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July 23rd, 2008: I forgot to mention that yesterday, July 22nd, was Pi Approximation Day! Today is Approximately Pi Approximation Day, however, so today you can just sort of rub pie around your face with a much greater margin of error. Math holidays, cats and kittens!

I am a great business man if I mention I made a totally sweet shirt out of the Pi Approximation Day comic!

HELL ON EIGHTEEN WHEELS
AT A HUNDRED-PER
WE WENT CRASHING THROUGH THE JERSEY BARRIER

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July 20th, 2008: You know what's coming out soon? Flight 5 is coming out soon. WEDNESDAY. This is good news! I link to the Flight books every time a new one come out because I think it's the best comics anthology going, but this time I have another motive: I've got a story in this one! I wrote it and John Martz drew it and it is called "Scenes In Which The Earth Stops Spinning And Everybody Flies Into A Wall". Oh yes. You can order it online from Amazon, and you can preview the stories here! WARNING: COMIC NARRATIVES DIVORCED FROM THEIR CONCLUSIONS AHOY

I got a few preview copies and the book looks fantastic. I recommend it, you guys!

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July 20th, 2008: You know what's coming out soon? Flight 5 is coming out soon. WEDNESDAY. This is good news! I link to the Flight books every time a new one come out because I think it's the best comics anthology going, but this time I have another motive: I've got a story in this one! I wrote it and John Martz drew it and it is called "Scenes In Which The Earth Stops Spinning And Everybody Flies Into A Wall". Oh yes. You can order it online from Amazon, and you can preview the stories here! WARNING: COMIC NARRATIVES DIVORCED FROM THEIR CONCLUSIONS AHOY

I got a few preview copies and the book looks fantastic. I recommend it, you guys!

... that seems to be the question.

There appears to be a disparity between political, economic and business experts as to whether or not the U.S. is in a recession.  

The way I see it, you can tell the expert is "by-the-book" if they argue that the country is NOT in recession.  They are analyzing the economy by graphs and charts, going by the technical economists' definition of recession, "a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year".   Between April and June of this year, there was a spike in consumer spending, therefore there isn't a recession.  

The current administration is counting on these by-the-book experts to muddle the general consumer's view of the economy.  These experts don't seem to notice that the cost of everything is going up, mainly driven by the rising cost of fuel and energy.  Producing, packing, shipping and selling any type of product is costing companies more, so to balance their books, they are down-sizing their workforce and pushing the cost onto the consumer - the same consumers they stream-lined and downsized.  The consumers that still have their jobs aren't seeing salary increases to match the price-hike.  These experts seem to overlook that the spike in consumer spending was due to tax rebates and the stimulus-checks.  The stimulus-check program was just a tiny band-aid on the big boo-boo of a poor economy that's going to get worse before it gets better.

The real experts are reporting on what people can do to get themselves through this recession - cut out coupons, reduce driving, don't eat out, use yesterday's newspaper for toilet paper, etc.

I'm not an expert in the least - I'm not even a novice.  But the way I see it, we're in a recession, folks.  So buckle up, strap down and be frugal.

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July 20th, 2008: You know what's coming out soon? Flight 5 is coming out soon. WEDNESDAY. This is good news! I link to the Flight books every time a new one come out because I think it's the best comics anthology going, but this time I have another motive: I've got a story in this one! I wrote it and John Martz drew it and it is called "Scenes In Which The Earth Stops Spinning And Everybody Flies Into A Wall". Oh yes. You can order it online from Amazon!

I got a few preview copies and the book looks fantastic. I recommend it, you guys!

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances.  If there is any reaction, both are transformed."    -Carl Jung

"You have a way of approaching people, D... when you approach a person, you chill their shit cold."

Talk about a reaction and transformation!!

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new comics in the afternoon today!

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July 15th, 2008: Hey I'm thinking of coming out with some new shirts! If you've read something in my comic and you've said to yourself, "MAN I wish I could spend money on that!" why not email me? That way if I get a thousand emails saying MAKE A SHIRT THAT SAYS "WHOAH, CHECK OUT THESE GENITALS" then I'll know you're all crazy. Crazy prescient!

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July 15th, 2008: Hey I'm thinking of coming out with some new shirts! If you've read something in my comic and you've said to yourself, "MAN I wish I could spend money on that!" why not email me? That way if I get a thousand emails saying MAKE A SHIRT THAT SAYS "WHOAH, CHECK OUT THESE GENITALS" then I'll know you're all crazy. Crazy prescient!

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July 15th, 2008: Hey I'm thinking of coming out with some new shirts! If you've read something in my comic and you've said to yourself, "MAN I wish I could spend money on that!" why not email me? That way if I get a thousand emails saying MAKE A SHIRT THAT SAYS "WHOAH, CHECK OUT THESE GENITALS" then I'll know you're all crazy. Crazy prescient!

Just glancing at the 'top news stories' today:

"InBev succeeds in its $52 billion bid for Anheuser-Busch":  The top US beer brewing company is now Belgian.

"Abu Dhabi Fund Buys Stake in New York's Chrysler Building."  One of NYC's most iconic skyscrapers is only 10% American now.

The ONLY pro-American bit of news:
Robert Gates, America’s defence secretary, overturned a decision by the air force to award a $35 billion contract for new flying tankers to an aircraft made jointly by Europe’s EADS and Northrop Grumman. Boeing, which had been tipped to win the deal, complained about the air force’s procedures in assessing the rival projects. The congressional agency that investigates government spending broadly agreed. The bid for the tanker will now revert to an “open competition” until a new contract is awarded. 

I was furious when I heard that Northrop Grumman won that bid.  I'm very glad to hear this.

 

" Why wait?  Life is not a dress rehearsal.  Quit practicing what you're going to do, and just do it.  In one bold stroke you can transform today."
~Phillip Markins

I'm going kayaking!!  I'm excited!
I'm just praying for good weather.

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July 10th, 2008: If you're in Toronto, you should come to my street artist friend Posterchild's art show opening tonight, 8 pm! It's at the Hotshot gallery in Kensington market and it will be full of DEAD ASTRONAUT DOLLS HANGING FROM THE CEILING. Awesome.

I can't believe I've never seen this show before. Wiki describes it as a cross between Whose Line Is It Anyway and Have I Got News For You. And as Wiki also describes Have I Got Any News For You, "the show has cultivated a reputation for sailing close to the wind in matters of libel with its satirical, light-hearted format." The same can be said of Mock The Week. It's refreshing to watch political correctness and censorship thrown out the window in the same show. This week they made a lotta jokes about Mugabe and his south African fiefdom. Current affairs and facetious British humour in the same show. What more could you ask for?!

Time Warner came to my apartment to finally install my cable and internet this morning at 9:45 -- my appointment was at 10. Great!, I thought. I can get this over with, sleep for a couple hours and have the rest of my day to do whatever I need to do to finish settling in.

Not the case. I was napping with Project Runway on in the background and all of a sudden the cable box decides to reboot itself. I didn't think it was a big deal and let it do its thing, hoping that this would be the only time it happened.

Unfortunately, the damn thing decides to reboot every half hour on the half hour until around 1:30, when it refuses to even connect at all, and now the box is pretty much dead and won't even switch on.

I called Time Warner at 1:45 to tell them about the problem, and basically demanded that they send a tech over today since the box was LESS THAN TWO HOURS OLD when it conked out. It's 6:10 and I'm still waiting for a tech to show up.

So much for being productive today. I can't even go take a shower now, in case the tech shows up. At least my internet is working okay this time around.

1. Take a picture of your bag.
   
2. Now dump everything out and neatly adjust them, and take a picture (no matter how embarrassing).
   
3. Talk about the items inside. Detail!
   

( See inside my bag! )

And yes, it all fits in the one bag. Obviously I carry too much crap around!

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July 10th, 2008: If you're in Toronto, you should come to my street artist friend Posterchild's art show opening tonight, 8 pm! It's at the Hotshot gallery in Kensington market and it will be full of DEAD ASTRONAUT DOLLS HANGING FROM THE CEILING. Awesome.

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July 10th, 2008: If you're in Toronto, you should come to my street artist friend Posterchild's art show opening tonight, 8 pm! It's at the Hotshot gallery in Kensington market and it will be full of DEAD ASTRONAUT DOLLS HANGING FROM THE CEILING. Awesome.

It's really astounding that on the first day I wear a super cute dress to work in FOREVER (because I'm going to a sailing party later tonight), the catcalls on the street increase 200x.