February 2012
16 posts
A Nerd of Advice Episode 7 - Facebook →
anerdofadvice:
Join us for discussion of the perils of Facebook! Talking points:
—It’s all fun and games until your mom joins
—“Does anyone even care? Siiiiiiiiiiigh”
—Adulting Blog’s Boring/Personal Quadrants (you should read this whole blog, too)
—Holly and Sara both love Real Simple magazine, here is Real Simple’s Facebook article which makes great points
—Mommyjacking
—Birthday wall...
Welcome to Flavor Country: I have a question about... →
flavorcountry:
I realize this runs the risk of sounding completely self-absorbed, but I hope it’s just the kind of simple curiosity that everyone would have: why does Twitter’s interface become completely useless once you pass a certain number of RTs and/or favorites on a particular tweet?
This happens:
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It's love.
Jeffrey: Jayden and Preston?
Me: Aren’t those Britney Spears’ kids’ names?
Jeffrey: *head tilt* Yes.
Me: We BOTH knew that, don’t you judge me.
I have opinions.
Last night we watched two episodes of Shark Tank, a reality show where entrepreneurs pitch their young businesses to a panel of “sharks” - businesspeople who also started small and are now bazillionaires (like the guy who owns FUBU). It was fascinating.
On the first episode that we watched, there was a set of sisters who pitched their business “Tippi Toes” (GAG) which is...
Jen Kirkman - comedian: New York (Behind The)... →
jenkirkman:
Stop writing articles about how articles have been written debating whether women are funny. Stop writing articles about how women were funny on SNL this year in some noteworthy female-centric sketches.
YOU SOUND LIKE A BUNCH OF MORONS!
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I have 16 artists at the booth for Em City ComicCon. 1200 pounds of merch, give or take. Plus, I’m bringing both of my kids.
What the fuck am I even doing.
Adulting: Step 156: Don't be a re-runner →
She is SO RIGHT and I really need to never do this again.
adulting:
The other day, my dude and I had an extensive brainstorm to come up with a verb that describes the (super annoying) act of telling an looong anecdote about a TV show or movie that the other person has not seen. Eventually, we settled on “rerunning,” as in, “Ugh, her. She reruns all the goddamn…
A Nerd of Advice Episode 6 - Mansplaining →
anerdofadvice:
See, a PODCAST is a digital FILE you can download on your COMPUTER… oh, you ladies wouldn’t understand.
Episode 6 is about mansplaining, and our guest is the talented Tom McHenry.
Relevant links:
“I Need More Evidence,” and other things that probably make you a mansplainer
Sady Doyle’s wonderful piece on a mansplaining George R. R. Martin fan
A handy graphic you could print...
WatchZooey Deschanel played Mary Kate Olsen and I was happy forever.
A Nerd of Advice Episode 5 -- Nerd Romance →
anerdofadvice:
We’re joined by Jon Sung to talk about why nerds can be so bad at love, and why we can also be great at it. Please enjoy!
January 2012
11 posts
FUMBOO the fumblr of Jamie Smart: Everything's... →
jamiesmart:
Sometimes I get asked advice about drawing comics. The benefits you’ll get from asking are akin to shouting your own name into a bin, in so much that it’s probably not going to change anything about your current lifechoices. I can give you all the advice in the world but it’s not going to give you…
Everyone, shut up for a minute and listen to Jamie.
Grown-up quote of the day
adulting:
“It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.”
— Mr. Rogers’ commencement address to Dartmouth College, 2002
A mediocre horror novel
ferociousj:
Big Bag of Goblins!
What If...
What if we stopped saying, “webcomics” and “webcartoonist” and just said “comics” and “cartoonist”? Would you say, “black actor” or “female athelete” or “male nurse”? What if we take the personal responsibility to put ourselves in the same professional category as the people who are using “webcomic” as...
adventures in blunderland: Real Talk Tuesday →
adventuresinblunderland:
My workstation uses a news outlet as its browser’s home page. It makes me feel annoyed on a good day (and I chose it for myself). Today the top stories addressed GOP candidates, how they’re polling, what it means.
And then it started in on their wives, and the Obama family, and Michele Bachman….
December 2011
8 posts
I haven’t cooked dinner in a week. I probably won’t until Christmas Eve. I just stopped at the grocery and bought six Newman’s Own pasta dinners in a bag, four boxes of Annie’s mac and cheese, bagels, dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets, soup, bread, 15 greek yogurts and a case of tangerines (so the kids wont get scurvy, I guess?). I feel incredibly guilty, the kids think...
A Conversation
Me:….. and there’s dumplings in the freezer.
E: THERE’S DUMPLINGS IN YOUR FREEZER
Me: Right. I just said that.
E: THERE’S DUMPLINGS IN YOUR BUTT.
Me: No, there’s not.
E: BUTT DUMPLINGS DUMPLING BUTT BUTT
Me: Now you’re just saying words.
E: APPLE PIE! LIGHT BULB!
This is what I live with, people.
TEENS
November 2011
3 posts
#brainboxupdate: Live TDF gonna be Epic. Addon: →
The *only* reason I would want to live in the LA area is to go to all the fucking cool comedy shows and live podcasts. This one looks particularly good - and MARGARET CHO? She’s like, my hero.
jackiekashian:
Mike Ruekberg is going to sing the theme song, that he wrote. Yeah. You will learn to sing a long. As well as the Mexican Hat Dance song too.
Margaret Cho is my guest. She LOVES to...
Late to the thankful party
I really like all the posts the’ve been doing about being thankful for all the wonderful things in their lives. Since we’re halfway through the month, I’m going to do a brief rundown of 15, to catch up. I need this today, my anxiety is off the charts. (You ever get the numb hands? Yeah that’s a good time.)
In no particular order, here are my first 15. Some are from my...
Jhnen VEE: Getting noticed →
jhonenv:
Got an email from an aspiring artist who was asking for advice on how to get noticed , how to get attention for work that ISN’T essentially fanart. I guess the experience on their end is that when they do original pieces, the response is hardly a spark of what they get when they do something…
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
I spend a lot of time in my professional life trying to be as succinct as possible; emails, product descriptions, artist bios, etc. I feel like I’ve gotten pretty good at it. Now I’m taking classes and I am expected to write long papers and essays. I was assigned two things today. I have to write a page on why I think an infographic is good. A page. Can you have that many thoughts on...
Amateur Hour
I got a letter from the Lymphoma society, with a real nickel enclosed, to inform me that a nickel could save a child’s life. Then don’t give ME the nickel STUPID, send it straight to the kid with Lymphoma! YOU ARE WASTING TIME
August 2011
5 posts
July 2011
8 posts
Dork Etiquette
It is almost time for San Diego Comic Con; the biggest, most important nerd convention of the entire year. Thousands of people come from all over and pack into a gigantic convention center that barely holds us all. We are shoulder to giant foam sword with our dork brethren, both in celebration of all that we love and competition to get the signed numbered exclusive figure of choice. We are there...
