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#112 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 28, 2008 in awesomeness, cartoons, comic of the day, comics, food, health | 17 comments

Sadly, if I do in fact have a sensitive or refined palette, it is totally wasted. I despise and will not tolerate onions, thus a HUGE selection of foods are off limits to me, even whole types of cuisine sometimes. I can almost never order a soup in a restaurant (definitely gonna have onions) and while I’ve found things I really like at Thai and Indian restaurants, navigating the menu is always a bit of a challenge. So this palette of mine, refined or no, is wasted on me. I’ve branched out much more in my adulthood, often with thanks to Adam (I now like roasted brussel sprouts and about a thousand other vegetables I never would have tried without his guidance) but onions remain a hated enemy, I doubt I’ll ever get over it.

Randomly I also hate and will not tolerate: bananas, mushrooms (although I’ve made an exception here a few times in the last year for portabellos with not disastrous results), peaches, apricots, and plums (long story), as well as red grapes, pumpkin, coconut, and cooked carrots.

Any kind of food that you guys despise? Does it limit you?

#111 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 27, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, health | 18 comments

It seemed high time to correct some of my rabid readership’s thinking…we are in fact NOT curing cancer with this comic strip. I hope some of you will stick around anyway…

#109 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 25, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, relationships, writing | 4 comments

Sorry for the late posting…I’ve been ill, probably due to overwork and have taken a much needed day off/sick day and I was sleeping in. I’ve been working my regular work schedule plus going home early on Thursdays and working late from home and then working all day at home on Fridays trying to meet Monday draft deadlines for a web design thing for my office. There is ALWAYS way more work than I think there will be however, and so for the last three or four weekends that has meant working Saturday and Sunday as well…usually a minimum of eight hours each day. It it is totally killing me. And Adam is none to happy either. The side effects, in order of importance are:

1. I am an incredible exhausted grouchy-pants most (all) of the time.

2. I spend almost no pure/good/fun downtime with Adam unless it is scheduled (The Bad Plus show for example).

3. My body is so sick of sitting at my desk and staring at a computer screen that I wouldn’t sit at my desk/computer to do my own writing and comics if you threatened me with my greatest fears. Thus, no writing and the bare minimum of comics have been done over the last month.

The good news is, the project is looking good, and thankfully drawing to a close. I optimistically predict there will be less than eight hours of work this coming weekend and I hope to maybe take next Monday off as well, to offset the horror.

This must be the tiniest taste of what tax accountants experience every winter/spring. Suffice to say I will not be switching over to that field…

#108 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 24, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, holidays, music, relationships, religion, the bad plus | 11 comments

As childless atheists (that sounds really bad somehow) these kind of holidays just slip on by. This year I actually did manage to remember and gave Adam some brightly colored chocolate treats (that is what Easter is about right – “Brightly Colored Chocolate Treats…often shaped like cute animals”)? But otherwise it passed without a mention.

We did see The Bad Plus at the Bluenote on Saturday night with some friends and it was, as usual, fantastic. Standouts were their songs Dirty Blonde and 1980 World Champion (sound familiar?) as well as their brilliant cover of Tears For Fears Everybody Wants to Rule The World. Great stuff and a really good time with friends I haven’t seen in far too long.

A special shout out to Steve who didn’t want to go to the show and came along anyway. It wasn’t really his thing, but he gets major points for being a team player and hanging out.

#107 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 21, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics | Permalink

Yup. Memory loss. Good times. To be fair, my co-worker is actually YOUNGER than I am, but still, the inability to come up with the word “revolving” is just too sad. On the plus side, once I got over the fact that I am old and feeble minded, I find it quite fun to call revolving doors, “go round doors” it’s got a nice ring to it I think…

High Maintenance Machine #600 Strip Contest

March 21, 2008 in art, artists, blogging, cartoons, comics, competition | 4 comments

Matthew Reidsma, an incredibly talented comic strip artist, whose strip High Maintenance Machine is so superior to mine I can’t even explain it, in fact once you visit High Maintenance Machine you’ll probably never come back (sniff sniff), just celebrated his 600th strip last month and is having a little contest for other artists to try a hand at drawing his strip. The deadline was yesterday, and here is my entry. You can also see Paul’s (My Life Comics) entry here.

Please do check out High Maintenance Machine, it is a truly excellent strip.

#106 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 20, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, craptastic | 3 comments

Yeah, Bed Bath & Beyond and I continue to have a very different sense of humor. It has made our relationship challenging…

Semi-Famous…

March 19, 2008 in art, cartoons, comics, seafood, urban lobster | 10 comments

I’ve gotten a tiny little taste of semi-fame and I’ll tell you what, I’d pretty much like some more.

Adam and I went to dinner and a movie last night downtown after my salon visit (it’s always a shame to waste super awesome hair by just going straight home – though I’m not sure a dark movie theater is really the place to be showing off awesome locks). Anyway, we went to my new favorite place, which I’ve talked about before, Urban Lobster. As we’re walking inside, Adam grabs me and says, “Oh my god – Kelly look.” And sure enough, taped up in the window with some of their recent reviews, is Rabid Lamb Comic #70 in which I proclaimed my love for Urban Lobster. Hilarious and awesome.

We had our, as usual, delicious meal, and upon leaving we saw the strip and blurb I wrote about Urban posted up on an exterior wall as well. It was pretty much awesome. I took a picture of the ad in the window with my phone, it’s pretty tiny and crappy since it was taken on a phone, but check it out below.

Adam asked me if I had any regrets about the comic now that it was posted up on a public wall, and I said yes, for sure, I wished I’d drawn it better as I particularly hate panel one (panel two I actually love and three and four are passable, though the text is a bit wonky) but this is actually a bit of a conundrum. I know I can draw better than what I crank out for Rabid Lamb, but I’m just too busy and posting daily is just too fast and intense for me to put in the necessary time to get everything drawn at a level I’d be more happy with. I don’t know, I’m going to have to think about it. Anyone have any thoughts?

Sidenote: I’ve decided that should I ever be on Death Row, my last meal request will be “Lobster Bisque, Lobster Roll and Mashed Potatoes from Urban Lobster”…It’s definitely carb heavy, but it’s my last meal…might as well live it up right?

#105 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 19, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, holidays | 3 comments

Talking heads again, but with an exciting 4th panel, sort of.

To my credit, I had been up late for just days and days and days with very little sleep, and I happen to live on a very frat-y wanna be irish street that has no less than three irish bars within shouting distance of my window. Did you do anything great for St. Patrick’s Day? Clearly I did not…sleep is good.

#104 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 18, 2008 in boyfriends, cartoons, comic of the day, comics, relationships | 4 comments

Best. Comic. Ever. Yeah, aren’t you glad you came all the way back here for a talking head comic? Sorry. I’ll try harder for tomorrow…technical difficulties be damned.

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