Feb 2, 2003  Hey.  I'm not back yet.  I got evicted, so I'll have to move again.  (Let's just say this, don't dispute the late fees... it never works.)

Rest In Peace, Columbia and her crew.
I remember watching the first shuttle launch back in 1981.  One of my earlier memories, really.  I was this toddler squirming in-between my father's legs as Columbia made her maiden voyage in to space.  It was way past one in the morning Korea time, but my father thought it important that I should witness it. 

Feb 7, 03  Moving right along...
And because typing couple of paragraphs is faster then drawing up a new comic, here be some links:

Ziboy  A photolog (photo + blog) outta Beijing, no words, no whining, just great pics, excellent.

Hunkabutta  Another great photolog of whiny white (Canadian) guy working in Tokyo.  His saving grace:  Pics of his wife & child and the fact he isn't American.  :P

Witch Hunter in... Robinmanga  Azumanga Daioh x Witch hunter Robin.  Argh, disgustingly cute.

Basement Comics  Drew Weing's black gay lover & roomie, Antar's own minis.

Ways to Die  #529 of 665.

Slackers One of those webcomic things with wacky roommate® and such. In COLOR!

Black People Love Us!  I get along well with Blacks, I just bust out my "Ethnic" material and we cool, ya'll know?  But I don't near hang this well with da' brothas.

Questions About Black People  Serious questions, real answers to some of life's perplexing dilemmas about race.  Funny, to boot.

America the FAT  Bruce Campbell (yes, the, "Groovy!" guy from the Evil Dead movies) speaks out against obesity, sloth, and gluttony.

A Comprehensive Guide to Asian Stereotypes Yeah, it's pretty much all true.

Make Me Richer Than Bill Gates  A man with a plan!  (crappy midi sounds, though)

Do you know your arse from your elbow?  I actually scored near perfect on this quiz, the art school was worth the money, ma!

Sex in [Video] Games: Rez+Vibrator  Rez is a trippy fascinating game for PS2.  It also comes with a vibrator attachment (in Japan).  Oh my.

Shining a flashlight into my sleeping child's butt crack is not my favorite way to pass the time. Especially when a worm pokes out and undulates, like a tiny tongue giving me the raspberry. Pinworm patrol is a dirty stinking job, but there are times when a mama has to bend to the occasion.  Pinworm Patrol by Gayle Brandeis.  A mother's work is never done.

Angrychink.com  Some dude's blog, the only thing I know is I wanted that damn domain name.

Feb 12, 03  "Cartooning is a 'fairly' sort of proposition.
You have to be fairly intelligent - if you were really intelligent, you would be doing something else.
You have to draw fairly well - if you drew really well, you'd be a painter.
You have to write fairly well - if you wrote really well, you'd be writing books.
It's great for a 'fairly' person like me."
- 1967, Charles Schultz, creator of "Peanuts"  (Via RocketBox Comics)

The best picture ever. Really. If there was one piece of art that could define the Human Race, all our joys, all out pain, all our struggle, all our creative endeavor, I'd choose this one.

Ever wonder why your brand new webcomic isn't getting the hits it deserves while hacks like %^&$#*@ get tons of hits?  (Just replace "weblog" with "webcomic.")

Nowhere Girl  ~parte the seconde~  Quality, baby, quality.

American Elf  Sketch diaries of Indy cartoon Rock Star James Kochalka, one of the very few comics anywhere worth paying for.  It's an honest, funny, charming... Zen account of a life.  C'mon, dude, it's only two bucks!  For that you get all ~280 strip archive, in color. Honestly, if you're not satisfied... you'll be out couple bucks.  He's got a kid on the way, support a real artist. 

No Stereotypes Hey, is that another bald chick I see before me eyes?

You know Furries get a bad rap... but look at Namir Deiter, nice bright art, colorful, drawn by a chick.  Hey, there's even sex.  Like chick "sex," by that I mean relationships and such.  So I suppose when the series end, there should be a payoff for the guy... the butch... the male creature... you know.

Devil's Panties  Christ, more chick comics, Jesus, where did my balls go?  

State of the Union Heh, heh... the truth hurts.

Yo, yo, homeboyz!  Is your lady dropping hints for V-day?  Well shut that bitch up with BIG-ASS Diamonds, yeah, BIG-ASS!

Pencil Carvings  That's right, intricate carvings on regular lead pencils.  Man, all I did was doodle when I got bored in school. Ow, my eyes hurt.

Chibi Clan Nudity Online Warning: No actual nudity, but lots of goofy junk (Flash, cartoons, etc.) trawled from the ever increasing septic tank that is the net.

You know, sometimes a man get lonely, very lonely.  Hey! who are you to judge! (From DFG)

I really dig this picture of this Japanese dude with baggy pants & split toes... ninjas live, and they're working construction.

Dude! Yer Gettin' a Cell!

What about all the GOOD things Hitler did?

Hey, fuck the Oscars, the Razzies, yo, the Razzies!

Still don't think Michael Jackson isn't completely nuts, or criminally insane?  Try this future account of his son, Blanket.

Name that Porno!  Get a mainstream movie and try naming it's porno counterpart. Fun for the whole family.

How to write like a Wanker.  Guilty as charged. *_*;;

Adventure!  Remember the old Atari 2600 game "Adventure?"  Me neither.

Feb 14, 03  Oops, I fudged up the paypal link on the Support page.  It's fixed now.  Never let it be said this site is run by an efficient heartless multinational corporation.

And to all the ladies out there, you is ALL FINE, baby.  Happy V-day, and don't you be all like that, you know you deserve it, girl!  And brothas, keep it tight, yo.

Feb 13, 03  More bright ideas... Video Tutorials

So way back last year, when I thought I'd have enough time, I had planned a series of drawing tutorials.  Not some jive-ass three step "How to Draw..." thingamabobs, but a user driven one.  They were to be problem solvers.  You would write in on the Forum about a problem area or a particular difficulty you were having and I'd do a weekly tutorial on it.  Specific answers for specific problems.

I was working on the first one when I realized, besides being out of time, how frustrating it was to write up these long winded instructions and explanations when the best way was to just show it being done.  A picture would indeed be worth a thousand words.

Drawing is an activity, it is best understood by doing, not by reading.  The very abstraction necessary for reading and writing removes you several steps away from the direct visceral touch of the pencil to the paper.  When I was a kid, I use to watch this PBS TV show called "Secret City."   The host was bit of a doofus, but a fun one.  He would draw his way through these fantastic space cities with tubes, railways, and flying saucers and what not.  Why not do the same?

I "borrowed" my bro's webcam and made some tests using it's time lapse feature.  Right click to save, scrub back through them if you want a better look:

Mei Attack drawing time lapse video
  •814 KB, 8 seconds, Quicktime 480x360

Mei Attack coloring (color pencil) time lapse video
  •853 KB, 8 seconds, Quicktime 480x360

Harry Potter fanart drawing time lapse video
  •6 MB, 1 minute, Quicktime 480x360

Harry Potter fanart coloring (color pencil) time lapse video
  •5.9 MB, 1 minute, Quicktime 480x360

Camera setup test, i.e. me & bro goofing around.  (I'm the one with the Supervillain laugh.) 5.5 MB, 32 seconds, Quicktime 300x225 The camera used was unfortunately returned to it's rightful owner. And no, my teeth aren't that pointy.  Maybe.

Figure I'd do a fund raiser for a cheap-o camcorder, and get a fast burner.  I could sell the movies on CDs as donation gifts every month.  I like the idea that it's useful, educational, not just a silly knickknack.

As the final movies would be 30~50 MB each, unless other people host the files and since most people are still on dial-up, online distribution would be spotty at best.  So kids, and by kids, I mean those of you with a credit card and enough discretionary income, you know what to do.

So, whatchathink?

Feb 18, 03 So I was trying to upload all the old strips currently unavailable due to the untimely demise of Keenspace.  Anyway, reflecting upon this comic the past year I became both incredibly depressed at the shoddy work and reassured by some of the better ones.  Then I noticed the drop-down menu's broken.  Gah.  Aw well, and so it goes.

Ben Langpap sent me this Devil Mi Sung couple of months ago and Drake colored a recent May filler pic.  Thank you both for the art and sorry 'bout the wait, guys.

Webcomics, of many and varying kind:

Coffee to Go

Journey to the West

Hole in the Wall

The Bottle Rocket Chronicles

MinimumSecurity

Ancient Messages

Starline Pro

Silent Kimbly

Nahast: Lands of Strife

Four Seat Left

Razor Studios

Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !*!@  A short interview with the great Vonnegut himself.  He's about the only reason I'm not a complete idiot, remember kids, stop jerking off to dragons and lightsabors all day and think about something interesting.  (Note to Self: Stop insulting the people you're trying to beg money off of.  Note Two: Stop ending sentences with prepositions.)

Cartoonist Peter Bagge does a four page coverage of the anti-war movement.

Cat Bathing, Simplified

Brick Testaments  And the Lord created Lego.  And it was good.

Jesus Christ, if this link doesn't get me in to Hell, there is no God. Warning, do not click!

The Reason God invented Flash/Shockwave.  Click if you like boobies.

RZ-Consent  Ok, it's actually tasteful mini-flash movies

Nails Interactive flash... things.

Anime Fan Species, from Big Big Truck.

Dying Speeches of certain loyal folk who's had their heads chopped off. Educational!

Feb 20, 03  I actually like midi music, not on webpages, of course.  On rare occasions the midi's actually better then the original. From the Little Mermaid, Under the Sea (57KB, right click to save, loud as hell.)

Ben Langpap again sent in yet another Mi Sung pic. With a BUTCHER knife.  I'm getting worried.

Bruce Timm Gallery  His known for his Batman cartoon designs.

Statue Molesters  Ok, I've done this once or twice. It was not a big deal.

AMERICAN CRUSADE 2001+ TRADING CARDS  Collect them all!

"The Smileys(Emoticons) are used very often in the sentences of e-mails. It had begun in USA where is the internet had begun, of cource. In Japan the Smileys(Emoticons) grew differently from U.S.A, now they have various kinds."

Snake Robots  It's... uh, snake robots.  See the video clips.

Radiolovers.com - Free Old Time Radio Shows.  Good stuff in MP3s.  Like Benny Goodman, Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, and even Charlie Chan. Ah so, number one son...

::guimp:: the ORIGINAL world's smallest website

the sibl project : : songs inspired by literature  I finally found out that Bob Dylan's Tangled Up in Blue was inspired by Dante's Inferno. I can die now in peace.

Levitated | Levitated Daily Source Your source for experimental Flash files (the .FLAs, I mean).

Language Networks  "The map of the world is being redrawn along these axes: traders in London are closer to their counterparts in New York than in Frankfurt, programmers in Sydney are closer to their colleagues in Vancouver than in Taipei. This isn't an entirely English phenomenon: on the internet, Lisbon is closer to Rio than to Vienna, Dakar is closer to Paris than to Nairobi."

Feb 27, 03  OK, now I'm back.  Got done moving. Check out the snazzy view from my new crib.  (More links later.)  Oh, Ghastly did a fanart of Mi Sung here.  Say something disgusting, he'd deserves it.

Why Nerds are Unpopular  An excellent, excellent essay on the arbitrary social hierarchy of popularity in schools.  Also confirms what we already knew:  High School's a total waste of time. Extra interesting since my new comic's set in High School.

i use to believe  A collection of childhood beliefs.  The death of people's my fav.

Narbonic: February 16, 2003  Aww…

Brain Hurt  Is comics by Aaron.

Apple Continuum  A manga-esque comic thingy on the web doohikie.

Stubble  The best comic ever named after the five o' clock shadow.

Ornery Boy  One moody bastard.

Follow  More manga-esque crimes against humanity.  Damn you Japs, who won the war, anyway!!!

Felaxx's comic pages.

Our Home Planet  I really can't describe this one… go see…

Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats, Outtakes!!  

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Jamez Bond  The new animutation from the Suzuki-san guy.  I'm fairly impressed with this one, it actually has a plot, of sort.

my name is sabrina.
i draw everything i eat on my sony clie
i keep it in my pocket.
i am a pocketpig.

Snow Crystal Photographs  Never two alike.

Bart Sibrel, a conspiracy theorist who believes that NASA faked the moon landing, confronted retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin on September 9, 2002.
"You're a coward," he exclaimed, "and a liar, ..."
At that point, Aldrin (age 72) landed a spirited punch to Sibrel's jaw.

The Matrix | Second Edition  I don't know, it's pretty old I guess, I got some good chuckle out of it.

The Bottom Line on Iraq
"The two were clearly on the outs back during the Gulf War, when Cheney was Secretary of Defense, and the first President Bush dubbed Saddam 'Hitler revisited.'

Then Cheney moved to the private sector and suddenly things between him and Saddam warmed up considerably. With Cheney in the CEO's seat, Halliburton helped Iraq reconstruct its war-torn oil industry with $73 million worth of equipment and services -- becoming Baghdad's biggest such supplier. Kinda nice how that worked out for the vice-president, really: oversee the destruction of an industry that you then profit from by rebuilding.

When, during the 2000 campaign, Cheney was asked about his company's Iraqi escapades, he flat out denied them. But the truth remains: When it came to making a buck, Cheney apparently had no qualms about doing business with 'Hitler revisited.'"

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HFT comics  The HFT stand for "Happy Fun Time."

The Born Image  It's like a flash movie, but more of a comic.  You decide.

MNEMESIS  The newest iteration of "Sylvan Migdal's Extremely Interesting Webcomics."

E-merl.com  New Experiments in Fiction (+webcomics).

Gary and Agnes  Odd couple stick cartoon.

Market o Matic  Doesn't everybody need an automatic manifesto creator?

Berserk Kubricks!

Fallacies and War  Can logic bring about peace?

How to piss off credit card companies and get away with it.   I love this.  And Five questions that will dictate your personality for the rest of your life.  WOW, the best Internet quiz, ever!  You know, he's right, it's really The Best Page In The Universe.

Mar 3, 03  

Working hard for Uncle Sam,
Ready to fight for my fellow man.

Freedom, freedom that's what I say,
Fighting for the American way.

Forever we hold our banner high,
We'll hold it up until we die.

Winning wars is what we do,
Fighting hard for me and you.

Mama, Mama, Can't You See,
What the Corps has done to me,
I used to drive a Cadillac,
Now I where a cammy pack,

Mama, Mama, Can't You See,
What the Corps has done to me,
I used to go outdoors to play,
Now, I'm humpin' every day,

Mama, Mama, Can't You See,
What the Corps has done to me,
I used to ride my cousin's hog,
And now, I'm just a DEVIL DOG,

Mama, Mama, Can't You See,
What the Corps has done to me,
Cammies pressed and boots are clean,
'Cause I'm a U.S. MARINE!!!!!!!!!

Put me in a barber chair,
And they shaved off all my hair.

Put me on a silver jet,
The ground was cold, the air was wet.

Took away my faded jeans
Now I'm wearing cammie green.

Momma, momma, don't you cry
two hundred thousand if I die

(United States Marine Corps Cadences)

Hey you, the one's who know how to type good, try this Flash bottle music keyboard thingie.

If you have set yourself on fire, do not run

Kill Bill  "Why is it worth waiting for?  It's the return of Tarantino, for crying out loud. His first directorial outing for five years is going to be full of kick-arse kung fu and assorted bloody mayhem."  The Trailer's here.

Strange Sisters  Paperback novel covers from the 50's & 60's.  Yeah, Alice our resident Forum dyke should get a kick outta this...  if not she can always get a phone call from a genuine lesbian.

CENTCOM Leaflet Gallery  Happy fun time comic strips currently being strewn over there in Iraq by us.  And knowing is half the battle.™

To The Best of Our Knowledge  "... historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today's troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs' political aspirations. MacMillan is the author of 'Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World.' "  

Don't you love Garfield?  I know I do.

Stop clapping, This is Serious  An interview with the acclaimed satirist, songwriter, Tom Leher.  "You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody."

Mar 6, 03  Hello people in the world!  I am Hyung, welcome to my site!  I am speaking English, of which I am learning everyday. Is wonderful language, I am very good!  How are you?  I am happy and you are too!!  OK!  War is bad!  Laughing better, laughing good!  Ignore feeling of deepening irrelevance, is OK!  

Big Head Bad Hair  American teaching in Korea make the funny good!  Fun time at the DMZ   Squirt, I love you and I'm sorry. (Dog Meat!)  Muchos Ninos (Westside, represent!)

Free Music  That is "Free" as in "Home of the Free..."  From the aptly named Pro-American.com, it's got Military Cadences, the requisite God Bless America midi, clips from "Full Metal Jacket," and best and greatest of all, John "Mutherfuckin'" Wayne talkin' about "America the Good."   (Trivia:  I went to the same High School as John Wyane, or as he use to called, Marion Morrison)

Star Wars = Allegorical Tale of Coming to Terms with Homosexuality   I use to think Star Wars™ was a idiotic half-assed cartoon movie for kids and stupid adults with too much money and not enough brains, but I now know that it is but another testament in the ongoing chapter in accepting and understanding all aspects of the human experience. Amen.  Along with Star Wars lines that could be improved with the word "pants."

And don't forget to get in line for Gulf Wars, Episode II: Clone of the Attack!

Paper Sky  Cardboard Flash short.  Escape.

Full Body Scan

Flash cartoon answers the age old question, "Ever wonder what Superman did in super speed?"

Primitive Ways  Cause your too cool for a Zippo, make fire with an ice lense.  Too cool.

The completed Letter Project.

Natural Metal Art  Metal and Vitreous Enamel Designs

Flash interactive doohikie Michael Jackson routine, a long time ago before he went apeshit. As in, 29 Things that Michael Jackson Looks More Like Than a Human Being.

Things Warren Beatty Will Have Sex With   I don't think the kids will get this either...

PS  Bud Light's promoting the Gay Agenda!  Help, won't somebody please think of the children!  (Yes, the url's "gaybeer.com")

Modern Ruins  "I photograph modern ruins because I find it disturbing to find familiar objects and technology to be abandoned. I'm reminded that nothing is permanent, that everything is always in a state of transition."

Andre the Giant (finally) has a posse.

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to pop a water balloon in space?

I hate plucking out nose hairs.  Fortunately, there's a lot of encouraging remarks thrown your way.

"In the small West African country of Ghana, the introduction of videocassettes in the mid-1980's spawned an artistic movement that produced one-of-a-kind hand-painted movie posters. This art form was born from the need to advertise small-scale mobile film distribution, with entrepreneurs sending agents out on the road with videocassettes, television monitors, VCRs and portable gas powered generators into small villages in the Ghanaian countryside to show films, by day inside homes or a local social club, and at night, in the open air, weather permitting."

Many many picture of smiling dogs.  Ok, that's it, I go shoot myself in the head now.  Thanks, I kiss you!!

Mar 10, 03  
Oh, I'm a Good Old Rebel (892KB MP3, right click to save. US Civil War era song, sung by Hoyt Axton.)

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now, that's just what I am;
For this Yankee nation
I do not care a damn.
I am glad I fit against it-
I only wish we'd won,
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I done.

I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do;
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too;
I hates the striped banner-
'Tis dripping with our blood;
I hates the glorious Union-
I fit it all I could.

I followed old Mas' Robert
For four years, near about;
Got wounded in four places,
And starved at Point Lookout;
I cotched the rheumatism
A-campin' in the snow,
But I killed a chance o' Yankees-
I'd like to kill some mo'.

Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot-
I wish there was three million
Instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket
And fight 'em now no more,
Now that is sartin, sure;
And I don't want no pardon,
For what I was and am,
I won't be reconstructed,
And I do not give a damn.

From Songs of the Civil War   

Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age  "The laws governing "intellectual property" have grown so expansive in recent years that artists need legal experts to sort them all out. Borrowing from another artwork--as jazz musicians did in the 1930s and Looney Tunes illustrators did in 1940s--will now land you in court. If the current copyright laws had been in effect back in the day, whole genres such as collage, hiphop, and Pop Art might have never have existed."

Paying Through the Nose to Kill Iraqi Children  "According to some estimates, Bush's Iraq attack will cost each and every American $320. Now, for the Waltons and Gates and Buffetts, this isn't a whole lot of scratch, but for most of us it's a decent chunk of change. For instance, I need a new computer for writing these articles and $320 would be
a nice start. Instead, that money will go toward killing innocent children, pregnant women, grandmas, grandpas, and a whole lot of other people in Iraq.  The money is siphoned off before my employer cuts me a check. Most of it goes right to Donald Rumsfeld."

How Much Is Inside?  "Throughout the ages, man has pondered the question, "How much is inside?"  With a few extra bucks, and a decent spot on the internet, we at cockeyed.com expose these long-hidden truths."  Funny, scientific, educational, cute chicks.

"Kill Bill" Japanese Flash teaser site.  Slash!  It is VERY refreshing, if you feel stressed...

Win Without War TV Spots  Check 'em out, 'cause you won't be seeing any of these actually on TV.

The Political Compass  "There's abundant evidence for the need of it. The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left' , established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives like Margaret Thatcher ?
On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook. "

Heavy Seas  Real snapshots of actual HUGE storms from decks of tankers and oil rigs.

WIGGAZZZ!  Yo, thug life, fo-eva!  Don't forget your 40's!

I like to rag on StarWars a lot, but this is pretty cool: Darth Vader soundboard.

Who's the Scientist?  Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermi Lab, with drawings by the kids themselves.  Heh, I drew better then them when I was in seventh grade... I would've kicked all their ass.  Whoo-ya!

The mess hall at Camp Arifjan, a U.S. military base south of Kuwait City.  Quicktime VR, neat.

The Economists  &  Missile Defense   Political satire + Flash.  I'm glad at least a couple of people who fiddle with Flash doohikies know a little more then poop jokes and stereotypes.  Like Slap That Ho, for instance...

Mar 12, 03  Been fagging out on "Chicago" lately.  I love that stuff, old time Jazz, musical theater, social satire, the bitter cynicism... DELICIOUS!  If you enjoyed it, check some other great works by Bob Fosse himself, not just his imitations.  "Cabaret" is the other famous musical, a lot like Chicago and his brilliant, indulgent, biopic about his life and one of my favs, "All That Jazz."

Speaking of which, here's an email "interview" I did for somebody's school project.

Weather Pixie  That little picture thingie on top of the right column that shows the time and weather where I (or anyone else) lives!

TRON  Light Racer Shockwave game  Fuckin' A!  Hard as hell, better then the movie.

Read My Lips  See, hear , and experience the true love and devotion shared between Bush & Blaire.  BEAUTIFUL!  Well worth the 4.3MB download.

FREEDOM FIGHTER'S MANUAL  "In the early 80's the CIA published a sabotage manual and distributed it throughout Nicaragua. The anti-Sandanista pamphlet is full of tips on bringing down the infrastructure of the country. "The Freedom Fighter's Manual" is illustrated with childlike cartoons and brief captions. your tax dollars at work! "

Bum Wines  Mad Dog 22's my drink of choice!  This link is dedicated to Rapscallion, who regularly posts under the influence.

After Sorrow  "After war, the people you meet differ so from former times," wrote 15th century Vietnamese poet Nguyen Trai. Americans are still searching for answers to the war in Vietnam, and the conflict that lives on in the collective mind and soul of this country. American writer Lady Borton was the first American journalist allowed by Vietnamese officials to live and speak with ordinary villagers. During her time there, she met Vietnamese peasant women who played critical and unsung roles in the Vietnamese victory -- women who, like American veterans, "did what they had to do".

Wonderful Days  Korean Anime, hmm... most of the actual animation in most cartoons in the World's done there anyway.  Looks like the usual by the numbers job... hopefully the K stuff will avoid the Generic Loser Porn that the Japs are busy churning out these days.  Not like Azumanga Daioh, I like THAT show, don't you?

Mar 13, 03  (Bump) So I'm working on a pseudo interview (I "interview" myself) for a Comixpedia column. Smartass comments, gross exaggerations, outright lies and slander!  What questions do you want answered, about the comic, me, the "scene."  Well?

The First Annual Kung Fool Caption Contest.  (No Registration Required.)

This Is War  "An unblinking look—in words and images—at the reality of warfare. This is the part of war (indeed, the part that makes it "war" in the first place) that we're not supposed to see. Warning: This is the stuff of nightmares"
 "Fight, rape, war, pillage, burn. Filmic images of death and carnage are pornography for the military man.''

Israeli monitor intercepts order: War starting on March 18   Did I mention I'm selling Blank sketchbooks, unicorn origami, and pencil boards?  I sure am!  ^_^;;  Wai! Wai!

Saddam Hussein's LiveJournal Entries  Mother of all Live journals.

Not convinced by the government?  Terror Ready gives you the straight dope (kinda...).

Everything I needed to know I learned by listening to They Might Be Giants

Dave Kelly Central  For all your Dave Kelly needs.  (Not to be confused with Dave Maguire.)

Unbeknownst to all, Buttlord GT continues... silently...

blingmethod.com :: how a geek gets their bling bling  PC modder annoys wife.

World of Ends:  What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.  "All we need to do is pay attention to what the Internet really is. It's not hard. The Net isn't rocket science. It isn't even 6th grade science fair, when you get right down to it. We can end the tragedy of Repetitive Mistake Syndrome in our lifetimes — and save a few trillion dollars’ worth of dumb decisions — if we can just remember one simple fact: the Net is a world of ends. You're at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends."

Custom Simpson Action Figure Info Station  Doh!  Homer as Ash,  Wolverine Bart,  Burns as Hannibal,  Blues Brothers,  and Maggie as Yoda!

Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  Along with Slave Narratives

Monstrous Craws & Character Flaws  An exhibition in the Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon at the Library of Congress

Ranma & Akane in College  WTF?  Ranama is SO— '92.  Christ kids, get with it!  It's all 'bout Harry Potter these days!  (Yes, you may gauge out your eyes, please.)

Bid on your Instant Girlfriend Kit!  I'm gonna take a wild stab and assume he watches anime...

Mashi Maro  And ya'll saw all seven episodes, right?

Mar 18, 03  And the beat goes on 'til the break of dawn...

Rachel's War  "This weekend 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. In a remarkable series of emails to her family, she explained why she was risking her life."

A Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War  By Michael Moore  "So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you: "

winter stayed for a while  Gallery of winter in Toronto.  Man, I haven't seen actual snow in about TWENTY years.

No page is tougher than Mr. T, sucka!  "Enough jibba jabba. Enter the URL of your favorite page and press enter to receive Mr. T's pity. Pages with lots of text work best fool!"  As always, I plugged in Megatokyo.  Piro has never been more cool!

Crippling Depression  Webcomic featuring three yiggers down in CalTech let it all out on their wild and hedonistic college lives.

Well, woopy do, even Barbie has her own blog.  Memo to the designers, "You fuckin' whores!!!  You are waste of space, you digusting filth!  Slime!  Scum scking maggat!"  ...I could have done it for half the price...  asshole!

Exactitudes  We are all individulas!

Thank you, President Bush  "So, remembering a poem I learned as a child, I want to say thank you.
Thank you for showing everyone that the Turkish people and their parliament are not for sale, not even for 26 billion dollars.
Thank you for revealing to the world the gulf that exists between the decisions made by those in power and the wishes of the people. Thank you for making it clear that neither José María Aznar nor Tony Blair give the slightest weight to or show the slightest respect for the votes they received. Aznar is perfectly capable of ignoring the fact that 90% of Spaniards are against the war, and Blair is unmoved by the largest public demonstration to take place in England in the last thirty years. "

"Hello to rap fans, I am ILL Mitch. I come from Russia to America now I am free to do 3 favorite things. These are rap and ride on my skateboard and hit my boxing bag. But most favorite thing is rap."

Daily Zen  Chill them niggas out, ya'll...

Secret Disney  All the crap THEY don't want YOU to know about the MOUSE.  Both amusing and disturbing

Got Mead?  Let's party like it's 999!  Yes, the stuff your ancestors pillaged, looted, and raped on.

Historical Anarchist Texts  "Texts on the Struggle site that are historically important to anarchism or which discuss important aspects of anarchism but are no longer in print elsewhere"

Stupid Computer Tricks!  Come, laugh at the grandmothers who can't tell the difference between a computer and a toaster.  Do it, you heartless fiend!

Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974  Man, your mama's so fat...

English Sans French  "The Franco-American dispute falling out over the best approach way to disarming Iraq take away Iraq's weapons has resulted in perhaps the highest level of anti-French feeling in the United States Lands since 1763."

A Screenshot of Bush's Hotmail Account

Christian Lesbians.com  Girls who go down on each other AND Jesus... WWJD?

Top 11 signs you are either George W. Bush or Kim Jong Il.  Remember boyz, salute the rank, not the man.

Civil War Ninjas  A Tenth Grade History Report.

Mathematical LEGO® Sculptures  Edutainment!

Man Eats Underware...

Girls in Rubber Boots  You're right girls, guys are so fucking WEIRD...

PULL MY FINGER

Mar 20, 03  Duuuude!  Duude?  Duuude.  Dude!  Dude?  Duuu-Uuude!

Amber's Webcomic Tutorial  Thinking of starting a webcomic?  Try this site.  I'd only laugh at you, but Amber's ready to help!

B.A.A.’s Guide To Fansubs On Mac OSX   You know, for snobby geeks to good for PC, but not for digisubs...  For disclosure's sake, let me say this: Yes, I've used OSX, no I don't use it.  OS 9 remains my workhorse.

Flight Club  Java applet flight simulator, it's BEAUTIFUL.

Canadian Ninja believed to be in Afghanistan!  Danny "douchbag" Frost sent me this link.  He's SUCH a lame-wad.

Buzzpeek!  International Onomatopoeia Flash App.  You know dogs in Koreas don't "Bark!" they, "Mung, Mung!"

Drive Slagging  Worried about you used hard drives leaking info?  Why not MELT them?

German Toilets  Hey you proud sons and daughters of the Fatherland, what up w'that?

The Vigina List.  Complete.

A car alarm that actually might just work...

This site reveals just What is Victoria's Secret.

The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business  Just a little nod to ya'll MBAs out there

Mar 19, 03 You know I think getting rid of dictators is a great idea, except it's just gonna suck for the people getting bombed, ey?  Suck big time.  Oh well, not like we're going to get to see any of the suffering.  War's great on TV, 10,000 miles away.

Where's Raed?  Read this blog right out of Bagdad.

Didn't we tried to warn you, you goddamn hippies!?

What if the US Loses?  Culture if the USA loses to Iraq.  And Hussein in the Membrane  Photoshop the wacky Iraqi

Who would make a better president Bush or a box of Tic-Tacs?  An objective analysis.

Mar 24, 03

Relax... Fly Guy...

Interview with God.  I thought this would be another gag thingie... but it's pretty straight, and it's pretty good.  I think a lot of people could use this right now.  (Turns out God's a Buddhist after all...)

Michael Moore's Oscar acceptance speech:  "Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much. " 

It’s not about oil, he is mad.
Do you know, he tried to kill my Dad.

I will bomb him in his car.
I will bomb him from afar.
I will bomb him in his house.
I do not like him, he’s a louse.
I’m going to bomb him here and there.
I’m going to bomb him everywhere.
I do not like Saddam Hussein.
I do not like him, he is insane.

One way or another...

Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat."On Sunday, we were awarded as the best firefighting unit in the Army National Guard in the entire country," said Prime. "That was a big moment for us."

Manipulating Minds: The Psychological War on Iraq

Papa Smurf  vs. Skeletor.  Which Flash short is more fucked up?  You decide.

A Day in A Life  Rotating group photolog.

Chinese Papercut Online Gallery

Learn English the Japanese Way!

When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History  No, it's not another "Bush is Hitler" rant, but a nice summery of how Germany went form the most sophisticated and cultured country in Europe to a Fascist dictatorship in about a decade.  And yes, it started with a terrorist bombing.

POLICE CODES AND ABBREVIATIONS:  A NEARLY-COMPLETE LIST

The Revolutions will not be Televised, The Revolution is not an AOL Keyword.

Dick Cheney’s Song of America  "With the Soviet Union gone, the United States had a choice. It could capitalize on the euphoria of the moment by nurturing cooperative relations and developing multilateral structures to help guide the global realignment then taking place; or it could consolidate its power and pursue a strategy of unilateralism and global dominance. It chose the latter course.

In early 1992, as Powell and Cheney campaigned to win congressional support for their augmented Base Force plan, a new logic entered into their appeals. The United States, Powell told members of the House Armed Services Committee, required “sufficient power” to “deter any challenger from ever dreaming of challenging us on the world stage.” To emphasize the point, he cast the United States in the role of street thug. “I want to be the bully on the block,” he said, implanting in the mind of potential opponents that “there is no future in trying to challenge the armed forces of the United States.”"

So instead of mouthing off meaningless party lines like "No Blood for Oil" or "Support Our Troops," read it.  Learn something.  And decide if you want to support this, after all we are a representational Republic.  

Mar 25, 03  

Worldwide Cartoonists on the War with Iraq  Editorial 'toons from all the world.

It's All About Girls  The latest comic from Willam Beckerson.

Cascadia  Fantasy Adventure comic.

Knee Deep Press  More comics.

George Bush and the So-called Crusade!  We named the dog Indy!

Sourpuss  This is a picture of a cat.  It is a great picture.  I am also sorry for linking a picture of a cat.

TESSCAR ALUMINUM CRAFT  Soda can replicas, beer can models.

Generation Rice  Internet mag about my favorite dietary staple.  Interview with Derek Kirk Kim (Small Stories), who, in the picture, looks more like a porn star then Paul Pope.

Teh Box!  Cardboard PC.  'Nuff said.

Casablanca or, The Clichés are Having a Ball  The brilliant Umberto Eco's take on why such potentially crummy movie is so great.

Mar 25, 03

This is Gulf War 2   Raw images of war.  Remember there is a difference between armed soldiers and a child his with head blown off.

These posts at Metafilter puts it best, "It seems many in the US think war is about saying the Pledge of Allegiance with a lump in your throat and tying yellow ribbons around things.
If these sorts of images were shown on television, the bar for 'what's worth fighting for' would be raised far, far above 'losing our patience with diplomacy'."

I wonder how much support the US public will give to the war if they showed this stuff everynight instead of fireworks and neat tanks. Because even if you consider it agitprop (which it can be) and say Hussein has done worse (which he has), I don't think the kid'll care anymore and even though CNN will protect us from such unseemly sights, the ENTIRE Arab world will see very little else for months, years to come.  You do the math.

Support Our Troops,  Bring Them Home.

Actually the photos remind me of family history.  Both my parents lived in Northern Korea (Kyong Sang Do), when the Korean War began.

My mother was 7 years old when her house was bombed by Americans who practiced the WWII era whole sale bombing of cities and dams (in violation of the Geneva Convention, mind you).   (Relax, it's not a diatribe against US, it's just what happened.)  My uncle, 5 years old at the time, had his head cracked open with chunks of his brain spilling out.  His mother, my grandma, scooped the goop back in and patched him up as best she could using Denjang (fermented soy bean paste, you might know the Jap. word, "Miso") to cover his wound.

Then the family joined the millions of other refugees fleeing the fighting and heading South.  My mother mentions how it was just like the ending of "Sound of Music, " on her father's back climbing up hills and what not.  On crossing the 38th parallel, everyone had to cross a river in the dark, if they were detected, the soldiers on either side would open fire with machine guns.  (My uncle lived, though he does get migraines.  He's a Decon, lives in La Mirada, CA)

On my father's side, Red Guards executed his father, my grandfather, in his home.  My father was just 16 at the time and gramps, then just 36, was... a lawyer or an accountant... I forget.  I guess he was accused of being a collaborator or maybe he was just one more bourgeois pig to be made an example of.  Executed sounds so blasé...what happened was they tied him up, dragged him in to courtyard in front of his family and bayoneted him to death.  Father mentions how the blades stabbed him again and again through the chest, neck, and face.  The screams, of the wife, daughter, sons, the Guards, must have been dreadful...   

Then they also became refugees, dad got drafted and the war dragged on for three long years.

They both tell these stories with little ranker or emotion, in the similar tone of voice usedw to describe any other family stories from their lives, both funny and sad.  It was a long time ago, far far away.  It's just what happened, 'is all.     

Mar 26, 03  So as you may know I've been posting very strong stuff about the war (and not updating as I should!)...  And a servicemen finally e-mailed me about it.  It's a little long, but I do make a neat little speech and it's not such a downer, so read it.  Hey, he's out there serving your lazy ass, least you can do it read how a serviceman feels about the war, not just those glossy puppets on TV.  I promise, it'll be good... so here's Chris

My reply:

Okay, I ham it up a bit, but you get the gist.  C'mon man, when's the last time you hear anyone say "deign?"  It's a great word!   

War sucks.  Here's some funny links:

Newest Deluxe Primo Japanese Instant Ramen  And you thought they just made better cars and video games...  this my friends is why the yellow man will take over...   and have sex with your blonde sister... or your Mom!!!

Latest Footage!  New secret weapon?

L.A.B.I.A.

The Geek Hierarchy  I'm off the chart!

Space Runner  Simple no frills fun Flash game that actually don't suck.

Rainman  You know, like the movie.  See if you're an autistic genius.

Illustrations of Schoolgirls' Uniforms  So you want to find out what all the different schoolgirl uniforms of Japan look like with out ever actually getting turned on?  This is the site for you!

Possum  A touching funny story of the most unlikely of pets.

THE ONLY THING FRENCH ABOUT FRENCH’S® MUSTARD IS THE NAME!  (So please buy us...)

Long Bangs (archive)   Hey, isn't that... that "King of Fighters" chick?

The First Human Male Pregnacy  No way.  NO WAY.  This looks fake... or does it?

Mar 27, 03 I think Chris Rock said it best, "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white , the best golfer is a black, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war."

Mar 28, 03  The comic will be late, see this comment to see why.  I go off on this dude, it's pretty funny.  Rember kids, play nice.  (It's also kinda long, so I linked my last post.  Work back up, if you're interested.)

10 Myths spread by the US to justify military action in Iraq  Read 'em and weep.

"The Flash Mind Reader" - How It Works  This is cool.  Well, geek cool.

The Ghost of Albion  BBC's entry to webcartoons.  At least they've got English accents.  Warning: Doesn't kick ass, but doesn't suck.  So it's one of the best I guess.

Kim Jong Il (the illmatic)'s LiveJournal  "Dear diary. Bush still doesn’t ‘get it.’ I tried making my feelings clear but he’s too busy ignoring me, he is such a jerk. Everything in his life is just Saddam, Saddam, Saddam and I am sick of it.
On the plus side, I think my hair looked pretty good today.  Also I went frolicking at Paektu Mountain and the rainbow came out again.  After dinner some of my subjects sang me a song because I invented Outer Space."

Georgy Dubya Bush's LiveJournal,  Madder'anheck George,  George Bush's LiveJournal  Will the real Dubya please stand up?

Cheney Urges Daughter Not to Be 'Human Shield'  Sounds like BS, but still pretty funny.

The Onion:  Operation Piss Off the Planet  Laugh, so you do not cry...

Things Going Squish on My Scanner  Jeeze, that can't be good for the scanner...  Damn spoiled Americans... you think scanners grow on trees!  Dangnabit.

Why must blatantly patriotic sites be so Tacky??  Where are the patriotic designers?

Do the Funky Chicken!

Gallery of Experimental Instruments.  Interesting, I guess.

Fat Trucker's Union  Blue Collar Art for the Masses.

THE HISTORY OF ROBOTICS  I'm still waiting for those andromaids my self.  Do my laundry, type up the webpage, bend over!  Yeah...

J-Sim Flash Juggling Simulator  Kinda hard... yeah, it's pretty lame...

Mar 29, 03  What a friend said to me about my recent comment box posts:  "It's amazing how you never mind sounding like an asshole.  Very funny."

Centennial of Korean Americans  A comic strip tribute.  From Hardboiled, the Asian pacific American issues newsmagazine at UC Berkeley.

This American Life "The Balloon Goes Up. As the attack on Iraq begins, we read a soldier's emails about the war so far: "We all just wonder, just like the people back home, when or if the balloon will go up (that's what we call the start of a war)."

Somewhere in the Arabian Sea  "Life aboard the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea that's supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Only a few dozen people on board actually fly F-18s and F-14's. It takes the rest of the crew--over 5,000 people--to keep them in the air. One person stocks vending machines, twelve hours a day. Hundreds prepare food and do laundry. There are several different garage bands, each with its own following."

Do you ever miss the certainty of the Cold War, when you just knew who the bad guys were?  Relive the righteous thrill with Soviet Pins.  You can buy 'em. Cheap.

Frenzy Nirth  Cool shockwave puzzle game. Not so hot handling.

What's your favorite movie lines?

Your GI Joe getting tired of fighting Cobra all the time, try the "Dirty Terrorist," "Butcher of Baghdad," or even, "Babbling Osama!"

Bar Code Art

The Moron's Guide to a Larger Penis  Not that I'd need it, of course... *cough* *cough*

Jews of Asia  It's true, they ARE everywhere!

Russian 'Harry Potter' stands for office  "A Russian man is hoping to produce a little magic to get him elected a regional governor, by taking the name of Harry Potter."

Virtual Elvis.  Pay virtual homage to the King.

Mar 30, 03   Oh you want some?   Then come and get some!!

War is Stupid.com   "Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared." — Henri Nouwen.   "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." — General William Westmoreland.

"Hard," the cartoonist of Sexy Losers fame, is working on a tutorial.  Check them out, they make for good reading and you can offer your sugesstions as well.  "Comic Tutorial -- Step One: The Idea"   "Comic Tutorial -- Step Two: The Rough Plan"

THE PENTAGON’S NEW MAP  IT EXPLAINS WHY WE’RE GOING TO WAR, AND WHY WE’LL KEEP GOING TO WAR. by THOMAS P.M. BARNETT, U.S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE  "Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been trying to come up with an operating theory of the world—and a military strategy to accompany it. Now there’s a leading contender. It involves identifying the problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking them. Since September 11, 2001, the author, a professor of warfare analysis, has been advising the Office of the Secretary of Defense and giving this briefing continually at the Pentagon and in the intelligence community. Now he gives it to you."

So, "Spirited Away" won the Oscar for the animated thing last week.  Not surprising when it was the only real film against a bunch of animated stand-up shticks like "Ice Age."  "Chicago" is fun, but "The Pianist" and "Spirited Away" were the only real competition for the Best Movie, too bad/good thing there was a subcategory for shitty cartoons.  I'd say it was better then "The Pianist" myself on originality alone, as Holocaust movies have become something of a genre in themselves in recent years (if you want a real education, watch the 9 1/2 hour documentary Shaoh, not another 3~4 star weepy drama) and let's face it, no matter how good of a director Polanski is, raping a thirteen year old does bring a creepy vibe in to any work you do.  "Spirited Away" is being released again, check it out if you get the chance. It's so good, I get pissed when geeks call it anime.  It's too good of a film to be compared to all the shit spewing out these days.

Hey, here's a link for David Gannon, Hollywood actors/celebrities FOR the war!  They won't betray our country like those other hippie faggots!

8 bit Dungeons & Dragons  Probably the funniest skit about D&D, also the only one, has been "animated!"

Mar 31, 03

Men!  Boys!  Do you like big girls?  I mean REALLY BIG GIRLS.  (Try not to laugh, someone spent a lot of loney nights for this!)

Bimmer and Beemer  "Chapel" tells me apparently there was a difference.. Bourgeois Pigs!

Mark Fiore's Animated Political Cartoons!

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight  Evolution of a hip ironic catch phrase.

Warfilter  Metafilter for war related links, ARGH!  

Have the Protests Made a Difference?  From Revolutionary Worker Online, where commie meets hippie with queers.

Ediable Chess  From the Odd Objects Gallery.