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#194 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 15, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, writing | 3 comments

Yeah, I have no excuses really. It’s been a rough month…but every month seems like that for me and writing. I’ve done better this month in the sense that the huge deadline looming has forced me to get several short fiction pieces off my plate and submitted or ready for submission to clear the way for the novel rewrite, but as for actual words written for the novel – not. a. single. one. Yay me!

Have a good weekend everyone…anything exciting on the agenda? I have one thing on mine, I bet you can guess what it is…

#193 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 14, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, health | 4 comments

That’s right, I’m pretty anti-plan. After trying all sorts of things in my relatively short life this far (everything from weight watchers to slim fast to south beach) I’m a pretty firm believer that none of this works. Life is about balance and if you don’t figure it out without a trick of some kind, you’re likely to fall right back into the same bad habits eventually. I know I did. Multiple times. The “diets don’t work, weight watchers does” is a pretty brilliant marketing strategy, and a lot of people claim it works for them (talk to me in five years) but in the end I am angrier at WW than I am at any of the other plans, because ultimately I feel it’s being even more dishonest.

Okay, no more talk about this, it’s depressing me, even though I’m the one that brought it up.

#192 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 13, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, health | 9 comments

I’ve been noticing even more weight loss ads lately, particularly for Nutrisystem (the most annoying of all the ads – for various reasons) anyway, it hit me like a ton of bricks the other day, that if any of this crap worked, we wouldn’t need these ads. You’d just need a couple ads. People would try it, it would be wildly successful, and then everyone would be doing it, and then in a couple years we’d all be blissfully thin and happy and there would be no more need for the ads.

But, supposedly we’re fatter than ever, and yet there are more ads and more diet plans and companies than ever. Hmmm. I wonder, is it possible that diets are not good for you? That quick fixes and “new revolutionary plans” that are impossible to integrate into a real believable life actually set you back and make it impossible to live happy “normal” lives? Gee. Could it be?

I’ve known for years that most “diets” out there are a bunch of bunk (partially through trial and error, and partially just by using my brain) but it didn’t hit me until the other day that we’re inundated by more and more diets and ads and systems and nonesense, and yet the world just keeps tell us we’re getting fatter (and of course by fatter they mean less healthy – because OF COURSE that HAS to go hand in hand with less healthy…even though it doesn’t always). So something doesn’t add up. Has anyone else been thinking about the math on this?

#191 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 12, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, sports | 4 comments

That’s right…I could have started an exercise regime that would have eventually led me to swimming in a pool, which eventually could lead me to being a great and powerful swimmer (unlike the out of shape normal swimmer that I am today), or I could just make some brownies.

And now we all understand why I’m not an athelete. I was always an atheletic kid, and I grew up around sports and probably had a ball in my hand way before I ever had a doll in my hand, but I just never had the drive back then to really become a true athelete, and probably can’t find the drive now…but I really AM inspiried watching these Olympic games and so maybe SOMETHING will rub off on me.

#190 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 11, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, sports | 2 comments

Yeah, I’m WAY into it. That swimming relay last night was absolutely unbelievable. I hate to admit that it was made even more sweet by the reports/rumors of the French team talking a lot of shit.

I’m not really a believer in talking shit (unless it is completely in jest for comedic effect). I come more from the “just do it, or just shut up” school of thought. Talking shit just makes you look like a moron when you can’t deliver, and man does it make losing even less fun.

I’m not the most patriotic of souls, especially these days, but watching those boys, especially Phelps (of course) celebrate their win was completely awe inspiring. I can’t imagine how amazing that must feel. This blog isn’t called “semi-finalist” for nothing…it’s hard to even be a finalist, let alone get the gold. Good for them.

#188 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 8, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment | 3 comments

Oy. The good news is, this event caused me to solve the age old problem I’ve been whining about over here on 1979 Semi-Finalist…namely, why is it kind of sometimes good, but mostly horrible when people give you nice compliments in public? (Unn!)

Well, at least for me, the answer is, if it’s a stranger, who I will likely never see again, whether it be pedestrian, construction worker, truck driver, etc., that compliments me (or yells UNN!) then I’m mostly okay with it. It may be uncomfortable for a brief moment, but it’s fairly painless and I am generally left with a nice warm fuzzy feeling or ego boost. However, when it is someone you have to see frequently, a guy who runs a comic book store, a clerk of a store you frequent, a construction worker you are going to have to walk past on your way to work for six months, or a cabbie you are trapped with for 20 minutes, then it’s just plain uncomfortable. You can’t help but realize that you are maybe going to have to deal with something like this everytime you see this person, and while you can elegantly (or casually) come up with a way out of or around one compliment, how do you elegantly get through 20 or 50 compliments…it becomes a whole other thing.

And in the comic above, this is exactly what happened. This very nice older gentleman that either works, or owns, or just loves to constantly hang out in the comic book store around the corner from my house complimented me like three weeks ago when I went in to pick up some books before I left for Hawaii. I kind of blew it off and forgot, but I went in this week and it happened again, and the way he left it made me feel like it is going to happen everytime I go in there. Which makes me never want to go in there again. Which is pretty freaking inconvenient. It’s not a great comic book shop, but it’s the only place I can easily pick up new weekly comics. Curses!

#187 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 7, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics | 13 comments

I have to pretend I hate Strawberry Tall Head so that they will give up and stick with that one, but to be honest, I think it’s a pretty hilarious name…and they could have been much much more cruel had they wanted to.

Big mistake though, never tell your co-workers ANYTHING is apparently the rule I should garner from this.

#186 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 6, 2008 in book reviews, books, boyfriends, cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, relationships | 3 comments

That’s right, and not only did I get an awesome “Tuesday present for no reason whatsover” but Adam remains the Michael Jordan of gift buying (are we still using Michael Jordan as an example of awesome things? I so need to catch up on my pop culture – sigh) – as he got me a book by an author I love that I didn’t even know was out. Yay! The book, for the record, is The Girl On The Fridge by Etgar Keret. It’s a collection of short fiction and if it’s half as awesome as the first collection of his short fiction that I read (The Nimrod Flipout) then it will blow my mind (again).

Here’s a picture – since the cover is also awesome.

#185 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 5, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, craptastic, travel, vacation | 2 comments

Why oh why is it so hard to get home? Nine times out of ten I get to my “vacation” destination just fine, it’s always getting home that proves to be a bitch.

#184 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

August 4, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, movies, travel | 2 comments

Yes, this would be Flawless (see previous “review”).

Man, what the hell was Demi Moore thinking with that accent? Just terrible. The thing I really can’t figure about this movie is how anyone – producers, writers, directors, even actors, thought this was actually going to be an intriguing mystery. It’s a period piece heist movie…and let’s just face it, a heist movie these days is only as good as its obstacles…of which there weren’t that many in 1960’s London. I mean if it had been brilliantly done it could have been really interesting as a historical look at how early heist pioneers paved the way for modern day heisters (word? I think not), but since it is poorly done, it’s more like watching paint dry than watching a heist movie.

I should also go on record here as saying that I’m not a super fan of the escalating measures we have to take our heist movies to (i.e. I thought Ocean’s Eleven was a decent film, almost despite the ridiculous hoops our criminals/heroes have to jump through; but I find most heist movies today annoying with absolutely ridiculous hoops that have a suspension of belief not unlike seeing Clark Kent in glasses and not knowing that he’s Superman…which I’ve always found annoying). So I support what this film was TRYING to do, but it just failed miserably. Too bad.

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