They keep saying "in a couple of weeks," and I'd expect two weeks out to be a reasonable assumption.

I'm staying with mine next week and dreading it, partly for that reason.

A lot of random drawing that'll hopefully come in handy later (doing some idea work for the next big narrative project, which is tentatively scheduled for next autumn) but trying to stay on top of the webcomic schedule in light of spending next week with my mom in Wisconsin (I expect I'll be able to get a little work…

Hooray This Shit

Stroh's Pilsner is back on draft at my local!

Saint Etienne – Marble Lions
Family – Coronation
Super Furry Animals – Y Gwyneb Iau
Beck – Where It's At
Tortoise and Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Calvary Cross
Roxy Music – All I Want Is You
Sam Cooke – You Send Me
New Order – Blue Monday
Beth Orton – Stolen Car
Springtime Carnivore – Raised By Wolves
The Seeds – Can't Seem To…

Fuck fascists (and shame on local “liberal” politicians who try to handwave structural racism, however well-meaningly, at rallies dedicated to solidarity with the victims of racist violence). Fuck this mountain of shit we're fighting. I also spent most of the weekend terrified that I'd insulted my primary local…

This may be my last AVC Congratulations, lady, but I'm very proud of you for staying the course. Be seeing you on the Avocado! :)

I'll make the switch with my account just to keep my comments (though I think they'll still be available through Disqus?) but actual commenting is unlikely from all I've seen and heard of Kinja. Definitely the commenter tentpoles (I already said goodbye to PCW, and as I'm staying with my mom in Wisconsin next week,…

"I hear the WMD is the 'bomb.'"

There were a fair amount of Kentucky units fighting for the Confederacy (though not as many fighting for the Union—among the latter was the first regiment to make it to the top of Lookout Mountain) so it makes a kind of twisted historical sense.

Unattached update: I suppose my recent decision to give up the very idea of dating (at least for the foreseeable future) was relatively well-timed given what's apparently going to happen to this place in a week or two. So I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the community for the jokes, discussion, and above all…

The cast was great, her included. It was pretty lackluster at times, but still justified its existence, if you ask me, with the Tom Cruise joke at the key party. I don't know why, but that cracks me up every time I remember it (O'Mara's delivery and the actress's response).

I was an early user of both, but I was, until recently, too attached to my adopted rituals here (TI, PCW, and eventually Comics Panel and Big Issue) to spare much time (which feels far more precious now that I'm past forty, and I don't have an office job which allows me to noodle around the Internet like—apparently—so…

I love how genuinely pissed off he sounds in that "Spin the Bottle" sketch on SNL when Abby Elliott's Mindy teases him for not kissing her yet.

Not that I actually have anything genuine to contribute this weekend (been doing my own thing, so to speak, in a number of ways and haven't done much else), but as this might be my last ever PCW (I doubt I'll be sticking around for Kinja, except in isolated instances) let me thank you, Franko, for these updates. Your…

"Cable pays off in so many ways!"

"Come on, Santa… I need more stuff, man. Just a taste…"

"Merlin was a thieving crackhead who stole to support his habit."

My grandfather was a conservative white Mississippian (born and raised in Tupelo) who also happened to be a glider pilot who flew into Sicily and Holland during the war (the latter during Operation Market Garden, where he won, I think, the Air Medal for gallantry after flying farther than expected behind enemy lines…