I was interviewed for this week’s Redweek, the UNL College of Journalism & Mass Communications’ weekly newspaper, on the Danish cartoon controversy.

I’ve been interviewed for various reasons in the past (see: 1996 Auburn Yearbook Crisis; 2003’s Puppeteer Geek story) and finally - finally - I felt like I was represented accurately! I’ve been on the other side of enough stories that I know how easy it is to present people’s quotes completely as stated in the context they were given, yet people still feel like they were misrepresented, so I am not saying that to put any blame on previous reporters. But either I’m finally getting better at saying what I mean, or Tiffany Lee did a heck of a job (the second is actually more likely, but it might be a mixture of both).

I don’t know if Redweek is posted online anywhere, but it’s actually a really good story about the many angles of the situation. There’s a UNL student who had lived in Iran, a law professor with 1st Amendment expertise, the Christian perspective, and a cartoonist’s perspective.

I was singled out not because I cared to defend the Danish cartoonists (because I don’t), but because I have depicted Jesus in quite a few cartoons over the years.

I did have one quote that I can’t believe I said (I’m not disputing I said it, I just can’t believe my internal censors didn’t stop it) but I don’t think I dishonored the world of professional editorial cartoonists any more than those bland losers do to themselves on a daily basis.

I don’t remember if I posted about this before, but several months back I injured my neck while sleeping. I had already been going through the whole “I’m 27, I’m old” thing, and then I went and got injured while lying flat on my back. Oh, and I had just gotten over a back injury from playing croquet.

Okay so I realized I shouldn’t bother typing the whole story again in case I had written about this back in September, so there, a link to previous misery.

Today, I’m doing something slightly more dangerous - towel-drying my hair after a shower - when I re-aggravate it. Dropped to the floor. Pulled myself up on my bed, trying to catch my breath from that sudden shock of pain. As the day went on, I managed to get to my car (where I had left my neck brace) and make it to McDonald’s and back for my cartooning lunch, but it just got worse as the day went on.

It’s now 9pm, I have a stupid neck brace on, and I hate the feeling of knowing that no matter how hard you wish, your body will not cooperate with you.

Oh and then I found out I got dropped from the lincolnite blogroll. Lincolnite BOG roll is more like it! No, not really. It’s fair, since I don’t really post anything other people would want to read. I only post about being injured, not important things like HAVING THE FLU.

I saw this on Mistina’s livejournal, and I only have work that I should be doing right now.

Open iTunes, sort your library using the following search criteria, and list the results.

Total Count
4704

Sort by song title
First: “***K the Millennium” by 2K
Last: “Zu Dir” by Black Heaven

Sort by time
Shortest: Kompressor “You Will Call Me Kompressor” 0:53
Longest: Dandy Warhols “It’s a Fast-Driving Rave-Up with the Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes” 16:06

Sort by artist
First: 2 in a Room
Last: The Zombies

Sort by album
First: “‘64 - ‘95″ by Lemon Jelly
Last: “Zooropa” by U2

Sort by genre
First: Alternative: Calexico “Ballad of Cable Hogue”
Last: Unclassifiable: Subtle & Hrvatski “I Heart LA Two”

Top ten most played songs
1. “Space Age Love Song” by A Flock of Seagulls
2. “Fading Like A Flower” by Dancing DJs vs Roxette
3. “Only You” by Yaz
4. “My My My” by Armand Van Helden
5. “Second Story Man” by Heaven is a Hotel
6. “Yawn, Yawn, Yawn” by Les Savy Fav
7. “Got to wake up” by Baxter
8. “Precious” by Depeche Mode
9. “Daydreaming” by Massive Attack
10. “It’s Me Again Lord” by Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown