Riffing off of an entry by [personal profile] cleanskies, I offer the following:

Reasons to spit on anybody who mentions your weight in the same breath as the BMI:

"Body mass index (BMI) or Quetelet Index is a statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height. It was invented between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing "social physics"."

It's 157 years old and doesn't take into account about 17,333 different factors. Fuck it.
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[personal profile] cleanskies is amazing. Great person, fab artist.

Just, wow, right? Want proof?

Click below and read her latest strip, now officially one of my all-time favorites of hers:

My brain is in LJ Comic Overload.

Indeed, it has been for weeks, but here's today's haul for you.
Jeez, this entry doesn't even mention two things from [profile] act_i_vate, namely[info]zegas and [profile] man_size's BRAWL,



which hit the shops yesterday, via Image. And I won't be able to tell you to buy PARADE WITH FIREWORKS



by [profile] 66kmph, which is coming out RIGHT NOW from Image.

Seriously, buy these comics.
And now, some online stuff...

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MARVEL at [profile] destro_simpson's woman advice!

SPUTTER at the spacemen of [profile] faeta_comics!

BEHOLD, a fantastic [profile] blueshat...thing!

Umm...SPARKLE...at...fuck, it's just [profile] lucidtv...
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Also, this image from [profile] frivolousphotos made me laugh and think of you, [profile] jimmahgee. And also kinda [personal profile] cleanskies. Because I'm a jerk, I think.



ALSO ALSO:

 
Want to know more?
A) In order to kick-start my diet FOR REALZZ!1!1!!!, I spent 36 hours eating only a few pieces of fruit and some water. Today I'll be having yogurt, fruit, carrots, and steamed vegetables with brown rice. Gonna make it stick this time.

B) In spite of what I may have said, I really did enjoy The Rose Bowl, even if their band was having an off night. As I told [livejournal.com profile] cleanskies, best lines of the night:

ME: Could I get a vodka and Red Bull?
BARTENDER: Sure, if we had Red Bull.

The food afterwards, at local 24 dive Merry Ann's Diner, was sub-par though. It's usually good, evil, greasy food. It was my last hurrah pre-diet, and it kinda sucked. :(

That's all for now, still working on my story about Kevin. It was going to be a one-off, but is becoming something bigger, which I've not been able to do in a while. You'll still probably get the first bit...

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Headachey

Written last night, at Too Early a.m.

PLUGS, PART THE GAWDAMNED FIRST: The Visual Arts Edition.

And no, this isn’t even all the Visual Arts plugs. I’m only one man, and it’s after 2am, and I’m not even drunk. Your plug not here? Simmer, champ, this is an incomplete list

Let’s get this shit going!   

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So, imagine a fat stack of the best cartoonists in the land kicking out krush phat grooves every freaking week. Now stop wasting your time imagining it, ‘cause that shit is right here. 3-2-1[profile] act_i_vate!!!


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While a healthy mother was giving birth in a sparkly-clean hospital room, down the street that woman’s cousin was poppin’ out her baby on a dirty motel room bed.

And that kid, they named that kid [profile] de_act_i_vate

 
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Beautiful girl lives in a beautiful place and takes beautiful pictures.


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“I really should add a disclaimer to all of these strips: This comic does not claim to be "funny" nor should the reader expect it to be so. The reader should also not expect the strip to make any "sense" in any traditional way. The image quality, and furthermore the readability level, of each strip is intentional. No refunds, exchanges, or apologies. All question, comments, and concerns can be left under the cast iron bloodhound that sits next to the door.”

So reads the message above one of  [profile] ericfmyers’s deliciously dilapidated comic strips.


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Jeremy "[personal profile] cleanskies" Dennis may or may not have a man’s name, but she’s always a woman to me.

Her LJ is frequently quite funny, and has a higher bug-encounter-per-entry ratio of anybody else’s that I know. Oh, and…

 
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[personal profile] riotmod is on drugs. The good kind.

Leave It To Jesus!, a comic of dubious moral value, is hystericalisms. There’s Jesus, a fuzzy Darth Vader, the personification of Robitussin,  two guys named Steve who are NOT Don Johnson and Tom Cruise…well…

 
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[profile] jimmahgee says I've already mentioned his stuff enough.
I say Jimmy Gardner needs to shut his cock hole. 

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[profile] robotaday : Every day, there is a robot. Do I need to spell this shit out for you?

Usually he makes the robots, sometimes others do.

 
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Can’t forget Jamie Dee Galey. Can’t forget Jamie Dee Galey.

Lord knows I've tried to...

 
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[profile] tiny_monster and her comics are so cute they practically kick you in the balls/ovaries. Politely.


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"Budda loves Jesus. Ohhh...and Jesus loves Buddha."
*throws coin in ocean and waves at it.*
"Now I'll always know where it is."

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"So I decided to remix it by changing Fred's dialogue in each strip -- and, as it appears in the hateful right-wing tabloid The Daily Mail, I figured I might as well make his owners sexually deviant repressed middle-class folk (it's their target audience, after all) and Fred himself became the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, whom the Daily Mail regards as something of a liberal, but it's close enough."

And such is the world of [profile] fredbasset upfucked, mocking the world's most unfunny comic.


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[profile] sirive cannot decide if he’s a sick bastard or if he draws the cutest kids in animal suits laying out the rhymes like nobody’s bidness.

 
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Now go, my monkeys, as I am cold and sore and weak.

Leave me to the horrible task of going upstairs and sleeping next to beautiful woman.

benjamin
PS - If you're not reading [profile] overcomp, then you're going to hell in like, ten minutes

IT'S SHAMELESS PLUG TIME!!!
This was totally minicomix week! (And I'm also posting pics of [livejournal.com profile] cleanskies's minicomics, et al, that she sent a month or two ago.)

So, here are Jeremy "[livejournal.com profile] cleanskies" Dennis's mini comix:



These comics cover everything from naughty drawings based on actual comic character names (male parts for the male heroes, female for female) to Google's responses to "What are you here for?"
She also does incredible Weekly Strips, which you can get through her regular journal or through the [livejournal.com profile] theweeklystrip.

Also this week?



Sidekick on a String from the inimitable [livejournal.com profile] sirive (complete with an original sketch! *swoon*).
The awesome story of how young Skull the Sidekick assists in a bank robbery, enjoys a treat, and flirts with Liz, a good girl sidekick.

The Christmas Miscarriage and The Novelber Project (not shown) from Sara [livejournal.com profile] heypais Bauer and Tom McHenry.
There's some comics based around written by Pais the Cat and some from Tom's convesations with the ghost of Marcel Proust.

[EDIT: Tom's website is http://www.noncanon.com--His LJ is [livejournal.com profile] preachertom.]

Moral of my story?

The interwebs have proven to me that minicomix are not dead, and this makes me happy as hell.

Go visit them, my monkeys, and be happy.

b
[livejournal.com profile] cleanskies is a British artist, and her name is Jeremy.
She does a weekly strip, [livejournal.com profile] theweeklystrip, but I recommend reading both the strip feed AND her journal.

She is fuckredible.

"Lying here and trying to ignore the snarling spaniel of wakefulness, and instead go back to my most marvelous dream, of wandering on some vast, primieval shore, full of trilobites with soundwave skeletons, boldly hauling themselves ashore."

Damn. This edition of TWS isn't up yet, but it's over here:
http://pics.livejournal.com/cleanskies/pic/0005zfg2

Just, go, my monkeys.

b
So, I hate memes, but this isn't like most. I really enjoy what this one is making me think about.
The 5ong Meme.

The concept, passed to me by [livejournal.com profile] cleanskies is as follows:

Pick five songs that you've been digging. No rules other than your own, man, if that's your bag.

So, these links should be good for a little while:

"Stuck in the 90's" - Moxy Fruvous -- I've been feeling particularly...stymied, I guess, about the U.S. government lately. The more I hear people complain, the less I see them do. People can't be arsed to e-mail their congresspeople, let alone actually WRITE a LETTER. And so many don't even know what's going on. This song, when I first heard it in 1995, made me laugh. I hope there comes a time when it can do that again.

"Qingzang Plateau" - Lina -- An odd little Chinese folk song. I got it on a CD that Sara's brother brought back from China when they adopted Sam Qiu Chang Gorecki. Something about it makes me feel really good. And that first note, the crazy one...she pulls it off, she doesn't Mariah Carey it. It's...dunno, it pushes on my heart like it's seeing if a steak is done.

"Condition Green (Kinkyu Hasshin Remix) -- Ishida Youko -- I heart Patlabor. It's an anime from the early nineties, and it spawned three movies (the 3rd okay, the 1st really good, the 2nd infuckingcredible). I love the giant robots, but I really love that the show is first and foremost about the people in the giant robots. Misfit cops in giant robots. The show makes me feel good, and this dance remix of one of the various opening songs makes me giggle, and wiggle my butt.

"Penny Lane" - The Beatles -- This song makes me feel like I'm in a different, more surreal version of our world, and I love things that can do that. A few weeks ago, I think I had this on repeat for about 15 listenings. Dunno, it just feels good, right? And the background Hammond-organy chords during the chorus? Heaven.

"Be My Love" - David King -- Dave wrote this song for our wedding, and it's great. Nothing like a love song about crazy people in love, as the government pursues them. Played by a lunatic. On a ukelele. We heart Dave, he's one of the coolest people we know.

So there you are.
Feel free to run the meme on your own journal, or just let me know what's pushing your buttons these days.

As for me, I'm going to write a hypershort story before bed if it kills me.

benjamin
Current Music: "Be My Love" - David King
Current Book: Just finished Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski...deciding what's next
Last Movie: Just bought Violent Fire: Deadly Outlaw Rekka, Dir: Takashi Miike. Love it.
Next Movie: Maybe I'll finally watch Easy Rider. Yeah, shut up.

EDIT: At some point, these links will die. Let me know if you still want 'em afterwards.

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