Hateful Kitty

Kathleen De Vere, of my favorite Commodore 64-based Canadian sketch comedy group "Loading Ready Run", has seen fit to draw an entry to her webcomic "Things My Cat Hates" based on a suggestion I sent her.

You should go check it out by clicking here.

Or here.

Or here, if you like to wait until the last minute, but that will be your last chance.

Of course, Kathleen, herself, had one of her tweets used in an Old Spice internet response ad last year. For those keeping track, this gives me an Old Spice Man Your Man Could Smell Like index of two.

(OK, I lied. This is really your last chance. For reals.)

Is This the Line for the Apple Store?

I don't normally recommend the webcomic Least I Could Do, but when I do, it's freaking hilarious.

The "Occupy Wall Street" protests bring three things to my mind:

1. Why should I care if my neighbor makes a million times more money than I do? Anytime I see some statistic like "the discrepancy between rich and poor is the greatest it's ever been in history" or "the wealthiest 400 Americans have as much money as the poorest 150 million," my reaction is "so?" This is nothing more than a red herring. If the poor have the necessities they need to survive, then it doesn't matter how much money the rich have. If the poor don't have the necessities they need to survive, then it doesn't matter how much money the rich have.
2. The anger and rage seems to be aimed at "bankers" and "Wall Street". If the protesters could name names and deeds of people who have committed crimes, they may have a point. But to blame "Wall Street" or "bankers" seems to blame a class, rather than a person. You might as well just blame the Jews.
3. "You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." (Ex. 20:17)

Also, this was interesting, for those who haven't seen it:

"Purity"

This XKCD strip had been bothering me for a while.

...so I fixed it.

Weird

Creepy

Ok, so here's today's XKCD, published at 9:00 pm:

And here's today's PVP, published at 10:00pm, just one hour later.

What. The. Hell. Two completely different webcartoonists publishing cartoons about very similar subject matter on the same day at almost the same time.

I hear if you say "Munroe Kurtz" into a mirror five times, the ghost of teh interwebs will devour your soul.

So I've been trying for a while to come up with a Valentine's Day post. But thanks to our friends laziness and plagiarism, it looks like I don't have to.

One of the webcomics I read is called "Least I Could Do." I won't link it because it doesn't meet FU-News' high standards of link-worthiness (it's basically a comic strip about several wacky 20-somethings and their lives of hilarity and debauchery). You can Google it if you're interested, but don't say I didn't warn you. I'm not sure why I read it. It's either because a) the author is a little bit of a geek, which I relate to, or b) because the artist draws plenty of attractive women in the strip. Could be either one.

Anyways, despite the author's shortcomings, he occasionally gets something right. Today was one of those days.

From his daily Blog posting:

"The real purpose of this post was to talk about today, February 14th, Valentine's Day.

"Pay attention now, kids, this is important.

"Valentine's Day as a commercial holiday is simply full of (crap). It's loud, it's obnoxious and it's plenty overrated and over hyped. Frankly, I have no idea who St Valentine was, or which one of his enemy's hearts he ripped out in order to get a holiday named after him, but that doesn't really matter at this point. At the core of it, the intention of St Valentine's, to me, was something very simple.

"It's an excuse.

"You know how selfish we all tend to get, how wrapped up in our own stupidities and ambitions we usually are. There are times, many times, that we simply don't see or appreciate all the good in our lives. Despite all our best intentions, as much as we say it will never happen, we are all guilty of this at one time or another.

"How often do you express appreciation to those dear people in your life? How often do you get flowers for your wife or girlfriend? How often do you show up at your mother's house with a box of chocolates and a card?

"Probably not as often as you should.

"Well now you have an excuse, that extra little push to do something that you should be constantly doing anyways.

"So forget about the overblown gestures of romance and love today, and instead, focus on the little ones, the important ones, to the people that matter.

"Tell your father how much you respect him, and how you wish that you grew up to possess even half his morality and integrity. Tell your mother that you don't spend time with her because you have to, but because you genuinely want to, and that you consider her one of your closest friends. Tell your brother how proud you are of everything he's accomplished professionally, and that from time to time, he actually acts his age. Tell your significant other how she constantly makes you smile and somehow manages to quiet that chaotic piece of real estate you call a mind.

"Valentines Day. It's an excuse.

"Use it."

To his last paragraph, I could only add "And tell your sister how much you admire her and look up to her as a roll model."