree ‘married down’ and gave Marian that gown, this is definitely another example of Lynn Johnson’s willful ignorance. ETA: The Costume Nazi has discovered the size of the bustle varied during the Victorian era so she shall be looking into seeing what year Marian's REAL gown would've been from (more or less). That'll also give info on waist size/silouette as well. The Costume Nazi reports that the waist would probably be between 20" and 26" and the period is turn of the century. Big Bustles=lots of skirt fabric. Either Marian was a stick (read: XS to S clothing size) or she was wearing a corset, so if Liz is wearing her gown (pretend with me, folks), she's XS to S. Anyone have an idea of what size Liz is/might be? |
jinwicked
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11:51a |
A Cautionary Tale I spent the last day and a half mostly in bed with a crippling headache and the sensation that someone was shoving an ice pick into my ear. I thought I was getting an ear infection, but last night I had a couple of glasses of Diet Pepsi, and within an hour all the pain was gone. I had to for-the-most-part quit drinking caffeine earlier this year for health reasons, and I guess I accidentally had a little too much recently. That was simultaneously the weirdest and most severe caffeine withdrawal headache I've ever had.
Beware, kids: caffeine is a harsh, addictive, and unforgiving mistress. |
twoflower
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11:19a |
Dr. Horrible Postmortem: I GUESS I recommend it I talked up this Joss Whedon project, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in my last post. It's a fine example of creative work in the internet age, pulling together the strengths of old media and new, and delivering a fun and entertaining meta-humor laced comic story! Well, the final act's up. Any my recommendation's dropped considerably. Now, this is a matter of personal taste only. As a writer, I can appreciate the craft and acknowledge that the direction the story goes in is a perfectly valid and appropriate one. But as a viewer... I feel like I've been donkey punched. For those not in the know of that horrible term it's when you're making love and everything's going great for the both of you and then the guy punches you right in the head, so your pain causes your muscles to contract and he feels more pleasure. That's kinda the same thing here... for reasons I'll put behind a spoiler cut. (Remember, the series goes offline after tonight, so if you wanna watch it, watch it now.) ( An explanation of my horrible metaphor. ) |
binky_betsy
[ dreadedcandiru2 ]
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1:37a |
Sunday, 20 July 2008
It's a modern day strip that seems like a harmless enough example of Patter-stupidity involving a failure to grasp what the phrase 'surface area' means until you look at the last panel. Then you suddenly realize that the world is coming to an end. That's 'cause EatDirt does stuff and Dee isn't gobsmacked.
Panel 1: We start off with Robin digging up the yard next to the fence and shoveling dirt into a pail. Hmmmm.... This won't end well.
Panel 2: He packs it down. This is made easy because the soil is somewhat sandy.
Panel 3: Having done that, he dumps it back out.
Panel 4: Having gathered clumps of it in both hands, he twirls around in place letting it swirl around him.
Panel 5: Having put some in the the of a toy truck, he lays down in it and pretends to drive the thing.
Panel 6: He then picks up the truck and dumps it out.
Panel 7: Next, he leans back into the fence and kicks up the dirt.
Panel 8: He then changes position as as to finally coat himself evenly in topsoil.
Panel 9: Deanna then motions for him to come inside.
Panel 10: As she washes him, she wonders (with a rueful smirk) how little sand could get so many places. First, it's dirt, not sand. Second, she's scrubbing him so hard she's getting water in his ears. Third, she, as stillayuppie said, obviously did something stupid and tracked his dirt into the house. Fourth, she could have avoided this and, as stillayuppie said, bought a sandbox. At least she's not gobsmacked, though.
Summary: It's another example of a woefully unprepared parent confused by her child's normal, everyday behavior. Lynn must have been made of fail as a Mom. |
| Friday, July 18th, 2008 |
binky_betsy
[ dreadedcandiru2 ]
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9:01p |
Saturday, 19 July 2008
As we finish up the current week, it seems to me that it's likely that Therese might pull a Becky today and tell Liz she's the mother she wishes she could have been. I hope I'm wrong but Lynn needs to have her strange world-view validated too badly to make me think otherwise.
Maybe later, maybe never. First, Anthony's gotta make light of Liz's parenting skills.
Panel 1: We see what will soon be known as the Caine family at a fast food place. Francie is asking Liz if she gets to be flower girl this August. Liz, not pecking up on the fact that the child ended a question with an exclamation point, says that both she and Meredith will be flower girls.
Panel 2: Trying to determine her place in the pecking order, Francie then asks which one will be first. In a half-answer to that, Liz tells her that Ring-bearer Poopie-Pants goes first.
Panel 3: Francie then asks why she cannot do both jobs. Liz, not getting that the child wonders what her place will be in the family, reminds her that she'll be carrying the flowers.
Panel 4: She then says that if she and Meredith are really, really good, they'll get a gift for not spoiling Liz's all-important white wedding. I can name two children who aren't getting a gift because of someone else's ridiculously high standards.
Panel 5: In any event, this causes the Pasty One to make it seem like Liz's bribing children into doing what she wants is something to laugh about. Creep.
Summary: Hmmmmm.... He's undermining Liz's authority as a parent because of a sadistic need to see her act frustrated and foolish. She is marrying a man like JSTF, after all. |
binky_betsy
[ commodorejohn ]
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11:25p |
Something's fishy about today's panel four... It's like the Lynnions edited a strip that truly reflected Lynn's worldview into something more palatable for public consumption. What might that odd pose mean in the original? I posted this in today's thread, but another member suggested I give it its own post, so here's my take...
 Current Mood:  mischievous |
snarkoleptics
[ cdave ]
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5:32p |
2000 posts meme Irregular Webcomic has reached real milestone. 2000 comics! In the annotation dmm lists all the other webcomics he can find that have also done this. I thought this would make a good meme. Instructions: 1) Look at the list and bold those you are reading. 2) Italicize those you have heard of before. 3) Underline the ones you LOVE. |
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