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go to Kuhl’s for a freakout breakfast

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

(from Sept 8 ) so i was up early this morning and in the neighborhood of Kuhl’s (O st between 10th and 11th) so I decided to stop in for their $4.50 steak/eggs/hash browns/toast breakfast special to read the last two days of the paper and get some cartoon ideas for today. i hadn’t eaten […]

my right toes smell like blueberries

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

(from Sept 7) i know this will seem a little strange, but this weekend, the toes on my right foot smelled like blueberries. sara first noticed this when, for some reason, she smelled my toes on Saturday and noticed they smelled like blueberries. upon closer sniffing inspection, we discovered that my nail polish (an immediate […]

i made a website

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

I designed the website for the music festival my friend Jeremy organized. It’s my first attempt at designing a flash site…if you’re on dialup, it might take a little while to load. www.lincolncalling.com

irony does not work on 2 year olds

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

(a delayed post from Aug 11) I was just at Runza and this kid, probably 2 years old at the absolute oldest, was knocking over one of those signs they put up after they’ve mopped the floor. His mother, a cranky woman in her mid-20s, kept saying “Oh, thank you for that!” in a tone […]

at the li-li-library

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

so i had these three books checked out that were due in January, and i just kept forgetting to take them back. I received a letter in the mail informing me that my three books were insanely overdue, and that i now owed somewhere in the realm of $280. that letter came to me in […]

feedback from the LJS debut

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

well, when talking to my editor today, he informed me that the mayor’s office called to complain about my debut cartoon in the Lincoln Journal-Star from Sunday. they didn’t get it.

funny sleep-talking from today

Monday, July 26th, 2004

the backstory: I didn’t get a lot of sleep Saturday night, then we went canoeing Sunday, then I worked overnight Sunday, then I worked all day today. So I had gone for quite a while with not much sleep. I needed to take a little nap, so I asked Sara to wake me up after […]

canoooo

Monday, July 26th, 2004

i went canoeing today for the first time ever. sara and i were in one boat and sara’s sister kelly and her boyfriend billy were in the other. we were racing for a while a few miles in, and in the heat of the action, billy broke his paddle, so for the rest of the […]

wow spam is amazing!

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

now i’m reading all my spam! am i like the last one to figure this out? these things are brilliant! here’s another one I got today: for bodice ripper derive perverse satisfaction from ruffian of.Where we can hardly recognize our tomato.But they need to remember how ostensibly over judge returns home.Still throw at her from […]

more spam subject lines…

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

i don’t know why these fascinate me so, but here are two more spam subject lines from today that just struck me as fun: lover 4794 bubbles starlet 3 toothaches actually that “starlet 3 toothaches” one was from Benjamin Barber, so out of curiosity, I went ahead and opened it. these emails are brilliant! Benjamin […]