November 29, 2007

SelfpostFilter Returns Post your accomplishments, your own web content, anything you've made, anything you're selling (although, uh, please not your eBay auction selling your nosehair, that's just icky). The continuation of this thread which is now too big and unwieldy to read.
posted by tracicle 16 years ago
  • *bows in homage*
  • Hello. I make comics, sometimes (slightly sad and confused ones here - they are safe for work - and slightly manic and entirely unsafe for work ones in here) Also, I have a site detailing throttles in comic books, here Also, there are more things I have made here And finally, I am making another website, filled with scans of things. Its not finished yet, and at the moment there are only a few books and some cards on it. I hope there are some things you like, among all that
  • I think I'll skip this opportunity to pimp out my pantyboy fetish porn. thanks!
  • In case you were unable to load the previous SPF, I think someone has a special announcement about a certain hedgehog they may be too bashful to post about here...
  • BTW, how soon before this thread, which is in flagrant violation of the MF by-laws, is eeked? I demand justice!
  • *bans kamus forever again*
  • No justice! No pizza! No justice! No pizza!
  • I think I'll skip this opportunity to pimp out my pantyboy fetish porn. No skipping allowed.
  • Emphatically: What bernockle said.
  • This new thread loads faster than Dick Cheney's shotgun in a puppy mill.
  • I gave myself a haircut today and it didn't come out diasasterously!
  • This is Run For Your Life. A short film/pilot I made last year. Enjoy video link (No written transcript) http://tinyurl.com/2k5qxg
  • I am god
  • I think someone has a special announcement about a certain hedgehog they may be too bashful to post about here... Ron Jeremy?!?
  • Oh, and I turned in my first Ph.D. program application today (I'm gonna switch gears a bit and do musicology).
  • Oh, and I turned in my first Ph.D. program application today (I'm gonna switch gears a bit and do musicology).
  • in stereo no less!! good luck bone!
  • Oh, that double commen was weird. I blame the hedgehog in tracicle's garden. The Hedgehog's in tracicle's "garden"?
  • That vid's great, monkeylion.
  • Thanks HW. Glad you liked it.
  • I'll post a couple of poems...I think the first one applies to us all: Dot Generation To my generation. We live in the shadows of coffeestained nights plagued by early-morning jitters, searching for ourselves, in empty pages of flash and Java. Stumbling on pages, searching for ourselves. The pale light of monitors casts visages upon our own, .jpeg's, .mp3's, .doc's, .com, .org, .gov, .net, .edu .generation searching for ourselves. 404, 207, white box / red x, broken link. Youtube, yahoo, google, digg, wikipedia my spacebar space, books filled of forgotten faces, searching for ourselves, googling our generation, .me, .you, .us ------------------------------------------- Emptiness The bed seems so big since you left it. Its twisted and coiled sheets so lonely without you here. Yet the indelible impression of your body remains; on the bed and in my head. The sculpted impression of your head is molded into the cottonwhite pillow that contrasted so beautifully with your hair. Our scents hang in the air above me like a wedding veil. It seems so long ago, oh, it seems so long ago when hours ago you and I, together forever in memory, belonged to the breathless world of fullbodied touches. Our honeyed lips and satined skin roiled and flowed with the sheets that encased us like a womb: a resolute barrier against the emptying night. Still, our unending kisses had to end, and the passionmarks that resulted will fade with time. And you my love, you too will fade with time, and so will I, until nothing of us remains. Except this, here.
  • That vid's great, monkeylion. seconded. Very nice. Cheers, monkeylion
  • I paid £38.80 for an ELECTRIC GUITAR. Other people think it actually sounds Vintage (YouTube), even though it's a Chinese rip off. (Yeah, I know, the paint will probably kill me.)
  • That should burn real good!
  • When I'm cookin'?
  • When you make your Jimi-like sacrifice to the Gods of Rock. Chinese maple with all that leaded paint? Smokin'!
  • umm, Hi, I write songs. I don't keep many of them, but some of the ones I did are here.
  • Thanks for the great poems, Vertex!
  • Thanks DNG. Nice stuff stomper. If you guys like old-timey tunes, check out stomper's stuff.
  • I liked stomper's songs, but would have liked them more if they had been more tame and bland.
  • I'm duplicating the duplification of a post that I put on the original thread because I'm a ditz and went there first. I'm duplicating a post by our own f8xmulder that he stuck into another thread. Old home week: Lol. Is there any way we can all do a world-wide MoFi meetup? I'd be happy to jaunt anywhere on the seven continents. I've been too busy to do much online community stuff for the last two years, primarily because I am now officially a movie producer. I've got a film premiering in Ethiopia this December in Addis, and up to this point, I've been working like mad to get the darn thing completed and in a state worth showing. Still lots of work to be done, marketing, et al. But it's nice having that notch on my belt. How's everyone else doing?? I miss you :/ posted by f8xmulder at 07:37AM UTC on November 30, 2007 posted by BlueHorse at 11:23PM UTC on November 30, 2007
  • OK, Gramma's not a luddite. And well done, f8x!!
  • Yay f8x! Great stuff, and good to see you back here!
  • Let's see. I submitted my thesis to the graduate school on Tuesday, which means that in a few short weeks I'll have a shiny new MFA in Creative Writing degree to frame and gather dust while I spend my post-grad school days workin' for the Man. I was going to post a link to an essay on my site, but I just reread it, and it's not as good as I thought it was, so I shan't inflict it upon you. Instead, I direct your attention to my zombie post because I like it.
  • Have we done peacay's gorgeous book yet?
  • Wow! I lubs it. Peacay, you need to get Amazon to do a "search this book" function. I want to run my virtual fingers through your hair through the pages.
  • As a collective, I'm highly impressed at how well MoFi is and has been doing. I've been pretty negligent in my online presence, which makes me feel like a turd. Which is why I think it would be grand to have a unified, One-Meeting-To-Bind-Us soirée. But I don't suppose that'll happen any time soon. Maybe at MonkeyFilter Year 10? Anyway, congrats to tracicle for keeping up the site, and everyone else for also doing their part. The world is not worthy of you. Cheers!
  • You turd.
  • thanks monkeylion, glad you liked them. ralph, what can I say -- next time I'll use open modal tunings for some of them. VOL, I was prepared to dislike that first poem, as I reflexively do with anything all techno-jargon-cum-culture. But it turned out I really liked it. No 'hip', lots of compassion. Dig. And ML, that movie was, like, weird. But good. :-)
  • I just done runned me a marrython. Mah furst. Mah nee hertz.
  • ewe rulz nuntheless! rulz ewe soreneez!
  • I sang an audition today that I was actually happy with. First time in years that's happened. Also, I overcame my cowardice long enough to post an MP3 of me singing a Schubert song over in MeFi Music.
  • Gorgeorgeous! That's always been one of my favorite Schubert lieder.
  • Monkeyfilter: the passionmarks that resulted
  • Bravo!
  • In my spare time, I write computer programs to help learning to write computer programs. For example, see Introduction to Crunchy.
  • Pallas, what a range! Wonderful~
  • What clever and talented primates you all are! And Pallas Athena has the voice of angel.
  • For those of you who didn't read the Halloween thread, here's a picture of my two-prize-winning costume.
  • TUM, that is glorious. Did you make it all?? thanks for kind words, guys!
  • Lovely, Pallas Athena!
  • The corset was borrowed. ;-)
  • ...and the bodice was ripped.
  • I'm sorry, but this thread just doesn't have the authenticity of the other thread. And you people are just making stuff up.
  • Can I top up my hedgehog story with a blackbird that hopped off his perch and joined the choir invisibile? No?
  • And TUM, you look straight out of the Addam's Family!
  • Thank you, Thing!
  • I have a tea blog! About time too! Questions about tea are very welcome! When I start selling tea online, Mofi members will definitely get discounts! *trips over her Mega-Economy Sized Pack of Exclamation Marks*
  • Well done, Miss Neddy!
  • Aside from all the great tea info (I 'specially liked "other uses for tes"), it's aesthetically scrumptious, like a soothing virtual cuppa.
  • The aesthetics are entirely the work of gomichild, whom I owe undying gratitude to (^_^) *applauds*
  • gomi's skills are indeed impressive. As is your blog, good stuff!
  • Awesome!
  • Bravissimo, Alnedra and gomichild!!
  • I am progressing nicely with my mother-in-law's jewelry site, Terri J's Jewelry.com. It's not done, but I have a feeling it will *never* be done. I am also posting this from my new desk at my new job at the County. Said job being why I have been somewhat absent lately.
  • Alnedra, I left a comment on your first blog post. The whole thing is first class, and gomi's design is perfect'
  • Gorgeous stuff, minda25! Do you deliver to Singapore? I'll pay for extra postage (^_^) Thank you path! You've given me enough inspiration for at least one more entry, possibly more.
  • Well, not realy my self-post, but I got this email from my daughter Christophine yesterday: "Remember I set up a Zazzle store that would make prints of some of my art? I did it with the idea that I'd get hard-copy prints of some of my work to put in my portfolio. I figured that while I was at it, I'd make the prints public, so maybe something would sell. Nothing ever did, though I got some nice compliments on my work, acquired a fan club, and had a couple pieces featured as picks of the day or week, and one editor's pick. Then I kinda forgot about the Zazzle thing. "Tonight I got an email that one of my products sold. Zazzle gets most of the money. I only get $1.12 from the sale. But still, something of mine sold! Yay!" Here's a link: Octopus. If you scroll down a bit, there are a few other things she did a year or two ago.
  • I LIKE OCTOPUS!
  • Octopus is good, but it was Burst II that caught my eye. Wunnerful stuff!
  • Octopus! Neither bland nor tame! Applause!
  • No matter how paltry the sum, it's an amaaaaazing feeling the first time you earn money for a creative effort. Chongrats to Christophine!
  • Space Tears
  • Thats really lovely
  • I got word that I'm going to receive the grant I applied for, to stage my adaptation of W.S. Gilbert's A Sensation Novel.
  • Well done to the both of you. I've accomplished nothing.
  • And I love you for it. Thanks dinger, and well done Tummy!
  • I think Opening Night of A Sensation Novel would make for a great excuse for a Southern Ontario/Upstate New York Mofi Meetup. (Tickets must be comped, of course)
  • Curious George in the Self Post Any Japanese speakers / readers in the house? If so, I'd really appreciate some help for a painting I want to do. I scanned these Japanese characters off a toy box. It was next to a stormtrooper, so I'm assuming it says 'stormtrooper'. What I'd like to know is - it that actually what it says, or what is its translation? Also, can the characters be split over a couple of lines? Is it more than one word? And if so, where can it be split? This is because if I could split the word / phrase over more than one line, it would be a help compositionally. Not really worth starting it's own thread for, but any help would be greatly appreciated. If you want, you can email me or leave answers here. Email in profile etc. THANKS!!!!
  • I think it works better than Take Me Out Tonight. That longitudinal thrust -- the way it breaks down on the right, is balanced out by the clip, and expanded in the stock -- well done! Now give daddy some tame and bland sugar...
  • That sounded quite intelligent! Who are you, and what have you done with Louis???
  • Expanded and broken down in the stock, rather. Good stuff!
  • (And sometimes something smart-sounding pops out. Sorta like gas. It'll pass.)
  • Neddy: the blog is bookmarked, hurrah. Kit: cute AND deadly. Oh, and the paintings are nice too. TUM: There, it's official. You rock. Christophine and Minda: very shiny indeed.
  • TUM, bravo on the grant. Where/when will your adaptation be staged? Please be sure to provide updates as your plans become clearer. And try to avoid tame blandness.
  • I MeFi'd another song: Elgar's "Where Corals Lie." It is tame and also bland.
  • Thats beautiful
  • If such song be tame, And if such song be bland, Then Paradise be lame, And Heav'n a tedious land. I can't think of Elgar without remembering one of my college choir conductors. He had a thick Kiwi accent, and whnever he announced our set of three showpieces ("It's Oh, to Be a Wild Wind," "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending," and "Sicut Cervus") he'd linger over the composers' names: "Elgaaaaaaaaaaah, Woooolkes, and Puhluhstraaayna!"
  • *courtly bow in the direction of TUM* dng, while we're on the subject, your Christmas cards were all the awesome.
  • Please do mention it here if you're singing in London any time, Pallas.
  • Thanks, Pallas. Also, yes, I agree with Plegmund
  • MonkeyFilter: It is tame and also bland.
  • You have a lovely voice, Pallas. If you're ever singing in Winnipeg ... oh, never mind.
  • That is so gay. No, I've just got something in my eye, thanks. *sniffle*
  • I've just started another website - the pointless museum - which is just scans of books and things, including the worst joke book I have ever read. Hopefully I'll add something new every day or two
  • That is indeed a very bad joke book.
  • The fishmonger joke that starts at the bottom of this page and continues on the next one is just astonishing, really
  • I've drawn a short cartoon Also that site now has an rss feed, if anyone is interested in that sort of futuristic science
  • I just found out that one of my sonnets from The Sonnet Project was selected as a finalist for the 2007 Howard Nemerov Annual Sonnet Contest. Though it didn't win the grand prize (which was literally a grand--$1000), as one of the finalists it will be published in late spring/early summer in Measure: An Annual Review of Formal Poetry. Which is kind of a big deal. It's my first published poem, like, ever. Not counting high school literary magazines, that is. But then I was the editor of those. So I'm well chuffed.
  • Congrats, TP! A chuff well-earned!
  • I'll add to TP's list here, since he was hesitant to do so: one of Arkansas' most favored authors, Jack Butler, reported upon hearing of TP's success that he himself has gone no further in this contest than TP has. So our boy's in good company.
  • As TP will now be a published author, I believe the policy is that he must now leave MoFi and its ranks of failed writers.
  • Which is good for him, bad for us.
  • Good on ya, TP.
  • Kewl TP!
  • I normally rankle at other people's success. But in this case, I'll make an exception. Well done TP. Lend us a tenner.
  • Good on yer, O Tenacious one! So, which sonnet was it? (And I won't be offended atall if the answer is, "Buy the book." Publishers gotta make a livin'.)
  • Thanks, everyone. Success, like psychosexual neuroses, is better when you've got someone to share it with. :) TUM, the sonnet is "Noir, #28," which is a poetical version of a film noir voice-over. I took it off the site when I entered it in the contest (didn't want them counting a blog posting as "previously published"), but there may be a google cache somewhere. :)
  • And I love the Horror Trumps at the pointless museum, dng. Sad thing is, I think I can name most of the movies that the bad drawings of the monsters came from, and their stars. For instance "Dr. Syn" looks like Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu in The Blood of Fu Manchu. They couldn't call him Fu Manchu on the card, though, b/c they'd already used an image of Boris Karloff as Fu, from The Mask of Fu Manchu. I could go on.
  • Yes. Some of them are so blatant its amusing. I just want to know which movie has Godzilla in a tuxedo, though
  • Looks more like a Fauntleroy suit to me, dng.
  • Whatever it is, it is beautiful
  • also, i've made another cartoon i will stop spamming this thread up, for now
  • I don't mind the spamming, but I wish you'd start putting periods at the ends of your damn sentences
  • Never.
  • You did just then
  • Oh shit now it's happening to me damn you
  • Lovely spam, wonderful spam.
  • Mmmmmm...
  • Congrats, TP!! I've been thinking of you, since I've been writing a lot of sonnets lately. Time to go reread your project, methinks.
  • Sweet deal TP!!!
  • I solved a sixteen-month-old mystery. Which I would have solved two years ago, if I weren't so inattentive. Also, I am posting this from beyond the graaaaaave. *waves hands in a spooky fashion* We get enough comments in other threads, it'll push that one off the Recent Comments list, and we can all pretend it never happened. Just sayin'.
  • I just put a bunch of songs I recorded recently (using Garage Band and my laptop microphone - digital DIY, baby!) up on YouTube. (I'm calling myself The Cardboard Rhinoceros.) Koko, you'll find your old SF neck of the woods represented in the vid for "The Truth About Wile E. Coyote."
  • It's true! I really felt like I was driving home! In a roundabout way. In 1995. Nice songs, HWingo!
  • I got to go interview the Silver Beats, a Japanese Beatles (hahaha!) tribute band. You can hear the results here. ...they don't let me on the air all that often, and now you too can hear why...
  • I just learned that another of my sonnets from The Sonnet Project, "Langham's Pond" (#225), will be published in the next issue of the speculative fiction/poetry publication Aberrant Dreams. If I read them right, they only put poetry in the webzine version of the mag, so no papery goodness. But on the upside, they are actually paying me for it--another landmark moment. :) It's a deluge!
  • I hear that nickdanger is getting a book published too! You guys are awesome.
  • *hangs lazy-assed head in shame* I trapped five mice in seven days in my basement -- is that an accomplishment?
  • I started my car this morning.
  • I did some work today. Not a whole lot, but quite good for a Wednesday in January.
  • They'd better be humane traps, cappy!
  • Oh, absolutely. Kills them with one swift THWACK! Oddly, they haven't been going for the ritzy traps with the spiced Gouda. Apparently, the 'kill bar' is better (or "better") for them than the standard Victory trap. To each his own, I suppose.
  • Last one wasn't a very clean kill, though. Took a bit of scraping to get him into the green bin.
  • Why don;t you get one of this kind of trap, CR?
  • And that's more humane? Last time I saw a friend's house cat toy with a mangled mouse... awww, not nice. Today I overslept so had to make it to work with half breakfast. Shame is me.
  • *stays out of this one*
  • I once used a glue trap, thinking it would be humane. Then trying to free the little bugger I probably inadvertently dislocated all four of its limbs. I last saw it wriggling into the bushes rather damningly. I'm sure he was somebody's lunch shortly thereafter. Oh, and I got a poem published. Did I mention that? Oh, yes, I see I did. :)
  • Not necessarily more humane, Flag; just cuter.
  • Why don;t you get one of this kind of trap, CR? Because I's allergic. And aside from me and Capt. Henry and a few jade plants, the fewer living things in my house, the better.
  • That sort of thinking's not going to help with the old adventures in you know what.
  • Adventures? By now it's myth.
  • Got another one. Make that six.
  • After a snowfall, all my mouse traps peter out after a few days, as the vermin cannot traverse the icy fields, and the house is rid of those who arrived previously. After a thaw, they are back in business. In Summer, there are none at all. I find peanut butter to be the best bait. My cat catches about 3% of the harvest. I therefore do not recommend the Mr. Whiskers solution.
  • It does widely depend on the ebast in question. Mr. W. himself wasn't the world's most prolific mouser even before he got his bum leg. But he comes from great mousing stock. His maternal aunt Martha catches 'em like crazy, and his mother and brother are no slouches.
  • Snoots recently began eating bugs, instead of just staring at them. We're so proud!
  • I don't see my cats catching mice, but there aren't any. I think they just stay away because they smell cat.
  • Seven. Same trap, same place.
  • My god, Cappy, do you live on a boat full of grain? Where are they all coming from?
  • I'm impressed Capt. That's some mighty fine huntin'!
  • Bagpuss isn't going to be happy.
  • > I think they just stay away because they smell cat. I think this was the case in the last place we lived. We could hear the mice running around the apartment upstairs, and my cat even caught a few on our terrace, but we never had any trace of them inside our apartment. It's a good thing there's some payoff for cat smell.
  • My god, Cappy, do you live on a boat full of grain? Where are they all coming from? I was totally confused until the other day -- there was no food down there to speak of, and what food there was was squared away in big plastic bins that they showed no interest in. It must be a matter of cold, and it's been fairly cold lately. But as for food -- there are still a lot of boxes down there from the move, but I knew there wasn't any food in those. However, I've since discovered that they've been seeking out my rolls of peppermints. Which I have everywhere. Quarter- or half-rolls in pretty much every pocket I own. So they smell the peppermint, chew through the box, chew through the foil, and tear the peppermint apart. Yesterday, I was completely disgusted when I found mouse shit in the bin beneath my oven -- which I can sorta understand, because it's warm and greasy and such, but how the hell do they get in there? That wasn't it, though. They ate the green poison I'd set downstairs (stealing all three cubes and hauling them off somewhere), and then were shitting out fluorescent green turds in my cake pans. Gross.
  • Good a place as any to post the Mr. Whiskers Slideshow.
  • Yyyyyup. Them's some mighty fine whiskers. *spits*
  • ... but how the hell do they get in there? A mouse can squeeeze himself really tiny, on account of having a wedgy-shaped body. You'd be amazed at the tiny openings they can get through.
  • Someone in all seriousness once told me it was because mice had no spines. This person probably also believes that dogs can't look up.
  • Not even when they pray?
  • Mr. W. looks sharp in a cravat.
  • Okay, I've been on Mofi for a while now, but there's one thing I'm still not clear on: does TUM have a cat? If so, you'd think she would mention him once in a while.
  • No. TUM has no cat. Mr. Whiskers, however, has many slavish adoring fangirls.
  • I've been having trouble with mice in my car. Many people have suggested I use peppermint oil to deter them. I guess we can write THAT theory right off, can't we, Cap'n?!
  • Mice? In a car? Whatever next? Snakes on a plane? Pfft!
  • Coincidentally enough, I have had it with these motherfucking mice in my motherfucking car.
  • I popped the question (yes, that one) this weekend. She said yes.
  • Congratulamications!!!!!
  • Hmmmm, I'm not sure...did you ask the girl to marry you, or did you find out about a better mousetrap? Your statement seems a bit of a non sequitur. Congratulations either way!
  • Yay! And congratulations, rocket!
  • Congrats, Rocket and condolences to the future Missus!
  • Aw. Well done and congratulations. Please accept the posting of this painting as my wedding gift to you both. Ultraviolence.
  • Congrats, r88!
  • Yay! Congrats!
  • Congratulations!
  • My elder offspring has successfully made it to his fifth birthday without major damage; this is a big achievement for me. Hence my delay in eeking the self-link -- I threw a party for a large posse of five-year-olds over the weekend as well as writing an assignment. Okay, that was much more a blog post than a selfpost.
  • Congrats rocket.
  • Hooray for the big Oh-Five!
  • a large posse of five-year-olds *shudder*
  • Congrats, Rocket! Details?... Also: Fatso? Notso, anymore. He's now officially a tall, skinny, big-headed drink of 6-month-old water. Suggestions for new, height/weight-appropriate nicknames welcome.
  • Congratulations, rocket! Well done! Eight. With poison in the library.
  • Thanks all. The details...it wasn't a huge surprise or anything as the future Mrs. 88 and I have discussed it for a while now. I was waiting for the right time, and that time came in the form of a jewellery store going out of business and having a massive sale (she probably got 3x the ring she would have got otherwise). She's happy, I'm happy, and several ad-hoc planning committees are in session round the clock. Oh...and we met on an internet dating site (Lavalife), so yay internets!
  • Awwwww, when's the happy date? And do we get wedding pictures? (Are you sure she's ok with you wearing that bright purple tie with your gorilla suit?)
  • Suggestions for new, height/weight-appropriate nicknames welcome. Stopsign? Lollipop?
  • Yeah, look, sorry to shill, but I've added some new T's and buttons to my Spreadshirt shop. Ideal gift etczzzzzzz
  • Oooo congrats rocket88 (^_^).
  • And do we get wedding pictures? Screw that. We are invited, right? I'll need a kosher meal, and I'm short, so if you could seat me up front with your family, that'd be great. TUM: You are more funny than one person should rightfully be allowed. To be. Or something.
  • Back to mice for a moment.
  • Your Doin It Wrong!
  • My poem is up at Aberrant Dreams. "Langham's Pool." Click to read it. (Scroll down to mine). And feel free to check out the other content as well. ;)
  • I like that a lot They've called it "Langham's Pond" on their site, though
  • You should get them for this
  • It's like the long-lost love child of Poe, Frost, and Verlaine.
  • Heady praise, TUM--thanks! And I may have typed "Pond" on my original submission. But when Selections from the Sonnet Project is published, I'm definitely going with "Pool." I'll also probably edit the penultimate line in the third quatrain...
  • One of my websites just got linked to on boing boing, which is nice They seem to have illustrated the story with an entirely unrelated image, though
  • Stopsign? Lollipop? Giada De Laurentiis?
  • I love how the robots in that book are obviously not slightly-altered clones of Star Wars droids. No need to call the space lawyers!
  • Hey kit- no images of your wares on that site?
  • Cool piece on the Silver Beats, speedlime!
  • Well done dingy! Ah, the power of Boing Boing. A tattoo based on one of my paintings was on it last week or so. Does wonders for your stats. That Canadian cunty self-linker (not cappy) should try it.
  • Thanks, HW!
  • OK, that's too damned cute for words! It looks at the end like Jack's trying to figure out how to wiggle his own finger over his lips.
  • I was going to say, "OMG!!! That was Soooo cute!!! He seems pretty musical!!! And you're SUCH a good daddy!!!" (Seriously.) And, you'd been so shy about sharing Jack with your extended family out here in inter-space that I began to worry that maybe not all was right with the little nipper. Now, it's obvious that he an amazing example of a hillbilly tool. On the other hand, you do have a blog which you don't post to much anymore. For those of us who check in often, in spite of the disappointments we know we'll suffer, you could, if you're too shy to do it here, give us great kid pictures/videos there. I'm pretty sure he's the tool of the month. But, I'm STFUpping at your request:)
  • OVERALLSQUEE
  • TEH SQUEE! IT BURNS!
  • On the other hand, you do have a blog which you don't post to much anymore. There are developments on that front. May be a little while coming, but things are developing.
  • Jack is teh super-kyootz! But I think he's more of a middleclassswamp than a hillbillytool.... (fyi- the chair he is sitting in made me think of this news report, of which you should probably be aware.)
  • Yeah, they left him unattended on a tabletop and he squiggled out. Massive duh. Once kids get to where they can wiggle around, you can't leave them unattended on any raised surface unless they're strapped in. There's actually been a Bumbo recall -- there's a small warning label on the back of the chair, but not a really prominent "don't use this on elevated surfaces" warning. That said, yeah, when Daddy's really got to pee and baby's covered in sweet potatoes, it's very tempting to step away for just one second.
  • That video is pretty much my life these days -- sitting back watching the two of them crack each other up. Oh, and poo. Path, if you get tired of holding your breath, baby pix galore live here.
  • *falls over from teh kyoot*
  • I made two more short comics yesterday the three stages of adulthood the imaginary forest
  • I just had one of those productivity wild hairs and spent the last n hours completely redoing my (much neglected, and sorely in need of attention) website. the content still needs a bit of development... is it ok?
  • Medusa - Mild criticisms, just my opinion: 1. Not sure why your URL is one name, your endeavor is another. Would it not be better to have them be one and the same? 2. All your links work except the "contact" link! Make yourself contactable! 3. Lots of nice past work examples, but what about an "About Me" page? People need to know what kind of a whacked out, lovable, happy-ass weirdo you are. My two cents.
  • great feedback RTD thanks!
  • Well, since I've added 1000+ of them since the last self-link, as well as uploaded them all to Flickr, you might enjoy looking at the Polaroids that I've been taking every day since 2002.
  • Those are excellent, dirtdirt. (well, so far - I've not looked at all of them yet, obviously)
  • MonkeyFilter: what kind of a whacked out, lovable, happy-ass weirdo you are are you? Whoa, dirtdirt, that's some kind of Polaroid love affair you got going on there!
  • Nice stuff there, dirtdirt! That takes a heckuva lot of dedication.
  • Well, if I didn't have the vanity and egotism to Google myself regularly to see what folks are saying about me, I might have never known that a poem of mine has been published online by Modern Drunkard Magazine. It's titled "Whiskey Wisdom #113," and it's at the bottom of the page, probably about to disappear forever. So go read it! It would have been nice if they'd given me a heads up. Guess they were too drunk.
  • I've started to make some of my photographs available to purchase as prints and cards: redbubble - mjds Right now they are mainly of scenes of Venice.
  • Ooooh very nice! Go gomi!
  • It's possible that Mr & Ms nickdanger could do with good wishes at the moment...
  • Well done there, especially Ms nickdanger - and congratulations.
  • You know I think we ought to have a thread for baby/toddler pics. If only we had a wiki I suppose we could use that.
  • Wheeee! Congrats to the Nickdangers! Also to ambrosia (^_^)
  • 'Ello, Bryce!
  • *waves to Zach and Bryce* Welcome tiny monkeys!
  • Ah.
  • Congrats to the nickdangers! And the baby is born on our own Fish Tick's birthday, who is 28 again today! Happy birthday Tickie!!!
  • Hmm. Bryce is now competing with Fatso for MoFi attention. I feel I must deploy my emergency attack baby at once. Apologies, Nickdanger. It's only business.
  • Congratumulations! Welcome to the Monkey House, baby monkeys!
  • Congrats, new parents! Actually, Ms. K, I'm 49 for the very first time.
  • Bryce is now competing with Fatso for MoFi attention. For 18 hours of contractions BEFORE the epidural, they get all the attention they want. If I had a clue where my hat was, I'd doff it to Ms. Nickdanger. Damn. Congrats to you both, and pix soon kthx.
  • Congrats. And yes PLSPSTPIXKTHXBYE! And I haven't had a Jack pic fix in too long.
  • Hombly Borgeek, Fishy!
  • Congratulations to the Dangers. And happy birthday f'shtick!
  • Happy Birfday, fish!
  • Yoo hoo! Welcome, oh little one Bryce!
  • Thanks, all you wonderful monkeys! He's absolutely beautiful and I'll have a picture soon.
  • Meanwhile, because the lovely Lara is not to be disappointed.
  • Bryce Ogg Bannerman Mama and Son
  • Oh, just beautiful, both of them. Congratulations, Nick. (also the ball swelling will go down)
  • What a cutie. And the kid ain't bad either! Wakka wakka! Monkeyfilter: the ball swelling will go down.
  • Re: Ball swelling. I must admit, I was slightly concerned. The nurse was quick to tell me the same thing.:)
  • They're both gorgeous! The mustache picture had me choking on my sammich! That kid's got a future in pictures.
  • Oh, wow, Nick. Just... wow. A;sp, Jack has no choice now but to grow up to be an evil genius.
  • I would have thought tying damsels to the railroad tracks, but we can do evil genius too.
  • Or a ringmaster. Or the Pringles guy.
  • Congrats to all the new parental monkeys and a loving welcome to all the new baby ones, and continued fond well-wishing for all the no-longer newborn young monkeys...
  • I wasn't going to metion it, but I also notice a resemblance to Mr. Whiskers.
  • Sigh.
  • I've got five bucks in change -- we we sending her to the Blue or Parkistan?
  • Parkistan being the nice, shady part of Pakistan.
  • I think we should deny her monster privileges, so that she must post only as "The Underpants". This would also servce as a stern warning to the rest.
  • And stop calling me we we.
  • Yay! Beautiful, beautiful baby. And if Ms. Nickdanger looks that good after 24 hours of labor... damn. Also, everything everyone tells you about how fast the newborn phase goes by is right. Hold him as much as you can. :)
  • Will do, hillbillyswamp, will do.
  • You know there sure are a lot of boys being born at the moment. I know 3 other preggo women and they are all carrying boys too. gomi is also carrying a boy...
  • Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Nickdanger! And welcome to the Monkeyhouse, wee Bryce! 'appy Birfday, Fishie!
  • Boys Rule! Girlz drool.
  • According to our pediatrician, and this is a direct quote but we haven't verified it with the AAP, but evidently the majority of boys go to college to get more knowledge, while girls tend more to go to Jupiter to get more stupider. Pop that thing out, gomi!
  • What happens to children that go to Uranus?
  • They immigrate to Ontario to teach.
  • Nickdanger, congratulations to your family! I too know a ridiculous number of pregnant and/or recently popped women...lotsa boys, it's true. He's gorgeous :) also, your wifey is very cute. also, OMG MTC & HBS Jack is so adorable!
  • We probably know at least a dozen couples who've had babies in the last year, and they've all been boys except one lone pair of identical twin girls. Jack is totally gonna hit that. Seriously, Gomi, haven't you been pregnant like approximately forever already? Thanks Medusa!
  • well my sister just had a girl about 5 weeks ago, so I guess she will be very popular :)
  • Starting to feel like forever - still have 2 months to go!
  • I'm very impressed by Jack's head of hair. My 1-year-old is still quite bald (unlike his brother, who had a big mop at 1 year).
  • OMG, roryk, that kid is a stunner. He's just got a spark, hasn't he?
  • He's lovely when he sleeps well and isn't vomiting... Nah, he's a smasher. The baldness adds to the qewtness quotient.
  • More Mr Whiskers PLZ
  • FT FTW Also TUM, but that's a given. I need to get TUMFTW printed on a t-shirt. Under a picture of Mr. Whiskers, of course.
  • Oh, Jesus, that's wonderful. Can you mail me a bigger version of that?
  • It started out as a fairly small image, but I'll send you the original.
  • Oh, my little Wookielet needs to play with him, roryk! Pack him in a box with a bunch of Cheerios and send him here. Hijinks would ensue.
  • Also, TUM, heeeeeeeeeeee.
  • Congratulations Gomi and all expecting monkeys! I've shared a few of your comments with my wife and she was very happy to hear them. We're still at the hospital as they want to keep her for a full 48 hours observation, but she's doing absolutely fine. The little one spent most of yesterday asleep and most of last night awake, so I guess all that stuff you hear about new babies and their parents never getting sleep again wasn't just a bunch of BS designed to frighten people into not reproducing.
  • It'll get better, nickdanger. And then it'll get worse again. And you'll want to throw him out the window, but right before you do he'll smile at you, and then you're really screwed. Really, really, really screwed.
  • All this talk of plump new babies is making my mouth water! Are they best served with white wine, or red? Cream sauce, or au jus? Would asparagus be a good side, or mashed potatoes? Please advise, it is nearly lunchtime! *waits next to Gomi with knife and fork in hand, napkin tied around neck*
  • I prefer to prepare my baby turducken style, by stuffing it with a puppy that's stuffed with a kitten. I call it bapuppten.
  • What? Badpappaden?
  • My recollection is that you have to imprison them in a gingerbread cottage for a week to mature and fatten up. Then I think you grind their bones and make bread with them, but to be honest my memory's a bit hazy about what you do next.
  • Nom nom nom.
  • Yeah, you don't want to go all fava-beans-and-chianti with 'em. That would overwhelm the more delicate flavor.
  • on a tangent, but while we're talking about eating babies, has anyone seen quiddy lately? he hasn't disappeared, has he?
  • I haven't heard from him in weeks. I keep emailing and texting and calling and calling and calling and waiting outside his work and calling his friends and texting and emailing and texting, but he won't return my messages for some reason. Maybe he's asleep. I'll try him again.
  • I saw his name on the blue not too long ago, and thought "traitor", so I assume he's still alive.
  • Hansel? Hansel?!? Hansel!!!
  • MOREBABIESMOREBABIESMOREBABIES I just talked to Mickey, who is also pregnant again! I'm gonna eat well tonight! Maybe a big pot o' baby gumbo! I guarantee! Of Nickdanger's announcement, she says: That's awesome! And at the same time, really, really scary. :) BURN!
  • Everybody's gettin' some but me... *grumblegrumble* Congratulations, Mickey! The last one was so cute, you really should have a set.
  • I call it bapuppten. You're killing me! roryk, rorykjr is too damned cute! What's with all the babiness? Are they putting something in the monkey water?
  • If by "water" you mean "vaginas," then yes.
  • I always mean vaginas when I say water, and vice versa. Which explains why I get such lousy service from waitresses.
  • I hope you're really hungry koko cause the kid is already about 1,800 grams and we aren't due until May 14 (~_^).... *is thinking about getting a wheel barrow to carry her stomach around*
  • But isn't it nice how your ankles get thicker and thicker to help you carry all that extra baggage around? An amazing thing, the human body.
  • Actually my ankles haven't changed much at all but I feel like I have the hip joints of an 80 year old lately.....
  • *sends gomi some virtual pregnant-lady hip shiatsu lovin'
  • Yup. My lone pregnancy emergency room visit was because of hip pain. It really, um, hurt. The good news is, this is one of the (few) things that will go away IMMEDIATELY once you actually pop that sucker. Also? Childbearing turns you into a really cheap date. 9;15 p.m., three glasses of wine IN A BAR, and I'm ... very, very content. :)
  • By the way, does he have a name yet?
  • *wonders who's watching Jack while HBS & MCT tie one on at the bar*
  • Elves. Duh.
  • hbs has, shall we say, gotten a bad bartender this evening. Let the record show that Jack's with his grandparents this evening while Daddy holds Mommy's hair back.
  • Awww. I've always wondered what it would be like to be a cheap date. No decision on name yet.
  • Wait until you have your first post-breastfeeding curry and feel like your brains are leaking out of your nose because you haven't eaten anything spicy in about fifty years thanks to indigestion (you) and reflux (baby). Also yes, cheap date. I had to put in a lot of practice to rebuild my natural alcohol tolerance.
  • Congratulations, Monkettes and Stud Monkeys! It's either the water, or it's been a long winter.
  • Nah, it was that goddamn writers strike. It's a good thing they'll get a share of the internet bucks. Now they can pay my daycare bills.
  • Well this is a weird one. It seems that I have invented/stumbled upon a new chess opening. I played this odd line I came up with several years ago with some minor success but abandoned it because I moved on to other systems and because the line is probably unsound. However I was thinking about it the other day and I posted a query about the line to the Unorthodox Opening group on Yahoo- a group populated by experts in offbeat systems. According to Clyde Nakamura, a noted authority on gambit systems, the line seems not to have been played before. That means, that unless someone comes forward with some older games in the system, the opening is mine to name. I have deemed it the Haggis Attack. For those of you who play chess, the main line runs as follows: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 b5!? (the signature move) 3. Bxb5 Bb7 4. Bd3 f5!? 5. Nc3 Bb4 etc. with pressure on the e4 pawn and exploiting the pin on the g2 pawn and rook. This may actually be the second time I can claim some small part of Chess history for myself. In 1990, I defeated then Soviet Grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich in a 30 minute game. It was a stunning upset because I'm an intermediate player (1900 ELO or so at the time) and the odds of me beating a GM are about 1000 to 1 or worse. The game was a sort of Man Bites Dog story in the Chess world and the game was published in the national Chess magazine. In fairness to Shamkovich, he was beating the pants off of me but he made an over confident error in a winning position (for him) that I somehow managed to find the refutation to and I subsequently won. I know, not many Monkeys care about Chess here but these days, I have precious little to crow about and the sad truth is that I didn't know who else to tell other than Mrs Kamus who valiantly feigned interest.
  • *taps Babel fish*
  • Well done - why 'Haggis Attack'?
  • Didn't you know kamus's real name is Haggis "Sweetbreads" McGiblets?
  • Oh, that Clyde Nakamura is such a slut. He'll put anyone in the books if they "play chess" with him. Not to detract from your well-earned kudos, kamus, but don't be surprised if he brings his curious-looking "chess pieces" to the next "match".
  • Are haggises Dragons?
  • I just spent seven hundred bucks on two pairs of Leonard Cohen tickets. That's gotta be an achievement of some kind... (It's still to be decided if I'm going to use one the pairs, but that'll be decided later. Still. STICKER SHOCK. That kind of money for a vice, and it's not cocaine? Fuck...)
  • why 'Haggis Attack'? I found the idea of a Haggis "attacking" anything (other than one's sense of culinary decorum) amusing- and I'm Scottish- so it's patriotism laddie!. It matters not anyway- turns out that this has been played before. Arghhh! An exhaustive search finally turned up two previous games in the historical record. And someone dared to call it the "Baeuerle Gambit". Bastard! Some cheese eating surrender monkey, no doubt. Since I did think of it independently, it's possible that if continue to play it/develop the theory I may still have something of a claim on the name. But it appears that my initial post was a tiny bit premature. /wilts Tracy, feel free to move this to the premature ejaculation thread
  • Look, if you say you invented it, that's good enough for me. I'm with you all the way, boy-o.
  • And well done, Kamus. As someone who learned to play chess four times, I'm impressed.
  • Told you so. Clyde Nakamura will be around shortly with his "consolation prize".
  • I bet you've used the Queens Pawn Grob for your opening a few times yourself...
  • Well yes, now that you mention it. Curious thing about the Grob- even though it has been widely disparaged as a ridiculous opening, it has one of the highest winning ratios of any opening for white- something like 68.2% as opposed to the Ruy Lopez (35.2%) according to Chessgames.com. What's with that?
  • This is making me wish I had a chess-puzzle-a-day calendar instead of my Zombie Survival Guide calendar. (Or, you know, the Sex-Every-Day-Every-Way calendar. But the workplace frowns.)
  • Or you could try Lovechess (probably NSFW)
  • Holy shit, kamus. How can one resist marketing claims like these: - Advanced and new 3D sex animations - Play against a human opponent - New characters based on the Gods of Egypt - New and improved chess-engine 3D sex AND an improved chess engine???!!! My rook's castling just THINKING about that!
  • Guess I'll just be polishing my bishops...
  • We have a premature ejaculation thread?
  • Oops! I did it again. Well if we don't we otter.
  • I have a job interview tomorrow. For a position in another field. I feel a bit like I'm cheating on journalism, but you know, journalism asked for it. Also, I have to go buy a suit now.
  • Good luck with that, I guess...
  • You can buy some of my comics in book form now, if you are so inclined. I can't remember if anyone on here likes them that much, really, though, but disinterest has never stopped me before (also I have been mostly offline recently due to computer problems. it appears that I have missed the entirety of monkeyfilter gving birth. congratulations, everyone)
  • Cap'n FTW Holy crap.
  • Ooooh. *orders ding's book* Fantastic stuff.
  • Hooray. Thank you, mrs ninja
  • Well done dingle!
  • Let us know how it goes, HBS. And be sure to include a rate-sheet. And nice book, dng!
  • Good luck hbs! Well done dng!
  • Prompted by Gomichild's fascination with my eating habits, I've started a new blog about What I Had For Dinner Tonight. It's sort of an reverse-world eek-thread that never ends. I am going see how it evolves... maybe recipes? tips? photos? Anyone have other ideas? If it gains any traction, I'll move it to my own server and add some Google ads and try to maybe make $5 or so off it. I hope you all will read it, comment and enjoy!
  • That's hilarious. I will now stalk your eating habits.
  • Indeed. And don't think we won't know when you fake a meal to hide that bag of slyders.
  • I really like that idea, EEQ. Sort of a historical record. It'll be fascinating to see it in a year.
  • Wimpiest tag cloud ever.
  • after two days? i'd like to see your tag cloud, buddy.
  • Cumulonimbus, my friend, perhaps even altostratus.
  • damn, i must have mist it.
  • I have a similar blog, about stuff I eat at my desk, which no one ever reads and which I haven't updated in over a year.
  • added to my blogroll. i should have known that anything this cool must have already been done by Koko
  • Who?
  • If I could have one of your meals at my desk I'd sure be a happy worker bee.
  • i'll see if i can work some delivery into my schedule, beyond just some stale parmesan....
  • I will buy dng's comic when my kids are older and less traumatisable. eeq's food blog is cool, but I can't comment without creating a wordpress account (do I have one of those somewhere already?). Koko's food blog is stale but tasty.
  • i think i've fixed that, roryk, try now.
  • oops. never mind. yes you have to create an account. sorry.
  • *gnashes teeth* Anyway, I'm a veggie so my comments are just going to be about how super foliage is...
  • yay, i was wrong. i was able to fix it, you don't have to register formally, you just have to provide info with your comment.... so go for it!
  • I really like your comics, dng!
  • excellent, cheers
  • A fellow Monkey turned my on to MyOpera, so I sorted all my MoFi-posted images into one place. Link. I've attempted to provide what context I can remember for as many as I could. (Can you believe a search for "tomb of the unknown fucker" resulted in 0 hits?) If you're a fan of Bernockle, Fast Food Lawyer, Lexi-Con Chartreuse, or the Chillee Ugumm line of household products, here's the place to go.
  • *is a fan of The Underpants Monster* They're fab!
  • That's an impressive portfolio, TUM!
  • It is criminal that all of the pictures in Mr. Whiskers' personal album have EXACTLY 0 VIEWS!
  • Who's this Mr. Whiskers chap, then?
  • Some cat. S'posed to be good for you.
  • I think I went to the prom with him.
  • TUM has a cat? how come we never get to see photos of the beast?
  • TUM, you are brilliant. Please please please can most of these be made available on T-shirts??
  • I doubt it - you usually need something with a higher resolution, or vectors and shit.
  • It's the shit that gets you. I had an idea of playing with some iron-on-transfer printer paper and some blank t-shirts. I'll let you know how I make out.
  • Magnificent, but I bet explaining it to relatives and other non-mofites is a challenge.
  • Sweet!
  • I... I have no words.
  • Nor do I.
  • SKWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! There's a word for you! Most beautiful thing I've seen in a long, long, long time.
  • Ding's book arrived in the post today, and it's fab! Great job!
  • Just have to say I'm still squeeing 24 hours later on the Baby Jack tee.
  • Ding's book arrived in the post today, and it's fab! Great job! Excellent. I'm glad you liked it And I'm sorry it took so long to come. They get shipped from America, on what appears to be the world's slowest boat
  • TUM, seriously, you could make a mint.
  • A Tic Tac, maybe.
  • i've updated the URL and concept of my dinner blog-- it's now at www.whatihadfordinnertonight.com, and now it's a community blog- if you register, you, too, can post your dinner for the day, and I hope you will!
  • I've just had toast and jam. Does that count? I dipped it in my tea. I'm not ashamed.
  • Dipped your toast in your tea? Weirdo...
  • Try it. You'll thank me.
  • Yes it counts, kit, lookit PMD's burger. The blog is about what people have for dinner. Don't care if you cook, someone else cooks, you eat out or order in. Just what you had for dinner. Any additional info is much appreciated, but not required.
  • And I Fell Out Of Bed Twice. Bland? Possibly. Tame? Most definitely. A commission of someone's pet chihuahuas.
  • I love the dog's tag!
  • Arf!
  • *creeped out by kit's Photocopier Ghost*
  • *not enough photocopier ghost*
  • *not enough photocopier ghost* I vow to keep ghosting Ralph till he promises to stop doing that ghost thing!
  • kit, I don't know if you've ever seen me talking about my blind CH cat, but she's white (and looks a good deal like helmet-chihuahua). I've always wanted to get her a helmet and goggles because she loves to smack into stuff. You have painted my thoughts! Plus, I just love it also. Brownie's tag is awesome.
  • Not enough Grandma ghost!
  • A project for which I was co-manager was shortlisted for an award by the French version of CIO Magazine. Plus the photo I took of my boss's boss and the company CIO was used in the article about the project. We didn't win, unfortunately.
  • Shortlisted though!
  • Must try harder.
  • Hey, you go there roryk. Good on the photo skillz.
  • (THe Italian version is called CIAO Magazine.)
  • The late soprano Netania Davrath looks like this. TUM looks like this. Coincidence? I think not.
  • That first chick needs a crown.
  • I've set up another site where I'll be moblogging the Big Birthing Event and putting up other info and stuff... Womb Quake.
  • May 17 2008 09:31:54 PUUUUUUSHIIIIINGGGGGG May 17 2008 09:32:03 AAAAAAAARRRGH
  • Heeeeee!
  • Better put me down for that date in the pool, I suppose. :)
  • epidrl pls kthxbye
  • gomi, it seems like you've been pregnant for like 20 months. And great idea on the blog!
  • You women and your womany things. I mean, really.
  • Oh btw - they don't do drugs here - it's very rare to have an epidural - in fact you have you have to go to particular clinics to have one.
  • Sheesh sorry to be all me me me - but I'm excited because I just sold my first print of this photograph via redbubble.
  • Congrats gomi! now get back to work gestating.
  • I'm done gestating! It's the evicting I'm having a bit of drama with (^_^).
  • push harder.
  • It's not about the pushing it's about the opening being ready. You can't push through a shut door!
  • open open open!
  • Think about GNU Linux, about golf tournaments, about Bergson's/Popper's ideal society, about well-defined problems without known solutions.
  • Good stuff, gomi! Best of luck with that "door-opening".
  • *gets the jaws of life*
  • The latest issue of Measure: a Review of Formal Poetry is out from the University of Evansville, Indiana press, containing my poem "Noir, #28." I posted earlier when it was accepted, but now it's in print and in my grubby little paws. I'm a published poet, me. :)
  • Our own little Bunthorne! *sneaks up behind gomi, yells "boo" to induce labor*
  • (someone sneaking up behind gomi is what got her into this predicament in the first place.)
  • *gives Ralph a human anatomy lesson*
  • Auspicious timing? Sounds as if no one was injured... hope all is well, gomi! The quake pushed the womb quake along perhaps?
  • Our own little Bunthorne! Where the rapturous maidens at? ;)  
  • Yeah bit of a rough night for earthquakes last night. *tired and cranky*
  • shake it, shake it, baby! A B C! easy as 1 2 3! Go on Girl!
  • My play opens tonight. The only mishaps we had in final dress were the clumsy director (me) breaking the absinthe glass, and the tenor coming onstage half-dressed because he didn't come to fittings and therefore didn't give himself enough time for the quick-change between acts. I wanted to be mad at him, but DAMN, his voice practically makes my ovaries grow back. I'll post pix when I get them back.
  • Break an egg!
  • *waits impatiently for pics of re-grown ovaries*
  • OOOoooh TUM how did it go???
  • Really, really well, thank you! I couldn't be prouder.
  • when will it be on youtube for us to enjoy?
  • Yays!
  • Closing night cast picture here. (I'm the one in the maid's uniform.)
  • Monster Underpants.
  • Schwing!!!!
  • Huzzah for teh Bloomers Monster and her successful play! Now for the piccie of the regrown ovaries?
  • Oh, well, He got to the end of the song, and poof.
  • gomi's baby blogging begins. Jesus, it's like "The Phantom Menace" premiere all over again. Will it suck? Will it not suck? Can I bring my lightsaber?
  • Hey, I thought she said they don't do birthin' drugs. What are the drips fer?
  • Might be saline; birthing can cause a fair bit of fluid loss, I guess. Plus, I don't think gomi will be in the mood for meals till it's over.
  • Oh wait, my mistake. They don't do epidurals (the bastards), but they've given her something to induce the birth. Check her earlier entry.
  • Baby has arrived! Pix here!
  • Wheeeeeee! *waves to gomibaby* Now get the kid a login :)
  • They don't do epidurals (the bastards) Yeah, from what gomi told me, everything regarding women and discomfort in this process is prescribed 1500mg of ShutTheFuckUp. I once told her to ask her doctor about a miracle heartburn medication that hbs used when she was pregnant, and gomi just laughed and laughed at me. She's a tough broad, she is.
  • Congrats to Gomi & QuakeSpawn. And, TUM, uh, that pic is steamy enough for a whole bodice rippin'saga...
  • Congratulations gomi! Welcome gomibaby! Hmm, does Doc make baby boots?
  • Way to go, gomi! Way to go, gomibaby!
  • Who's our babymomma?!?!? You go, gomi-girl
  • Congrats indeed more pix, more pix
  • Congratulations gomimomma!
  • That's one fine-lookin' bit of reproduction, there.
  • About damned time, gomi! So, so cute! Congratulations :_
  • Yeah. Congrats.
  • Thanks guys! I is in love!
  • As well you should be. I'm so happy for you, gomi! Expecting lots of cute pictures.
  • So did Mr. Gomi helped share some of the pain via a Huichol style childbirth? Actually a myth/joke, but imagine if it was real! Ouch.
  • No but Mr Gomi managed not to pass out.... Here is the little darling.... cranky
  • B E B B E H !
  • SKWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Pretty find child there.
  • or fine child, even.
  • I drew some more comics recently Snake (this one is nice and short) the pit (this one is quite long and boring) Also, they are nowhere near as good as babies. I hope you accept my belated congratulations, gomichild
  • Ahhhhhh, I hadn't seen the iddly widdly mini-gomi yet. May I say... SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
  • Enough babehs, more comix!
  • We have enough babehs, we just need more pix!
  • Enough babehs, more comix! for you, kit
  • "Well, I guess it's a kind of pit." Best. Line. Evar.
  • The Lurve Pit.
  • We need more babehs AND more pix AND more comix!!
  • Comix about bebbehs!
  • I know this isn't something I've made (or a bebeh), but after 5 months of scans, operations and chemo, I no longer have cancer. I'm a bollock down, but I don't have cancer. Which is nice. *drinks beers* *offers the first passing stranger out for a fight*
  • Fucking hell. Big congrats kit!
  • This is good.
  • Well done, kit! (You didn't tell us because you didn't want us to worry, right?) Don't worry -- you're just as pretty as ever.
  • That's excellent to hear, kit.
  • Best wishes and good luck, kit.
  • Good stuff kit. *hugs*
  • Hurray! Yay kit.
  • Yeah, well, I don't want to make a big deal out of it *unzips*
  • But seriously... I am a bit teary today. Can I take the piss out of you all tomorrow? *shadow boxes cat* *loses*
  • Yay kit!!!
  • Did you save the ball?
  • WTG kit! (Symmetry is highly overrated)
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  • I really hope kit's okay with me referring to him from now on as "Johnny One-Ball." Because I've always wanted to give some one that name.
  • Nevermind him, kit. You're looking good. You lose weight?
  • If there's a Gonad Heaven, just think - your testicle is whooping it up with my ovaries right now!
  • You lose weight? About a stone, I'd wager.
  • Dear kit, I'm so glad you're ok! Since I always take everything personally, I thought your absence was due to the fact that you hate me. Now, I know you really love me under that brusque exterior, and were keeping quiet for my sake. You're a hell of a guy. And, yes you are, even if your silence had nothing to do with my tender feelings. In other word, I'm happy for you, and glad to hear from you again.
  • Damn! No more monkeys with cancer. However, if monkeys must be sick, please to be tough as steel and beat it like TUM and kit. Honestly, you've got me all teary. I'm so glad you're ok.
  • Okay, asshole. Now win the Tour de France 7 times and we'll let you back in.
  • Oh, and fuck Sheryl Crow.
  • ♪♫ If it makes you happy...♪♫
  • ♪♫ 'fisto has only got one ball petebest has two but very small Queso likes them on his face-oh and our dear TUM ain't got 'em at all ♪♫
  • petebest's specifically?
  • If there's a Gonad Heaven, just think - your testicle is whooping it up with my ovaries right now! Meetup!
  • Blimey, kit. Great to hear you're well and on the mend.
  • They wouldn't let me keep the cancerous gonad. Something about sending it for a biopsy or somesuch. I wanted it in a jar on my mantlepiece. And I did lose weight - a stone and a half, to be precise. I am now working on putting it back on. And as I know the inside of my pants are endlessly fascinating to you all, no, I didn't have the falsey put in. I am mono-bollocked and proud. I'll show you for a pound. Thanks everyone. I loves ya.
  • Oh, and Path? Kiss me, you fool!
  • Does this mean you'll be selling off your old kecks cheap cos they don't fit then kit?
  • Yeah kit! *jumps up and down* So...can we get all the male Monkeys to support you by tying a pink blue ribbon around their nether parts? Waddya say, boys? Re my previous comment: ... we just need more pix! Your call on that one, bucko.
  • There ought to be a word for the sensation that would have been relief if you'd known what it was you would have been worried about if you'd known about it. Congratulations, kit.
  • *saves for a pound for August* So glad you're ok, man. *hugs*
  • Glad to hear you are healthy again, Mr. Fisto. ...referring to him from now on as "Johnny One-Ball." You guys were really tough on kit... ...after all, he's probably feeling "half knackered". On the plus side, no one can kick you in the balls now.
  • Seriously, Johnny, I keed, but congratulations. My own family's had its Big-C scare (dad was given two years to live twenty years ago, and beat it), so I know the relief of seeing the threat pass. Very happy the same has happened to you.
  • I wasn't going to mention it, but Mrs Pleg is just about to start chemo. Prognosis OK, it seems.
  • Best of luck, Pleg. Now go and update your blog.
  • Yes, good wishes.
  • /keeping fingers, toes, and internal organs crossed for the Pleg family
  • Good luck Mrs Pleg and Pleg.
  • All my best to Mrs Pleg.
  • Pleg, did you and the Mrs. not just read what I wrote about no more monkeycancer? Seriously, good wishes and prayers are on the way from my quarter. It seems to have been one cancer after another in my own family the past few years (in a family that "didn't have any cancer in it"). I'm so glad it's a good prognosis for Mrs. P. She's lucky to have you with her through the chemo.
  • Holy cow, the tool-ling is growing fast! He's, like, a kid almost! And so damned adorable!Photobucket
  • yeah, that's one Jack-sized bundle of squee there.... and i hope he's thinking as many happy thoughts about Mrs. Pleg as i will be.
  • That kid sure is photogenic.
  • I get to gone home today, having sufficiently recovered to escape Mother Renault's constant and intrusive hovering go back out on my own like a big boy.
  • short or long pants, Capt.?
  • Long. It's what Mom picked out for me this morning. I shit you fucking not.
  • well, as long as you don't have to bring the sippy cup out in public...
  • My thoughts are with you both, pleggy. If I can do it, Mrs Pleg will have no problems. And well done on being all grown up, Cappy.
  • After a LONG winter of comparing how crappy my health was with kitfisto (and invariably LOSING because he was always "oh really? How awful for you. Did I mention I have cancer? I did. Well, do go on." Christ, he's always got to one-up everything), I got rid of some troublesome womanly parts last week and am now resting at home and catching up on the MoFi. I notice no one's been talking about me. Would anyone care to explain this oversight? I HAVE BEEN SUFFERING.
  • It wasn't an oversight at all, Kok. We, uh, didn't want to disturb you in your time of Female Trouble.
  • Koko, I'm sure kit's surgery was tame and bland compared to yours.
  • Monkeyfilter: troublesome womanly parts
  • *hugs Koko*
  • I hope you're all alright now, Koko
  • Good to have ye back and on the mend, Koko.
  • Yay! You're talking about me now. And I want those fucking cha-cha heels!!!
  • So glad to see you back!
  • it's not Christmas yet, Dawn...
  • About time too, slacker! I've been back on here for ages and, well, to be frank, I've been quite seriously ill. Now stop moaning, put your crocs on and go mix me a white russian.
  • A selection of your troublesome womanly parts have been constantly in our minds, honest.
  • It was thinking about womanly parts that got me into trouble Koko, very glad to hear you're doing better.
  • At last, something I can proudly point to as a worthy accomplishment. Yesterday, *I* as the bodacious and beauteous milkmaid, accompanied by the Udderly Redikulus Kow and Farmer Pam, her owner, swept into First Place in the Meridian Dairy Days parade. Although Pam swears it was her silly horse's costume that won the judges, I'm sure it was my blonde braids, shining white apron, flower-filled milk pail, and fetching work boots that garnered the ribbon. Tres belle ensemble! The Milkmaid, the Farmer, and the Udderly Redikulus Kow The horse, when not appearing as a Holstein cow, is a two year old Percheron-Drum Horse cross (just a mere BABY!) Her name is Lindsey's Warrior Kalisi--Lisi. Pam bottle-raised her as an 8 day old orphan after her dam died. Consequently, she's very tolerant of goofy women putting things like false horns, styrofoam-stuffed udders, and pink cowbells on her, even if she is still a 'skittish' young'in. Lisi's mama was one of the rarer chestnut-colored Percherons. Here's Galway Warrior, her daddy. Lisi's 3 year old half-brother is the horse in the background of the parade picture (he didn't inherit spots.) Pam, whose red braids are authentic, has great and glorious plans for Lisi, in many of which I'm sure I'll shudder when contemplating future roles.
  • *stamps hoof, snorts*
  • Them's some impressive teats, GramMa!
  • I love the horsie's white socks. And GramMa's sexay apron.
  • Bravo!
  • Galway Warrier is so beautiful. I'm not sure your newbs remember this, but here's BlueHorse, dressed as a fairy, on a beautiful Arab. BlueHorse rules!
  • Very festive!
  • Holy fetching fetlocks, GramMa, she's a beauty! not to mention the brace of fair milkmaids!
  • *snor...oh, wait, Koko beat me to it. *whinnies, moos, falls asleep*
  • fab pic, path, somewhat along the lines of BlueHorse, Queen of the Desert, no?
  • Well done GramMa!
  • *blushes modestly* Thank you, all. *tee-hees, curtsies* Two drag queens and a transsexual get a cabaret gig in the middle of the desert I saw that Cheese-breath, and don't think I'm going to forget it! *throws braids over shoulder, shakes fist, flounces off*
  • i love you too, GramMa.
  • I like the cute little milk bucket. Congrats, Gramma.
  • So that's where the bucket ended up.
  • How did I miss all this? Feel better fast, Koko! And nice everything, GramMa!
  • I've self-published some more of my comics, if any one is interested (I know the wonderful mrs mothninja bought one before, which I hope she enjoyed) They are probably ridiculously and prohibitively expensive for everyone in america. I am sorry if they are (exchange rates are evil and depressing things)
  • But it looks like you can download for pay also?
  • Yeah, you can. You should only do that if you're going to get it printed up yourself, though, really, as all the stories are already on the website if you just want to read them (they'll all be in the archive somewhere)
  • Coolio, daddio!
  • I'm now on Etsy. Just like every other chancer. Please buy.
  • I recognize somebody's artwork in this feature from i09.com.
  • Holy Exposure, Batman! Much cheapness!
  • That's awesome, kit!
  • Kit, I stumbled upon this today.
  • Ha ha, yes, I've seen that. I've also seen this. Cheeky bugger.
  • Shall we torment him?
  • Oh yes please!
  • *whips out the 100 TON HAMMER™ *
  • *adjusts the vice grips*
  • I've never been able to get a grip on vice.
  • Let me help you, m'dear. *twirls moustache*
  • Re the eBay chappie: "Could you tell me who is the artist of these items, please?" "Sorry, I don't know the artist. Got the Kitty figure from a T-shirt I bought at the SW Celebration in L.A last year."
  • You're fucking kidding me, right?
  • Nope - verbatim.
  • I know I can't really moan, what with ripping the image off from two different sources, but, well...y'know...
  • I'm like Forest Gump and that smiley face thing...
  • Indeed. I think I mentioned that I ran across some random message board where a sappy user had utilized one of your images for their avatar. Face it, you unleashed a devilishly cute monster on the world!! *fires up the 'ol reliable screen printing machine*
  • What? Greetings Feline™ in a Striketrooper™ outfit is taken from existing sources? Next you're gonna try to tell me that bernockle isn't a fast-food lawyer and that Baby Jack Swamptool doesn't really have a handlebar moustache.
  • Baby Jack Swamptool...nows there's a pornstar name if I ever heard one! /apologies to hbs & mct for implying illicit future career choices on the part of your child
  • illicit? dontcha think they'd be proud?
  • He could also be an old-school blues pianna player.
  • All Bound For Mu Mu Land. Another addition to the Bland and Tame School of Art.
  • I like that
  • I think this is my favourite one of yours, kitfisto. I think its lovely
  • kit, it is my dream to someday come up with the scratch to own a piece of your art.
  • Also, I'm with dngy. I love the squidly one.
  • They're justified. And they're ancient. And they drive an ice-cream van.
  • Mine's a 99! Why thank you, kind folk!
  • I like how Kitty's bow has morphed into the cutesy skull and bones thing.
  • Whoa, sidebar broke! Hold up, I'm fixing...
  • Get it right, n00b.
  • Viking god, huh?
  • You are dreamy.
  • Hey, I'm posting this from my brand new Elonex One £90 laptop. Whose screen is so small I can hardly read it and whose keyboard is only marginally better than that of a Sinclair ZX80. But £90? Hey!
  • Alright, I realise that's not really actually any kind of personal achievement or anything. I got a bit over-excited.
  • You're yesterday's tomorrow today! A new painting... I Just Might Die With A Smile On My Face After All
  • You're still not updating your blog though, Pleggers!
  • Ah, but you see my cunning plan is that this will now enable my commuting time as blogging time - maybe.
  • ZOMFG kit, if I had a car, I would totally buy those.
  • Well don't, as I'm not making any money out of them. Effing rip-off merchants!
  • Here is another comic strip: Infection (there are ten short chapters) It is about zombies on the moon
  • Its fairly incoherent, as usual
  • Your best so far, old bean.
  • "Zombies on the Moon" is all I need to know to know it's good. The usual dng awesomeness will just be gravy.
  • cheers you two
  • Pandog!. Based on this little fella.
  • Pandigglyiglet/pigdanglydoglet?
  • Well done!
  • I think I am in love
  • WANT PANDOG! Am mkng plns to sto away on aeropleen to go to eng and steel. The above was in code, so hopefully nobody can read it but those who need to .
  • "Am smoking spleens to fisto caraway octagon smaeropleeny to gonad engineer andromeda steel." Got it!! I'm on my way! *swallows decoder ring*
  • Koko is the only monkey that gets me.
  • pixplz thxbye
  • New jazz album out- well not exactly new- it was recorded in 1989 but it really is a good record, if I dare say so myself, and would have been out over a decade ago had not numerous Jazz labels not tortured us by pretending to be interested before crushing our dreams of Jazz fame under the hobnailed boots of their callous indifference. Tekke at CD Baby Tekke at iTunes
  • had not numerous Jazz labels not tortured us by pretending to be interested before crushing our dreams of Jazz fame under the hobnailed boots of their callous indifference. The jazzholes.
  • Bought it. Played it. Liked it. Six word reviews say the most.
  • Thanks TT. I appreciate. Your review.
  • Thanks TT. I appreciate. Your review.
  • Thanks TT. I appreciate. Your review.
  • Apparently I appreciated it so much I just had to post it twice! WTF?
  • What I Had For Dinner Tonight - Theme Challenge Night! Sunday night! Secret Ingredient - Spinach! Special Prize! !!!!!!! <- exclamation marks
  • I've got a spinach quiche for lunch. I win.
  • Too early!
  • Tomorrow is already too late. Think on.
  • I'll have to ask my Mom if she still has that kickass greens-n-beans recipe.
  • Vote for the winner of the WIHFDT spinach theme night!
  • I still never got my password email, EEQ.
  • i emailed it to you personally! maybe your spam filters hate me? anyway your password is 'whiskers' and you're free to change it once you log in.
  • i would actually recommend it :)
  • *logs on as TUM* *makes booby jokes*
  • Damnit, I didn't know that entries had closed already. And I ate spinach specially.
  • there will be another soon :)
  • I love spinach, but we didn't have any in the house and besides, we ate in the airport that night.
  • "WHISKERS?" What the heck is THAT? ;-)
  • Well, my spegg pie wasn't any great shakes, anyhow.
  • I voted for myself. But don't worry -- it was a pity vote.
  • Honestly, I like it. The negative space is surprising and fun. PAINT, DAMNIT!!!
  • You could do some nifty double 0's with that. Then a what-have-you for the seven.
  • I finally decided to GMOFB. Well, it's not just mine- me and my fellow troupe members have decided to pen a blog detailing all the exciting places we're visiting on our fall tour. It's primary purpose is to disabuse our spouses of the notion that we are not on some sort of luxury vacation every time we travel OOT to perform.
  • Arrgh!-here's the proper working link for the troupe. See what 10 solid weeks on the road will do to you?
  • kamus, you're like my hero or something. Lively and big up your goodself.
  • Yay!
  • Dang Kamus, I forgot you're a DC denizen. Gotta get to the Capitol Steps one of these days. Earlier this year, I helped write and cast a short that is being edited as we speak and we hope to send it to sick-minded like-minded festivals soon. I also got to do a turn acting in another 48 Hour film (that is, we conceived of, shot, and edited the film in 48 hours, it's not Berlin Alexanderplatz, Director's Cut or something).
  • Bear Guy- Congrats on the flick! BTW, anytime you or your fellow Monkeys want free tickets to one of our friday or saturday shows at the Reagan Bldg. just let me know two or three days in advance (or earlier, of course).
  • OOO free tickets! Does that include the air fare? Congrats BearGuy!
  • Bln. Alxpltz.
  • Does that include the air fare? Absolutely! I should mention the $750 handling fee however
  • $750 handling fee The way the airlines are going, that might be a bargain soon.
  • Hey I'm coming from Japan! It's a bargain now!
  • I found some weird old notepad in the loft, which was wider than an a4 sheet of paper is long, but not very high. Some of the pages were perforated so you can pull them out, and the paper feels like it should be tracing paper but its not, its just normal paper, and it had been folded in half so all the pages are creased and bent down the middle So I filled it up with a story. The best thing though was how on some pages the ghosts of old drawings started to appear, the original pages having been ripped out twenty years ago or so. I have no idea what they were about originally all these wide open spaces seem so empty at times (there are 16 pages, which you'll have to clikc thorugh, and nothing much happens at all, as usual)
  • Nice! I particularly like the guy smoking a stogie. Nice touch!
  • Were the old ghost drawings from you? Or was this notebook a remnant from someone else? I like this one! I too enjoyed the smoking bit... thanks for sharing.
  • I really don't know who had done those drawings. It would either have been me or my little brother, when we were small If it was me, it is nice to know I haven't improved my artistic ability in the last 20 years
  • Improvement is for suckers.
  • I found out over the weekend that one of my sonnets is going to be published in an upcoming issue of Dreams and Nightmares, a sci-fi/fantasy poetry magazine that, among people who know about it, is actually rather well-known. :) Plus, $$$! (Well, "$," in point of fact, but still...)
  • Hey, at least it's not ¢
  • Excellent work, Mr Pettle
  • I am quite frankly sick and tired of all you people trying to cash in on the new sonnet craze. GET A JOB.
  • Awesome, congratulations!
  • Great! Congratulations. Was it dedicated to me?? NO?!? *pouts*
  • Wheee drinks on TP!
  • Ah, being paid for what you love! Well done old bean!! P.S. Lend us a tenner.
  • Nice one TP!
  • *slaps TP on the back, waits impatiently for sonnet publication*
  • Congrats to our MonkeyBard!
  • Bees is back?!? Oh. Right. Uh, well done and all that, TP. Me and my big mouth...
  • Thanks, everyone! All I ask for in my art is validation of my self-worth from complete strangers who happen to edit magazines. Is that so much to ask? ;) Of course Monkey-validation is the BEST validation.
  • Just another link to Mrs. TheDog's blog, wherein she talks about Obama visiting his gramma mid-late-campaign. I think she hits the nail, once again.
  • Heh. I've signed up to help title and tag old MetaTalk posts, and as luck would have it, well, I got this one.
  • Bunch a mefi wannabes!!! Never been so insulted!
  • "Prepare the banana-cannon!" We have a bananana-canannon and nobody told me?!?!? (Is it behind the preview button?)
  • It's satisfying to know that they were dicks right from the get-go.
  • That was the thread from which I discovered this lovely pink field of joy
  • Five fucking years ago, somehow
  • Hey, yeah, coming up five years. Scary.
  • SMT makes a guest appearance on Film ReVision #18, reviewing Silkwood. [YT] If it gets more than 76 views in one day, it will beat the standing record for this "video blog series". I have no idea if any prize is involved, but I'll share the booty with my fellow mofites if I'm declared a co-winner. Oh, and I have no sound at work - so I have no idea if this is complete shite or not! I was sick as a dog during the shoot...
  • *clicks furiously*
  • *puts gomi on the it mailing list* Wow, it's already at nearly 60 views, so perhaps I will win after all... and it seems that I have a slight compliment on the single comment, "the bald guy makes sense".
  • If I could watch you in work, I would. All day. And freeze the image of you. And gaze at it. And touch myself.
  • *dresses self as a wombat*
  • Way to go, Bald Guy!
  • In other news, my new digital camera has arrived today. A Cybershot W130, if you're interested. Prepare for 'snaps'!!!
  • You know what I need.
  • Way to go, bald guy!
  • Wheee! More bald guy pls! And belated congrats, TP!
  • Can't wait to get home and watch it!
  • *is strangely amused by the onslaught of bald guy comments*
  • Mind you, the guy who produces this series is going to be baffled by the viewing numbers... he did however challenge me to break the record!
  • Never challenge the bald.
  • I expect that person who referred to you as 'the bald guy' wanted to make it seem as if they sort of didn't know you or anything. I would guess.
  • *winks at Pleg* Well played... well played...
  • All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun. My latest daub, photographed with my swanky new Cybershot. Get me!
  • Oooooh! Love the mottled background.
  • I don't want to stroke your ego *too* much, but of all the links that you've posted to your paintings - this is by far my favorite. Well done! Were it that I had some spare change lying around, I might be tempted...
  • No, no - stroke some more! Thanks old bean!
  • Guess who's the Spotlight Poet for November 2008 over at online journal/anthology The Hypertexts? Full details on my own bloggy-type thing here, and a direct link to the nice write-up and poems themselves on The Hypertexts here. Well-chuffed, is what I am.
  • Well done TP! I'm not really a poetry reader, but 'Copperhead' made me LOL at the end. It's meant to be funny, right? Fuckity, I'm shit at this...
  • Thanks Kit! I'm a believer in the idea that once I've put the poem out there, I've kinda relinquished control over how it's read/taken. So if "Copperhead" made you laugh, I find that an entirely valid reaction to the poem. FWIW, it's a real biographical scene from my memories, and memories are notoriously open to interpretation. That damn snake scared the shit out of me...
  • (Oh, and love "All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun"--that one made *me* LOL. I'm thinking old school Aurora kits--good days. :) But this one hits a little close to home... Good stuff. :) )
  • Oh it was scary right up until the last line. I liked it!
  • OK, we've stopped being nice to each other now. Someone else check his poetry out, whydontcha!!
  • Well done, TP! I'm quite enjoying them...
  • TP, we may have to get together for beers soon to celebrate your recent run of successes. Also, we haven't gotten together for beers for tooooooo long.
  • Thanks, smt! And mct--you know where I live. I can't help it that I had the foresight to get through my baby-rearin' time a few years earlier than you...
  • TP now stands for "Tremendous Poet!"
  • *Still thinks of toilet paper everytime*
  • *TPs gomi's home*
  • Hey! Excuse me!? Can someone pass another roll under the door? I'm all out in here... Helloo?
  • *taps foot in kit's stall*
  • Three gentle taps, or two quick taps?
  • Yeah, uh, I don't know the proper code UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE AMIRITE
  • Look, I'm going to have to use the funny pages if no-one's gonna help me out...
  • I asked for some loo rolls, but they sent me this guy who sang in a really deep voice about never finding another love like his, and he wasn't very absorbent.
  • That's because Lou Rawls is the shit.
  • /collapse
  • *writes poetry on bog roll* *weeps*
  • *wipes on a sonnet*
  • not to change the mood, but since 8 didn't do so well in CA, i've been, er, moved to do my part... please visit my new anti-bigot fashion store and make a statement in time for Christmas.
  • Work it girlfriend!
  • Talking completely out of my ass, a court challenge is inevitable, given that gay marriages of the past remain valid, but gays from now on will be refused licences. There's a lingering problem of recognizing out-of-state gay marriages, but now that that problem has been brought within, a court challenge becomes much easier. Though I can't speak as to Californian Constitutional law, so I've no idea where a challenge would go.
  • Thus spake the Capt's ass. Darkness there, and nothing more.
  • Not to hijack this thread, but further on Prop 8, remind me again why State's Rights are so important? 'Cause it's totally made election standards laughable, and let each state pick and choose its own morality, and on and on.
  • Yeah, I thought we sorted all that out in 1865.
  • That is absolutely chilling. In a good way.
  • That was what I was going for! Ta!
  • An Elephant A Christmas present for The Mother Kitfisto.
  • Momfisto is a lucky woman.
  • Tonight, I love the bunny. Fantastic work, 'ol chap! I think you're on to something...
  • Tell us more about your mother...
  • No.
  • Tell us more about the bunnies.
  • OK.
  • I have written another short comic: home (there are ten chapters to click through, if you dare) it is written in my usual style of incoherence and despair
  • Great ending! Oh, and 'you're going on the fucking blacklist' is my new catchphrase. Ace.
  • incoherence and despair A bit dark, certainly (and I don't mean the shading)? Hmm, and again with the blood thing, I see. But let's talk about me. I completed Nanowrimo...
  • Chapter 4's title. Yes.
  • Way to go, Pleg! You've earned your elbow patches.
  • I finished my shitty novel and am now drinking heavily.
  • Now drinking heavily? See, there's your problem. Congratulations, Captain! I knew you'd make it.
  • Bravo, to all of you!! Based on Capt's condition, should I avoid participating next year???
  • Well, I think if you start stocking up on booze now, you'll have enough by next November.
  • Yeah, go for it SMT. You may be on your own, though...
  • Aww, hell. I had never heard of the 'wrimo before the '08 Nanowrimo post (and that was just too short notice for me). Are you saying that this year's agonizing 'wrimo has essentially killed off any participants for next year?
  • At this moment in time, right now, just after finishing, there's no way I'd ever want to do this again. We just ran a marathon to prove that we could run a marathon, and -- yeah. We've proved it. The need to prove it again is fairly minimal. Given time, and forgetting what an imposition on life this has been, I might do it again. But right now, no way. As for someone else doing it or not doing it -- I'd say that it's essential that you be able to keep the entire month clear. Finding stuff to write about is one thing, finding two hours a day every day for a month -- that's tough.
  • As the Captain says, once enough time has passed, '09 might start to look possible. And actually I think the precedent might encourage more people to have a stab next time.
  • Maybe we should put together a Monkey Short Story Month. Kind of a MoShoStoMo.
  • If it's a short story, shouldn't it be MoShoStoWe?
  • If any of you are in Liverpool this or next weekend, come along and see some of my paintings on display in a show in School Lane. Bring cheque book.
  • Well done! I won't be buying, though -- I've already got one. Yesterday, I spent $230 on framing a Cape Dorset print -- which is more than the print was itself. Craziness. And the $230 was already 60% off. True, it's a fair bit of real estate, but -- wow. Two thirty.
  • It'll pay off in the future! Looks lovely, kitty 'ol chap! Best of luck with the showing...
  • Not sure whether this quite appropriate or just naked boasting, but my latest blog post was translated into Spanish by a Prof in Madrid, and then his version was featured on the Spanish Slashdot. I found this strangely gratifying, apart from the suspicion that the translation reads rather better than the original.
  • Teaching the foppish Dons a lesson, eh? Well done, Plegingham.
  • All that PLUS a picture of the best Hispanic robot ever? ¡Muy bien, Señor!
  • OOOO how cool!
  • Muy bien, pleg!
  • Hola, muchacho! That's all I's got.
  • Gracias, todos (is that right?).
  • Estas robustezas no usan los pantalones.
  • I'm translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight into Modern English, for Arthurian fun and larks this winter.
  • Ah ha, Pallas, thank you. I need to read this for a course I'm taking, so have bookmarked. Very good!
  • Gawain, ya good thing!
  • *now has "Good thing, where have you gaw-ain (doop-doop-doo-de-doo)/ Good thing, you been gaw-ain too long" stuck in head* Awesomeness, Pallas! Great job!
  • I wrote a short story for my 2-year old niece for christmas (and a friend of mine drew it for me)
  • Absolutely adorable!! Bookmarked for my grandkids to see.
  • That's gorgeous, dng!
  • wonderful. well done dng.
  • Cheers all, I'm glad you liked it. You can buy a copy here now, if you really really liked it
  • I really really liked it. No, really.
  • Good man
  • (also cheers)
  • I wrote a novel Its a fairly pointless and reprehensible comedy, or possibly horror. On the plus side, its nice and short
  • My younger relatives believe you should not be wasting time on novels which could be devoted to a sequel about the bear. But it looks good to me.
  • I received my contributor's copies of Dreams & Nightmares Magazine with my sonnet, "The Best Laid Plans" in it. Yay for being in print! :D
  • Yay!
  • Yay for teh poe-ets!!!
  • Am I allowed to resurrect this thread? I've recently been working on a horror website with a friend. Essex Terror It is incredibly terrifying, obviously
  • *too scared to click*
  • *clicks, is scared* *applauds*
  • R.I.P. goaste the end of an epoch *snif*
  • Say it ain't so! Hi Koko!
  • OH EM GEE
  • Nooooooo!
  • *nods funereally at islander*
  • Killing it off felt like choking my only child to death.
  • My new photograph portfolio! Wheeeeeeee!
  • Those are wundabule pictures. There had to be monkeys - but this is my favourite.
  • Love it, gomi!
  • Oh, gomi, that's a great website, and I love the broccoli and turkey feet(I LOLed!) but what I really want to know is how you got into the goldfish bowl to take such a wonderfully clear close-up?
  • Love your food photography, gomi! That's a really well-designed site too.
  • Oh la la - gorgeous, ma'am!
  • Loves. The food section really captures the Japanese obsession with preparation and presentation.
  • Thanks for the comments kids! I am working hard at making em gooder! Interestingly perhaps EdArzakh I cook most of the food I photograph and I not Japanese (~_^).
  • Gomi, I know you're not Japanese - it just reminded me of seeing a Japanese couple in a restaurant photographing their food before they ate it - and not necessarily an opportunity for artistry.
  • Oooooh.
  • So Queso is now a paid tech blogger! Techi.com is Fresh & Never Boring and I am basically the Old Man on the staff… http://www.techi.com/author/adamgillitt/ is a direct link to my posts, I will be writing a mix of both news articles and editorials. Please feel free to stop by and fling poo!
  • Conrats on the new gig, Cheesie!
  • Bookmarked! Thanks, Mister Cheese.
  • Great articles, Cheesy! Can't wait to read more. And finally got around to turning off Google Buzz.
  • I did the "artwork" for a friend's album recently. The album's really good and deserves better than my scrawlings, to be honest (there's some tracks on his myspace page - hackiko and mon amie... are my favourite ones on there)
  • I am running for local City Council!!!! More details to follow. (warning, FB link, real website not done yet)
  • We need more government Cheese!
  • Not more. Better.
  • I'm about halfway through my verse translation of the medieval Arthurian poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
  • With the timely re-entry of this thread to the sidebar, should we be wishing queso good luck? Or break a leg?
  • Thanks, we'll see come Tuesday! It's been an interesting campaign, and I've learned a lot; if you want to catch up on everything, please take a look at my campaign site at adamforalameda.com. I really don't know how I'll finish in the race. All I know is that I will be involved in my city's politics for years to come.
  • Good luck!