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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS
I had the misfortune of being at the mall the other day. Apparently Victoria's Secret was having a sale. The place was packed with wall to wall women. And a few husbands and boyfriends trying hard to look as if they were not interested in other women playing with bras and panties. You know, pretending to look at their feet but with their eyes roaming around and regularly looking back to the girl they came in with to check if she has caught him looking at the other girl across the room holding the bra up to her chest.
This pointed out a dramatic difference to me between men and women. Women will go through great difficulties just for the chance to shop for new underwear. Not even with a gaurantee that they will be coming away with some, just the chance to shop. Men on the other hand only shop for new underwear when
A) they are forced to by significant others.
B) Their underwear actually disintergrates around them.
Better yet, loved ones buy them new underwear as a gift and old underwear gets put into the rag pile for cleaning stuff in the garage.

posted by zailo @ 11:54 AM

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Monday, June 21, 2004

THIS JUST IN:

By the way, the ^ sign is used in mathematics to stand for the nth power. For example 2^2 is 2 to the second power, which is 4.

Thanks to my buddy David. I guess I am the pinhead

posted by zailo @ 3:18 PM

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Friday, June 18, 2004

What pinhead decided that we don't need a "cents" symbol anymore? You know the one with the letter C" with a slash through it. I was typing (yes the word is typing not word processing. Ah, the declension of language) something the other day and looked to my shift number six key and realised that it was gone. Apparently there has not been a cents key for years. Somebody decided for me that I would have to decimalize my dollar prices. I am sure this person or more likely commitee couldn't even tell you why we have a dollar sign like we do. The word "dollar" comes from the word "thaler", an archaic Spanish unit of currency. And that the "$" was originally a "U" on top of a "S" for United States. And replacing cents with "^", a rotated greater than sign. What the hell is that for? To remind you to look up at the stuff you have already read?
I want my cents symbol back! Fooey to you!

posted by zailo @ 7:03 PM

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

ET PRONTO IL DEPARTMENTO DE FUMETTI

mmmm. that looks good.

"Are you going to the rally?"
"You know it brother."
"White baby power!!"

I have noticed a somewhat contradictory use of gay men to advertise items on sale for the upcoming fathers' day. Don't believe me? Check it out.

the guy on the right is totally gay.
The guy on the left might be...but check out that shirt!

gay as the day is long...............checking out the guy on the left.

what, are you kidding? paging Mr. Obvious, Mr. Painfully Obvious

afraid his wife will find out about last night at the rest stop.

thinking about last night at the rest stop

guy on the left. totally
middle guy is actually checking out guy on the right

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posted by zailo @ 5:28 PM

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LET'S LOSE WEIGHT
We need something to help people lose weight. My theory: Tag. That's right, tag. Think about it. When was the last time you engaged in a physical activity without the thought that you have to? That it was good for you? Or you have to get back into shape? A physical activity that not only did you want to participate in but one that someone had to make you stop engaging in? Your mom had to tell you four times it was past dark and time to come in and clean up. You used to run your self into self imposed exhaustion to avoid being "it". And you loved every second of it. Can you say that about the gym? Step class? Pilates?!?
So that is all you need. Not some weight room filled with big hulking weight lifting machines and big hulking weight lifters. Just a huge room with two padded, "safes".
Once you can convince everyone that it is all right to run around wildy as if they were children again you couldn't stop them.
"I'm an investment banker, it would be undignified for me to act like this." Once you get these people over the shame of not acting like an adult and playing tag you couldn't keep these people out of it.
"Are you gonna play tag after work today?"
"I sure am!"
"I know! I can't wait!"

posted by zailo @ 1:34 AM

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Monday, June 14, 2004

WE NEED TO STOP REVOKING DRIVERS' LICENSES
for people who break the law. It doesn't work as a deterrent. These idiots don't care if they have a piece of paper from the state saying it's ok to use their roads.

Instead we should take a revokee and put his (or her) leg in a brace. The kind that they use for scoliosis patients. Bend it a little for circulation and weld that sucker tight. Just think, you can't bend your ankle nor knee on your right leg. That'll teach ya, not drivin', hobblin' along, law-infractin' jerk!

posted by zailo @ 3:07 PM

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Heeeeeere's.....UGLY!
I can no longer watch anything with jack Nicholson in it. He is simply ugly. It is amazing that the man can traipse around thinking he looks even remotely good. And crazy.

1. The man is butt-fugly.
2. Everytime I see this troll on screen I keep asking myself is this the part of the movie where he freaks out. He always looks like he is ready to snap. Which is mostly his fault for only accepting roles that require him to go bezerk at some point. And not just the Shining. Steven King doesn't even enter into it. Cathy Bates can look different off camera. Crazy just follows Jack around. By the way thanks for screwing up the Joker.

posted by zailo @ 3:05 PM

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Friday, June 11, 2004

Well, no mail today. National Mourning Day or some crap. I think if they can hold up mail and close federal offices why couldn't they stop the war for one day?

posted by zailo @ 10:16 AM

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Wednesday, June 02, 2004

24 HOUR COMIC BOOK DAY
You have heard of new comic day. You have probably heard of free comic day but what is the 24 hour comic day? Well at least ten years ago Steve Bissette was working on a book called Tyrant. And he had simply lavish art on each page. So much that he was spending something like a month on a page. Needless to say this put him a little behind schedule. His friend Scott McCloud thought "gee that's too bad" until he saw Steve at conventions just whipping out incredible sketches for fans. He asked if Steve could do that why couldn't he finish his book? And so he challenged Steve to do a complete book in a single day. He took the challenge himself and both creators set aside a day to do a twenty-four page book in a twenty-four hour period.
Well apparently McCloud finished his on time and poor Bissette took a few extra days to wrap up. But Bissete told a few friends in the com biz, like Rick Veitch and such, and they said, Hmmm interesting. So then others were challenging themselves to do the same. And it circulated throughout the comic industry as a novelty more or less.
Enter Nat Gertler. He decides to publish what he and McCloud consider the best of twenty-four hour comics in an anthology. Then last year Gertler has a few comic stores issue a challenge to local artist to show up and try their hand at it.
Apparently he had more time to promote this year's event. I was invited to join over three hundred people at over sixty stores in several countries. I believe there were participants in Germany as well as South Korea.
I did it. It was both a mental and physical challenge but I did it. At first I wasn't sure if I actually had the self-discipline to sit and draw continuously for such a period of time. But my girlfriend had utter and complete confidence in me. It was just like a Beach Boys song. Plus I am stubborn.
As far as the physical challenge, it wasn't a matter of continuous activity so much as conscious inactivity. I and the other twelve or so artists were sitting in folding chairs. Not the most comfortable thing to sit in for a complete day. So I had to will myself into a comfortable position and try to stay like that. And as for the mental part, just imagine taking a SAT or some other type of test where you fill in the little dots with a pencil. And all of the questions are actually easy. Now do that for twenty-four hours.

..................starting......................................ready..................................still strong.

...................chomp.................................hey some art....................................ugh

posted by zailo @ 1:48 AM

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I don't remember that.................mmm free pizza........................oh I got pens

the other suckers
I mean artists,..................Scott McCloud, Atom Freeman,& I........Nat Gertler & I

posted by zailo @ 1:47 AM

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accomplishment.......around hour14 something went horribly wrong..........still working

slowly my descent into madness, well more of a shuffling than a descent really

posted by zailo @ 1:46 AM

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wanting to sleep......................................sleepy.............................tired little bitch

getting relaxed.................................Oh, dear God..................yep, mighty relaxed

posted by zailo @ 1:45 AM

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must stretch............I have finished with an hour to spare...awake about 36 hours lookin' good!

posted by zailo @ 1:32 AM

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