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On this Veterans day, I don’t think there is much more that one can say other than “Thank you”. Thank you for your courage, your pain and your sacrifices in the name of our freedom.
To one particular veteran, Bil Keane, I would like to say a simple “Goodbye”. While I never put Family Circus in the same ranks as say a Calivn and Hobbes or a Bloom County, as a child reading the newspaper comics, you were always there, approachable and perfect for that sense of everyday… whimsy. You will be missed.
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Sorry about the lack of comic yesterday. There was a slight deliriousness moment which I will talk about on tonight’s Saggy Man Breasts strip. At the moment, I’ll just focus the discussion on NaNoWriMo. NaNo is a windmill I always tilt at… and I always fail at.
Always…
But, I usually start the month all fired up and ready to write… but this year… I lack a story. Can’t seem to settle on a single, frickin’ thing to write. It’s more maddening that the writer’s block that usually hits at week two. I clearly just need to pick something and see where it leads me, but yeesh… blank white screen…
Anyone out there having better luck?
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Happy Halloween everyone… or halloween’s eve, actually… Devil’s night around these parts, though Detroit hasn’t burned in a while, so that’s good.
Does everyone have their costumes ready? As soon as I post this, I have to leap back on the sewing machine and finish a poodle skirt for Laurie, and then embroider up a sweatshirt for myself… then carve the pumpkins… but hey, at least the candy is already purchased!
So, this year’s Halloween tribute strip is giving all of it’s love to Berkeley Breathed and Bloom County. I realize a Milo, Binkley or Opus scene would have been more iconic, but John and Bobbi seemed to fit the News Guy and Jane better. Any Bloom County fans out there?
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So, Pop-Up Video has returned to television on VH1. Thanks to my DVR, I’ve spent a goodly amount of time watching it, and I must admit that I’ve been having a good time with it. Partly because the Pop-Up/Spin the Bottle crowd is always good for an interesting tidbit or a good life, but also because it’s just so nice to actually see music videos on on of the music channels again. I never thought I’d see the like, you know?!?
Anyways, they are doing a pretty good job with the show. The music is mostly from the 90′s and the Naughts, and can at time feel like the Rihanna and Jay-Z show, but they do try to keep things balanced, so of the five songs per episode, there will probably be two songs you like in and of themselves, and the pops keep you amused through the other three.
So… it’s a good thing. Anyone else been watching?
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So, Blizzard announced the next World of Warcraft expansion… the Mists of Pandaria. I can only assume that there are some huuuuuuuge Jack Black fans on the staff. I mean, I know Dreamworks doesn’t own the concept of a kung-fu fighting panda… if you’re going for an anthropomorphised fighting character with a chinese bent… it’s kinda obvious… though I might have gone with more of a dragon motif myself… but… whatever…
It’s just that… come on… Kung Fu Panda is frickin’ classic at this point… Wait… let me check to see if the release date is April 1…
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No… doesn’t seem to be… I sure would’ve thought it was a joke though…
Oh well… I don’t even play the game… so I’ll just consider it a good excuse to make another movie poster and get on with my life… I’m sure @onyxsparrow will let me know if it is riddled with JB jokes…
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So, Steve Jobs has passed on.
I realize the inherent irony of honoring the “Think Different” guy with yet another Obama/Hope-style poster on the internet, but let’s agree that it’s not so much an exercise in creativity as it is an attempt to sum up a person.
The Hope poster is iconic. It represents a collective emotion. A feeling that if we choose, we can change the world. We can make it a better place.
Steve was kinda like that. The news last night was filled with endless prattle about how Mr. Jobs was this generations Thomas Edison (he wasn’t) or that he was the greatest salesman (maybe). I don’t know if any of them really nailed it though. He didn’t create the Apple (Woz did), but he did make the computer personal. He didn’t deliver the first commercial mp3 player (Creative did, I believe), but he put on in people’s pockets.
He had a view of the world, and come Hell or high water, he was going to bring that view to life. He was the great facilitator. He was the motive force.
He was a man of vision.
You may like him. You may hate him. But you’ve felt his effect (both for good and ill) on the world around us.
He was a game changer.
He will be missed.
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I normally don’t like when Lucas messes with the Holy Trilogy, but I think he nailed it with this one. I mean you can’t expect Leia to actually get tearful over the guy. He’s lucky that cooking is all she’s doing up there.
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And here we have the second edited scene from Jedi. It certainly makes more sense to me because… let’s face it… finding out that you’re scamming on Vader’s daughter… that’s just awkward!
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Good lord, I’ve forgotten how to draw anything other than Saggy Man Breasts! Oh well… I’ll get back into the swing of it, I’m sure.
As far as Luke and Darth above, I never really bought that instant forgiveness thing… Darth was a jerk! I’m sure things would have gone differently if Luke had known about Padme…
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