maria_sputnik

If you're looking for comics, we've got some
here (the worst horse saga parts 1 and 2),
here (the worst horse finale),
here (maria and mom sputnik at the beach),
here (a meditation on american presidents),
here (great darkness national park),
here (the first chronicle from big nose national park),
and here (seeing stars, AKA big nose part 2).




If you're looking for the Georgia/Russia/South Ossetia posts, you can find them here (part one's at the bottom of the page).

i am so lonely for comics friends here in new york! so in a counter-intuitive move i'm going to go try and make comics friends in philadelphia (at the above mentioned event. they don't mention me, but that's because they didn't have to -- i'm the flying lion with the three eyes and the snake tongue).

if you are in philadelphia this weekend -- i know a couple of you live nearby -- stop by and say hello!

and dog lovers, people lovers, begonia lovers,

my friend Gabby beeblism is an awesome cartoonist. In fact, Diamond Adult Previews just said that his new book, Monsters, "cements his standing as one of the best cartoonists of his generation."

His book won't be out for a month, though, and until the filthy lucre and fame and fortune hit, he's trying to scrape up some cash by drawing pictures of cats. YOUR cat, to be specific.

IMAGINE YOUR CAT HERE:


kitty, so evil, squinting

meow


Forty bucks for a short-haired cat and fifty bucks for a long-haired cat. Pictures of dogs, ferrets, gerbils, houseplants, and your girlfriend are also possible: send all inquiries to lj beeblism. YOUR CAT COULD BE ONE OF THE BEST CARTOONS OF THIS GENERATION!

whether you want one or not you've got to admit the dude has a special feeling for cat-mojo

your friend,
sputnik

do you ever prepare a big mess of food, and then eat it over several days? i am trying to think of good recipes for the lazy-except-once-a-week cook -- stuff you can pull out of the fridge and be eating ten minutes later.

here's what i've got so far:
tamales (cheese and green chili)
lasagna
beans and rice (which i've been eating for two weeks. next week, coconut rice a la lj_ayebee)
rice salad
minestrone (i like to make it with pecorino rind and fresh fava beans)
deviled eggs
summer rolls (i don't know if it's kosher to keep them several days in the fridge, but why not?)

do you have any suggestions or recipes?

also, just out of curiosity -- how do you eat? -- do you cook every day? eat out? survive on bagel sandwiches? does anyone pack a lunch? if so, what do you carry it in?

EDIT: i am also interested in looking at food blogs! do you read food blogs? man, i am the most food-obsessed girl in brooklyn tonight.

the first two parts of this story are here.



( sex! death! delirium! and avocadoes. 15 pages. )

part one of this story can be found here



( click here for ten more pages of nose-oriented material )

written by van choojitarom

what should i do with this story?

the tiber river looks like it might jump its banks.

i am sad to think of what'll happen to rome if it does.

"It is not who I am underneath, but what I do, that defines me." -- Batman.

at the barbershop today, the "beauty operator" told me about a film she saw on youtube featuring an elephant painting a picture. "it painted a picture OF AN ELEPHANT," she said. "an elephant holding a flower." i came right home and HERE IT IS!

doesn't this movie bring up uncomfortable questions? like: does the elephant KNOW that it's painting an elephant, as opposed to a bunch of random marks? does that mean that elephants are symbolic thinkers and capable of imagining things in 2D? does that mean that we could try to communicate with them via pictograph? does the elephant understand that painting "elephant w/flower in trunk" is CUTE? fuck!

Two things:

1. I set up an etsy shop! So if you want to buy comics, you can do it there.

(If you already asked for a comic and gave me your address, your comics were free! and are currently on their way.)

2. Drunk Pony Fished From Swimming Pool

was this comic gabby drew back in 2005 2006, after coming to portland for the weekend and staying all summer. i keep it in my jewelery box, next to my grandma's old turquoise ring, videotapes of weddings, and teeth my dad pulled out of his head with pliers.



( the rock )

UPDATE: if you want a paper version of this comic, you can get one by emailing me your address (send it to dogwitharussianhat at gmail), then sending $2.50 to katsam (((at))) oddpost /dot/ com. Or, if you prefer, you can buy one at etsy.

UPDATE 2: now this comic will also be part of the experimental tabloid Diamond Comics available through Floating World Comics after November 3rd!

UPDATE 3: Coming out as a hardback book September 25, 2009 from Garrett County Press.

i want to post comics to the internet. all in one place, large-sized, in a place where it'd be easy to read them. (a place which isn't livejournal.com -- i wanna diversify!)

so far i've been frustrated by google webpages (cuts off the edges), flickr (un-comics-friendly presentation), and wordpress.com (only allows me one comix page per post).

can you help? i feel like grandma, trying to find thegoogle.com

"He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." (H.L. Mencken on Warren Harding)

A SHOUTOUT:

some of our livejournal brethren* have created a website for disgruntled Clinton voters (beyondhillary.com) laying out the case for Barack Obama.

It has a nice compare-and-contrast chart illustrating policy crossovers and disagreements between Clinton, Obama, and McCain, and addresses several questions a would-be Clinton supporter might have about the upcoming election.

This could be the perfect electoral-season gift for the Hillary Clinton lover in your life! Pass that link along, kids.

* lj rival and lj suddenleap

If I made a zine/postseries about exit polls next week, would people would want to read it, or is that topic too depressing to grab folks' attention?

A couple of years ago I wrote a long paper about exit polling. See, in Serbia 2000 and Ukraine 2004, discrepancies between exit polls and official polls led people to say EXIT POLLS ARE A HARD SCIENCE, THIS IS THE EVIDENCE THAT THE GOVT IS FULL OF LYING CROOKS, UKRAINIANS AND SERBIANS SHOULD POOL IN THE STREETS AND OVERTHROW THEIR OVERLORDS! And they did.

Meanwhile, when there were exit poll discrepancies in Venezuela 2004 and the United States 2004, many of the same "scientists"/"pundits" said AH WELL EXIT POLLS ARE REALLY JUST A SORT OF IMPRESSIONISTIC ARTISTIC THING DESIGNED TO HELP THE MEDIA DO PROJECTIONS, FORGET ABOUT IT, TAKE OFF YOUR TINFOIL HATS WEIRDOES, and everyone said "oh," and made a ham sandwich and went to watch "Law and Order."

I took apart that clock and peered at its cogs and coils, and now am ready to regurgitate the information I consumed.

yes/no?