Update:
At some point when I wasn’t looking this blog passed it’s 100,000 mark, which isn’t nothin’ to folks like over at Soylent or Asshats, but I’m not unhappy about it. If I had to make a wild guess it was Aggie who crossed the line.
Moving on… Obama says we’re going to get our health care bill (not vote, not pass… it’ll just arrive somehow) and then they’ll post the information so we can all know what is in i t.
For the millionth time: I don’t feel comfortable buying a house that I’ve never seen. I don’t buy cars that I’ve never seen. I don’t even buy a friggin’ t-shirt that I’ve never seen yet the tyrants in Congress made up mostly by the Democratic Party are going to see to it that I do. And this will cost oh-so-much more than a t-shirt. Why should I quietly sit back and let Congress vote in a health care bill that they won’t tell me about, and indeed we have no way of knowing what is in it, much less whether the House and Senate versions match word-for-word?
Mr. Obama’s response [to Brett Baier’s question]: “By the time the vote has taken place, not only will I know what’s in it, you’ll know what’s in it, because it’s going to be posted and everybody’s going to be able to evaluate it on the merits.”
Except it’s not going to be voted on… it’ll be “deemed and passed”.
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, New York Democrat, defends tying the health care bills together. “There’s no way in the world we’d do anything unconstitutional,” she said. (Associated Press)
I’m mortally insulted that she feels I’m stupid enough to take her word (and ANY politician’s word) at that.
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Steampunk Corset – simple idea, right? That’s about all it is.
I don't like it. I need to start over on the darkness of the lines and the background.
But I had another idea for a Steampunk poster. A many barrelled blunderbuss type gun called The Mimesweeper, featuring subsonic loads to silently take mimes out. You can’t even hear them scream. And the poster should have this faded image of a mime with his eyes wide open in utter terror just for that little something. And then at the bottom, the gun mfr offers upgrades for every ten mime scalps you bring in.
I’d buy one.
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The doc’s PA agrees, the sudden dramatic spike in pain is the nerves going nuts just before they die. Too badk I’m sticking to this week to wean off the meds. I’m way too tired of being doped up. Grinding my teeth down at the moment but another two days of this, three tops, and I should be out of it. Yahoo.
Lemur King's Folly 
It’s getting there! But yah, for something that’s supposed to be old, the lines wouldn’t be so dark and crisp. You’ll probably want to fade those up a bit.
Hang in there LK – we’re all pulling for you.
That is exactly what has been bugging me about it. It’s an issue with my starting point when setting up the graphics layers – no amount of mixing layers is going to fix that in a way that I can easily work with so I’m going to go back to first principles on what I import into GIMP.
I do like the color of the background though….looks very nice. The Mimesweeper sounds like a necessity, too!
Any chance you’ll have the other designs on babydoll T-shirts? I only saw the hummingbird one in that style.
I do hope this is the “last hurrah” for them wicked nerves, LK. I’m praying for you!!
Hi Lemur King. SOrry to read you are feeling poorly. I hope as you read this, you’ll feel better. At least spring is coming and we can soon all be outdoors. That should cheer our moods, and Happy Weekend, too.
Day two of – let’s be honest – misery. That said, all historical evidence points to a day or perhaps two more to go and then these puppies up and die.
Only thing I can figure is that the magnitude of the discomfort could somehow be related to the speed with which they regenerate (which is pretty fast, for me). But I’m not a doctor, just a simple engineer.
The good news is that it has only taken half as long for the die-off point to arrive so I’m not displeased.
Thank you for your well-wishes.
Spring has already been here this week. We’ll get some weird snow/ice/freezing-rain this weekend but it’s been an absolute pleasure the last few days.
The Mimesweeper: You Can’t Even Hear Them Scream.
That’s the Greatest Fucking Slogan in the history of advertising.
As for the corset–I thought up a compliucation for you, just because I’m an asshole and my two-piston idea failed.
What if the bodice itself had more metal–think medieval breast plate ala Victoria’s Secret, armor with silk.
I have to remember to post the links to your very idea, cb. Apparently some sick puppies made all-steel corsets. They look like a cross between a spainiard’s armor and a chastity belt designed by Marquis de Sade.
Amazing what people think of when they start thinking “corset”.
The Mimesweeper – so many possible weapons choices and implementations, if one tickles your whatever, let me know. Ideas are always welcome. Ridiculed, perhaps, but always welcome.
WTF happened to TEH MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION, EVAH?? WTF happened to posting ALL the bills online so we the serfs could read the bills BEFORE the efferes voted?? WTF happened to the effers READING the emeffing bills???
Prez admits HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT’S IN THE BILL???
GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn, I am so mad I misspelled a colloquialism….
*insert scorching profanity here*
Actually Aggie – you do have a graceful save on that one.
m*****f***er could be shortened to mf’er and then phonetically spelled: em-effer -OR- in your case em-effing.
Not really, LK…I was referring to “efferes”….. I typed an extra “e”.
GAH!!! again 😉
The whole situation is a great big “GAH”
I too approve of the mimesweeper and conga rats on your hit milestone. 🙂
“Conga rats”… an endless serpentine conga line of rats dancing off the pier of economics into the ocean of fiscal irresponsibility.
Vivid.
Quite a linguistic editiorial cartoon, there, LK 🙂
I think they should also be named “conga democrattus” for a latin name.
Yes, bad form of me not to have said Yahoo on your 100K. Hope this helps…
Aw Dang….
Sorry for forgetting to congratulate you in your awesomeness, LK. I am still a bit foggy with ire to even read in an orderly manner. Yes, I know it is at the TOP of the post, but I was ornery today and skipped to the quotes section.
Congrats on the 100K!!!!
Stop apologizing, guys. I’m not one of these people who gets ticked off when people forget my birthday and I’m not one to get uptight because you didn’t notice only the second-most important event in my life.
Geez.
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Seriously. That was a joke. Chill. It’s cool.
I’m enjoying a refresher on Breaking Bad – they’re doing a marathon.
Thank goodness I am hispanic, Catholic, and female. I wear guilt in style 😉
Here I thought you were going to tag me by bringing up Cruel Wife, Girlhead, Franken-boy, and Zoe-pup and say “Uh… second?”
Man, you must’ve had some rough day/week. Or Lent is killing you slowly. 🙂
I gave up the internet once. It was awful awful hard.
I figured they tied for first 😀