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Dresden Codak

As today, Friday, is the 4th of July and most of you are Americans who get paid to sit at boring desk jobs (which is why you cruise by here searching for entertainment every week), it is unlikely that you’re actually reading this on Friday (full disclosure:  I’m writing this on Wednesday).  Nevertheless, I’ve found a webcomic that presses the definition of abstract in a new direction with each new strip.  It is called Dresden Codak and it is drawn by Aaron Diaz (not that Aaron Diaz) of Portland, OR.  Although there aren’t that many strips in the Dresden Codak series (yet), they’re each stylistically different and interesting in a new way (at least until the point where he gets started on the current Hob series).  That’s one measure of an artist’s skill.  He’s also kind of punny, and kind of weird.

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183 down, 183 up

At the halfway point of 2008, it is time to review those now long-forgotten resolutions made on January 1 and see what has become of them.

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Freaks N Squeeks

Well, it is Friday once again and you come trolling by looking for something to new and interesting to entertain you while you wait for the clock to increment to a point that you can safely sneak out of your office and get your weekend underway.  That’s a smart move, because this is exactly the place for such information.

Allow me to direct your attention to the webcomic Freaks N Squeeks, a simple line-drawn cartoon where a cast of anthropomorphic mice tackle issues far exceeding their weight class.  It has been going on, from what I can tell, since the beginning of 2001 with almost daily updates.  Enjoy!

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These Come From Trees

Sticker seen on a paper towel dispenser. Mine are on order.

http://thesecomefromtrees.blogspot.com/

When I worked for the Post Office I saw a sticker that looked like it had been on a paper towel dispenser for 20 years.  It read “Why use TWO when ONE will do?”

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Summer’s Sampled Sounds

Happy Friday, friends.  As the last hours of Spring slip by I want to give you all the chance to fill your .mp3 players with the summer’s party tunes.  First, recently returned from another round of demonstrating their signature Bootie sound around the globe, NYC taste-makers AplusD have just today posted a double-shot of top-ten bootleg tracks proven to fill dancefloors (and headphones) from Hong Kong to Copenhagen in the last couple of months.  You can download all twenty tracks from links in their blog.  Special mention goes out toDj BC’s Stop the Violence in Africa, because it makes lift my hands up and say (as this mash-up thing so often does) Boogie Down Productions vs. Toto?  Who knew?!

And if you’re not already familiar with AplusD, they’ve got more of their favorite tracks available on their website.

And just yesterday Greg Gillis, whom you probably know as Girl Talk, released the latest and best album-length mashup yet Feed The Animals to the Internet on a pay-what-you-feel-you-should-pay system similar to what Radiohead did with In Rainbows.

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Rawk Owt!

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A few weeks ago J&M got RockBand for their PS2. I was skeptical and when I’m not playing I still am a little bit skeptical. However, when I’m playing … I am a superstar! (at least in my head)

Photo by Jeffy

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Girls With Slingshots

This week’s comic is, in a way, balance to last week’s.  Girls With Slingshots is about women and their ways of approaching some of the same real-life situations as the Butter Nut Squash guys do.  Well, this strip might not be the best example of the topic, but it does elicit a chuckle (from me).

I really like Danielle Corsetto’s style.  The vector lines are smooth and the abstract hand-drawn elements are clever.  Look at the candle in these frames, very nice!   Enjoy this comic, enjoy it all day …because there are almost 500 strips already and they keep coming at the rate of 5 per week!  Remember, folks, you heard about it here before Ms Corsetto’s hand fell off.

And I really like the sideline of the anthropomorphic, sombrero-wearing, talking Scotch-Irish (”Ah like t’call it ‘Skirish’.”) cactus.  So much of GWS is funny because it is real to make this extraordinarily funny because it is not real.

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Butternutsquash

Hi, for your Friday distraction, enjoy yourself some Butternutsquash. It is a funny, uncensored view into the lives of young men who are, to their discredit, fairly normal. The honesty is what makes it hilarious and loveable, but also reviling. I recommend that you begin at the beginning. Nowhere else can I imagine to find an image like this:

If that doesn’t describe for you how honest, weird, gross, and funny this comic can be, maybe you won’t get it.

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DC Safeway Grocery Stores

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