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Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

I'm in need of an illustrator for the charity t-shirts for the Thriller dancers that in everyone's mind but Guinness' hold the record of 903 dancers!

I need the Abe the Alien figure and a Stormtrooper in roar pose for the shirt (I have pics of Abe doing it for reference).

If you are an atrist and would like to donate your time for t-shirts for charity, please email me at mcdkimber at gmail dot com and we'll talk. :)

I was informed to please get the shirts OUT so that's what I'm going to do. Got the design, just need the talent. :)

The shirts will be sold to those that danced ONLY (I'm sure there will be shirts for everyone if we beat our own record next year), and I have the list so once the shirts are ordered, I check against the list, and then your shirt gets made.

Can someone draw me an alien and a stormie doing the roar? Please?

Just email me!

Kimber

Friday: Beer and munchies at Dunderbaks with Michelle, Mike and Doug.

Saturday: Watched "Up" with Kristin, Doug and Sandy after an unsuccessfule attempt at hitch installation (thanks anyway, Doug!). Dinner at Paninoteca with Kristin and Michelle. If you are in downtown Tampa, and are in the mood for an Awesome Mid-easter/Mediterranean sandwich and nosh shop, you should totally check this place out. Then the three of us saw "Law Abiding Citizen" which was solid popcorn fare.

Sunday: Breakfast with Kristin, and a pinic lunch and a walk with Michelle at Lettuce Lake Park. A beautiful day at the park. A thought I had upon seeing a dachsund in the park- "The world must be such a very big place when your legs are that short..."

I have also been playing a lot of Torchlight this week/weekend. Having a lot of fun with hit.

Dear Artist:

Your website is a marvel of layout and CSS magic. It has impressive superimposition of graphics on top of moving text blocks, shiny light-up buttons in unusual spray patterns, and a left-hand margin that ripples in and out like a wave.

You also have no gallery, your print shop requires me to find a scroll bar within a text block that extends outside my window frame and is immune to my page-down/arrow-down commands, and you give me no way to link directly to any of the pieces I want to share with other people.

Also, let me repeat: you have no gallery. You don't even link to an external gallery site like DeviantArt. Making me go to your print shop in order to decide if I like your art makes me feel pressured into seeing your art in a "BUY IT NOW" context, which makes me unnecessarily surly.

In short, your website failed.

Presentation should make it easier to find content. If you've mastered that particular (and difficult) aim, you might even attempt the next goal: making it enjoyable to browse content; good luck with that. But something that has to be used should not be designed solely to be looked at.

Just a thought.

Remembering the Days Before Web 2.0,
—A Passerby.


(Your turn, readers... tell me your favorite websites that don't make this mistake.)

http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2009-11-15&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

I am moving Wed. and I have some odds and ends Im selling- I listed it on craigslist tonight but I thought I would post them here.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/fuo/1466685422.html (table and chairs)
http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/fuo/1466684693.html (leather office chair)

I also have ice hockey equipment for sale (goalie), player sticks and various new hockey jerseys if anyone is interested.

I can't seem to find any information about the specific origins of how it came to be known or believed that a specific herb had x, y, and z magical properties. All I ever find is referring to the proverbial "they", or "it has often been believed", etc. Well, often believed by whom? Surely there are cultural and historical origins to all these herbal magical uses, and yet any and every source I find simply lists the magical property and no explanation on from where and at what point such an herb got said assignment.

The medicinal effects of herbs often do have a "backstory", and even if it doesn't, the effects of the herbs on the body are far more measurable than magical uses.

The common response I get to such inquiries is "because they work" or "it is all in your perception", but this is not the answer I am looking for. I am looking for its history and how the common acceptance of these herbs as magical came to be. It just seems to just simply be accepted by everyone that x herb has y magical property. I need more definitive answers than these provide.

Any recommendations on a text that may explain this?

Thank you.

ETA: Thanks so much to everyone for their responses!! I think I will find some helpful info with what you all gave me.

How did you meet your most recent boyfriend or girlfriend, and what initially turned you on to him or her?

I met my most recent girlfriend though a mutual friend, and the first thing that attracted me to her was that she offered to have sex with me. I later learned she was in the habit of offering that to people, so I gave up drinking and have been single ever since.

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Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

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Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

I've come seeking knowledge. I discovered a site (http://blog.worldvillage.com/health/herbal_remedy_for_bacterial_vaginosis.html) or two that list a certain herb as being useful for clearing bacterial overgrowth. The problem is, I've never heard of it and the web is dead on the subject. I was just wondering if anyone knew any other names or had further information on the herb:

Trachealthis

Any help would be most appreciated.

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If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com.

If you practice a martial art, what is it, and why do you like that particular one?

Ampersand Books invites you to a book signing and launch party for "Dodging Traffic", the new poetry collection by J. Bradley. Meet the author and hear him read selections from his newest publication during this book signing celebration on Saturday November 14, 2009 at 7:00 pm (620 First Ave S - St. Pete, FL 33701). Orlando poet Tod Caviness will also read selected works. Admission is free. Books will be available for purchase.
J. Bradley is the author of the poetry collection, Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in PANK Magazine, decomP, Dogzplot, Welter, kill author, The November 3rd Club, Suss among other journals. Some of the places featuring his performance work include Pedestal Magazine, Indiefeed, and Idiolexicon. He founded the Broken Speech Poetry Slam, Orlando’s longest running poetry slam, in January 2001. In 1985, he dabbled in journalism when he interviewed Emmanuel Lewis with a Spider-Man PEZ Dispenser

The Buzz

Tod Caviness

Well, there were a few entries i wanted to write concerning Rachel, but she kind of told me some news that well, pretty much negates the point of writing those entries about her anymore for the past few days I've missed on updating this LJ. And the primary reason I was updating this LJ was for her, but she has a new boyfriend now, so I don't know how often this LJ will remain updated, to the very select few who continue to read this, Rachel being the most interested in this journal.

So let's update what's pretty much been going on for me the past few weeks...

• Week 1 (four weeks ago) - Injured my right arm on duty at work, had to take several days off and see a doctor about it
• Week 2 (three weeks ago) - Came back to work, was in a sling the entire time and unable to lift things
• Week 3 (last week) - Got deathly sick, had to miss most of the week due to some sort of cold/flu going around the school knocking people off their feet
• Week 4 (this week) - Got acute tendinitis in my left arm, was out of work and saw a doctor, thought I honestly was having a heart attack, and I tell you sitting for close to two hours in a doctor's room waiting for them to prepare a single need to inject as far as they could into my shoulder... I was really scared, and the only reason I made it through was thinking of Rachel and wishing she was there. Silly isn't it? Anyway I came back with my doctor's note that said I can't lift things, and my Principal's secretary told me yesterday (Thursday) that the school is under no obligation to accommodate me because it happened off campus and that I need to take a leave of absence for the next 2 weeks (effectively giving me a month off of work). I said fine sure sounds great, not exactly POOR like some teachers, heh. Got called back in to work to have it cleared up, not sure if the Principal was upset with me too much, because I was ordered off but I didn't ask him about it since it came through his designee and didn't think I should question her about 'policy and procedure'. So this week has been pretty much suck except for Friday, which was actually a NORMAL WORK DAY with no crap or politics or injuries or depressing thoughts on my part, and Rachel had told me last night she had good news for me, which I suspected wasn't true and it was probably - with my 'fantastic luck' - something bad again. Well you know what? The Wright Family Curse once again kicks my ass, and it's just more of how things never go my way.

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