How about the dad-got-spinal-menengitis-and-we-both-got-pink-eye-and-also-a-tree-branch-put-a-hole-in-our-roof-and-our-jakuzi-that-we-hadn't-installed-yet-and-then-we-had-to-put-all-the-wood-chips-in-garbage-bags-by-hand-and-haul-them-away-and-also-stack-all-the-wood-from-that-danged-giant-redwood-and-plus-i-always-was-on-restriction-alot summer?

Yeah, how 'bout that one?

We're too heavy.  Cut my rope!

Please. Use that rock. Be swift.

Dear World:  It has been fun.

P.S.  This is on your hands.

I'll never be Hemingway.  I'm me.

Okay, so everyone's seen "Invasion", right? Or one of the many movies it was a remake of, right? Or read a book or saw the T.V. show "Invasions" that was sortof like it, right? 

Right.

So the other night I had a dream like that. Only they were not alien bodysnatchers, they were just humanoid robots.  And they didn't try to change you, they just killed you if you gave them any reason to believe you were human (emotions, dilating pupils) or at least not TRYING to be a robot.  (You have to try or they get offended? In their circuits?)

So anyways, I go through this long dream of pretending to be a robot, being completely emotionless and all, even when my buddies are getting killed.  Then, right at the end of my dream, I meet this guy.  He is a robot, but he is special in that he has some important job and that he is the only one of them who is programmed to die eventually.  I remember him so clearly.  He looked, like, 38, and had slightly unkempt brown hair and a purple suit on (velvet?).  He told me since he was going to die anyway, he'd rather die now and happy.  So he just cracks a smile, a small one.  The kind with wrinkles in the corners of the downward cast eyes, hair falling in front of the forehead.  He takes a couple of steps away, lifts his arms and head...and is shot by robotic aircraft.  

Why are my dreams so allegorical?

A few nights later I dreamt about this guy who read "Jekyll and Hyde", which made him beCOME Jekyll and Hyde (In lovely James Nesbitt format) and thereafter pull "pranks" more heinous than that of your traditional Hyde and the Joker put together.  I do not care to elaborate.

Why are my dreams so disturbing?

And yet I still find myself saying that my life is the stuff of nightmares.

Ok ok ok I did this from memory before I realized the whale was facing the wrong way and the text is a bit off, BUT YOU GET THE POINT. maybe. if you've seen it before maybe.

Anyway, us poor folk have to appreciate Ryan North merch in our own way...

 

I have the meanest dad ever. He told me later that he really would be very sad if i died, but i'm not so sure.  He was a wee too quick with that comeback...

My homely homie homeboys.  This sortof stemmed from a conversation I was having on Yahoo Messenger with Doodle, so I've got to throw some credit out to my good friend Michael H.  

EDIT July 19, 2008:  It has come to my attention (via my math enthusiast little sister) that my math in this comic is wrong.  The math.  In my COMIC. Is wrong.  How did I mess up a simple algebraic equation involving two fictional characters? Hmm?  That is just how bad at math I am.  It SHOULD read as so:  House=Holmes+1 Med License.  Apparently my rough draft for this comic was correct, but i failed to refer to it when doing the final...

Also:  Right after I made this comic and had shown my sister, a breaking news report came on and it was totally about a factory fire.  She was all BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DRAW ASIA WHY IS YOUR NEXT COMIC ABOUT YOU DYING?!?!?

Today I went on a job interview to be an acting coach for kids! Yay me! I hope I get it!

Guess. What I did today. I'll give you a hint: The Phaaaaaaaaaaantom of the Opera is nooow in Saaacramentooo!!

Yes!! It was QUITE amazing.  The effects were awesome, the visuals beautiful.  (I am just so used to writing reviews after every show I see.  Call it drama class habits.)  Anyway, the guy playing the Phantom...his name escapes me just now, was phantomenomenal.  Gerard Butler may be eye candy, but this guy was...wow.  What a voice!  And much stronger emotion than Butler, though that is partially due to the better choice of dialogue in play rather than the movie. Christine was okay.  We didn't get the main girl billed as Christine, but she was still pretty good, though I actually really preferred Emmy Rossum to her.  Yeah, I know!  The woman playing La Carlotta actually had an amazing voice.  I, um, I liked her better than Christine?  Well, I'm not going to pick apart every actor (though they were mostly quite good),  but...wow.  I'm so glad I finally got to see it on stage.  

(Have fun, Jenny!!)

P.S.  New comics are in the works.  Been busy a job huntin'.  Um.  It is not going very well.
P.S.S.  By the way, I talked to Mr. J today (we were at Tani's dance recital, so I randomly went in the drama room, and lo and behold...).  "I saw Phantom of the Opera today!"  Him: "I hate you."  Gotta love that guy.

fanditis is a gruesome disease with symptoms such as being a nerd. symptom=cause(1.5)+1

I have had nothing to eat today except pasta, pb&j, and strawberries.  I. Need. A. Job.

 

sorry, i couldn't think of anything.  o and i guess this is my teenage self meme, at least for now. I, um, I am still technically a teenager? 19? counts, right? so i guess i look pretty much the same. i also liked to wear wacky hats to school. now i wear them, uh, not at school. right now.

In other news, I am going sailing (hopefully) tomorrow! I am going to wear a black coat that flairs so it will look hecka cool in the oceanic winds. I am a 19 year old who still likes to imagine things while everyone else asks why I am not a chit-chattin'.  The end.

I think I will have to rescan this one and replace it.  Uh...yeah. That is all.  Oh, and guys: It is so hard to get a job in CA right now!

The second half:

 I AM FINALLY POSTING MY HOURLY COMIC DAY COMIC!! I did 12 comics in 5 1/2 hours, instead of the 12  comics in 12 hours done by those more diligent.  But OH WELL. Stupid technical difficulties prevented me from uploading them until now.  Here is the first half.  Hopefully I will get the second half uploaded before the weekend is over.











 

O everbody, o everybody! Guess what! My friend badfishblag has gone and coloured my superhero comic! See it here: http://pics.livejournal.com/badfishblag/pic/00001yb6

Wooooo fan(s)!

 Hey, so if for those of you who care, I DID in fact participate in 12 hour comic day today (but I uh sortof cut it in half, 12 hours in 5 1/2 hours), but as I was taking pictures of the comics, my dad's camera died, and I couldn't find the battery. So, uh, they're gonna be up pretty late. Lo siento!

Yeah, guess what, no update today. I made a comic, but I am still having technological difficulties, so I will just be making comics and setting things up so after Friday, there should not be many more missed updates!