Closed for the Holidays.

Yup. C-P is closed is for the next two weeks. I myself will be in Mexico up until the 23rd. Dave will be... wherever it is that Dave will be. Idunno. Check his blog.

We'll be back in the first week of January, though Tuesday the 2nd is more likely that January 1st.

The front page as you know it will be gone (barring a massive outcry). Clicking through misift's front page to the C-P portion will lead directly to the newest strip. All other features will be linked to from said page, but there will no longer be new strip preview button. Sorry. It simply makes things clunky and gives me one more thing to worry about updating in the morning before work.

Do look for an updated archive and local hosting of the strip. No more wondering out to the Badger Herald or Comic Sherpa for the strips (though rest assured that they will also be available on those respective sites).

I'm beat. I'm going to bed. See you next year suckers!

Catch Up

Finally went to see "Walk the Line" on Friday. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend doing so.

Tim, Phil and I hit on a brilliant idea before seeing the move: let's drink while we watach! And so it was that we each crammed our winter jackets full of cans of Miller Lite and headed to the downtown theater. For the record: Miller Lite not my favorite, but they don't put snobby beers in aluminum form for easy carrying, so fuck off.

I preceded to buy a large tub of popcorn in order to cover the sound of cans opening. Worked like a charm. Everytime on of them went to open a beer, I'd start shaking the tub to cover the noise. Never worked. It just became one asshole making too much noise with buttery goodness and two guys opening cans of beer in the dark.

I was very much concerned with keep pace with Tim, so I put my four cans down during the two hour movie. Not enough to destroy a man my size, but enough to make me slightly dumber than usual. I swear Tim had a five or six empty cans on the floor by his seat when we left, but he swears up and down that the total was 3. I should have photographed the cans. I did manage to snap a picture of "only 3 beers" Tim...

Evil Minds That Plot Destruction

Joe sent me a great link a while back to Viceland and I'm only now getting around to posting it. Most of their content is interesting, but I'm really only interested in the very first caption about the demolition crew. Click the link to see what I mean.

Joe: I'll be in Mexico from the 16th right up until the 23rd with The Girl TM. Let me know when your Syracuse lovin' ass makes it back to the frozen pee-pee land. I

Hali: Same thing. Fuck North Carolina. Come back to wear things freeze.

Josh: Sorry to hear that you won't be able to get back. i'll have a Jager Bomb and a lapdance for you man. For YOU. I'm selfless like that.

Mark: You're a tool.

Shit. I think I may have inadvetantly transformed this post into a mass e-mail. Screw that shitty shit.

In other news, I want to buy this shirt and wear it to the next Gogol Bordello show so I may be on with the Russians. The characters depicted are from Cheburashka, a series of adorable stop motion features that Russian children loved and cherished. I think he was even the mascot for the Soviet Olympics at some point, but don't quote me on that.

Evidently the translation isn't completely accurate... it turns out that it says "don't front", but it's more profane than previously suspected. Idunno. I Imagine the English version of the shirt being akin to Snoopy brandishing an Uzi saying "Fuck Off, Cocklint". I guess I won't be wearing it around Sofya's grandmothers in order to impress them as previously supsected.

Today's Strip...

..is a throw-away put together in under three minutes. Enjoy!



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Russ + Filibuster = Boner

May people have posed the question "What does Wisconsin have that other states don't?"

Russ. We have Russ.

Russ Feingold, bitches.


Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
On the Patriot Act Conference Report

December 8, 2005

“I will do everything I can, including a filibuster, to stop this Patriot Act conference report, which does not include adequate safeguards to protect our constitutional freedoms. The version of the Patriot Act that was signed today is a major disappointment. I appreciate that it includes four-year sunsets on three controversial provisions, but merely sunsetting bad law is not adequate. We need to make substantive changes to the law, and without those changes I am confident there will be strong, bipartisan opposition here in the Senate.

This isn't about stopping Patriot Act reauthorization. The President could sign Patriot Act reauthorization legislation into law tomorrow if the House would just take up and pass the compromise Senate bill that was approved unanimously in the Senate earlier this year – a bill that includes important and reasonable privacy protections. The conference committee had the opportunity to fix many of the provisions of the Patriot Act to which Americans across the political spectrum have voiced their opposition over the last four years. Unfortunately, they decided not to listen. This battle is not over.”

Today's Strip

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Do we have plans for this strip? You bet. Will we reveal our stragety? Not likely. Will this end up in t-shirt form? It's not knowable.

The Allen Bradley clocktower flashes the temperature every couple of seconds. Think of a bank sign on steroids. It was quite gratifying to see it flash "1" this morning. Sadly one degree doesn't feel that terrible. Then again, I no longer walk a half hour to work, so what do I know?

Today's Strip

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I necame confused as to what my color schedule was at the Herald. Consequently I blew all of my time making a Thursday color and no time making a Friday black and white. Turns out that I don't have a color strip until next week. Son of a bitch.

Look for a new front page interface coming around the new year. I'll also be firming up the schedule to eliminate this "when's the next strip going to appear?" crap. And, of course, the archive will be brought up to speed.