Posts Tagged ‘knight’
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I guess I named him George. Who knew? This is another comic made years ago that is depressingly timeless. Oh, well.
Finished my first week of work in Istanbul. In retrospect, I think it went pretty well although at the time it was rather stressful. The other day, we were sitting on the hotel restaurant deck and the topic of unusual ice cream came up. My boss sent a taxi to collect a kilo of this ice cream made from goat milk. Milk from specific goats that live hundreds of kilometers away and gets brought into the city. It was packed in dry ice. It tasted strongly of cheese. Which was not bad. It looked like this:
Goat ice cream
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Here’s a video of a Japanese tourist trying to buy this ice cream in Istanbul. It’s not easy. Sorry, I cannot embed because Youtube is blocked in Turkey. You can follow this link though.
I guess I could fix the typo, but I’m not gonna. The minor flaws enhance the uniqueness of your gift. And doing something perfectly is an affront to God. Somehow. Have I mentioned that I’m going to Istanbul? Rugs for everybody!
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I can’t think of what to link to today, so here’s a link to a dress made of meat.
Not sure what to talk about today, other that I wish I had the musical talent to write the musical comedy version of the Lord of the Rings as a Hope/Crosby movie: “The Road to Mordor”. I want to live in the alternate universe where TBS plays that movie for two days straight every holiday season.
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Once again, it’s bookshelf Friday, and here is your bookshelf: Perfect for when you just need to fit in a couple more books.
“new” new comic day for you here. We’ve got a couple little cameos as plotlines come together.
I can’t get over the question of “just where does Officer Bob keep that revolver?”
Also, I’m not sure where the knight came from, but he’s in the rest of the road trip, so here he is. Let’s retcon it so that he arrives in the previous comic, but only Doug sees him, off screen, which is what reminded Doug that it was time to go. Yay, me. Way to over-think it.
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You may have already seen this, but for those of you who need REALLY explicit pin-up calendars, this is for you. Talk about leaving nothing to the imagination… Technically counts as safe for work, but again, not sure how you explain it to someone looking over your shoulder.
OG commentary:
This is vaguely based on an email that I sent last week. I’m trying here to be less verbose: get in, quick exchange, get out. Also, experimenting with a shadow/outline to the speech balloons. I feel quite daring in keeping away from the porn humor (well, depending on how you interpret “befoul”) but hopefully I’m not abandoning the humor-humor as well.
Lastly, please welcome the knight to the comic. Like the comic itself, he doesn’t have a name. I’ll have to come up with one by monday…
New Jack Commentary:
I eventually came up with a name for the knight. I don’t remember it now, though. We’ll have to wait for it to come up in a strip. Then we’ll all be surprised. There’s only one more strip in this storyline so this is a Friday cliff-hanger. Ooh, the suspense.
As for the title, “mLife” was a short-lived trademark of AT&T Wireless when I worked there, before they were taken over by Cingular (which eventually changed it’s name to AT&T). “mLife” was supposed to represent the new lifestyle that would be enabled by AT&T’s mobile services, which seems obvious today, but back then people were still getting used to text messaging, there was almost no web browsing on phones, and the marketing was basically promising a lot more than the technology could deliver at the time. It didn’t help that when you read it fast the name looked like MILF, which term was rapidly becoming a common word after being featured in American Pie.
AT&T Wireless spent millions on that ad campaign including a Super Bowl ad, then was quickly sued by Met Life for diluting their brand. With one thing and another, mLife faded away. I still have a hat.
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It’s Friday, and that means it’s Bookshelf Friday! Each Friday (until I run out) I will feature the coolest and grooviest bookshelves in the world. Our first entry is a patriotic little bookshelf in the shape of the continental United States. How would you organize you library in these shelves?
Ate Up with Motor
WMD's – the Digital Comic